Empowerment-Focused Employability Support Worker

S1jobs; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous leave

Duvet days

Death in service

Cycle to work

Learning & development

Job summary

Murray’s Initiative in Glasgow is hiring an Employability Support Worker to assist participants at the early stages of their employability journey. You will build confidence, motivate, and tailor personal development plans to help people progress toward training, education, volunteering or employment.

The role reports to the Service Manager - Employability, requires PVG membership, and offers flexible working with part-time or full-time arrangements on a fixed-term basis until 31 March 2027.

Qualifications

• May hold a qualification in Advice and Guidance, or have equivalent learning gained through hands-on practice.
• Strong background in employability support or the voluntary sector, with experience of working directly with people to help them achieve employability goals.
• Demonstrable experience of providing person-centred support to individuals within recovery, community justice, mental health, or homelessness services.
• Delivery of practical employability support, both one-to-one and in groups.

Responsibilities

• Provide support through a variety of activities including regular telephone contact, face to face meetings, virtual mediums, mentoring, and group employability activities.
• Assist participants to explore their skills, experience and aspirations and look for opportunities to work towards longer term goals, such as supporting participants into training and/or education opportunities.
• Providing quality support services to participants through active planning, monitoring, evaluation and review of their requirements in partnership with them. This includes the formulation of action plans.
• Deliver agreed performance targets by supporting people to develop employability skills and achieve their individual employability goals.
• Formulate action plans to assist participants to remove barriers to gain employability skills and achieve employment goals.
• Meeting contractual compliance and promote the unique, person centred ethos of Murray’s Initiative.
• Prioritise workload to ensure a high quality, person-centred service to all participants.

Skills

Friendliness

Compassion

Relationship building

Empathy

Organisational skills

Communication

Teamwork

Independent working

Digital literacy

Education

Advice & Guidance qualification

Job description

Murray’s Initiative in Glasgow is hiring an Employability Support Worker to assist participants at the early stages of their employability journey. You will build confidence, motivate, and tailor personal development plans to help people progress toward training, education, volunteering or employment.

The role reports to the Service Manager - Employability, requires PVG membership, and offers flexible working with part-time or full-time arrangements on a fixed-term basis until 31 March 2027.