Employability Support Worker

All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support services that enable them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to poverty and the barriers facing many single parents and their children. The Employability Support Worker will be responsible to the Regional Coordinator/Employment Lead and will work as a member of OPFS Employability Service, to provide employability services for single parents in Angus/Dundee to support them to secure employment, education or training.

• Help eligible single parents to identify their future goals, assess motivation, develop personal development plans and help in their implementation through individual and group work.
• Identify barriers to employment, education or training and work with single parents to address those barriers.
• Build links with organisations and groups across Angus, to identify eligible single parents interested in progressing towards suitable employment, education or training.
• Support single parents into suitable employment, to provide a continuum of consistent support on OPFS clients employability pathway journey into suitable and sustainable employment.
• Co‑ordinate and deliver a range of employability activities to enable single parents facing additional barriers to employment to develop participants core knowledge and skills, helping to increase their access to available employment, training and education opportunities.
• Undertake activities in communities to actively reach eligible single parents as a basis to support their learning and development and engage them in early work preparation and employer matching activities to support positive change within their lives.
• Provide job‑ready single parents with the help participants need with job searching, interviews, securing and sustaining suitable employment.
• Provide single parents living with continued support on entering employment, to help parents sustain their jobs.
• Develop knowledge of services related to employment, training, education, childcare and other support.
• Develop an effective network of referral agencies to support clients’ needs.
• Signpost single parents to services that will address their needs.
• Liaise with OPFS Financial team to offer better‑off calculations and access to debt support.
• Ensure effective recording, monitoring and evaluation procedures are implemented.
• Other relevant duties:
  Carrying out any other relevant duties related to the above.