Employability Officer

Position: 253788 Employability Officer

We are looking to recruit to a part time role of Employability Officer that will work with us to the end of March 2027 (locally funded post) to support our objectives of embedding and delivering a number of employability programmes across the organisation.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has a role within our community to not only deliver NHS Services and positively impact our local populations health and wellbeing but also to positively impact the prospects of local people by being an exemplar employer that commits to being a fair work employer, continuing to pay the living wage, identifying progression routes across all our roles so our community develop their skills and to work with partners across the Local Employability Partnership to improve and create opportunities for those facing barriers into work.
You will be working closely with our current Employability Officer who started last year and has successfully supported our managers to host a number of interns across two different employability programme with a potential third programme starting this year.
Your main duties will be organising the placements, arranging bespoke inductions, liaising with recruitment for recruitment checks, produce and maintain key data/reports using Microsoft packages relating to the measures and deliverables of the programmes, attend local meetings, job fairs and job centre engagement sessions and supporting placements with in our own small team.
This is a great opportunity to build working relationships with a range of stakeholders from placement managers, individuals on placement, external partners such as DWP, the LEP, employability partners and other internal colleagues such as recruitment, the Learning and Development team, our communications team and the Workforce sustainability team.
You will need to have excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills and will need to be self-motivated, confident and comfortable to work autonomously to problem solve and resolve issues arising from individuals on placement, timetabling the programmes and working with services who already deliver very busy services. Ideally you will have done a similar role and have a background of supporting a range of people who may have faced a number of barriers into employment.
In order to be successful in this role you should have a good understanding or be willing to learn about the types of health and social inequities that have formed barriers into employment and what training and support our managers will need to have to be able to offer successful and value added placements.

Notes for applicants relating to this role

• We are hoping to hold Interview online via TEAMS within a week/2 weeks of the closing date.
• The interview will be 1 hour and include an 8 minute presentation, details of which will be sent out with your invite
• The role is offered with a flexible approach to work from home or remotely as long as the candidate can commit to being on site when the role requires for check ins with the candidates, holding inductions, attending local job fairs. DWP sessions or as and when needed to meet the need of the project
• We are happy to support shorter days to accommodate school drop off and pick up.

Informal enquiries to - craig.fergussont
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