All colleagues operate in line with our values which are:
Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration, and Compassion.
All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. Our core values of Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration and Compassion are at the heart of everything we do and underpin all aspects of our work.
The Employability Advisor will contribute to the organisation’s vision of a Scotland in which single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly, by supporting the delivery of various components which contribute to the North Lanarkshire service, including proactively supporting single parents to enter or re-enter employment, training or education.
The Employability Advisor will be responsible for community engagement, outreach and registration of parents onto the programme, and delivering quality employability support, whilst also engaging with partners in the community and undertaking employer engagement duties to improve outcomes and referral pathways for single parents accessing the service.
They will report to the North Lanarkshire Regional Coordinator and will work as a member of OPFS Employability Team, within the wider OPFS North Lanarkshire service, to provide employability services for single parents facing barriers to entering suitable employment.