Job Description
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Parental Employability Support - Business Growth and Inclusion Contracts and Programme Officer - Fixed term until 31 March
Waverley Court
Salary: £37, - £44,
Hours: 36 per week
Parental Employability Support - Business Growth and Inclusion Contracts and Programme Officer
The post holder will work as part of a team of Parental Employability Support Key Workers and child poverty delivery partners. Although you will need to demonstrate your flexibility to work across Business Growth and Inclusion, this post will primarily focus on providing key worker support to parents in poverty, with barriers to employment ensuring they receive the right support to be able to progress into employment. The post holder will also be required to build relationships with other services in Edinburgh funded through Parental Employability Support and Tackling Child Poverty funding from the Scottish Government.
You will be part of the Business Growth and Inclusion team who are responsible for managing employability delivery across the city. Awarding over £4m worth of contracts to third sector organisations, the projects range from supporting those at risk of leaving school and not securing a positive destination, to providing employability support to those who have additional barriers such as a disability or long term health problem – through to longer term support of those who have suffered from homelessness, involvement with criminal justice or are in recovery from substance misuse.
Reporting to the Business Growth and Inclusion Contract and Programme Manager, it will be your responsibility to plan, organise and co-ordinate resources to carry out service activities to the required standard. You will need to evidence experience of providing key worker support, building relationships with organisations and you will have successfully delivered and supported projects in the past, demonstrating effective partnership working as well as innovative and inclusive skills.
Please see the attached job description and person specification documents for further information about the role.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
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