Parental Employment Coach

3 months ago

Livingston, United Kingdom Volunteering Matters Full time

_**Parental Employment Coach - West Lothian**_

**Information on our organisation**
ProjectScotland, part of the national charity Volunteering Matters, supports people to move forward in life and reach their goals. We are recruiting a **Parental Employment Coach**, to provide employment support to parents. The types of parents we support in West Lothian include:

- Lone Parents
- Parents with a disability, or who have a child with a disability
- Parents from an ethnic minority background
- Families with 3 children or more
- Families with a child under the age of 1
- Parents aged 25 and under

**Information on the role**
You will provide employment support to a range of parents in West Lothian, in several flexible ways. For example, this includes:

- Working with parents on a 1:1 basis, building a strong and trusting relationship, helping parents to understand their strengths, skills, and their barriers to employment
- Helping parents to put steps in place to break down their barriers or challenges
- Where appropriate, helping parents to access quality volunteering opportunities, or training courses

You will also work alongside other colleagues in West Lothian who are setting up additional opportunities for parents locally. This includes paid work placements or jobs with local employers, and opportunities for parents to take part in mentoring.

**It is important that the post holder can commit to our organisational values - being Compassionate, Empowering, Inclusive, Positive and Straightforward.**

**Information on our Employee Benefits**

Our ambition is to be the best place to work in the charity sector. We offer lots of employee benefits:

- Fully flexible working
- Unlimited annual leave, to achieve a positive work-life balance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loan (public transport)
- Competitive and supportive maternity/adoption/family leave provision
- Competitive and supportive sick leave provision
- Access to our free Employee Assistance line (provided by CiC Wellbeing)

**Our ways of working**

We offer flexible working by default. This means that our staff have significant flexibility when it comes to place of work, working hours, and are empowered with the responsibility of managing their own diary and workload.

Part of your working week will need to be based in West Lothian communities, meeting with parents, internal and external colleagues, partners, and other stakeholders.

For the remainder of the time, you can work from our local office, or home (must be close to West Lothian). When working at home, you will need good internet access and a suitable home working environment. All I.T. equipment, staff mobile phone and infrastructure will be supplied.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Role model and display our organisational values - being Compassionate, Empowering, Inclusive, Positive and Straightforward.
- Provide employment support to parents on a 1:1 basis, which is flexible and person-centered, ensuring parents achieve their goals
- Get to know each parent and their skills, strengths, experience, barriers, and goals, resulting in the creation of a personal action plan
- To ensure every parent has a great experience of our support, from the point of referral until the end of their support
- Work alongside colleagues to ensure parents have the chance to take part in paid work placements, jobs, mentoring relationships, or volunteering
- To work effectively with partner organisations, to attract parents to the programme and meet their needs
- Ensuring project information and data is collected, and that the project meets its agreed targets
- Administration tasks including using Office 365, other software systems, and keeping effective records - full training will be given
- Teamwork across the regional staff team and the wider charity, working in a flexible way

**Person Specification**

Skills Required
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of the life challenges and barriers that parents face, particularly parents in the priority groups
- Understanding of how to assess parents needs, in a person-centered way
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including being able to have strategic conversations with partners one minute, and talk to an anxious parent the next
- Excellent people skills, able to build professional, long-term relationships with various stakeholders, to influence and motivate others
- Excellent organisational and IT skills including the ability to manage workload and prioritise effectively, with strong attention to detail
- Driven, able to use own initiative, and work independently

Experience Required
- Experience working with people who have life challenges or barriers to employment, particularly parents from the priority groups
- Experience working as part of a team, including with internal colleagues and external organisaitons
- Experience of delivering a project, achieving high targets, managing a busy workload and working to deadlin

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