Employability and Skills Officer

6 months ago

Preston, United Kingdom AFC Fylde Community Foundation Full time

**Job Title**:Employability and Skills Officer

**Territory Area**:Fylde

**Direct Reports**:N/A

**Hours**:40 hours per week - including evenings and weekends

**Salary**: £22,500 - £24,000 per annum (dependant on experience)

**Location**:Mill Farm Sports Village, Coronation Way, Wesham, PR4 3JZ

**Role Summary**:
AFC Fylde Community Foundation is looking to appoint an enthusiastic, charismatic and dedicated Employability and Skills Officer to join its successful and expanding team.

**Guidance and Authority**:
The Employability and Skills Officer will report directly into the Employability and Skills Manager.

**Main Duties**:

- Plan, deliver and evaluate a number of employability and skills projects including Fylde Focus that both up-skill and raise the aspirations of young people and adults.
- Identify and recruit participants, working alongside local partners and the Foundation’s media team.
- Provide mentoring support to participants, develop individual learning plans to help them achieve their best and identify suitable exit routes into employment, education or training.
- Develop group sessions and group work with young claimants who are on a similar health journey (an opportunity to share experiences, barriers and challenges they face).
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with the Jobcentre Plus and the DWP to recruit individuals onto the various employability programmes.
- Facilitate work experience placements that support both the participant and the employer.
- Work with individuals, communities, community organisations and partners in a planned way to promote the aims and objectives of the programmes.
- Build a network of local referral partners across the local area to ensure the programmes are accessible to those most in need.
- Where possible, encourage and support participants to engage in other programmes offered by AFC Fylde Community Foundation.
- Collect the required monitoring information and ensure it is recorded accurately on the VIEWS on-line monitoring and evaluation system.
- Ensure all activities are correctly monitored with the appropriate risk assessments and health and safety procedures put in place.
- Be a flexible member of the AFC Fylde Community Foundation team and when requested assist in the delivery of other projects and activities including evenings and weekends.

**Health and Safety**:

- Fully endorse, demonstrate, and carry out the Foundation’s health and safety policy.
- Comply with all group policies and statutory regulations relating to health and safety, safe working practices, hygiene, cleanliness, fire and COSHH. This will include your awareness of any specific hazards in your workplace and assist if required with the amending of risk assessments periodically.
- Have a full knowledge of procedures for evacuation with regards to fire safety.
- Identify and report maintenance requirements or hazards within the workplace and encourage any workforce to do the same to avoid injury.

**Safeguarding**:

- The Foundation is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to endorse this commitment.
- The employee must act to protect all young people and vulnerable adults that are in their care or attending the group’s premises. The employee must report any misconduct or suspected misconduct to the Foundation Director.

**General**:

- Cooperate fully with colleagues and be flexible when assisting them in response to business needs of the Foundation.
- Ensure a positive commitment towards equality and diversity by treating others fairly and not committing any form of direct or indirect discrimination, victimisation, or harassment of any description and to promote positive working relations amongst employees and customers.
- The above job description is not intended to be exhaustive; the duties and responsibilities may therefore vary over time according to the changing needs of the group.

**Person Specification**

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- A proven track record of working on employability and skills programmes.
- Proven track record of mentoring either young people or adults in an employability and skills environment.
- Demonstrable experience of working within partnership and multi-agency programmes.
- Experience of using online monitoring and evaluation tools to manage projects/ programmes.

**Knowledge & Skills**:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to effectively plan and prioritise own workload.
- Sound understanding of issues around equality and diversity and how this can affect delivery of activities.
- Ability to educate and inspire young people and adults to make positive choices to improve their lives.

**Personal Qualities**:

- Self-motivated and the ability to work well within a team.
- Confident and articulate.
- Ability to perform under pressure and respond calmly to competing demands.
- Must have a ‘can do’ attitude.
- Ability to travel

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