Position: Employability Key Worker - ABC12565. Job Education & Training Jobs

Job Description

Before applying for this job, it is essential that you read the Applicant Guidance and the Job Profile attached. These explain the job role and the type of person we're looking for.

Location: Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen
Duration: Fixed Term, Full Time 35 hours

Roles that require PVG Membership

Please note that with effect from 1 April 2023, where a role requires PVG membership, candidates will be required to meet the cost of the PVG membership. This applies only to roles with a full-time equivalent salary of £30,000 and above. (Teaching roles and jobs at Grade 12 and above (currently £32,555 per annum / £16.92 per hour))

The Council will pay for the PVG membership cost initially, either £18 for existing PVG scheme members, or £59 for non-members, and this cost will be deducted from an employee's first FULL month's salary payment.

Job Purpose/About the Role

Employability key workers provide essential and invaluable support to help Aberdeen residents progress into work, training, volunteering, or education through a range of person-centred activities. We're looking for people-focused employability professionals to join Aberdeen City Council's Employability Service, ABZWorks, to help our residents out of poverty and our city's economy flourish. This is a hybrid working role, with an expectation that at least three days will be in-person.

Fixed term to 31 March 2026 with potential to extend subject to funding.

The purpose of the role is to support the effective delivery of employability initiatives within Aberdeen City Council and through a wide range of service providers. The role requires providing employability support to individuals on a 1:2:1 basis or in small groups, enabling them to access training and wider services, with the ultimate aim of them getting into work or an alternative positive destination.

It also involves partnership working with other Council services and partner agencies.

Requirements

Experience of working in an employability environment
Adult Learning and/or Youth Work Experience
PVG Membership for Regulated Work with Children and/or Protected Adults, or willingness to obtain prior to a formal offer of employment being made

Responsibilities

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to motivate others
Ability to prioritise and plan own work and that of others
Ability to prepare and present reports
Ability to work on own initiative
Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships
Ability to cope with competing deadlines and interruptions
ICT literate

The Equalities agenda
Relevant local and national policies relating to the employability and child poverty agendas

The principles of the target operating model
The priorities and aims of Aberdeen City Council
The principles of No One Left Behind

The Individual

Please see Job Profile for further details.

Aberdeen City Council is an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Flexible Working

We are happy to talk flexible working and offer flexible working for most roles in the organisation meaning that many of our employees enjoy the freedom of choosing a working pattern that suits them as much as it suits the organisation.

Disability Confident

We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you consider yourself to have a disability and think you may require a reasonable adjustment to be made for this part of the selection process, or would like further information in relation to reasonable adjustments, please contact AskHR.

Armed Forces

We are a forces-friendly employer, have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a silver award recipient in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We have a specific email address for those in the forces, those who have left the forces, as well as their partners / spouses / families: armed forces.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

We have a number of guaranteed interview schemes available to applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our roles and who:

have a disability
are care-experienced and aged 16-29
are aged 16-24 and live in Aberdeen City or have been to an Aberdeen City Council school and are applying for a Modern Apprenticeship (except Trades apprenticeships)
have done a Foundation Apprenticeship with Aberdeen City Council and are applying for any apprenticeships relevant to the area in which they did their Foundation Apprenticeship
are New Scots aged 16-24 and are applying for any apprenticeships

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