Barnardo's are seeking to recruit a Employability Worker to support our service that covers the Highlands. This role is part of our wider Employment, Training and Skills (ETS) service within Barnardo's that delivers employability and skills support across the UK.
Job Criteria:
* Experience of working with young people in Informal settings
* Experience of delivering groups and workshops with young people
* Experience of supporting young people on a one to one basis to help them to achieve their goals and remover barriers.
* Demonstrate good skills in recording, completing paperwork to ensure we meet the needs of our funders
* Good knowledge and understanding of key local Employability Provision
* Demonstrate knowledge or delivery of SQA or other youth awards
We would be happy to consider flexible working and part time working arrangements for this post.
Barnardo's Works Highland delivers employability and skills support for young people who require support to move into a positive, sustainable destination.
Our current offers include:
* Scottish Academy for Construction Opportunities
* Access to Trades
* Head to Work
* Access to Industry
* Discover Your Potential (DYP)
* Explore & Believe
* Multiply
Our Offer:
* Young people will be supported by a key worker throughout their journey at a stage that is appropriate for them.
* Young people will have access to local work experience opportunities and SQA qualifications.
* Promoting positive health and wellbeing will be integrated within all stages of the pipeline
* We aim to build confidence, skills, resilience and promote positive health and wellbeing.
For further information on our Employment, Training and Skills work please access our website www.barnardos-
Our Service is located at the following address:
Barnardo's Works,Fairways House, Fairways Business Park, Slackbuie Avenue, Inverness, IV2 6AA
For more information about this role please contact Barbara Brown: or
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
* Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
* Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
* The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
* A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
* Service related sick pay from day 1
* Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
* Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
* Cycle2work scheme
* Interest free season ticket loans
* Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
* 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
* Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
* Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
* Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
* T&C's apply based on contract
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Our basis and values
* Reference number:
21526
- Job Title:
Employability Project Worker
- Location:
Barnardo's Works Inverness
- Contract type:
Permanent
- Hours:
37
- Salary:
£28,360 - £35,811
- Closing Date:
5 September 2025
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Benefits
Discounts at 100's of retailers
Employee suggestion scheme
Company pension
Employee Assistance Programme