Hays Belfast are working with a community organisation to recruit an Employability Officer in Belfast.
Your New Company
A community organisation providing help and support to people who want to make positive life changes. A leading provider of high-quality programmes and services for people with a diverse range of needs and barriers and furthest removed from the labour market. A range of ‘Employability’ and ‘Community Development’ programmes are available and delivered utilising an individualised tailored wraparound approach to include health and wellbeing initiatives, training and skills development, accredited qualifications and employability support.
Disability Support Services provides specialised support for young people (aged 16-22) in the Training for Success and Apprenticeship NI Programmes across Northern Ireland.
Your New Role
We are seeking staff to provide specialist disability support to young people who require assistance whilst participating in the Skills for Life and Work, Training for Success and/or Apprenticeships NI Programme.
This role also requires staff to undertake administrative duties to ensure their records of support are accurate, completed and returned timeously.
Core Duties
1. Organise work placements and support participants in the work placement process.
2. Prepare participants for interviews/introductory meetings with potential new employers and accompany them to these.
3. Prepare participants for their first day on placement to ensure they know what is expected of them and what they can do to make the right start.
4. Provide mentoring support to participants as and when required.
5. Organise and attend placement visits to monitor the progress of participants and deal effectively with any issues/concerns that arise.
6. Assist the DSS Co-ordinator with the monitoring and evidence of progress against Performance Targets set.
7. Maintain accurate and timely records that support effective ongoing monitoring and review of your own support provided and raise any immediate issues or concerns with line manager.
8. Ensure the following is completed:
9. DSS10s to be signed by a trainee and tutor/manager and returned to the DSS admin team on a weekly basis for checking.
10. Staff engagement notes are uploaded to the DSS APP before close of business each Friday to allow for checking by the following Monday.
11. 8/10/13 week trainee reviews (due dates to be advised by training provider).
12. Referral paperwork (DSS5) – Part B only (as and when required by the training provider).
13. Consent Forms – to be signed at point of completion of the DSS5 and scanned by the DSS admin team.
Please Note: DSS staff are not to carry out any teaching or programme delivery instead of the training provider, rather the training provider to lead / teach and the DSS staff member to provide additional disability support.
General Duties
14. Adhere to the ‘Code of Conduct’, maintaining confidentiality, professionalism and quality standards across all work practices and interactions.
15. Performing job duties in compliance with the Group’s policies and procedures, which include adherence to equal opportunities, health and safety legislation and data protection requirements.
16. Demonstrate commitment to the group through the completion of all tasks allocated by attending staff and development opportunities to ensure that professional competency is maintained.
What you’ll need to succeed
Skills and Competencies
Competencies
17. Knowledge of directly supporting people with disabilities within an employment, education, or employment & training setting (D)
18. The ability to work with a wide cross-section of participants with varying levels of support needs (D)
19. Highly competent at using ICT, with excellent working knowledge of MS Office Suite, including Sharepoint, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint (E)
Technical competencies (qualifications and training)
20. Educated to NVQ Level 2 or equivalent to include Maths and English. (E)
21. Good IT skills – to present data using Microsoft packages or suitable alternative (E)
Experience
22. Proven experience of working with young people across a wide cross-section of varying levels of needs, enabling them to identify their own goals and the ability to progress them (E)
Skills and Attributes
23. Highly organised professional with evidence of developing relationships with participants (E)
24. Ability to work flexibly to cope with the varying demands of the role and achieve desired results (E)
25. Ability to work on his own initiative and as part of a team (E)
26. Excellent time management and the ability to prioritise a workload (E)
27. Ability to effectively report progress in KPI and participants through their qualifications within the timeframe set (E)
28. Ability to manage a busy workload and prioritise to ensure all requirements are met (E)
29. Ability to complete everything and report timeously (E)
Personal qualities, communicating and relating to others
30. Flexible, adaptable and innovative (D)
31. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (E)
32. Youth work Teaching / pastoral care approach to assisting young people to progress through their qualifications while maintaining professional boundaries (D)
Safeguarding
33. Be able to display an awareness, understanding and commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children, young people and adults (E)
34. This post requires an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (E)
Other
35. Access to transport to carry out the duties of the post (D)
What you’ll get in return
The successful post holder will avail of the following benefits:
36. Holiday Arrangements: 20 working days per year completed, rising to 25 over a period of five years plus 12 statutory days (holidays for part-time roles will be calculated on a pro rata basis).
37. Pension: Employees are able to join the pension scheme under the new Auto Enrolment Government Scheme. The group’s contribution is 3% with the employee contribution 5%.
38. Family Friendly Rights: Maternity and paternity leave in accordance with current statutory requirements.
39. CPD: Opportunity to develop and enhance knowledge and skills through continuous professional development as agreed with Programme Manager
What you need to do now
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