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SalarySupport Worker
Birmingham, B7
Salary: £11,897 per annum (FTE £22308), Fixed Term contract until 31.3.25
Location: Birmingham, B7
Hours: Part Time, 20 hours per week
Benefits: 25 days holiday, pro-rata, 5.5% Employer Pension Contribution including Life Cover, Occupational Sick Pay Benefits & Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Leave and Pay, plus more
Reporting to: Employability Manager
FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity, fighting food poverty and hunger by tackling waste. We source good quality food that is surplus to requirements from the food industry. An army of volunteers help redistribute this food to around 500 frontline charities and community groups such as school breakfast clubs, community centres and organisations supporting those who are homeless, unemployed, socially isolated and recovering from addiction. These organisations provide meals and food parcels to over 67,000 vulnerable people every week. We also support people through our Employability programmes, enabling them to learn skills and find rewarding work – some for the first time.
Hunger is a growing issue in the UK and while there is surplus food that is otherwise going to waste, we believe that this food should be used to feed people first.
Note : Post is subject to a DBS check
The Role
As part of our mission, FareShare Midlands is delighted to be able to deliver our I-Can employability programme as part of Birmingham City Council’s PURE project. The PURE Project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The programme will provide a range of wellbeing, training and employment support to economically inactive and vulnerable residents of Birmingham in order to improve their lives and move them closer to the jobs market.
Key duties and responsibilities:
Main duties include.
- Arranging and delivering both 1-1 and group work experience inductions.
- Supporting participants during on site work experience.
- Ensuring work experience goals have been agreed with all relevant stakeholders
- Ensuring participants have correct PPE and equipment
- Demonstrating and explaining key tasks in line with Health & Safety procedures
- Supporting participants to achieve competencies in set tasks
- Providing feedback to Participant and Employability Coach
- Administration support.
Person Specification - Skills, Qualities & Experience
Essential
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Commitment to working as a team.
· Ability to assess learning and understanding.
· Ability to provide constructive feedback.
· Ability to support and inspire others to reach their goals.
· Ability to organise and plan activities.
· Ability to use a range of Microsoft Office Applications
· Experience of supporting vulnerable people
Desirable
· Relevant experience of the Welfare to Work Sector
· Full UK driving license
Values and behaviours
· A commitment to Equal Opportunities
· An appreciation of FareShare Midlands’ mission and vision
· Flexibility of approach and ability to work in a team
· Proven ability to develop and maintain good working relations, with both internal and external audiences
· The roleholder will be required to work flexibly.
How to Apply:
If you would like to apply for this role, please create a supporting statement to demonstrate your suitability and to explain your interest in both the job and FareShare Midlands. Please send your supporting statement with a copy of your CV.
We continue to strive to ensure that the profile of our staff and volunteers reflects the diverse communities we serve across the Midlands. As such we encourage and welcome applications from all our communities. We particularly welcome applications from people from ethnically diverse backgrounds as they are currently under-represented within FareShare Midlands.
Closing date for receipt of applications is midnight on Wednesday 13th March 2024.
Interviews will take place week commencing 25th March 2024.
