AddressTraining Adviser – fixed term to 31/3/2024 (annual extension subject to funding from Welsh Government)
Futureworks delivers skills and employment programmes in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. We are recruiting a Training Adviser to join our team to deliver our Jobs Growth Wales+ programme and support our work with Schools. The role includes the delivery of qualifications in wellbeing, life skills and employability.
You will be someone who wants to make a real difference to a young person's life. You will work mostly with learners aged 14-19 years and deliver positive and engaging learning sessions, supporting young people to be the best they can be. The programme aims to provide a mixture of universal and targeted work, delivering a range of positive activities with personal, social and political development embedded in the programme.
You will create an empowering, non-judgemental, positive and welcoming atmosphere within Futureworks, emphasising self-determination and assisting young people to make plans and decisions and to accept responsibility.
You will support young people by giving them a fresh start and an opportunity to change their perspective - to see life differently. You'll inspire them to believe in themselves, maybe for the first time. You'll help them overcome barriers to learning and give access to opportunities they would never have thought of before.
You will be working with some vulnerable young people who face social, domestic and emotional issues and who have either dropped out of education, or had poor experiences of formal education. You will need to be be emotionally resilient, non-judgemental, understanding and patient to be able to challenge some learner attitudes and behaviours in a positive way.
You will have targets to:
- Recruit young people to the programme
- Retain young people on the programme for the period of their learning
- Achieve positive outcomes into work, further learning and volunteering
Ideally you will:
- Have experience in delivering learning and positive interventions to young people who are NEET or at risk of falling out of education
- Have experience of managing challenging behaviours
- Think on your feet and easily adapt to a variety of situations
- Be engaging, learner-centred and be an excellent communicator
- Be able to deliver tailored interventions and creative schemes of work
- Write lesson plans, report on learner's progress and assess risk
- Be able to work effectively with employers and industry to progress young people into work placements and work
- Have excellent administrative and organisational skills to ensure compliance with contractual documentation requirements and effective delivery against commissioned contracts
- Hold or be willing to work towards a teaching qualification and assessors award
- Demonstrate a strong commitment and understanding of Safeguarding and PREVENT.
You will be required to register with the Education Workforce Council as a Work-based learning practitioner.
The Jobs Growth Wales+ Programme, led by the Welsh Government, is supported by the European Social Fund.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk is a high priority for Pembrokeshire County Council. We aim to support vulnerable children and adults at risk to ensure they are as safe as they can possibly be. We are committed to ensuring their safety and will take action to safeguard their well-being. The Council’s Corporate Safeguarding Policy provides a framework for every member of staff and Service within the Council, setting out responsibilities in relation to safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk as well as the methods by which the Council will be assured that it is fulfilling its duties.
This policy applies to all Council employees and workforce, councillors, volunteers and also service providers that are commissioned by the Council. Safeguarding is everyone's business whether they work for, or on behalf of, the Council.
Employment Checks
This post is subject to a DBS disclosure check.
Where it is appropriate for your role and responsibility, the personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by visiting https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.
Applicants should ensure they have the right to work in the UK before applying for a vacancy.
Support & Additional Info
- Please contact the Recruitment Team as early as possible if you're unable to apply online or require support by emailing recruit@pembrokeshire.gov.uk.
- Local Government Employees on National Joint Council (NJC) terms are subject to national pay bargaining; all salaries currently stated in our adverts are as 01/04/2022. The 2023 pay award is pending.
- Please note, we have a legal obligation to consider employees for suitable alternative employment if their posts are at risk; therefore prior consideration will be given to existing employees who meet the person specification and are registered on our redeployment pool.
Welsh language skills are desirable. Applications may be submitted in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than applications submitted in English.
