Employability Project Worker (2) - ANG06385

Job Description

Based at Angus House, Orchardbank Business Park, Forfar.

This job is workstyle 5 - Hybrid+

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from home for part of your week and spend some time in council buildings to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

Help uncover hidden talent and transform lives

Angus Council is seeking passionate and motivated Employability Project Workers to join the Targeting Hidden Talent Project, supporting people who are economically inactive and furthest from the labour market. Working within the communities in Angus, you will help individuals overcome barriers and take positive steps towards employment, training and personal development.

This is a rewarding opportunity for someone who believes in the potential of every individual and enjoys working directly with people to build confidence, resilience and pathways to success

As an Employability Project Worker, you will:

• Proactively engage with individuals not currently accessing employability services through outreach and community engagement activities. • Build trusted relationships using a person-centred, trauma-informed and strengths-based approach. • Undertake needs assessments and develop personalised action plans. • Provide intensive one-to-one support to help participants overcome barriers such as confidence, wellbeing, health, housing, finances, transport, digital exclusion and caring responsibilities. • Work closely with partner organisations and specialist services to coordinate support. • Record and monitor outcomes, ensuring compliance with project requirements and performance targets.

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:

• Empathy, resilience, flexibility and a solution-focused approach. • The ability to build trust and engage effectively with hard-to-reach individuals. • Strong partnership-working and communication skills. • Experience supporting people facing multiple barriers to employment. • Experience of undertaking assessments, developing action plans and monitoring progress. • Excellent organisational and digital record-keeping abilities.
This role offers the opportunity to make a real difference in the local community by helping people who are often overlooked to access the support they need and progress towards sustainable employment and improved life chances.
This job is temporary until no later than 31 March 2028.
Internal and external applications on a secondment basis will be considered. You must have the approval of your line manager / organisation.

Please note interviews will be held Tuesday, 3 November 2026.

Requirements

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

A valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.