Advertised from 4 August 2025

Role

About the Role:

An opportunity has arisen to join Access to Industry (AI) to be part of our services in Midlothian. You will support unemployed or economically inactive people from diverse backgrounds through 1:1 case management. You will build positive relationships with clients and support them into learning opportunities. You will have excellent organisational skills and a passion for progressing clients – through learning and skills development – towards other opportunities, including volunteering or paid employment.

Key responsibility areas:

Service Delivery: This role will focus on the case management and learning support of clients in Midlothian. Working across Midlothian with the Project Coordinator, you will provide support to individuals and develop learning opportunities that progress them towards continued education, training, volunteering or employment. The project will support 30-40 individuals annually.

One-to-one Support:

You will work holistically with clients. This means that you will provide (or source) support to tackle barriers that impede a client’s participation in learning and progression.

This could include welfare advice; financial planning and budgeting; wellbeing support; motivational support or signposting to other services. One-to-one sessions will be flexible to accommodate the needs of the client, and together you will develop an action plan and goals. You will have the support of AI’s other services and training will be available. You will record support on the database management system, Helix.

Group Work & Learning:

You will support delivery of wellbeing and core skills learning programmes for clients in Midlothian. You will have the opportunity to deliver and to work

alongside sessional trainers for digital and other skills delivery.

Partnership: Working on outreach across Midlothian, you will work in partnership with agencies and organisations to recruit clients, to support ongoing needs, and to co-locate for training delivery and one-to-one support sessions.

Targets:

You will work towards stated project outcomes for learning delivery and collect required ‘evidencing’ to show outcomes in line with funder requirements.

AI Team:

You will play a part in the wider team of AI through attendance at internal meetings

and participation in shared services across the teams.

Health and Safety & Property Management:

You will ensure a healthy and safe environment and the protection and best use of property and equipment by implementing and observing AI policies and procedures.

Communications:

You will be an effective communicator as you will be working with external agencies, specialist providers and attending meetings on AI’s behalf. You will contribute to internal reporting procedures both through writing and verbally. You will market the project externally. You will ensure client confidentiality at all times.

Application notes

An application pack is available for download below.

Closing date for applications is: 12 noon on Tuesday 12 August 2025

Interviews will be held in person in Dalkeith on: Thursday 21st August 2025

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