- Advertised from 6th September 2022
- Hours and work pattern: 37 hour contract, working flexibility 8am – 10pm, 5 days over 7
Role
Service: Keeping connected 1:1 mentoring, supporting positive mental health and wellbeing, Fife wide
Reports to: Team manager
Financial Accountability: Low
Holiday entitlement: starting at 28 days per annum and 9 public holidays
Base: Includem, Unit L, Telford Road, Glenrothes, Fife, KY7 4NX
Purpose of Role
At includem we work closely with children, young people, families and services across the community to support young people to make positive life choices and progress towards the type of future they want to live.
Keeping connected focuses specifically on providing 1:1 mentoring support and groupwork to promote positive mental health and wellbeing. As a support worker you will support children, young people aged 10 – 25 years, taking a whole family approach. You will work to a trauma informed and strengths-based approach and provide direct 1:1 support on a consistent basis and groupwork sessions. You will link with other community supports and opportunities and help children and young people to work towards their goals.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
The role focuses on building trusting relationships with young people to provide both emotional and practical support to promote positive mental health and wellbeing and to be connected positively to the local community. You will work in partnership with our partners in CAMHS primary mental health team and Our Minds Matters pupil support team. The service will be delivered through outreach and be embedded within local communities.
Duties include:
Each Wellbeing Community Support Workers will be responsible for:
- Building quality relationships which support and empower children, young people, and families to develop and have ownership of interventions which improve their emotional health and wellbeing
- Providing 1:1 targeted short-term mentoring and Whole Family support based around the strengths and needs of each young person and family. Support Workers will be allocated to support children, young people, and families with more complex needs.
- Using a strengths-based approach to empower individuals facing adversity to find solutions and make positive changes, ensuring resources are in place to sustain these changes
- Identifying appropriate group work sessions based around young people self-identified issues and work with community partners to develop and facilitate
- Ensuring practice within 1:1 and groupwork is aligned with strengths principles is family centred and rights based.
- Providing a whole family approach to consolidate change and provide the support the whole family needs for its members wellbeing
- Understanding the different coping mechanisms that young people and their families use to deal with stress and high emotions, and to respond appropriately
- Working collaboratively with children, young people and families, key stakeholders and external partners towards the achievement of shared goals and objectives.
- Work directly with CAMHS early intervention team and Our Mind Matters Pupil Support Officers to improve wellbeing and increase engagement in school and specialist mental health support
- Attend multi-agency meetings to support most complex cases
- Utilising a range of approaches to improve relationships with family and peers including restorative practice and Solihull Approach
- Supporting children and young people to build an individualised evaluation toolkit and regularly reviewing progress towards shared goals and objectives against assessment of wellbeing indicators
- Assessing and responding appropriately to situations where children, young people and families. may be at risk of harm.
- Responding to children, young people and families. and working in collaboration with others to ensure families have the required range of support they need through universal and statutory agencies.
- Identifying universal/specialist supports and support children, young people and families to access and engage, providing practical support e.g. getting to appointments/groups and barrier reduction.
- Taking direction from your team manager and participate in deployment to ensure time is used effectively to meet the needs of children, young people and families.
- Develop and maintain connections with local communities and neighbourhoods to support families to sustain positive change.
- Be accountable for the quality of support and be able to evidence this work effectively.
- Support participation of children, young people and families. in quality assurance practices, service improvement and Fife-wide identification of gaps and further commissioning design.
- Access support and supervision provided by CAMHS and your team manager
You will need a full driving license and access to your own car for work purposes.
You will be educated to SCQF Level 8 or have relevant skills and experience in working with young people or young adults with mental health needs.
Application notes
Please now email your application form and the Equal Opportunities form to the HR Department: hrassist@includem.co.uk or post it back to: includem HR Department, Includem, Unit 6000, Academy Office Park, Gower Street, Glasgow G51 1PR
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YMCA Climate Action Development Worker (Part-time)
- Part time
- £28,401 pro-rata
- On site: Cupar
- Closing 19th December 2025
YMCA-YWCA Cupar is a local charity in North East Fife working with its communities to offer a broad range of opportunities and experiences to build confidence, encourage learning, and to enhance individuals lives and well-being.
The YMCA-YWCA offers a full weekly programme of activities – youth work, adult learning, family learning and has its own youth café facility. It works closely with locally partners to deliver activity sessions and workshops, and there’s community based one-to-one support and counselling sessions available too.
The YMCA-YWCA is a member of the YMCA international young people’s movement, which has adopted its Vision 2030. This Vision is underpinned by the key pillars of Community Wellbeing, Just Work, Meaningful Work and Sustainable Planet.
This post focuses on the development of local initiatives under the ‘Sustainable Planet’ theme. The post holder will be part of a Scotland wide project, where 8 local YMCAs will employ staff to deliver community-based climate action initiatives with children, young people, adults and families. The project is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and commences in early 2026.
As the Development Worker, you will be employed by the YMCA-YWCA Cupar and based at their headquarters at Marathon House, Bonnygate, Cupar. This is a part-time post of 20 hours per week, with flexible working hours during daytime, evenings and some weekends. The post will end 30th June 2028.
You will work within a small team of staff and volunteers. Whilst there will be a real community focus for this post, you will have opportunities to develop young people and community led activities at the YMCA-YWCA and at its outreach project, at Cupar Youth Café at Castlehill.
Development Workers Amplify
- Full time
- £32,204 – £37,327
- Remote: Home based in region with occasional travel to Edinburgh office
- Closing 5th January 2026
Youth Scotland, Scotland’s national charity for the support and delivery of community-based youth work, would love you to come and join our dynamic team.
We are looking for two new workers to help us deliver our brand new Amplify Project.
Amplify is a 3-year, Scotland-wide, large-scale Youth Participation programme funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (UK Fund). It builds on Youth Scotland’s experience of supporting youth voice and aims to increase young people’s involvement in decisions that affect their lives, communities and services. The project will support young people, youth workers and wider community stakeholders to embed youth voice into decision-making and community life.
If you have experience of youth and community work and a passion for supporting young people’s participation, leadership and youth voice, then this role is for you.
Location
Post 1: Ref: YS-DWAMP25W
West Region – This post will be home-based in Glasgow or one of the named West Region areas: East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, Argyll & Bute, with regular travel across the West Region and occasional travel to Youth Scotland’s Office in Edinburgh.
Post 2: Ref: YS-DWAMP25NE
North East Region – This post will be home-based in one of the named North East Region areas: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee, Moray with regular travel across the North East Region and occasional travel to Youth Scotland’s Office in Edinburgh.
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Senior Youth Development Worker (Female)
- Full time
- £29,000
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 26th December 2025
Introduction to MYDG
Muirhouse Youth Development Group was established in 1997 and has been working with young people from Muirhouse and the surrounding areas ever since. Over the past 30 years, we have built strong, trusted relationships with young people, their families, the local community, and with the high school in which we are based. We deliver a full week of activities for young people, including evening youth clubs and in-school support. MYDG works with young people aged 8–18, and we support their development through opportunities such as our Young Volunteers Programme.
Purpose of the Job
Our Youth Development Workers play a direct role in engaging and supporting young people: delivering issue-based sessions, creating safe and inclusive spaces, and ensuring that young people’s voices are heard and prioritised in decision-making—both within the organisation and in the wider community.
We are looking for someone with a good understanding of the experiences and challenges young people face in the local area, and with experience in delivering impactful group work programmes.
Role Requirements
This role requires the postholder to deliver high-quality, safe, fun, and empowering youth work activities and support services. You will be part of a small, collaborative team working to achieve key outcomes for young people, as required by our funders. The postholder should have the confidence and ability to develop, deliver, and promote a relevant and engaging youth work programme for young people of varying ages.
Key responsibilities include
- Designing and delivering youth work sessions across a range of topics
- Recording, monitoring, and evaluating your work effectively
- Building and maintaining positive relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, and partner organisations
- Upholding and promoting the values of MYDG
Contributing to our online presence through social media and digital platforms
Young Women’s Work – Occupational Requirement
We are currently seeking to recruit a female Youth Development Worker to support our young women’s work, both within mixed settings and targeted group sessions.
This post is open to female applicants only, as the role involves working closely with young women on gender-specific issues. This requirement is considered to be an Occupational Requirement, as permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
Young Carers Support Worker
- Full time
- £25,789 – £28,064
- On site: West Dunbartonshire
- Closing 11th January 2026
We are looking for a dedicated and motivated individuals to join our team. Y sort it Young Carers Service supports young carers aged between 8-18 years across West Dunbartonshire.
This exciting post offers a unique opportunity to work with Young Carers within school, home & community based settings. The role of the Young Carer Support Worker will be to support young carers in making informed choices around issues that are important to them, through one to one, group work sessions & respite.
You will be offering and completing Young Carers Statements (Assessments), developing support plans, providing advice and information, training and group work to support young carers with their caring role.
Young carers are supported through a range of measures to alleviate the caring role and your role will be to work closely with schools, partner agencies and family members to ensure they are able to be a young person first and foremost.
You will be active at providing support and encouragement, helping them to overcome challenges and /or barriers working towards goals to improve their learning, skills and personal development. Offering guidance, rights based information, creating learning opportunities. You will be developing support plans, providing advice and information, training and peer support. Your role will be to work closely with schools, partner agencies and family members.
The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work will involve working, evenings, school holidays and weekends. The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work may change to respond to the demands of the work of the Young Carers Service including overnight stays for respite.
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