Concrete Garden are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced youth worker for its Outdoor Play project in Possilpark, Glasgow.

This post will form part of a dedicated team of Outdoor Play and Learning Youth Workers who enrich and expand outdoor child-led play and learning in the Possilpark community. Outdoor Play and Learning is all about playing outdoors, but the right candidate will also find themselves involved in supporting children and young people to cook and eat together, build fires, make dens, climb trees, and use the nature around them to create art or design and build new playful structures.

We are keen to hear from people who are passionate about free play, community participation, promoting the rights of children and young people, and striving to create positive radical change through grassroots movements.

In return for choosing to work with Concrete Garden, we will offer:

• Generous annual leave entitlement of 38 days (inclusive of bank holidays and pro-rata’d)
• Regular supervision and reflection team meetings
• Training opportunities available depending on personal development needs

For more information about the role, please see the Job Description document.

Concrete Garden is an urban community providing growing space, outdoor play, activities, events, and volunteering opportunities for the people of Possilpark and the wider North Glasgow area. We work alongside local folk to create a healthier, happier Possilpark by creating opportunities to grow, work, socialise, play, and learn together.

Concrete Garden charity began in 2010 with our flagship site at the St Matthew’s Centre. Since then, the organisation has grown to a second site – the ‘Back Garden’ – behind Possilpark Health & Care Centre.

Concrete Garden is a registered charity: No. SC043154.

Beatroute is a community-led music and arts charity based in Balornock, in the North East of Glasgow. From its premises 'The Beatroute Arts Centre', the organisation offers free, high-quality creative and holistic activities for local community with a particular emphasis upon young people and vulnerable community groups (such as older people and young people/adults with disabilities). Beatroute aims through its member-led programmes to improve quality of life for local people and to increase free learning opportunities for both young people and adults in an area sited as being within the 5% most impoverished regions in Scotland (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation Analysis 2020), addressing the 'poverty gap' and advocating for a fairer and more equal society.

Main Purpose of Job: To deliver the adult engagement programme at the Beatroute Arts Centre and to work under the advisement of the Project Manager in the planning and development of all member-led activities.

*Beatroute Arts is currently trialling a 4-day working week which results in a percentage uplift in salary for part-time staff, rather than a reduction in hours. If this trial is to be continued beyond the trial period, this uplift will be reflected in contract for this post. To be discussed further at interview.

The Service

The Harm Reduction Development Officer will work closely alongside the Harm Reduction team in Dundee and Homeless Accommodation Services in Edinburgh and Glasgow to develop Harm Reduction best practice and procedures across the organisation.

The Role

The Harm Reduction Development Officer will work with the existing staff in Hillcrest Futures’ Enhanced Injecting Equipment Provision (IEP) and Homeless Accommodation Services, alongside people with lived experience of drug and alcohol dependence to:

• Develop procedures for High Tolerance Approaches to engage people who use drugs in homeless accommodation services
• Develop procedures and best practice in drug checking services
• Support innovative research in harm reduction aimed at preventing drug deaths
• Deliver training and model best practice to staff to roll out these new approaches in services
• Promote the innovative approaches locally and nationally to help move forward current approaches to help prevent drug related deaths

You Will

This is an exciting new role that will help to move forward current drug policy locally and nationally. As such you will have a wealth of knowledge and experience in drugs/alcohol and homeless policy and provision, a passion for harm reduction and drive to reduce drug related deaths.

You will be responsible for writing organisational procedures and will need excellent communication skills – both in terms of working with people and writing clear, concise procedures and guidance for staff. You will be able to engage and communicate with people with lived experience, their families, our workforce, external delivery partners and strategic partners.

This work is at the forefront of innovation in harm reduction practice and you will be able to interpret emerging research and legislative frameworks and develop this into front line service delivery.

Please note this role is based at our South Ward Road office in Dundee however there will be regular travel to Edinburgh and Glasgow required.

Company Benefits

• Pension Scheme
• Generous Holiday Entitlement
• Comprehensive Health and Well-being Package
• Free access to online discounts for well-known retailers
• Death in Service Benefit (up to three times your salary)
• Cycle to Work Scheme (great savings from 25% - 39% on bikes and accessories)
• Tech Scheme (great savings of up to 12% on computers or laptops)

Sponsorship

Please note that Hillcrest Futures do not hold a licence to sponsor any visa applications at present.

Introducing Community Renewal Trust

Community Renewal is a dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland.

Community Renewal works among deprived communities to develop, deliver and share better approaches to unlocking flourishing lives and flourishing neighbourhoods. These approaches always place people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.

Community Renewal alleviates poverty by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups). This work is about testing change which can inform policy, be scaled up or replicated to achieve a much greater impact than our direct delivery alone.

THE ROLE

Citywide Caseworker – Edinburgh

The role will be as part of our Next Step City-wide Next Step Team specialising in providing employability and welfare advice support to people presently facing unemployment and who are actively seeking to return to work. The successful applicant will be home-based, working city mainly with clients remotely with some work taking place at community events and outreach locations mainly between 10-3 as required.

We are keen to hear from people with experience or knowledge in Employer Engagement.

Additional Benefits include:

• 4.5% employer pension contribution
• 36 days annual leave including public holidays
• Loyalty scheme with up to 48 additional days leave
• Free Access to Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme and online Health Portal