Support Worker – Fife
- Full time
- £26,436
- Includem, Unit L, Telford Road, Glenrothes, Fife, KY7 4NX
- Closing 11th December 2022
- Advertised from 25th November 2022
- 37 hour contract, working flexibility 8am – 10pm, 5 days over 7.
- Holiday entitlement: starting at 28 days per annum and 9 public holidays
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 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
Additional Information
You will need a full driving license and access to your own car for work purposes.
Qualifications
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.
Additional Information
This role will require you to drive, with access to your own car for work purposes. There may be an additional requirement for some travel between includem offices.
Application notes
To find out more and to apply, pleasevisit our websiteor download the application pack below.
Completed applications to be submitted tohrassist@includem.co.uk.
For applicants who are successfully shortlisted a group selection event will take place shortly after (est. date 15th December 2022). If you are successful following the group selection event, individual interviews will then take place (est. date 19th December 2022) before the successful candidate is chosen.
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Community Fundraiser
- Full time
- £28,739 – £32,489
- Edinburgh or Glasgow (with some remote working from home)
- Closing 19th February 2023
Venture Scotland offers an outdoor-based personal development programme which empowers young people aged 16-30, who face complex and difficult challenges in their lives and want help to change.
We focus on the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of our young people working with them to make lasting changes to their lives and helping them play a positive role in their communities.
We are seeking a Community Fundraiser (who identifies with our values of Trust, Respect, Diversity, Inclusion, Environment and Personal Development) to help support the fundraising team to expand and diversify our income streams to ensure our organisations is sustainable into the future.
The role will include taking a lead on community fundraising engagement plus donor stewardship of the following funding streams –corporate, individual giving and community – and help increase income in these streams.
To be successful in the role, you will have experience in securing income within the voluntary sector or another sector if you are able to demonstrate transferable skills. You will be someone who is able to identify, establish and retain new partnerships.
Do you want to work in a supportive team of people who really care about the young people we are helping?
Do you want to work in an organisation who listens, values everyone views and cares about the health and wellbeing of their staff?
Do you understand the transformative effect of the outdoors?
Are you passionate about #ChangingYoungLives Outdoors?
This role is considered ‘regulated work’ as it involves activities with both children and protected adults. Under our safeguarding policy, this role will require a PVG.
If you are applying for this role you need to prove that you have the right to live and work in the UK. If you do not possess this right, then your application will not be considered.
Venture Scotland offers an outdoor-based personal development programme which empowers young people aged 16-30, who face complex and difficult challenges in their lives and want help to change.
We focus on the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of our Young People, working with them to make lasting changes to their lives and helping them play a positive role in their communities.
We are seeking an Outreach and Support Worker, who identifies with our values of Trust, Respect, Diversity, Inclusion, Environment and Personal Development, to recruit and support a diverse range of young people into and through our programmes and on to positive destinations following graduation.
The job will also include building a network of local referrers, public speaking to interested groups, staff teams and funders, presenting our programmes in engaging and creative ways to young people interested in joining our programmes and supporting them on their journey with Venture Scotland and beyond.
Do you want to work in a supportive team of people, who really care about the young people we are helping?
Do you want to work in an organisation who listens, values everyone views and cares about the health and wellbeing of their staff?
Do you understand the transformative effect of the outdoors?
Are you passionate about #ChangingYoungLives Outdoors?
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- Part time
- £24,000 – £25,517 pro-rata
- Musselburgh
- Closing 20th February 2023
Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people? Do you want a flexible, varied and meaningful job in a supportive team? If so, join Bridges Project at an exciting time as we’ve recently launched a range of new services!
Bridges Project is a leading youth work charity that helps young people aged 12-25 in East Lothian and Midlothian overcome challenges and adapt to adulthood. For nearly 40 years, we have helped young people develop their life skills, improve their educational attainment and move into employment or further education.
We have a vacancy for a Support Worker (Young Carers) to provide individually tailored support packages to young people with a caring responsibility in East Lothian. The post holder will support young carers and young adult carers in areas such as personal development, wellbeing and employability. The successful candidate will ensure young people increase their confidence, educational attainment and employability outcomes.
It is essential that candidates have a full, clean driving licence and constant use of a car. Membership of the PVG scheme will be an essential requirement of the post. The post is funded by The Triangle Trust. A contributory company pension scheme is offered with a 10% employer contribution.
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- Part time
- £22,750 pro-rata
- Duns, Eyemouth and Coldstream
- Closing 15th February 2023
The Project Worker post is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund to deliver the Stepping Stones project in the Berwickshire area, working alongside youth work partners across the Scottish Borders.
Stepping Stones Project Worker supports young people aged 10-18 in their communities, with the aim of improving their emotional health and wellbeing, and life chances. The Project Worker will provide universal support to each young person based on their personal needs, helping them to achieve their full potential and to develop skills through non-formal education activities within a universal youth work setting.
The Project Worker will offer responsive and high-quality support young people on topics such as emotional health, wellbeing, confidence, transition, anxiety, life-skills cyber-bullying and relationships by offering tailored one-to-one support, targeted small group sessions and activities. The project also supports young people to engage with training, volunteering, youth achievement awards, social action and joint activities with other youth groups in the Scottish Borders.
The post holder will ensure that an individual support plan is developed in partnership with each young person.
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