Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people from diverse backgrounds?

One Community Scotland is seeking a dedicated Youth Engagement Worker to join our team in Glasgow!

Key Responsibilities

• Support disadvantaged young people, primarily from black and minority ethnic backgrounds
• Facilitate one-on-one and group interventions based on guided assessments
• Create and implement sustainable diversionary plans and group work programs
• Build strong, trusting relationships with young people and their families
• Connect service users with community supports and specialist services
• Work in partnership with Police, Social Work, Health, and Education sectors

What We Offer

• Opportunity to make a real impact in young people's lives
• Collaborative team environment within the One Community Scotland programme
• Professional development opportunities and continuous learning
• Chance to work with diverse communities and partner organizations
• Contribute to the ongoing development of an innovative service model

Ideal Candidate - we're looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about youth work and community development
• Experienced in working with diverse communities
• Skilled in building relationships and facilitating interventions
• Committed to professional growth and program evaluation
• Able to maintain accurate records and respect confidentiality
• Join us in empowering young people to achieve positive outcomes and create lasting change in their communities.

Passionate about engaging with young people? Experienced in creating a safe environment and allowing young people to talk about what is important to them? This opportunity is for you!

Join the Why Not? Trust team as a Community and Engagement Team Member – Thinking Space. Due to further development, we are now offering a second full-time appointment.

Thinking Space is a unique initiative funded by The Henry Smith Foundation, designed to support care-experienced young people across Scotland. Underpinned by Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) principles, Thinking Space uses mapping techniques to help young people explore their past, understand how previous experiences and relationships influence their present circumstances, and consider the potential impact on their future.

This confidential and safe environment enables participants to develop positive coping strategies and build resilience. Following your induction and initial training, you will work directly with care-experienced young people in specific locations, offering them the opportunity to reflect on how past relationships may have shaped their sense of self, decision-making, and ability to form new connections. You will also support them in exploring learned coping mechanisms and adopting healthier alternatives.

As part of The Why Not? Team, you will have access to ongoing support and professional development opportunities to enhance your practice and impact. This role will be line managed by the Why Not Trust, Operational Lead. A UK driving license is required for this role. A secondment will be explored if requested.

Everyone's behaviour will be led by the principles of The Why Not Trust.

Why Not Principles

These principles are what underpin all we do; they show our values and shape our behaviours. They make it clear to all what they should expect from us and what we expect from them.

#1 Show respect - everyone is worthy of being treated with a high level of respect. Stigma and discrimination are not welcome, and we will strive to eliminate both.

#2 Be Kind – We cannot control other people’s behaviour, but we can control our own. We will treat people with kindness and use curiosity and listening to understand other perspectives.

#3 Be human – we are all human and no matter how well intended we are, we will all make mistakes, we will own these and learn from them. We will help each other learn by being honest with each other.

#4 Promote the positives – we will focus on strengths and support learning in every way we can. We will celebrate success and recognise achievements. We will recognise everyone is doing their best.

#5 Be ambitious – we will strive for success in all we do, recognise the change we want to make and go for it!

#6 Recruit allies – we will work with others to achieve our aims and support others to achieve theirs.

#7 Champion individual growth – we will support the development of individuals, promote opportunities, and develop leadership qualities.

#8 Keep it real – we will do our best to recognise when we or others are feeling challenged and offer support where we can. We will pull together; no-one is too important to help do what needs done. We will strive to avoid jargon and use inclusive language.

#9 Be storytellers – we will share our learning and tell our generic stories or share themes, where it supports learning. We will not share individual ‘case studies’ or require people to tell their story.

#10 Listen to learn – we will listen to people to learn, not to respond. We will allow others processing time and go at their pace.

Online Info Sessions to find out more about us and the role:

Tuesday, 23rd December at 4pm-4:45pm – weblink

Monday, 5th January at 4pm-4:45pm – weblink

Who We Are

We are Scotland’s leading youth homelessness charity. We believe that no young person should ever face homelessness. That’s why we deliver bold, youth-specific solutions, built around young people’s experiences and what evidence tells us works.

We support young people to avoid and move on from homelessness, helping them build the confidence, skills and stability they need to thrive in adulthood. We also influence policy and practice to create a Scotland where no young person is left behind.

We don’t follow the system, we change it, continually championing the voices and experiences of all young people.

Context

Rock Trust delivers the Upstream prevention project in schools and the post holder will work with the Upstream Team, pilot schools and education departments to create a toolkit for the implementation of Upstream. This will involve working with current pilot schools to document the changes required in school systems, the challenges and how to overcome them and an assessment of the resources required to deliver Upstream. The Ask & Act Education Manager will use this learning to create a toolkit and implementation plan to be used for national implementation.

This role is responsible for:

• Coordinating work with multiple local authority Education departments, senior leaders and cross-sector partners (Housing, Social Work, Health, third sector)
• Designing and documenting processes, guidance and training materials that enable schools to embed early identification of housing risk
• Capturing learning, gathering data and producing a national implementation framework
• Ensuring all activity aligns with statutory duties, local contexts and Rock Trust’s prevention approach

The Ask & Act Education Manager will need to be methodical, have strong report writing skills and interpersonal skills to co-ordinate the information gathering and documenting. They will be responsible for delivering the toolkit to a high standard, making a lasting contribution to Scotland’s homelessness prevention system.

At Rock Trust, our people are our greatest asset. As the organisation grows, we are introducing a People and Organisational Development role to ensure our staff have continued access to excellent HR support, including recruitment, on-boarding, induction, Learning and development and talent management. Working with the People and Business Support Manager and colleagues across the organisation, you will deliver all aspects of people support, management and development.

This is a role that would be ideal for an aspiring HR Manager looking to develop their HR career working with an experienced CIPD qualified People Manager, and in an organisation that, although growing, is small enough to offer experience across the full range of HR practice. Some previous HR experience is essential.

In addition to the responsibilities in the Job Description, the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following key competencies:

• Working as part of a small team.
• Confidentiality.
• Reliability.
• Professionalism.
• Proactivity.