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Tackling Rural Isolation Support Service Outreach Worker

  • Full time
  • £29,616
  • On site: Based Stirling CAB & extensive travel throughout North and West Stirling District
  • Closing 13th December 2024


  • Advertised from 13th November 2024
  • Fixed term for 12 months (Jan 2025 - Jan 2026), with possible extension thereafter depending on funding.

Role

Main Purpose:

To break the cycle of food bank dependency by building financial capacity, energy capability and independent living skills within the target community; reducing social isolation, tackling poverty and inequality, reducing social drift, building community cohesion and developing community capacity and resilience.

Roles & responsibilities

The post-holder will support TRI (Tackling Rural Isolation) Outreach Support Service users to achieve increased financial capacity, become energy capable and develop independent living skills, by providing bespoke advice, support & advocacy as follows:

  • Assistance with mitigating the impact of the cost of living crisis and maximising income.
  • Help with financial and digital inclusion: support to access bank accounts & to digitally access cheaper services to free up income and build digital capacity, confidence and savings.
  • Support to access appropriate affordable borrowing; to explain implications of borrowing; and to access debt resolution strategies.
  • Support to access, efficiently use and manage economically viable energy provision in partnership with the Stirling CAB Energy Advice team
  • Social prescribing & assistance to access further support to address underlying vulnerabilities such as loneliness, mental health, addiction, chaotic lifestyles, offending behaviours.
  • Support to better integrate into the local community to address social & economic isolation and loneliness.
  • Support for developing financial confidence and responsible financial management, improving independent living skills.

Full details can be found in the job description below.

Application notes

For an application pack please contact – Craig Anderson, CEO, craiganderson@stirlingcab.casonline.org.uk or for an informal discussion call 01786 464773

Closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 13th December 2024, postal applications should be marked JOB APPLICATION

Interviews will be held week beginning of Monday 16th December 2024.

Craig Anderson

CEO

Stirling District CAB Ltd

3 Cameronian Street

Stirling

FK8 2DX

To ensure the confidentiality of your application please remember to mark the envelope “JOB APPLICATION”


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