Lead Practitioner (Community Navigator)
- Full time
- £25,326 – £28,394
- On site: Cowdenbeath and Surrounding Area
- Closing 5th January 2025
- Advertised from 16th December 2024
- Permanent
Role
Service: Fife Support Service
Getting the Right Support at the Right Time
Turning Point Scotland are working with Fife Council and other partners to achieve the following aim;
‘Ensure people in Cowdenbeath (and surrounding areas) at risk of or experiencing Homelessness, and people who need help to strengthen their housing stability get the right support, at the right time through a co-ordinated system response.’
We are developing an exciting approach of change. To co-ordinate the system, we have created a Whole System approach. The community navigators will be the people on the ground who will support us to work ‘upstream’ and provide the support identified to ensure people get the right support to address an issue they have, at the right time as early as possible.
The Whole System Approach and role will adapt as we learn what works best for the people that need support.
The role may require meetings across Fife and could evolve to providing a similar support in another area of Fife.
Standard working hours are 9am - 5pm Monday - Thursday, and 9am - 4.30pm Friday.
About the role
The role of Community Navigator will support early intervention and prevent a crisis. Our Community Navigator role will include:
• Supporting people in relation to housing, wellbeing and their wider social circumstances.
• Lead on setting up community drop in’s in Cowdenbeath and surrounding area, building relationships and connecting to established community hubs.
• Working with individuals to provide them with easy access to advice or low-level support. This may be one contact or several over a few weeks to help resolve an issue.
• Supporting people with more complex needs to access support within wider services in Fife, ensuring that we do not let go of someone until we are assured that another support service has taken on the Lead Professional role for the person.
• Supporting people to act in their own lives as well as directly providing support with a variety of issues including, accessing employability services, access and engage with mental health services, register with a doctor or mental health/alcohol or other drug services, linking in with welfare services, help registering child at school, etc.
• Building knowledge of local resources and developing a network of working relationships with local providers / services.
• Supporting the implementation of the steering group’s WSA Action plan and feeding in to the steering group to highlight what works well land not so well so that the WSA can learn and change the system. This will include being involved in Task and Finish groups as required, ensuring lived and living experience is heard and valued in the process.
About You
We are looking for someone who is;
• Flexible to adapt their role to meet the needs of the test of change
• Curious by nature to understand why there are barriers to someone being supported and take action to address why these work or doesn’t work for the people we support
• Self-Motivated and has a ‘can do’ attitude to support people
• Kind, Calm and Compassionate when listening and responding to people.
A level of previous working experience in a community based or social care role is an advantage, but not necessary as full training will be provided to you.
We believe the both lived and professional experience you may have is further enhanced by having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity in order to join our team!
About Us – Fife Support Service
The Fife Support Service operates a Whole System Approach team, where these posts will work, in addition to a Housing First Team. This is the start of an exciting journey as we develop the WSA.
We believe that we are not going to end Homelessness by focussing on service delivery alone. Ending, preventing, or responding effectively to homelessness demands input from housing but also from across the public service system – no one service, or approach is going to have all the answers. These inputs need to be coordinated and integrated, underpinned by effective communication and information sharing arrangements and overseen by a strategic structure that brings agencies together around a shared goal. We believe that whatever door someone opens, this is the right door (No Wrong Door Approach) and when this door is opened, they are met with a co-ordinated multi agency response.
Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.
Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.
Application notes
To apply please visit our website
Closing date: 5th January 2025
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- Full time
- £34,484 – £37,566
- On site: Edinburgh (Leith, Craigmillar)
- Closing 19th December 2024
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About You
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- £28,815 – £32,575 pro-rata
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 20th January 2025
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In the new Union of St David’s Carrick Knowe the congregation is very aware of the need to re-establish Children’s and Youth work and are looking for someone to take the lead with this.
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- £50,584 – £55,965
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 7th January 2025
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About the role:
The Strategic Communications Lead oversees a small communications and campaigns team to create, build and deliver spectacular multi platform campaigns and communications activities. The role is crucial in managing both internal and external communications, enhancing public engagement, supporting partnerships staff in mentor recruitment and supporting fundraising activity aligned with the mission of bridging the education, skills and opportunity gap for Scotland's most disadvantaged young people. The role involves strategic thinking, creativity, operational planning and delivery.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and deliver an integrated communications strategy aligned with our goals.
- Lead media relations, securing impactful coverage and managing key relationships.
- Oversee content creation, including digital, social media, and campaigns, ensuring consistent messaging.
- Act as brand guardian, ensuring clarity and cohesion in all communications.
- Provide strategic advice to leadership on key messaging and public engagement opportunities.
- Powering our drive to be recognised nationally, and loved locally and regionally in the communities we serve.
About you:
You’ll have a proven track record in strategic communications, media relations, and campaign delivery, ideally within the charity sector. A skilled communicator and collaborator, you’ll bring creativity, adaptability, and a passion for delivering positive change for young people. You’ll have a relevant portfolio of work that shows your passion for high quality communications and impactful creative output.
About us:
MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity with a passionate team dedicated to helping the UK’s most vulnerable young people gain self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential through mentoring. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our relationship-based mentoring is transformative and has profound positive impacts on young people in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. All MCR mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. We model our values and many of us are also volunteer mentors.
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