Project Worker- Upstream Service

  • Full time
  • £25,295 – £28,487
  • On site: Hybrid working between office and schools within the West Lothian area
  • Closing 14th April 2025


  • Advertised from 24th March 2025
  • Salary depending on experience and qualification. Permanent. 35 hours per week.

Role

The Role: Rock Trust are delighted to offer up an exciting opportunity to work as part of our ‘Upstream’ project team. We are looking for a passionate and experienced project worker to deliver our schools-based prevention project to identify and support young people who are at risk of homelessness. The role will include providing 1:1 support to young people, nurturing and maintaining relationships with partners and stakeholders and interpreting and analysing statistical data.

The post holder will be expected to:

  • Build trusting, lasting relationships with young people, working with them to identify individual needs and build a robust support plan
  • Provide flexible, person centered, strengths-based support for as long as is required.
  • Work in a psychologically and trauma informed manner
  • Establish and nurture relationships with key partners and stakeholders
  • Analyse results from statistical gathered to determine service need and target support to those most at risk
  • Promote and share evaluation, learning and best practice.

Who we are

Rock Trust is Scotland’s leading youth specific homelessness charity. We work with young people aged 16-25 who are at risk of, or who are experiencing homelessness. Our aim is to end youth homelessness in Scotland by ensuring that every young person has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, survive and move on from homelessness.

Rock Trust holds the gold award from Investors in People. We are committed to making Rock Trust a fantastic place to work. We provide a range of enhanced benefits for staff, including a starting annual leave entitlement of 25 working days which will increase by 1 day for every full year of service completed (up to a maximum of 30 working days) plus 10 Public Holidays (pro-rata), a 6% employer contribution pension scheme, life assurance scheme, employee rewards and enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave. A full list of our benefits is available on our website.

We actively support the ability to work flexibly and remotely, and all staff are provided with the ICT kit and home set-ups needed to minimise travel and promote a work-life balance.

Application notes

We are an equal opportunity employer, with the Silver Charter from LGBT Youth Scotland and are signed up to the DWP’s Disability Confident scheme. We encourage applications from all parts of the community.

Rock Trust has four core values; Safety, Positivity, Respect and Fairness. If you hold these values and are passionate about supporting young people to achieve their full potential and move on from homelessness, then please get in touch.

Closing date: Monday 14th April 9am

For an application pack please visit our website at rocktrust.org/vacancies to download a pack. Please specify in your pack which role you are applying for.


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