GIRFEC Support Worker, Inclusion Support Programme

  • Full time
  • £24,000 – £25,517
  • On site: Musselburgh
  • Closing 11th November 2024


  • Advertised from 10th October 2024
  • Salary based on relevant experience. Fixed term until 31/07/2025, funded by East Lothian.

Role

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? Do you value great employee benefits such as generous holidays and an annual training budget? Apply to join us!

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. Since 1984, we have helped young people develop their life skills, improve their educational attainment and move into employment or further education. Join our team as we celebrate 40 years of empowering young people!

We have a vacancy for a GIRFEC Support Worker to provide bespoke, individually tailored support packages to young people who have been identified as not engaging or coping with mainstream school.

The successful candidate will:

  • Provide a mixture of one to one intervention and group learning to young people, including support in areas such as wellbeing, personal and emotional development and employability
  • Support young people to gain employability skills, life skills and accreditation; helping them in to work, apprenticeships, further education or vocational training
  • Deliver tailored support packages to young people enabling them to create and realise their career pathways and progress in to post school opportunities

It is essential that candidates have a full, clean driving licence with business insurance and constant use of a car. Membership of the PVG scheme will be an essential requirement of the post. A contributory company pension scheme is offered with a 10% employer contribution.

Application notes

An application pack may be downloaded from bridgesproject.org.uk or may be requested by email: mail@bridgesproject.org.uk or by telephone: 0131 665 1621

Completed applications should be emailed to mail@bridgesproject.org.uk

Please note we do not accept CVs

Closing date: Monday 11th November

Bridges Project is a company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland SC277102

Scottish Charity Number SC03697