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Move On works in Scotland to unlock the potential of vulnerable young people, enabling a positive future and improving people’s lives. From our bases in Glasgow and Edinburgh we provide a range of services including mentoring, employability, training, peer education, volunteering opportunities, support, advice and information.

This role will support the work of our young people services, working directly with individuals and groups. The Development Worker will support young people to achieve positive life experiences through mentoring and training, and to identify, access and sustain employability opportunities through delivery of accessible and relevant advice and information on a wide range of topics.

We require an experienced and creative individual, who will can demonstrate that they have played a positive role working with socially excluded or disadvantage groups, as well as managing and supporting volunteers. You should have knowledge of designing and facilitating training and be able to provide a flexible response to the changing circumstances of vulnerable people affected by homelessness.

Move On works in Scotland to unlock the potential of vulnerable young people, enabling a positive future and improving people lives.

From our bases in Glasgow and Edinburgh we provide a range of services including mentoring, employability, training, peer education, volunteering opportunities, support, advice and information.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop our highly successful Mentoring service by working alongside our Mentoring team to establish Move On as a Trauma-Informed organisation. Move On’s Mentoring for Wellbeing will build on our expertise in mentoring disadvantaged young people in Edinburgh, through increasing the capacity of our staff and volunteer mentors to support young people to improve their wellbeing and mental health.

Move On, an established and successful Edinburgh and Glasgow-based charity supporting homeless people and vulnerable young people. We are seeking to appoint a Development Worker with proven skills and experience in forming and growing our new social enterprise.

Move On Wood Recycling (MOWR) is a social enterprise which started in Summer, 2018. Our aims are to help the environment create volunteering opportunities for disadvantaged people by collecting, reusing and recycling waste timber from the building industry and other sectors. We also undertake carpentry jobs for customers, sell reclaimed scaffold boards and deliver employability training.