Key Worker – HMP Shotts Visitor Centre & Family Time Project
- Full time
- £23,000
- HMP Shotts, Canthill Road, Shotts
- Closing 6th June 2022
- Advertised from 20th May 2022
Role
Getting Better Together (GBT) is a community-based health initiative which promotes the education, health, and wellbeing of North Lanarkshire residents. Working with our communities, we ensure our local people have access to, and are involved in, the design and delivery of programmes and services created to help improve their health, wellbeing and to build their life skills.
At the heart of Shotts, GBT's Healthy Living Centre was established twenty years ago. Today, from birth to the elderly, we work with people of all ages and have the support of our local partners and funders to deliver the activities which best meet our community's aims and objectives. The GBT board is made up of local directors, and we have over thirty staff and forty volunteers.
We now have vacancy for full time (35 Hrs) Key Worker – HMP Shotts Visitor Centre & Family Time Project, to work as part of the Getting Better Together Early Years and Youth Team. Employed to support the development and implementation of the Visitor Centre and Family Time work plan. Visitor Centre staff are committed to working with families, community, and voluntary sector partners to maintain meaningful contact between prisoners and their families throughout the period of imprisonment.
This post is joint funded by Families Outside and RS Macdonald.
Application notes
To apply please complete the attached application form.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification prior to completing your application form.
You should send your completed Application Form either by e-mail to mark@shottshealthyliving.com or by post marked Private and Confidential to: Mark Slorance, Getting Better Together Ltd, Shotts Healthy Living Centre, Kirk Road, Shotts, ML7 5ET.
You will receive confirmation that your application submission has been received when you submit your application form. Unfortunately, we may not be able to write to applicants who are not successfully shortlisted for interview due to the volume of applications. If you have not received an invitation for interview within 10 days of the closing date, please assume on this occasion you have been unsuccessful.
Closing date for Applications: 12pm 6th June 2022
Shortlisting of Applicants: 7th June 2022
Interviews: Commencing 20th June 2022
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