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We have a unique opportunity for a group-focused Youth Worker to join our Positive Transitions Team, during an exciting period of growth. The Positive Transitions Service is an established service in schools across East Lothian and Edinburgh, offering an early intervention service to encourage and enable vulnerable children, young people and families, and to support them to feel understood and valued, developing their potential (gaining self-esteem and confidence), and overcoming personal, school and learning challenges. We have recently secured additional funding to fund this post and further development. Further details on the service can be seen here: peopleknowhow.org/positive-transitions-service

Community Renewal is a social enterprise and registered charity that works to build community, improve quality of life and alleviate poverty by engaging individuals and families and supporting them to achieve sustainable employment, improved health and to become more involved in their community.

The purpose of the Local Conversations Project Lead position is to take up the key role in the delivery of the People’s Health Trust Funded Programme in Muirhouse, Edinburgh; ensuring all aspects of the outcomes for the Local Conversation Project are met.

RESPONSIBLE TO: Young Person Guarantee Manager

These posts are funded by The City of Edinburgh Council as part of their No One Left Behind remit. The ambition is to support young people into a positive destination as part of a collective effort to tackle youth unemployment as a result of COVID impacts.

The successful candidates will have a strategic and operational remit, including engaging directly with young people and engaging with employers and key stakeholders, linking young people to emerging opportunities to ensure successful outcome. Partnership working and networking will be a key element of a successful approach and the Officers will be expected to engage with a wide range of agencies, linking to national, regional, and local offers.

We envisage the three-officer posts as follows:

· Volunteer/Mentoring officer

· Further Education/Higher Education officer

· Employability Youth Grants officer

Secondments will be considered. Successful candidates will be required to pass a PVG check.

LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people of all ages to overcome the negative impacts of trauma, mental health, inequality, and isolation. We deliver our support to service users through a range of models including:

• Personal development and employability programmes
• Self-help coaching
• Supported accommodation
• Care at home
• Housing support
• Befriending
• Social cafes

At LinkLiving, our values are at the heart of everything we do and we put the people we support first. It is important to us to find people with the right values, behaviours and attitudes to match our own. Our values are:

• Empathy (listen to and understand an individual’s needs and circumstances)
• Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)
• Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)
• Caring (show kindness and concern for others)

As part of the UK government’s Plan for Jobs, a new Kickstart Scheme has been launched that will create hundreds of thousands of new, fully subsidised jobs for young people across the country. As well as aiming to kickstart the country’s economy, it will also provide the opportunity to kickstart the careers of young people who would otherwise be left behind as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Job

Accountable to the Service Delivery Manager, the Employability Project Worker will be responsible for coordinating the delivery of the Kickstart scheme within Link and its partners. This will be through providing one to one support to young people we employ and the departments hosting the six-month Kickstart jobs.

The Employability Project Worker will work in partnership with Job Centre Plus to recruit Kickstart participants and offer these participants one-to-one support and group training. In addition, the Employability Project Worker will provide support to the various departments hosting Kickstart jobs.

About You

The post holder must have a good standard of secondary education including Math’s and English. Due to the role of the Employability Project Worker in delivering group training, we would require you to have experience in the delivery and development of training programmes.

It is essential that the post holder has an understanding of issues affecting young people who are excluded and marginalised and demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to people’s emotional and social health.

It is also essential that the post holder has a flexible, practical and reliable approach and an ability to prioritise and plan your own workload.

You must also have a current driving license and access to a roadworthy car.

For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please refer to the Job Specification in the Job information Pack below.