Youthzone - Relief SW

Youthzone provides playful, fun and engaging weekend respite sessions for disabled young people aged between 10-16 years old. The aim of the service is to support the young people to develop their self-help skills and social skills as well as building a social/peer group whilst giving their parents some weekend respite. The young people can participate in a range of activities including arts and crafts, cooking, trampolining, puzzles, basketball, outings and many more. Activities are based on young people’s interests and the young people are encouraged to let us know what they would be interested in trying the next time they attend the service.

About the role

We are currently recruiting for Support Workers/Practitioners to work in our weekend services for children and young people with additional support needs based in Edinburgh. We are looking for people who can provide fun, meaningful activities such as baking, arts and crafts, games, sports, trips in the community and outdoor play to support young people to have lots of fun!

As a Support Worker, you will be a key member of the team, providing:

• High standards of support to our customers
• A creative and caring approach
• Opportunities to build strong relationships with our customers, their families and other supporting professionals
• Encouragement and support to live as independently as possible
• Participation in activities is a key tasks for the role, so energy and initiative is vital.

What you need to know

While experience is great, we are really looking for people with the right values. You should have excellent communication skills and be flexible and empathetic.

Hours: We have a flexible approach to the shifts you work, working hours are between 9.30am – 2.30pm at Weekends. As a relief member of staff you can choose the shifts you wish to work!

Location: between both of our Edinburgh Service locations, Craigmiller 11 Harewood Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4NT & Riccarton Research Avenue North, Edinburgh, EH14 4AP

Driving Licence desirable but not essential, as long as able to travel (as required) to meet our young people’s needs.

Job Description: Support Worker (Children)

Experience/qualifications/key skills required

Experience of working in a similar role and environment is desirable as is a willingness to undertake any personal development opportunities. You should have a care related SVQ Level 3, or the willingness to gain this qualification in a given timescale. You should possess good interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative.

Capability Scotland’s benefits:

• A generous salary of £24, 401.52 FTE/Pro-Rata / £12.00 ph (dependent on qualifications & length of service)
• To help you achieve this qualification, we offer fully funded SVQ – a qualification which is yours for life.
• Most services offer, set 2, 3, 4 & 6 week rolling rotas so you always know when you are working and can plan life outside of work.
• 32 days holidays per year, increasing to 37 with service.
• Free PVG checks throughout your employment.
• Fully funded SVQ – a qualification which is yours for life.
• Up to 8% company contribution pension scheme.
• Up to 3 x annual salary death in service.
• Perks at Work – shopping discount scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• 24/7 employee assistance programme.
• Working for us means you would qualify for Blue Light & Concert for Carer discounts
• We are One Voice, One Charity, One Spirit, #OneCapability.

About us

FARE Scotland is a voluntary organisation working within disadvantaged communities throughout Central Scotland. At FARE Scotland we strive to raise people’s aspirations, encourage them to become more involved in their communities, create opportunities for personal development and equip them with the skills required to deal with the demands of 21st century life.

Working at FARE Scotland, you will be part of passionate and hard-working team that aims to improve the lives of the people in the communities we serve.

What you’ll do

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Youth Employability Keyworker to join our Employability team. Reporting to the Employability Manager, you will work closely with them to ensure high-quality employability support and programme delivery to achieve individual aims for young people across the employability pipeline. You will provide holistic support to young people that will minimise barriers to employment and offer training to increase skills, development, and support access to further training, and education to allow people to move on to sustained progressions along the employability pipeline.

The successful candidate will have a sound knowledge of the national and local policies including No One Left Behind, The Young Person’s Guarantee, the Local Employability Partnership, barriers young people face to enter employment and the skills to support their development and ability to achieve goals. You will be responsible for forming relationships with key stakeholders including, SDS, GCC and local retailers at Glasgow Fort.

As part of your role, your main responsibilities will include:

• Designing, delivering, and evaluating training for young people that supports sustained progressions into further education, training, employment, or reg-engagement in schools.
• Recruitment for programmes.
• Undertaking one-to-one goal setting interviews and reviews.
• Delivering training in-group settings using a range of learning materials accommodating a range of learning styles to meet groups' learning needs.
• Design and deliver employability training session to be delivered from our Skills and Community Hub.
• Maintaining up to date knowledge of the employment sector for young people and pre-employment training provisions that may be needed.
• Ensuring Employability Programme trainees get the support that they require to help them remain engaged, focused and progress to their identified goals.
• Building trusting relationships with FARE Scotland and Employability Programme trainees, challenging negative attitudes and behaviours whilst motivating individuals to retain focus.
• Supporting participants’ FE and job search activities, personal development, goal setting, identifying, and overcoming barriers, CV development, completing applications, interview skills, and accredited qualifications.
• Liaising with employers to identify job opportunities, further training and/or education within the stages of the Employability Pipeline in order to meet recruitment targets and outcomes for our Youth Action Fund programmes.
• Providing post-employment support to achieve sustained employment outcomes, including tracking, and database record-keeping.
• Attending meetings to represent FARE Scotland, promoting the Employability Programme at external events.
• Monitoring and evaluating all employability training programmes.
• Adapting to changing needs and requirements as the position and organisation grows and develops.

About you

The successful candidate for this role will have:

• Experience of delivering employability support and training to young people.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to motivate young people with multiple barriers to employment.
• Organised and systematic approach to monitoring and reporting.
• Ability to work with people at all levels, both internally and externally.
• The drive and initiative to work independently.
• Ability to share learning and develop practice through feedback.
• Ability to challenge, in a constructive manner, negative attitudes.
• Excellent IT skills in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access particularly for database-related work and report writing.
• Good knowledge of the employability landscape.
• Good knowledge of Scotland’s new National Performance Framework and Economic Strategy and No One Left Behind.
• Experience working with young people.
• Experience in supporting sustained progressions.
• Educated to HNC/HND level or minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
• A full UK driving licence.

Ideally you will have:

• Knowledge of statutory organisations including Skills Development Scotland.
• Experience providing outcomes-focused employability skills to individuals excluded from mainstream employment.
• Experience in the delivery of SVQ/PDAs.
• Recruitment and selection experience.
• A L&D9I (Assessor Qualification) and/or L&D11 (Verifier Qualification).

Along with the above, we would be looking for an individual who shares, and is able to demonstrate, the organisation’s values of being compassionate, open, collaborative, innovative and driven.

Along with the above, we would be looking for an individual who shares, and is able to demonstrate, the organisation’s values of being compassionate, open, collaborative, innovative and driven.

What we can offer

In return, we can offer you:

• Enhanced holiday entitlement
• Christmas shutdown period
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible working options
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Death in Service benefit (4 x basic salary)

Are you passionate about helping people to live a better life? Do you want to work for a charity where your health and wellbeing matter just as much as the people you support? Do you want to be part of a trauma-informed team where you will be supported to develop creative and flexible ways of working?

You don’t need to have previous experience or qualifications in this field. If you share our values, this could be the role for you!

At LinkLiving, our values and people are at the heart of everything we do including how we recruit our staff. It is important for us to find people who share our values, which 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)

LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people to manage or overcome the effects of negative life experiences (including trauma, mental health challenges, poverty and inequality) so that they can build on their strengths and aspirations in order to live their best possible lives. We support people through a range of models including:

• Personal development and employability programmes

• Self-help coaching

• Supported accommodation

• Care at home

• Housing support

• Befriending

• Social cafes

The Service

Our Edinburgh Young Persons’ Service provides visiting housing support and supported accommodation to people between 16 and 25 years old who live in Edinburgh.

We support young people, who have been in care, experienced homelessness, trauma or any disadvantage to overcome the challenges they may face whilst helping them to achieve their own individual goals and shape their lives for a more positive future.

This can involve finding a suitable home, learning the skills to manage it as well as possible, working through life challenges, trying new things, and learning to see the best in themselves and fulfil their unique potential. We also have supported flats which vary in the level of support offered to suit the needs of the people who live there.

The Job

We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and motivated Support Worker to join our team and improve the lives of people supported by our Edinburgh Young Persons’ Service.

In this role, you will be supported to work using a person centred and trauma informed approach and develop effective relationships with young people affected by a range of problems, supporting them to cope in difficult times and working towards a good life. You will provide emotional, practical and social support to enable people to live as independently as possible and make informed choices in all aspects of their lives.

In this role you will be responsible to manage your caseload independently and work flexibly around people's individual needs.

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 above.

What’s in it for you?

The benefits of being a LinkLiving employee (subject to the policies and benefit terms and conditions) include:

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non-consolidated pay awards, subject to terms of the scheme

• 35 days’ holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus additional 3 days pro rata after 3 years’ service, with an opportunity to buy and sell holiday

• access to paid SVQ qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities and funded Disclosure Scotland and Scottish Social Services Council memberships

• defined contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions plus salary exchange and additional voluntary contribution options

• life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits to named beneficiaries

• healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependents) to support health and wellbeing plus discounts on shopping, restaurants, and other services

• employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental and financial well-being

• discounted travel schemes including cycle to work scheme, monthly bus pass scheme and travel ticket loan and much more!

For a full list of benefits available to employees, please see the following link - linkliving.org.uk/work-with-us

Successful applicants will be required to register with SSSC within 6 months of their start date.

This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration. Link will meet the cost of any new PVG scheme membership or scheme record update.

Further Information

Interested?

If you have any questions about the role, please email jobs@linkhaltd.co.uk and we can arrange for someone from the service to call you for an informal chat.

To find out more about what LinkLiving do and to view the generous pay and benefits package, please visit our website at linkliving.org.uk

If you’re thinking about working in adult social care, download the Guide to adult social care jobs in Scotland for in-depth information on everything you need to know to get started. In addition, you can enrol on a free, online 6 week part-time tutor-supported ‘Introduction to a Career in Social Care’ course. The course introduces the area of social care and can be a stepping-stone to employment or further training.

Closing Date: midnight on Wednesday 29 May 2024

Interview Date: Interviews are being held on Thursday 06 June 2024 at our office in Edinburgh

We are looking to recruit a number of full and part-time Young Carer Support Workers with relevant qualifications and experience of supporting Carers aged 5 – 25, in education and/or the community.

Founded by Carers in 1998 Capital Carers is a highly regarded charity providing carer support to unpaid carers of all ages. Our Ethos is to provide unpaid carers with a range of high quality support services which enable them to have some normality of life whilst carrying out their caring role. Our Vision is that all carers get the help and support they need to sustain their caring role. We are in the 4th year of a projected eight year contract to deliver appropriate support services to young carers in schools, colleges and the community in the North West Locality of Edinburgh.

You will work flexibly, to include some early evening and occasional weekend working. An element of working from home is envisaged.