Proposed Interview Date: Thursday 15 August 2024
Closing Date: Sunday 11 August 2024
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: FC3 £22,525.71 - £23,633.23 (Pro-Rata)
Working Pattern: 3 hours per week
Location: Cupar County Buildings or Tayside Institute, Newburgh
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement.
Job Details
To support young people and to engage effectively with young people in their own communities and to contribute towards their learning and development with other youth work colleagues using a range of educational practices and approaches. The post has a particular emphasis on working in a team to plan, organise and evaluate general activities and more specific activities such as Project/Issue Based Work, Youth Achievement Awards and other YP relevant, informal education focussed learning experiences.
You will be responsible for working in a small team of youth workers to plan, organise and evaluate general youth work activities.
You will support the youth work team to create an environment where young people feel safe, are able to relax, meet friends, make new relationships, have fun and find support. You will be responsible for delivery of learning and educational youth work activities in a safe, supportive and positive environment. You will be responsible for completing personal evaluation materials and supporting the Senior Youth Worker and Community Education Worker in the delivery of learning activities and projects.
The Person
Desirable:
It is a requirement of this post that the post holder can engage positively with identified groups of young people affected by social inclusion issues, challenging their behaviour patterns and supporting their learning needs. You must have good communication skills and sensitive to the environments you will be working in.
The post holder should have experience of working directly with young people in either a youth work, community, school or social work setting, be able to work positively within a team environment and have an understanding of group work approaches. The post holder should be IT literate, have a good standard of literacy and numeracy skills and be able to support the creation of evaluation and update reports for a variety of audiences.
Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.
Further Information
For further information please contact: Bryan Hill - [email protected]
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