Community Education Worker

2 weeks ago


Fife, United Kingdom Fife Council Full time

**Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 26 February 2024**

**Closing Date: Sunday 18 February 2024**

**Contract Type: Temporary until 4 December 2025**

**Salary: FC7 £31,179.34 to £38,950.71 (Pro-Rata)**

**Working Pattern: 25 hours per week**

**Location: Town House Kirkcaldy/working across the Kirkcaldy area**

**Supporting Statement**

Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement:

- Ways in which you have effectively engaged with families, children and young people.
- How you have worked in partnership to achieve positive outcomes.
- Ways you have modelled and promoted the professional CLD values in your current and/or previous roles.

**Job Details**

The Kirkcaldy Community Development Team is committed to working alongside communities to improve life chances for people of all ages through learning, personal development, and active citizenship programmes. Through our staff teams and volunteers, we will work to support communities to become stronger, more resilient and inclusive. Our approach to community development is rooted in our core values; Self-determination, Inclusion, Empowerment, Working collaboratively and Promotion of learning as a lifelong activity. Our values reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the service. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with young people, their families, and the wider community in partnership with those who support them.

You will be part of the Kirkcaldy Community Development Team focusing your time delivering a range of opportunities and interventions promoting involvement in family and community life that increase the well-being of children, young people and their families across the Kirkcaldy area. All work undertaken will aim to increase resilience and improve outcomes around health and wellbeing, education, social isolation and reducing poverty. Opportunities offered will look to support families identified as in need and will seek to reduce poverty and increase life chances. You will be required to work collaboratively with local partners to understand identified need in Kirkcaldy and to work partnership with others, sharing resources to enhance delivery. Delivering evidence based groupwork and programmes both during the school term and holiday periods with children, young people and parents you will aim to involve children, young people and families in understanding how they use their voice to effect decisions and influence change both at a personal and community level. You will supporting parents to improve their engagement with universal and intensive services by working in partnership and ensuring a close links with relevant agencies are fostered. You will a key member of the Community Development Team, based in Town House, Kirkcaldy and will work alongside Community Education Workers, Welfare Support Assistants and Local Development Officers.

**The Person**

A Degree in Community Learning & Development (or equivalent recognised by the CLD Standards Council for full registration) at SCQF Level 9.

You must be able to work and communicate successfully with Council services, voluntary organisations and community groups and demonstrate recent experience in the use of the National Standards for Community Engagement. You must have experience of working with others using digital platforms and online planning and/or consultation tools. You must have the ability to work with minimum supervision and exercise judgment and initiative. You will be a Team worker and motivator with excellent communication skills and possess a can-do’ approach to help progress this agenda. The ability to travel throughout Fife is essential. You should be able to provide regular and effective service.

A link to the role profile is included at the bottom of the advert. You will find out more about the job and the type of person we are looking for.

**Further Information**
- **Role Profile**:

- When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile
- **How We Work Matters**:

- Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our How We Work Matters behaviour framework for more information.
- **Employee Benefits - **Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services
- **Directorate Information - **Council Department information



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