Senior Youth Worker

Proposed Interview Date: Tuesday 9 December 2025

Closing Date: Sunday 30 November 2025

Contract Type: Permanent (Multiple vacancies available)

Salary: FC4 £25, , pro rata)

Working Pattern: 3 Hours, 6 Hours or 9 Hours per week available

Location: Lomond Centre, Glenrothes

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Supporting Statement

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Job Details

The Glenrothes Community Development Team are committed to working with young people to improve life chances through learning, personal development, and active citizenship programmes. Through our staff teams and volunteers, we will work to support young people to become stronger, more resilient. Our approach to Youth Work is rooted in our core values; Self-determination, Inclusion, Empowerment, Working collaboratively and the 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.

Your time will be spent delivering a range of opportunities and interventions to achieve the national Youth Work outcomes. You will undertake face to face delivery of Youth Work, meeting the needs of young people. You will be leading a youth work team to plan, deliver and evaluate programmes and activities using the Fife CLD Quality Framework.

You will be required to undertake Fife Council training to ensure you act in accordance with policy around Health & Safety, Child and Adult Protection and Data Protection.

You will a key member of the Community Development Team in the Glenrothes area and will work alongside Community Education Workers and a variety of others.

This post is being advertised with the option of 2 x 6-hour, 9-hour or 12-hour post:

• 3 Hour detached youth work (including street-based projects such as biking, Wednesdays pm & 3-hour Lomond Centre youth club, Fridays pm

• 6 Hour schoolwork, Thursdays 9.30am-3.30pm (might have flexibility with day)

• 12 Hour post would be a combination of the schoolwork post and two evenings.

There is also a separate Youth Worker position advertised, and there is the option for you to apply for both posts and work more hours across the two positions.

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.

The Person

• You must be able to work and communicate successfully with others including Council services and voluntary organisations.

• You must have experience of planning, delivering and evaluating good quality youth work programmes.

• You will be a Team worker and motivator with good communication skills and possess a can-do' approach.

• You should be able to provide a regular and effective service.

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

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