Community Worker

**Job Title**: Community Worker (StreetwYze - Sessional)

**Reporting To**: Community Learning and Development Manager

**Contractual Status**: Sessional

**Salary**:£12.00 per hour

**Hours**: 6 hours per week (2 nights per week)

**Annual Leave Entitlement**: 25 days, plus 9 public holidays, plus 3 days for Christmas shutdown (pro-rata)

**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 opportunity for a Sessional Community Worker to join our StreetwYze team to work to deliver a range of early interventions and diversionary activities via streetwork to youths involved or on the periphery of anti-social behaviour and gang violence within the communities we serve. This will involve working in partnership with various third and statutory sector organisations within FARE Scotland’s areas of responsibility. The worker will support the StreetwYze team in the delivery of workshops within the high schools and conduct streetwork in the evenings to engage with young people.

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

- Improving the communities’ health and wellbeing, by providing services to meet their social, emotional, and physical needs.
- Aiming to reduce the issues of anti-social behaviours and gang violence.
- Aiming to reduce poverty within communities by meeting people’s employment, educational and training needs, and by providing Scottish Qualifications Authority certificated courses and qualifications.
- Encouraging, supporting, enabling, and empowering people to be connected to their communities, and to act on their ideas, issues, and interests.
- Providing a caring, trusting environment, which will bring people together to foster positive community relations.
- Working to be a thriving, sustainable, robust organisation with an ethos rooted deeply in the communities we serve.
- Working as part of the FARE Scotland StreetwYze team to develop and provide appropriate programmes, internal referral processes and systems to achieve positive outcomes in line with the aims of FARE Scotland.
- Delivering direct support for young people through a variety of programmes including streetwork.
- Ensuring all work including programmes, training, interventions and support to individuals, groups and organisations are effectively recorded and monitored to facilitate planning, achieve outcomes, and contribute to performance management on an individual, project and organisational basis using the information to produce high quality statistics and reports as required.
- Developing positive relationships with external providers who can holistically support children, young people, and families.
- Ensuring that confidentiality is always maintained working within the policies of the organisation.

**About you**
- Streetwork experience.
- An understanding of anti-social behaviours and gang violence.
- The ability to motivate individuals facing barriers.
- Good knowledge of Community Support and Development.
- The ability to work with people with people at all levels both internally and externally.
- The drive and initiative to work independently.
- The ability to share learning and develop practice through feedback.
- The ability to challenge, in a constructive manner, negative attitudes.

Ideally you will have:

- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- An organised and systematic approach to monitoring and reporting.
- Excellent IT skills in Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, particularly for database-related work.
- Experience of collaborative working.
- Full Driving Licence.

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
- Company Sick Pay
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible working options
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Death in Service benefit (4 x basic salary)

**How to apply**

**Job Type**: Part-time

Pay: From £12.00 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 6 per week

Work Location: In person