Youth Worker

**Job Title**: Youth Worker

**Reporting To**: Attainment and Skills Manager

**Contractual Status**: Fixed-Term Contract to 31st October 2025 (35 hours per week) - Maternity Cover

**Salary**: £25,200.00 per annum

**Annual Leave Entitlement**: 25 days, plus 9 public holidays, plus 3 days for Christmas shutdown

**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 Youth Worker to join our team on a fixed term basis. Reporting to the Attainment and Skills Manager, you will work alongside the wider FARE Scotland team and school staff to help maximise the potential of local facilities to meet the needs of school pupils and local people of all ages. Developing interventions to tackle poverty, its symptoms and close the attainment gap through educational and social activities, including volunteering and mentoring opportunities.

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

- Developing and participating in the delivery of a range of joint and needs identified activities.
- Facilitating group work sessions, delivering a range of SCQF rated qualifications to pupils.
- Ensuring the collection and collation of statistics as required to ensure continued funding and for progress reports to the school’s Senior Leadership Team, FARE Scotland’s board of directors and various funding bodies.
- Working closely with the Attainment & Skills Manager and school staff to develop, promote and organise a variety of youth services.
- Attending meetings with the school’s Senior Leadership Team and other agencies that can support students that are a concern to successfully improve their outcomes.
- Establishing activities which will promote the personal, social, educational, and material welfare of the young people.
- Ensuring the collection and collation of statistics as required to evaluate the project’s impact and for progress reports.
- Assisting with the planning and delivery of FARE Scotland /Schools attainment program for at risk young people.
- Providing group work and 1-to-1 support for young people.
- Establishing and maintaining contact with relevant outside agencies.
- Maintaining all records in accordance with guidelines from FARE Scotland and the school.
- Complying with all relevant legislation, Company policies and school policies.
- Promoting the values and objectives of FARE Scotland.
- Report writing.
- Being visible during break times to all young people.
- Attending training and development opportunities.

**About you**
- Experience of planning and delivering needs led programmes by working alongside schools, local people, and other organisations in a strategic working group to meet the needs of the pupils and their families within the school catchment area.
- Have sound knowledge of the issues faced by children, young people, adults, and families.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, including databases.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- The drive and initiative to work independently.
- Ability to work with people at all levels, both internally and externally.
- Organised and systematic approach to monitoring and reporting.
- Ability to facilitate group work sessions.
- Ability to motivate individuals facing barriers.
- Full driving licence.
- Educated to minimum SVQ 3/HNC in a relevant field or have a minimum of 4 years relevant experience.

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
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Death in Service benefit (4 x basic salary)

**How to apply**

**Application Closing Date**: 23rd February 2025

Pay: £25,200.00 per year

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 23/02/2025