Community Engagement Practitioner - Fife

Hours: part time, hours can be negotiated, includes evenings and weekends. Working flexibly between 8am and 10pm, 5 days over 7.

Location: Fife (Dunfermline and South West Fife)

Salary: £24,830 pro rata

Passionate about making positive changes in young people's lives? Join our team as a Community Engagement Practitioner at includem! You will work closely with children, young people, families and partner services across local community to support young people to make positive life choices and progress towards the type of future they want to live.

Fife Mental Health and Wellbeing, in partnership with Barnardos as part of Fife’s Our Minds Matter Framework focuses on providing short term 1:1 emotional and practical support to reduce distress and groupwork to promote positive mental health and wellbeing.

The focus of the Community Engagement Practitioner is to deliver input in three key area:

Identifying and developing local community / organisational capacity

• Developing parental/carer capacity
• Targeted interventions understanding YP’s needs, to assist them to engage with and help shape and strengthen local services

Qualifications

• Qualifications necessary for SSSC registration or be willing to work towards them. SVQ 2/3 in Social Care

Full job description can be found here

To apply please send a CV and Cover Letter to recruitment@includem.co.uk

Closing date is 8th October 2023

Successful candidates will be invited to:

Group interview: 16th October 2023

Individual interview: 23rd October 2023