Planet Youth Officer

Job Description

TEMPORARY FULL TIME POSITION AVAILABLE. END DATE: 31/03/2025

With support from the Winning Scotland Foundation and designated Planet Youth lead officer, Clackmannanshire is one of five local authorities in Scotland to develop a whole community’s model to:

1. Apply a primary prevention approach that is designed to enhance the social environment;
2. Engage and empower community members to make practical decisions using local, high quality, accessible data and diagnostics;
3. Emphasise community action and embrace schools as the natural hub of neighbourhood/area efforts to support child and adolescent health, learning and life success;
4. Integrate researchers, policy makers, practitioners and community members into a unified team dedicated to solving complex, real world problems;
5. Match the scope of the solution to the scope of the problem, including emphasising long term intervention and efforts to marshal adequate community resources.

You will provide critical support to schools and communities to develop and drive the Planet Youth Action Plan and co-ordinate the teams and activities required to do so.

Requirements

You can view the application pack below including our recruitment privacy notice. The application pack contains the job profile outlining the skills, experience and knowledge required for this job.

 Clackmannanshire Council is currently promoting for the (Get into Care for Adult Care) further documents can be viewed below (These do not relate to the job advertised).

 Clackmannanshire Council welcomes applications from everyone and we value diversity in our workforce. We are committed to being an exemplar employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. For this vacancy, we would welcome applications from ethnic minority groups, who are currently under represented in our workforce.

 Clackmannanshire Council operates a flexible hybrid approach for those roles that allow this type of working. Attendance at the office will be required to meet the needs of the business and for example to build team and stakeholder relationships. The exact pattern of working will be agreed with you as part of the recruitment process.

 Clackmannanshire Council is a living wage accredited employer.

 This post is considered Regulated Work with Vulnerable Children under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. You will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check prior to a formal offer of employment being made by Clackmannanshire Council. Further guidance will follow in your conditional offer of employment on how to apply. Please note you will be required to pay for the cost of this application, if your salary is over £30,000 per annum, which will be deducted from your first salary. Further information can be found here https://www.mygov.scot/apply-for-pvg

 Should you have difficulty applying for a job online please call 01259 452244 (24 hrs) and leave your details along with the reference number of the post.

 Please note that if you are selected for interview you will be notified by e-mail.

Please click this link to view a short video on what is expected when completing application forms for Clackmannanshire Council - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXaasgoGqmw

 

There may be an opportunity for you to seek permission to apply for this position on a secondment basis. Applicants should ensure they read the secondment policy on connect which can be accessed here and seek agreement from their service prior to applying.