Job Title:                 Project Worker

Contract:                 Permanent - 35 hours per week.

Location:                 Fife office base in Dunfermline and travel throughout Fife

Salary:                     25,295.92 - 28487.30 per annum (depending on experience)

Our long-term vision is to end youth homelessness, our more immediate mission is to ensure that every young person in Scotland has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, survive and move on from homelessness.

 

Working as part of our innovative Housing First for Youth Team, The Project Worker will work directly with young people to coordinate and provide emotional and practical support. Providing an assertive outreach approach the Project Worker will Work with young people to secure and manage their own permanent home, providing support in their home and in their local community to ensure that a young person’s experience of homelessness is rare, brief, and non-recurring.  

 

The Project Worker will support young people to improve their practical independent living skills, access other services and to reach their full potential. Project Workers are responsible for completing support plans and risk assessments and are the main contact for any key people involved in the care and support of young people.   

 

 

Team Leader

 

 

 Responsibilities 

·       Offer and provide practical, personal, emotional and social support to young people, collaborating with colleagues where necessary and practical.

·       Actively and proactively coordinate and plan the provision of support for all the young people assigned to you, manging their competing and varying priorities and needs.

·       Assess young people’s skills and abilities and work with them in a person-centred way to produce support plans, based on their needs and goals, with regular reviews.

·       Assist young people in coordinating, building and maintaining a network of internal and external support.

·       Participate in the referral, selection and placement process to ensure available places are appropriately and promptly filled.

·       Maintain regular and accurate case notes, recording support provision and young people’s achievements and progress.

·       Participate in the “on call” rota in accordance with agreed guidelines.

 

·       Participate in strategic and operational planning and development of day-to-day services.

·       Participate in the gathering and processing of relevant statistical information to support senior colleagues with regular reviews and evaluations of services.

·       Form and maintain effective and meaningful partnerships with external agencies.

 

·       Ensure safe and hospitable environments within the properties used by the Rock Trust and, where directed, support the identification, acquirement and set up of new properties.

·       Ensure a thorough awareness, application and adherence of organisational policies and procedures and promote best practice.

·       Contribute to achieving the agreed standards of service and targets reflecting the aims and objectives of the Rock Trust, service level agreements or guidelines provided by statutory and regulatory authorities

 

·       Line manage and provide formal and informal support to allocated staff, students and/or volunteers.

·       As part of our Fife Team, provide effective and professional leadership, supporting and promoting the activities of Rock Trust and contributing significantly to building a high performing organisation.  

·       To provide visible leadership and motivate staff to ensure that delegated responsibilities are achieved, and effective communication maintained. 

·       Nurture a culture of Respect, Safety, Positivity and Fairness, that allows our colleagues to thrive, take appropriate risks and learn from mistakes. 

·       Identify and make recommendations for improvements to contribute to the continuous operational improvement of the organisation.  

·       Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, policies and best practice related to youth homelessness and community care.

·     To act in accordance with Rock Trust values.

·     To undertake other duties in line with the role as required.

 

This job description is not exhaustive. It merely acts as a guide and may be amended to meet the changing requirements of the Rock Trust at any time after discussion with the post holder.