Job Specifics
- Reference No: CD222
- Location: Coatbridge
- Hours: Part Time (20hrs)
- Salary: £24,000 – £27,000 pro rata
- Closing Date: Friday 11th October 2024
- Why should you apply for this role: Exciting projects and challenges.
Job Overview
As a Community Development Worker, working with our foundation, you’ll work with individuals, families, the wider community and partners:
- Supporting them to build trusting and supportive relationships with you and the wider team.
- Identify their assets, needs, opportunities, rights and responsibilities.
- Co-produce what they want to achieve and take appropriate action.
- Co-design activities and services to generate aspiration and confidence.
You’ll do this by acting as a link between the foundation, the local community and a range of other local authority and voluntary sector providers to ensure that The Hub is a well-used resource with wide-ranging reach.
Your role will frequently involve addressing inequality and the projects you work on will be in communities perceived to be culturally, economically or geographically diverse disadvantaged.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Key Tasks
- Assist in the development of the Community Wellbeing Hub.
- Co-design projects/initiatives which assist in tackling specific issues (e.g. mental health, cost of living etc) – with people living in poverty.
- Seek to actively engage the community in addressing the issues which affect their lives.
- Set goals for improvement and respond to problems and needs through active participation.
- Identify community skills, assets, issues and needs.
- Ensure that local people have their say.
- Develop new resources in dialogue with the community and evaluate existing programmes.
- Recruit and train paid and voluntary staff.
- Co-ordinate the involvement of team members as volunteers and manage and support a team of sessional support workers at the various initiatives/activities on offer.
- Build links with other groups and agencies in the local community and liaise with interested groups and individuals to establish new services.
- Help to raise public awareness on the Foundation and the issues relevant to the community.
- Prepare reports for the Foundation Lead and Board of Trustees.
- Oversee the management of a limited budget.
- Plan, attend and coordinate meetings and events.
- Carry out general administrative duties.
Employer Expectations Skills/Knowledge/Experience
- Good relationship building approaches.
- An ability to connect with children, young people and their families.
- Calmness in situations that arise in the Hub and wider community.
- A solid understanding of child protection, safeguarding and risk assessments.
- Advocacy and networking skills.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and team-building skills.
- Good listening skills.
- Research and report-writing skills.
- Knowledge and understanding of community and social issues.
- A non-judgemental and positive attitude.
- Creative thinking and problem-solving ability.
- Political, social and negotiating skills.
- An understanding of how public sector bodies work.
- Compassion and the ability to empathise with people’s life experiences.
- Life experience and language skills can be an aid to this role and help you make important connections with those you are helping.
Qualifications/Tickets/Licences Required
- A relevant degree in Community Work/Community Development/Youth Work will be considered, as will extensive experience in a similar role.
- A commitment to ongoing professional development is welcomed with accreditation and learning qualifications considered
- Lived experience of adversity, poverty and / or trauma are welcomed within the role.
- Community Development Workers in Scotland will be registered under the Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme (PVG).