* 21 hours a week, £13,200 per annum. From time to time, occasional evening and weekends may be required.
Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Link Worker to join our well-established Befriending Service in the East Dunbartonshire area. This is a 21-hour per week post with some flexibility regarding specific days of work which can be negotiated. The post is a blend of home working, office-based activities, and engaging with users of the service and volunteers in the local community.
The East Dunbartonshire Befriending Service provides support and companionship to individuals who are experiencing loneliness and social isolation by promoting independence, increasing confidence, engaging with the community, and improving health and wellbeing.
Support is delivered on a one-to-one basis, through group befriending, or by establishing a befriending telephone relationship. It also provides a Lunch Club and a range of events throughout the year.
Application Notes
An application pack is available for download below.
Flexible working, part-time hours, or job-sharing arrangements will be considered for the right candidate.
GCA delivers services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, and East Renfrewshire.
Minimum Requirements
The Group Worker will provide safe, effective tiered support for the various groups across GCA and clients accessing our services across Glasgow who are most at risk from addictions, homelessness, social isolation, and poverty. The groups address health and social wellbeing while promoting and supporting the development of trauma-informed practice; harm reduction; guiding individuals through their healing process, introducing tools to develop coping skills and to live manageable lives.
Benefits
In return for choosing to work for GCA, the benefits you will receive are:
* Very generous annual leave entitlement: full-time employees start with an annual leave entitlement of 37 days (inclusive of bank holidays) which increases to 38 days after 2 years, 40 days after 5 years, and 42 days after 10 years of service.
* 5 duvet days where employees may take time off at short notice.
* Death in service policy of 2 times salary.
* Cycle to work scheme where employees can save money on a new bike and spread the cost.
* Training and development commitment to help employees perform to the best of their abilities.
Organisation Profile
Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA) was founded in 1965 and is the oldest established Council on Alcohol in Scotland. GCA is a voluntary organisation working to reduce the harm caused by alcohol misuse through the provision of a range of high-quality advice, information, counselling, support, prevention, and education and training services.
* Hybrid: Community work in the greater Glasgow area but based with GCA office in North Claremont Street, Glasgow.
* Closing 8th November 2024.
Additional Information
Flexible working, part-time hours, or job-sharing arrangements will be considered for the right candidate.
GCA delivers services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, and East Renfrewshire.
The Community Engagement Worker will provide a community-based Alcohol Brief Intervention service in the wider community and primary care settings in Greater Glasgow in partnership with other statutory, voluntary, and community agencies in the area.
On Offer
Salary - £21,237.22 (FTE 35 hours) 21 hours contract for 2 year fixed term.
37 days annual leave (Full Time Equivalent) 25 days + 12 stat holidays (this increases with tenure).
Access to the Employee Assistance Programme.
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