Description Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 14 April 2025 Closing Date: Wednesday 2 April 2025 Contract Type: Permanent Salary: FC4 £24,890.91 - £27,087.17 pro rata Working Pattern: 16 Hours per week Location: Kirkcaldy Supporting Statement As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement When writing your supporting statement, you may find it helpful to consider use of the STAR method (Situation, Task, Actions, Result) by thinking about a situation that you feel best describes your experience or knowledge, outline the task that you undertook, detail the specific actions you led or were involved with and provide a short summary of the result. Ways in which you have effectively engaged with young people to ensure they have the skills and confidence to identify and achieve their own goals How you have influenced relationships focused on working effectively alongside colleagues and other partners as part of a team to deliver youth work outcomes. Ways you have worked to motivate and encourage young people’s positive participation to take part in learning and development activities and projects. Job Details The Kirkcaldy Community Development Team is committed to working alongside communities to improve life chances for people of all ages through learning, personal development, and active citizenship programmes. Through our staff teams and volunteers, we will work to support communities to become stronger, more resilient and inclusive. Our approach to community development is rooted in our core values; Self-determination, Inclusion, Empowerment, Working collaboratively and the Promotion of learning as a lifelong activity. Our values reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the service. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with young people, their families, and the wider community. The purpose of the Senior Youth Worker – NOLB, To assist the Support Worker (Activity Agreements) to engage with young people referred from partners through the EASYP pathway to access post school leaver activity. Assist facilitating a community development approach to working with young people aged 16-18 years in structured activity supporting them towards employability. Assist engaging young people to self-determine and progress their own learning goals and achievements appropriate to each young person’s needs and abilities. Contribute to the planning organising and evaluating of youth work approaches and activities progressing the learning and development of young people. A link to the role profile is included at the bottom of the advert. You will find out more about the job and the type of person we are looking for. The Person You must have significant experience of working and communicating with young people You must have experience of developing learning and education programmes with young people. You must have good organisational skills You must have the ability to plan a programme around young people’s needs You must have group facilitation skills You must have the ability to handle situations confidentially You must have evaluation and report writing skills You will be able to motivate young people and encourage participation, with the ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team. You will be able to provide a regular and effective service Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme. Further Information Role Profile - When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile How We Work Matters - Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our How We Work Matters behaviour framework for more information. Employee Benefits - Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services Directorate Information - Council Department information Social Media - Search for more 'Fife Council Jobs' on Facebook or follow us on X FCJobsOfficial For further information please contact Lee Robertson - lee.robertsonfife.gov.uk