* Remote: Primarily remotely, with some work expected at our designated work hubs
* Closing: 10th March 2025
* Advertised from: 28th February 2025
Role
Circle is a children and families charity working at the heart of communities across central Scotland. Our purpose is to improve the lives of children by strengthening families.
Circle’s approach builds on strengths, is solution-focused, and uses a whole family approach to create a family environment that promotes healthy development in children.
National Voluntary Throughcare Programme
This Scottish Government funded programme will deliver inclusive voluntary throughcare services across Scotland for men, women, and young people serving a short-term sentence or following a period on remand. A collaborative and relationship-based partnership model underpins delivery to support to achieve positive outcomes for people and wider communities. Improving reintegration and wellbeing ultimately improves lives and reduces re-offending.
We are recruiting for values-driven people to join our Circle delivery team in the following Throughcare Community Worker roles:
Throughcare Community Workers (Full-Time and Part-Time)
Fife
1 Community Worker – Female & Young People (Full time – 36 hrs)
1 Community Worker – Female & Young People (0.6 FTE – 21.5 hrs)
Forth Valley
1 Senior Community Worker – Male (Full time – 36 hrs)
Tayside
1 Community Worker – Female & Young People (0.5 FTE – 18 hours)
Your role will be to support people returning to their community following a short-term sentence or period on remand, providing relational and practical support that is tailored and responsive to the needs of the person. Working collaboratively with Throughcare Prison Worker colleagues and a range of partners, you will support in-coordinated pre-release planning to ensure a person’s journey is effectively supported. This will involve supporting connections to local and specialist services where appropriate and, importantly, wider community connections.
You will have the ability to establish trusting and genuine relationships with compassionate approaches front and centre. You will be self-motivated and understand the importance of collaboration and working in partnership across organisations and sectors to support the best outcomes for people. You will be keen to support your team, Pod area, and wider service delivery, demonstrating flexibility to service demand as required.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to be involved in shaping and delivering a new high-profile government-funded project that is truly making a difference to people’s lives.
This role will involve working as part of a dynamic local team with workers from across partner organisations. Primarily remotely, with some work expected at our designated work hub (Fife & Forth Valley and Tayside) and travel as required to support engagement across the partnership.
Being educated to at least SVQ level 3 or equivalent is desirable. Experience of supporting individuals in a community setting, a current driving licence, and use of a car for work, and being computer literate with proficient experience of Microsoft tools are essential.
Applicants should possess a qualification in social work, social care, education, or health, and have relevant experience.
Application notes
We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary, generous pension contribution, flexible working, an employee assistance programme, and generous annual leave.
If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you. For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Jamie McAnally, our Advocacy and Participation Manager for our West Central team on jmcanally@whocaresscotland.org.
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