Proposed Interview Date: Monday 4 November 2024

Closing Date: Sunday 20 October 2024

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: FC7 £31,179.34 – £38,950.71 (Pro Rata) 

Working Pattern: 21.6 Hours per week 

Location: Fife House, Glenrothes

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 

As part of your application, you must provide a supporting statement which outlines how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for the 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

• Ways in which you have demonstrated that you can work effectively as part of a team.

(Consider the following: how you have built positive relationships built on trust and respect; how you communicate with others; how you use your initiative to meet targets and achieve goals)

• Ways in which you have built and sustained positive relationships that have led to positive outcomes for Children and their families

(Consider the following:  how have you demonstrated care and commitment when actively engaging with children, young people and their families; how have you established positive and purposeful relationships; how have you worked collaboratively with others to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families?) 

Job Details 

The Family Support Service within the Children & Families Service offers a range of services supporting families with children and young people (0-18 years) as part of a whole family approach.  The service offers:

• A strength-based approach working with the whole family to respond to a range of wellbeing needs and concerns.
• Relationship-based work building resilience and wellbeing. 
• Works as part of a Team around the Child approach
• Interventions informed by an assessment of wellbeing, needs and concerns.
• Community-based services within the family home.

Key tasks include:

• Providing practical support and advice to families to address wellbeing needs and concerns.
• Working collaboratively with a range of partner agencies to promote wellbeing and achieve positive outcomes.
• Responding to wellbeing needs; concerns and risks including child protection issues and taking appropriate action
• Recording service user information and measuring impact of support
• Delivery of evidence-based group work

The post involves some lone working, working flexibly. 

We pay the Scottish Local Government Living Wage for this post. 

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.   

Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements

Educated to SCQF Level 7 which includes HNC or Advanced Highers or equivalent in one of the relevant fields of childcare, social care; health or community development.

The individual should have:

• Experience of working with vulnerable children, young people and families and the ability to build effective relationships
• Knowledge of assessment frameworks
• Experience of delivering interventions which demonstrate impact and improve outcomes
• Good communication and organisational skills including IT and report writing skills
• Partnership working skills
• Ability to travel within Fife
• Ability to work as part of a Team and on own as required

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.