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Collydean Community Centre - Family Support and Food Resilience Worker
Created: 11/11/2021
News/Events Category: Job VacanciesPost: Family Support and Food Resilience Worker
Hours: 24 hours per week (16 for food resilience and 8 for specific Family support), flexible, statutory annual leave
Salary: £11.87/hour – National Living Wage
Location: Glenrothes North
Contract: 18 months with the hope to extend this
Responsible to: Centre Manager
Additional information: The role is subject to PVG Check.
Collydean Community Centre has an exciting opportunity for a Family Support and Food Resilience Worker to join its team.
This is a diverse role requiring a range of skills and qualities, a knowledge of child protection principles, Welfare reform and a high degree of flexibility. The main tasks and responsibilities of this role are:
- Supporting children and young people to increase resilience and positive outcomes for example attendance at school, attainment, emotional wellbeing, family relationships, developmental milestones, risk-taking behaviour.
- Providing practical support and advice to families to address wellbeing needs and concerns, including meeting families in the community or their own homes.
- To implement ambitious measures to alleviate poverty and inequality.
- Involve children, young people, and their families in decisions that affect them.
- Recording service user information and measuring impact of support.
- Look at developing food workshops for vulnerable people and groups.
- Develop specific support packages for families around their need.
- Work with other organisations across the area who are involved in food poverty relief to look at joined-up working.
- Attend and be involved in Glenrothes Food Resilience Network.
- Look at gaps in provisions across the areas and ways to fill these gaps.
- Build food resilience within the community and individuals to make sure that they no longer need to access food poverty mitigation services.
- Build and maintain good working relationships with local food providers and services including, but not limited to Glenrothes Food Bank.
Experience/Qualifications
Essential to the role:
- Experience in family work.
- Knowledge of local guidance and legislation.
- Experience of working with and preparing food.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Assessment and decision-making skills.
- Basic IT skills.
- Coordination and facilitation skills.
- Driving licence and use of vehicle
Desirable to the role:
- Experience of working with people with food insecurity
- Strong communication skills
- Knowledge of wider community support
- Knowledge of children’s rights
- Experience of supporting and building families with complex needs
Please apply with cover letter and CV to [email protected]
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