Participation Officer - Care Experienced Young People

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Participation Officer - Care Experienced Young People
Corporate Parenting Hub, 17-25 Leith Street

Salary: £24,064 - £26,468 
Hours: 36 per week

We are looking for a care experienced individual who believes that young people can make transformative change happen in their lives if given the opportunity. The post-holder will have the ability to support and mentor young people to take part in the decision-making processes that affect their lives.

This is an exciting opportunity to promote corporate parenting within the City of Edinburgh, ensuring that the voices of care experienced young people contribute to policy and practice across services. We want outcomes for Looked After Children to be as good as they are for all children in the City of Edinburgh.

The post-holder will be able to utilise their community engagement skills to create new partnerships and relationships or develop existing ones. They will be able to help young people form helpful relationships and create opportunities for participation and engagement activities with care experienced young people.

The Participation Officer will support and develop the work of the Champions Board and promote corporate parenting to deliver real change for children and young people. This post will be involved in a range of activities which will include training, awareness raising, working with partners and delivering regular groupwork opportunities for Edinburgh’s care experienced community.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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