Project Worker - Perth

Contract: Fixed Term until 31st March 2029 with possible extension. 35 hours per week.

Location: Based at our Perth Office with travel across Perth & Kinross

Salary: £25,295.91 - £28,487.31 per annum (depending on experience)

Mission Statement: Our long-term vision is to end youth homelessness. Our more immediate mission is to ensure that every young person in Scotland has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, resolve and move on from homelessness, making it rare, brief, and non-recurring.

As a Project Worker with Rock Trust (Perth) in our Future Builders service, you’ll be at the heart of supporting young people in Perth to build stable, independent futures. Working directly with young people in their homes and local communities, you’ll provide tailored emotional and practical support on a 1:1 and group basis. Helping to ensure experiences of homelessness are rare, brief, and non-recurring. From developing confidence and life skills to navigating services and planning next steps, this is a role where no two days are the same and every conversation can make a real difference.

This post is a replacement role within an established and well-embedded service, but it’s also an exciting time to join. The Perth service is evolving and this role offers the chance to contribute ideas, shape practice, and be part of a team with ambition for the future. You’ll take the lead on support planning and risk assessment, act as a key point of contact for partner agencies and networks and work closely with colleagues to deliver high-quality, young-person-centred support.

If you’re motivated by relationships, creativity and the opportunity to help grow something meaningful, this is a brilliant time to come on board.

Responsibilities

• Service Delivery

• Offer and provide practical, personal, emotional and social support to young people, collaborating with colleagues where necessary and practical.
• Actively and proactively coordinate and plan the provision of support for all the young people assigned to you, managing their competing and varying priorities and needs.
• Assess young people’s skills and abilities and work with them in a person-centred way to produce support plans, based on their needs and goals, with regular reviews.
• Assist young people in coordinating, building and maintaining a network of internal and external support.
• Participate in the referral, selection and placement process to ensure available places are appropriately and promptly filled.
• Maintain regular and accurate case notes, recording support provision and young people’s achievements and progress.
• Participate in the “on call” rota in accordance with agreed guidelines.

• Participate in strategic and operational planning and development of day-to-day services.
• Participate in the gathering and processing of relevant statistical information to support senior colleagues with regular reviews and evaluations of services.
• Form and maintain effective and meaningful partnerships with external agencies.

• Ensure safe and hospitable environments within the properties used by the Rock Trust and, where directed, support the identification, acquirement and set up of new properties.
• Ensure a thorough awareness, application and adherence of organisational policies and procedures and promote best practice.
• Contribute to achieving the agreed standards of service and targets reflecting the aims and objectives of the Rock Trust, service level agreements or guidelines provided by statutory and regulatory authorities.
• Be aware of the composition of the annual service budget and collaborate, where appropriate and directed, with senior colleagues in ensuring a cost-efficient service.

• Line manage and provide formal and informal support to allocated staff, students and/or volunteers.
• As part of Perth Team, provide effective and professional leadership, supporting and promoting the activities of Rock Trust and contributing significantly to building a high performing organisation.
• To provide visible leadership and motivate staff to ensure that delegated responsibilities are achieved, and effective communication maintained.
• Nurture a culture of Respect, Safety, Positivity and Fairness, that allows our colleagues to thrive, take appropriate risks and learn from mistakes.
• Identify and make recommendations for improvements to contribute to the continuous operational improvement of the organisation.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, policies and best practice related to youth homelessness and community care.

• To act in accordance with Rock Trust values.
• To undertake other duties in line with the role as required.