Part-time Practitioner

Children Young Peoples Wellbeing Practitioner Homebased in Scotland with the ability to travel throughout Central and West Scotland.

Salary: £13,695 per annum (increasing to £15,217 in 18 months) + £375 Home Working Allowance per annum.

Hours: 17.5 hours | 3 days per week | Permanent.

Why Join TACT?

• Top 5 UK Charity to Work For (2024)
• 97% proud to work at TACT
• 92% love working here
• Not-for-profit – every surplus reinvested into children, carers, and staff
• Children’s voices shape every decision, system, and improvement we make at TACT.
• Flexible homeworking from day one

Benefits:

• 31 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
• Progression to salary target rate upon completion of 18 months of service
• 45p per mile business mileage
• Stakeholder Pension (salary sacrifice)
• Family-friendly flexible working policies
• Volunteer days
• Wellbeing Non-Salary Benefits
• Homeworking IT bundle + home office loan
• HelpHand EAP (24/7 GP, CBT, physio, mental health support)
• Over 35 hours a year of access to online wellbeing events and team wellbeing days
• Menopause Policy + free clinician appointments
• Regular team wellbeing connection events

Training and Career Development:

• Excellent learning development programme
• Opportunity to grow therapeutic trauma-informed practice
• Supportive leadership and clear career progression pathways
• Involvement in innovative projects (e.g. TACT Connect, Health, Education)

The Role:

You’ll work closely with foster carers and social work colleagues to deliver high-quality, trauma-informed support and improve outcomes for children and young people.

Key Responsibilities:

• Being an accessible point of contact for the children living with our carers and to our young people, keeping them up to date with the facilities and opportunities available with TACT
• Providing support to children with emotional welfare and mental health needs
• Supporting interventions and activities to ensure stable placement arrangements
• Transporting children and young people to events, appointments and meetings (mileage reimbursed)
• Organising and participating in virtual and face-to-face events and occasional residential meet-ups
• Managing all paperwork associated with events and activities
• Willingness to work flexibly, according to deadlines and needs of our families, which may include some after-school, evening and weekend work
• Undertaking trauma-informed direct work with children and young people

What You’ll Need:

• Experience of participation, advocacy or direct work with young people
• Ability to engage positively with children and young people
• A proven track record in working with, and on behalf of, children: respecting their individuality
• Ability to be creative, interactive and innovative
• Ability to problem solve and make decisions
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Enhanced PVG (processed by TACT)

Travel:

This role requires the candidate to meet with children and young people in person across Central West Scotland; therefore, the use of a car suitable for transporting children is an essential requirement of the post, along with the ability to travel extensively within TACT Scotland, working flexibly around hours and days, including occasional weekends and evenings.

Key Dates:

• Closing Date: Friday 9th June 2026 (midnight)
• Interviews: Tuesday 30th June 2026 (Microsoft Teams)

Safeguarding Commitment:

Safeguarding is everyone’s business, and TACT believes that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications, and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies.

Apply early - we may close the role if we receive a high volume of applications.