Proposed Interview Date: Week commencing 11 August 2025
Closing Date: 03 August 2025
Contract Type: Temporary until 19 July 2026
Salary: FC6 £30,691.29 to £33,732.26
Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week
Location: Halbeath Depot, Dunfermline
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
Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement:
- Working Together – Please give examples of when you have worked with others to contribute to team work and how you influenced those you were working with.
- Delivering Results – Please give examples that demonstrate your ability to organise and solve problems to achieve results.
- Personal Ownership – Please give examples of situations in which you have used your initiative to make improvements and used your skills to deal with challenges and change.
- Customer Focus – Please give examples of when your skills and knowledge have helped improve the learning and development of children.
Job Details
The duties of the role are to provide a case management service to young people involved in crime and antisocial behaviour. You would help to develop, support and deliver youth diversion projects in conjunction with a range of internal and external partner. You would also represent SCT on operational youth issues groups.
Key aspects of the role include:
Supporting the work of SCT and relevant partners
Being the point of contact for all operational youth issues
Representing SCT on the Youth Offender Management Review Group contributing to strategy development and participating in practice reviews.
Working alongside partner agencies
Supporting young people and their families to address issues around offending behaviour
Providing reports to the Procurator Fiscal Service, Scottish Children's Reporter Association, partnership groups and Service Manager and where appropriate attending children's hearings
Undertaking enquiries for casework and finding solutions to complex cases
Supporting problem solving groups to tackle problems/issues and tasking local partners to undertake necessary work to identify solutions. Arranging and attending problem solving groups where required.
The Person
You are required to hold one of the following qualifications (or equivalent):
- Educated to SCQF level 7 which includes HNC or Advanced Highers or equivalent in a relevant discipline
- Knowledge of tasking and co-ordinating methodology
- Ability to work evenings and weekends
- Ability to provide a regular and effective service
- Experience of participation in effective multi agency working Knowledge of information sharing legislation
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Before confirming 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.
Further Information
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For Further Information Please Contact : Tracy Dair - [email protected]
