Do you have a passion for enabling individuals to make a positive change in their lives? We’d love to hear from you. Venture Trust works with people experiencing complex life circumstances. Through our work, we provide the opportunity for people to recognise their confidence, motivation and core life skills that they need to make positive changes in their lives.
We have an exciting opportunity for a new Outreach and Support Worker to join our Glasgow and Inverclyde locality team. This role will be working across Greater Glasgow and you will be the first person our participants meet.
You’ll be a caring, dynamic and driven person, dedicated to levelling the playing field and equipping people with the tools they need to thrive. You’ll be comfortable and confident working autonomously, working alongside people with complex lives. Working across Greater Glasgow, and wilderness places across Scotland, you’ll provide bespoke and holistic 1:1 support for participants, spending time to get to know them, their strengths and where they want to go.
You’ll help to shape their journeys, navigating 1:1, community and wilderness journey support, always harnessing the benefits of the outdoors and nature spaces to provide therapeutic benefit. You’ll accompany them on wilderness journeys and support them to develop employability skills. Across Greater Glasgow, we need you to work closely with referrers and partners to provide joined up support for participants, managing the differing needs of your case load, including working with young people and adults.
As a Outreach and Support Worker, you will:
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If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, and want to play an important role in enabling people to achieve lasting change in their lives, we want to hear from you.
In return, we offer a range of generous benefits including a generous annual leave entitlement, flexible and hybrid working, an employee benefits package and a joint contributory pension scheme. We also offer a great working culture that embraces our core values of courage, care, curiosity and collaboration in all we do.
To apply, please click "apply for this job" and submit a completed application form.
Please note, we are looking to fill this position as soon as possible to meet the growing demand for our services in Glasgow. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis as strong candidates apply. We encourage early applications to ensure full consideration and we reserve the right to close the advert if the right candidate is found.
Additionally, only fully completed application forms submitted on our job board will be accepted.
If you have any queries relating to this vacancy or about how to apply, please email us at [email protected].
Venture Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity in employment and follows an equal opportunities policy.