About

Salary: £26,000 per annum

Location: Inverness-Shire

Contract/Hours: Permanent / Full Time – 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm but some flexibility may be required)

Closing date for applications is Friday 30th May and interviews are scheduled for week commencing 2nd June.

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

A bit about the role

The Gael Og Youth Service supports young people aged 11 to 18 and their families through a mix of one-to-one sessions, group work, parenting support, and family-based interventions. We focus on building strong, trusting relationships and offer intensive support during times of crisis or challenge.

Our service has two main aims:

• To prevent placement breakdown, whether the young person is living at home or in residential care.
• To support smooth transitions for young people returning to live in their local communities.

We work closely with families to offer practical tools and emotional support, helping both parents and young people manage difficult emotions and behaviours. This intensive approach helps bring more stability to home life and improves the overall wellbeing of the family.

Our goals are to support young people and their families through therapeutic, tailored interventions that promote positive outcomes and prevent the need for alternative care placements and enable successful transitions back to local communities by working in partnership with other agencies, understanding individual levels of need, and providing consistent, structured support.

How you’ll help to create brighter futures

Some key responsibilities for the role are;

• Overseeing, delivering and evaluating individual work aimed at helping parents and young people to develop their abilities through assessment, intervention and evaluation.
• Delivering group work programmes to Children, Young People and their Parents, addressing a wide variety of issues that may affect their ability to achieve their potential.
• Assessing adolescent and parental needs and to promote the young person's health and wellbeing by providing appropriate activities and experiences; using accredited models.
• Preparing written reports to contribute to the wider Childs Plan, and to present these details at multi-agency meetings; representing the organisation and supporting the family. Work closely and professionally with partner agencies to deliver services that offer the most appropriate and beneficial support to Children, Young People and their Families, contributing to more successful outcomes.
• Working with and managing challenging behaviour and supporting young people and their families effectively.

Let’s talk about you

• An open-minded, non-judgemental personality as you will be working with people that are at a vulnerable point in their lives.
• To participate in a flexible working rota to provide support for young people, some evening and weekend work will be required.
• A UK driving licence and a willingness to travel due to the large rural catchment area.
• To work cross functionally with other services within Gael Og to ensure that Action for Children's Values and strategic objectives are achieved.
• To guide and support less experienced staff.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

Good to know 

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Diversity, equality and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles. es.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £26,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Bereavement leave
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Life insurance
• Paid volunteer time
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 11302