Role: Service Coordinator

Salary: Circa £33,300 per annum

Perks: Annual leave of 29 days, plus public holidays, flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages, annual staff awards, up to 7% employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, check out more on our career's portal.

Contract/Hours: Permanent / Full-Time - 37 hours per week

Location: Paisley,

About Us

At Action for Children, we believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood. Last year, we helped more than 600,000 children and families across the UK. We work to ensure their voices are heard and we campaign to bring lasting change to their lives.

About the Role:

Action for Children is working in partnership with Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs (SFAD) to develop the Grow Your Own Routes model in the Renfrewshire area. The project has been funded by the Scottish Government's Whole Family Wellbeing Fund, in partnership with the Drugs Policy Division, to deliver 3 Outcomes:

• Outcome 1: Young people harmed by substance use are visible, have a voice and are empowered to effect change.

• Outcome 2: Workforce confidence and expertise in co-producing change with young people harmed by substance use is increased.

• Outcome 3: The impact of alcohol and drug harm on young people and their families is reduced through increased delivery of the Routes practice model across Scotland.

As Service Coordinator, you'll have responsibility for growing and developing this new service which will include the support and supervision of two practitioners and the development of relationships with professionals in the Renfrewshire area. You'll work closely with local schools to encourage referrals into the service and to advertise the service to young people directly. You'll be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the service and work closely with SFAD to ensure their successful model is fully adopted in the Renfrewshire area.

You will make a difference by:

• Provide a high quality service to children, young people and their families, based on an assessment of need and is outcomes driven.
• Deliver a complex and specialist interventions with children, young people or families in a group setting.
• Provide lead case/care planning management, including undertaking assessing, reviewing and managing risks
• Attend and participate at relevant multi agency meetings, providing a lead role ensuring reflective and analytical practice review

• Take responsibility for day to day resource planning to ensure high quality services are delivered.
• Establish and developing effective relationships and channels of communication with children, young people, families, colleagues, community organisations, partner agencies and other external agencies

You will need:

• SVQ4/HNC or equivalent in youth work, working with families, childcare or another relevant field.
• Experience of managing and leading a team .

• Advanced experience of chairing, supporting and contributing to service planning meetings.
• Experience of the development and practice of community working, including influencing involvement .
• Ability to lead and develop service implementation plan .
• Working in collaboration to achieve change within your immediate team and wider multi agency partnerships .
• Experience of collating and producing reports, capturing and progressing the relevant information for a desired outcome.

• Competent user of Microsoft office packages.
• Travel in the community for this role is essential so use of your own transport is desirable.

Working here is so much more than a job. It's an investment of time to truly make a difference to the lives of vulnerable children, young people, and families across the UK.

We work together to reach our vision of safe and happy childhoods. Given this and our ongoing commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, we encourage applications from everyone.

We value and celebrate the diversity of those that work with us and as an inclusive workplace we want all our current and future staff to feel able to be themselves in the workplace.

If you're interested in finding out more, click apply and visit our careers portal for more information.

If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Jessica Jarvis or email Jessica.Jarvis@actionforchildren.org.uk who will be happy to give you any support you require.

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