Senior Youth Worker

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 10 November 2025 

Closing Date: Wednesday 05 November 2025 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Salary Range: £25,885.80 - £28,175.91(Pro-Rata) 

Working Pattern: 3 - 8 hours per week 

Location: Working across Kirkcaldy 

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 

As part of the application process, you must provide a Supporting Statement which tells us how your skills, knowledge and experience make you a good candidate. We want your supporting statement to concentrate on the areas below. When writing your supporting statement, you may find it helpful to consider use of the STAR method (Situation, Task, Actions, Result) by thinking about a situation that you feel best describes your experience or knowledge, outline the task that you undertook, detail the specific actions you led or were involved with and provide a short summary of the result.   

• Ways in which you have effectively engaged with children and young people. 

• Ways you have supported young people’s learning and development. 

• Ways you can demonstrate the ability to build honest and trusting relationships with young people  

• Ways in which you can demonstrate significant experience in a youth worker setting 

Job Details  

The Kirkcaldy Community Development Team and Kirkcaldy YMCA are committed to working with young people to improve life chances through learning, personal development, and active citizenship programmes. Through our staff teams and volunteers, we will work to support young people to become stronger and more resilient. Our approach to Youth Work is rooted in our core values; Self-determination, Inclusion, Empowerment, Working collaboratively and the Promotion of learning as a lifelong activity. Our values reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the service. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with young people, their families, and the wider community.  

You will be part of the Kirkcaldy Community Development Team or Kirkcaldy YMCA working in a neighbourhood within Kirkcaldy. Your time will be spent leading a small team of youth workers to plan, organise, evaluate and deliver a range of youth work opportunities and interventions to achieve the national Youth Work outcomes. As well as face to face delivery of Youth Work, you will be responsible for programme planning, completing evaluation and reporting materials and supporting the Community Education Worker in the delivery of learning activities and projects. As part of a team you will plan, deliver and evaluate programmes and activities using the Fife CLD Quality Framework. 

You will be required to undertake Fife Council training to ensure you act in accordance with policy around Health & Safety, Child and Adult Protection and Data Protection.   

You will a key member of the Community Development Team or Kirkcaldy YMCA based in the Kirkcaldy area and will work alongside Community Education Workers and a variety of others. 

The Person  

You must be able to work and communicate successfully with others including Council services and voluntary organisations.  You must have significant youth worker experience and experience of engaging with young people. You should be able to organise and manage a youth work project, all participant information, youth project paperwork with the Community Education Worker. You will be a Team worker and motivator with good communication skills and possess a can-do’ approach. You should be able to provide a regular and effective service. 

Further Information 

• Role Profile - when preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria - Role Profile 

• How We Work Matters - Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace.  See our How We Work Matters behaviour framework for more information. 

• Employee Benefits - Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services 

• Directorate Information - Council Department Information  

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For Further Information Please Contact: Lesley.Pringle@fife.gov.uk