Adult and Family Learning Project Worker - The Outlook Project

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Adult & Family Learning team
The Outlook Project: (Citywide)

Salary: £21.85 per hour: (Casual contract: 12 Weeks)
Hours: 0 - casual contract

We are looking to recruit an experienced Community Learning and Development (CLD) professional for the Outlook Project Worker role. Outlook is a longstanding City of Edinburgh Council Service which offers free Adult Learning and educational guidance to people who access Mental Health Services in Edinburgh. Three terms are run each year, whereby a wide range of indoor and outdoor courses feature, these span a wide variety of engaging subjects.

The role would involve assisting Outlook’s Development Officer with a range of tasks and duties, including:

• Organising and co-ordinating Adult Learning Courses and programmes

• Carrying out initial and ongoing student guidance

• Fostering and sustaining links with a range of partners and organisations

• Promoting and strengthening the Outlook service

• Various other administrative duties

As an equal opportunity employer, we recognise and value the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings. We would like to encourage conversations with people who have not previously thought about employment within a Local Authority.

We warmly invite people to take this opportunity to demonstrate their ability regardless of age, disability, sex, gender, race, marital status, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

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