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Key Worker, Key to Potential (Falkirk)

Cyrenians
Full time
On site: Falkirk
£25,352 - £27,907
37 hours per week
Closing 4 August 2025
Advertised from 15 July 2025

Role

Are you looking for a role where every day is different, and you work in a role that makes a real difference to young people’s lives?

If so, this role may be the perfect opportunity for you!

About the service

Cyrenians Key to Potential service provides holistic, person-centred support, to help young people coming up to school leaving age to progress into further education, training, or secure employment.

About the role

Using an outreach approach, the post holder will provide key work, careers guidance and tailored support to young people identified by their school as at risk of leaving without a positive destination. Your main responsibilities will be:

  • Support a caseload of young people across Falkirk
  • Building relationships with partners in schools and other agencies
  • Contribute to the continuous monitoring of the project’s success

This is an outreach role and will involve lone-working, home visits and accompanying young people to meetings and appointments across the Falkirk area.

About you

You should have experience working with young people and understand the challenges faced by young people when leaving school, including mental health and neurodiversity. You should also be:

  • Excellent at building trusted relationships, with young people and partner agencies
  • Knowledgeable on the options available to school leavers
  • Organised, flexible and able to manage your own workload

How we’ll support you

You’ll be working independently but with a supportive manager. We will encourage you use your creativity to innovate new activities and support you to introduce them. You will also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a Public Health Approach to Homelessness Prevention. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering all our services.

You can find out more about our impact and our values online.

Application notes

  • Closing date is Monday 4th August at 12 noon
  • First interviews will be held on the week commencing 11th August at our Falkirk office
  • CVs will not be accepted.

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