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Community Caseworker/Community Development Officer
- Full time
- On site: Edinburgh
- £27,700
- 35 hours per week
- Closing 3 November 2025
- Advertised from 10 October 2025
Role
Community Renewal Trust is a dynamic charity with a vacancy for a community caseworker for our office in Bingham/Magdalene. While a small charity it is at the forefront of developing and delivering new, better ways to end poverty for people and neighbourhoods which are of national importance. We work in a whole-person, whole-neighbourhood mentality and all staff, all the time seek to use our seven values. This role seeks to take a community development approach - building capacity in the community by identifying and working with community activists/groups. This role also requires one-to-one work with community members. This role Bingham role will shift into using the new "Liberated Method" after a brief training period, which is an unusual opportunity. Although not essential some project management skills are preferred.
If you are someone with a little experience in bottom-up community approaches and/or holistic casework and who is excited by our values then absolutely contact us to apply. https://www.communityrenewal.org.uk/about-us/our-values/
TRUSTING – Our impact is built on choosing to place trust in people.
TRUSTWORTHY – Our trustworthiness is what makes our relationships grow
LEARNING – Our charity is about learning so we celebrate success but also appreciate failure
BUILDING ON STRENGTHS – Our aim is always to build on strengths: we reject paternalism
ALONGSIDE COMMUNITIES – Our aim is always to stay alongside people for as long as it takes.
ACHIEVING PREVENTION – Our choice is to be proactive so we can achieve prevention, build resilience and find the right people.
INSPIRING TRANSFORMATION – Our focus is always inspiring towards transformation, rather than incremental change.
Application notes
Questions to John Halliday ([email protected]) by 12noon Thursday 30 Oct 2025.
Application in form of CV and covering letter emailed to [email protected] by 10am Monday 3rd Nov 2025.
Applicants without cover letters or those overseas who do not include evidence of right to work in the UK will not be considered.
Interviews will be held mid Nov.