Rights and Participation Worker Vacancy

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March 13, 2025

Salary: £25,290-£28,464 pro rata. The successful applicant will be appointed at point SO6/4 on our salary scale: £27,635 pro rata.

Status: Part time, 24 hours per week. Fixed term contract until 31st March 2028.

Location: Hybrid, working from home with some work from our Edinburgh office and travel across Scotland.

Working pattern: Days and times to be agreed with the successful applicant. The post will require regular work in the evening and may involve occasional weekend working.

We are looking for an experienced Rights and Participation Worker to join our team to facilitate an exciting new project.

We have recently been awarded funding from the National Lottery Community Fund Young Start Programme to facilitate a large-scale rights and participation project for neurodivergent children and young people aged 8-24 living in Scotland. The post holder will be responsible for working alongside children and young people to support them to design and implement a project to increase awareness of the rights of neurodivergent children and young people and collectively advocate for societal change. This will involve engaging with children and young people across Scotland on an individual and group basis, as well as facilitation of our young people’s stakeholder group, neuropoint.

The charity is based in Edinburgh but the Direct Help and Support Service in which this role sits, covers the whole of Scotland. The post holder will primarily work from home, with some work from our Edinburgh office and regular travel across Scotland required.

Please download the Role and Person Specification and Application Pack, or contact recruitment@mindroom.org  for more information

Closing Date for Applications: 9am Monday 31st of March 2025

 

Interviews will be held on: w/c 7th April 2025

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