NHS Scotland
Children and Young People’s Development Officer (AA)
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NHS Fife is excited to offer an opportunity for a motivated and forward-thinking Children and Young People’s Development Officer to join Community Children’s Services.
This role plays a key part in supporting the delivery of service improvement, redesign and transformation programmes across Children’s Services. Working within a complex multi-agency environment, the post holder will contribute to the implementation of national and local strategies, ensuring services are responsive, evidence-informed and aligned to the needs of children, young people and families.
The successful candidate will:
- Lead and support a range of project workstreams, including planning, coordination, data analysis, audit, evaluation and report writing.
- Work collaboratively with health, social care and partner agencies to promote effective joint working and support the delivery of Fife’s Children’s Services Plan.
- Ensure a strong focus on participation and engagement, ensuring that the voices of children, young people and families, including those from seldom-heard groups, inform service development and improvement.
Applicants should have:
- Significant experience working with children, young people and families.
- Expertise in project management, service improvement, data analysis and multi-agency working.
- Excellent communication, organisational and influencing skills.
- The ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality outputs within tight timescales.
- Education to degree level in a relevant health or social care discipline (or equivalent).
- A sound understanding of key policies and frameworks such as GIRFEC, Children’s Rights (UNCRC), and quality improvement methodologies.
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This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to improving outcomes for children and young people across Fife through innovation, collaboration and service development.
We are looking forward hearing from you.
For Informal Enquiries please contact: Kasia Osiadacz, Learning and Development Coordinator, Community Children’s Services in NHS Fife via e-mail: Katarzyna.Osiadacz@nhs.scot
Salary is pro rata for part time hours if applicable
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigration Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.
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