Community Payback Work Officer - East Neighbourhood Centre - EDN28805

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Community Payback Unpaid Work Officer – Fixed term until 31/3/2026
Unpaid Work Team

Salary: £36,312 - £ £42,717 (pro rata)
Hours: full time - 36 hours (weekend working required)

Edinburgh Justice Services are committed to providing high quality services and ensuring a compassionate, trauma informed approach towards people who use our services, and to supporting staff wellbeing. We are seeking an energetic, innovative and enthusiastic person to join our dedicated team working with women and men.

Unpaid Work Officers are accountable to the Team Manager and have supervisory responsibility for managing Unpaid Work Supervisors. Unpaid Work Supervisors manage people in the performance of Unpaid Work and Other Activity in the community, as required by the conditions of Court orders, in accordance with National Outcomes and Standards, and City of Edinburgh Policies, practices and Procedures.

The Officer’s role encompasses, but is not limited to:

• ensuring performance management, quality assurance and service delivery
• staff supervision and case management - providing leadership and supporting development
• project management – overall responsibility for projects undertaken by the team
• promoting pro-social modelling, challenging inappropriate behaviour, attitudes or language
• building relationships - including liaising with stakeholders and beneficiaries

Candidates should demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, an understanding of the Justice System, be confident and willing to work in a dynamic environment.

Candidates will have recognised SQA in management or and/or Working with Offending Behaviour, or equivalent qualification. Experience may include a range of practical and creative skills, experience in supervising/ instructing people in work tasks, experience using power/hand tools, and will have a licence to drive a range of vehicles.

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.

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.

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.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Requirements

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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