This is an exciting time to join Venture Trust as we continue to develop, embed and grow our teams and apply our developmental approach in communities, in greenspaces and across Scotland’s wilder places.
Venture Trust works with people experiencing complex life circumstances. Through our work, we provide the opportunity for people to recognise their confidence, motivation and core life skills that they need to make positive changes in their lives.
About this role
We have an exciting opportunity for new Sessional Youth Workers to join our teams in Edinburgh and Glasgow, working with young people in local greenspaces, delivering a 4-week programme with a strong focus on wellbeing and employability skills development. You’ll help participants develop key employability skills, access specialist services, set goals and become more involved in, and aware of, opportunities in their local community.
As a Sessional Youth Worker, you will:
- Build meaningful relationships and demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills to connect with a diverse range of individuals.
- Understand complex needs and have experience supporting individuals with lived experience of trauma, the justice system, mental health conditions, addictions, and neurodiversity.
- Develop strong relationships with community-based partners and stakeholders to support effective project delivery.
- Provide high-quality, engaging, and tailored employability content to Venture Trust participants.
- Design and deliver engaging environmental activities—both group-based and one-on-one—tailored to individual participant needs.
- Support the development of referral networks to ensure efficient and effective recruitment for our programmes.
- Maintain strong partnerships with delivery and referral agencies to ensure seamless service delivery.
- Offer ongoing pastoral support to help remove barriers to employment and create pathways to employability opportunities.
- Plan and lead employability programmes and progression opportunities for participants.
For the full job description of this role, please click here.
Please note that these posts refer to sessional work, typically structured in regular 4-week blocks (30 hours per week), continuing until the end of the project in March 2026.
Working at Venture Trust
We offer a range of generous benefits including:
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- a generous annual leave entitlement (28 days annual leave plus public holidays and 3 Christmas holidays)
- an employee benefits package
- flexible and hybrid working
- a joint contributory pension scheme
To apply, please visit our job board and complete an application form by 12pm on Thursday 8th May 2025.
Interviews will be held on: Monday 12th May and Wednesday 14th May 2025.
If you have any queries relating to this vacancy or about how to apply, please email our HR Team.
If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, and want to play an important role in enabling people to achieve lasting change in their lives, we want to hear from you.
