Job Title: Project Worker
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: Band C, £30,602.00 - £35,778.00 per annum
Post Type: Part time (0.6FTE), Fixed term for 6 months
Closing Date: 15th May 2026
Interview Date: 22nd May 2026
In this role, you’ll:
Deliver high‑quality, relationship‑based support to children, young people and families through whole family support, group work and community-based interventions. You will have the ability to work across various projects within the Edinburgh Family Wellbeing team. You will work collaboratively within a multi‑disciplinary and multi‑agency context, strengthening families’ capacity to keep children safe and recover from trauma.
The role contributes to Children First’s strategic aims, including early intervention, prevention, community resilience and upholding children’s rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the GIRFEC framework.
We’d love to hear from you if you can:
- Build trusting, compassionate relationships with children, young people and families using a trauma‑informed, strengths‑based approach
- Provide high‑quality, child‑centred support and assessments, working alongside families to plan and progress support
- Champion children’s voices and rights, ensuring their views meaningfully influence decisions
- Have experience delivering group work and connecting families with community and early help support
- Work effectively with partners, share information responsibly and support family‑led decision making to keep families together
- A workplace with values of with love, with purpose and with strength
- 40 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays
- Pension scheme and wellbeing support
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Access to Westfield Health, giving colleagues and their families confidential counselling support, wellbeing resources, and access to health and lifestyle benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing.
- Blue Light card discount
- A Fair Work accredited workplace
Living our values, you will help create a workplace where our people can thrive, ensuring we deliver the best possible support to children and families.
With love, we put children first.
With purpose, we transform lives together.
With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.
How to Apply
If you share our values and are passionate about supporting our people, we would love to hear from you.
Closing date: Friday 15th May 12 noon.
Interviews: 22nd May
Contact: For more information, email linzie.crooks@childrenfirst.co.uk
FULL JOB DESCRIPTION:
Children First - Vision and Values
Children First is Scotland’s national children’s charity. We stand up for every child because all children should have a safe childhood. We protect children from harm and support them to recover from trauma and abuse through our national and local services. We help children, their families and the people that care for them by offering emotional, practical, and financial support. We give children hope and a safer, brighter future.
Our core values guide how each one of us works in our individual day to day job:
• With love, we put children first.
• With purpose, we transform children’s lives together.
• With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
At Children First, we are committed to building a representative, inclusive and authentic workplace open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, ability, family structure, socio-economic background, age, nationality, marital status or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you who you are.
We envision a diverse and inclusive Children First where we cultivate a true sense of belonging and connection for and between our teams, children, young people, families, and communities we work with.
Further to that, as part of our vision to be an Anti-Racist organisation, we are committed to conscious inclusion to build increasingly diverse teams and emotionally safe work environments.
Role Summary
To deliver high‑quality, relationship‑based support to children, young people and families through whole family support, group work and community-based interventions. The project worker will have the ability to work across various projects within the Edinburgh Family Wellbeing team. They will work collaboratively within a multi‑disciplinary and multi‑agency context, strengthening families’ capacity to keep children safe and recover from trauma.
The role contributes to Children First’s strategic aims, including early intervention, prevention, community resilience and upholding children’s rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the GIRFEC framework.
Key Results Areas
1. Building Trusting Relationships
Build and sustain strong, compassionate and respectful relationships with children, young people and families. Work in a trauma‑informed, strengths‑based way that recognises lived experience, builds confidence and supports recovery.
2. Direct Support to Children and Families
Provide direct emotional, practical and therapeutic support to children, young people and families. Respond flexibly to need, offering consistent support that promotes safety, wellbeing and stability.
3. Child Centred Assessment
Complete timely, high‑quality assessments in line with Scotland’s National Practice Model. Ensure assessments reflect families’ stories, hopes and strengths in their own words and clearly identify what matters most to children.
4. Planning and Progressing Support
Work alongside families to develop, review and progress support plans through the Children First Connections framework. Regularly review progress, adapt support as circumstances change and recognise achievements with children and families.
5. Participation and the Voice of the Child
Support children and young people to express their views in ways that feel safe and meaningful to them. Uphold their rights by ensuring Space, Voice, Audience and Influence, demonstrating clearly how their views inform decisions and next steps.
6. Group Work Delivery
Co‑design, deliver and evaluate group work for children, young people and families. Use group activities to build wellbeing, connection and resilience, and to reduce isolation through shared experiences.
7. Community Connection and Early Help
Develop positive links with local communities, schools and third sector organisations. Promote Children First services as early help and support families to access community‑based resources that strengthen long‑term safety, belonging and wellbeing.
8. Partnership Working
Work effectively as part of a multi‑disciplinary team, collaborating with colleagues across health, education, social work, justice and third sector partners. Contribute to joint assessments, planning meetings, reviews and safeguarding processes.
9. Information Sharing and Safeguarding
Share information responsibly and proportionately, in line with Children First information governance policies. Always prioritise children’s safety, rights and dignity, and contribute to safeguarding when concerns arise.
10. Family Led Decision Making
Support approaches that enable families to lead decision making, including Family Group Decision Making. Promote solutions that strengthen family and community connections and help prevent unnecessary separation.
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for a skilled and compassionate Project Worker who can deliver high‑quality individual, family and group‑based support to children, young people and families. You will build strong, trusting relationships using a trauma‑informed, strengths‑based approach, ensuring children and families feel listened to, respected and supported. You will be a responsive and flexible practitioner, able to offer support at times of need and when families are available, recognising that engagement often happens outside of standard routines.
You will be confident in completing timely, high‑quality assessments rooted in Scotland’s National Practice Model, capturing families’ stories, hopes and strengths in their own words. You will work alongside families to develop, review and progress support plans through the Children First Connections framework.
A core part of the role involves co‑designing, delivering and evaluating group work and drop‑in sessions for children, young people and families, using group approaches to strengthen wellbeing, relationships and resilience. You will actively develop and maintain strong community links, promoting Children First as a source of early help and supporting families to access community‑based resources that improve long‑term safety and stability.
Alongside being a member of the Edinburgh Family Wellbeing team, you will work effectively as part of a multi‑disciplinary team, sharing information responsibly, upholding children’s rights and supporting family‑led decision making that helps prevent unnecessary separation from families and communities.
Corporate Responsibility
- Be committed and adhere to Children First vision, mission and values.
- Comply with Children First Safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Comply with Children First Code of Conduct and any relevant professional standards relating to the role.
- Actively consider the involvement of children, young people and families with whom we work, in all areas of practice and to implement the Children First Participation Standards.
- Actively consider the involvement of volunteers in all areas of our work and implement the Children First Volunteer Development Policy.
- Observe all health and safety requirements.
- Work within and promote policies in relation to Diversity Equity and Inclusion and anti-discriminatory practices.
- Undertake any other reasonably required duties as instructed by line manager or someone acting on their behalf, in addition to the role specific responsibilities detailed below.