Proposed Interview Date: week Commencing Monday 27 October 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 19 October 2025
Contract Type: Temporary until 31 January 2027
Salary Range of FC6 £30, £33,732.26
Working Pattern: 36 hours per week
Location: Based at Fife House, Glenrothes and home working (blended working)
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a
Supporting Statement
which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the
How to Apply
section of our Career Site.
Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked 'upload resumé'. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV.
More information is available on our Career site at
Job Details
We're excited to offer a rewarding opportunity to join the Community Led Support Team within Locality Planning at Fife Health & Social Care Partnership (HSCP) as a Link Worker.
This role is part of
Improving the Cancer Journey,
a community led support service (non-clinical) provided by Fife HSCP, in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, for anyone, aged 16, affected by cancer to get the support they need, whether it's financial, emotional, medical, or practical.
Find out more about Improving the Cancer Journey:
What You'll Do:
You will provide a person-centred service that enables people affected by cancer to navigate the health, social care and wider systems to access practical, emotional and social support. You will promote self-management and support for people to live well addressing their non-clinical holistic needs during and after cancer treatment as well as working across organisational boundaries with partners to ensure the best possible outcomes for people affected by cancer. To achieve this, you should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to build and maintain relationships based on trust and respect, recognising people as experts in their lives.
As a Link Worker, you will:
* Engage with individuals
to provide compassionate support, guidance, and information.
* Maintain high standards of customer care
, including managing appointments and handling general enquiries via phone and email from the public and stakeholders.
* Carry out a holistic needs assessment (HNA)
. The HNA will identify and shape a care plan that meets the individual needs which will be monitored and reviewed to ensure the best outcomes are achieved.
* Support people to access community resources
following referrals from NHS Fife, Fife Council, and third sector organisations.
* Help individuals build meaningful connections
within their local communities.
* Encourage self-management
and support for people to live well addressing their non-clinical holistic needs during and after cancer treatment.
* Promote alternatives to statutory services
, helping people explore community-led options that suit their needs.
* Map community-led resources
for people with long-term health conditions.
* Support Local Area Coordinators
with presentations to referrers and local organisations.
* Set up and staff promotional stalls
at community events to raise awareness of Community Led Support.
The Person
The skills you will need:
* Ability to use 'Good Conversations' and active listening skills to enable the individual to identify their own strengths and the things that are going well for them.
* Be able to work in partnership with people, the local community, agencies and any others to determine preferred and available supports and options for the people you are supporting to ensure the best possible outcomes for them.
* Ability to actively engage in community mapping activities to identify community resources.
* Ability to plan tasks and managing workload independently.
* Ability to provide effective administrative support services, which include preparing and distributing reports and maintaining project case management system to a high standard
* Experience of delivering a customer focused service (Focus on Customers – See How We Work Matters Framework).
* Experience of working alongside statutory agencies, community development teams and voluntary sector organisations.
* Ability to travel within Fife
In return, we offer a competitive salary with incremental progression, and you will join the local government pension scheme. Dependent on your role we offer flexi hours and flexible working arrangements, standby, call out and unsocial hours payments. Full induction and ongoing training will be given.
Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.
Further Information
* Role Profile -
When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria
Role Profile
* How We Work Matters -
Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our
How We Work Matters
behaviour framework for more information.
* Employee Benefits -
Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services
* Directorate Information -
Council Department information
* Social Media
-
Search for more 'Fife Council Jobs' on Facebook or follow us on X @FCJobsOfficial
* Alternative Formats
* Job information can be made available in alternative formats, to make a request please email:
As a progressive employer, we offer the opportunity to work in this role as a "blended working" arrangement with home-working opportunities and occasional office-working as required. While the significant part of the role can and will be carried out remotely, candidates should be able to travel to and attend office locations in Fife as required.
For further Information please contact: Louise Andree -
We are holding a Fife Council jobs fair on Wednesday 8th October from 10am - 2pm at the Glen Pavilion in Dunfermline. This is a great opportunity to meet face to face with Hiring Managers and learn more about the type of vacancies that are available and what it's like to work in local government. There will also be a chance to get support from our job clubs and employability teams who can offer help with our online application process. Please pop along on the day to find out more.