About us

We are a fast-paced and progressive organisation, that aims to support children, young people, and their families through the provision of positive activity.

Fuse makes a commitment to contribute to the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework and its contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals in supporting our community to adapt to life in 2021 and beyond. With poverty, digital exclusion, and rising unemployment prevalent in our community. Fuse has identified and embedded the following key themes into their business strategy and programming:

• Participation
• Mental Health & Wellbeing
• Life skills & Employability
• Attainment
• Digital Inclusion

Fuse supports and serves its community by; continually striving towards an inclusive facility; being a progressive organisation that meets the needs of its community and being a knowledgeable and informed organisation.

Purpose of Job

Our “Sharing Shettleston” project has arisen out of work we have carried out in recent years relating to issues such as healthy eating on a budget, digital inclusion, and energy efficiency (the latter as part of a major climate change project we have delivered). People taking part in these activities have asked us to do even more to support individuals and families given the current cost of living crisis and, to build financial resilience across the community.

“Sharing Shettleston” will be a regular daytime club for Shettleston residents, based in the excellent facility we have at Fuse. It will be aimed at adult individuals and families on low incomes across Shettleston, including people in part-time, fragile, and low paid employment as well as those on out-of-work benefits. These groups have been particularly affected by the cost-of-living crisis.

The project will be promoted as a social activity, thus avoiding any stigma that could pertain to people in poverty, or otherwise struggling, having to seek help.

It will deliver a regular programme of community-based and community-led activities and workshops, promoting a “do it yourself” approach and helping people to save money and build their financial resilience. The key elements will include:

• A regular share and repair cafe where participants will take part in activities and learn skills in relation to things like mending clothes, sewing, and sustainable craft activities. We will also have instruction leaflets available and make use of “how to” videos on the TV.
• Energy saving workshops: these will build on learning from our “Shettleston 100” Climate Action project, which has highlighted areas where local people can make savings to take pressure off their household budgets (e.g. in relation to use of showers and appliances) and which has successfully trialled reflective “diaries” to help people understand how they can make savings.
• Cooking and budgeting workshops: we will build on the healthy living project work that we have undertaken, giving people advice on how to make their food budget go further and, especially, how to reduce food waste (again, our “Shettleston 100” project had identified a number of changes that local people can make).
• A “library of things” offering local people access to things like tools, kitchen appliances, gardening equipment, recreational equipment, and other things, for which they have an occasional use. Local people have alreadyshown an appetite for money saving services like the local “Pantry” and periodic “swap shop” services and our recent consultations have shown a real appetite for this kind of service.

The club will be open for at least two days per week over the course of the year and we will look at extending hours during winter, when the needs we have described are particularly acute. We expect to deliver at least 50 formal “workshop” activities over this time, whilst participants will also be engaged as individuals and in small groups taking part in the activities described above.

We will provide basic, free refreshments (tea, coffee, juice, biscuits) which will enhance the “café” feel and encourage people to make use of the club. There are currently no community centres open in Shettleston (so there is a gap in local provision and for a free, safe, warm welcoming spaces for people to go to, delivering the above cost of living benefits and wider benefits in addressing social isolation and helping to improve people’s mental health).

The Sharing Shettleston club also gives us a chance to promote other services that are available in the area, focused either on income maximisation (e.g. Money Matters) or on helping to reduce people’s outgoings (e.g. the local Pantry).

Job Role and Responsibilities:

This is a demanding but fulfilling role that will see the postholder provide effective leadership to their team. The responsibilities have been placed into 5 key areas as follows:

Managing the operation and admin

• To oversee the effective day to day running of the Sharing Shettleston Programme.
• Effectively communicate, listening and responding appropriately, ensuring the team are regularly updated, using a variety of methods such as emails, and attendance at Project lead and whole team meetings.
• To help create a warm and welcoming environment for all people attending the Sharing Shettleston Programme.
• To rotate presence at Fuse delivery locations to support delivery staff and oversee programme.
• To plan and provide an interesting and varied programme with families and appropriate staff.
• Ensure all daily paperwork is completed on time, such as participation forms, consent forms etc and recorded to Upshot®.
• Communicate regularly with partners, senior managers, COO/CEO of Fuse for the effective and smooth operation of the Sharing Shettleston Programme
• Provide regular statistical and qualitative reports to Senior Management, contributing to funding reports and Board of Trustees reports.

Solve problems.

• Develop ways of working together to support the provision of the Sharing Shettleston Programme.
• Clearly define and separate tasks.
• Liaise with other internal projects/team leaders in Fuse at times to plan cross project delivery to support the needs of the service users.
• Liaise with CEO/Senior Management, HR, Finance and Compliance leads.

Care for the health, safety and welfare of your people

• To ensure the overall health and safety of the sessions for staff, Families, including children and young people, ensuring risk assessments are followed and general health and safety, safeguarding & adult and child protection policies/guidance is adhered to.
• Gathering and safeguarding important information in line with GDPR and data protection laws and to uphold confidentiality at all times.

Person Specification:

Qualifications

Essential

• Good standard of general education or equivalent

Desirable

• Community/Youth work, or equivalent in a related field

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Experience of supporting adults/children and young people in an informal environment.
• Can demonstrate a knowledge of the basic principles of Community Development
• Experience of being part of and developing partnerships.
• An understanding of the importance of safeguarding and providing a safe environment for young people and data protection/GDPR

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of working to GIRFEC framework.
• Has a working knowledge and experience of the Principles of Youth Work
• Knowledge and understanding of social issues including effects of poverty and child poverty in the area.

Skills

Essential

• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience of designing/facilitating/overseeing activities in an adult/child/youth environment.
• Good standard of ICT skills.
• Creative approach to activities to promote engagement.
• Ability to handle sensitive issues with tact & diplomacy.
• Experience in safeguarding adults/children and young people.
• Ability to develop and hold professional and positive boundaries with young people.
• Ability to listen to and engage with our families/children and young people in a positive, supportive, and challenging way.

Desirable

• Experience of monitoring and evaluation processes – contributing and supporting the planning, delivery, and evaluation of activities and programme.
• Experience in supervising and leading a team.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Self-motivated with a ‘Can do’ attitude.
• An ability to remain calm and maintain a positive outlook whilst working under pressure.
• To be able to work as part of a wider team.
• Flexible and adaptable to the needs of the Families/children & young people
• Creative & Innovative
• Commitment to continued learning and development.
• Promotes equal opportunities.
• To be able to work outdoors when required.
• To be available to work flexible hours.

Purpose of Job - A Multiply Funded Project

The Project Coordinator will lead a team of three Project Workers to deliver an adult engagement programme across Shettleston, in particular supporting parents / carers of children at three primary schools in our area – Eastbank, St. Timothy’s and Thorntree Primary schools. In addition, we will deliver similar support to parents at St. Andrew’s Secondary as well as a programme of support within Fuse itself, targeted at the wider community.

The programme is targeted at those needing the confidence to take the initial steps to improving their numeracy and so will be relatively light touch, acting as a “gateway” to other numeracy support offered through Multiply. Our intention is not to duplicate existing numeracy provision but to complement and add value to it. Where we can best do this is by engaging potential participants in a way that others cannot because of our position and existing relationships and focusing specifically on light-touch confidence building and basic skills elements. We anticipate that this will encourage our participants to engage with further, more intensive numeracy support, and we will set specific targets for us referring participants to these other providers.

We anticipate that take-up at a school’s level will disproportionately be from female parents / carers, albeit we will encourage participation from both females and males. We expect that wider community provision will place a particular emphasis on encouraging males to take part and programmes and promotional activity will be constructed to encourage this.

Some of the initial platforms for engagement may be sessions which will be simple entry level participation. Walking Groups, health and fitness and baking have all been used in the past to build confidence and relationships.

Typically, these programmes will involve:

• 1-hour sessions over an approximate 6-week timescale; this will be enough to make a difference without being off-putting to participants, who have not previously had experience of such support. Support will be delivered on a small group (and sometimes individual) basis as required.
• This will be an introductory programme to engage people that would otherwise not take up numeracy support due to stigma and / or a lack of confidence; it will act as a “gateway” to more intensive support from other providers.

We are a fast-paced and progressive organisation that aims to support children, young people, and their families through the provision of positive activity.

Fuse makes a commitment to contribute to the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework and its contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals in supporting our community to adapt to life in 2021 and beyond. With poverty, digital exclusion, and rising unemployment prevalent in our community and as the nation recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic, Fuse have identified and embedded the following key themes into their business strategy and programming:

• Participation
• Mental Health & Wellbeing
• Life skills & Employability
• Attainment
• Digital Inclusion

fuseonline.org.uk

Fuse supports and serves its community by; continually striving towards an inclusive facility; a progressive organisation that meets the needs of its community and being a knowledgeable and informed organisation.

We are a fast-paced and progressive organisation, that aims to support children, young people, and their families through the provision of positive activity.

Fuse makes a commitment to contribute to the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework and its contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals in supporting our community to adapt to life in 2021 and beyond. With poverty, digital exclusion, and rising unemployment prevalent in our community and as the nation recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic, Fuse have identified and embedded the following key themes into their business strategy and programming:

· Participation

· Mental Health & Wellbeing

· Life skills & Employability

· Attainment

· Digital Inclusion

Fuse supports and serves its community by; continually striving towards an inclusive facility; a progressive organisation that meets the needs of its community and being a knowledgeable and informed organisation.

Purpose of Job

Working under the direction of the Youth Work Team Leader, Sessional Youth Workers are key to ensuring the successful delivery of Fuse youth work provision. The role will include contributing to the creation of a welcoming environment, supporting young people and key project staff in the development and delivery of specific youth work projects and programmes, such as Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing, Youth Issues, and Attainment, helping young people to develop personally, socially, and educationally. The role will provide face to face support to young people at different stages of their lives, responding to their needs, encouraging, and enabling achievement, self-expression, positivity, confidence, and the development of self-esteem based on equality and respect for each other.

The Board is seeking a professional in finance, business or accounting who would have the skills to help report on the financial position of the charity and provide valuable advice in terms of risk and on business planning and enterprise developments going forward.

The Treasurer has responsibility for:

1. The overall safety of the organisation’s assets

2. Ensuring there are systems for recording, monitoring and the correct reporting of all financial transactions

3. Ensuring that the charitable purpose of the organisation is reflected in all expenditure

4. Providing each director with understandable and accurate financial information

The Treasurer acts as a guide to other directors in these matters but overall financial responsibility lies with the whole board. All directors share a responsibility to ask for clarification if for any reason they feel unsure or unable to judge whether financial matters are being managed properly.

Fuse

We are a fast-paced and progressive organisation that aims to support children, young people, and their families through the provision of positive activity.

Fuse makes a commitment to contribute to the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework and its contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals in supporting our community to adapt to life in 2021 and beyond. With poverty, digital exclusion, and rising unemployment prevalent in our community and as the nation recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic, Fuse have identified and embedded the following key themes into their business strategy and programming:

· Participation

· Mental Health & Wellbeing

· Life skills & Employability

· Attainment

· Digital Inclusion

fuseonline.org.uk

Fuse supports and serves its community by; continually striving towards an inclusive facility; a progressive organisation that meets the needs of its community and being a knowledgeable and informed organisation.

We are a fast-paced and progressive organisation that aims to support children, young people, and their families through the provision of positive activity.

Fuse makes a commitment to contribute to the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework and its contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals in supporting our community to adapt to life in 2021 and beyond. With poverty, digital exclusion, and rising unemployment prevalent in our community and as the nation recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic,

Fuse have identified and embedded the following key themes into their business strategy and programming:

• Participation
• Mental Health & Wellbeing
• Life skills & Employability
• Attainment
• Digital Inclusion

fuseonline.org.uk

Fuse supports and serves its community by; continually striving towards an inclusive facility; a progressive organisation that meets the needs of its community and being a knowledgeable and informed organisation.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Support and develop strategies and programmes which will enhance a young person’s skills and aspirations
• Support the development of programmes and partnerships in line with the overall aim of Fuse
• Develop effective relationships with all relevant staff and agencies
• Actively research and keep up to date with current Scottish government reports and strategies on young people with regards to achievement and attainment
• Accurately collate service user information and maintain records
• Produce timely project reports when requested to meet agreed deadlines

Funded by the National Lottery, the Shettleston 100 project brings together key partners in Shettleston, led by Fuse Youth Café. It aims to raise awareness of climate change and help reduce wasteful and unsustainable consumption, showing that people can reduce their climate impact whilst also saving money. Shettleston residents will be asked to volunteer to complete purchase, consumption, and waste diaries, which will identify how households can change behaviours to reduce their costs and environmental impact. Individual reports will be produced, highlighting these changes as well as quantifying potential carbon and financial savings.

Following this, volunteers will then be asked to complete diaries for a further period to provide an understanding of the before and after picture.

Community engagement will be supported through filming a selection of the diaries, telling the story of what has worked, the benefits of taking part, the challenges, and how they have been overcome. This material will be used in a digital and social media campaign over the life of the project, involving social media advertising, podcasts, and appearances in existing local media.

A pop-up shopfront will be established to showcase the project and people’s experiences including opportunities for people in the wider community to reduce their wasteful consumption and their carbon footprint. This will also be a venue in which the wider community will come together for events and activities, such as climate cafes, workshops exploring specific themes, or discussions around experiences and findings. In the final three months of the project, a future strategy will be co-produced for waste reduction and consumption in Shettleston.

This is an opportunity to take a 12-month post and turn it into a career. There is no doubt that this work is needed, and the post-holder will receive the full backing of Fuse. The community needs this service, it is a core objective for us and increasingly funders are willing to support Climate Change projects. We just need someone to work with us to develop it further.

Fuse is a fast-paced and progressive organisation, that aims to support and inspire children, young people, and their families through the provision of positive, engaging, and inspirational activities.

Fuse makes a commitment to contribute to the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework and to the UN Sustainable Development Goals in supporting our community to adapt to life in 2021 and beyond. With poverty, digital exclusion, and rising unemployment prevalent in our community, and as the nation recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic, Fuse have identified and embedded the following key themes into our business strategy and programming:

· Mental Health and Wellbeing

· Life Skills and Employability

· Digital Inclusion

· Climate Change

· Attainment.

Fuse supports and serves its community by; continually striving towards an inclusive facility; being a progressive organisation that meets the needs of its community; and being a knowledgeable and informed organisation.

The Inclusion Projects Manager will be responsible for the management and continued development of Fuse Inclusion Projects in particular our digital inclusion offers in the local community. In addition, we expect a fuller adult and family education offer to be a bi product of the work with key partners. Immediately though the jobs priorities will be to:

1. Managing the digital inclusion team, including Team leader and sessional staff

2. Supporting and developing the new digital face to face and telephone service for adults, both being delivered from Monday to Thursday daytime.

3. Identifying funding and tendering opportunities

4. Identifying and maintaining key partnerships/relationships.

This is an opportunity to take a 12-month post and turn it into a career. There is no doubt that this work is needed and there is no doubt that you will receive the full backing of Fuse. The community needs this service, it is a core objective for us and increasingly funders are willing to support digital inclusion. We just need someone to work with us to develop it.

We are a fast-paced and progressive organisation, that aims to support children, young people, and their families through the provision of positive activity.

Fuse makes a commitment to contribute to the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework and its contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals in supporting our community to adapt to life in 2021 and beyond. With poverty, digital exclusion, and rising unemployment prevalent in our community and as the nation recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic, Fuse have identified and embedded the following key themes into their business strategy and programming:

· Participation

· Mental Health & Wellbeing

· Life skills & Employability

· Attainment

· Digital Inclusion

fuseonline.org.uk

Fuse supports and serves its community by; continually striving towards an inclusive facility; a progressive organisation that meets the needs of its community and being a knowledgeable and informed organisation.

Purpose of Job

Working under the direction of our Team leader, Youth Workers are key to ensuring the successful delivery of our provision for young people. The role will include the development and delivery of specific youth work projects and programmes delivered in accordance with the policies and procedures of the organisation, helping young people to develop personally, socially, and educationally. The role will include providing support to vulnerable and at-risk service users. Also responding to their needs, encouraging, and enabling achievement, self-expression, positivity, confidence, and the development of self-esteem based on equality and respect for each other.

A full Job Description is available for download below.

The Activities Coordinator would be responsible for the coordination, development, and delivery of a programme of physical activity under the umbrella of Fuse Power-Up project as a youth-led project, the post holder would be required to provide extensive support to the existing healthy youth steering group who consult with other children and young people to make healthier changes to the organisation and promote a healthier culture throughout.

The post holder will work in partnership with the Nutrition and Well-being Coordinator to promote healthier lifestyles, using a coordinated approach to exercise and nutrition to creatively develop programmes that will engage children and young people. The post holder will be expected to use research and liaise with external agencies to complement the programme.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. To continue to develop and support the Healthy Youth Steering Group.
2. To support young people in the Healthy Youth Steering Group so that they can be actively involved in influencing the future developments of the Fuse Power-Up project
3. To support the children and young people to gain accreditation appropriate to their stage of development e.g. Hi 5 Award, Dynamic Youth, Youth Achievement Award or Community Achievement.
4. Develop a programme of physical activity/fitness sessions:
5. Collaborate with the Nutrition and Well-being Coordinator to create programmes involving physical activity, healthy, Food Education and Cooking.
6. Collaborate with Nutrition and Well-being Coordinator to develop Food and Exercise diaries for children & young people to record their personal journey to success.
7. Provide individual support to young people who participate in the journey to success.
8. To utilise resources within Fuse to actively encourage young people to engage in participation within the local area.
9. Liaise with internal staff and external agencies to support the Fuse Power-Up project, increase participation and achieve the aims of the programme, maximising impact.
10. To undertake responsibility for administrative duties including regular reports at team meetings, collection of data through baseline activity, progress review and staff observation sheets.
11. To represent and promote Fuse at meetings etc as appropriate.
12. To undergo training as required
13. Any other duties as requested by the CEO for the benefit of Fuse.

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer