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The pioneering NSPCC Schools Service delivers one of the most specialised Safeguarding services in the UK.

The role of the schools organiser is to confidently promote our safeguarding service and educational resources to head teachers, deliver important safeguarding presentations and maximise income through fundraising with school children.

Using your initiative and working to set targets, you will contact head teachers and use your influencing skills to gain permission to organise safeguarding presentations and fundraising events. Then, taking centre stage, you’ll present informative and motivational assemblies directly to children aged between 5 -11years and organise fundraising events using our own specially designed materials.

It’s a rewarding and varied role but also a demanding one. You will need experience of successfully working to targets, have excellent presentation and organisational skills and plenty of self-motivation. Articulate and numerate, you must also be confident and enthusiastic, with your own car and willing to travel widely throughout the area.

Through your work, you’ll deliver the NSPCC’s most important messages directly to thousands of children and in turn help to raise much-needed funds and make a big difference to children's lives.

Created by carers for carers, tide – together in dementia every day is a national involvement network for carers and former carers of people with dementia hosted by Life Story Network CIC. Using lived experience, tide enables a diverse range of carers to have a powerful collective voice, which raises awareness of their unique needs and rights, ensuring that these influence practice, policy and research at all levels.

This post will cover Dundee, Aberdeen and Highlands and Islands Regions and is funded by the Life Changes Trust.

As Regional Carer Engagement Lead for the North of Scotland, you will be working closely with our other Regional Leads, the National Carer Engagement Lead and our Learning and Development Team to strengthen and increase the establishment of the tide network in Scotland. You will have responsibility for the designated geographical regions as well as a thematic lead, which may include one of the following: carers of people living with dementia from Black and Minority Ethnic Communities, young carers caring for family members with dementia or carers from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

Duties include:

• proactively recruiting new carer members, being the first point of contact within the region for carers and former carers

• assisting carers to participate in events, helping them with their contribution and presentation, providing carers with the emotional and psychological support before during and after the engagement process (including sending briefing documents, alerting them to the nature of the audience, environment and key themes)

• fostering collaborative working relationships with other statutory and voluntary organisations and networks across the region.

You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills and a qualification in Health, Social Care or similar would be an advantage, though not essential.

You must have experience and/or an understanding of dementia and the emotional and practical challenges that families experience; this may be through experience of caring for someone with dementia.

This post requires remote home working (with access to hot desking opportunities as required), and travel within the region in addition to travel to the Head Office in Glasgow and occasional national travel with an overnight stay, so a full clean driving licence and access to a car are essential.

With your help we can influence more policy makers, commissioners, and service providers from grass roots to national policy level. This will ensure that the needs of carers of people with dementia are truly recognised and met so that they can care for the person with dementia better and for longer, with increased knowledge and confidence.

Eden Project Communities has UK-wide reach and delivers initiatives that encourage public engagement and participation in positive action and create real social capital on a mass scale. Since it began in 2009, participation in The Big Lunch, the UK’s annual get-together for neighbours, has grown continually with the number of people taking part in 2017 rising to over 9 million. Alongside this we deliver initiatives that encourage connections, engage the public and help people across the UK build the skills and confidence to drive positive social action where it is needed most.

Over the next 3 years we are growing participation in the programme to new heights and aim to increase the social impact we have on communities and neighbourhoods all over the UK. You’ll help us increase awareness of and participation in all aspects of the programme in Scotland, including The Big Lunch, Community Camps, Exchange Hubs, The Big Lunch Community Walk and other projects.

Working as part of the Eden Project Communities team in Scotland, and in close collaboration with our other part-time Community Network Developer, you will take the lead in creating connections for people who are making positive change in their communities through the development and support of exchange hubs and a peer support network across Scotland. Key elements of the role include increasing participation in all aspects of the Eden Project Communities programme, developing resources, delivering and supporting events and building networks across people, projects and organisations.

Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2 years’ experience of organising and supporting community work and will have strong networking, relationship-building, event planning and facilitation skills. An excellent communicator, you will have the ability to engage and connect audiences at all levels through delivering events, experiences and resources and you will thrive in a fast-paced atmosphere where creative thinking and the ability to respond quickly to emerging opportunities is essential.