Glasgow Connected Arts Network improves health, wellbeing and future prospects within the city by supporting a strong, capable and confident participatory arts sector.
We aim to:
Underpinning these aims are our three values of Diverse Representation, Accessibility and Connection.
We support work which celebrates our differences, promotes equality and improves access to the arts for marginalised groups. We support work which extends the reach of Artists and Organisations to communities that do not have adequate access to the arts with a focus on sharing learning with others and working together. We will develop guidelines, share learning and reach communities where there is low provision of creative activities. We seek to bring people together to promote and develop Participatory Arts programmes. We actively support Artists and Organisations to work with each other and communities through partnership initiatives.
The purpose of the role is to lead our small team until May 2023 and manage the operations of Glasgow Connected Arts Network. You will have a good understanding of the value of participatory arts, experience of working at senior management level, a strong track record of building and maintaining relationships with funders and partners and a commitment to our values: diverse representation, accessibility and connection. You will oversee the day to day running of the organisation and work with a committed staff team and experienced board of directors to achieve our strategic aims.
Key responsibilities include: ensuring smooth delivery of our annual programme; generating income and managing grants; overseeing continued development of our membership; representing and advocating for the participatory arts sector; managing staff team’ and reporting to the Board on matters including governance, finance, staffing and operations. Please refer to the job description for a detailed breakdown.
Glasgow Connected Arts Network is a committed equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from those who are significantly underrepresented in the sector.
A full Job Description is available for download below.
ScotGEM is a graduate-entry medical degree (MBChB) with a mission to increase the visibility and priority of non-statutory organisations within the provision of healthcare.
We have established a fantastic programme of learning experiences with third-sector partners. We are looking for someone to continue to develop these partnerships and to augment the educational framework for these experiences.
Our ideal person will have:
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Please do get in touch to chat if you have one of these but not both.
We are pleased to invite applications for this part-time/sessional post as a Teaching Fellow leading a specialist contribution to ScotGEM.
The overall purpose of this role is to lead the development and implementation of the Service Learning aspects of the ScotGEM MBChB programme. This role has a particular focus on Years 1 and 2 of the four-year programme with a growing influence into Years 3 and 4.
This is an educational role and the post holder will be expected to champion a high quality educational experience for students. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new MBChB Programme for Scotland and to help develop part of a curriculum designed to create future ‘Agents of Change’ in health care. The post holder will be working in partnership with stakeholders across Scotland to lead, deliver, support, assess and evaluate Service Learning component of the curriculum.
The successful candidate will be central to the continual design, development and implementation of this innovative aspect of the course. See medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/graduate-entry-medicine. The key duties are listed in the job description, but will evolve as the ScotGEM Programme develops. The role will include direct teaching and assessment, as well as collaboration with other partners.
Home-Start Dunfermline provides an unique service for families – recruiting and training volunteers to support parents and young children in their own homes.
The ideal candidate will have:
Every childhood is worth fighting for. This is our belief. It drives us. And it’s the reason our Children’s Services team push themselves to transform the lives of children and families – in person, in service centres nationwide, and through the knowledge they share. Join us as the Govan Together for Childhood Team Manager and make a contribution that means everything.
Based in Govan, Glasgow our Children’s Services Practitioner / Social Worker will be part of our multi-disciplinary team.
Are you up for a challenge and able to navigate complex working arrangements in a place-based approach? Govan Together for Childhood is a 10-year investment launched in 2017 by the NSPCC to deliver a partnership lead initiative that supports the community of Govan to work together to prevent abuse and neglect. As CSP Social Worker you will be part of a team focusing on abuse and neglect and building a network around every child born in Govan to give them the best start in life.
An important role of CSP/Social Worker is to deliver and contribute to local plans, projects, and initiatives. You will delivery partnership approaches designed to achieve the greatest impact and reach locally. It imperative as a CSP/Social Worker you are familiar with local child protection procedures and can support the TFC partnership to build its proportionate response to safeguarding. Working in TFC is a unique blend of social work and community development practice and our role is to demonstrate the combined impact of working together. Evidencing, that by improving the connectedness of all children we can have a positive impact on that child’s relationships, supporting the child to thrive.
We need a CSP/Social Worker who can be creative in how the engage parents, carers, the community and professional in a host of innovative programmes, be ready to make difficult and challenging decisions and more importantly be an ambassador building confidence locally in the work of Together for Childhood. You will be qualified in social work with a passion for community based social work partnerships that will be instrumental in delivering sustainable change in Govan.
Join us and you’ll become part of a team that cares about the work they do and the people they work with. You’ll discover opportunities to grow, along with challenges and a shared purpose that’ll bring the best out in you. And you’ll get to find your own way to make a difference that means more, and that impacts millions of young lives.
The Peeblesshire Foodbank is looking for a Local Organiser, someone who can research the key drivers of poverty in this area and work with the public and politicians to influence policy, working towards ending the need for foodbanks.
The Local Organiser is responsible for building and leading a volunteer team to develop and deliver local influencing strategies for and with the Peeblesshire Foodbank, organising in your community to campaign for change. You will be the link between the Peeblesshire Foodbank and the Organising and Local Mobilisation team at Trussell Trust, as we build a movement to end the need for food banks. Full training will be given.
This post is funded by the Trussell Trust.
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Our Values
The Trussell Trust is a charity that works to end the need for food banks. Our values of dignity, justice, compassion and community, are central to all that we do and therefore supports our aim to be an organisation where the diversity of all employees is valued. We welcome people of all faiths and none and those that are committed to these values.
We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity we are actively encouraging applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.