Healthy Valleys is a community-led organisation committed to providing outstanding local services that help preserve the mental and physical health and wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities living in rural South Lanarkshire. In 2023 we launched ‘Gear Up’ a new social enterprise dedicated to empowering communities through cycling, walking, and wheeling.
Due to successfully securing new funding from Smarter Choices Smarter Places, we have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and passionate Gear Up Mechanic who will support the maintenance of our bike and eBike fleet, as well as engage our communities with Active Travel and support them to develop their own skills in this field.
You’ll assess, service, repair, and maintain all types of bikes and eBikes, help train others in bike maintenance, and support the development of events and partnerships.
This role is subject to a PVG Disclosure Scotland check, which will be paid by Healthy Valleys.
Due to the requirement to travel around rural communities, the postholder must have a full, clean driving licence, access to their own transport (with appropriate business insurance) and be prepared to drive the Healthy Valleys van.
Healthy Valleys is a community-led organisation committed to providing outstanding local services that help preserve the mental and physical health and wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities living in rural South Lanarkshire. In 2023 we launched ‘Gear Up’ a new social enterprise dedicated to empowering communities through cycling, walking, and wheeling.
Due to successfully securing new funding from Smarter Choices Smarter Places, we have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and inspirational Gear Up Education Worker who wants to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of people through enabling engagement with cycling.
You’ll teach cycling, engage people with active travel, work with schools and educational organisations, and support the development of events and partnerships.
This role is subject to a PVG Disclosure Scotland check, which will be paid by Healthy Valleys.
Due to the requirement to travel around rural communities, the postholder must have a full, clean driving licence, access to their own transport (with appropriate business insurance) and be prepared to drive the Healthy Valleys van.
Healthy Valleys is a community-led organisation committed to providing outstanding local services that help preserve the mental and physical health and wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities living in rural South Lanarkshire. In 2023 we launched ‘Gear Up’ a new social enterprise dedicated to empowering communities through cycling, walking, and wheeling.
Due to successfully securing new funding from Smarter Choices Smarter Places, and the Coalburn, Douglas & Glespin Community Fund, we have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and energetic Gear Up Community & Team Lead who can drive the growth of this exciting enterprise.
You’ll lead on the development of our bike hire scheme and community hubs, manage the small staff and volunteer team, and drive the development of partnerships and commercial opportunities.
This role is subject to a PVG Disclosure Scotland check, which will be paid by Healthy Valleys.
Due to the requirement to travel around rural communities, the postholder must have a full, clean driving licence, access to their own transport (with appropriate business insurance) and be prepared to drive the Healthy Valleys van.
Work somewhere where a job is not just a ‘job’, where you can be part of a team with a passion for sharing Scotland’s heritage and making a real difference to local lives. Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, is one of Scotland’s most important heritage sites and easily accessible from Edinburgh by road and rail. Now cared for by an independent charity, we are seeking an exceptional individual to manage and develop our award winning community work.
In this interesting and varied part time role you will be responsible for the Trust’s volunteering, educational, and mental health programming. Managing a team of two, you will call on the whole charity to support you in your work, integrating programmes into the fabric of the charity’s operations at every level. As a small charity run by staff and volunteers, you should be personable and flexible in your approach to others, and be prepared to be bitten by our passion for Scott and Abbotsford.
Sacro’s mission is to deliver life-changing services that empower people, give hope and protection, and help to build safe communities.
Could you be our next Community Justice Manager? We are looking for our next manager to lead and be responsible for all aspects of the delivery and development of Community Justice services. This currently includes bail mentoring, diversion, and arrest referral services, local voluntary throughcare, court peer mentor support and specialist intervention delivery.
This post is subject to PVG membership. Some evening and weekend work may be required along with participating in a National On-Call out of hours rota and travel will be required.
We offer some great benefits, including family friendly policies, flexible and hybrid working and work-life balance. We also have generous annual leave entitlement, employee wellbeing scheme, cycle to work scheme, pension scheme and death in service, enhanced company sick pay. We will offer learning and development, progression and qualifications with the opportunity for growth and development.
We welcome applications from individuals who share Sacro’s aims and values and want to engage with those we support to help them move on to a more secure, settled and fulfilling life and value diversity from all sections of the community.
Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) is the National Development Body for Scotland’s museums and galleries. We support a sector of 449 museums and galleries, through strategic investment, workforce development, advice and advocacy. We are a forward facing and inclusive organisation, committed to the ongoing development of a positive culture for our team.
We are looking for a Senior Museum Development Manager to work with the Head of Museum Development to facilitate and support development across the sector in line with Scotland’s Museums and Galleries Strategy. The strategy provides a framework for the sector and MGS to work to ensure the future relevance and resilience of the sector. It centres around three thematic strands of Connection, Resilience and Workforce.
You will have significant knowledge and understanding of the Scottish museums sector and current issues facing it in order to articulate the needs of the sector and turn that into action. Key to this role is direct engagement with museums and galleries in Scotland to build an understanding of diverse development needs. You will build strategic relationships, initiate development programmes and identify funding opportunities, working collaboratively to deliver impactful programmes and projects.
You will also have experience of addressing barriers to inclusion and driving positive change, with an understanding of anti-racism and anti-oppression in order to lead MGS’s work to support museums to become more inclusive.
As part of MGS’ senior management team, you will build and nurture effective working relationships across the organisation. You will manage a team of staff within the wider Museum Development Team.
The successful candidate will manifest MGS’s core values: collaboration, integrity, passion for museums, and courageousness.
This job would suit someone who has experience of both small business management and 1 to 1 support.
You will be a PA/ Business Manager for a highly ambitious, award winning, self-employed barber who plans to scale up to setting up their own barbershop and product line. Knowledge of the hairdressing and beauty industry would be an advantage.
Role will involve:
• Business and marketing planning in collaboration with the client
• Email management
• Create and update Website
• Finance management (basic bookkeeping and cash flow)
• Social Media Support
• Organising travel plans and accompanying when required.
• Diary management
• Notetaking in meetings
• Support with time management
• Keeping easy to understand records
• Researching, presenting and discussing options and helping client to make decisions
• Reading, scribing and proof reading for the client, and facilitating understanding of written and verbal communication.
• Mental wellbeing support
• Researching potential networking and showcasing opportunities.
• Helping client to set business goals and work collaboratively to achieving them
• Setting up and managing neurodivergent friendly systems including income & expenditure, cash flow, office organisation, stock taking, ordering, business banking, IT, contact lists, measuring social media impact, and business planning.
• Form filling.
• Help with reminders, focus and task completion.
• Help with emotional regulation and avoiding overwhelm.
Desirable skills and experience would include some of the following:
• Experience in setting up and running a small business, or experience in supporting someone else to do so.
• Experience of being a business mentor/coach.
• Experience of being a PA in a business setting.
• Knowledge and understanding of Autism, Dyslexia and ADHD
• Businesses management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to problem solve and adapt to individual needs and ways of working
• Experience in setting up systems that work well for individual needs of the client
• Ability to manage own work load, prioritise, and meet deadlines
• Concise communication
• Well organised and reliable
• Knowledge of accessible technology and tools that might benefit neurodivergent individuals.
Job Type: self-employed / freelance / flexible – 8-12 per week
Schedule:
2 hours per week in person in Edinburgh (Monday or Tuesday)
6+ hours remote working per week (Flexible)
Will occasionally travelling to and attending events and this will some times involve overnight stays.
Work location: Edinburgh (with some remote working and occasional travel for events).
Salary: £28 per hour
Do you enjoy working with people?
Do you have excellent communication and presentation skills, and experience working with young people?
We are looking for an enthusiastic Project Officer to join Fast Forward’s Scottish Gambling Education Hub. This role will have a focus on youth groups and other informal education settings.
The Hub was Scotland’s first gambling education and prevention programme focusing on protecting young people from gambling harms. Its work includes delivering training to practitioners, staff, schools and youth groups, developing resources, as well as partnership building with national organisations.
Fast Forward is Scotland’s national youth work agency, focusing on supporting children & young people to make informed choices regarding, and take a harm reduction approach to, risk-taking behaviours, towards reducing the negative impacts of these on their lives and those of their families and wider community. We promote health through programmes and resources developed by, with and for young people.
Our work is underpinned by the following values:
Integrity - Our work is dynamic and informed by expertise, lived experience and relevant research
Forward Thinking - We are brave and bold. We are creative in our approach to identifying and responding to risk taking behaviour.
Inclusive - We take a person centred approach. We are non-judgemental and respectful.
Collaborative - We coproduce, partner and learn with young people and experts from across the field We are committed to delivering an inclusive service that creates opportunities for all, and do not tolerate discrimination. We welcome all people inclusive of ethnic background, disability, sex, religion or belief, gender identity or reassignment, sexual orientation, age, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, veteran status, and the many other parts of a person’s identity.
This includes our staff team and Board members, which include individuals from communities with protected characteristics.
Do you have a passion for energy efficiency and decarbonisation? Are you a creative, motivated problem solver who wants to be a part of an organisation making a real difference to tackling the Climate Emergency? This role may be for you.
Changeworks is looking for a new consultant with a focus on residential building services engineering to join our growing and highly regarded Consultancy Team. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrable track record of managing projects with a high level of knowledge of low or zero carbon technologies and their implementation on the built environment.
About you
Based within our Consultancy Team, the role requires effective working with a range of stakeholders across a diversity of Changeworks projects differing in scale and complexity. The ability to deal with multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a supportive team environment is essential. You will have a commitment and passion for this field, relevant sectoral knowledge and be organised and proactive. Your creative streak will allow you to identify innovative solutions, work around problems, identify new areas of work, and promote and disseminate our work.
About us
Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.
The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.
We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.
At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Regional Family Support Team in the East of Scotland and work to ensure the delivery of high-quality support to people who have a family member in prison.
We are looking for a Regional Family Support Coordinator to join our team in the East of Scotland. In this position you will play a crucial role in supporting families affected by imprisonment who live in Edinburgh, Lothians and Scottish Borders and pro-actively engaging with external partners through different means to deliver Families Outside’s key messages to ensure everyone is recognising the needs of families affected by imprisonment.
The Regional Family Support Coordinator will be responsible for supporting families, including children and young people at home and in their community via 1:1 work, to address the social and family adversities that people who have a family member in prison face, so they feel engaged, supported, and empowered. Whilst supporting children to ensure they are safe, healthy, included, and achieving at home, school, and in the community.
Primary responsibilities will include:
About You
With experience of supporting and working alongside families, including children and young people the Regional Family Support Coordinator will be able to demonstrate that they are passionate about developing and delivering a quality service that is focused on the rights of families affected by imprisonment in their work and all they do.
We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic individuals who are passionate about making a difference for families impacted by imprisonment. If you can demonstrate a strong understanding and commitment to our organisational values, we want to hear from you.
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