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Be Inspired is an innovative new programme of capacity building that aims to develop the capability of individuals, groups and local organisations to enable them to implement projects that address unmet community needs. The aim of the programme is to inspire, motivate and support people in deprived communities in North Ayrshire to volunteer their time to implement projects and to provide tailored one to one support.

We are seeking a talented community worker as Community Coach to implement delivery of this project. You will work closely with the Senior Community Coach to deliver the programme to meet targets and outputs. You will benefit from support from the CEO The Ayrshire Community Trust who will share knowledge of the local third sector landscape and community planning structures.

A full Job Description is available for download below.

How Action for Children works

Action for Children does what's right, does what's needed and does what works for children across the UK. Every year, our team changes the lives of 301,000 children, young people and their families – but for every child who needs help to get help, there's plenty more to do. That's where you come in.

Action for Children works in secondary schools to develop cultural inclusion, understanding and race equality. Our service delivers opportunities and actions within the Duke of Edinburgh Awards for black and ethnic minority young people to ensure the accreditation is accessed by all young people. We currently work with over 40 nationalities providing crucial experiences and outcomes for those who often find it difficult to access youth services. We currently work in Edinburgh but the service will also be extending to Glasgow in the future. This could be a great opportunity for someone who is already established but equally for someone to take on their first management / project leadership role. We need a great role model - is that you?

You will have lived in experiences of diverse communities and will have exemplary multi-cultural diversity awareness.

• Assist Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic cultures in school
• Acting as a role model for Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic cultures in schools
• Boosting young people's self confidence
• Duke of Edinburgh and delivering Key programs
• Awareness of Duke of Edinburgh or alternative accreditation experiences and experience to know how to deliver outcomes
• Knowledge of cultural barriers to accessing the DofE
• Coordinating activity over 2 services in Edinburgh, and Glasgow in the future
• Experience of working with children, young people or adults (or other relevant experience)
• Experience of working in partnership with school's and DofE
• Innovative
• Flexible
• Knowledge of diversity and inclusion
• Experience and ability of tracking outcomes
• Ability to develop new measures of intervention

You'll need:

• A relevant social care or youth work qualification will be advantageous – eg SVQ3/HNC or relevant degree in Social Work or Youth Work
• Experience of working with Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic young people to deliver positive outcomes
• Experience of managing work streams
• Experience of working with multiple funding streams
• Experience of engaging with a range of Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic young people
• Processes and reporting to funding partners such as the lottery
• Knowledge of issues affecting Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic young people in Scotland
• Knowledge of policy context for Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic work in Scotland
• Reporting both verbally and in writing on the delivery of services to wide client group.
• Proven ability to use Microsoft office packages
• Line management of staff experience
• Project management experience

The rewards

• Minimum 29 days' holiday (pro rata)
• Flexible working, including maternity, paternity and adoption packages
• Season ticket travel loans
• Company pension scheme
• Discounts at major high street retailers.

Plus, there's a lot more besides.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to vulnerable children's lives and to build a fulfilling and meaningful career with a leading UK children's charity.

Action for Children is committed to safer recruitment practices, designed to protect the welfare of the children and young people using our services.

Giving all children in Scotland an equal chance to flourish is at the heart of everything we do. This Family Support Worker will play a key role in the exciting new Open Kindergarten pilot project.

Open Kindergartens are a long-standing concept in parent support in the Nordic countries, providing group support to parents and carers and their young children, where children are not in full-time day care.

The key objectives are to reduce social isolation among parents of very young children (0-3 years), support effective parenting, and contribute to optimising children’s health, wellbeing, learning and development. The post holder will develop and deliver parent and child sessions at Granton Early Years Centre, deliver family outreach work in the local area and contribute to evaluation of the pilot project.

You will have experience of working with parents and carers, and with young children in both group and one-to-one situations. Excellent planning and communication skills are required.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with the right values to join our service assisting and supporting vulnerable homeless people to achieve better lives.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide a meaningful support service to identified individuals who live in the project and/or in the community. You will provide a quality service tailored to the assessed needs of each individual by identifying, planning and facilitating support to enable appropriate move-on options for each service user. You will use all of your knowledge and experience to help service users build their life skills and prepare for independent living.

The service accommodates and supports people aged 18 and over who are experiencing homelessness. Typical shifts are 8 hours over a four week rolling rota. Shift patterns are 09:00 – 17:00; 11:00 – 19:00 and 15:00 – 22:00.

You will have an SVQ3 qualification in social care. Other essentials include: experience of working with vulnerable people, addiction issues and challenging behaviour; effective written and verbal communication; knowledge of homelessness issues; and, above all, the determination to make a difference in the lives of our service users.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning.

In return, we will offer you excellent learning and development opportunities, competitive annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, access to employee assistance programmes such as counselling, and life assurance.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with the right values to join our service assisting and supporting vulnerable homeless people to achieve better lives.

Renfrew project delivers housing support to service users 21 years and over within a residential setting and a support/ housing assistant model. There are 17 flats split across 2 buildings in close location to each other. The service is staffed 24 hours a day by housing assistants. Support is on a needs led basis while at the project and can be delivered for up to 8 weeks after service user’s move to their own tenancies.

You will have an SVQ3 qualification in social care. Other essentials include: experience of working with vulnerable people, addiction issues and challenging behaviour; effective written and verbal communication; knowledge of homelessness issues; and, above all, the determination to make a difference in the lives of our service users.

The successful applicant will join a team of Support Staff who will be skilled to support all areas relating to tenancy sustainment, including:

• Independent Living Skills; Cooking, budgeting, benefits, cleaning, dealing with forms, reporting repairs and paying rent;
• Interpersonal Skills; Living in communities, door control, dealing with difficult neighbours;
• Personal Issues; Sexual health, relationships, substance awareness, physical & mental health;
• Occupation of Time; Education, training, employment, leisure activities, outward bound.

This service’s main aim is to support tenancy sustainment and to reduce repeat homelessness. The successful applicant will be responsible for supporting service user’s at the project then moving them into their own tenancy and helping to sustain these.

The post will involve four shifts per week (3 x 5hrs and 1 x 6hrs between 08:00 – 20:00 and will involve weekend working).

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning.

In return, we will offer you excellent learning and development opportunities, competitive annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, access to employee assistance programmes such as counselling, and life assurance.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with the right values to join our service assisting and supporting vulnerable homeless people to achieve better lives.

The successful candidate will be expected to complement the work of our support teams by ensuring the security of the building through observation and checks, maintaining health, safety and hygiene standards and following procedures such as for financial transactions, admissions and leavers, housing benefit, incident reports and building repairs reports.

You should have sound literacy and numeracy skills and experience of dealing with challenging behaviour. Other essentials include: experience of team working; good verbal communication; the ability to interact with people in an appropriate and positive way; and, above all, the determination to make a difference in the lives of our service users.

The service accommodates and supports people aged 21 and over who are homeless. Housing Assistants manage the accommodated buildings 24/7 and provide a contact point for people who may need some assistance or guidance where required, this involves lone working.

2 x 8 hour shifts from 07:45 to 15:45 or 14:15 to 22:15 over a 7 day rolling rota.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning.

In return, we will offer you excellent learning and development opportunities, competitive annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, access to employee assistance programmes such as counselling, and life assurance.

Be Inspired is an innovative new programme of capacity building that aims to develop the capability of individuals, groups and local organisations to enable them to implement projects that address unmet community needs. The aim of the programme is to inspire, motivate and support people in deprived communities in North Ayrshire to volunteer their time to implement projects and to provide tailored one to one support.

We are seeking a talented community worker as Senior Community Coach to implement and manage operational delivery of this project. You will work closely with the Be Inspired Project Manager and a Community Coach to deliver the programme to meet targets and outputs. You will benefit from support from the CEO The Ayrshire Community Trust who will share knowledge of the local third sector landscape and community planning structures.

A full Job Description is available for download below.

To bring play to the heart of the community, encouraging, supporting and motivating children and young people with a range of neurological disabilities and complex, multiple additional support needs to participate in a range of free and structured play activities both indoors and outdoors.

To provide an inclusive service so that children and young people have fun, stay safe, be inspired, make friends, learn, contribute to and provide them with life skills socially and individually.

To assist the team of volunteers and sessional staff to organise, deliver and facilitate such stimulating and innovative play opportunities.

Duties:

• Develop and provide an evolving programme of play opportunities all year round (on and off site)
• Facilitate freely chosen and self-directed play opportunities as well as structured activities
• Encourage children and young people to help plan and choose the kinds of activities that they would like to do, enabling them to experiment and learn about themselves and the world around them while allowing them to experiment and take risks within the safety of the project
• Supervise children and young people at all times to ensure that safety procedures are followed as per the Project’s Child Protection, Health & Safety , and other relevant policies and complete any appropriate reports e.g. accident / incident forms
• Encourage good behaviour and deal with any challenging behaviour in accordance with the projects policies and procedures.
• Ensure non-discriminatory practices at all times – in line with the Equal Opportunities policy
• Preparation and clearing up of activities/areas
• Contribute to joint working and partnership working ensuring positive relationships with all concerned.
• Communicate with partnership organisations to facilitate referrals as appropriate
• To liaise with parents, carers, professionals and partnership agencies

Health & Safety:

• Ensure that all areas/equipment used is free from hazard/danger
• Report/remove any items considered dangerous
• Ensure all reasonable precautions are taken with regard to the Health and Safety of children, young people, and all team members (including yourself) on all indoor/outdoor activities and games.
• Understand and implement Dynamic Risk Benefit assessments

Administration/Procedures:

• Ensure familiarity and adherence to organisation’s procedures/policies
• Support evaluation of the service by maintaining a register of attendance as well as consent and evaluation records (observations, images, questionnaires, videos as appropriate)
• Observe data protection and associated guidelines where appropriate
• Note and act with regard to special health or dietary needs of children attending services
• Attendance at team meetings and training sessions as required
• Reflect on and develop own practice in consultation with the Chairperson
• To action any administrative tasks as requested by the Chairperson
• Keeping a log of, and reporting any issues on sessions to the Chairperson
• Other reasonable duties associated with the service as required

Line Managed: Chairperson of Board of Trustees