FAGCC is an innovative and exciting Community Company, undertaking a wide range of community based activity – from building our own medical centre to our apprenticeship programme that supports local young people, through to the soon to be completed house build of 12 homes for affordable rent. We are now looking for an experienced Chief Officer for our Community Company to replace our current post holder to help drive the company forward.
If you have a ‘can do’ attitude to your job and have experience of leading and managing community based organisations this is a great opportunity. The role is varied with no 2 days the same. We want someone who can work on a wide range of different activity, is willing to adapt previous experience to new projects – and key is that you will work well with a wide range of people.
Role: You will be responsible for the overall leadership, management and development of the organisation, its people and its physical assets, including its long term financial viability – but you will also be hands on and not scared to get your hands dirty if and when needed.
This is a full time, permanent post based in our office in Fort Augustus. The post holder is expected to be office based a minimum of 3 days a week or as allowed under Covid Rules.
A unique opportunity to lead evidence-based change
CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection, is an internationally recognised leading improvement and innovation centre based in Scotland at the University of Strathclyde. Dedicated to applying evidence-based practice change and knowledge exchange to services, we embody the University’s motto of ‘the place of useful learning’.
Focused on improving the lives of children and young people in need of care and protection and their families and carers, we support people and organisations responsible for their care to make long-lasting changes in services and in the practices and skills they use. An organisation committed to the use of evidence including lived experience, we lead international research on alternative care; work with policy-makers, decision-makers and advocacy organisations throughout Scotland, the UK and the world; generate, analyse and interrogate data; and we work with organisations and people across Scotland at local and national to level to realise The Promise of the Independent Care Review (2020).
Our Head of Evidence and Innovation leads on how we assist central and local governments, organisations, interest groups and communities of practice to develop purposeful and evidence-based ways to drive change and improvement in services and practices. The team covers research and data, policy and stakeholder engagement, participation, and international partnerships. This post will work with University colleagues in establishing opportunities for joint research projects.
You will have an appropriate Phd, with significant experience of directly relevant roles and considerable experience of leadership and management contributing to and realising an organisation’s strategic and business objectives. You will also have extensive experience of leading projects and funding bids for research, research translation and knowledge exchange work.
A member of our Strategic Management Team, you will share responsibility for the planning and delivery of CELCIS’s strategy which prioritises supporting improvements in early help, effective decision making, and quality care, all underpinned by valuing the voice of lived experience. We are seeking a motivated individual with strategic management and leadership experience who can contribute to how we deliver our strategy and meet and exceed key stakeholder expectations.
You will be working remotely at home until CELCIS and the University has ensured it is safe and essential to work in the office (we are based in the Curran Building at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow).
Funding for the post: Like all the team, the post is funded for 12 months, with a further 2 years of funding indicated by Scottish Government. CELCIS has received funding in this way from Scottish Government since 2010 where we agree our funding level every year, as well as agreeing the indicative level for the next two years.
Change is happening. Be part of it. Together we can make things better for children, young people and their families and carers.
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Change-makers sought!
Do you want to help Scotland to Keep The Promise?
We’re looking for an experienced professional to help us to improve the lives of children and young people by supporting the stability and security children and young people in need of care and protection have a right to.
As a leading improvement and innovation centre in Scotland, CELCIS works to improve the lives of children and young people in need of care and protection, and their families and carers, by supporting people and organisations responsible for their care to make changes in services and in the practices and skills they use.
We’re looking for someone to join our Permanence team who’ll bring passion, insight and understanding to our work focussed on ensuring children in need of care and protection are settled and well cared for in their permanent home as quickly and effectively as possible. Home could be with parents, with kinship carers within extended family or friends, with long term permanent foster carers, within residential care or with adoptive parents.
Do you have experience of working within the children’s care and protection sector? Can you demonstrate a deep understanding of and commitment to trauma-informed assessment and care planning, and respecting lived experience of care? Are you passionate about using improvement approaches to limit the disruption in the lives of infants, children and young people? If so, this could be the role for you.
Central to the role is the ability to use experience, understanding and practical skills to lead improvement and support implementation of new innovative and evidence-based care planning processes and practice. Working closely with local authorities and partners, you will build on this work to develop and deliver service change through improvement, and by sharing practice, evidence and experiences to support the changes we all want to see.
The role would suit candidate with compassion, sensitivity and the strong relationship-building skills required to lead, support and encourage systemic and strategic change in practices.
You will have an appropriate professional qualification / relevant degree, with substantial practical experience and evidence of successful collaborative working, including experience of using an improvement approach.
We are truly ambitious for the young people of Scotland – are you?
If you share our ambition, working for Aberlour could be the most rewarding experience of your life
Aberlour is one of the largest Children’s Charities in Scotland. Over the last year we have continued to grow in size and strength opening four new services and expanded the reach of a further five. We have two new services opening in May and a further eight in discussion. We have never been busier and need the support of professionals who share our ambitions to develop quality services to reach even more children and families.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. We have just developed our latest strategy ‘Being Brave for children, young people and families’ setting our ambitions and targets over the next five years. We are continuing to embracing new possibilities around digitalisation which we believe can enhance and support service development and advance our plans to develop the organisation.
The opportunities
We have a vacant post supporting our disability services across Fife and Lothian - residential, respite, outreach and our new housing support service.
Due to growth, we are looking for an additional Assistant Director to support services across Tayside. These cover a wide range of sectors including disability home support, residential child care and community based family support.
We may also have a further opportunity for an additional Assistant Director within Central Scotland.
The person
If you are a progressive, motivated professional who knows what it takes to develop new innovative solutions that support young people and the commissioners of services, alongside ensuring sustainability and safeguarding as priorities for all your services, we’d love to hear from you.
You will provide leadership and external management, identify opportunities for growth and work with our business development team to secure income streams to meet the changing needs of vulnerable children, young people and their families.
Applicants should have management level experience within the public, private or voluntary sector with direct experience of both management of services and liaison with local government, NHS or alternative funding commissioners. You will also be driven to influence local and national strategy, policy and practice to the benefit of vulnerable people.
The successful post holder will hold a relevant professional social care or social work qualification at SCQF level 9 or above plus a management qualification at SCQF level 8 or above. They will also have a broad current knowledge of Scottish social policy and child care legislation.
Top job! Communications and Marketing Manager
- Full time
- £43,200 – £48,000
- Edinburgh, Glasgow or Inverness
- Closing 19th May 2021
Are you a confident and experienced marketer looking for an exciting new role?
The Communications and Marketing Manager is a new role to grow and develop SCVO’s communications and marketing team. We’ve got big plans to ramp up our membership marketing to help current members make more use of the benefits that membership offers, and to help us recruit and support lots of new members too. We also want to take a more proactive and coordinated approach to marketing our services, so we can generate precious income to help us support the sector even more.
It’s a small team with a big remit, so we’re looking for a great people manager with marvellous marketing skills to help us shine. You will lead the team and work with colleagues across SCVO to help achieve SCVO’s ambition to support Scotland’s vibrant voluntary sector.
SCVO staff are currently working from home. When our offices reopen, this post could be based from Edinburgh, Glasgow or Inverness
Crossroads Youth & Community Association is looking to recruit a Charity Manager. This role is responsible for the day-to-day management of the organisation, including the staff, its building (The Barn Youth & Community Centre), the funding strategy, and the programme of activities of this longstanding community anchor organisation based in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.
Reporting directly to the Board of Directors, you are responsible for the day-to-day management of Crossroads Youth & Community Association. You will provide support for the Board and its working groups to ensure they are able to fulfil their responsibilities. You will build good working relationships with Crossroads’ membership, funders, partners and the local community to ensure the organisation is fulfilling its aims and objectives. You will be confident at making decisions for the good of the organisation and a strong team leader. Although the role operates at a strategic level, and you are the senior member of staff, as a small organisation it is important that you recognise it is a hands-on role as well.
Development Worker (Employability)
- Full time
- £21,575 – £23,975
- Glasgow with regular travel between our city centre and Whiteinch bases.
- Closing 28th May 2021
Move On works in Scotland to unlock the potential of vulnerable people enabling a positive future and improving people lives.
From our bases in Glasgow and Edinburgh we provide a range of services including mentoring, community-based support, training, peer education, volunteering opportunities, guidance, support, advice and information.
We require an enthusiastic and motivated person to assist in our highly successful services for vulnerable young people. You will support the work of the Employability team; working directly with individuals and facilitating employability training to groups of young people. The role is to support young people to achieve positive life experiences through accredited qualifications, work-experience, training, and, by identifying, accessing and sustaining employability and life-skills opportunities.
You will lead on a range of employability training programmes including; Employability Fund, Kickstart and Community Jobs Scotland, and provide ongoing one to one support to young people.
Residential Workers (Nights) Sycamore Services Tayside
- Full time
- £23,965
- Sycamore Services Tayside – Red Squirrel
- Closing 3rd June 2021
Are you passionate about helping vulnerable young people thrive and flourish?
Do you have the skills to engage with young people and support them to reach their maximum potential?
New residential house for children in Auchterhouse
This is an exciting opportunity to work in our new residential house in Auchterhouse near Dundee. You should be enthusiastic, warm, playful, accepting, curious and empathetic and be able to bring these qualities to your work with children and young people. Our approach is to work in a therapeutic way to support the vulnerable children and young people who live in our residential houses.
Children tell us that they want to live somewhere where they feel safe, with adults who know, understand them and love them and who they trust. They want the adults who care for them to have fun with them, to be silly, to help them learn and grow and share memories and experiences with them. Can you help to create these experiences for children and young people?
Working nights, you will play a crucial role, providing security to the young people if any of them are unable to sleep or become unsettled during the night. This can be particularly difficult for the young people and your ability to adopt a calm and comforting approach is a key skill to help them through these difficult experiences.
Creating a safe, comfortable and loving home environment
The care experience of our children is our first consideration and by creating the home environment that makes them feel safe, comfortable and loved, this also creates a rewarding and fulfilling experience for our staff team, providing valuable development opportunities. One of the key things for working with vulnerable children and young people is to provide consistency and so it is important that you can work with the rest of the team to deliver this, whilst taking account of the changing needs of the children and communicating effectively with your colleagues.
Values based culture
You must be comfortable working in a culture based on respect, integrity, innovation and the ability to challenge. You should be able to work in a nurturing way, enabling the children and young people to feel safe and loved. We are looking for individuals who will help us to achieve our vision, which is to:
- Provide the best option in Scotland for children who require to live in residential care
- Provide the best life-long learning environment in Scotland which supports children to lead happy and successful lives
- Be the best place in Scotland for staff to have a fulfilling work experience and to achieve their individual and collective potential
We support our staff to be as effective as they can be, equipping them to employ best practice in their work and to be exceptional role models for the children and for staff.
Residential Workers (Sycamore Services Tayside)
- Part time
- £23,965 pro-rata
- Sycamore Services Tayside – Red Squirrel
- Closing 3rd June 2021
Are you passionate about helping vulnerable young people thrive and flourish?
Do you have the skills to engage with young people and support them to reach their maximum potential?
New residential house for children in Auchterhouse
This is an exciting opportunity to work in our new residential house in Auchterhouse near Dundee. You should be enthusiastic, warm, playful, accepting, curious and empathetic and be able to bring these qualities to your work with children and young people. Our approach is to work in a therapeutic way to support the vulnerable children and young people who live in our residential houses.
Children tell us that they want to live somewhere where they feel safe, with adults who know, understand them and love them and who they trust. They want the adults who care for them to have fun with them, to be silly, to help them learn and grow and share memories and experiences with them. One of our young people in the house would really like someone who is active and likes playing swing ball. Can you help to create these experiences for children and young people?
Creating a safe, comfortable and loving home environment
The care experience of our children is our first consideration and by creating the home environment that makes them feel safe, comfortable and loved, this also creates a rewarding and fulfilling experience for our staff team, providing valuable development opportunities. One of the key things for working with vulnerable children and young people is to provide consistency and so it is important that you can work with the rest of the team to deliver this, whilst taking account of the changing needs of the children and communicating effectively with your colleagues.
Values based culture
You must be comfortable working in a culture based on respect, integrity, innovation and the ability to challenge. You should be able to work in a nurturing way, enabling the children and young people to feel safe and loved. We are looking for individuals who will help us to achieve our vision, which is to:
- Provide the best option in Scotland for children who require to live in residential care
- Provide the best life-long learning environment in Scotland which supports children to lead happy and successful lives
- Be the best place in Scotland for staff to have a fulfilling work experience and to achieve their individual and collective potential
We support our staff to be as effective as they can be, equipping them to employ best practice in their work and to be exceptional role models for the children and for staff.
Project Worker, Moving On
- Part time
- £22,138 – £33,206 pro-rata
- Scotland, flexible
- Closing 27th May 2021
The Fostering Network is the UK’s leading fostering charity. We are dedicated to creating a better future for fostered children and young people. We bring together everyone who is involved in their lives, leading, inspiring, motivating and supporting them to make foster care better. Together with our members and supporters we are a powerful catalyst for change, and we’ve been shaping and influencing the fostering agenda for more than 40 years.
We are seeking a project worker based in Scotland for our exciting project Moving On funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. You will work closely with foster carers and care experienced young people to create resources and raise awareness of the complexities of young people moving on.
You will have experience of working with care experienced children and young people and foster carers. You will have knowledge of legislation and guidance related to transitions experienced by care experienced young people and the impact they have on foster families.