With the climate as our entry point, Sniffer takes a distinct approach to drive forward the change we need. Sniffer go deeper, examine structures, and provide a route-map for action. Building on their leading work over the past two decades, Sniffer creates spaces for organisations and places to come together to understand, anticipate, and flourish in the face of environmental pressures and societal impacts.
In partnership with academia, government, technical experts, and creative practitioners, Sniffer bring the very latest thinking and innovation to their collaborations with communities, organisations, and business so they can transform the way they work. Sniffer are part of the global movement for change.
At Sniffer, they share a common belief that taking a collaborative approach to understanding and responding to environmental change will have the greatest benefit for people and places.
At an exciting time in Sniffer’s development as an organisation, with a new strategy and a growing portfolio of projects, they are on the search for new talent to join their dynamic team. Their work is structured across three areas:
The role
This role is an exciting opportunity to manage and lead delivery of Sniffer’s new Creative Climate Futures project, working collaboratively with Sniffer colleagues, the project partners and communities.
Part of Sniffer’s Climate Ready Placemaking workstream, Creative Climate Futures is a new two-year project funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund as part of the Glasgow Communities and Place Fund. The project will work with communities in Glasgow who are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change to design climate ready futures for their neighbourhoods and catalyse action to make these visions a reality. The project builds on Sniffer’s existing portfolio of work within Glasgow and the wider City Region, including through the Climate Ready Cycle initiative.
The ideal candidate will have:
This is a unique opportunity for an experienced project manager to work as part of a team of changemakers and support Sniffer’s strategy by delivering an exciting and innovative project within a knowledgeable, supportive, and collaborative organisation.
The Relationships Scotland Network is the largest provider of family and relationship support in the country. We offer relationship counselling, family mediation and child contact centres through a network of 21 Member Services across Scotland, which provide face-to-face support to around 18,000 people each year.
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced person to lead our work in the development of counselling practice and oversight of the delivery of counselling training. The successful applicant will have a qualification in relationship counselling. Experience developing and delivering training courses would be an asset.
The Ayrshire Hospice provides quality specialist palliative care for adults with life-limiting illness within Ayrshire and Arran. We provide a wide range of services and care in people’s homes, care homes and hospitals, as well as in the hospice itself.
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic pharmacist with an interest in palliative care to join our team for a fixed term 1 year period to cover maternity leave. You should be committed to “making today matter” for patients and families.
As part of the multi-disciplinary team, you will work within our 12 bedded inpatient unit and community services to ensure safe use of medicines, support symptom management and promote holistic care. Independent prescribing qualification would be desirable.
You will be given opportunities to develop services, participate in education and research to ensure we are delivering a high standard of palliative care services for our Ayrshire community.
We are currently based within East Ayrshire Community Hospital in Cumnock on a temporary basis until the completion of building work within our previous base at Racecourse Road in Ayr (summer 2024). We will then return to a bespoke and specifically designed unit (12 beds) which will have all the requirements to care for our patients in the best way possible.
As part of the hospice team, you can enjoy a variety of benefits including a competitive salary, generous annual leave, NHS or organisational pension scheme, employee assistance programme, comprehensive induction, continuous learning and development opportunities and access to the NHS Staff Benefits Scheme.
This post is part time, 25 hours per week, preferably over 3 or 4 days but this is negotiable
The Junction is an award-winning organisation established in 2005 which provides a wide range of health-related services, education, information and advice to young people in North-East Edinburgh. We work with 12–21-year-olds in the community by providing one-to-one support, counselling, creative projects and more. Our vision is to work with young people to support their health and wellbeing by helping them to explore and make their own life choices.
We are seeking a confident and innovative Director with demonstrable experience of successfully leading a team in the third sector. The applicant must be committed to our values and in supporting young people in the community, with an understanding of the issues affecting them as well as the opportunities and challenges of the third sector landscape.
If you are open to a new and exciting opportunity to have a meaningful impact for young people in North-East Edinburgh, please see below for our application pack.
This post is subject to PVG Scheme disclosure checks and suitable references.
We are seeking a strategic leader with a breadth of communication skills and with a proven track record of engaging positively with churches. The Scotland Lead is responsible for shaping and leading Home for Good’s work within the Scottish context. Central to this role is the responsibility of initiating, coordinating and overseeing Home for Good’s engagement with churches across Scotland, with an initial emphasis on the Central Belt. This includes building a network of volunteers, helping local churches to engage with the work and vision of Home for Good and inspiring and supporting Christians in their exploration of adoption, fostering and supported lodgings. Raising the profile and reach of Home for Good into new areas is imperative, with potential for developing contract agreements with local authorities and other fostering/adoption agencies to help sustain and grow Home for Good’s reach and impact in Scotland. Working with a wide range of churches and statutory agencies, the postholder will expand the missional aims of Home for Good, by helping to find a home for every child who needs one through fostering, adoption and supported lodgings.
At the heart of Home for Good’s team culture is our love for Jesus and passion for seeing children and young people with lived experience of care supported to thrive. The post-holder will be expected to model these core values and help shape team life. Therefore, this post is subject to an Occupational Requirement that the postholder be a committed Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.
Cassiltoun are committed to regenerating our community not only through first class housing services but by our wider community development work. We also work closely with our subsidiary companies and in partnership with other organisations and agencies.
The Community Team deliver a range of projects that respond to community aspirations and seek to address local issues through an asset-based community development approach. This includes community art initiatives, a community woodland project (Castlemilk Park), digital inclusion support, youth work, health and wellbeing activities, a large number of events, community gardening, community food initiatives, and a volunteer development programme – at the centre of all of these is participation and involvement from the local community.
Barnardo's support to families displaced from Ukraine over the past year builds on our significant experience across the UK of supporting refugees arriving from Afghanistan, Syria and other areas through a range of services. The service works using a hybrid model which includes working digitally and face to face with children, young people and parents. We also offer support to those who Host families.
In 2022 Barnardo's Scotland created a dedicated team of Project Workers across Scotland to ensure a coordinated response to support families displaced from Ukraine and we are looking for motivated, skilled staff to join us.
Currently we are looking to recruit 2 x 18.5 hr posts.
1 x North of Scotland Locality
1 x Fife & Tayside Locality.
Please state in your application your locality preference.
It is essential that applicants come with a very good understanding of verbal and written English, good working knowledge of the potential experience's families arriving in Scotland may have had; understand the importance of a trauma informed response and have a genuine desire to support families to integrate and thrive whilst living in Scotland.
This role will involve establishing and working in partnership with stakeholders to respond to the need within each local area along with supporting national projects such as our Barnardo's Ukrainian Youth Network.
Post holders will link closely with their identified Barnardo's Locality team.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
About Barnardo's
At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.
Are you highly numerate, have an eye for detail and are mission-driven? Would you like the opportunity to be part of a curious, accountable, equitable and collaborative team?
We’re a small but ambitious Trust that has recently undergone a strategic review. We’ve clarified our programme focus and way of working. We’re now proactively expanding our portfolio of partners that tackle systemic education challenges within the government primary school sector in India and South Africa, to improve outcomes for all children.
Reporting to: Administration & Finance Manager
Scope of the role:
We’re looking for an experienced Administration & Finance Officer to support the Administration & Finance Manager in the running of the Trust’s administrative and finance functions, enabling the smooth running of our grant making and meeting of our regulatory requirements. You’ll take on a discrete task list, take full ownership of your deliverables and provide support to the rest of the team as needed.
As an Administration & Finance Officer you’ll:
Your skills, experience and profile:
Your attributes:
About the Trust:
We believe quality education is key to unlocking a child’s potential, and a strong start sets children up for success. We provide support to partners tackling systemic education challenges within the government primary school sector in India and South Africa, to improve outcomes for all children. We understand that changing systems takes time and therefore provide partners with long-term, flexible funding. We like to work collaboratively and wherever possible look to co-fund or take a multi-stakeholder approach.
We’re an independent Trust funded by an annual donation from Stewart Investors.
Introduction
This is a new and exciting project developing Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid services to women across Glasgow. We are current seeking two women’s workers who will be based in the Northeast locality and Northwest locality.
Role
You will provide support women who have experienced domestic abuse, forced marriage and honour-based abuse within the locality.
Qualification:
SVQ Social Services and Healthcare at SCQF Level 6, working towards or willingness to undertake in line with registration requirements of SSSC. Funding and support will be provided to achieve this qualification
About Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid
Established in 1981, Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid is Scotland’s first feminist women’s aid project providing refuge accommodation, outreach, and follow-on services to women, children, and young people primarily from the Asian Black and Minority Ethnic community experiencing domestic abuse, forced marriage and honour-based abuse.
All staff are expected to promote equality and anti-discriminatory practices working with women, children, and young people primarily from the Asian, Black, and Minority Ethnic community experiencing domestic abuse, forced marriage and honour-based abuse.
Calman Trust offers services that are aimed at improving the life chances of young people in Highland. We are looking to add a part-time youth worker to our team, possessing good youth work skills and experience, and the ability to engage a wide range of young people in positive activities. You must have the ability to deliver individual and group sessions, including a cookery programme where young people will ‘learn by doing’. You will have responsibility for engaging with other services where appropriate.
Successful candidate will be:
PVG membership is required.
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