To recruit and coordinate Community Champion volunteers to promote community resilience by developing services identified during the recent pandemic that helps relieve isolation and help improve local health and wellbeing.

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.

Organisation profile

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

“Staff try to support you as much as possible to help you maintain a positive image for the future” Young Person

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?

“Our purpose is to provide a positive, life-changing experience for young people through individual care, education and skills development”.

This is an exciting time to join the team at The Good Shepherd Centre (GSC) as we seek to build on its strong reputation for relational based practice and helping young people to build hope, skills and plans for their future. At GSC we have embarked on a journey with new strategic goals which are ambitious for our young people and the ways we want to change and develop our services.

GSC offers secure care, close support & semi-independent living services; education service and health and wellbeing support for vulnerable children, young people & young adults 12 to 17 years of age.

GSC offers children, young people, and young adults a safe, nurturing, and caring environment set in fabulous grounds with a garden wildlife trail and outdoor sports facility.

An opportunity has arisen to join our Education team as a Classroom Assistant on a full-time, term-time, permanent basis. The role is based at our GSC secure campus outside of Bishopton.

The Classroom Assistant will promote effective learning & teaching in all classes under the direction and supervision of the Principal & Class Teachers. You will uphold and promote the ethos and values of the Centre.

We are seeking to appoint a caring, child-centred, hard-working, and resilient individual with a motivation to be a positive role model and make a difference in the lives of vulnerable young people. Whether you have experience working in social care or education, or are looking for a change in career, we would love to hear from you.

Through ensuring that the work is in keeping with legislative, procedural, and good practice requirements and guidance, the overall focus of the role is to build trusting relationships with young people within a nurturing, stimulating and safe environment. You will work as part of a team to support young people to meet their needs, achieve their goals and build hope for their future.

There is also a requirement to register with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) under the ‘Residential Child Care Workers’ category within the first six months of employment. This is a legal requirement within the Care sector for individuals to be registered under the correct category within the six-month timescale of the commencement of employment.

Relevant qualifications are not essential to start, however there is a requirement set by the SSSC to gain the relevant qualification/s within 5 years.

If you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills; are adaptable, reliable, then working as part of our dedicated and experienced education team may be a good move for you.

If you are looking for a new and exciting role in the third sector and would welcome the opportunity to help young people achieve their potential, then working as part of our dedicated and experienced team may be a good move for you.

The Urban Fox Programme works with young people and families to deliver a range of youth engagement, peer mentoring, volunteering and certificated learning as well as supporting community events within 6 communities covering the North East and South Sectors of Glasgow.

In addition to this, The Urban Fox Programme is the lead partner responsible for employing a Capacity Building and Engagement Offer and holding associated funds. This is on behalf of the Voluntary Sector North East Glasgow (VSNEG) network.

We currently have this exciting opportunity

Programme Co-ordinator

• To provide a varied youth-led programme of activities and learning & development opportunities for young people.

• Manage and support staff and volunteer within the Programme.

• Oversee and develop the Programme’s Youth Volunteering Programme