- Advertised from 6th March 2023
- Fixed term until January 2025
- Reference number: CFS23/17
Role
We are recruiting a Financial Wellbeing Advisor who will become part of the Our Families Team based within Musselburgh East Community Centre. This role involves supporting families seeking Money and Debt Advice.
We work alongside families in their homes and communities to support them in dealing with the financial hardship they face.
We link with families through our national offer of support which links with families through Parentline and local partners.
We are looking for someone who shares our core values (see website) has good engagement skills, who can build meaningful relationships with families and people, with experience of money and debt advice, welfare rights and income maximisation.
Application notes
Closing date: 24/03/2023 12:00
Interview date: It is anticipated that interviews will take place on 3rd April 2023.
To find out more about the role and to apply, please visit our website.
Fundraising and Communications Officer
- Full time or Part time
- £26,966 – £29,518
- Glasgow office base, with option to work from home
- Closing 18th June 2023
We’re looking for an enthusiastic fundraising and communications professional to join our team. If you’re proactive, creative, and able to inspire and build positive relationships we’d love to hear from you.
Scottish Cot Death Trust is Scotland’s only charity dedicated to the issue of the sudden and unexpected death of babies and young children. Our key strands of work include support for families, a diverse training programme for professionals across a range of sectors, and research into sudden infant death.
To support our work we are looking for a Fundraising and Communications Officer with a strong track record in income generation and effective communications. Ideally, we’re looking for someone with experience of community fundraising, corporate fundraising such as ‘charity of the year’ partnerships, and digital appeals. However, we’re open to applications from anyone with different experience but with the transferrable skills, energy and attitude to be an exceptional fundraising and communications colleague.
We’re open to applications on a job share basis for either of the distinct parts of the role, with the fundraising element at 21 hours/wk and the communications (including digital appeals) at 14 hours/wk. If you’d like to find out more, or for an informal chat about the role, please contact Lynsey Kidd at lynseykidd@scottishcotdeathtrust.org
Bereavement Support Manager
- Part time
- £31,083 – £34,024 pro-rata
- Glasgow office base, with option to work from home
- Closing 11th June 2023
Scottish Cot Death Trust is Scotland’s only charity dedicated to the issue of the sudden and unexpected death of babies and young children. A key part of our work is providing a range of support for families and we’re looking for an experienced and compassionate Bereavement Support Manager to join our team. This is a new role and will be central to our commitment to working with and supporting families.
Our Bereavement Support Manager will oversee our bereavement services, directly support families, and further develop provision, including volunteering programmes. This is an exciting time to join Scottish Cot Death Trust and a unique opportunity to deliver and influence the development of services. If you have experience of working with bereaved parents and families, and are passionate about high quality bereavement care and support, we’re keen to hear from you.
If you’d like to find out more, or for an informal chat about the role, please contact Lynsey Kidd at lynseykidd@scottishcotdeathtrust.org
Top job! Scotland Lead
- Full time or Part time
- £32,779 – £35,945
- Home-based / Central Belt Hybrid
- Closing 15th June 2023
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.
Peer Support Worker - Midlothian Family Wellbeing Hub
- Full time or Part time
- £20,126 – £21,677
- Midlothian
- Closing 16th June 2023
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Children 1st team in Midlothian as a peer support worker. You will provide support to parents impacted by substance use and poor mental health and their families. You will be skilled in “getting alongside” parents with a compassionate approach, using your own lived experience of substance use, poverty and poor mental health amongst other factors, to form trusting relationships, facilitating lasting, meaningful change.
The role will be varied, including 1:1 and group based supports which will see you supporting parents to engage in mutual aid meetings, attend health and wellbeing appointments, be more connected in recovery communities and feel more confident. You will support parents in their understanding of how substance use has impacted on both themselves and their family, and working with colleagues help families to strengthen their relationships with each other.
If you have compassion, are skilled at forming trusting relationships, dedication to making a meaningful difference, are non judgemental and can evidence stability in your lived experience, we would be interested in hearing from you. You will be expected to have an understanding / experience of recovery orientated support and an awareness of the supports available in the Midlothian community.
What kind of person will make a great peer worker for Children 1st?
- is fiercely passionate about supporting parents and their families through recovery
- thinks it’s a privilege to work with and on behalf of parents, children and their families
- is kind and will bring their whole selves to the job: heart and mind
- is committed to being part of a wider team to promote meaningful change for families.
- is flexible and creative in their approach
Further Information
This is a full time position however we are open to accepting applications from people who are interested in working a minimum of 14 hours, up to 35 hours.
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