Are you driven to make a real difference for children and families? Circle is seeking a dedicated Children’s Resilience Worker to deliver one-to-one, peer, and group support for, substance use, domestic abuse, and complex mental health challenges.

In this vital role, you’ll help children build resilience, strengthen family relationships, and empower children, young people and families to make lasting positive change.

We’re looking for a qualified professional in social work, social care, education, or health, with proven experience supporting families through trauma. Excellent communication, teamwork, and planning skills are essential, along with a genuine commitment to equality and inclusion. At Circle, we believe diverse experiences make us stronger—so even if you don’t meet every requirement, we’d love to hear from you.

Are you an enthusiastic and inspiring individual who would be excited to deliver our employability programme?

Are you looking for a role where you make a real difference to people’s lives?

Would you like to support individuals to engage in programmes to reach their full potential?

If so, this may be the perfect opportunity for you!

About the service

Cyrenians values food beyond its role as fuel, it also sustains our mental and emotional health and plays a central role in nurturing connection within communities. This is the basis of our FareShare social enterprise. Our FareShare Central and South-East Scotland depot provides opportunities for people and organisations to access food, improve their health and wellbeing, and to develop skills and confidence.

About the post

Our Employability Programme supports people to gain the required skills and experience to move towards employment, further education, training or volunteering. You will work as part of the wider FareShare Depot team to support individuals to engage in our employability programme and reach their full potential. Your main duties will involve:

• Delivering employability workshops to a wide range of participants

• Working 1-2-1 with participants to achieve successful outcomes

• Engage with organisations to promote our Employability programme and secure job opportunities for clients

• Continually monitor and evaluate the employability programme

About you

You will be a values-led individual who engages well with people and demonstrates enthusiasm and commitment. You should also be:

• Great at building relationships with partner organisations

• Excellent at planning and managing your own workload

How we’ll support you

We’ll empower you to work independently, with a supportive manager, and our experienced depot operations team. We will encourage you to use your initiative to deliver the programme, innovate new activities and learn on the job.

You will have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme and staff wellbeing services.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a Public Health Approach to Homelessness Prevention. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering all our services.

Read more about our impact and our values

Wellbeing Scotland supports individuals to heal from trauma caused by child abuse through a support pathway derived from Judith Herman’s 3-stage trauma recovery model. Groups are an essential aspect of this journey and, due to career progression, we are looking for a highly skilled group facilitator to continue the development our group offer.

You will be responsible for the design of group interventions that support individuals who have experienced trauma because of child abuse, delivering these in a positive, supportive and compassionate learning environment. A key tenet of the role is to manage a participant caseload from referral to completion of group activity, including initial assessment, building rapport, setting boundaries and carrying out regular progress reviews.

Capable of gathering quantitative and qualitative data, you will effectively monitor, analyse and evaluate the impact of groupwork, utilising a range of evaluation and feedback mechanisms to capture and participant views.

As a member of our clinical services team, you will deliver of a high-quality service and collaborate effectively to contribute to the ongoing development, evaluation and improvement of Wellbeing Scotland.

Requirements

The Group Facilitator should have relevant qualifications and/or experience in trauma informed practice (e.g. counselling, psychology, social work, education, health, youth work, support work) alongside experience of contributing to service design projects, partnership working and developing new materials in line with the needs of individuals impacted by child abuse.

Desirable Skills - The post holder would benefit from a good understanding of issues and themes that impact individuals who have experienced trauma caused by child abuse.

Workers should possess well developed administration skills, knowledge of IT systems, be highly organised, a strong communicator and able to work autonomously whilst contributing with in a team environment.

Reporting to: Clinical and Development Lead

Find out more about Wellbeing Scotland

About Us

College Development Network (CDN) is the national enhancement agency for Scotland’s college sector. We work in partnership with Scotland’s colleges to develop their people, strengthen skills across the sector, champion collaboration through networks and curriculum groups, and shine a spotlight on the outstanding impact of colleges.

Everything we do is about celebrating and supporting the great work happening across Scotland’s colleges — helping the sector to share knowledge, build capability, and continually improve.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a highly motivated Delivery and Engagement Partner to join our passionate team working behind the scenes to support Scotland’s college sector. As part of CDN’s Delivery and Engagement Team, you will bring your skills, experience, and energy to a dynamic environment where collaboration, innovation, and impact are at the heart of everything we do. You’ll be part of an inclusive, forward-thinking organisation committed to sparking ideas, encouraging collaboration and sharpening skills across the sector.

Reporting to the Head of Delivery and Engagement, you will work closely with colleagues across CDN, in addition to a wide range of partners and stakeholders across the tertiary sector, to deliver CDN’s Strategic Plan and Scottish Funding Council (SFC) Agreement Framework. You will lead on impactful projects that drive enhancement and positive change across the college sector. Your proven skills in project management and collaboration will bring people together to deliver results and support quality enhancement.

As a CDN Delivery and Engagement Partner, you will be committed to creating safe, supportive, and empowering learning environments. You will design and deliver engaging programmes, workshops, and resources that inspire others and align with strategic priorities. Key skills:

• Expert facilitation skills and the ability to bring professionals and leaders together to solve wicked problems
• Skilled in developing and delivering engaging programmes, workshops and resources.
• Solutions-focussed and a strong commitment to further and higher education
• An appreciation of how trauma-informed practice can build positive outcomes within an education setting is desirable but not essential.