This is an exciting opportunity to join one of Scotland's most successful fundraising teams.

You will be at the heart of some of the Charity’s core fundraising activities, and will gain experience working in:

• Education and youth;
• Running and active events;
• Third party events;
• Community collections;
• Supporter journeys and fundraising engagement.

Our ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic team player who will relish the opportunity to make our supporters feel special.

Apply today to make a difference to the lives of our young patients, their families and the NHS heroes who care for them.

This is an exciting opportunity to carry out an important role within an innovative partnership between Children 1st and East Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership.

The East Renfrewshire Family Wellbeing Service offers support to help improve the emotional wellbeing of children and young people aged 8-18, and their families.

We are currently looking for a new colleague to join the team. In the Project Worker role you will connect with children and their families who are looking for help and support; offering them space and time to begin to share their story and thinking with them about what they might need to help things feel better.

We offer a range of different supports for children and families, including individual and family support; facilitated and peer led group supports and befriending relationships. This is an exciting yet demanding role which will require you to get alongside children and their families where, when and how best suits them. We want to be able to offer children and families the right support at the right time.

What kind of people are we looking for?

• Experience of keeping children safe in their own families
• Extensive experience of working alongside and together with children and families impacted by trauma and adversity, with a lens on the promotion of long-term recovery
• Experience of providing support to children and families, with confidence, in a trauma sensitive and systemic way
• Experience and understanding of relational and restorative approaches to practice
• Curious, responsive, flexible and courageous in your relationships with children and families, and colleagues in other services
• Fiercely passionate about Children’s Human Rights
• Shares our belief that it’s a privilege to get alongside children and families to help life feel better for them
• Confident and competent communicators who can work autonomously in a fast paced, demanding role

What kind of Children 1st team member will you be?

Knowing our ambition for children, you will be someone who is:

• Resilient, skilled and knowledgeable, who wants to transform children’s lives
• Determined to support children to stay safely with their own family
• Big hearted and courageous
• Able to build strong relationships and to manage difficult conversations
• Calm and clear minded during times of challenge or distress
• Kind and compassionate

If you have a professional qualification in a relevant area such as Social Work, Teaching or equivalent in Child Care/Social Care or related area, accredited counselling qualification, or other relevant qualification at SCQF level 9 or higher then we want to hear from you. In particular, we are seeking to further enhance our diversity from the perspective of ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender and disability.

Base

You will be based in our Giffnock office, with some flexibility to work at home when this suits the needs of families and/or the service.

Salary, Conditions, Pension

We will offer you a competitive salary, generous annual leave entitlement (40 days inclusive of 9 public holidays, pro rata), flexible working opportunities and a contributory pension scheme.

Hours

This is a fixed term, full time post of 35 hours per week to cover a period of maternity leave until 31 January 2024. Hours to be worked flexibly across the week to meet the needs of families and the service. However, Wednesdays are our ‘core day’ when essential service activities take place such as team meetings.

About Aberlour, Dumfries & Galloway

Aberlour delivers a number of services supporting children, young people and their families across the Dumfries and Galloway area.

• We help parents and children who are struggling to cope. The families we work with may be affected by a range of issues, which could include drug and alcohol use in the family. We work with whole families as well as children on their own and will work with children from birth.
• We support families following the release of a family member who has been in prison, helping to ease the process of integrating back into the family home.
• We help children and young people (aged 11-18) who need extra help with education. We support children with challenging behaviour and give young people a trusted person they can talk to, as well as someone who can support them with their learning.

What we are looking for....

We are looking for an experienced administrator to support the service with general and financial administrative tasks, for 16 hours per week, worked flexibly during office hours, fully office based.

• You will have excellent communication and organisational skills and be comfortable working with Microsoft Office packages.
• You will have a relevant professional qualification at SCQF level 7 or equivalent experience.

At Aberlour we want to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team.

What we offer...

As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.

Raising funds is essential to ensuring that we can help keep children safe, well and loved with their families.

Children 1st is looking for two new members of our Supporter Experience Team.

Due to internal career progression, we have two Supporter Care Officer vacancies.

Our Supporter Care Team help us deliver gold standard stewardship. Relationships start with donors and supporters from the minute they pick up the phone or respond to an email enquiry.

Alongside providing gold standard stewardship, the team supports the fundraising department by processing payments, reconciling income, ensuring data is accurate and up to date, and fulfilling supporter requests.

We need someone who is friendly, focused, organised, and has a keen eye for detail.

If you have customer service or operations experience or are looking to start a career in fundraising, and have a passion for supporting Scotland’s children - we want to hear from you.

This a permanent, full-time role of 35 hours per week. You will be based at our Edinburgh office at Whitehouse Loan.