The post holder will manage a caseload of clients, ensuring that safe, appropriate and trauma informed support is provided from 3rd trimester of pregnancy until approximately three weeks after the baby is born. This role combines coordinating teams of volunteer companions and providing support directly to our clients.

Clients will often be assigned a small team of companion volunteers according to their individual needs and preferences. The Perinatal Team Leader will lead each team, ensuring continuous support is provided throughout the perinatal period. Support should be person-centred depending on individual needs. Support is offered in clients’ homes, at hospital or other appointments, and during birth.

Support may include:

• Emotional & practical support
• Advocacy
• Providing information about birth choices, rights and processes
• Birth preparation
• Postnatal support

The post holder will:

• Provide support, supervision, guidance and shadowing opportunities to volunteers
• Provide support directly to clients to ensure a continuous service is provide
• Be the primary companion when specialist support is needed for clients facing particularly complex or difficult situations
• Keep thorough records using our client database and ensuring volunteers do the same
• Track work progress using Microsoft Excel
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with partner agencies, making onward referrals to ensure clients’ needs are met by the most appropriate agency
• Ensure the service adheres to adult safeguarding and child protection procedures and manage any associated risks
• Engage in regular case file reviews with members of the staff team
• Work with the Volunteer Manager to deal with any disciplinary and practice issues that arise
• Create and deliver volunteer training
• Deliver birth preparation sessions either one-to-one, with partners, or with groups

Note: We are recruiting three people to these roles, one of whom will have a focus on working with young people. This is a new area of development and may entail a higher proportion of group work and birth preparation.

Hours and On Call Requirement

As births can happen at any time of the day or night, Amma operates an on-call system to ensure that support is provided 24/7. Perinatal Team Leaders will receive a full-time salary (equivalent to 35 hours per week) and will work a 30-hour standard week. In addition to this, they will be on call one week in every four. The on-call period entails:

• Being a back-up to attend births and emergency appointments
• Answering the emergency phone in the evening and at the weekend
• Addressing any urgent issues arising
• Monitoring Whatsapp groups involving volunteer companions who are on call for a birth

When attending births, hours of work may be long. Time will be given for rest and recuperation afterwards.

Weekly hours can be flexible but team members must be available to attend staff meetings, including on-call and handover meetings.

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Amma believes in fairness, equity, diversity and inclusion. We recognise the importance of an inclusive and diverse workforce and we strive to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to everyone.

We welcome and actively encourage applications from people with a diverse range of experiences, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We also welcome and encourage applications from people with lived experience of our client group.

This role will be subject to references and a Protection of Vulnerable Groups check.

This new post will coordinate and further develop the Amma Family programme. This peer support programme currently consists of several activities each week including parent and baby groups, yoga, garden activities, and workshops.

The programme takes a person-centred approach and is developed in line with the needs, wants, knowledge and skills of the participants. All peer support and learning activities relate to our organisational aims of reducing isolation, building confidence, and empowering people with information about pregnancy, birth, and parenting.

Main duties:

• Work with the Head of Services to run the Amma Family Programme
• Work with the Volunteer Manager to recruit and train peer support volunteers and a placement student
• Create a monthly rota for Amma Family volunteers
• Manage an active WhatsApp group which enables information sharing and connection between parents
• Work with senior management to tailor the Amma Family Programme to the needs of new client groups
• Support and encourage new clients to engage with activities, finding ways to overcome barriers
• Host groups, ensuring clients feel engaged and included
• Sensitively deal with issues arising within groups
• Collaborate with others to run a series of social events and workshops for service users throughout the year
• Undertake administration for the groups including organising catering, expenses, travel as well as room preparation and tidy up

Other duties include:

• Keeping thorough records of attendance and participation using our client database
• Risk assessing activities and ensuring safe working
• Monitoring and evaluating activities
• Responding to safeguarding concerns in line with Amma’s policies and procedures
• Working with the Head of Services to signpost and refer participants to support with any needs arising.

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Amma believes in fairness, equity, diversity and inclusion. We recognise the importance of an inclusive and diverse workforce and we strive to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to everyone.

We welcome and actively encourage applications from people with a diverse range of experiences, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We also welcome and encourage applications from people with lived experience of our client group.

This role will be subject to references and a Protection of Vulnerable Groups check.

Migrant Voice is looking for Project Coordinator (4 days per week) to set up and run our new exciting project in Glasgow from June.

The ‘Putting Ourselves in the Picture’ project will empower migrants to tell their stories, filling their missing place in Scottish heritage and promote integration through art, history and culture. This will ensure that migrants’ heritage (as part of Scotland’s heritage) is recognised, documented and shared with the rest of the community and for future generations.

The project builds on MV's planned 2023 exhibition at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. The exhibition will feature photographic portraits and accompanying text of migrants telling the stories of their lives in Scotland.

The Project Coordinator will develop the ‘Putting Ourselves in the Picture’ project for Migrant Voice. The project will run meetings, discussions and training sessions to empower migrants to use creative tools to tell their stories. In coordination with Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum the project Coordinator will be responsible for organising training, exhibitions and related events and for engaging Migrant Voice’s network members and new community members in the activities.

Summary of project activities

The Project Coordinator will:

• Set up and run the ‘Putting Ourselves in the Picture’ project and coordinate the day-to-day running of the project according to the project plan, including delivery of targets and milestones.

• Recruit participants for the project from migrant communities in Glasgow and engage existing Glasgow network members.

• Facilitate the appointment of external providers, including trainers and evaluators, and coordinate their activity within the project plan.

• Coordinate and facilitate the delivery of training workshops and mentoring sessions.

• Liaise with project partners, including Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, on exhibitions and related activities.

Also see the full job description attached.

Caledonia Funeral Aid CIC is a social enterprise and part of the anti-poverty charity Community Renewal Trust. Our vision is for a Scotland where everyone can afford a dignified funeral, personal to their needs. Currently we know thousands of bereaved Scottish families fall into deep funeral poverty which adds to their trauma and suffering at the worst possible time.

Part of our work is to act as a funeral directors, offering simple dignified caring direct cremations with high-quality service and an affordable price. This is done primarily as a telephone service and involves us collaborating with partner funeral directors and crematoria.

Caledonia Funeral Aid CIC also provides advice on funeral practicalities, funerals costs and the emotional toll of a funeral through a support helpline, online resources and community events for people who have recently experienced bereavement. Increasingly we are also seeking to provide community workshops, events and meetings for people who may in future face funeral poverty to seek to reduce this. We are hoping that these aspects of our work can increasingly be delivered through volunteers but we are aware that these volunteers need careful recruitment, training and support.

This is expected to be one of a small number of posts each sharing the delivery of all aspects of Caledonia Funeral Aid CIC and Caledonia Cremation. We do not require you to bring complete knowledge about funerals and funeral poverty but rather to draw on our existing knowledge, be both thorough and caring, and quickly build connections/expertise.

Our mission is ending funeral poverty. The key aspect of this role is to provide advice through our telephone helpline, through online resources, through social media and through other enquiries. This advice will be about funeral practicalities, funeral costs and the emotional toll of funerals. Signposting people to claim funeral benefits/grants is one part of this, but a larger part is compassionate listening. We increasingly also wish to use community events/workshops help prevent funeral poverty occurring.

Another key aspect of the role is providing funeral director services in which you will make arrangements with the family/friends of a deceased person to conduct a direct cremation funeral. You will then be involved in sub-contracting with partners to fulfil different aspects of this including the recovery, care for, storage and transport of the deceased person. Please note that we are not a traditional funeral director, indeed most of your role will be conducted working at home. However, you may have some limited involvement in recovery, care for, storage and transport, mostly to understand the process – you will never be involved in this routinely. You will be on a rota to respond to occasional out-of-hours urgent calls (sometimes overnight) from people with an emergency situation.

In this role of funeral arranging, you will need to use email, post and telephone to: listen to people’s needs, provide holistic support, take payments, arrange a formal contract and record evidence of decisions/authorisation in our secure online Management Information System. Communicating clearly, compassionately and punctually between all parties involved in the funeral at all times is absolutely vital.