Are you a highly organised individual who enjoys working as part of a high energy team? Do you understand the benefits of play and early intervention in a child’s development and wellbeing and want to coordinate and evaluate the delivery of a programme to support this? Do you have experience as a line manager of a small yet complex team? Then this may be the job for you.

As a lead member of the PlayTalkRead office team you will be responsible for the day-to-day delivery and operations of the PlayTalkRead Roadshow, including partnership working, scheduling locations, logistics and staff rotas plus evaluation and marketing of the service we provide.

This office based role is vital in supporting our playworker team who travel across all of Scotland’s 32 local authorities on our fleet of bespoke vehicles to inspire and support parents and carers to interact with their babies and little ones through fun, simple and inexpensive activities. You will delegate tasks and responsibilities to our wider office team to utilise individual skills and interests to ensure our Play Worker team have the information they need to deliver sessions across Scotland.

For full details please read the attached job description.

We appreciate that the best person might not have all the criteria we have listed, so if you feel your experience and skills will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mind-set, we would welcome an application from you.

Candidates must be over 25 years old, have held a Category B UK driving licence for a minimum of 2 years and have their own car.

Circle is a children and families charity working at the heart of communities across central Scotland. Our purpose is to improve the lives of children by strengthening families.

Circle’s approach builds on strengths, is solution focussed and uses a whole family approach to create a family environment that promotes healthy development in children.

We have an exciting opportunity for a committed and enthusiastic individual to join our Harbour team and be part of creating a new service for parents, children and young people affected by parental substance use in Edinburgh.

Funded by Scottish Government, and administered by Corra Foundation, our project aims to develop family inclusive practice and involve family members in the development of group opportunities for parents and families within the recovery community.

The post holder will work alongside family members to ensure that their views and experiences inform not only their support, but wider family inclusive practice.

Applicants should have relevant lived experience.

Expected to be funded until 31 March 2027

We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary, generous pension contribution, flexible working, an employee assistance programme and generous annual leave.

We are committed to finding the right people for the jobs that we advertise.

Circle is a children and families charity working at the heart of communities across central Scotland. Our purpose is to improve the lives of children by strengthening families.

Circle’s approach builds on strengths, is solution focussed and uses a whole family approach to create a family environment that promotes healthy development in children.

We have an exciting opportunity for a committed and enthusiastic individual to join our Harbour team and be part of creating a new service for parents, children and young people affected by parental substance use in Edinburgh.

Funded by Scottish Government, and administered by Corra Foundation, our project aims to develop family inclusive practice and involve family members in the development of group opportunities for parents and families within the recovery community.

The post holder will work alongside family members to ensure that their views and experiences inform not only their support, but wider family inclusive practice.

Applicants should possess a qualification in social work, social care, health or education.

Expected to be funded until 31 March 2027

We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary, generous pension contribution, flexible working, an employee assistance programme and generous annual leave.

We are committed to finding the right people for the jobs that we advertise.

We are seeking to recruit a dynamic and committed Residential Team Manager to our Caern Services.

Barnardo's Caern Disability Services consists of three unique Projects who deliver a variety of quality services for young people with learning disabilities and/or autism. We have done this for over forty years.

The staff team across Caern Services must be fully accepting of our children and be prepared to offer them a professional relationship based on love and acceptance and informed of our understanding of their individual needs , wishes and experiences. We are passionate about the children and young people that we care for, showing understanding, empathy and consistency in our approach.

At the Caern community Project we support up to 50 children and young people across the Lothians aged 7-18 by offering outreach, groups, youth clubs and training sessions for children and their families

Our Pentland Way Project is a residential service providing support to three older young people. Using a person-centred approach, we aspire to create an environment in which the young people are happy, nurtured and safe. We aim to enhance their lives by supporting them to develop independence in both the domestic environment and the community.

The Caern Residential Project provides support for up to 6 children and young people at any one time aged 5-18 by offering and short break packages to them and their families. All staff play an active role in supporting the children, young people and their families/carers to achieve positive outcomes, as identified in the Young People's Individual Support Plans.

You will work 37 hours per week and participate in the on-call rota across the services for which there is an allowance. Although this is initially for an 8 month period there is potential for this to become a permanent post.

The team manager will be responsible for overseeing the day to day running of the house, providing robust management and leadership to the staff team, delivering timely monthly supervision, supporting and monitoring the quality of work and ensuring that staff are working to high levels of performance within the best interests of the children in our care. You will understand budgets, chair and attend external meetings and will be accountable to the Children's Services Manager who is also the registered manager.

About You

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced individual who can work on their own initiative and is proactive. Direct experience of managing a team and knowledge and skills around supporting children and young people with a learning disability and /or Autism would be an advantage. Safeguarding must be at the heart of your practice.

You will hold (or be willing to work towards) qualifications for registration with the SSSC as a Residential Child Care Worker or manager.

At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate.

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.