Jobs in Sighthill & Gorgie, Edinburgh

The Youth Agency are looking for youth workers with experience of working/volunteering with young people in youth club/drop in settings or detached work.

We would also be interested to hear from people with experience in related fields who would like to develop youth work skills.

Applicants should possess the following qualities:

• Ability to think on your feet, act quickly and respond to situations
• Common sense and initiative
• Observant and thorough with excellent attention to detail
• Non-judgemental, competent, conscientious and self-aware

Successful candidates will have access to a non-contributory pension scheme, full annual leave/public holiday entitlements and comprehensive training opportunities.

We are currently seeking to enhance our Board of Directors through the recruitment of suitable volunteers. A commitment to young people and youth work is essential and experience in GDPR, management of voluntary organisations or strategic development would be advantageous.

The Board of Directors meet bimonthly at our main office in Dumbryden Drive. Meetings are in the evening but the dates of meetings are agreed by Board Members. There is no remuneration for Board Members, however, all reasonable expenses are reimbursed.

This role is subject to PVG Membership.

A Directors role and Privacy Notice can be found here: youthagency.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Directors-Role-Privacy-Notice-2025.doc

Purpose of the role

The Administrator supports the smooth day-to-day running of The Welcoming Association and is often the first point of contact for service users, volunteers, and visitors. The role helps create a welcoming, safe, and respectful environment, provides essential administrative and HR support to staff, and ensures that records, information, and office systems are accurate, secure, and well-maintained.

The Administrator plays a key role in supporting service delivery, organisational efficiency, safeguarding, and the overall positive experience of people engaging with The Welcoming Association.

Additional information

Please note that you must already be eligible to work in the UK to be employed by The Welcoming Association.

The post holder will work from The Welcoming’s office on 20/1 Westfield Avenue, Edinburgh, EH11 2TT.

Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of The Welcoming. We welcome applications from BAME people, applicants with lived experience as refugees, or working with refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable adults.

We’re looking for a General Manager for the Four Square Park Café in Saughton Park.

The café is very special. In the middle of Saughton Park, the Four Square Park café occupies a beautiful setting amongst formal gardens. With a diverse range of visitors using the play park, sports facilities, skate park and bandstand, it provides comfort food and drinks from local suppliers, using local ingredients where possible. It employs local young people in the summer and is a place for community groups, friends and visitors to gather. Dog friendly, child friendly, accessible and with welcoming staff, it has become a much-loved community asset.

The role is about providing consistently good service to the people who have always used the café and about bringing more people in to enjoy it. As with all park cafes, weather has a big influence on our sales so the role is equally about driving business on the wet and wintry days and maximising business during the summer.

You’ll report to our experienced Director of Social Enterprise who will coach and support you to succeed in the role. You’ll manage an assistant manager, and a chef and your team will also include permanent café assistants and seasonal staff for the busier months. You’ll have dedicated time off the rota to enable you to manage and promote the café. And in your first year you’ll have leadership training and coaching to help you do well in your role.

Four Square is an Edinburgh based charity which is ambitious for people facing homelessness. We operate accommodation, support and mentoring services for people homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and we have a social enterprise furniture store and café to provide income to support this work. We operate across 7 sites in Edinburgh and employ over 100 staff and manage a huge range of suppliers. Our finances cover income from our social enterprises; grant income; gift aid; housing benefit; and donations.

We’re looking to appoint a skilled Finance Co-ordinator to work in our finance team at Four Square. Led by Chief Finance Officer, Heather Hartman, the role is part of a three-person team which covers all aspects of finance and financial reporting across the organisation. It’s a varied role which will include responsibility for the purchase and expenses ledgers, procurement of goods and services, including managing contracts to ensure good value and compliant operations.

Because of the size of the team and the range of areas we cover, this role is dynamic. You’ll not be in a box where you only do one thing, you’ll be able to see across the organisation, work with skilled colleagues and learn new skills.

If this resonates with you as you are looking to progress your career, please get in touch.

Do you have a passion for helping young people make positive changes to their lives?

Do you have the skills to design and deliver a programme of fun and engaging food led group sessions to help people learn life skills?

If so, this role could be for you!

We’re seeking a creative and passionate person to join our Community Learning & Development team at Space to lead on our Changemakers project.

Changemakers is an exciting new food education project working with young people aged 16-24 who have barriers to employment and may have complex needs.

The Food & Life Skills Project Worker will support groups of up to 12 young people to build self-esteem and increase their independence via a programme of well-designed group-based sessions that use food education to teach life skills such as budgeting, cooking, nutrition, handling finances, numeracy, literacy and communication.

The Changemakers sessions will run on Wednesday afternoons 12.30-3pm from The Broomhouse Hub.

We currently have funding for the project to run from April – October 2026. During this period you would run two x 10 week programmes with time for recruitment and promotion before each programme.

Ideally all working hours will be competed on a Wednesday, however there is a degree of flexibility around working hours out with the times the sessions are to be delivered.

Key tasks in the job:

• Design and deliver a series of 10 group-based sessions that support people to develop confidence and life skills using food education as a driver
• Create detailed session plans for each session outlining activities, equipment, ingredients and timing
• Promote the Changemakers programme across networks and partner organisations such as local schools, colleges, community groups and other voluntary organisations to recruit cohorts of suitable candidates
• Conduct initial meetings with potential learners to assess their suitability for the project and their motivations and aims
• Carry out risk assessments and create a safe but nurturing environment for learners to thrive
• Complete all administration tasks relating to the project including collating learner registration information, updating database with detailed progress reports, recording attendance, collating data for funder reporting
• Provide 1:1 support to learners to review individual progress and address any barriers
• Engage with external partners/suppliers/trainers to provide relevant accredited training courses or specialist topics
• Recruit, train and support volunteers for the programme
• Manage the project budget

The full job description and person specification for the role is attached.

About Space

Space is a community anchor organisation supporting people and their families in South West Edinburgh, with some of our services stretching city wide.

WE BELIEVE THAT CONNECTIONS BUILD COMMUNITIES

Space delivers 22 projects, with 60+ staff and 100 volunteers. We deliver diverse services supporting young people, families, older people and carers amongst others.

For more information about Space and all our projects can be found on our website – spacescot.org

We are looking to appoint a project worker to join our team supporting children, young people and families in South East Scotland. We have key themes of provision across the locality such as Intensive Family Support, Early Intervention (Whole Family Support), Education Support, Family Support for those Affected by Imprisonment, CSE Awareness Raising and Support, Neurodiversity Support. The post holder could be asked to undertake work in any of the delivery areas detailed above depending on need across the locality but the role will focus on work within our service at HMP Edinburgh Visitor Centre

At HMP Edinburgh Visitor Centre we offer practical and emotional support to all family members and visitors and to those who do not go into prison to visit their loved one. We aim to promote a positive visiting experience for anyone visiting a resident in HMP Edinburgh, to provide or signpost to independent and impartical advice, information and support which meets their needs and to voice the needs of families affected by imprisonment.

We aim to provide a safe, relaxing and non-judgemental environment where anyone who has a friend or relatrive in prison can prepare for visiting, get information about prison processes, access a range of individual supports and get help to access other specialist agencies who can support their unique personal circumstances.

The post holder will play a key role in all of these tasks and is likely to have a good understanding of the impact of imprisonment on friends and family, experience of multi agency partnership working and experience using trauma informed approaches to support service users.

The post is for 15 hours per week and the post holder will be part of a rota that includes evenings and weekends

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave optionsService related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Our basis and values

Ark is a major provider of Housing, Care and Support to people with long term and enduring conditions such as learning disabilities, mental health issues, dementia and autism.

Ark supports people to live independently in their own homes providing everything from a few hours a week social and life admin support to 24/7 care supporting with personal care, medication, household tasks, attending appointments and leisure activities.

We have lots of opportunities across Scotland for our Support Worker roles. As we provide full training no previous is experience is required.

If you are enthusiastic about supporting people to live their best lives, then apply now to join our team!

Your main duties will include but not be limited to:

• Working with colleagues as part of an effective and efficient team to support vulnerable people.
• Communicate and work well with our supported people to provide individual care and maintain appropriate relationships.
• Being responsible in supporting individuals throughout the activities, giving positive feedback and encouragement.
• Updating and maintaining accurate records using a tablet on Arks Information Management system.

Previous experience of the following is an advantage but not essential as Ark will provide full training: Care Worker, Social worker, Home Carer, Case Worker, Care Assistant, Autism Support Worker, Personal Care Assistant , Social Care Worker.

View our job outline, find out what you working week could look like and hear from our current Support Workers on Arks website arkha.org.uk/work-with-us

Why Ark?

• No Previous Experience Required - Ark provide full training so no previous experience is required making our Support Worker roles the perfect place to start your career in Adult Social Care.
• Get a qualification while you work - Ark fully fund your SVQ2 in Health & Social Care which you complete with the support of our in house SVQ team.
• Employee Discounts - Employee Discounts Portal with 1000s of discounts on your favourite brands including Supermarkets, Cinema Tickets, Gym Membership and Holidays.
• Career Progression -Over 75% of all Managers within Care & Support have been promoted internally.
• Employee Assistance Program - Arks Employee Assistance program (EAP) gives all employees access to counselling sessions. There is also support available through weekly webinars and the EAP Website & App.
• Contracted hours to suit you-We have Full-time, Part-time and Relief Support Worker roles available at our services throughout Scotland.

In return for your valuable contribution, Ark will also offer you:

• Up to 36 days paid holiday per year pro rata
• 4% Contributory pension scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Fully funded PVG & 1st year SSSC registration paid by Ark

Our employees told us in a recent survey that they stay with Ark because they believe in our values, we have supportive managers who continually appreciate their staff and they love making a positive difference in our supported peoples lives, helping them to achieve their dreams.

Ark would love to hear from you whether you are an experienced Support Worker or new to Social Care.