The Front of House Café Coordinator will be responsible for the day-to-day coordination of the Recovery Café, ensuring a welcoming, safe and inclusive environment for all attendees.
The role will oversee all front of house operations, including coordinating volunteers, supporting community members, liaising with partner organisations, and ensuring the smooth delivery of café sessions. The postholder will play an important role in creating a positive recovery-focused environment where individuals feel welcomed, supported and connected to local services.
The successful candidate will be organised, approachable and passionate about building relationships, supporting volunteers and promoting community wellbeing.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Café Operations
Volunteer Support and Development
Community Engagement
Partnership and Team Working
Administration and Monitoring
Governance and Compliance
ESSENTIAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
Qualifications
Experience
Knowledge
Skills
DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
This is a brand new post, created through two-year funding from Macmillan Cancer Support. The Cancer CARE Worker will provide independent advocacy, decision-making support, and peer network development for people living with cancer and their unpaid carers across Fife.
CARE stands for Culture, Agency, Respect, and Equity. These four words describe what every person supported through this project should experience.
This is not a Carer Support Worker role. It sits at a higher level of autonomy and complexity, involving one-to-one clinical liaison, co-facilitation with NHS teams, professional training delivery, and leadership of a lived experience co-design process. It requires someone who can hold professional relationships with oncology teams in the morning and sit with a carer in crisis in the afternoon.
People living with cancer and their unpaid carers do not consistently experience meaningful involvement in treatment decisions. People report leaving appointments confused about what was decided. Clinicians report wanting to do better but lacking time and tools. People from culturally diverse communities, those supporting someone with dementia alongside cancer, and those facing poverty face the highest barriers.
Under the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016, carers have a legal right to be involved in decisions about the person they care for, to have their own needs assessed, and to receive support that allows them to participate fully. In practice, many carers do not experience these rights, and this project exists to close that gap.
This project will not replicate or compete with clinical services. It sits alongside them, filling the gap between what health services can offer and what people living with cancer and those who care for them actually need to feel confident and respected in their care.
A full driving licence and access to a reliable vehicle are essential for this role.
Fife Carers Centre is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We particularly encourage applications from people with lived experience of cancer, caring, or from communities that face barriers to accessing health and care services.
Fife Women’s Aid are looking for an additional full-time member of staff to increase the capacity of our existing MARAC team, working with women experiencing domestic abuse who are at high levels of risk.
If you want to help make a difference in the lives of women, children and young people with experience of domestic abuse, have direct experience of providing one to one person-centred support, an understanding of the causes and impacts of domestic abuse along with good interpersonal skills then you may be the person we are looking for. Applicants will have at least 2 years’ experience of working in a support or advocacy role. The MARAC team is a small supportive team with a wealth of experience to share with new workers. Training will also be provided for the successful candidates.
The successful applicant(s) will have at least SVQ Level III or equivalent level of qualification in social care or other relevant subject, or equivalent experience and willingness to work towards a qualification.
Please join us for an online session to find out more about FWA MARAC service. This will be at 6.30pm on Tuesday 11th August. Please confirm your attendance to info@fifewomensaid.org.uk and we will send you details of the zoom meeting. We hope to see you there.
Fife Women’s Aid is a feminist organisation and strives to be a supportive and empowering employer offering competitive terms and conditions.
Membership of Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme is a requirement for this post.
If you would like further information about the post, please contact Claire Rigby, Team Manager at claire.rigby@fifewomensaid.org.uk.
Reporting to the Senior Access Officer, the Access Officer will support on local authority statutory access functions across Fife. Working with colleagues to ensure that FCCT’s statutory duties in relation to the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 and service level agreement commitments are met in relation to outdoor access on all FCCT sites.
About you:
We are looking for a decisive and organised individual who has working knowledge/experience and understanding of the legislation regarding outdoor access. You will bring with you the following skills and experience:
About FCCT:
Fife Coast & Countryside Trust are an organisation driven by a passion for Fife and are committed to developing and delivering high quality, impact led projects for the benefit of people and nature. We believe that our people are our greatest asset and look to employ individuals who bring a positive, energetic, constructive, and committed attitude to the workplace.
Benefits:
You will enjoy a range of benefits at FCCT, including:
FRASAC are delighted to be recruiting for a highly motivated, energetic individual, with excellent communication and inter-personal skills to support the FRASAC Trauma Practitioners and Student Counsellor volunteers, who provide direct support services to survivors of rape and sexual trauma.
Relevant experience of supporting volunteers, or others, in either formal or informal settings is essential. Excellent organisational and IT skills, plus an ability to problem solve, prioritise tasks, meet deadlines and delegate effectively are also required.
Fife Law Centre supports individuals and families at a time of crisis – at risk of eviction, denied legitimate financial support, on the wrong side of bureaucratic decision making, or the victim of injustice and discrimination.
Our vision: legal rights of people in Fife are protected and represented through challenging inequality and injustice.
Our purpose: to provide an accessible, professional, legal service to defend the legal rights of those unable to otherwise access legal representation.
Are you highly organised, detail-orientated, with a professional, initiative-taking approach. We are looking for a business support officer to join our Firm to provide essential administrative support to our small team of solicitors and business manager. You will be someone who thrives on supporting others and wants to make a real impact in helping the residents of Fife. This is a dynamic and varied role where no two days are the same. You will be at the heart of our operations providing confidential, efficient, and effective business support to ensure we deliver a high-quality service across Fife.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package with opportunities for professional development in a supportive and collaborative work environment.
Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime
Who We Are
Victim Support Scotland (VSS) provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim and witness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free, confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs.
Our vision is that people affected by crime – victims, witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice in Scotland. We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference. Our mission at Victim Support Scotland is to ensure that those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them recover from their experiences. We aim to do this by adhering to our own organisational values: Organisational Values
Everything we do is driven by our dedication to supporting and empowering victims and witnesses, so they have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed. We are an effective organisation that makes a lasting difference to the people we support, and these values are reflected in the behaviours expected of all staff and volunteers.
VSS is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our service users and has a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG scheme checks in place to ensure this commitment is met.
What is the role?
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Support Coordinator (Armed Forces) on a fixed-term contract basis for 2 years, 30 hours per week. Working week will be between the following days and hours:
Monday - Friday between 8am - 8pm & Saturdays 10am - 4pm
Salary band: £27,598 - £36,445 (pro-rata). Salary on appointment will normally be at the lower salary point, with progression subject to review - in line with VSS progression arrangements. A higher salary placing will only be considered in exceptional circumstances subject to experience demonstrated.
Primary location: Kirkcaldy, Fife. Travel is not a daily requirement of the role, however there will be occasions when travel across Scotland is necessary.
As part of this role, you will provide specialist support to individuals from Armed Forces communities who have been affected by domestic abuse. Working in partnership with Scottish Women’s Aid, you will deliver tailored one-to-one support, helping individuals feel safe, listened to, informed, and empowered to make choices about their future.
Reporting to the Locality Manager, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality services across your locality, ensuring support is accessible, effective, and responsive to the needs of victims and witnesses. You will contribute to the successful implementation of service plans and help ensure individuals receive the guidance and support they need at the right time.
A key aspect of the role will be coordinating and supporting a team of dedicated volunteers who provide services to Armed Forces communities affected by domestic abuse. You will lead on volunteer recruitment, induction, training, development, and ongoing supervision, ensuring volunteers are equipped to deliver compassionate, person-centred support. Through strong leadership and effective coordination, you will help ensure services achieve positive outcomes for those who need them most.
If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, we want to hear from you!
Due to the geography of the area it is essential you have a full clean driving licence and access to your own vehicle.
A vacancy has arisen for a Children’s Wellbeing & Development Worker at the Cottage Family Centre. You will have a range of experience working with children and knowledge of issues affecting families with young children.
You will have an ability to work creatively with play resources in order to provide young children with high quality nurturing experiences. You are also required to demonstrate an ability to work effectively and flexibly within a team.
You will be expected to have experience in a similar role and an HNC in Childhood Practice or HNC in Childcare and Education or SNNEB and/or SVQ 3 Social Services Children and Young People.
The post will be subject to PVG, References and SSSC Registration.
You will be expected to work a minimum of 16 hours per week but also have flexibility to work hours in addition to this where required.
Make a real difference to people living with dementia and their families.
STAND is a Fife charity led by people with lived experience of dementia. We believe that life doesn’t stop with a diagnosis — people can continue to grow, connect and enjoy new experiences. Nine trustees currently sit on STAND's Board of Trustees and, as a peer-led charity, three (including the Chairperson) live with dementia, three are/were carers and three have professional backgrounds.
We are currently seeking the following new Trustees to share with us their experience, talents, and passions:
Insight or personal experience of dementia or caring responsibilities would be an advantage. The STAND team is friendly and supportive, and you will be working with the charity's Development Lead and Administration Officer alongside trustees, volunteers, staff and members of the charity.
The Board of Trustees currently convenes every six weeks (usually from 2.00pm – 3.30pm), with the AGM in the autumn. Office Bearers and senior staff meetings usually take place quarterly. Most meetings are held in Kirkcaldy and travel expenses are reimbursed up to 30 miles from Kirkcaldy. Rarely, an additional Extraordinary General Meeting of the Board may take place.
Between meetings, it will be necessary to work remotely.
Carnegie Education Fund is recruiting a Project Officer (0.6 FTE) to support the ongoing development and use of Scotland’s Fair Access Map – a digital resource that provides a national overview of the activity in Scotland that is helping ensure people from all backgrounds can enter and succeed in higher education.
Scotland’s Fair Access Map is a partnership project co‑funded by Carnegie Education Fund and The Robertson Trust, developed with SCAPP and built by The Open University. It aims to provide a complete picture of current fair access initiatives to help practitioners, policymakers and funders understand what is happening across the sector.
The post is currently funded for four years. Any extension will be subject to future funding and the continued success of Scotland’s Fair Access Map.
You will join a small, friendly team of six, working flexibly and remotely, with occasional travel to sector events.
We’re seeking someone who is:
We are hiring! - Work with Us
Homelessness and Prevention
Turning Point Scotland is the biggest provider of services to people experiencing or at risk of Homelessness across Scotland, delivering support to around 2000 individuals on any given day, 4500 per year.
We believe that in many cases, Homelessness is entirely preventable. Where Homelessness is not or cannot be, prevented the experience should be brief and non-recurring.
We provide support to people who are;
Around two thirds of our work is with people who are experiencing Homelessness.
We believe a menu of options should be available to individuals to prevent, or support someone to move on from Homelessness. This ensures we use a ‘no wrong door’ approach to accessing service and behind this door, people should be met with a ‘Whole System Approach’ to support.
We deliver a range of outreach services including Housing Support (Short and Long Term / Intensive); Housing First and Crisis Support.
Our ambitions are high for those we help; we want everyone to reach their full potential, to become active and valued members of their community, to acquire the life skills and decision-making capabilities to lead a stable productive and fulfilling life. We will challenge, coach and encourage to help achieve this, sometimes involving the peer support of others who have shared similar personal journeys.
We are also active members of the European Federation of National Organisations with the Homeless (FEANTSA) and founding Members of the Housing First Europe Hub.
About Us – Fife Support Service
We believe that a home is a human right and that an individual is best placed to deal with the issues that made them homeless in the first place, in a place they can call home.
Fife Support Service delivers Housing First support, where we work across Fife to enable people to maintain independent tenancy sustainment, reconnect with their local communities and assist them to build their resilience to prevent repeat homelessness.
Standard working hours are 9am - 5pm Monday - Thursday, and 9am - 4.30pm Friday.
About the role
Our Lead Practitioner role will include:
About You
You will have a genuine commitment to use your skills to support people to live their best lives.
You will be supported by a friendly, approachable management team, allowing you to expand on your existing knowledge whilst developing new skills. A level of previous working experience in social care is an advantage, but not necessary as full training will be provided to you.
We believe that both lived and professional experience you may have is further enhanced by having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity in order to join our team!
As a LeadPractitioner, you will work with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.
Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.
Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.
We value lived experience, please click here to read more about our views.
We welcome applications from all candidates who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.
Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the pay points of the role and based on experience.
About Aberlour Options Fife Residential Glenrothes…
At Aberlour we listen to understand what our young people want and need within our local area. As such, our service in Glenrothes supports young people with learning disabilities and/or autism to live and thrive within the local community.
What we are looking for....
Our relief workers play a crucial role in supporting our team. This work is offered on a casual, hourly paid basis to provide cover during staff absence and/or particularly busy periods. Ideally, you will have experience of direct work with children and families and/or experience of working with children or adults with a learning disability and/or an autism spectrum condition.
Aberlour’s values are critical and drive everything we do. To have a look at our values please click here.
What we offer…
You will receive a planned and supported induction consisting of a varied training programme; including CALM training, Child Protection training and other training specific to the job role. You will be working alongside a highly motivated and skilled team to provide a personalised service for our young people. Find out more about our Employee Benefits here and our commitment to Equality and Diversity here.
The Cottage Family Centre was established in 1987. The focus of the work at the Centre is to provide a range of support to those families and individuals within family units who are vulnerable to social exclusion as a result of factors such as poverty, unemployment, poor housing, relationship breakdown, drug and alcohol problems and health related issues.
The range of services that the Cottage provides includes a therapeutic service for children and young people.
We are looking for a qualified and experienced therapist/s competent to work with children and young people. The successful candidate/s must be a qualified Play Therapist, Art Therapist or Counsellor qualified to work with children and young people.
You will need to be self-motivated, have the ability to work independently with a positive and flexible approach and demonstrate a sound understanding of social issues that affect children, young people and families.
This post/s will be subject to a Protection of Vulnerable Groups check and 2 references.
The Cottage Family Centre are looking for a passionate, highly motivated and experienced individual with a sound knowledge and understanding of children’s learning and development as well as the challenges facing our families across our communities.
The purpose of this role is to lead and support a small staff team within a registered childcare setting and provide advice, guidance and support to vulnerable families with children aged 0–8 years in the Kirkcaldy area who have been referred to The Cottage Family Centre.
As well as supporting individual children to reach their full potential, this role will enable parents to be individually supported to gain a better understanding of their children’s needs empowering them to improve their children’s development by using strategies and activities that they can incorporate within their daily lives.
You will require 3 years’ experience in a similar role
This role will also support the management team to develop a broad range of learning activities, which are specific to the needs of vulnerable children and their families.
Qualifications are as follows:
Managers must have a practice and a management qualification.
The benchmark practice qualifications for a manager of day care of children services are one of the following:
PLUS
This post will be subject to a PVG Scheme Record check, SSSC registration (Manager) and two references.
Award-winning animal charity Pet Blood Bank UK is recruiting for the position of Executive Assistant to join our team in a hybrid role, combining office-based working in Dunfermline with home working. This is an exciting opportunity to support the Managing Director and senior team in a wide and varied range of tasks, helping Pet Blood Bank continue its lifesaving work across the UK. This is an administrative role where you can make a genuine difference to the lives of pets.
Background
Launched in 2007, Pet Blood Bank UK is the only charity that provides a blood bank service for all vets across the UK. As part of our charitable remit, our aim is to advance animal health and welfare and to relieve suffering by providing quick and convenient access to blood. Every unit of blood helps save up to four other lives, saving thousands of lives every year.
Our values
Caring. Pioneering. Real. These are the values Pet Blood Bank UK is built upon. Our values bind us together as a charity and guide everything we do. We expect every team member to know, understand and embody our values, helping to build our reputation as a pioneering, caring and practical charity. Read more about our values.
What you’ll do
What we need
We're looking for a proactive, highly organised individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys supporting senior leaders. You'll be confident managing competing priorities, handling confidential information with discretion, and building positive relationships across the organisation.
We’re looking for someone who has:
Desirable:
What’s in it for you
In return, we offer full training, contributory pension scheme, lifestyle rewards, and 30 days annual holidays (pro rata, including bank holidays).
Further details
This is a part-time role working 26 hours per week, over 4 days (Mon –Thu). The suggested working pattern would be 9am – 4pm with a half hour lunch break, but we're happy to discuss the working pattern at interview.
Greener Kirkcaldy is a community-led charity working locally to bring people together, take positive action on the climate emergency and support people through fuel poverty and food insecurity. We deliver a range of projects, events and skills training to achieve the needs and goals of local people – building resilience as a community and working towards a future where everyone can live better and tread more lightly on our planet.
Based in the heart of Kirkcaldy – with a community building, training kitchen, bike shop and garden – we carry out activities across Kirkcaldy and work with partners to deliver projects across Fife.
Our Communications Team sits at the heart of this work, helping to tell the story of what we do and inspire people to get involved. As part of the Core Team, they lead the development and delivery of marketing and communications across all Greener Kirkcaldy projects, creating engaging content for a variety of platforms and audiences.
The team coordinates the organisation and promotion of Greener Kirkcaldy events, manages our events calendar and booking systems and delivers campaigns and engagement activities that connect people with climate action and community initiatives.
The Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative person to support this small team in planning and delivering Greener Kirkcaldy’s marketing, communications, campaigns and events programme – helping more people hear about, participate in and benefit from our work.
You’ll create content for social media, our website and newsletters, help organise, promote and deliver community events, support marketing campaigns and work with colleagues across the organisation to share the impact of our work. No two days are the same, and you’ll gain experience across digital marketing, events, media, design and community engagement.
This role would suit someone at the start of their communications career, including recent graduates or people looking to build on some communications experience. Whether your experience comes from university, volunteering, work or personal projects, we’ll provide training, mentoring and support to help you build your skills and confidence.
If you’re creative, organised, enjoy working with people and want your work to make a real difference in your local community, we’d love to hear from you.
Working at Greener Kirkcaldy
We want our town to be a good place to live and work. We believe in a future where everyone has a say in what happens locally, people are working together to protect our environment and those in hardship are supported to live well. That includes our staff and volunteers.
Working at Greener Kirkcaldy involves being part of a positive, collaborative and social team. Our culture is really important to us. We promote equality, diversity and openness. We have a strong focus on staff wellbeing and development and encourage staff initiative and ideas.
Benefits of working for Greener Kirkcaldy
We want Greener Kirkcaldy to be an inclusive and diverse charity where everyone feels supported, valued and able to be themselves. We take part in Fife Centre for Equalities’ Equality Pathfinders programme. We also take part in the Race Equality Environmental Programme facilitated by CEMVO Scotland. Our Equalities Action Plan sets out the steps we are taking to improve diversity and inclusion.
To achieve our vision of Kirkcaldy as a greener and fairer place to live, we need a diverse team. We encourage applications from people of any background. We know that our sector particularly lacks staff and volunteers with Minority Ethnic backgrounds and disabled people. If you identify as Minority Ethnic or have a disability, we welcome your application.
If you need additional support to apply or take part in the recruitment process, please contact our Operations Manager Dianne Girvan. Email dianne@greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk.
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:
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?
In return for your valuable contribution, Ark will also offer you:
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.