Jobs in Kirkcaldy Central, Fife

One post is likely to focus on West Fife, with the second covering Central and East Fife, although both roles share the same responsibilities and will work collaboratively across the project. Applicants may express an interest in either area or both.

About the Project

Climate Wisdom is a dementia-friendly climate action project that supports people living with dementia, care partners and communities to feel inspired, empowered and confident to take positive, practical action on climate change. The project is led by Outside the Box and delivered in partnership with Meeting Centres Scotland, Heriot-Watt University, the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York, and community organisations across Scotland.

In Fife, the project is being delivered in partnership with STAND through its network of Dementia Friendly Meeting Centre Spaces.

What You'll Do

• Support people living with dementia and their care partners to participate in and shape the Climate Wisdom project.

• Help develop and facilitate creative activities, workshops, events and community conversations.

• Build connections between Meeting Centre Spaces and wider climate action activity across Fife.

• Encourage sharing of ideas, learning and good practice between communities.

• Support project monitoring, evaluation and reporting.

• Work collaboratively with colleagues from across the Climate Wisdom partnership.

What We Offer

• Flexible and family-friendly working arrangements.

• Home-based working.

• The opportunity to shape aspects of the role around your skills, experience and interests.

• A supportive and values-led team.

• Meaningful work that makes a difference to the lives of people living with dementia and their communities.

Additional Requirements

Regular travel throughout Fife is required. Applicants must be able to travel independently, hold a full current driving licence and have access to a vehicle. The successful candidates will be required to join the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme.

About STAND (standinfife.org)

STAND is a Fife-based charity led by and for people affected by dementia. Through Dementia Friendly Meeting Centre Spaces, peer support, training, community projects, activism and influencing work, STAND supports people to live well with dementia and to use their skills, strengths and experiences to make a difference in their communities.

Help us to make a difference!

Sacro’s mission is to deliver life-changing services that empower people, give hope and protection, and help to build safe communities.

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated individual to oversee the day-to-day operations of the service. Responsible to the Service Team Leader, you will have primary responsibility to carry a caseload of mediation cases involving disputes between neighbours. You will provide practical and emotional support to individuals suffering from hate incidents and anti-social behaviour. You will be a creative self-starter with excellent organisational and communication skills. The successful applicant will be flexible and imaginative in their approach and confident in their ability to help clients steer their way through difficult situations.

Previous mediation or similar experience would be highly desirable for this position.

A full, valid driving licence and access to a car satisfying appropriate insurance requirements is required for this post.

Membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme (PVG) is a requirement for this post.

For further information, please contact Sean Martin email address: smartin@sacro.org.uk or by telephone: 01592 593100.

Sacro values diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community

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.

Part of our core team, you will support the day-to-day operational running of our key sites, including our community building at 8 East Fergus Place, the community garden and cabin at Ravenscraig Walled Garden, and our Active Travel Hub and bike shop on Kirkcaldy High Street.

The Role

We are looking for a Caretaker and Facilities Assistant to play a key role in ensuring our facilities are welcoming, clean, safe, secure, and well-maintained for staff, volunteers, participants, hirers, and visitors.

The successful applicant will enjoy practical problem-solving and take pride in maintaining community spaces through routine DIY, minor repairs, housekeeping, and proactive site inspections. A central part of the role involves keeping our spaces safe and compliant by carrying out statutory compliance checks—such as weekly fire alarm tests, monthly emergency lighting and extinguisher inspections, and routine health and safety checks.

You will work collaboratively with staff, volunteers, and contractors, as well as use our digital tools to easily capture visit details, track maintenance issues, and keep site records up to date. Whether you are setting up rooms and equipment for events or acting as a keyholder for our venues, you will be committed to helping create safe, efficient, and welcoming environments for everyone across Greener Kirkcaldy.

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

• Flexible and hybrid working
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and sick pay
• Excellent wellbeing, training and development opportunities
• Generous annual leave, with the flexibility to take time off at times that matter most to you
• Social events

Diversity and inclusion

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.

Who we are

Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information to people with dementia, their carers and families, we campaign for the rights of people with dementia and fund vital dementia research.

What you’ll do

As Day Services Manager you will be responsible for leading and managing high quality, therapeutic registered day services and commissioned and non-commissioned community supports for people with dementia, those at greater risk of dementia, and their families, and carers within the area.

You will be responsible for ensuring that services are of the highest quality, meet Alzheimer Scotland’s vision for unique therapeutic, highly person-centred support. There is also the responsibility for ensuring that our commissioned services meet all service level agreement, contract specifications and Alzheimer Scotland’s quality guarantees.

You will have overall day-to-day responsibility for the services within the area and will be responsible for promoting the services with key local stakeholders within Health and Social Care as well as relevant other organisations. As Day Services Manager you will manage the referral and assessment process.

You will work collaboratively with the Head of Services to ensure safe practice and delivery of high-quality, person-centred therapeutic day services, ensuring practice complies with Alzheimer Scotland’s policies. You will be responsible for evidencing, reviewing and continually improving the quality of the services and will proactively participate in internal audit and Care Inspectorate inspections. This will include evidencing that services meet Alzheimer Scotland’s Quality Guarantees, Scotland’s Health and Social Care standards and other quality frameworks including those of the Care Inspectorate where relevant. This includes ensuring that the activities and supports offered meet the identified personal outcomes of those attending the services.

You will provide strong line management and leadership to your team, through setting clear objectives and outcomes, regular review within Support & Development processes and undertaking appraisals.

What you’ll have

The successful candidate will have experience of managing a team in a social care, health or other similar setting or be able to demonstrate a clear knowledge and understanding of the key principles and good practice of effectively managing and leading a team.

You will have knowledge and understanding of the Health and Social Care Standards and SSSC codes of practice and the Care Inspectorate and their role in registered services.

Understanding and knowledge of dementia, mild cognitive impairment and Brain Health and experience of working with or supporting people living with dementia and their families.

The successful candidate will have a recognised professional qualification in health, social work or related field, to SCQF Level 7 (SVQ 3)

This post requires a full driving licence and access to a car.