Jobs in Renfrewshire

The Tannahill Centre is a community facility located at the heart of Ferguslie Park. As well as being the home of a number of essential services and amenities, the centre also delivers a wide range of community and personal development opportunities with the aim of ensuring Ferguslie Park reaches its full potential.

Main purpose

To recruit, support and work with young people in an empowering way so they can participate in volunteering and active citizenship activities that increase their skills, knowledge and confidence.

The Youth Development Officer will support young people both in groups and on a one-to-one basis, enabling them to develop personal development plans and participate in experiential learning and accredited opportunities.

The role will lead and coordinate youth work provision and school holiday provision within the Tannahill Centre, managing youth work staff and volunteers, developing new opportunities for young people and strengthening partnerships that support positive youth development.

Working alongside the Community Development Manager, the postholder will also identify funding opportunities and develop partnerships to grow youth work provision with the aim of expanding the service to a six-day-per-week youth work programme and increasing opportunities for young people across Ferguslie Park

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join the Charity Impact Team at Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity.

Due to an internal promotion, we have a vacancy for a Gamer in Residence, whose job is to bring the magic of gaming to children at Scotland’s biggest children’s hospital.

This role also involves supporting our year-round calendar of visits, activities and entertainment for our young patients and their families.

Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity is recognising its 25th anniversary this year, and has invested more than £53 million in projects and services to support our children’s hospital in that time.

At the Hawkhead centre, we provide innovative services to veterans who have various degrees of Sight Loss.

This job exists to support the Centre Services Manager/Senior and Chef to provide a safe working environment and plan a varied and nutritious diet for veterans who attend.

You will work be working in a fun and friendly environment.

What does a day in this role look like?

• To assist in the preparation of high-quality food as directed by the chef
• To assist with meal service
• To assist with clearing and washing up.
• To maintain a clean, safe working environment as directed by the Centre manager/Senior and by working to cleaning schedules
• To ensure Food Hygiene and Health & Safety recommendations are complied with.
• To advise the of any concerns in relation to Food Hygiene and Health & Safety
• To advise the Chef/Senior/Deputy Centre manager of any malfunction of equipment or fittings that require maintenance or cannot be kept to standard through normal cleaning procedures.

About us

For more than 230 years we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved, but we want to do more. We will build on our rich history to create an organisation which is prepared for the future, and ready to respond to the needs of people impacted by vision loss.

Our vision is bold. We want to be at the leading edge of positive societal change by:

• Investing our funds in the support that makes the biggest difference
• Putting our community at the heart of what we do
• Campaigning for change
• Accelerating prevention and treatment of eye conditions
• Fostering a collaborative culture of innovation and learning

We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.

Our organisational values - Transform, Unite and Thrive - underpin all the work we do at Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans.

Benefits

• Generous employee pension scheme
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted cinema tickets
• Discounts for carers

Do you have a passion for helping vulnerable people enjoy as much fulfilment as they can and feel included in their community? If compassion, care and inclusiveness are an important part of who you are, our opportunities to work away from the routine in a demanding, challenging but emotionally rewarding role could be for you.

Our Turning Point Scotland Services in Turnaround are looking for people like you to help provide individualised support to adults with a wide range of needs, either on an individual 1:1 basis or alongside others and as part of a team.

The support we provide is always person centred, we do this by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and our own staff members.

We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team! We would offer you full support in completing your application.

As a Service Co-ordinator, 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.

The Turning Point Scotland Turnaround service delivers focused services that address the complex and interrelated issues of offending behaviour and problematic use of alcohol and other drugs. In 2018, we redesigned our service to also include a Throughcare model.

Since 2007, we have worked alongside councils and social work departments within 22 local authorities including Angus, Argyll & Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Fife, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire.

An asset-based approach has been adopted to help increase an individual’s self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence. Self-development and reflection are key to an individual when putting into practice the skills and learning achieved within the service to help sustain their recovery and offending behaviour.

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.

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