About Us

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde (HSRI) is a registered charity providing volunteer led, family centred, non-judgmental support to families with at least one child aged under five.

As a valued colleague joining our compassionate and forward-thinking team, you will be part of our vision of walking alongside families, offering early help, empowering families to build on existing strengths, to achieve better wellbeing outcomes for themselves and their children.

The Role

The Funding and Development Manager is a key part of our Leadership team, responsible for implementing our funding and fundraising strategy to help us achieve the income we need to help change families lives.

• Responsibility for securing medium to large-sized-grants
• Writing high-quality and persuasive funding applications
• Building and managing strong relationships with a range of key stakeholders
• Working closely with the Funding Assistant to produce interim and end reports
• Ongoing monitoring and evaluation
• Representing HSRI at strategic partner meetings

Next Steps

This is a rewarding role where you will impact in improving families lives by overseeing our funding activities to achieve our income generation strategic goals. If this sounds like you and you are looking for an exciting new opportunity then please apply - full details are available in the job pack available to download below.

Would you like to be part of an established, pro-active charity team making a difference to over 200 hundred families in Renfrewshire and Inverclyde? We are now recruiting for a Funding Officer to become a key player in our talented and enthusiastic team.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde (HSRI) is a federated charity, part of Home-Start UK. As a registered charity, with its own Board of Trustees, HSRI is responsible for securing its own funds, to cover the cost of running the services delivered locally. See our latest Annual Report via this link hsri.org.uk/annual+reports to get a flavour of our people, our stories, and the work we do.

We provide volunteer led, person centred, non-judgmental support to families with at least one child aged under five. We work alongside families to improve family life and help the children achieve their potential. Our approach is non-judgmental, building parental self-esteem and strengthen social networks.

We are looking for someone who:

• Enjoys working as part of a close knit and friendly team.
• Is comfortable with changing priorities and able to balance a number of conflicting demands
• Has an interest in building our charity’s profile through outreach and networking.
• Is self-motivated and able to work on their own initiative.
• Has experience of working with CRM databases, extracting data for reporting purposes.

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Group Worker to join their growing service in Renfrewshire.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child under 5, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

This role will be based at our Renfrewshire Family Hub in St James House, Paisley on a Wednesday and Thursday and in KLAS Care, East Fulton Linwood on a Saturday.

Main responsibilities:

• To run a twice weekly (Wednesday and Thursday) family group and a weekly (Saturday) dad’s group. These groups for are for families with children (under 5) from Renfrewshire and the surrounding area, in line with Home-Start’s mission to support parenting and encourage them to enjoy the positive aspects of parenting and family life.
• Receiving referrals from the Family Support Co-ordinators and assessing these within agreed criteria;
• Providing a warm and welcoming environment for parents
• Planning and preparing the content of sessions, including refreshments, activities and speakers;
• Ensuring new parents are integrated into the group.
• Reporting, monitoring and evaluating group

Are you a confident communicator who enjoys meeting new people from a diverse range of backgrounds?

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Volunteer Development Officer to join their growing service in Inverclyde.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child under 5, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in Greenock. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• Attract and recruit Volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds by raising awareness of Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde’s services locally.
• Build relationships with local community organisations and engage in partnership working.
• Be the first point of contact for all Volunteer enquiries, responding to the majority and sign posting to colleagues and other organisations as necessary.
• Recruit, select and prepare volunteers in partnership with Family Support Coordinators.
• When required help to manage and deliver training courses to newly recruited volunteers alongside Family Support Coordinators.
• Identify and manage facilitation of additional volunteer training.
• Maintain regular contact with volunteers awaiting match families or who are resting (on hold) from volunteering.
• Organise Peer Support Sessions alongside Family Support Coordinators.
• Facilitate Volunteer events including fundraising activities.
• Ensure all record keeping is accurate and up to date.
• Support Senior Coordinator with PVG paperwork.
• Work in partnership with local Statutory and Voluntary organisations within GIRFEC framework.

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for an Administration Assistant to join their growing service in Inverclyde.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in Greenock and will provide operational administrative support for Home-Start’s Inverclyde service.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide full administrative support to a small, dynamic, and fast paced organisation

• Ensuring all referrals are recorded efficiently and accurately on our CRM

• Record and manage petty cash system in line with our financial procedures

• Deal with all enquires to the services (phone calls/emails/visitors to the office)

• Assist and support the Senior Co-ordinator with any additional administrative tasks as directed

• Maintain and update filing systems

• Contribute to social media administration and input for the team/service

• Coordinating all purchase requirements for groups and training events.

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Wellbeing Support Worker to join our growing service in Renfrewshire.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child under 5, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in Paisley. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• Support families experiencing difficulties and challenges living in Renfrewshire.
• Provide home visiting and outreach support for families to help them achieve emotionally healthier, less isolated, more active lives within the local community.
• Work in partnership with parents and carers to empower and enable them to achieve positive outcomes for their children.
• Encourage parents to play and engage with their children and become involved with their child’s early learning and development.
• Provide information and support for parents on a whole range of issues, signposting to specialist advice when appropriate.
• Work in partnership with other professionals/organisations working with the family to ensure the best possible outcome for parents and their children.
• Attend relevant meetings and liaise with related agencies to the benefit of families.
• To be responsible for case note recording, report writing and maintaining records.
• Undertake designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare as per the safeguarding policy and procedure.

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Wellbeing Group Worker to join their growing service in Renfrewshire.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child under 5, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in Paisley. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• To develop and deliver a weekly Wellbeing Peer Support Group for Parents
• To co-deliver the weekly Dads Group and develop a wellbeing focus to the group
• To help parents achieve; healthier emotional wellbeing, reduce isolation and become more active within their local community.
• To maintain high standards of practice in supporting parents and their families within the ethos of Home Start
• To ensure inclusion and diversity in all aspects of the group’s operation and work
• To be responsible for case note recording and maintaining records to ensure information is available for monitoring purposes and general enquiries.

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Wellbeing Support Worker to join our growing service in Inverclyde!

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child under 5, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in Greenock. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• Support families experiencing difficulties and challenges living in Inverclyde.

• Provide home visiting and outreach support for families to help them achieve emotionally healthier, less isolated, more active lives within the local community.

• Work in partnership with parents and carers to empower and enable them to achieve positive outcomes for their children.

• Encourage parents to play and engage with their children and become involved with their child’s early learning and development.

• Provide information and support for parents on a whole range of issues, signposting to specialist advice when appropriate.

• Work in partnership with other professionals/organisations working with the family to ensure the best possible outcome for parents and their children.

• Attend relevant meetings and liaise with related agencies to the benefit of families.

• To be responsible for case note recording, report writing and maintaining records.

• Undertake designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare as per the safeguarding policy and procedure.

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Family Support Coordinator to join their growing service in Renfrewshire.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in our Paisley office. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• Receiving referrals and assessing needs of families.
• Introducing families to appropriate support.
• Recruiting, selecting, and preparing suitable volunteers.
• Matching and introducing volunteers to families.
• To undertake designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare.
• Undertaking work as delegated by the senior member of staff to support the strategic management, development, and future funding of the scheme.
• Supporting the implementation and review of all Home-Start policies and procedures.
• Complying with the scheme’s administration, monitoring and financial systems.
• Promoting the work of the scheme, as required by the Senior Worker
• Contributing to and supporting the development of the Home-Start network locally, regionally, and nationally.

It is a requirement of this role that you have a full clean driving licence and have access to a car.

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Perinatal Family Support Coordinator to join their growing service in Renfrewshire.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in our Paisley office. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• Receiving Perinatal referrals and assessing needs of families.
• Introducing families to appropriate support.
• Recruiting, selecting, and preparing suitable volunteers.
• Matching and introducing volunteers to families.
• Liaise and develop working relationships with external stakeholders, partners and funders working in the Perinatal field
• To undertake designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare.
• Undertaking work as delegated by the senior member of staff to support the strategic management, development, and future funding of the scheme.
• Supporting the implementation and review of all Home-Start policies and procedures.
• Complying with the scheme’s administration, monitoring and financial systems.
• Promoting the work of the scheme, as required by the Senior Worker
• Contributing to and supporting the development of the Home-Start network locally, regionally, and nationally.

It is essential that for this role you have a full, clean driving licence and access to a car.

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Volunteer Liaison Officer to join their growing service in Inverclyde.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child under 5, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in Greenock. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• Be the first point of contact for all Volunteer enquiries, responding to the majority and sign posting to colleagues and other organisations as necessary.

• Recruit, select and prepare volunteers in partnership with Family Support Coordinators.

• When required help to manage and deliver training courses to newly recruited volunteers alongside Family Support Coordinators.

• Identify and manage facilitation of additional volunteer training.

• Maintain regular contact with volunteers awaiting match families or who are resting (on hold) from volunteering.

• Organise Peer Support Sessions alongside Family Support Coordinators.

• Facilitate Volunteer events including fundraising activities.

• Ensure all record keeping is accurate and up to date.

• Support Senior Coordinator with PVG paperwork.

• Raise awareness of Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde’s services locally and surrounding areas.

• Work in partnership with local Statutory and Voluntary organisations within GIRFEC framework.

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Parent Group Worker to join their growing service in Inverclyde.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child under 5, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in Greenock. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• To run a weekly Parent Peer Support Group for families with children (under 5) from Greenock and the surrounding area, in line with Home-Start’s mission to support parenting and encourage them to enjoy the positive aspects of parenting and family life.
• Receiving referrals from the Family Support Co-ordinators and assessing these within agreed criteria;
• Providing a warm and welcoming environment for parents
• Planning and preparing the content of sessions, including refreshments, activities and speakers;
• Ensuring new parents are integrated into the group.
• Reporting, monitoring and evaluating group

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Family Support Worker to join their growing service in Inverclyde.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child under 5, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in Greenock. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• Support families experiencing difficulties and challenges living in Inverclyde.
• Provide home visiting and outreach support for families to help them achieve emotionally healthier, less isolated, more active lives within the local community.
• Work in partnership with parents and carers to empower and enable them to achieve positive outcomes for their children.
• Encourage parents to play and engage with their children and become involved with their child’s early learning and development.
• Provide information and support for parents on a whole range of issues, signposting to specialist advice when appropriate.
• Work in partnership with other professionals/organisations working with the family to ensure the best possible outcome for parents and their children.
• Attend relevant meetings and liaise with related agencies to the benefit of families.
• To be responsible for case note recording, report writing and maintaining records.
• Undertake designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare as per the safeguarding policy and procedure.

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Family Support Coordinator to join their growing service in Inverclyde.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in Greenock. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• Receiving referrals and assessing needs of families.

• Introducing families to appropriate support.

• Recruiting, selecting and preparing suitable volunteers.

• Matching and introducing volunteers to families.

• To undertake designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare.

• Undertaking work as delegated by the senior member of staff to support the strategic management, development and future funding of the scheme.

• Supporting the implementation and review of all Home-Start policies and procedures.

• Complying with the scheme’s administration, monitoring and financial systems.

• Promoting the work of the scheme, as required by the Senior Worker

• Contributing to and supporting the development of the Home-Start network locally, regionally and nationally

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for a Group Coordinator to join their growing service in Renfrewshire.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in Paisley and will provide facilitate two family groups for Home-Start’s Renfrewshire service. You will have similar experience in a work-related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• Facilitate and manage two weekly Family Group sessions, with responsibility for planning and preparing content of sessions, including activities, refreshments and speakers.

• Maintain a caseload of all group-only Renfrewshire families.

• Provide administration requirements for all Renfrewshire Home-Start Groups.

• Work co-operatively with the Home-Start Staff team and Trustees to ensure plans are discussed and issues resolved and that all family, safety, service and financial records are completed, kept up to date, monitored and reported.

• Develop the profile, awareness and understanding of the service across the Renfrewshire area.

• Assist and support the Scheme Manager / Senior Coordinator in all office management requirements.

• Any other duties that that required to fulfil the needs of the organisation.

Home-Start Renfrewshire & Inverclyde have an exciting opportunity for an Administration Assistant to join their growing service in Inverclyde.

Home-Start Renfrewshire and Inverclyde promotes the welfare of families with at least one young child, helping to build strong families and prevent family breakdown. The successful candidate will be based in Greenock and will provide operational administrative support for Home-Start’s Inverclyde service. You will have administration experience in a work related capacity together with excellent IT and communication skills.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide all aspects of administrative support for a small, dynamic and fast paced organisation.
• Conduct all data input as required for the purpose of the role.
• Contribute to social media administration and input.
• Support the Family Support Co-ordinators in the recruitment and administration of our volunteers and volunteer training.
• Maintain accurate records.
• Administer petty cash and expenses in line with our procedures and maintain accurate records.
• Assist and support the Senior Coordinator/Administrator in all office management requirements.
• Any other duties that that required to fulfil the needs of the organisation.