Are you interested in supporting families and listening to their experiences to help us shape future services?

We are seeking a Family Engagement Intern to help deliver family support activities and engage with children, parents and carers to better understand the support families need.

About Play Midlothian

Play Midlothian is a registered charity (no. SC025474) working to enable every child in Midlothian to thrive through play by creating opportunities, removing barriers and addressing inequalities. We have an office base at the One Dalkeith Business Hub in central Dalkeith, but deliver services throughout Midlothian, and if commissioned, beyond.

About the Role

This internship has been created to help us develop our support for families experiencing, or at risk of, poverty.

The postholder will work alongside a Play and Wellbeing Practitioner to run Play in Mind family sessions, strengthening family wellbeing through play in woodlands (likely two sessions per week).

A significant part of the role will involve engaging with children, parents and carers to better understand their experiences, needs and ideas. This will include organising and facilitating focus groups, questionnaires, discussions and creative activities that help families have their say. The learning gathered through this work will help inform the future development of Play Midlothian's services for families.

The role offers an opportunity to gain practical experience in play, family support and community engagement, with training, supervision and support provided throughout. This role would suit someone considering a future career in these or related areas (such as social research, social work or the wider third sector).

If you are enthusiastic about working with families and helping ensure their voices are heard, we would love to hear from you.

You will work directly with neurodivergent children and young people up to age 25, providing person-centred support including 1:1 issue-based information, advice, advocacy, coaching, and support with transitions. Support is delivered through in-person sessions, virtual meetings, phone calls, email, and text, and as the service develops, the role may also involve working with small groups.

You will work with children and young people to develop plans that promote positive outcomes and uphold their rights. This includes helping them understand their neurotype and identify their strengths, challenges, and support needs, so they can communicate these effectively and be well supported across their lives. You will also help develop resources and contribute to service development.

You will be an excellent communicator, able to adapt your approach to build strong, trusting relationships with neurodivergent children and young people, and to engage effectively with a range of stakeholders.

This post may occasionally require evening and/or weekend work and will involve significant travel across Edinburgh and the Lothians. This is a hybrid role, combining home working, community settings, and attending our Edinburgh office when required.

Organisation profile

Founded on lived experience, Mindroom champions all forms of neurodiversity and supports all kinds of minds. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for neurodivergent people by removing barriers, increasing opportunities, and shaping a more accessible world.

The Yard is an award-winning charity that runs adventure play services for children with disabilities and/or additional support needs and their families.

As a Playworker, you will plan and deliver a range of inclusive, social, recreational and adventure play activities at The Yard

About the role:

Is creating fun and friendship your superpower? Do you get a buzz from helping children and young people, creating laughter, mess and happy memories? If so, we think we have the ideal role for you.

As a Playworker, your daily routine will be shaped by the diverse needs of the people you support. You will help plan, deliver and develop recreational activities, engaging children in creative play, ensuring activities are appropriate for their ages, interests and abilities.

About you:

This job is for you if you have:

• Knowledge and experience of facilitating indoor and outdoor play opportunities and environments and leading recreational activities
• A demonstrable understanding of, and experience in, the value of play and working with children and young people with disabilities
• A proven ability to work in a flexible and creative manner, as an individual and as part of a team
• Knowledge and experience of facilitating young people’s social activities

If you would like to work in a supportive and understanding work environment, ensuring that families feel valued and part of an inclusive community, we would love to have you on board.

Benefits:

32 days holiday per annum (pro rata - including public holidays), training & development opportunities, life assurance, company pension, health care cash back plan, employee assistance programme, discounted gym memberships fees, free uniform.

This is a new, specialist role in our Whole Family Support Fund programme. You will provide confidential, one-to-one money advice to parents and carers of neurodivergent children and young people, helping families to maximise their income and build lasting financial resilience.

The post has national coverage, and you will build the money advice offer from scratch. You’ll carry out benefit checks, support families through applications, reviews, and appeals, help people manage debt, and run money-themed workshops. You will work alongside our Family Advisors so that money advice forms part of each family’s wider support.

You will be an experienced money, benefits or welfare rights adviser, with strong knowledge of the UK and Scottish social security systems, and able to explain complex information clearly to families under pressure.

This post may occasionally require evening and/or weekend work and will involve travel across Scotland.

Organisation profile

Founded on lived experience, Mindroom champions all forms of neurodiversity and supports all kinds of minds. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for neurodivergent people by removing barriers, increasing opportunities, and shaping a more accessible world.

This is a key role in our Whole Family Support Fund programme. We are recruiting four Senior Family Advisors (Hub Leads) for the following hub areas:

• Glasgow
• Dundee
• West Lothian
• Dumfries and Galloway

You’ll lead the hub in Dumfries and Galloway, holding a small caseload while co-ordinating day-to-day delivery, line managing a Family Advisor, contributing to monitoring and evaluation, and building the local partnerships that get families the right support at the right time.

You may be a highly experienced practitioner, ready to step into your first management post or already managing and keen to stay close to practice. You will be an excellent communicator, able to build trusting relationships with families and engage effectively with schools, health services and local partners.

This post may occasionally require evening and/or weekend work and will involve frequent travel across your hub area.

Organisation profile

Founded on lived experience, Mindroom champions all forms of neurodiversity and supports all kinds of minds. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for neurodivergent people by removing barriers, increasing opportunities, and shaping a more accessible world.

Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people. Our mission is to secure a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people in Scotland and we currently have over 3000 Care Experienced members.

At the heart of Who Cares? Scotland’s work are the rights of Care Experienced children and young people, and the power of their voices to bring about positive change. We provide individual relationship-based independent advocacy and a broad range of imaginative participatory opportunity for Care Experienced young people across Scotland; we work alongside corporate parents and communities of all sorts to broaden understanding; we work with policy makers, leaders and elected representatives locally and nationally to shape law, policy and practice on the basis of all that can be learnt from the voices of those with experience of care – working together to build on the aspirations of The Promise and secure positive change.

The Advocacy and Participation Manager will oversee the development of our independent advocacy services, including our lifelong advocacy offering, and the engagement and empowerment of Care Experienced people through participation opportunities.

Contributing to Who Cares? Scotland’s leadership team and sharing the learning of this work positively and proactively across the organization, this APM role will provide a robust evidence base to support the evolvement of this work nationally.

The right candidate will therefore be capable of forming positive relationships with people of all ages and backgrounds, will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, and be adaptable to a wide range of contexts. With experience managing budgets and performance targets, as well as reporting internally and to key stakeholders, you will also be skilled at supervising and supporting the work of staff and volunteers. Some travel, as well as some evening and weekend work, is required due to the remit of the post.

You will have a proven record of working collaboratively with partners successfully and will be committed to children’s rights, inclusive working, and equal opportunities. You believe that all people can make transformative change happen in their lives if given the opportunity.

For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Caroline Richardson, Director of Advocacy and Participation at crichardson@whocaresscotland.org.

As a Birch Resource Worker, you will implement a range of interventions and support measures as part of an integrated package of health, therapeutic and social support. Birch is designed to address the complex needs of individuals who have lost the care of their children to the care system, providing intensive support to enable change in their lives and ultimately reduce the number of children removed into care. You will deliver a relationship-based programme where frequency, tenacity and creativity are central. The post holder will assess the needs of individuals referred to the service and plan and deliver a proportionate response to the presenting issues. Work will be delivered through one-to-one intervention and group settings across a range of sites. You will also support the development of the service by contributing to the content and style of programmes and interventions, liaising with other agencies and professionals to promote the service, and identifying specific gaps in provision within the local area. As this role combines community outreach and office-based work, applicants must hold a valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle, as regular travel is required. Following appointment, there will be an induction period based at the TCA Dundee office. Ongoing attendance at team meetings, supervision, and in-house training sessions at TCA Dundee will form part of the role.

Additional Information: More information on the post can be obtained by contacting alison.leuchars@tca-dundee.com or naiomi.thomson@tca-dundee.com, or by phoning 01382 456012.

Fife Voluntary Action is seeking a Head of Employability who will be the strategic lead for the co-ordination and collaboration of third sector employability services, and who will represent the sector strategically. You will work collaboratively with statutory and third sector partners to maximise the contribution and impact of the third sector on improving employment outcomes in Fife.

In this role, you will:

• Represent the sector at strategic partnership meetings, specifically the Opportunities Fife Partnership (OFP) Board
• Proactively build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders at all levels to understand national and local challenges and emerging issues
• Inform, support and promote transparent commissioning of services through OFP and related funding
• Chair and lead on the Employability Forum, Third Sector Employability Conversations and OFP People and Skills Community of Practice
• Lead a team delivering on employability, lived experience and digital inclusion

We’re looking for someone with:

• Experience of working in or with third sector employability organisations and services.
• Excellent understanding of issues affecting the employability sector, including local and national policy
• Excellent communication and partnership skills.
• Experience of line management

Why join us?

• Be part of a team improving the lives of people in Fife.
• Flexible working arrangements and a supportive environment.

Apply now and help shape a stronger, fairer Fife!

Benefits

Benefits of working for FVA include:

• 37 days’ annual leave (inclusive of public holidays) for full-time staff, pro rata for part-time staff
• Free onsite parking in Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy
• Confidential counselling helpline
• Access to unlimited, free GP appointments 24/7 via remote technology

The Scottish International Education Trust is seeking to appoint two new trustees at an exciting time in the charity’s history.

The trust has been helping remarkable young Scots fulfill their potential for over half a century. The trustees recently committed to an extensive programme of fundraising to ensure we continue to fulfil our mission for many years to come. We are looking for new trustees whose energy, insights and commitment to the transformative power of international education can help us build for the next fifty years.

SIET makes grants of up to £3,000, typically to those seeking to pursue postgraduate education overseas. The awards are targeted at those who might otherwise struggle to afford opportunities that allow them to achieve their potential. However, we know from long experience that awards provide more than just financial assistance. In the words of one recent recipient: “The award has been, for me personally, much more than just financial help. It was a really huge confidence boost to know that someone believed in me."

We are particularly keen to receive applications from former recipients of our awards, those who can help the board more accurately reflect the communities it seeks to serve, and those who have particular insights in fundraising, communications, charitable governance, widening access in higher education, or developing networks of alumni or similar stakeholders.

Fife Women’s Aid are looking to recruit a full-time support worker to join our Women’s Support Team.

As a service, we are expanding our capacity to better meet the needs of women who have experienced domestic abuse. Candidates should have good communication skills and a passion for supporting recovery from domestic abuse.

The successful applicants will have at least SVQ Level III or equivalent level of qualification in health and social care or other relevant subject, or a willingness to work towards a qualification.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a high degree of motivation and have the ability to work on their own as well as part of a team. An ability to cover on-call is an advantage (additional payments are made for this role).

Please join us for an online session to find out more about FWA women’s services. This will be at6.30pm on Tuesday 13th October 2026. 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.

If you would like further information about the post, please contact Gill Birtley, Team Manager, at gill.birtley@fifewomensaid.org.uk to arrange a call.

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.