Age Scotland is the national charity for older people.

Our vision is that no one in Scotland faces the challenges of older age alone.

We provide older people, their families and carers with high-quality information and advice services and we tackle loneliness through our dedicated friendship programmes.

We campaign and influence on the issues older people tell us they care about. We support and fund hundreds of older people’s groups and community initiatives across the country and deliver workshops to improve people’s quality of life.

We involve and empower people affected by dementia and host national forums for older people from ethnic minorities and the LGBTQ+ community to help address the inequalities they face.

We're looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious Corporate Fundraiser – New Business to join our Fundraising team.

This is an exciting opportunity to secure new partnerships with businesses across Scotland and the UK, helping to generate vital income and support for older people. You'll identify and develop new opportunities, create compelling partnership proposals, and build lasting relationships with corporate supporters. From Charity of the Year partnerships and project funding to sponsorship and commercial collaborations, you'll play a key role in delivering our ambitious plans for income growth.

Working closely with colleagues across the organisation, you'll bring our values of empowering, inspiring, inclusive and integrity to life, securing meaningful partnerships that create shared value and lasting impact. Your work will help grow sustainable income, raise Age Scotland's profile, and ensure more older people across Scotland can live well and age well.

If you're a proactive relationship-builder with a proven track record of securing new business and turning opportunities into successful long-term partnerships, we'd love to hear from you.

The post will be Scotland-based, with a blend of office (Edinburgh-based) and home working. As a hybrid role the intention is that office-based and external facing work will constitute 40% of working time over each month. Age Scotland is a flexible employer, and flexible work patterns are available.

In return for your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment to our values you’ll receive a generous benefits package:

• Generous holiday allowance of 39 days (FTE)

• A range of learning and development opportunities

• Company sick pay

• Healthcare benefit through BHSF

• Discounted gym membership

• Discounts from major retailers

• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of 9%

• A comprehensive package of support though our Employee Assistance Programme

• Group life cover up to three times your annual salary

• Cycle to work scheme

• Paid carers leave and dependents’ support

• Enhanced family life policies.

The Advice and Information Service is a national support service for single-parent families and professionals across Scotland. It provides multi-channel advice on a wide range of topics, ensuring accessibility and inclusivity.

The Advice & Engagement Worker plays a key role in increasing awareness, accessibility and engagement with the OPFS Advice and Information Service.

Working collaboratively with colleagues, partner organisations and professionals across Scotland, the postholder will promote the service, build effective partnerships and improve access to high-quality advice and information for single-parent families.

Working within the OPFS My Life and Me framework, the postholder will provide high quality advice and information through a range of channels, deliver outreach activities, facilitate online practitioner webinars and advice clinics and build the confidence and knowledge of professionals supporting single-parent families. The role will also identify emerging issues affecting families and contribute to service development, policy and campaigning by highlighting trends and barriers experienced by those accessing the service.

The Advice & Information Service is part of OPFS Support for Families Services, providing holistic support to single parents and their children across Scotland. Our work is guided by the six My Life and Me priority areas

• Money
• Health & Wellbeing
• Home
• Work, Education & Training
• Children
• Relationships

Through a person-centred, strengths-based approach, guided by our organisational values of Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration and Compassion, we work alongside families to:

• Involve them in shaping the support they receive.
• Strengthen their skills, confidence and resilience.
• Support them to achieve their goals and aspirations.
• Influence positive change in their lives and communities.
• Challenge the barriers and inequalities that impact them.

The Advice & Engagement Worker will contribute to these outcomes by increasing awareness of OPFS services, ensuring families can access the right support at the right time, strengthening partnership working across Scotland and empowering both parents and professionals with the knowledge and confidence to navigate services and improve outcomes for single-parent families.

Role and Responsibilities:

As an Advice Worker at OPFS you will:

• Work to the agreed priorities of the service, providing clear, compassionate advice on key areas including housing, money, parenting, relationships, health & wellbeing and employment/training.
• Help develop and deliver an outreach programme that promotes OPFS's advice services within communities, partner organisations and professional networks.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with statutory, voluntary and community organisations to increase awareness of the service and improve referral pathways.
• Plan and deliver engaging online practitioner webinars on topics relevant to supporting single-parent families.
• Facilitate regular online advice clinics, providing advice, guidance and support to parents across Scotland.
• Promote OPFS services through presentations, networking events, partnership meetings, outreach clinics and any other community engagement opportunities.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to identify opportunities to improve access to advice for underrepresented or harder-to-reach communities.
• Contribute to and deliver advice over the digital advice channels, ensuring information is accessible and responsive to the needs of single-parent families.
• Signpost single parents and professionals to relevant services and resources.
• Accurately record all interactions, outreach activity and engagement using Salesforce CRM and other agreed systems.
• Participate in monitoring, evaluation and training to support continuous improvement and demonstrate the impact of outreach and promotional activity.
• Maintain confidentiality and uphold safeguarding, data protection and health & safety policies.
• Contribute to team meetings, service development and quality assurance activities.
• Promote equality, diversity and inclusive practice in all aspects of your work.
• Ensure the voices and experiences of single parents inform your advice, outreach activity and contribute to OPFS's policy and advocacy work.
• Demonstrate flexibility, a positive attitude and a commitment to OPFS's core values: Justice, Equity, Trust, Compassion and Collaboration.

The job description is a broad picture of the post at the time of preparation. It is not an exhaustive list of all possible duties, and it is recognised that jobs change and evolve over time.

Personal Specification

We're looking for someone who is passionate about supporting single-parent families and confident engaging with communities, professionals and partner organisations. You'll enjoy building relationships, sharing knowledge and helping improve access to advice services across Scotland.

Essential

• Experience in an advice, support, community engagement or customer-facing role.
• Experience of delivering presentations, workshops, training sessions or group information sessions, either online or in person.
• Interest in and an awareness of topics including housing, benefits, parenting, wellbeing and employment.
• Understanding of the challenges single parents face, or a strong desire to learn and put this into practice.
• Some knowledge and understanding of both UK and Scottish benefits systems.
• Demonstratable experience of building positive relationships with partners, stakeholders or community organisations.
• Ability to organise and deliver outreach or engagement activities.
• Must respect sensitive information and understand the need for it to be handled with care and professionalism.

Practical Skills

• Strong communication skills that are clear, engaging, empathetic and nonjudgmental.
• Confidence presenting information to groups and facilitating discussions online.
• Good listening and questioning skills to understand people's needs.
• Ability to build productive relationships with professionals and partner organisations.
• Good organisational skills with the ability to plan and prioritise competing demands.
• Confident using IT tools (Word, Outlook, Excel, Office 365, Microsoft Teams) and open to learning systems such as Salesforce.
• Able to work independently while contributing positively to a collaborative team.

Personal Qualities

• Enthusiasm for promoting services and improving access to advice.
• Empathy and respect for the lived experiences of single parents.
• A confident and approachable communicator.
• A team player who is flexible and open to change.
• Self-motivated and committed to continuous learning.
• A strong belief in equality, inclusion and diversity.
• A non-judgmental approach to supporting families from all backgrounds.
• Alignment with OPFS values: Justice, Equity, Trust, Compassion and Collaboration.

Desirable

• Experience delivering welfare rights advice or undertaking benefit calculations.
• Experience delivering webinars, online learning or practitioner development sessions.
• Experience planning and delivering community outreach or promotional campaigns.
• Familiarity with Salesforce, SharePoint or multi-channel advice platforms.
• Knowledge of partnership working across the third sector and public services in Scotland.
• A clean driving licence and access to a car.

Terms & Conditions

Confirmation of Appointment: Confirmation of appointment is subject to satisfactory completion of a 3-month probationary period, two references and a PVG check.

Salary: £29600 - £34042 (pro rata)

Hours of Work: up to 35 hours per week (typically from 9.15am – 4.45pm)

Holidays: Annual leave entitlement is 25 days and 12 Public Holidays (pro rata).

Pension: You will be auto enrolled in our pension scheme with a 3% contribution from you and 7% contribution from OPFS.

Training, Support and Supervision: You will receive induction training and frequent support in the first three months. Thereafter you will receive regularly scheduled individual support and supervision and annual appraisals. Regular team meetings will be held, and staff have access to internal and external training.

Equal Opportunities and Family Friendly Employment: OPFS aims to be an equal opportunity and family friendly employer. OPFS has Investors in People GOLD status.

The Data & Insights Officer plays an important part in helping OPFS understand, demonstrate and improve the difference it makes for single parent families, using data and insight to support improved outcomes for parents, children and families.

The postholder will have a central role in supporting the Weave Partnership to evidence progress against agreed milestones, outcomes and learning requirements. They will help develop and maintain a shared monitoring, evaluation and learning framework across the partnership, ensuring that data on activity, reach, referrals, outcomes, partnership working and family experience is collected consistently and used to inform governance, delivery, improvement and reporting. Working with OPFS colleagues, Weave partners, SPIRU and Scottish Government, they will translate data and qualitative evidence into clear insight that demonstrates the impact of OPFS MLAM Whole Family Support for single parent families, particularly those on low incomes and those experiencing multiple or intersecting disadvantages.

• Key responsibilities
• Develop and maintain a shared monitoring, evaluation and learning framework for the Weave Partnership, designed around MLAM and Whole Family Support outcomes.
• Translate Weave milestones into practical indicators, data collection tools and reporting arrangements for use across participating partner organisations.
• Collate and analyse partnership data to evidence reach, engagement, referral pathways, service access, family outcomes and learning across local authority areas and national delivery channels.
• Provide regular insight reports for OPFS Weave leadership structures, highlighting progress, risks, gaps, inequalities and opportunities for improvement.
• Support partners to evidence whether support is reaching low-income single parent families and families at highest risk of poverty, including those experiencing multiple and intersecting disadvantages.
• Analyse evidence on access to financial inclusion, childcare, employability, education, training and other forms of holistic Whole Family Support.
• Support the implementation of MLAM by helping partners capture, interpret and report outcomes in a consistent and meaningful way.
• Work with partners and SPIRU to produce monitoring, evaluation and learning outputs that demonstrate outcomes achieved, lessons learned and opportunities for wider application of the model.
• Gather and synthesise qualitative insight, family feedback and case study learning ethically and proportionately.
• Share evidence and learning with OPFS, Weave partners, Scottish Government and relevant networks to support continuous improvement and wider system learning.

Analysis and Insight

• Analyse data to identify trends and key messages.
• Turn information into clear, accessible insights that can be understood and used by a range of audiences.
• Share learning with OPFS colleagues, Weave partners and SPIRU, ensuring that externally generated insights are understood, integrated into practice and used to support service improvement and informed decision-making.
• Identify themes and learning across different services, projects and partnerships.
• Work across the Weave Partnership to support shared understanding and evaluation of data across the partnership as a whole.
• Contribute to a culture of learning, reflection and continuous improvement.

Impact Measurement and Reporting

• Provide data, analysis and summaries to support reporting to funders, partners and senior leaders.
• Support the development and use of meaningful measures of outcomes and impact.
• Work with colleagues to ensure reports are supported by accurate data and evidence.
• Help colleagues understand and use data effectively in reporting and planning.
• Contribute to communicating the impact of OPFS's work in clear and compelling ways.

Systems Improvement and Strategic Support

• Support the development and improvement of systems and processes for collecting, analysing and reporting information.
• Identify opportunities to make data-related processes simpler, more effective and more efficient.
• Support the effective use of databases and reporting systems
• Keep up to date with developments in data, evaluation and impact measurement.
• Share insights and learning that help shape organisational planning and future improvement.

Organisational Contribution

• Promote OPFS values of justice, equity, trust, collaboration and compassion.
• Contribute to wider organisational developments and projects.
• Undertake any other duties appropriate to the role.

OPFS is the lead partner and accountable body for the Weave Partnership, offering single parent families, and other priority family groups, a single, strengths based plan built around one trusted relationship, on the principle of ‘no wrong door’.

The Weave Project Lead will support the Head of Service (Weave) by leading the operational coordination, implementation and monitoring of the Weave Partnership. The postholder will ensure effective governance, strong partnership working, consistent use of the My Life and Me framework, robust referral and delivery arrangements, clear

evidence of outcomes for families, and high-quality reporting and learning for the Scottish Government, partners and wider networks.

Key responsibilities

Partnership Governance and Operational Accountability

• Lead the day-to-day coordination of Weave Partnership governance arrangements, supporting the Head of Service to ensure the Steering Group, operational delivery structures and partner protocols function effectively.
• Maintain clear action tracking, decision records, escalation routes and accountability mechanisms across OPFS and partner organisations.
• Support the Head of Service in preparing governance reports, briefing papers and updates for senior leaders, funders and partners.

Programme Delivery and Implementation

• Manage implementation of the Weave Partnership delivery plan across target local authority areas and national delivery channels.
• Coordinate delivery activity across in-person, telephone and digital support routes, ensuring services are accessible, joined-up and responsive.
• Monitor progress against milestones, deliverables, risks and dependencies, escalating issues to the Head of Service where required.

My Life and Me framework

• Coordinate implementation of the My Life and Me framework across partner organisations as the shared Whole Family Support planning and outcomes framework.
• Support partners to embed consistent practice, recording, review and reporting arrangements linked to MLAM.
• Support OPFS Heads of Support for Families to embed MLAM across all delivery services.
• Gather evidence that the framework is being used to support strengths-based, familycentred planning and outcome measurement.

Partnership Working and Referral Pathways

• Strengthen warm referral pathways, joint working arrangements and operational coordination between participating organisations.
• Act as a key contact for partners on delivery processes, shared systems, meetings, data collection and operational problem-solving.
• Identify gaps or barriers in partnership working and support practical solutions with the Head of Service and operational leads.

Reaching Priority Families and Reducing Barriers

• Monitor evidence that support is reaching low-income single parent families and families at highest risk of poverty.
• Support partners to extend access for families affected by family breakdown, imprisonment, rurality and other barriers to services.
• Use monitoring data and partner feedback to identify under-reached groups and inform improvements to access and delivery.

Financial Inclusion and Progression Pathways

• Coordinate evidence of family access to income maximisation, welfare rights advice, debt advice, child maintenance support and other financial inclusion interventions.
• Support partners to evidence access to childcare, employability, education and training opportunities.
• Ensure reporting captures how practical support contributes to improved family outcomes and poverty reduction.

Outcomes, Monitoring and Evaluation

• Oversee collection and collation of monitoring, evaluation and learning evidence across the partnership.
• Track outcomes relating to family wellbeing, parental confidence, resilience, relationships, social connectedness and coordinated support.
• Prepare monitoring and learning outputs that demonstrate outcomes achieved, lessons learned and opportunities for wider application of the model.

Learning, Reporting and System Influence

• Support the Head of Service to share evidence and learning with the Scottish Government, funded partners and relevant networks.
• Coordinate learning events, partner reviews and continuous improvement activities.
• Contribute to wider system learning on Whole Family Support, anti-poverty practice and effective partnership delivery.

The Financial Wellbeing Worker will play a key role in delivering OPFS’s Whole Family Support offer, providing high-quality, person-centred and strengths-based income maximisation and financial wellbeing support to single parents and their families across Scotland.

Working within the OPFS My Life and Me framework, the postholder will support parents to understand their financial circumstances, maximise household income, manage essential expenditure and build financial resilience.

The role will involve working with single parents experiencing financial pressures including low income, benefit changes, debt, rising household costs, insecure employment and childcare costs.

Key responsibilities

• Provide high-quality one-to-one income maximisation and financial wellbeing support.
• Assess household income, expenditure, financial circumstances and priorities.
• Identify opportunities to maximise income through welfare benefits, grants and other financial support.
• Support parents with welfare benefit applications, renewals and changes of circumstances where appropriate.
• Undertake benefit entitlement checks and calculations.
• Provide early intervention and preventative financial wellbeing support, helping parents identify and address financial pressures before they escalate into crisis or unmanageable debt.
• Support parents to budget effectively and identify opportunities to reduce household expenditure and essential living costs.
• Provide Better Off in Work calculations to help parents understand the financial implications of employment or changes to working hours.
• Support parents to understand the financial impact of changes in circumstances.
• Identify and respond appropriately to immediate financial hardship, including food,fuel and other essential needs, supporting parents to access relevant crisis assistance, grants and emergency provision.
• Provide income maximisation and financial wellbeing support within the agreed scope and competency of the role, identifying where specialist welfare rights, debt or regulated advice is required and ensuring timely referral to the appropriate OPFS or external service

Supporting single parents and families

• Build positive, trusting and respectful relationships with single parents, recognising their individual circumstances, strengths and aspirations.
• Use a person centred, strengths based and trauma informed approach.
• Work alongside parents to identify financial goals and develop realistic action plans.
• Support parents to build confidence, knowledge and skills in managing household finances.
• The postholder will take a holistic, whole-family approach, recognising the links between financial wellbeing, employment, housing, childcare, health and wider family circumstances. They will identify wider needs, strengths and goals and connect parents to appropriate OPFS and partner support, ensuring families can access the right support at the right time.
• Empower parents to make informed financial decisions and develop greater financial resilience.
• Recognise the wider impact of financial hardship on parents, children and family wellbeing and identify needs which may require support beyond the presenting financial issue.
• Take a whole-family approach, connecting parents to appropriate OPFS services and external support including family support, employability, childcare, welfare rights and debt services.
• Identify safeguarding, wellbeing or other concerns and respond appropriately in line with OPFS procedures.

Information, advice and signposting

• Provide accurate and accessible financial and benefits information within the remit of the role.
• Keep up to date with changes to welfare benefits, Scottish social security and relevant financial support.
• Make appropriate internal and external referrals to specialist services
• Work closely with OPFS Debt Service, Advice and Information, Family Support, Employability and other services to provide coordinated support.
• Maintain knowledge of relevant national and local services and resources.

National outreach and partnership working

• Deliver income maximisation support nationally across Scotland through face-to-face, telephone and digital approaches.
• Undertake proactive outreach and develop flexible and accessible approaches to engage single parents who may experience barriers to accessing traditional advice and support services.
• Develop effective relationships with statutory, voluntary and community organisations.
• Represent OPFS at relevant partnership meetings, events and networks.
• Promote the OPFS income maximisation service and wider support available to single parents.

Administration, monitoring and evaluation

• Maintain accurate, confidential and timely case records in line with OPFS policies and data protection requirements.
• Record outcomes and progress and contribute to monitoring, evaluation, case studies and funder reporting.
• Record evidence of the financial impact of the service, including income maximised and savings achieved where appropriate.
• Contribute to reporting requirements associated with the Whole Family Support Third Sector Delivery Fund.

Capture parent feedback and identify emerging issues affecting single parents.

Service development

• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of OPFS’s national income maximisation offer.
• Share learning, good practice and emerging issues with colleagues and managers.
• Contribute to developing accessible financial wellbeing information, resources and workshops.

Health, safety and safeguarding

• Comply with OPFS policies and procedures relating to safeguarding, confidentiality, equality, diversity, inclusion, health and safety and data protection.
• Promote the wellbeing and safety of single parents and their children and ensure concerns are appropriately identified, recorded and escalated.
• Maintain appropriate professional boundaries when working with parents and families.

General responsibilities

• Attend team meetings, supervision, training and development opportunities.
• Share learning and good practice and contribute to effective team working.
• Promote equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the role.
• Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post as requested by the Service Manager.

The Arabic-speaking Energy Advisor will work alongside our current Energy Advisor to deliver the Welcoming’s Home Energy programme, funded through the Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme. The project aims to tackle and prevent fuel poverty and associated risks by providing free and impartial home energy advice and support to New Scots households in Edinburgh.

The post-holder will provide advice and support in both English and Arabic, helping to ensure that Arabic-speaking New Scots can access energy advice in their own language.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further information.

Additional information

Please note that you must already be eligible to work in the UK to be employed by The Welcoming Association.

The post holder’s base location will be The Welcoming’s office on 20/1 Westfield Avenue, Edinburgh, EH11 2TT. The role will also involve visiting service users’ homes in the Edinburgh area to carry out home energy visits, and remote working from home when suitable.

Male Personal Assistant required to support disabled man at home.

The post

Your role will be to assist me in my home life and other activities. This will include all personal care and a range of domestic and social tasks.

About me

I am an experienced PA employer and have been employing my own staff for twelve years. I have cerebral palsy, which affects the use of my limbs. I can walk short distances with the aid of my stick and assistance from a PA. However, I generally use a power chair when out and about for mobility purposes.

Personal qualities

I am looking for someone who is reliable and enthusiastic. Somebody open-minded with a sense of humor You will be required to drive my Motability vehicle ,you must be over 25 to do this. UK driver’s licence is therefore required

Hours and rate of pay

The post is for 15-20 hours per week,(more hours will be available). You will be working Mon-Fri. Shifts will be 3 or 4 hours per day either depending on my needs that day. More hours also available to cover holidays and illness. Flexibility will be required.

The rate of pay is £13.65 per hour

The post will be offered based on the completion of paid trial shift(s), this will be confirmed at interview.

Every day, people across Scotland are adjusting to life following a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition, after experiencing a stroke or dealing with Long Covid. At Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS), Scotland's leading health charity, we're working to ensure there is No Life Half Lived, and you could play a vital role in making that happen.

We provide a range of services, notably through our Community Healthcare Support Service, which delivers supported self-management and recovery services across Scotland.

By joining CHSS as a contracts officer, you’ll have a real opportunity to help people move beyond simply surviving, towards managing their health, regaining confidence and independence and connecting with their communities.

About the Role

The Contracts Officer plays a key role within Service Delivery, supporting the effective management, monitoring and governance of service level agreements, statutory contracts and commissioned service arrangements across Scotland.

Working closely with managers, NHS Boards, the Scottish Government, Local Authorities and other partners, you will help ensure that services are delivered in line with contractual requirements, performance expectations and organisational priorities.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong organisational skills and attention to detail who enjoys working collaboratively, managing information and supporting continuous improvement.

The role includes:

• Developing and maintaining the Service Delivery Contract Register.
• Supporting contract monitoring, review and renewal processes.
• Coordinating reports and governance information.
• Supporting quality assurance, compliance and performance monitoring activities.
• Working with managers and external partners to ensure contractual commitments are met.
• Identifying risks, concerns and opportunities for improvement.
• Supporting the ongoing development of contract management processes across Service Delivery.

About You

We are looking for an organised and proactive individual with experience in administration, governance, contract management or a similar business support role. Ideally, educated to SCQF Level 7 (or equivalent), such as an HNC, relevant vocational qualification, or equivalent professional experience gained through working in contract management, governance, administration, quality assurance, commissioning or a similar role.

You will have:

• Excellent organisational and administrative skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Experience maintaining records, registers or governance documentation.
• Experience preparing reports and monitoring information.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
• Good Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Word and Outlook.

Experience of working within health and social care, the NHS, public sector or third sector environments would be advantageous but is not essential.

Why Join CHSS?

At CHSS, you'll be joining a charity where your work has a genuine impact on people's lives across Scotland.

Our colleagues describe working at CHSS as rewarding, fulfilling, impactful, friendly an inclusive, reflecting both the purpose of our work and the supportive culture we continue to build together.

We value people with different experiences, skills and perspectives. Our colleagues join us at many stages of their careers, from those taking their first steps into employment, to professionals seeking a new challenge, people changing sectors, and those looking to use their experience in a purpose-driven organisation. What unites us is a shared commitment to improving the lives of people across Scotland.

What We Can Offer You

• Working at CHSS means being part of a passionate organisation that makes a real difference
• every day. We offer:
• A rewarding, positive and supportive work environment
• Company pension scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Company sick pay scheme
• Employee wellbeing support
• Life assurance

Flexible Working

CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”. While we encourage flexibility wherever possible, please note that our Retail Shop roles operate within set business hours of 10:00 am to 5:00 pm to meet the needs of the business.

Safeguarding and Equality

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a PVG check.

CHSS is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and to creating an environment free from unlawful discrimination. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates and aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or colleague is treated unfairly because of their background or circumstances.

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

Sacro provide Restorative Justice and one to one Behavioural change programmes to assist young people to address offending behaviour and, where appropriate, to support young people to make amends to address their behaviour by making amends to the person they have harmed.

The successful candidate will be responsible for working directly with young people as part of an existing Youth Justice team. The successful candidate should have experience of working with young people who offend and have knowledge of psychosocial and psychological interventions, Restorative Justice and experience of delivering group work programmes.

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills. The ability to work both as part of a team and independently. Experience of multi-disciplinary team working would be an advantage. A commitment to Sacro’s value base is essential.

A valid driving licence is essential for this post

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

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

St Mary’s Music School is Scotland’s specialist music school and the Choir School of St Mary’s Cathedral. It is easy to access, situated in a leafy campus in the heart of Edinburgh, a short walk away from Haymarket Station. Co-educational, day and boarding, the School provides specialist music training and an impressive and stimulating academic education for pupils aged 9 to 19 showing special ability and potential in music. St Mary’s Music School “aims to provide the highest possible standard of education and training to exceptionally gifted young musicians, in an inspiring, inclusive and supportive environment”.

Following a restructure of the school’s development department, St Mary’s Music School is looking toappoint a self-motivated and dynamic fundraiser to help secure and sustain significant grants from trustsand foundations.The postholder will develop high quality applications, bids and reports for a diverse rangeof audiences.

The School is keen to appoint someone with excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as exceptional relationship-management skills, who will work to develop and deliver a strategy to grow sustainable income from grants and foundations over time.

This is a part-time post of 21 hours/3 days per week, working over the whole year. It is expected the successful candidate would work mainly on-site.

The line manager for the role will be the School Bursar, and the successful candidate will also work closely with the Individual Giving Manager, Marketing & Communications Manager and Administration Assistant (in relation to databases) as well as members of the Senior Management Team