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The Scottish Pantry Network (TSPN) is growing, and we are recruiting a Volunteer & Employability Coordinator to lead volunteering and support volunteer progression within our Prepmate meal‑kit programme. This new role offers the chance to shape a people-centred volunteering programme while supporting practical skills development in a busy production environment.

About Us

TSPN strengthens communities across Scotland by improving access to nutritious food, reducing food waste and supporting community wellbeing. Our Prepmate programme produces affordable meal kits while providing hands‑on training and development opportunities for volunteers.

About the Role

You will recruit, induct and support volunteers, coordinate their day‑to‑day activities across food prep, packing and stock handling, and deliver training in key areas such as food hygiene, safety and customer service.

You will also provide light‑touch employability support (CV help, confidence building, goal setting) and build strong relationships with partners such as DWP, colleges, Skills Development Scotland and employers.

Why Join TSPN?

• Help volunteers build confidence, skills and opportunities
• Shape a new role in a growing social enterprise
• Support meaningful community impact
• Work within a friendly, passionate team

If you are looking for a rewarding career and to work within an epic team that will help you grow and thrive, then you have come to the right place. Working within Self-Harm Network Scotland, you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

Self-Harm Network Scotland provides free compassionate support, resources, and information to people who self-harm. We also provide support and information to friends, families and professionals.

We are part of Penumbra Mental Health, a pioneering charity providing dedicated services for people with mental ill health. We support people on their journey to better mental health, by working with each person to find their own way forward. We are funded by the Scottish Government and also work with partner agencies who share our goal of minimising distress and reducing self-harm.

As a mental health charity, we really value the wellbeing of our staff. That’s why we want you to know that you’ll be joining a friendly team, who will give you a supportive environment to help you thrive in your role, including all the training you need to feel confident and equipped.

We can offer you a tonne of employee benefits, and we can promise you’ll be inspired by some pretty amazing humans every single day. We will support you on your own career path; developing new skills, accessing formal and informal learning experiences and providing opportunities to put your continual progress into practice.

For more information, including full job description and application/interview guidance, please download our recruitment pack.

The Butterfly Trust is the lead provider of social and psychosocial support for people affected by Cystic Fibrosis throughout Scotland. We provide a comprehensive range of outreach services for all ages of people with Cystic Fibrosis and their families across Scotland.

We aspire to a quality of excellence in our standard of service provision to Scotland’s Cystic Fibrosis Community.

All of our personnel are expected to maintain those standards when providing support that is focused on promoting emotional wellbeing alongside practical help to maximise income and addresses issues that include housing, benefits, education and employment.

We are looking for a dynamic, proactive and personable individual to join our team. They must have a positive attitude, attention to detail with a genuine passion for supporting other people and who has ambition for their own continued personal and professional development. They will have excellent communication, interpersonal, problem solving and organisational skills, experience in managing or supervising staff or volunteers and able to work with people at all levels.

We will provide both in-house and external training to ensure all of our team have appropriate skills and knowledge to fulfil their role to the best of their ability.

The Adult Services Manager is responsible for providing a range of services to adults affected by Cystic Fibrosis, including direct support for carers and supervision of volunteer mentors who provide direct support them.

They will work in collaboration with specialist medical personnel to ensure provision of professional and integrated medical and social support services as well as liaising with Social Care Services, Local Authorities and other relevant specialist agencies, as required.

Full driving licence and a car is essential.

For this regulated work the successful candidate will be required to gain/maintain PVG scheme membership which will be paid for by the Trust.

We offer:

Out of pocket expenses

Mileage allowance

Individual staff training budget for in-house and external training

Generous holiday entitlement

5% Workplace pension

Here. Now. All of us. Be part of the team championing bold action for climate, nature, and people in Scotland’s first National Park. Join us and be part of the change.

Thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, this exciting new post offers the chance to develop a major new landscape scale nature restoration project for nature, climate and people, at the heart of the National Park.

The Role:

Working alongside Loch Lomond & The Trossachs Countryside Trust and RSPB Scotland, the National Park Authority has committed to an exciting new Landscape Connections Initiative. This focuses on accelerating restoration of our woodland mosaic, addressing shared threats, and maximising shared opportunities for people and communities across three existing landscape partnerships.

The post holder will provide 18-month development phase project management support across the Initiative. This will focus on our work investing in visitor infrastructure and services - particularly increasing the amount of people engaged and inspired to experience our nature-rich network through accessible, low-carbon travel.

This work directly supports the National Park Partnership Plans vision that by 2045, the National Park will have an inclusive low carbon travel network. To ensure this continues to develop at pace, this role will provide essential support to transport related projects including the role water can play in connecting people with nature as outlined in the Sustainable Travel Options Appraisal and Modal Shift Report.

Be part of a community for young people.

Dean & Cauvin Young People’s Trust is one of Scotland’s oldest children’s charities, rooted in nearly 300 years of care, connection and support. We believe every young person, young parent and baby deserves to grow up safe, loved, respected and with every opportunity to thrive.

Role:

Based in our Wellbeing Hub in West Edinburgh, you will lead a skilled team who provide a range of practical, social and emotional 1:1, group and whole-family support to children, young people and families who have experiences of care to help them:

• Move on from residential living to independent life and living in the community
• Develop healthy relationships, connections and mental wellbeing
• Build confidence, education, skills and training
• Be confident and supportive young parents

Our team work closely with:

• Our residential house teams in North and East Edinburgh to provide additional support to the young people, young parents and babies living alongside us to further develop their social and community connections
• Young people who have lived with us and are now requiring ongoing support in the community or supported living in one of our community Transition flats
• Young people and families from the wider care community and young people in our fostering households who require support.

We work together with families, social work, health services and other colleagues to keep the strengths, aspirations and voice of children, young people and families at the heart of all we do while ensuring their safety and welfare is always maintained.

The Team Leader role is pivotal to this. Tasked with the day-to-day operations of the Community & Transition team, Wellbeing Hub and Transition flats, you are expected to lead, support and supervise a small staff team to create a culture of nurture and community for young people, young parents, babies and families.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and supervise a team delivering trauma informed, developmentally attuned direct practice
• Oversee all Wellbeing Hub activities, ensuring it remains a safe, inclusive relational and engaging environment
• Coordinate referrals, assessments and care planning using GIRFEC and rights based principles
• Strengthen connections between the Hub, residential houses, foster carers and community flats
• Oversee support being delivered to our transition flats and that it aligns with Care Inspectorate guidelines.
• Work with Team Leaders across our services to model integrated, developmentally attuned care

Investing in You

If you are someone who can make a real difference for children, young people and families—and bring experience from social work, youth, community or family support—then we would love to hear from you.

As a Team Leader, you will support our on call rota, including some weekend work, with additional payments provided.

We are deeply committed to investing in our people. You will have access to a wide range of professional development opportunities, including:

• Fully funded SVQ 4 in Social Services (Children & Young People)
• Regular supervision and reflective consultation
• Ongoing training and development aligned with our organisational practice
• Access to Employee Benefit Scheme
• Use of our Caravan in Berwick-Upon-Tweed

Scottish Book Trust is a national charity that believes books, reading and writing have the power to change lives. A love of reading inspires creativity, improves employment opportunities, mental health and wellbeing and is one of the most effective ways to help break the poverty cycle. We work towards a Scotland where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive through literacy.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to join Scottish Book Trust as a Freelance Bookbug Trainer, to support Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug programme by delivering training to various groups of professionals and volunteers across Scotland.

As part of the Bookbug programme, the Training and Development team delivers high quality, funded training to practitioners from across Scotland, both in person and online.

Location

We are looking to recruit freelance trainers located in or easily able to travel to:

• Edinburgh
• Fife
• Glasgow

N.B. Bookbug training is delivered all over Scotland and in venues not necessarily easily accessible by public transport.

Key responsibilities

• To deliver training to a variety of different audiences (including library, early years staff, third sector and health professionals)
• To act as an advocate for Scottish Book Trust and the Bookbug programme as a whole.

Key Skills

• Experience of delivering training to others, online and in person
• Confidence to deliver practical training courses which include singing and rhyming
• Knowledge and understanding of child development
• Experience of working with groups of early years children and parents
• Ability to work with people at many levels and from different professional backgrounds including libraries, health, early years settings and third sector organisations
• Ability to work with minimum supervision
• Interest in literature, music and the early years
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Experience in creating an inclusive and welcoming training environment

Fee

• £285 for full day in-person training session
• £175 for online Bookbug Session Leader training and all Bookbug for the Home sessions.
• £45p/h for meetings (2 x 2hr online, 1 x 4hr in person, 3 meetings per year / £360 per year)

The fee includes any travel time and/or preparation time. Travel and accommodation expenses will be paid.

Induction

• Freelance Bookbug Trainers will receive a comprehensive induction from Scottish Book Trust. This will include:
• Training in how to deliver each of our training programmes
• Training in other aspects of the Bookbug programme as required
• Overview of how the Bookbug programme fits into national Early Years policies and strategies
• Freelance Bookbug trainers will be accompanied by a member of Scottish Book Trust staff when delivering their first external training days.

Fortune Works is one of Scotland’s largest social enterprises for people with learning disability. The service supports around 120 people with learning disability to play a full role in the life of the community through provision of in-house economic activity and social support, working in partnership with local community organisations in Drumchapel and north-west Glasgow. Fortune Works is part of Enable Glasgow, a long-established member-led organisation which works with people with learning disability and their carers in the city.

The Support Worker-Social Enterprise duties will include helping to create, facilitate and maintain positive person centred activities which support people with a learning disability to play a worthwhile economic role as valued members of the local community.

The successful candidate will provide a high quality of care and support for service users with a range of learning disabilities and will encourage participation in group activities to support people to gain skills and confidence. The applicant should have experience of programme planning and review systems.

Most importantly they should have a positive and empowering approach to support people purchasing the service at Fortune Works.

Fortune Works is part of ENABLE Glasgow a Charity registered in Scotland No.SC021077. ENABLE Glasgow Branch is a company Limited by Guarantee No. 250688.

Benefits

Employee benefits include:

• 33 days leave (including public holidays) rising to 38 days after five years’ service.
• An enhanced pension scheme.
• Free life cover.
• Free access to counselling and wellbeing services.
• Support for training and professional development.

Financially Included is a specialist welfare rights project supporting women who have experienced economic abuse and other forms of gender-based violence, which have impacted their ability to achieve financial independence and stability.

As the project enters an exciting new phase of growth and development, we are seeking to recruit a dedicated and experienced Administrator to join our team.

This is a key role within a dynamic and innovative project. We are looking for someone who is passionate about social justice, thrives in a fast-paced and collaborative environment, and has a strong understanding of the feminist analysis of gender-based violence.

The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting the delivery of our work and ensuring the smooth running of our services. You will be required to work across a number of functions within the project, so the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced and multi-layered environment is essential.

By joining Financially Included, you will become part of a passionate and committed team with a shared vision and values, working to improve outcomes for women affected by economic abuse.

GEMAP Scotland is committed to Fair Work First principles, including providing a supportive working environment, promoting equality, and investing in staff wellbeing and development.

Join Us at Staf – Be Part of our work with young people moving on from the care and justice system.

Staf are delighted to be recruiting for a new role to support the expansion of Youth Justice Voices our national participation project for care and justice experienced young people.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right applicant to support a prestigious, creative and dynamic youth-led project which is influencing real change in the care and justice systems in Scotland. If you are passionate about driving change and developing meaningful participation opportunities and relationships with young people, then we want to hear from you.

Background:

Established in 1998, Staf (Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum) is a membership organisation for all those working with young people leaving care. Staf is a national organisation which represents all 32 Local authorities in Scotland

At Staf (Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum), we believe that young people’s voices should shape the systems that affect their lives. That’s why we developed Youth Justice Voices to ensure that young people with experience of the care and justice system are heard, valued, and influential in driving change.

The Role

We are looking for passionate, skilled, and values-driven individual who will promote and support the expansion of a national network, (specifically in the North East) of youth-led steering groups for care and justice experienced young people.

You will be skilled at developing and sustain relationships with young people in order to amplify their voice and influence systems and practice change in the care and justice sector.

The postholder will play a key role in ensuring that participation is embedded, impactful and contributes to improved outcomes for young people.

Why This Matters

At staf we create meaningful opportunities for young people to share their experiences, influence policy, and shape practice across Scotland. Our work supports participation that is authentic, trauma-informed, and rooted in relationships.

This is your chance to be part of something that makes a real difference.

If you

• Are committed to children’s rights, participation, and social justice
• Have experience working with young people, particularly those facing adversity
• Have experience of superivising a team
• Can work flexibly and creatively in a dynamic environment
• Value reflection, learning, and trauma-informed practice
• Shaer our values : We listen, we care, we love

Then we would love to hear from you.

What You’ll Get

• The opportunity to influence real change for young people in the care and justice system
• A supportive, reflective, and values-led team culture
• Opportunities for learning, development, and progression
• Flexible working and a strong commitment to staff wellbeing

If you are passionate about amplifying young people’s voices and want to be part of a team that is shaping the future of youth justice in Scotland, we would love to hear from you.