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Aberlour

Intensive Perinatal Support Worker Tayside

  • Aberlour
  • Full time
  • £28,085
  • On site: Perth & Kinross
  • Closing 6th April 2026

“The best way we can help a new baby is to ensure that their parent’s needs are met and their trauma attended to” - Dr Bruce Perry (2020)

About Tayside Perinatal Service

Aberlour has always seen the benefit of early intervention and are pleased to have received funding from Scottish Government to work supporting new parents pre and post birth. By working alongside new parents, we aim to facilitate recovery from problematic substance use and improve parenting capacity and confidence to positively impact on the outcomes for both parents and their new babies.

The service will work across 7 days per week operating within the hours of 8am to 8pm to flexibly meet the needs of the parents and families being supported. The work will cover prebirth to baby’s first birthday offering strength based whole family support.

What we are looking for....

We are seeking to recruit an Intensive Perinatal Support Worker, working 37.5 hours per week. Initial funding from Scottish Government is secured until 31st March 2027. This post will be based in Perth and Kinross. We are looking for candidates with a sound knowledge of child development and experience of working with individuals with problematic substance and/or alcohol use.

We encourage people to apply who have lived experience of alcohol or drug use, with a minimum of 2 years living in recovery, free from all drug use and problem drinking.

At Aberlour we want to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. Aberlour’s values are critical and drive everything we do. We will be looking for someone who can demonstrate how Aberlour’s values of Respect, Innovation, Integrity and Challenge will be visible in their practice. You must be comfortable working in an environment where Aberlour’s values are lived in practice. To have a look at our values to understand more about what we are looking for from our employees click here.

What we offer...

As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers. Find out more about our Employee Benefits and our commitment to Equality and Diversity here.

We also follow Data Protection Guidelines - Here is our privacy policy.

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COVEY Befriending

Family Support Worker (Children, Young People and Parents/Carers)

  • COVEY Befriending
  • Full time
  • £25,029 – £30,708
  • Hybrid: Hamilton
  • Closing 10th April 2026

Community Volunteers Enabling You (COVEY) has operated across Lanarkshire for 30+ years supporting 5,000 children, young people and parents/carers to become more resilient, safe and better equipped to reach their full potential. COVEY provides 1-1 and group-based befriending, mentoring and family support.

COVEY is seeking a passionate, professional and proactive individual to provide support to families who are experiencing difficulties or challenges in their everyday lives such as isolation, mental and physical health problems, disability, poverty and trauma. This involves direct work with children, young people, parents/carers and whole families via 1-1 intervention/support and group-based mentoring.

The successful candidate will provide person centred, relationship-based support to children, young people and parents/carers to help them identify and address short-term needs (strengthening confidence, wellbeing and family/community relationships) and support long-term aspirations into positive destinations. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with experienced professionals, manage complex cases, and support volunteer mentors. If you have a strong background in family support and are driven by our mission to create positive change, apply today and help families thrive.

What we’re looking for:

  • HNC/SVQ 3 Level in Health and Social Care Services, Social Services, Community Development, Youth Work, or equivalent. Relevant experience and skills may substitute formal qualifications.
  • Experience in assessing and supporting individuals with complex needs, including children, young people, adults, and carers.
  • Competence in delivering 1-1 and group-based interventions, including managing complex cases.
  • Proven ability to work with community, statutory, and voluntary agencies to support vulnerable families.
  • Strong communication and administrative skills, including report writing and use of office software (e.g. Salesforce).
  • Experience in managing safeguarding risks, conducting risk assessments, and supporting volunteers and students.
  • Ability to organise and prioritise workload in a dynamic environment, with knowledge of data security and GDPR.

What we offer

We offer a rewarding role with the opportunity to develop your skills and future career in an enriching environment with the following benefits:

  • 6% employer pension contribution
  • flexible working (including flexi-time)
  • access to learning and development opportunities
  • one special leave day to celebrate your birthday
  • annual staff and volunteer recognition awards
  • quarterly staff wellbeing activities
  • annual all staff outing/activity
  • HSF Health plan for employees (and their spouse/partner and children) including dental and optical claim back, physio claim back, personal accident coverage, GP, mental health counselling, legal support, discounts for gym, cinema and shopping
  • access to ScotWest Credit Union offering loans, mortgages and savings accounts
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The Robertson Trust

Programmes Officer (Social Change Movements)

  • The Robertson Trust
  • Full time
  • £41,104 – £48,715
  • Hybrid: Primary location: Glasgow (Robertson House)
  • Closing 27th April 2026

The Robertson Trust is looking for two Programmes Officers (Social Change Movements) to join our new Programmes team. Based primarily at Robertson House, Glasgow, with hybrid working available, this role supports the Trust to secure big change that lasts in preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland.

Over the next decade, we are committed to using all our tools and resources to reduce poverty and trauma across four themes:

• Education Pathways

• Financial Security

• Nurturing Relationships

• Work Pathways

As a member of the team, you will support the delivery of our new approach to ‘social movement funding’, a new part of our Programme Awards funding stream.

The Role

The Programmes Officers will support the Programmes Manager (Social Change Movements) to contribute to the development and delivery of our ‘social movement funding’ approach, our most proactive Programme Award work, aligned to our long-term change priorities.

You will contribute to influencing and social change activity, particularly through the projects we fund, build strong relationships with grantholders and stakeholders, and support the effective development, assessment and management of both our ‘social change movement’ Programme Awards and our wider Programme Award portfolio.

You will gather and apply insight to strengthen programme development and learning, contribute to meaningful participation of people with lived experience, and work collaboratively across the organisation to ensure our programme work is informed, connected and effective.

Key responsibilities

• Support the development and delivery of our new ‘social movements funding’ approach – our most proactive Programme Award cohorts aligned to long-term change priorities

• Contribute to identifying and supporting influencing opportunities, particularly through funded projects

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with grantholders, stakeholders and experts by experience

• Support the development, assessment and management of Programme Awards in line with governance and good practice

• Gather and apply insight to inform programme development and organisational learning

• Contribute to participation and engagement with people with lived experience

• Support monitoring, review and learning processes to ensure programme activity remains aligned and impact focused

• Represent the Trust externally as required and contribute to cross-cutting organisational priorities

A full job description is available on our website – therobertsontrust.org.uk

About You

We are looking for someone with knowledge of the Trust’s mission on poverty and trauma and an understanding of the third sector and independent funding landscape in Scotland and across the UK.

You will bring:

• HNC/D, or equivalent relevant experience.

• Relevant experience in a field related to poverty and/or trauma

• Experience contributing to programmes, projects or initiatives with demonstrable impact or influence

• An understanding of effective and relational funding practice

• Experience or understanding of funding processes such as assessment, decision making or grant management

• Insight into inequality, poverty or trauma through lived, paid or voluntary experience

• Strong analytical skills, sound judgement and attention to detail

• The ability to build collaborative relationships across diverse stakeholders

• The confidence to manage competing priorities and use your own initiative

• High emotional intelligence and the ability to relate to people from different backgrounds

• An interest in Scotland’s policy and political landscape and the potential to develop political judgement

You will be adaptable, collaborative and aligned to the Trust’s values.

We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates from all parts of the community, regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief or socio-economic background. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience or knowledge of how poverty or trauma impact lives.

Benefits

• Salary £41,104 to £48,715 FTE

• 35 days holiday per calendar year, inclusive of public holidays

• Pension – 10% employer contribution or 14% if employee contribution is 7%

• Additional employee benefits package (currently under review)

• This role is advertised as full-time, but we are open to applicants who wish to work part-time.

The Robertson Trust is committed to hybrid and flexible working. We are open to reasonable adaptations to overcome barriers and are a Living Wage employer accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.

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The Robertson Trust

Influencing Officer

  • The Robertson Trust
  • Full time
  • £41,104 – £48,715
  • Hybrid: Primary location: Glasgow (Robertson House)
  • Closing 27th April 2026

The Robertson Trust is looking for an Influencing Officer (Fixed Term – 1 Year) to join our new Programmes team. Based primarily at Robertson House, Glasgow, with hybrid working available, this role supports the Trust to secure big change that lasts in preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland.

Over the next decade, we are committed to using all our tools and resources to reduce poverty and trauma across four themes:

• Education Pathways

• Financial Security

• Nurturing Relationships

• Work Pathways

As part of our cross-cutting Influencing objective, this role will support the development and delivery of the Trust’s direct influencing activity, working with partners and stakeholders to influence decision making and systems change.

The Role

This role supports the Programmes Manager (Social Change Movements) and the wider organisation to strengthen the Trust’s influencing work in preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland.

You will help to develop and test effective approaches to direct influencing and support the Trust to build relationships with those who have the power to deliver change. You will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to ensure influencing activity connects with our wider work, including communications, convening, the influencing work we fund and the learning from our funding.

You will also support stakeholder engagement, network development and policy insight, helping the Trust identify opportunities to influence policy, practice and decision making.

Key responsibilities

• Support the development and delivery of direct influencing activity aligned to the Trust’s influencing objective

• Work collaboratively across the Trust to ensure direct influencing activity connects with communications, convening and the indirect influencing work we fund

• Support the development of influencing plans and help test effective approaches to influencing

• Build and strengthen networks with grantholders, stakeholders and peer organisations undertaking influencing work

• Monitor and analyse policy, political and practice developments relevant to poverty and trauma in Scotland

• Support stakeholder mapping and engagement with decision makers and influential actors

• Contribute to gathering and applying insight from across the Trust’s work to strengthen influencing activity

• Represent the Trust externally as required and contribute to cross-cutting organisational priorities

A full job description is available on our website – therobertsontrust.org.uk

About You

We are looking for someone with a strong understanding of poverty and trauma and the policy, political and practice landscape in Scotland.

You will bring:

• HNC/D, or equivalent relevant experience.

• Relevant experience in a field related to poverty and/or trauma

• Experience supporting influencing, policy, advocacy or strategic engagement work

• A strong understanding of the voluntary sector in Scotland

• Experience building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and networks

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex issues clearly

• The ability to manage competing priorities and work using your own initiative

• Experience supporting the development of influencing plans or campaigns

• High emotional intelligence and the ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders

• An interest in policy, politics and practice in Scotland and how social change happens

• A commitment to addressing inequality and placing lived experience at the centre of work

We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates from all parts of the community, regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief or socio-economic background. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience or knowledge of how poverty or trauma impact lives.

Benefits

• Salary £41,104 to £48,715 FTE

• 35 days holiday per calendar year, inclusive of public holidays

• Pension – 10% employer contribution or 14% if employee contribution is 7%

• Additional employee benefits package (currently under review)

• This role is advertised as full-time, but we are open to applicants who wish to work part-time

The Robertson Trust is committed to hybrid and flexible working. We are open to reasonable adaptations to overcome barriers and are a Living Wage employer accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.

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Stop Climate Chaos Scotland

Advocacy Lead

  • Stop Climate Chaos Scotland
  • Full time
  • £35,000
  • Remote: Home-based in Scotland with access to Central Belt meetings required.
  • Closing 4th May 2026

This new role would suit someone who is naturally very well-organised, able to build strong relationships and garner support, enjoys working with lots of partners, has experience of Scottish politics, and is committed to climate action and justice. Amidst the self-evident climate emergency it is vital that we re-establish the priority of climate action amongst the public, with politicians and decision makers, and win wide support for urgent change and leadership.

You’ll lead on our engagement with stakeholders, MSPs, government officials and party staff and work to build support through sympathetic groups such as unions and the faith community, in order to help to mobilise our supporters and grow the strong public support for action. You’ll be part of the small SCCS secretariat team that provides support to our diverse members and works with them to plan and deliver advocacy and campaigns activities, so you’ll need to be a great communicator, enthusiastic, proactive and willing to be flexible.

With Scottish elections taking place in 2026, this is an important time to be influencing climate policy. This role will play an essential part in helping the Scottish climate movement navigate the new political context, boost our impact and win deeper support for urgency and action.

About SCCS

Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) is Scotland’s climate coalition, bringing together over 70 civil society organisations campaigning together on climate change. Our membership is diverse and includes national and community organisations working on:

  • Climate action justice
  • Environment and nature
  • Gender and social justice
  • Faith and belief
  • International development
  • Worker and human rights
  • Health and inequality

Together, we represent hundreds of thousands of people across Scotland and stand in solidarity with communities most affected by climate impacts around the world. We collaborate with our members to build strong public support for faster climate action. We use this support to influence decision-makers to put in place fair, effective policies to reduce emissions and benefits for everyone.

Key Tasks
  • Designing an advocacy strategy with our members and leading on the delivery of this, with activities likely to include producing briefings, meeting with MSPs and officials, giving evidence to committees attending party conferences and responding to consultations, amongst other ways identified in work plans to influence politicians.
  • Building and deepening relationships with MSPs, officials and party staff, building support for SCCS’s policy priorities.
  • Attending and organising stakeholder gatherings to recruit more diverse members and build support from unions, the faith community and sympathetic organisations to deliver a more unified, consistent and powerful political voice for urgent climate action which, in turn, will help influence the politicians that rely on these key stakeholders for votes and funding.
  • Ensuring political influencing is connected with media work, mobilising supporters and wider stakeholders, and running public campaigns to build and maintain the public support for action.
  • Day to day monitoring and analysis of the Scottish Parliament, identifying opportunities and sharing information with members.
  • Working with UK organisations on relevant Westminster/reserved matters that affect Scotland, and with TCC, our sister UK coalition, to develop their Local Intelligence Hub so that it becomes a platform Scottish campaigners can use to track advocacy and impact.
  • Supporting members – especially smaller organisations – with their advocacy, offering advice and support when needed.
Personal Specification
Knowledge, experience and skills

Essential:

  • A proven track record in a similar or related role, which included influencing parliamentary processes, policy and campaigning, or won support with diverse stakeholders;
  • Ability to work collaboratively across the political spectrum and with multiple partners to build and maintain strong relationships;
  • A strong understanding of Scotland’s political landscape;
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, suitable for different audiences and purposes;
  • Excellent IT skills;
  • Able to work flexibly and identify and act on opportunities for continually improving ways – of working;
  • The ability to work effectively in a small team;
  • Able to prioritise and organise a busy workload;
  • Demonstrable commitment to action on climate change and climate justice.

Desirable:

  • Experience facilitating meetings and organising events;
  • Experience of working with the media.
Qualifications

No specific qualifications are required for the role: the knowledge, skills and experience of the successful candidate will be more important than formal academic qualifications.

Terms and Conditions
  • Salary: £35,000.
  • Hours: 5 days a week (35 hours). The post holder may need to work the occasional evening or weekend, for which time off in lieu will be granted. Overtime will not be paid.
  • Location: Primarily from home, with occasional office working in central Edinburgh.
  • Other travel may be required to meetings, most often in the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Government offices and other locations in the central belt, but occasionally in other parts of Scotland or the UK (for which travel expenses will be paid).
  • Line manager: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland Coalition Manager.
  • Holiday: 28 days annual leave plus 11 days statutory holidays.
  • Pension: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland operates a pension plan with NEST and our pension benefits exceed the statutory minimum.
  • We can only employ candidates with the right to work in the UK.
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Space @ the Broomhouse Hub

Youth Participation Worker

  • Space @ the Broomhouse Hub
  • Part time
  • £27,310 pro-rata
  • On site: Edinburgh
  • Closing 22nd April 2026

About Space:

Do you want to work for an organisation that truly cares about its staff?

Would you like to use your skills to make a difference in people’s lives?

If the answer is ‘yes’, Space is the place for you!

Space is a community anchor organisation supporting people and their families in South West Edinburgh, with some of our services stretching city wide.

WE BELIEVE THAT CONNECTIONS BUILD COMMUNITIES

Space delivers 22 projects, with around 60 staff and 50 volunteers. We deliver diverse services supporting young people, families, older people and carers amongst others.

As a dynamic organisation no two days are the same, with a wealth of learning and development opportunities for our staff and volunteers.

We are an accredited Living Wage employer and proud to share our Carer Positive accreditation, as part of our commitment to the growing number of people in the workforce who need flexibility due to their caring role.

Space is wholly committed to inclusion and diversity and to building a culture and environment where everyone is appreciated for the unique person they are.

For more information about Space and all our projects can be found on our website – spacescot.org

About the role:

The Youth Participation Worker will join a small team (2 workers and a manager) designing, planning and delivering our WOW! project that supports young people aged 16-24yrs with the transition between education and employment.

The project offers group sessions and works with partners like Edinburgh Zoo and Edinburgh International Festival to help young people build on their skills and improve their confidence.

WOW! has been successfully running for almost 2 years, having delivered 6 cohorts during that time. Each cohort runs for 10 weeks, with up to 10 young people participating in each group. *Sessions take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Broomhouse Hub, with some sessions being delivered by partner organisations in outreach locations throughout Edinburgh.

Having demonstrated the fantastic impact of WOW! we have recently secured additional funding which will allow us to run a further 4 cohorts through to the end of July 2027, and we hope to secure further funding to secure the project longer term.

Key tasks in the role include:

  • Co-design, plan and deliver WOW! group sessions to meet the objectives of the project, carrying out meaningful consultation with group participants to ensure the content is engaging and appropriate for their needs, whilst balancing the funders requirements
  • Meet with young people to assess their suitability for the project and to deliver appropriate support
  • Create promotional material and network locally, recruiting suitable young people on to the programme
  • Work with project partners to coordinate session planning and practical aspects of delivery
  • Track and evaluate the progress of the project to demonstrate impact and inform funder reporting
  • Maintain project administration, ensuring accurate, detailed, records are kept for project activity, and the attendance and skills development of each young person
  • Stay abreast of local opportunities for young people, such as community groups, jobs, work placements, further education and volunteering opportunities
  • Source and commission external trainers/suppliers to deliver sessions where specialised knowledge and/or skills are required
  • Recruit and support volunteers in the project
  • Ensure the safety of participants and volunteers through assessing risks and applying safeguarding practices
  • Work as part of the wider Community Learning and Development team to share knowledge and best practice

The successful person for this role will:

  • Have experience of designing, delivering and evaluating outcome focused, people-led community projects
  • Have experience of supporting vulnerable young people who are living with multiple barriers to employment
  • Be motivated, highly organised and able to prioritise their own workload with minimal supervision
  • Be able to work in a collaborative way with team mates and partner organisations to problem solve and deliver the projects aims
  • Have excellent interpersonal skills to naturally form and manage appropriate relationships with a range of people of all ages and walks of life
  • Have an understanding of health & safety practices including safeguarding and assessing risks

The full job description and person specification for the role can be found below.

The application form can be found below.

If you have specific questions about the role or would like to have a brief chat about the role before applying, please contact careers@spacescot.org.

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SafeLives

Training Lead (Scotland)

  • SafeLives
  • Part time
  • £42,413 – £47,572 pro-rata
  • Remote: Home-based but with requirement for very regular travel within Scotland and occasional travel in the wider UK
  • Closing 20th April 2026

About SafeLives

We are SafeLives, the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone, for good.

We work with organisations across the UK to transform the response to domestic abuse. We want what you would want for your best friend. We listen to survivors, putting their voices at the heart of our thinking. We look at the whole picture for each individual and family to get the right help at the right time to make families everywhere safe and well. And we challenge perpetrators to change, asking ‘why doesn’t he stop?’ rather than ‘why doesn’t she leave?’. This applies whatever the gender of the victim or perpetrator and whatever the nature of their relationship.

Last year alone, nearly 11,000 professionals working on the frontline received our training. Over 65,000 adults at risk of serious harm or murder and more than 85,000 children received support through dedicated multi-agency support designed by us and delivered with partners. In the last three years, over 1,000 perpetrators have been challenged and supported to change by interventions we created with partners, and that’s just the start.

Together we can end domestic abuse. Forever. For everyone.

Role summary

Our training programme significantly improves the ability of domestic abuse professionals and other frontline responders and organisations to identify and respond to domestic abuse and closely linked issues. We take a holistic approach, looking at the whole family and the connections between them to keep families safe sooner, and offer a whole range of training products to develop people who support them, including accredited professional training and bespoke services for public, voluntary and commercial organisations.

Our training programme across the UK aims to create:

  • user value: with learners who attend our training feeling more confident and better equipped to fulfil their role
  • social value: with measures showing professionals who attend our training provide more effective interventions for those who experience abuse
  • financial value: responsible for generating around a third of SafeLives’ annual income

We are looking for our Training Lead to oversee and develop our training offer in Scotland. Having delivered training across Scotland since 2012, we now run a wide range of training including on topics such as Understanding and Responding to Domestic Abuse, Dash risk assessment, and Marac Chairs and Reps as well as the accredited Idaa training on behalf of SafeLives.

We are a very well-respected provider of training across the country and work in partnerships to deliver much of our highest profile training, as well as with a pool of associate trainers who are experts in their field.

You will contribute to the development of training courses in response to emerging needs from specific commissioners, while actively monitoring sector developments to ensure our offerings remain relevant and impactful. You will deliver or resource our existing training courses.

You will work within the SafeLives Scotland Team to ensure that SafeLives’ training programmes meet our strategic priorities and are of the highest quality. Your remit will include course development and delivery with external partners and associate trainers. You will work closely with colleagues across SafeLives to ensure consistency and quality of our UK wide training offer.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the performance of professionals within the domestic abuse and related sectors at a national level as well as the response of other frontline or first responders in the public, voluntary or commercial sectors, and thus help address the risks faced by victims of domestic abuse.

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Benefits

  • 34 days holiday inc public holidays (pro rata for part time employees)
  • Flexible working eg compressed hours
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Eye Care Vouchers
  • Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
  • Time Off In Lieu
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Holiday Purchase Scheme to buy up to an additional 5 days
  • Enhanced Family leave Policies
  • Enhanced Sick pay
  • Wellbeing day
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Home-Start Clackmannanshire

Play Roots Coordinator

  • Home-Start Clackmannanshire
  • Part time
  • £34,271 pro-rata
  • On site: Clackmannanshire
  • Closing 24th April 2026

Home-Start Clackmannanshire is a long standing, dynamic charity, striving to ensure every young child (under 12) has the best possible start in life locally. Raising a family has never been easy; our trained volunteers and staff are there to support families through challenging times. In Scotland, Home-Starts have over 1,500 volunteers supporting over 3,500 families and 6,500 children each year through compassionate, confidential help to parents/carers when they need us most. The parents/carers we support are often overwhelmed and isolated. They may be struggling with mental health, illness, disability, multiple births, poverty, domestic abuse, separation and/or trauma. We provide a bespoke support package of 1:1 in home and group services for families, helping them to cope with the stresses and strains of daily life and encourage them to build the skills, confidence, and strength they need to nurture their children for years to come.

In 2024, Action for Children, NHS (speech and language) and Educational Psychology launched an exciting new provision called Play Roots with the support and funding from our local Child Wellbeing Partnership. Play Roots is an enhanced 0-5 group provision for local families operating across four localities in Clackmannanshire weekly.

Purpose of the job

Play Roots has developed rapidly since the first group launched, with families directly informing our sessions, allowing us to ensure we are delivering a communities based, group support system, providing a nurturing and educational environment for children (0-5) and their parents/carers. Play Roots aims to enhance positive well-being, parent-child attachment, support early childhood development, and encourage wider community connections and changes for parental progression; providing the foundations for children and families to flourish long-term.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, driven practitioner, capable of coordinating the delivery of our four local groups to ensure their effective running, and maximising impact through groups supporting the development of children and parents/carers by creating fun and interesting learning environments/activities to enhance skills, promote emotional resilience, and encourage positive behaviours and routines. Central to this role is effectively liaising with partners and supporting our delivery team made up of staff from Home-Start Clackmannanshire, Action for Children, Educational Psychology, Speech and language, and a growing team of volunteers.

You will also:

  • Contribute to the effective day to day operation of the scheme in accordance with the Home-Start Memorandum & Articles of Association, Home-Start, Standards & Methods of Practice, Home-Start Agreement and Quality Assurance Standards.
  • Maintain high standards of practice in supporting families within the Home-Start model.
  • Ensure equality of opportunity, fairness and diversity in all aspects of the scheme’s work.
  • Implement best safeguarding practice in all areas of work.

Main Responsibilities

Supporting the work of Home-Start Clackmannanshire and our Play Roots Partnership

  • Undertaking work as delegated by our CEO to support the strategic management, development, evaluation, and future funding of Play Roots.
  • Supporting the implementation of and upholding 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 CEO.
  • Contributing to and supporting the development of the Home-Start network locally, regionally and nationally.

Support for families

  • Take a lead role in receiving and assessing referrals to Play Roots in a timely manner.
  • Making initial contact/arranging implementation of support or delegating to operational team members within Home-Start and Action for Children to do.
  • Lead delivery partners in planning, preparing for, and delivering group sessions (4 sessions across 4 locations, weekly, during term time).
  • Enhance group support offer by leading the planning, preparation and delivery of Holiday Programmes for families.
  • Providing rich learning environments where children and their families can engage.
  • Facilitating interventions one to one or in a group to support identified areas of need.
  • Building effective relationships and channels of communication with our partners, such as children, young people, families, colleagues, and external agencies.
  • Ensuring support to families is of a high standard, in accordance with Home-Start’s model, policies and procedures.
  • To undertake designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare.

Supporting Volunteers

  • We could not deliver our services without the support of our incredible team of volunteers. As such, you will be involved in ensuring any Home-Start volunteers contributing to Play Roots sessions are appropriately onboarded, supported, informed, and adhere to all organisational policies and procedures.

Working in Partnership

  • Ensuring appropriate liaison with referrers and other professionals.
  • Networking appropriately within the community.

The post holder may be required to undertake any other duties that fall within the nature of the role and responsibilities of the post as detailed above.

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