We are recruiting 2 individuals to join our Walking Network Team.

The first is for a permanent post covering across the central belt.

The second is to cover the north of Scotland and is a temporary post to cover the postholder’s maternity leave. This post will be for 12 months starting in January 2027.

At Walking Scotland, we believe in the power of everyday walking and wheeling to transform lives and strengthen communities. We’re looking for a proactive, forward-thinking Development Officers to join the team, providing support for Walking Network members, forming strategic partnerships and administering awards through the Walking Network Fund.

You’ll use your skills and experience to deliver high-quality support to our Walking Network members who deliver walking and wheeling activities in their local areas, as well as supporting new membership and developing and promoting best practice resources and events.

About us

It’s an exciting time to join Walking Scotland. A year on from the launch of our new name and brand, and as we celebrate our 30th anniversary, we’re stepping confidently into a bold new chapter.

Walking Scotland is a charity that helps make walking and wheeling a part of everyday life. We promote the benefits of walking and wheeling on our physical, social and mental health. Our programmes connect communities and inspire positive behaviour change. We also improve places and spaces to walk and wheel.

We’re an advocate for making walking and wheeling inclusive. We work with partners and local communities to reduce barriers. This ensures everyone has the chance to walk and wheel everywhere they go. By focusing on walking and wheeling, we’re helping to solve some of Scotland’s biggest challenges, from health inequalities to the climate-nature emergency.

About the role

The Walking Network is a membership network of nearly 300 organisations and groups across Scotland, who deliver Health Walks and Strength and Balance sessions in their local areas. Members access high-quality training, resources, peer networking opportunities, funding and dedicated staff support through the Walking Network.

As one of three Development Officers giving regional support to Walking Network members, you’ll ensure that members receive bespoke advice and guidance from Walking Scotland.

You’ll develop new resources and good practice guides for members, and work closely with training colleagues on providing member access to high-quality courses. You’ll administer grant awards through the Walking Network Fund and strengthen the profile of the Walking Network through identifying case studies and stories, and attending partner events.

In addition, you’ll play a key role in increasing opportunities for members to network and collaborate, by working as a team to plan and run member events, such as webinars and in-person gatherings.

CommonWatt is a newly established Community Benefit Society formed by Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (ECCAN), Midlothian Climate Hub, East Lothian Climate Action Network and West Lothian Climate Action Network. It brings together the four partners to develop, own and operate renewable energy assets for community benefit across Edinburgh and the Lothians.

We are looking for a Business Development Officer to coordinate the development of CommonWatt’s community solar programme and help establish the business arrangements needed for its long-term success.

Clutter Chat is a dynamic and growing charity committed to using structured peer support groups to encourage, inspire and support individuals dealing with chronic clutter and hoarding issues. We became a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) in June 2020. We are dedicated to making a positive impact in our community.

We are seeking an experienced Development Worker to join our team and help us fulfil our current grant commitments by expanding volunteer engagement pathways, supporting our volunteers, and connecting them with appropriate training opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a meaningful cause and make a real difference in people’s lives.

As Connected Communities Lead within Thrive Outdoors, you will help strengthen opportunities for children, young people, families and communities to connect through outdoor play and learning. Working closely with funded organisations, partners and the Scottish Government, you will coordinate programmes and funding, support community engagement and participation, share learning and impact, and help grow investment in outdoor community play across Scotland. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Thrive Outdoors’ vision of embedding outdoor play and learning into the fabric of Scottish life so that all children can thrive.

The John Muir Way is one of Scotland's most iconic long-distance walking routes, spanning 134 miles from Helensburgh on the west coast to Dunbar on the east. The John Muir Way Green Skills programme, a three-year initiative funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, focuses on improving biodiversity along this route, creating opportunities for trainees aged 16 - 24 years old with barriers to employment, to learn new skills, build confidence, and contribute to Scotland's natural and cultural heritage.

The John Muir Way Green Skills programme is a 3-year employability initiative with 18 months remaining, through which a total of 72 trainees are engaging in practical biodiversity tasks and projects along the route. The Green Skills Traineeship helps build practical skills, knowledge and confidence for work, volunteering or further learning in the environmental and conservation sector.

The programme aims to bridge the skills gap and tackle workforce challenges, increase connectivity and break down the disconnect with nature, and create accessible opportunities that recognise and value different ways of thinking, learning and engaging.

As the Edinburgh Green Skills Leader you will lead a team of six Green Skills Trainees per year, including the existing cohort. The post holder will have overall responsibility for line managing the trainees, leading delivery of practical training and the delivery of practical biodiversity enhancement tasks on partner sites. In Edinburgh the Green Skills Leader will liaise with greenspace teams from City of Edinburgh Council and community groups to agree sites and projects. This role will also contribute to the project evaluation, local budget management, and programme promotion. Trainees are in attendance 3 days per week (Monday - Wednesday), the role is hybrid and you will be required to be on site on the same days that the trainees are present and for team meetings.

You will be part of a team of 4 Green Skills Leaders working with Scottish Canals and Local Authorities along the route.

You will work closely with the People Advisor and People Admin Coordinator managing the schedule of external training, trainee attendance, annual leave, onboarding, and programme exiting of trainees. These roles will report into the John Muir Way Green Skills Operations Leader.

• Experience of leading a small team.
• Previous management of a training programme/structured delivery model.
• Mentoring and/or coaching young people.
• A passion for supporting young people to achieve their goals.
• Knowledge and understanding of practical biodiversity projects and events.
• Experience in recruiting and managing trainees and/or other stakeholders.
• Experience in working in partnership with multiple organisations with potentially differing demands.
• Support trainees through regular one-to-one meetings to agree personal goals, review their progress and plan next steps.

A full, clean or near clean UK driving licence is required for this post, which has been held for a minimum of one year.

To fulfil the role, you must be resident in the UK and have the right to work in the UK.

Falkirk Football Community Foundation is recruiting a Centre Circle Project Lead to help establish our new whole family support programme.

We are looking for people who care about getting support right for families. People who listen without judgement, build trust and follow through with practical help.

Following a successful award from the Whole Family Support Third Sector Delivery Fund, we are joining four other football community charities across Scotland to deliver Centre Circle. Together, we will help families access practical, financial and wellbeing support earlier and more easily.

Here in Falkirk, you will have the opportunity to shape that support from the outset, working alongside families and drawing on the Foundation’s programmes, community connections and local partnerships.

You will lead delivery in Falkirk, manage and support the Family Support Coaches, and coordinate work with local services and the wider partnership. We are looking for someone with family support or related experience who can guide a team, make sound decisions and turn a plan into dependable support.

Social Work Scotland is the professional body for social work managers and leaders. We are a membership organisation with over 350 individual and corporate members. We exist to promote and support the development of the social work profession, and to inform, influence and improve public policy and public services.

We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified and registered social worker with experience of children and families social work to join a multi-agency team with a remit to deliver the National Inter-agency Referral Discussion (IRD) Learning and Development Programme. All applicants should have knowledge and experience of child protection and GIRFEC, and relevant legislation, policy and practice in Scotland.

Inter-agency Referral Discussion (IRD) practice is identified as a cornerstone of the child protection system. This process is central to ensuring risk to a child or young person is identified, mitigated and appropriate support is put in place.

Working collaboratively as part of a team from social work, police and health, this post will deliver a national learning and development programme for IRDs to build specialist knowledge and skills, to enhance the protection of children. Delivery of the programme will be in local area across the country to support consistency of practice based on the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021 - updated 2023.

Under a collaborative leadership and management model from Police Scotland, Social Work Scotland and NHS Education for Scotland, the team will work together to deliver the agreed objectives.

The work of the National Team contributes directly to policy and practice developments in the wider children’s services landscape, including, but not limited to, GIRFEC, The Promise, UNCRC, Bairns’ Hoose, Scottish Child Interview Model (SCIM), Age of Criminal Responsibility and implementation of the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland.

The successful candidate will deliver the training programme to police, social work and health IRD participants, support the programme of ongoing practice evaluation and contribute to ongoing development of the programme.

The work will require travel and overnight stays across Scotland to deliver training in local areas.

The successful candidate should be an experienced social work professional, committed to working on a multi-agency basis, applying trauma informed practice and focused on the rights and needs of children and families and with experience or evidence of capacity in relation to training.

About Borders Care Voice

Borders Care Voice is a Galashiels-based charity established in 1991, promoting equality and positive change in health and social care. We support people with lived experience, unpaid carers and service providers to influence services and improve outcomes. We value partnership working and provide free training for people working or volunteering in health and social care, and for unpaid carers.

About the role

You will facilitate, support and promote five Local Citizens Panels across the Scottish Borders, using a collective advocacy and engagement approach. The panels represent people with learning disabilities and unpaid carers in five localities, and each meets at least four times a year. You will help members influence local services and participate meaningfully in the Learning Disability Service governance structure.

You will coordinate lively, accessible meetings that respond to members’ communication needs, provide information and support, arrange guest speakers and take meeting notes, with administrative support available outside meetings. You will co-produce promotional materials, ensure panels are represented at relevant events and planning structures, and communicate members’ issues to decision makers and follow up where required. Building effective relationships with partner organisations, the Learning Disability Service and local providers is central to the role.

About you

Essential requirements include experience of working with people with learning disabilities and their carers, an understanding of different communication needs, and group facilitation skills. You will bring commitment and enthusiasm for supporting people with learning disabilities and their rights, strong interpersonal and communication skills (including presenting to groups), excellent organisational skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office. You must be able to work collaboratively in a small team and independently using your own initiative.

Desirable experience includes working closely with learning disability service staff and decision makers, producing accessible information (particularly Easy Read), and monitoring, evaluation and report writing.

Travel across all five localities is required, including outside normal office hours where needed, with occasional evening and weekend work. Access to a car is preferred because of the rural area and the need to transport meeting equipment and materials. Current PVG Scheme membership covering children and adults is required; we can arrange and fund membership if the successful candidate does not already hold it. You must follow our safeguarding, confidentiality, data protection and health and safety policies, including safe practices for meetings, events and lone working.

What we offer

• Flexible working and some home working where possible
• Six weeks’ annual leave, increasing after five years, plus public holidays
• 8% pension contribution
• Enhanced sick pay
• Learning and development opportunities, with coaching or mentoring
• Travel expenses

Borders Care Voice welcomes applications from people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. Please contact recruitment@borderscarevoice.org.uk if you need information in another format or adjustments during the application or interview process. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we actively encourage applications from disabled people and people with long-term health conditions. We aim to offer an interview to applicants who declare a disability and meet all essential criteria. If applications exceed interview capacity, disabled applicants will be selected according to how closely their experience and skills meet the post’s requirements.

We have an exciting opportunity for a confident and organised Project Coordinator to help deliver iCare: Identifying Carers, Advancing Recognition and Equality. Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF), iCare is an ambitious five-year system-change project.

Working with carers, practitioners and NHS partners, the project will address barriers to support and drive changes in practice to improve earlier and more consistent identification of unpaid carers across the Lothians. It will support the development of an early carer identification blueprint, strengthen good carer conversations using the Adult Carer Support Plan (ACSP) framework, and co-design and implement a new integrated digital carer identification platform.

The postholder will join a project team comprising an iCare Project & Systems Manager, based within VOCAL, and Project Coordinators covering Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian. The East and West Lothian Project Coordinators will be employed and managed by Carers of East Lothian and Carers of West Lothian respectively. All four roles will work closely together to deliver shared priorities, promote consistent practice and support learning across the Lothians.

The Project Coordinator for Midlothian will undertake a range of duties, including:

• Supporting the day-to-day delivery of iCare by maintaining clear work plans, action logs and records, and ensuring effective follow-up across project workstreams.
• Building positive working relationships with the wider project team, carers, VOCAL colleagues, NHS and community partners, and other carer centres.
• Supporting meaningful carer involvement through the development and coordination of a Carers Assembly, ensuring that carers lived experience helps shape project priorities, changes in practice and digital development.
• Planning and supporting focus groups, workshops, briefings and training sessions with carers and practitioners.
• Supporting co-design and user testing of a digital carer identification platform, while ensuring digital options complement rather than replace non-digital support.
• Gathering feedback and data, and contributing to project learning, evaluation and reporting to the funder.

About you

You will understand unpaid caring and the impact it can have on carers’ health and wellbeing. You will also have a good understanding of the carer support landscape, including the role of Adult Carer Support Plans and the responsibilities of statutory health and social care partners. You will bring experience of supporting a project or service, working collaboratively with others, and engaging people in a respectful and inclusive way. You will also have strong organisational and administrative skills, clear written and verbal communication, digital confidence, and the ability to hold sensitive, person-centred and outcomes-focused conversations.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project & Systems Manager to take a lead role in iCare: Identifying Carers, Advancing Recognition and Equality, an ambitious five-year system- change project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF).

iCare aims to improve earlier and more consistent identification of unpaid carers across the Lothians, addressing barriers to support and helping to create meaningful and lasting change in practice. The project will develop an early carer identification blueprint, strengthen good carer conversations using the Adult Carer Support Plan (ACSP) framework, and co-design and implement a new integrated digital carer identification platform.

Working with iCare Project Coordinators in East, West and Midlothian (the iCare Project Team), and under the direction of the iCare Project Steering Group, you will lead and coordinate delivery across the project. You will line-manage VOCAL’s Midlothian iCare Project Coordinator and provide professional leadership and coordination across the wider iCare team. The East and West Lothian Project Coordinators will be employed and line managed by partner organisations Carers of East Lothian and Carers of West Lothian respectively.

This is a senior, hands-on role with key responsibilities that include:

• leading the day-to-day delivery of iCare across the Lothians, ensuring delivery remains focused on agreed plans, milestones, outcomes and funder requirements;
• coordinating the different strands of the programme, managing priorities, dependencies, risks and issues;
• supporting the iCare Project Steering Group and translating agreed priorities and decisions into effective delivery;
• leading monitoring, evaluation and reporting, using evidence and feedback to understand progress and support continuous improvement;
• developing strong and effective partnerships across health, social care, the third sector, research, digital and community organisations;
• championing consistent, high-quality approaches to early carer identification, good carer conversations, ACSPs and preventative support;
• ensuring carers meaningfully influence the project through the Carers Assembly and wider inclusive engagement; and
• ensuring that new digital approaches complement rather than replace, non-digital routes to support.

As iCare develops a digital platform, you will also help to ensure that VOCAL’s own systems, processes and practice develop alongside it. This will include translating carer, practitioner and organisational requirements into practical system and process improvements and ensuring that VOCAL’s case-management arrangements, recording practices and carer journeys develop appropriately.

About you

We are looking for someone who can bring people, practice and systems together and turn an ambitious vision into practical, coordinated change. You will have experience of leading and managing projects, services or programmes and supporting organisational, service or systems change.

A confident and collaborative partnership worker, you will be skilled at building relationships, bringing people with you and engaging others in a respectful and inclusive way. You will also have experience of working alongside digital or technical colleagues to develop services or systems, from defining operational requirements and co-design through to testing and implementation.

You will have a good understanding of unpaid caring and the impact it can have on carers’ health and wellbeing, alongside knowledge of the carer support landscape and relevant legislation. This will include an understanding of the health and social care system in Lothian and Scotland, and how to influence and support practice change within complex systems.