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 CoWL (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 West Lothian 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, CoWL 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.

Carers of East Lothian is a values-driven local charity making a real impact in the community supporting adults who care for family and friends. We have an excellent reputation, gaining recognition through the Carers Trust ‘Excellence for Carers’ Award and have secured the contract to deliver adult carer services across East Lothian for an initial two-year period and a total period of up to six years, to 2031. We are a Carer Positive Exemplary employer, Disability Confident Committed and a Living Wage employer. We are currently recruiting for the following opportunity:

iCare Project Coordinator

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 East Lothian 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, CoEL 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.

Phoenix Futures has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated practitioner to join our North Lanarkshire Services as Family Service Team Manager on a fixed-term basis until 24 April 2027.

This role offers an opportunity to lead and develop a dedicated family support service, working alongside partners to improve outcomes for children, young people, adults and families affected by substance use. You will play a key role in ensuring that family support interventions are safe, effective, evidence-based and responsive to local need, while supporting staff and volunteers to deliver high-quality services.

The Role

As Family Team Manager, you will lead the delivery of the North Lanarkshire Family Service, ensuring that support is accessible, effective and aligned with contractual requirements, organisational priorities and local strategic objectives.

You will provide day-to-day operational leadership to the Family Service Team, ensuring that services are delivered using trauma-informed, rights-based and recovery-focused approaches. The role includes responsibility for service performance, quality assurance, safeguarding, workforce development, partnership working and service improvement.

You will work closely with the Service Manager, Team Managers, commissioners and external partners to ensure that families receive high-quality support that promotes resilience, recovery and positive outcomes.

The postholder will have management responsibility for:

• Family Support Workers
• Family Practitioners
• Sessional Staff and Volunteers associated with the Family Service
• Student Placements where applicable

The position is full-time at 37.5 hours per week and may include occasional evening and weekend working to meet service requirements.

You will be helping children and young people with spina bifida and hydrocephalus feel unstoppable.

We believe every child and young person deserves opportunities to be creative, make connections, build confidence, and reach their potential.

As Creative Activities Worker, you will develop and deliver regular inclusive activities for children and young people. Working closely with families, schools, community organisations, and partner agencies, you will create opportunities that promote creativity, wellbeing, participation, and positive experiences.

You will coordinate a regular programme of activities designed to help children and young people with our conditions explore their creativity and support their wellbeing.

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, creative, and committed to helping children and young people thrive.

What Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland can offer you

Flexibility – We offer flexible working, including the opportunity to work from home or around caring responsibilities.

Supportive colleagues enabling you to express yourself – Our team values teamwork, learning, and continuous improvement. SBH Scotland staff gave a median score of 8 out of 10 for feeling supported to take risks with new ideas.

We also offer: Workplace pension scheme; salary sacrifice scheme; death in service benefit; childcare voucher scheme; paid Carers Leave; 30 days annual leave entitlement and 4 days Public Holidays; an additional day off for your birthday and wellbeing days.

We strongly encourage applications from disabled people and those with lived experience of disability or caring responsibilities. SBH Scotland is a Disability Confident employer.

For more information please download the job description below.

Community Volunteers Enabling You (COVEY) has operated across Lanarkshire for 32 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 has an exciting opportunity available for a Coordinator to manage delivery of 1-1 and group-based befriending/mentoring support to children and young people.

COVEY’s consistent relationship-based support, which is centred on the participant’s needs, interests and hopes, improves health and wellbeing, social connections, confidence and increases their engagement with education, training, volunteering or employment.

As a Coordinator, you will have the ability to work collaboratively with children, young people, their families and others who support them. This will involve engaging with various, community, statutory and voluntary agencies and working in close partnership to support vulnerable families.

You would ideally have experience of supporting volunteers, managing a caseload, evaluation and monitoring. We are looking for someone who has a real passion around supporting those who are most vulnerable in our community.

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

▪ 22 days annual leave (rising to up to 27 days) and 10 public holidays

▪ flexible working

▪ one special leave day to celebrate your birthday

▪ 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

Do you have a passion for helping people?

Do you have excellent communication and customer service skills?

Do you want to work for one of the best employability providers in Scotland?

Would you like to help someone with barriers to work find their dream job?

Then come and work for Enable Works.

Your role, as an Employment Coordinator is to provide support to people who have barriers to work to make progress towards and achieve well paid, sustainable employment.

Enable Works are the leading specialist provider of employability services for people who have barriers to work. We believe that every person in Scotland has the right to work in a job that is high quality and well paid.

Enable Works supports over 12,000 people every year across 30 Local Authorities to learn skills for work.

We partner with thousands of employers to create inclusive cultures and improve the diversity of Scotland's workforce.

We are incredibly proud of our smart, capable, and motivated colleagues across Scotland and following a period of significant growth we are looking to grow our team.

We offer a generous salary, excellent benefits, and opportunities to develop and grow in your role.

We offer flexible working practices that promote a strong work/life balance so that when you are at work you can be the best version of you.

Values are more important to us than qualifications or experience, so if you don’t think you meet every requirement that’s ok, we still want to hear from you.

Please make sure you include a detailed personal statement in the ‘More about you’ section of the application to tell us how you are suited to the post.

For further information please see the full job pack on the Enable website.

About You

We really need you to have these:

• The drive, energy and commitment to support people to obtain high quality, well paid jobs
• Ability to manage your own workload and prioritise as needed
• Confident communicator
• Strong attention to detail
• Professional presentation and personality
• Some knowledge of the local community
• Ability to work with people at any age who have challenging barriers to employment
• IT literacy
• Comfortable working towards targets
• A natural, professional relationship builder
• A full driving licence

Why?

Our vision is that every person in Scotland is able to access the support they need to find a high quality job that pays them well and your drive and commitment to this job will help them get there. You will recognise each clients individual skills and aspirations and work with them to find a job that they love.

Our culture is autonomous so that means we trust you to make the right decisions for your clients, therefore you need to manage your work load well and be accountable for your time. Attention to detail is important as it means you can work accurately and follow instructions.

About Us

At Enable we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities.

We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:

• Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loans
• Blue Light Card
• Starting a career with Enable is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.

Enable is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.

The cost of PVG is paid upfront by the organisation and deducted from your wage if successfully appointed.

Enable reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Please submit your application as early as possible if this vacancy is of interest.

Welcome to Finn’s Place

Finn’s Place is a community wellbeing hub for the southside of Glasgow. We aim to create a warm, welcoming space where individuals feel safe, seen, and connected, and can access activities and opportunities that can help them flourish.

We offer free, volunteer-led initiatives like craft clubs and music groups, alongside professional wellbeing-related services including massage, counselling, yoga, tai chi, and meditation. We run our own listening service. Each week, we host a community meal and an after-school kids’ club, which use produce from our community growing space ‘Square Yard’. We also work with local partners to offer community classes and peer support groups.

Finn’s Place and Langside Parish Church

Finn’s Place evolved out of a project started by Langside Church back in 2012. Members of the church are part of our community. However, Finn’s Place exists to welcome people from any faith or none, and to share the building for the benefit of everyone. You need to be comfortable with and aligned to our values to work at Finn’s Place, but you do not need to hold any particular religious belief.

Langside Church itself is an affirming church that welcomes and fully includes LGBTQ+ people. It is important to both Finn’s Place and the church that this is a welcoming and inclusive space for everyone, whatever their religion, background, sexuality, or gender.

Join us as our new Community Development Worker to help grow our work

We’re recruiting for a new role at Finn’s Place to help us keep developing our work, funded by the National Lottery’s Community Action Fund. The key elements of the role are to:

• Help to ensure Finn’s Place is a warm, welcoming place where people feel listened to and can build a sense of belonging.
• Take a community development approach to developing and growing our free and accessible offers to the community.
• Develop the Finn’s Place volunteer programme to be structured and supportive for volunteers, define our volunteering opportunities, and build our volunteer base, taking a strength-based approach to supporting volunteers.
• Engage with our local partners to be part of place-based work in Battlefield that supports wellbeing and community connection.
• Work with the board of trustees to keep imagining and shaping a sustainable future for Finn’s Place.

We are looking for someone who is warm, approachable, and brilliant at building trust and rapport with a range of people with different backgrounds and experiences. You’ll bring an understanding of community development approaches and experience working with volunteers.

This is a unique opportunity to influence positive change for blind and partially sighted people across Scotland. You’ll be supporting partnership working with the third sector, government, health and social care and academia through Vision Collaborative Scotland and other joint initiatives. Join Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans to help drive impactful projects, develop your professional network and play a key role in shaping the future of the vision impairment sector.

What does a day in this role look like?

The Strategic Partnership Specialist works closely with the Head of Strategic Partnerships to build and maintain relationships across third sector partners, government, health and social care and academia, to support collaborative projects that improve outcomes for people with vision impairment across Scotland. A typical day may involve co-ordinating Vision Collaborative Scotland activity, engaging with partners, organising meetings and events, undertaking research, preparing reports and presentations, supporting workforce development initiatives, and ensuring partnership actions and projects are delivered effectively and on schedule.

What development opportunities are available within the role?

Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans provide a wide range of training opportunities to support your career development. In this role, you’ll have the chance to support meetings with Scottish Ministers, third sector leaders and academic institutions, while building skills in research policy, programme development, communications and influencing. You will represent the charities at events and get involved in large-scale impactful projects which will shape the future of the vision impairment sector in Scotland.

What is expected of you within this role?

A motivated and organised person, you will work collaboratively with colleagues and partners to build positive relationships, co-ordinate activity and maintain momentum. You will use your great communication skills adaptably, building trust with partners. A self-starter, you’ll be expected to work independently and collaboratively and adopt a solution-focused approach to balancing priorities and outcomes.

Summary of requirements of the role

Essential

• Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships and stakeholder relationships.
• Understanding of the vision impairment, sensory impairment or similar sector.
• Experience of coordinating projects or collaborative activity involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of undertaking research and bringing together information from a range of sources.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage different audiences.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, work collaboratively and deliver activity to agreed timescales.

Desirable

• Experience of working in the charity or voluntary sector.
• Experience of working with Government, public sector, health and social care or academic organisations.
• Experience of policy, workforce development or professional education initiatives.
• Experience of managing website or social media content.

You don’t need to meet every single requirement to be a great candidate. Most people learn parts of the job once they’re in post, so if a role interests you and you believe you could grow into it, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to fair, accessible recruitment. If you need any adjustments, like extra time, a different format, or other support, at any stage of the process, just let us know. Please contact People and Culture on 0131 378 2793 or via peopleandculture@sightscotland.org.uk who can arrange for any support you need.

About us

For more than 230 years we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved, but we want to do more. We will build on our rich history to create an organisation which is prepared for the future, and ready to respond to the needs of people impacted by vision loss.

Our vision is bold. We want to be at the leading edge of positive societal change by:

• Investing our funds in the support that makes the biggest difference
• Putting our community at the heart of what we do
• Campaigning for change
• Accelerating prevention and treatment of eye conditions
• Fostering a collaborative culture of innovation and learning

We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.

Our organisational values - Transform, Unite and Thrive - underpin all the work we do at Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans.

Benefits

• Generous employee pension scheme
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted cinema tickets
• Discounts for carers

MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE TO OUR COMMUNITY

We’re recruiting a Development Manager!

Turn local ambition into lasting community impact

We’ve secured £3.5 million towards our proposed £6 million Community Hub, raised £430,000 for our free-to-use Community Pump Track, and own and manage three community woodlands. Now we’re ready for our next chapter.

Dalgety Community Trust is seeking an ambitious, resourceful Development Manager to help unlock funding, develop community assets, build partnerships and create lasting benefits for Dalgety Bay, Hillend and the surrounding area.

As our first employee, you’ll work closely with trustees, volunteers and local partners to turn big ideas into practical results and build a stronger, more sustainable charity.

What will you do?

• Secure funding and grow income: Develop funding opportunities, lead applications and build relationships with funders, businesses and public-sector partners.
• Develop projects and assets: Progress our Community Hub, Pump Track and other community assets, creating sustainable plans for their future.
• Strengthen the organisation: Turn strategic priorities into action, improve systems and governance, and build long-term financial resilience.
• Inspire community involvement: Support volunteers, develop local leadership and strengthen relationships with residents and community organisations.
• Plan for lasting impact: Build strategic partnerships, demonstrate our social and environmental impact, and shape our long-term income strategy and future plans.

What are we looking for?

You’ll bring:

• Experience in fundraising, income generation, business development or securing resources.
• Strong project management, organisational and financial skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
• The initiative to work independently, solve problems and turn plans into action.

Experience in charities, community development, grant funding, capital projects, asset management or volunteer development would be an advantage. Relevant experience and transferable skills matter more than formal qualifications.

Above all, you’ll be proactive, approachable and motivated by making a genuine difference. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

What we offer

• £35,000 annual salary, plus up to £2,000 discretionary performance-related payment.
• 36-hour working week with home-based, but with a requirement to be active in the community including some evening and weekend work.
• Annual leave of 25 days in Year 1, rising to 28 days in Year 2 and 30 days in Year 3, plus public holidays.
• 3% employer pension contribution, IT equipment, telephone and reasonable work-related travel expenses.
• The opportunity to shape a growing charity and leave a lasting community legacy.

The appointment: January 2027–December 2029 is the planned programme. The initial appointment is for one year, with continuation into Years 2 and 3, dependent on securing further funding. Regular community engagement is essential, with some evening and weekend work.

Help more women discover the friendship, learning and opportunities SWI offers.

The Scottish Women’s Institutes (SWI) is seeking a proactive Membership Support Lead to join our small national team. You’ll help grow and retain our membership, strengthen volunteer support and ensure members feel welcomed, valued and involved.

Reporting to the Head of Business Development, you’ll work closely with colleagues, Federations and Institutes across Scotland to welcome new members, help existing groups thrive and guide new groups as they get started.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and deliver membership recruitment and retention plans.
• Provide friendly, helpful advice to members and prospective members.
• Support new groups and work with Institutes facing membership challenges.
• Coordinate practical guidance and induction for volunteer office bearers, helping them feel confident in their roles.
• Work with Communications and Events colleagues to promote membership opportunities and encourage participation.
• Maintain accurate membership records in line with data protection requirements.
• Use membership data and feedback to improve services and report on progress.

We’re looking for someone with

• Experience in membership, community development or a similar role involving engagement and relationship building.
• Strong communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Experience using databases, analysing information and preparing clear reports.
• A practical, supportive approach to working with volunteers.
• The ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• An understanding of data protection and the importance of accurate, confidential records.

You’ll bring enthusiasm for helping groups thrive and a commitment to SWI’s work bringing women together through friendship, lifelong learning and shared experiences.

Occasional travel and evening/weekend work will be required within agreed working arrangements.