Urban Roots is a thriving environmental and health improvement organisation. Over the past 11 years, we have worked with local residents and organisations across the Southside of Glasgow to deliver a broad programme of activities that improve the environment and support health and wellbeing.

During Summer 2019, Urban Roots ran the first ever ‘Branching Out for Women’ in Mall’s Mire Community Woodlands in Glasgow. The aim was to create a safe, supportive space for women who have experienced trauma to be able to enjoy the outdoors. This was so successful, with such positive feedback from the women who took part, that we knew we needed to continue running a women’s woodland group with a specific focus on mental health and wellbeing. And so ‘Women in the Woods’ was born.

Women in the Woods meet every Wednesday in Mall’s Mire, with a varied programme of activities shaped by what the women want to do.

We are seeking a female co-facilitator with experience of working with groups of adults outdoors, and a strong understanding of how mental health issues affect women’s lives, to support the programme in 2026-27. It is very important to us that our group is inclusive, welcoming and supportive to all women, and we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds.

Working with the current group leader, you will support and motivate the women through a programme of activities designed to build wellbeing, skills and confidence and to instil a sense of ownership and pride in the local environment. Example activities include campfire cooking, foraging, practical woodland conservation tasks, bushcraft, mindfulness activities, environmental art, photography, and wildlife surveys. You will also be expected to carry out recording of session activities and carry out monitoring and evaluation. Applicants must be available to work on Wednesdays.

More information about our work can be found at urbanroots.org.uk

At Teens+, we support young adults with additional support needs to reach their potential through person-centred education, and the development of life and social skills.

Due to continued growth, we are looking for passionate and motivated individuals to join our Project Worker team.

You will work alongside our Centre Manager, Education Team and Senior Project Workers to support and develop our students - each with their own strengths, talents and support needs. This is a rewarding role where you can make a real difference in people’s lives while helping them build skills for the future.

Our values

• Tailored – We put people at the centre of everything we do
• Humour – We believe positivity and enjoyment help people thrive
• Resilience – We embrace challenges with confidence and creativity
• Integrity – We act with passion and professionalism
• Value – We respect and celebrate differences
• Empathy – Compassion is at the heart of our work

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

What we offer

• 36 days’ holiday (increasing to 40 in line with length of service)
• Discounted gym membership (Edinburgh Leisure Community Access Programme)
• Free breakfast and lunch
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Confidential employee counselling service
• Full training and ongoing development opportunities

Join MECOPP Supporting Scotland’s Minority Ethnic Communities

MECOPP (Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project) is Scotland’s leading organisation supporting Black and Minority Ethnic carers. We work to reduce inequalities, improve access to culturally appropriate services, and provide vital support to some of the most marginalised communities across Scotland.

The Role

We are looking for an Impact Worker to join our team and play a key role in delivering meaningful, community-focused work across Scotland.

Somebody Cares Scotland is an Aberdeen-based charity dedicated to restoring dignity to people in need across the city and surrounding communities. Through its furniture provision service, food bank, and practical support programmes, the charity helps individuals and families facing challenging circumstances to establish safe, comfortable homes and access essential resources.

Somebody Cares Scotland is now seeking an experienced and motivated Charity Operations Manager to join the organisation at an exciting stage of development. This is a rewarding opportunity to play a central role in overseeing the charity’s day-to-day operations, ensuring services are delivered efficiently, effectively, and in line with the organisation’s values and mission.

The successful candidate will lead the operational delivery of the charity’s core services, including furniture provision, logistics and collections, food bank support, and volunteer coordination. Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, you will provide hands-on leadership across multiple service areas, ensuring that clients receive a high-quality, dignified service while supporting the continued growth and development of the organisation.

A key aspect of the role will involve line management responsibility for a team of client services staff and the Food Bank Coordinator, providing guidance, support, training, and performance management to ensure the delivery of excellent services. You will oversee client referral processes, maintain strong relationships with support workers and referral agencies, and ensure accurate client records are maintained in line with data protection requirements.

Working closely with the Senior Facilities & Logistics Manager, you will coordinate furniture collections and deliveries, oversee stock movement between sites, and ensure operational processes run smoothly across the organisation. The role will also involve supporting the day-to-day running of the food bank, monitoring stock levels, coordinating resources where required, and ensuring all services are delivered in line with the charity’s dignity-led approach.

You will also contribute to the planning and delivery of monthly sales events, seasonal campaigns, and community engagement activities, helping to maximise the impact of the charity’s work while supporting operational continuity across all service areas.

The successful candidate will have proven experience within an operational management or coordination role, together with demonstrable experience of leading and supporting staff teams. You will be highly organised, solutions-focused, and capable of managing multiple priorities within a fast-paced environment. Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills are essential, along with the ability to work effectively with clients, volunteers, donors, colleagues, and external partners.

This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive and people-centred leader who is passionate about making a tangible difference within their local community. Joining Somebody Cares Scotland offers the chance to play a vital role in helping people rebuild their lives with dignity while contributing to the continued success and growth of a well-respected Aberdeen charity.

We’re looking for a friendly, motivated person to join our team! You’ll be based in Edinburgh, focusing on recruiting local volunteers to become mentors. You’ll do this by engaging with the local community and building great working relationships with local businesses, public services and other organisations.

You’ll work closely with our Partnerships Manager and local teams to engage with local organisations and people to promote the MCR Pathways programme. Your main goal is to find committed volunteers who will mentor a young person at a local school. This means meeting with them for just one hour a week during term time for at least one year.

Key Responsibilities

• Find and recruit new volunteer mentors by connecting with people and groups in local communities
• Attend events (in person and online) to present to and engage with potential volunteers,
• Clearly explain the charity’s work and the great difference it makes for both young people and mentors. You’ll build positive relationships with potential mentors through meetings and presentations.
• Work with the wider MCR Team, schools and partners to make sure our mentor recruitment efforts are right for each local area.
• Help promote MCR Pathways recruitment campaigns across your local area.
• Keep accurate records of all your activities in our system to track our progress.

About You

• You’re great at building positive relationships with both organisations and individual people.
• You are confident in giving engaging presentations about our work to different groups and individuals.
• You can work well on your own and as a vital part of a team.
• You strongly believe in the potential of young people and act as a positive, committed role model.
• You have good knowledge of the local area, including community groups, employers and local organisations.
• It would be helpful if you have some experience in mentoring, volunteering or working in the charity sector. Most importantly, you should be a “people person”, open-minded and happy talking to large groups as well as having one-to-one chats.

About Us

MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity established in Glasgow in 2007. Our mentoring programme is now delivered in schools across the whole of Scotland as well as North East and South East England. We are committed to helping the country’s most vulnerable young people gain self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential.

Our mission: To connect every young person with a trusted adult mentor, someone who sparks confidence, fuels ambition, and walks beside them as they find their way.

Our vision:MCR Pathways will work until every young person has someone to help them find their way.

You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. MCR Pathways’ values are Respect, Communication, Trust and Growth and they inform everything we do.

Benefits include:30 days annual leave in first year rising to 35 days from 2nd year of employment, 3 further days of annual leave between the December and January public holidays, additional day off for your birthday, Employee Assistance Programme, 7% Life Assurance – 4 x salary.

The Springboard Media Training and Youth Engagement Project supports Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) young people aged 16–25, including refugees, asylum seekers, young offenders, ex-offenders, and those at risk of offending, who are experiencing homelessness, insecure housing, social exclusion, or multiple barriers to participation.

The project aims to provide a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment where young people can develop confidence, resilience, life skills, employability skills, and aspirations, enabling them to progress towards positive destinations such as stable accommodation, further education, training, volunteering, or employment.

Through a combination of group activities, media training, podcasting, radio broadcasting, mentoring, and one-to-one support, participants will be empowered to overcome barriers, improve their wellbeing, and become active and valued members of their communities.

Purpose of the Role

The Development Worker will be responsible for developing and delivering a high-quality youth engagement programme that combines media training, personal development, employability support, mentoring, and volunteering opportunities.

The postholder will provide individual and group support to young people, deliver practical media and radio training, manage the organisation’s social media platforms, support and train volunteers, present radio programmes, and contribute to the day-to-day activities of Awaz FM.

The Development Worker will ensure that project outputs, outcomes, and targets are achieved while supporting young people to develop the skills, confidence, and motivation needed to reach positive destinations.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to join Scottish Book Trust as an Early Years Trainer (TCP Project).

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.

What we offer

• Full-time role working flexibly around school term times

• Competitive salary

• Flexible hybrid working between home and our Edinburgh City Centre Office, with great access by train, bus, and tram

• Generous holiday entitlement

• Company Sick Pay

• Pension with 5% employer contributions

• Death in service benefit

• Free access to employee assistance programme

The Early Years (EY) team delivers Bookbug, an evidence-informed programme which aims to promote parent-child bonding and attachment, support children’s language and communication skills, and help their social, emotional and cognitive development through reading, singing and rhyming. Key elements include universal book gifting at four stages, free story, song and rhyme Bookbug Sessions, Bookbug for the Home and community engagement, the Bookbug app, and professional learning opportunities and learning resources for people working with children in their early years.

The Early Years Trainer post will deliver a set program of Early Years training and ongoing support activities for Bookbug practitioners from a broad range of sectors and partner agencies. These include libraries, early education, the NHS and third sector organisations. The training is designed to support professionals to engage families with the benefits of sharing stories, songs and rhymes to promote speech, language and literacy in early years children.

The post holder will also work on discrete projects which support professionals and volunteers with ongoing Bookbug training and development. They will work closely with the Community Engagement Team on specific project work linked to the delivery of the Tackling Child Poverty (TCP) Project.

Other information

The role delivers training during school term time. Due to the variation in school term dates across Local Authorities the advertised dates can be flexible. Statutory holiday will be taken during the school holidays.

Evening and weekend work will be required. For training delivery in more rural and remote locations, overnight stays will be required. Overnight stays will be agreed in advance and will depend on the successful applicant’s home location.

Due to the travel requirement and geographical nature of Scotland’s more remote areas, the applicant must have a full, clean UK driving licence and access to a vehicle insured for business use.

Please note that the training Scottish Book Trust delivers is for adults who work with children and families and does not involve direct work with children.

Appointment will be conditional on securing a Level 1 from Disclosure Scotland.

Family Links is a pioneering service led by a partnership of third sector organisations - the Care and Learning Alliance, Homestart East Highland and Thriving Families - and supported by the Highland Whole Family Wellbeing Programme.

Working alongside schools and other statutory and third sector providers, the Family Links team delivers holistic support to families in targeted communities across Highland. The current role is in the Inverness High School Associated Schools Group area and the worker will be employed by Thriving Families.

Purpose of role

Family Links workers are a bridge between home, school and community, supporting families to overcome challenges to wellbeing and enabling children and young people to flourish in school and beyond.

It is recognised that there is a range of potentially beneficial outcomes for children and young people from building closer partnerships between schools, communities and families and supporting all family members to address both practical and emotional issues.

Family Links Workers work alongside families in the Inverness High School catchment area which have been identified by the schools (both primary and secondary) as being most in need. Priority families identified for Family Links are those experiencing school attendance and engagement issues. Families experiencing school attendance and engagement issues can also self-refer to Family Links.

Support provided to families is agreed alongside families, is delivered flexibly and is responsive to the needs of families and individual family members. It will be available to families for as long as they need it.

Early / preventative support in the form of peer support groups (facilitated by the Family Links team) is also available for families with children or young people with identified neurodevelopmental needs and kinship families in the area.

JOB PURPOSE

This role will establish, develop and support delivery of our new schools programme Timesliders across a number of properties in the North East. Timesliders is an ambitious new concept for the Trust and this role will play a key part in reviewing, refreshing and developing the programme, with the aim to roll it out at other Trust properties in the future.

Working with property and national learning teams, programme developers, and teachers/schools, this role will facilitate delivery of outreach activities, create, develop and promote accompanying events and resources, and will engage schools with the project. The postholder will ensure the evaluation and reporting programme for Timesliders is implemented and will establish relationships with local schools and their communities. This post will also work closely with Visitor Services Managers at the properties to implement planning for sustained schools programmes and activities beyond the initial phase of Timesliders.

CONTEXT

At the National Trust for Scotland, we recognise the importance that learning and engagement plays in adding value to the visitor experience at our properties. In 2021, a new Formal Learning Strategy was introduced by the Trust, which aims to roll out new, consistent, high quality schools programmes across Scotland.

One of the key elements of the new programmes will be the national roll out of Timesliders. This innovative story-based programme involves digital resources, outreach resources, on-site workshops and new ways of engaging with schools in line with the Curriculum for Excellence.

Timesliders has initially been trialled at Drum Castle and Estate and this post will be involved in continued support of the programme at Drum, whilst also developing and supporting delivery of the programme at additional properties. The stories we will tell will include topics as varied as Jacobites, habitats, climate change and medieval history. This post will be at the heart of ensuring the programme reaches a range of local schools and families, including consulting with local schools and communities. This post will also lead on the creation, development and delivery of linked family events and resources to encourage return visits.

As this project is a key delivery element of the Formal Learning Strategy, this post will also work closely with the national Learning team on evaluation, reporting and development, with a dotted line to the Head of Learning. The post holder will also become a member of the Formal Learning Network, a community of practice across the Trust for staff working with schools.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

In this role the post holder will:

• Establish and support properties to deliver Timesliders, liaising with the Site Operational teams, Operations Managers, national Learning team, and other internal/external stakeholders
• Form, build, and maintain relationships with local schools
• Liaise with the Timesliders’ development team of creators, contractors, and suppliers to develop and deliver the programme’s products
• Coordinate logistical arrangements for the outreach activities
• Support properties to deliver and coordinate schools sessions on-site
• Maintain detailed records of participating schools and visits and input into reports by the national learning team
• Contribute to and coordinate evaluation of the programme, working with an external evaluation specialist and the national learning team
• Create and develop resources, guidelines and plans as required to ensure all schools programmes meets the needs of the schools
• Create, develop and deliver new family events and resources to encourage return visits
• Ensure all work is carried out in line with our Conservation principles and Safe Systems of Work (H&S)
• Carry-out any essential administrative tasks as required; e.g. raising purchase orders, contributing to monthly reports, arranging project meetings, etc.

The postholder will be expected to operate in line with our values which are:

Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration and Compassion.

All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. Our core values of Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration and Compassion are at the heart of everything we do and underpin all aspects of our work.

A vacancy has arisen in our Falkirk Service due to our current Regional Co-ordinator retiring. The Regional Coordinator will contribute to OPFS’s vision of a Scotland where single parents and their children are valued, treated fairly, and have equal opportunities to thrive. Working as part of the wider management team and in collaboration with colleagues across the Senior Leadership Team, the postholder will provide leadership, coordination, and oversight of the Falkirk Service. They will be responsible for ensuring the effective delivery, development, and continuous improvement of high-quality support services that meet the needs of single parent families and contribute to positive outcomes for parents and children.

In addition to leading the Falkirk Service, the postholder will act as the OPFS Organisational Safeguarding officer in partnership with OPFS Designated Safeguarding Lead providing oversight of safeguarding practice across the organisation. This includes supporting staff and volunteers on safeguarding matters, promoting a strong safeguarding culture and delivering safeguarding training, quality assurance and continuous improvement activities.

Responsible for the leadership, operational management, and development of the OPFS Falkirk Support for Families Service.

Service Leadership and Delivery

• Leading and managing the Falkirk service to ensure single parents and their children receive high quality, accessible, trauma-informed and person-centred support that promotes wellbeing, reduces inequality, and upholds rights-based practice.
• Providing operational leadership to ensure service delivery aligns with OPFS priorities, local need, funding requirements and relevant national policy relating to child poverty, employability, mental health and family wellbeing.
• Holding responsibility for service performance, quality assurance, monitoring, evaluation and continuous improvement, ensuring positive outcomes for single parent families.
• Working collaboratively with OPFS colleagues nationally to ensure service delivery remains cohesive, responsive, high quality and informed by lived experience.

Staff Management and Development

• Managing, supervising and supporting staff and volunteers, promoting a positive, inclusive, and reflective team culture focused on wellbeing, accountability and professional development.

Funding, Planning and Financial Management

• Leading on service planning, funding applications, reporting, partnership development and funded programme delivery in collaboration with the OPFS Business Development Team and external partners.
• Managing delegated budgets and overseeing service income and expenditure in liaison with the OPFS Finance Manager.

Partnership Working and Representation

• Building and maintaining effective partnerships with statutory, third sector, community and health organisations, while representing OPFS within local networks, strategic forums and multi-agency partnerships.
• Supporting service promotion, community engagement, and local awareness raising activity in collaboration with the OPFS Communications Team.

Governance, Safeguarding and Risk Management

• Ensuring effective safeguarding, confidentiality, data protection and risk management processes are embedded across all aspects of service delivery.
• Acting as the OPFS organisational Safeguarding Officer, providing advice, guidance, and support to staff and volunteers on safeguarding matters involving children and vulnerable adults, ensuring appropriate action is taken in line with legislation, policy, and best practice.
• Promoting a strong safeguarding culture across OPFS through the delivery and oversight of safeguarding training, quality assurance and continuous improvement activities, ensuring safeguarding responsibilities are embedded across all areas of service delivery.

Premises and Health & Safety

• Holding responsibility for the health, safety, security and day-to-day management of the Falkirk premises. Including maintenance, facilities management, contractor liaison, compliance, fire safety, risk assessments and business continuity procedures.
• Supporting the development of safe, welcoming and inclusive environments that recognise the diverse needs of single parent families accessing the service.

Organisational Contribution

• Contributing to regional and national OPFS developments and promoting the organisation’s values of Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration, and Compassion across all areas of work.
• Undertaking any other duties appropriate to the role as requested by the Directorate or Board.

This post is part funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.