Are you a strategic communicator with a passion for policy and public affairs? Do you want to make a real difference in the lives of children and families across Scotland?

Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) is seeking a dynamic and experienced Policy and External Affairs Manager to lead our national profile, strengthen our reputation, and drive forward our mission as leaders in children’s palliative care.

Purpose: You will play a pivotal role in strengthening CHAS’ national presence, growing trust and credibility, and positioning CHAS as a thought leader in children's palliative care. You will be responsible for managing all external affairs, with a focus on strategic communications aligned with CHAS’ mission and objectives. You will also oversee crisis communications, ensuring the organisation responds effectively and maintains public trust in challenging situations.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have skill and experience in all of the following areas:

• Policy development and influencing at devolved and national government level.
• Public affairs and stakeholder management
• Managing strategic partnerships
• Corporate communications
• Line management
• Crisis Communications management

You’ll also hold a driving licence and have access to transport.

It would be great in addition to the skills and experience above if you demonstrated your experience in the following areas:

• Expert advice to senior colleagues
• Horizon scanning
• Media relations
• Project management

About CHAS

At CHAS, we support families during the toughest of times offering unwavering care to children and families in the face of death. We have ambitions to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying. We know decisions from government, local councils and NHS boards have significant impact on the families we support and our policy and external affairs delivery is focused on ensuring CHAS offers its voice and influence where it is needed most.

The Policy and External Affairs Manager is a key role in the Marketing and Communications team and reports into the Head of Marketing and Communications. This team manages marketing, fundraising communications, external affairs, policy development, public affairs and internal communications. CHAS Marketing and communications team sits within the Income Generation and Engagement directorate led by the director of Income Generation and Engagement.

This pivotal role will support CHAS to strengthen our national presence, growing trust and credibility, and positioning CHAS as a thought leader in children's palliative care. Working across the charity this role is responsible for managing policy, public affairs, external affairs and managing communications with internal and external stakeholders including support for crisis management.

We offer

• Flexible Working: our teams work flexibly and in a hybrid manner with time split between at home and onsite in Edinburgh and Glasgow. CHAS offers flexible and family friendly working. and are happy to discuss working arrangements that work for you.
• Development Opportunities: exposure to professional development.
• Professional Growth: Work with industry leaders in a high-performing team where you will be encouraged and supported to excel and develop your skills.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Including generous annual leave and pension, incremental salary progression, access to Blue Light discounts, and health and wellbeing support.

Passion4Fusion is looking for a compassionate and culturally aware Social Worker to join our team. In this role, you will support Black, Brown, and multi-ethnic children and families within Scotland’s social care system. You will play a critical role in promoting equitable care and fostering understanding of cultural differences while advocating for systemic change.

This position is ideal for someone committed to social justice, cultural competence, and improving outcomes for ethnically diverse communities.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced care/support practitioner, to line manage our team of Support Workers within our fabulous residential & care at home services based in Fife.

At Capability Scotland, Fife Services we support adults with physical disabilities, learning disabilities and sensory impairment, to live independently within their own homes and small residential services in Dunfermline, Rosyth and Glenrothes. Our days are filled with laughter, with a focus on activities, on-site and externally. From football or shopping day trips to motor sports, our service prides itself on being customer led.

Our closeknit team of Team Leaders, help our support staff to provide 24-hour support 7 days a week, and they require a motivated and enthusiastic leader to join the team.

Maybe you are an experienced Team Leader, Senior Support Worker or Support Worker with transferable experience, looking to advance your career.

Are you who we are looking for?

About the Role

You will be required to co-ordinate and supervise a team of support staff in delivering a high standard of social care practice using a person-centred approach that reflects individual customer's needs wants and aspirations. As a Team Leader you will occasionally work on the floor delivering direct care including medication administration, personal care and moving and assisting. Meaning it’s not all about paperwork, you still get some hands on practice.

A key part of this role is to coach, monitor, mentor and develop the skill base within the staff team, you will do this by displaying Leadership skills such as role modelling, decision making, being an effective communicator, having a positive attitude, commitment and confidence in the role.

What you need to know:

Hours:We have a set shift pattern, 36 hours rotational, typically, Mon to Fri 9am to 4pm with an early shift one week, a late shift the next week and a working on call weekend approximately every 4th week. Which is planned in advance, enabling you to plan life outside of work responsibilities.

Location:Office address is - Units 4 & 16 John Smith Business Park, 1 Begg Road, Kirkcaldy, KY2 6HD - services are based in Dunfermline, Rosyth & Glenrothes.

Other: A driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential for this role. This role does NOT qualify for skilled worker visa.

Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:

• Competitive salary - £31,515.50 per annum (£16.79 per hour).
• We offer a fully funded SVQ – a qualification which is yours for life.
• 32 days holidays per year, increasing to 37 with service.
• Free PVG checks throughout your employment.
• Up to 8% company contribution pension scheme.
• Up to 3 x annual salary death in service.
• Perks at Work – shopping discount scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• 24/7 employee assistance programme.
• Working for us means you would qualify for Blue Light & Concert for Carer discounts

About us

FARE Scotland is a voluntary organisation working within disadvantaged communities throughout Central Scotland. At FARE Scotland we strive to raise people’s aspirations, encourage them to become more involved in their communities, create opportunities for personal development and equip them with the skills required to deal with the demands of 21st century life.

Working at FARE Scotland, you will be part of passionate and hard-working team that aims to improve the lives of the people in the communities we serve.

What you’ll do

We have an exciting opportunity for 2 Employability Keyworkers to join our Employability team which delivers accredited industry training and support to members of the local and wider community to access further education, training and/or employment. You will work closely with the Employability Manager and across the team to ensure high-quality employability support and programme delivery to achieve individual aims for participants across the employability pipeline.

You will provide holistic support to young people and adults that will minimise barriers to employment and offer training to increase skills, development, and support access to further training, and education to allow people to move on to sustained progressions along the employability pipeline.

As part of your role, your main responsibilities will include:

• Designing, delivering, and evaluating training for young people and adults that supports sustained progressions into further education, training, employment, or re-engagement in schools.
• Establishing relationships with key stakeholders including, SDS, local colleges, GCC and local retailers at Glasgow Fort, promoting the employability programme and representing FARE Scotland at external events.
• Liaising with employers to identify job opportunities, and further training or education opportunities within the employability pipeline to meet recruitment targets and outcomes for our Youth Action Fund and Training for Work programmes.
• Designing all referral/induction and training materials and providing an induction and assessment to all participants to identify holistic support to remove barriers.
• Recruitment for programmes and ensuring programme evaluations are completed.
• Undertaking one-to-one goal setting interviews and reviews.
• Delivering training in group settings, using a range of learning materials to accommodate different learning styles.
• Challenging negative attitudes and behaviours whilst motivating individuals to retain focus.
• Ensuring Employability programme trainees get the support that they require to help them remain engaged, focused and progress to their identified goals.
• Supporting participants’ further education and job search activities, personal development, goal setting, identifying, and overcoming barriers, CV development, completing applications, interview skills, and accredited qualifications.
• Providing 52-week post-employment support to achieve sustained employment outcomes, including tracking and database record-keeping.
• Working alongside Youth Workers within school settings to plan and deliver tailored employability support for young people.
• Maintaining up to date knowledge of employment sectors and pre-employment training.

About you

The successful candidate for this role will have:

• Sound knowledge of the national and local policies including No One Left Behind, The Young Person’s Guarantee, the Local Employability Partnership, Training for work initiative, barriers people face to enter employment and the skills to support their development and ability to achieve goals.
• Experience of delivering employability support and training provisions for young people and adults.
• Experience working with young people and adults in the employability sector, supporting sustained progressions.
• An organised and systematic approach to monitoring and reporting.
• The ability to challenge, in a constructive manner, negative attitudes, motivating young people and adults with multiple barriers to employment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Good knowledge of the employability landscape.
• Excellent IT skills in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access particularly for database-related work and report writing.
• An HNC or HND in a relevant field, or a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

Along with the above, we would be looking for an individual who shares, and is able to demonstrate, the organisation’s values of being compassionate, open, collaborative, innovative and driven.

What we can offer

In return, we can offer you:

• Enhanced holiday entitlement
• Christmas shutdown period
• Company Sick Pay
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Death in Service benefit (4 x basic salary)

Are you ready to make the next positive move in your career, are you looking for a new challenge? With funding secured and a new structure in place we are recruiting an experienced Mental Health & Wellbeing Team Lead to provide both mental health and line management support across our services.

The principal purpose of this post is to assist the Head of Services with the day-to-day operation of the service delivery areas and line management of designated staff.

As a Team Lead you will be a skilled, knowledgeable and experienced individual. You must have substantive experience of mental health, managing staff and excellent communication skills.

If you are able to demonstrate your ability to deliver high quality services with a sound knowledge and understanding of Child Protection and Adult Support and Protection, are positive, supportive, able to work in a collaborative way, and have excellent interpersonal skills then this could be the role for you.

Do you want to join a Sunday Times Top 100 company?

Are you currently working in social care or interested in considering a social care career? If you are and you would like to have an informal chat before applying then please call our House Manager, Tracey Chalmers on 07854958138.

We do not offer sponsorship for work visa’s therefore you need to have the right to work in the UK to apply for any of our posts.

About Sycamore Inverness

At Aberlour, we believe that every child deserves the chance to flourish regardless of their background and the circumstances that have brought them to live with Aberlour. The children we support are presently not able to live safely with their own families and many of them have suffered from trauma and loss in their young lives.

Our experienced team seek to create a comfortable home for them where they can grow and flourish, participating in educational and community activities to achieve their goals.

What we are looking for....

We are looking to recruit 2 Residential Workers to join our team in Inverness, you will work 37.5 hours per week working in a residential house which is home for up to five young people. We have a core team of Residential Workers who support our young people, helping them to achieve and overcome the challenges they face. At Aberlour, we believe that every child deserves the change to flourish regardless of their background and the circumstances that have brought them to live with Aberlour. Working therapeutically with the young people our aim is to help the young people to develop their confidence and self-worth and therefore to maximise their potential and opportunities for living fulfilled and happy lives. As a Residential Worker, you will play a fundamental role in ensuring that our young people are working towards their goals through supporting them with different daily activities. These activities can include college, different hobbies and attending fun groups. Not without its challenges and demands, this is a highly rewarding role.

This service operates a residential rota and, as part of this, you will be expected to work evenings, weekends, and public holidays. Shifts are set on a monthly basis, however may be altered to suit the needs of the service.

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.

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.

Youth Scotland, Scotland’s national charity for the support and delivery of community-based youth work, would love you to come and join our dynamic team.

We are looking for a worker to join our youth work and training team and help us develop and deliver engaging training programmes which will be used to inspire and upskill young people and youth workers across Scotland.

If you have experience of youth and community work, a passion for making learning fun and engaging, an interest in e-learning and digital and a desire to share your skills with others, then this role is for you.

The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting an Energy Efficiency Outreach Worker!

The post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering our Energy and Efficiency outreach project to Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire and will provide a specialist service to people who often experience complex social circumstances, using agreed, person-centred principles for monitoring, auditing and evaluating programme delivery

The successful candidate for this role should have:

• Experience at delivering advice to a wide range of citizens and be familiar with benefit entitlements as well as showing empathy and understanding of the issues faced by our citizens.
• Knowledge and understanding of the environmental, social and economic problems of deprived areas and the roles of the public, private and voluntary sectors in tackling them.
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of the provision of advice to low-income households in energy efficiency or related fields.
• Self-motivation and the ability to work with limited supervision.
• The ability to work with a wide range of people and proven experience of working with vulnerable householders, low income and/or other disadvantaged groups, including a strong understanding of the challenges faced by people living in areas of deprivation in relation to living well.
• Tact and diplomacy when liaising with a wide range of organisations.
• A solution-focused approach.
• Non-discriminatory values.
• Proven and highly effective interpersonal and communication skills in working with people on a 1:1 basis and with organisations.
• Excellent influencing, negotiation and motivational skills in order to engage people and to enable them to take up a wide range of community services and activities.
• Excellent networking, recording and information management skills.
• Knowledge of facilitating service improvement and appreciation of different organisational cultures and workforce development.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on own initiative.
• IT skills in word processing, spreadsheets, email and internet.
• An ability and willingness to travel extensively within the local community and wider area.
• It would be desirable for the candidate to hold City & Guilds Level 3 Award in Energy Awareness or equivalent.

Terms and conditions

This post is a fixed-term contract. This is a full-time role, 35 hours per week, based in Glasgow. The post holder will be required to adopt a flexible approach to working hours as travel throughout Scotland and occasional additional hours may be required. However, this will be reimbursed through the organisation’s Time off in Lieu scheme.

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days)
• 91 hours of public holidays (equivalent of 13 days) that can be taken flexibly
• Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
• Contributory pension scheme
• Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
• Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Time off in lieu
• Cycle Scheme
• Carer Positive Employer

The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.

The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

VAER has an exciting opportunity for a Partnership and Policy Manager to join our amazing team and lead its partnership and policy work as part of the Third Sector Interface role for East Renfrewshire.

The post holder will be responsible for VAER’s Third Sector Interface role in Community Planning, which seeks to facilitate effective Third Sector participation and representation across partnership and planning forums. Bringing excellent facilitative leadership approaches, you will support effective Third Sector partnerships and networks to develop and build the capacity of the third sector to lead positive change in their communities.

You will have good knowledge of public sector policy and the reform landscape in Scotland and of the issues and opportunities affecting the Third Sector. You will be able to bring forward a range of views with confidence and diplomacy and have experience of working with third sector in Community Planning environments.

Working as part of the senior management team of VAER, you will be supported by our Third Sector capacity, Volunteer Development, and wider community engagement staff team to develop a mature Third Sector Forum that will take a lead role in Policy development and Service Design in East Renfrewshire.

We are seeking to appoint a well-organised, self-motivated, and dedicated individual to support the Director of Corporate Services with a broad range of financial duties and to support colleagues across the wider organisation, including our offices in Africa.

S/he will be responsible for the financial management processes, ensuring compliance and supporting financial planning and reporting. Duties will include recording income and expenditure, arranging payment of invoices, supporting financial audits, programme finance reporting, fundraising applications, and providing financial support to the Senior Leadership and other staff.

The Finance Officer will be based in our Edinburgh headquarters. Some hybrid working and international travel may be required. If you are looking for an exciting opportunity to use your experience and skills to support positive change in the world, then we urge you to apply.