Sight Scotland is Scotland’s leading charity providing specialist care, education and research for people with vision impairment. The charity has been in existence for over 230 years, and offer a variety of services in the community as well as education, transcription into alternative formats and residential care for adults and children. Their vision is of an inclusive Scotland where people of all visual abilities have the opportunity to thrive. To achieve their mission they are looking for a Supporter Fundraiser who will proactively engage with supporters, community groups and volunteers in the community.

The Supporter Fundraiser will join Sight Scotland at an exciting stage, with a newly formed Cause and Engagement team, a new organisational strategy and direction, and a roadmap for fundraising planned. The charity is recruiting for 5 other fundraising roles alongside this role.

This role gets to see the full spectrum of what Sight Scotland’s amazing supporters do for the charity. You will spend time out and about meeting supporters across Scotland, understanding their fundraising goals and supporting them to achieve and surpass them. You will engage with community groups, speak at schools and workplaces, recruit and manage volunteers and support the delivery of fundraising events.

This role would suit someone who enjoys building relationships with people across a wide spectrum of age, background, disability, and motivation. You would need to be enthusiastic, proactive and able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team. A willingness to travel is a must as you will need to be out from behind a desk to build those all important relationships. There will be some evening and weekend work (for which TOIL is provided), so flexibility is key.

You might see similar roles called Community Fundraiser or Regional Fundraiser.

This role is an excellent starting point for fundraising as a career path, but some experience within charities would be useful for this role. This role could suit someone who has experience as a Fundraising Assistant and is looking to step into a role with more responsibility and supporter interaction, or perhaps someone who has worked in a different team within a charity but can demonstrate great relationship building skills.

Could you help Edinburgh City Mission by overseeing the financial aspects of the charity, ensuring financial stability, compliance, and effective resource management to support our vital community work across the city?

The Finance Manager is responsible for overseeing all financial aspects of the charity, ensuring financial stability, compliance, and effective resource management to support Edinburgh City Mission’s work. The Finance Manager operates across all aspects of the organisation, working particularly closely with the fundraising and outreach teams. The Finance Manager will work closely with the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Operations, including in reporting to the Board of Trustees, to support the good financial stewardship of Edinburgh City Mission.

An exciting new role which will expand and improve the support volunteer network in Scotland, to develop and expand our community networks across the adoption community. The project will help us to reach more adult adoptees and adoptive parents and establish supportive peer networks, offering community activities and social opportunities. We're looking for an organised, friendly people person who can bring people together, and support and motivate individuals. The individual must be able to travel into the office in Edinburgh, as well as travel across Scotland to establish, visit and support network activities.

We are a passionate and committed organisation and we really value our employees. We offer flexibility, family friendly working arrangements and a wide range of benefits.

All offers of employment are subject to the receipt of two satisfactory references and a satisfactory DBS check.

We are looking for two Pathways Coordinators for Golspie High School and Nairn Academy, to work with young people, mentors and school staff involved in our programme.

About the role:

You will be an integral part of the school community and wider MCR team and be the key person delivering the MCR programme to young people in the school.

Key responsibilities:

- Helping to build exceptional individual relationships with young people across S1 to S6 and delivering S1 & S2 group work.

- Helping to drive volunteer mentor recruitment. Consistently supporting, actively engaging and motivating mentors from training through the length of their engagement with the programme.

- Actively support MCR young people to set, experience then follow their education and employment pathways.

- Evidence progression, impact and best practice with YP input, quantitative feedback and qualitative case studies.

About you:

- Exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships with young people aged 11-18 years, education colleagues, volunteer mentors and local employers.

- Awareness and understanding of the principles of safeguarding and child protection.

- Ability and confidence to present programme information & deliver prepared training sessions to groups.

- Ability to work well on own initiative, as part of a team and on a flexible basis in response to young person and organisational need.

- An understanding of the challenges and barriers that care-experienced and/or vulnerable young people may encounter.

- Experience or a knowledge of processes to document and evidence good practice and positive outcomes.

You may have experience as a Youth, Community or Advice Worker. You will be an empathetic person who is open minded, non-judgemental, resilient and who is driven to improve outcomes for care experienced and other vulnerable young people.

About MCR Pathways:

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. Our passionate team is dedicated to helping the most vulnerable young people gain in self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our in-school mentoring has profound impacts on school pupils in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. MCR Mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. We model our values and many of us are also mentors ourselves.

Benefits of working for MCR Pathways include: 33 days annual leave in first year rising to 38 days from 2nd year of employment, additional day off for your birthday, Living Pensions Employer, Life Assurance - 4 x salary.

SCOREscotland is based in South West Edinburgh. Our mission and purpose for existence is to work in partnership with others to address the causes and effects of racism and to promote race equality and break down barriers to the full participation of local black and minority ethnic communities in all aspects of civic life. As a small organisation we offer the benefits of working in a team that is committed to making a difference to the people that we work with.

We are looking for skilled and experienced Sessional Youth and Children’s Workers who are passionate about engaging with children and young people and about supporting them to make progress on our outcomes.

Are you passionate about working with young people?

Are you interested in working with the black and minority ethnic (BME) communities?

Are you professional and positive?

Are you a creative team player?

Do you have skills that you would like to share with young people?

The beauty of being a sessional worker is you can vary your hours from weekly to monthly sessions. Our group ages are: 7 – 10, 11 – 14, 15 – 17 and 18 – 24 years old.

We are based at WHALE Arts Centre, Wester Hailes but we take our young people throughout the city and beyond.

Please see attached job description for more details.

We are looking for a Community Activity Organiser in West Lothian based in our office Unit 1 Grampian Court, Beveridge Square, Livingston, EH54 6QF.

The post holder will work in partnership with colleagues, people with Memory concerns, dementia and their families to:

• Plan, develop and facilitate a wide range of therapeutic and social activities
• Promote activities through social media and other platforms
• Support delivery of 9 outreach Community Cafes in West Lothian
• Review and evaluate activities providing regular reports of outcomes
• Produce a monthly programme detailing the services available, as outlined by the Centre Manager, and promote this widely across the networks.
• Be a local point of contact and carry out the associated administrative tasks/business banking.
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills

The post holder will deliver a combination of online groups as well as in person. Proficiency and confidence in using and supporting use of digital platforms are essential for this role along with proficiency in standard office software and IT systems, will enable you to coordinate activities seamlessly

Successful candidates will have a positive approach to dementia supported by excellent communication and networking skills and an empathic, positive attitude. Having a creative flair and being a self-starter would also be an advantage as well as having experience of working with people with dementia. A willingness to develop through ongoing learning is essential.

Occasional evening and weekend work may be required and a driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential to the role.

We are looking for an organised, proactive and talented team member to support our Glasgow Breastfeeding Buddies project. This role is home-based but will include travel across the NHS GGC region (expenses will be reimbursed).

About the Role

You will be responsible for delivering breastfeeding community support groups across the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) health board area. Some of the key responsibilities of the role include:

• Working with and supporting Breastfeeding Peer Supporters to carry out their role.
• Managing Peer Supporter rotas for community groups.
• Delivering all inductions for Peer Supporters.
• Responding to referrals and signposting from health professionals into the service.
• Coordinate, collect and collate data from Peer Supporters and service users in a timely manner, adhering to NCT data protection policies and processes.

You must have good communication skills and be able to build relationships and create a rapport with a wide range of people easily. This is a large and complex project and covers multiple locations so you must be able to confidently prioritise your own work, be highly organised and able to work independently.

Good IT skills are also essential – including Outlook, Word and Excel – and you must have good attention to detail.

It is essential for this post that you undertake the training to become an NCT Breastfeeding Peer Supporter. This requires breastfeeding experience of at least 3 months. The training can be undertaken within your working hours.

The role is 16 hours per week and will include occasional evening and weekends.

Please see the attached job description for further information.

We are taking positive action to increase diversity throughout our organisation, at all levels, and to nurture a culture of inclusion for all our people and the parents and families that we support. More details about our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion action can be found here.

We are committed to zero discrimination both internally and externally regardless of visible or invisible difference such as sex, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity, disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, religion or belief, gender identity, economic class, marital/civil partnership, family status including single parents, socio-economic background and pregnancy and maternity. We provide reasonable adjustments and are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

We welcome and actively encourage applications from all candidates including those from under-represented groups within NCT such as individuals from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQI+ people and people with a disability.

The welfare and safety of individuals is at the heart of everything that we do. NCT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Water Witness works at the frontline of the global water crisis to shine a light on its impacts, to understand its root causes and to activate an effective and lasting response. Our ambitious 2030 Strategy sets out five imperatives for a water secure future: accountable governance, progressive financing, redefining corporate responsibility, confronting climate change and activating people power.

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

This is a new role and an addition to an already small but mighty team; the Finance Officer will be responsible for ensuring transparent and efficient financial activities contributing to the achievement of Water Witness’s overall objectives.

S/he will be responsible for the financial management processes, ensuring compliance, 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 Team 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.

If you are looking for an exciting opportunity to use your experience and skills to support positive change in the world, then come join our team!

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to use their gifts, skills and experience to make a difference in the lives of the young people in our church and community.

We are looking for someone who can expand and lead our work with the young people of the church and community, with a view to reaching out to, discipling, and supporting young people.

This is an exciting time to join Venture Trust as we continue to develop, embed and grow our new multidisciplinary locality teams and apply our developmental approach in communities, in greenspaces and across Scotland’s wilder places.

Venture Trust supports people facing challenging life circumstances to overcome barriers and realise their potential. We work alongside people who have been impacted by trauma, and together we build the programme they need to move forwards in their journey, utilising in communities, greenspaces and wild places across Scotland.

The Venture Trust Outdoor Therapy Service is an important service aimed at reaching clients who can sometimes have difficulty accessing traditional clinical settings. Our service is highly committed to maintaining an ethical therapeutic practice in which safety and risk are given careful consideration.

Our accredited counsellors and therapists meet with clients in their local outdoor spaces; and for our clients, who have often experienced severe adversity and trauma, meeting them in their own community may be what allows them to take the step to engage in therapy. Furthermore, working outdoors allows them to access the varied benefits of working therapeutically in nature, with the metaphors, embodied experiences and regulating effects that can occur.

About this role

The Clinical Practice Manager role is a pivotal role in the Operational Leadership team at Venture Trust. It contributes to maintaining and fostering physical and psychological safety within the organisation, its staff and in work with participants. The Clinical Practice Manager holds an integral role within the organisation, through holding a therapeutic stance and reflective thinking with Operational Leads and the Senior Leadership Team.

They will hold a knowledge and understanding of organisational dynamics, as well as group and unconscious processes. They will bring this on behalf of the organisation to support and develop staff and practice with participants. They will facilitate Reflective Practice Groups alongside the Outdoor Practice and Development Manager for inter-disciplinary Locality Teams and undertake periodic reviews.

The Clinical Practice Manager provides a framework of clinical governance throughout service areas in line with best practice. This includes creating and reviewing relevant processes and policies. The Clinical Practice Manager holds joint responsibility for overseeing and maintaining practice standards across operational staff. This includes considering the practice of clinical staff, such as Outdoor Therapists, as well as operational staff, such as, Outreach Support Workers or Senior Outdoor Practitioners.

We are recruiting for fixed-term maternity cover, and during this period we would like the Clinical Practice Manager to prioritise leading on:

• Working closely with the Outdoor Practice and Development Manager to maintain a therapeutic stance within Leadership Teams within the organisation

• Supporting and maintaining safe ethical practice across operations

• Maintaining robust clinical governance and oversight of processes and policies

• Facilitating Reflective Practice Groups for inter-disciplinary Locality Teams

• Overseeing the Outdoor Therapy Service and its staff, including periodic 1:1 meetings with staff

• Organising and Leading Outdoor Therapy Service Meetings and Supervision

• Arranging quarterly Development Days for Outdoor Therapy staff

• Working alongside the Senior Outdoor Therapist to manage the delivery of the Outdoor Therapy Service for Younger People (10-24 year olds)

• Maintaining and building relationships with key stakeholders

Key relationships:

• Reporting to Director of Operations.

• Part of Operational Leadership team, alongside Outdoor Practice and Development Manager and Head of Operations

• Senior Outdoor Therapist / Outdoor Therapists / Senior Field Therapist

• Senior Outdoor Practitioners

• Senior Leadership Team

• External Clinical Supervisors, who provide 1:1 or group supervision for colleagues

About you

Essential

During this maternity cover, we need someone who can bring a robust and deep understanding of providing therapy and therapeutic services to our client group and is able to support multidisciplinary staff across the organisation.

You will have:

• Significant experience overseeing practice of staff and managing services

• Significant experience of working therapeutically in an organisational context.

• Experience of working with Venture Trust’s client group and, preferably, young people

• Experience supervising staff, preferably qualified to offer clinical supervision.

• Ability to articulate a rationale for integrating therapy work into natural environments, and its theoretical foundations.

• Experience of participating in and an understanding of reflective practice groups

• Personal competence in outdoor environments

Desirable:

You will have:

• Experience of facilitating reflective practice groups

• Experience of facilitating trainings to professionals

• An ability to understand outdoor safety management systems when working in dynamic outdoor environments with support from Head of Operations and Outdoor Practice and Development Manager

• An understanding of and willingness to operate in the 3rd sector

• Experience of building and fostering relationships with key stakeholders

• Professional experience of working in outdoor environments

Working at Venture Trust

We are looking for someone who can work 22.5 – 30 hours a week, including Mondays. The role will be hybrid working, with some time spent working from home and some time spent with colleagues in the Locality Teams and at our Head Office in Stirling.

We offer a range of generous benefits including:

• a generous annual leave entitlement (28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays and 3 Christmas holidays)

• an employee benefits package

• flexible and hybrid working

• a joint contributory pension scheme

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