Are you passionate about nurture, high quality childcare and making a real difference to children and families in Scotland? Do you want to be part of SCMA – a thriving membership organisation, advocating on behalf of childminders and delivering services across Scotland?

We are recruiting for this post to help us expand the childminding workforce across Scotland.

The Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) is the national voice of childminding in Scotland. SCMA is a national Third Sector and membership organisation that promotes childminding as a quality childcare service. Working on behalf of its 3,000 childminder members, SCMA helps to improve the wellbeing and outcomes for Scotland’s children and aims to influence policy to ensure that it is informed by the experiences of childminding. SCMA provides a wide range of support and professional services for members including training and events as well as delivering local services. For more information about our organisation and services visit childminding.org

The successful applicant will work to support potential new childminders by delivering a childminding recruitment model in targeted local authority areas. You will work closely with the Workforce Manager, using SCMA’s successful childminding specific model, with the aim of increasing the number of childminders across Scotland.

The postholder is required to have proven ability to prioritise work and forward plan. Enthusiasm, self-motivation, good communication and excellent organisational skills are required.

The post is home/office based, requiring travel and attendance at meetings across the central belt and occasionally wider (including regular attendance at Head Office in Stirling). Equipment and broadband/IT connections will be provided.

Fixed term for 1 Yr in the first instance ( till Winter 23)

The Energy Advice Project is a new and innovative approach that extends & increases our ability to help vulnerable energy consumers in the Stirling Council Area. It is unique, in that Stirling Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) is reaching out to the people who need help, rather than expecting to find them at specific events. The Energy Advice Service moves beyond the traditional ‘advice’ only model typical of most CABs, to actually delivering change with a capital budget and strong referral relationships to more specialist energy advisors.

The Energy Advice Project will work to prevent and reduce fuel poverty and health inequality in Stirling District, in a time of desperate need, by increasing the capacity of our established, trusted and accessible local presence & total advice architecture, to help those in crisis reduce their energy bills and keep warm with a specialist energy advice worker, (supported by frontline volunteer advisers), who will deliver practical advice and support and advocacy to navigate utility company hurdles, provide access to energy saving items, deliver crisis intervention support & increase access and understanding on the full range available grant assistance.

Stirling CAB has an established energy advice footprint & is well versed in utility company management processes and current industry products, helping vulnerable people navigate complex, challenging and confusing utility issues.

This Energy Advice Service workers focus is vulnerable consumers irrespective of their housing tenure primarily (but not exclusively) where:

• Household's first language is not English

• Households are digitally excluded

• Households are lone parent families

• Households with a person living with a disability or essential medical needs

• Households with other protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010

We are includem

An established Scottish charity helping children, young people and families in challenging circumstances to transform their lives by providing intensive, bespoke support.

Our model of support is based upon building solid relationships of trust. Through this approach we are able to help children and young people to make positive life choices and progress towards the type of future they want to live.

Includem would be nothing without its people. We have over 100 brilliant and dedicated colleagues working across Scotland to provide the support young people need to make positive changes in their lives, and inspire a more hopeful future for young people, their families, and communities.

What does the role involve?

You will work as part of the Support Services Team to deliver high quality administrative support to the organisation, providing an effective and accurate service that will meet the needs and demands of the various functions within includem. The role requires you to be the first point of contact for the organisation including answering the Helpline available to the young people and families we support and directing these calls to the appropriate staff member. You will be expected to work independently and as part of a team both at home and in a busy office environment.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Answering the includem helpline and business phone lines in a polite and professional manner and directing these calls to the appropriate person.

• Providing a front of house service that conveys our professional image to both internal and external stakeholders

• Ensuring adequate supplies such as stationery, cleaning materials and other office supplies are kept up-to-date

• Confidently using database systems to accurately input and extract data

• Maintenance and input of our internal database ensuring it is both up to date and accurate and when required to produce information in a professional format for both internal and external stakeholders

• Monitor and audit spend associated with staff expenses and check submissions in line with internal and external audit requirements

• Actively participate at a local and organisational level in improving and developing services and systems

Skills & Experience

• Experience of administrative work in a busy office environment

• Relevant experience in answering telephone calls and providing a professional front of house service.

• Excellent IT Skills with proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and Outlook

• The ability to react sensitively and confidentially to the client group and the ability to deal with confidential matters in a sensitive and discreet manner

• The ability to organise and prioritise workload and to work on own initiative at times, but also well as part of a team.

• Good self and time management skills

• Evidence of strong communication and interpersonal skills to support working with internal colleagues, service users and external agencies.

• An adaptable and flexible approach to hours of work and duties

• Committed to self-development

• Educated to SVQ Level 2 in Business & Administration, or equivalent

We value our Team - benefits include:

• A full and robust training and induction programme

• Holiday entitlement of 28 days rising to 31 with length of service and 9 public holidays

• Enhanced Employer Pension Contributions

• Free Confidential Employee Counselling Service

• Access to Mental Health First Aiders across the organisation

• Company Mobile Phone and Laptop

• Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations Credit Union

• Discounted holidays and associated benefits

• Access to discounts for charity workers which includes gym memberships, high street shops, online retailers, travel, insurance

• Flexible and agile working and Family friendly policies

If you would like more information regarding this role, please contact us on 0141 427 0523 to arrange an informal chat with the Business Support Manager or contact emma.hyndman@includem.co.uk

An opportunity has arisen for a fixed-term full-time role in a new post of Student Engagement Co-ordinator.

This post is in support of the Forth Valley Student Association, and is funded to end June 2023.

You will be responsible for co-ordinating the delivery of student engagement work in all its different forms to support the Students’ Association in achieving strategic and operational targets. You will work with students and staff to gather information and produce reports which will be shared with internal and external stakeholders. You will co-ordinate and deliver student engagement activities, and support student volunteers of the Students’ Association, across all Forth Valley College campuses.

You will be responsible for recruiting and supporting student volunteers and Class representatives, including implementing a monitoring system to ensure quality and quantity of volunteers within the Student Association and the College.

You will work across our Falkirk, Stirling and Alloa campuses, interacting with a wide range of students on a day-to-day basis, positively and proactively representing the Students’ Association.

While the post resides in the wider structure of the College’s Learning & Quality team, the post will operate directly within the Forth Valley Students’ Association. As the post is of limited duration, priority areas will be agreed with you at an early stage, and key targets will be specified.

With an HNC in an appropriate area (or considerable relevant experience), you will have excellent communication and organisational skills and will be willing to learn, able to assimilate new information quickly, and be skilled at forming positive and professional working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. You will be able to work and engage with students in a front-facing role, delivering student engagement activities, and supporting at events such as Fresher’s Fairs.

This would be a great opportunity for someone interested in experiencing a varied and cross-college role, motivated to deliver measurable results in a short timescale.

Previous applicants need not apply.

*Please note the College is currently undergoing a National Job Evaluation process and therefore all salaries are subject to the outcome of this process.

The Scottish Government is promoting social prescribing as a way of reducing or mitigating health inequalities, with a pledge to roll out 250 link workers nationally in the next few years. Social prescribing links people attending GP or other primary care services with local, often non-clinical, community resources.

Clackmannanshire and Stirling Health and Social Care Partnership (CSHSCP) has committed to the roll-out of the Community Link worker programme in the Partnership area and are now recruiting two Lead Community Links Workers (CLWs) who will have line management responsibilities for CLWs in Clackmannanshire and Stirling.

CLWs are fully integrated in day-to-day work of GP Practice staff to inform and provide community connections to service users and are supported by CTSI/ SVE. They help people to access the wide range of local support provided by Third Sector organisations, helping them to reconnect and understand how they can improve and sustain their own health and wellbeing.

The Lead CLWs will each manage one of the Partnership areas in either Clackmannanshire or Stirling urban/ rural and be based in a GP practice themselves, acting as a CLW. They will provide leadership and day-to-day management and supervision to a growing team of CLWs and manage a caseload of clients within their GP practice. They will also be responsible for ensuring that information/ recording systems are kept up-to-date to support project development and raise awareness of local issues and that GDPR is implemented.

They will build strong relationships with partners and have a key role in promoting the benefits of the service to clinicians and the public.

The Scottish Government is promoting social prescribing as a way of reducing or mitigating health inequalities, with a pledge to roll out 250 link workers nationally in the next few years. Social prescribing links people attending GP or other primary care services with local, often non-clinical, community resources.

Clackmannanshire and Stirling Health and Social Care Partnership (CSHSCP) has committed to the roll-out of the Community Link worker programme in the Partnership area and are now recruiting a Community Link Worker (CLW) to be based at the Ochilview Practice in Clackmannanshire.

They will be fully integrated in day-to-day work of the practice staff to inform and provide community connections to service users, will be supported by the CTSI/ SVE and will work with local volunteer Community Health Champions.

The Community Links Workers will help people to access the wide range of local support provided by Third Sector organisations, helping them to reconnect and understand how they can improve and sustain their own health and wellbeing.

Fallin Community Enterprises is a Scottish charity & business limited by guarantee operating as a Social Enterprise. Recyke-a-bike is a project of Fallin Community Enterprises where the main business is recycling bicycles and delivering cycle related training and activities that will not just reduce the impact of waste on the environment, but will also generate jobs, provide training and opportunities within the Forth Valley.

The purpose of this role is to support the delivery of the Bikeability programme in partnership with Cycling Scotland and Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire local authorities. In addition, supporting the delivery of all cycling based activities delivered by the Recyke-a-Bike team. This is an exciting time to join the organisation, as we go through a period of growth and development!