Cookery School Chef
- Full time
- £21,500 – £24,500
- Ramekin & Rolling Pin Cookery School, Kirkintilloch
- Closing 29th February 2024
- Advertised from 31st January 2024
- 35 hours per week (will include some evenings and Saturdays)
Role
About Us
Established in 2022 Ramekin and Rolling Pin is a modern and inclusive cookery school and community kitchen based in East Dunbartonshire. Our aim is to bring communities together through a series of communal workshops with a focus on healthy eating, creative cookery and expanding social networks. We believe that everyone should have access to a balanced diet and we promote this in a sustainable, cost effective and environmentally friendly way.
The cookery school is open to everyone, including families, children and young people, schools, community groups and community based organisations. We offer a number of tailored workshops run by professional chefs that explore everything from basic food preparation right up to making advanced dishes from cuisines across the world.
Addressing food injustice is at the core of what we do, so that people and communities have the opportunity to access a healthy and acceptable diet for themselves, their families and their communities whilst also considering the environmental challenges of the climate emergency, rising fuel costs and food insecurity.
Our cookery masterclasses and events help fund our community cookery classes and culinary therapy workshops for those in the local area.
2024 is shaping up to be an exciting year at Ramekin and Rolling Pin with a fully booked schedule of cookery masterclasses (see Ramekin + Rolling Pin Events | Eventbrite, Cookery Classes) a wide variety of community collaborations in the diary and an on site community garden in the pipeline. We are looking for an experienced, passionate chef to join the team to continue our growth and support our community.
The Role
In the main the successful candidate will work alongside the Cookery School Manager in the planning and delivery of all cookery masterclasses, community cookery classes and events/catering as well as all any relevant admin, monitoring and evaluation. This will include daily, weekly or monthly duties (whichever applicable) from the categories below.
- Working alongside the CSM to develop and deliver seasonal cookery school programmes and masterclasses, including the creation of recipe content
- Assisting in the sourcing of ingredients, using fresh produce and/or edible food waste wherever possible
- Preparing the workstations with awareness of potential risks, ensuring that basic food hygiene procedures are followed
- Working with and training a group of volunteers to become peer-to-peer workshop facilitators.
- Working with the CSM to determine marketing and sales strategies to maximise exposure and income
- Sharing responsibility for monitoring weekly, monthly and annual sales performance and achieving targets for income
- Working within an environmental agenda to ensure effective zero waste and waste management protocols.
- Supporting the CSM in taking part in regular evaluation reviews of programme delivery ensuring the continuous improvement of our services
- Supporting the CSM in ensuring all data recording is captured accurately enabling robust impact assessment, delivery of funding agreements and the effective use of our resources
- Assisting in the writing up of evaluations of the sessions
- To undertake other duties appropriate to the post in support of the organisation’s smooth functioning
Person Specification
Essential
- An interest in and desire to work towards the vision, mission and aims of Ramekin and Rolling Pin including a commitment to healthy diet and living
- Proven professional cookery experience
- Flexibility in agreed work hours which will include some Saturdays and evenings
- Well organised with an ability to plan and deliver cookery classes enthusiastically, within agreed timelines and following set processes
- Demonstrable passion for cuisines and ingredients from around the world and the impact on global food sustainability.
- Ability to respect individuals and during delivery encourage their interest in food relating to all aspects of their lives.
- Ability to deliver food demonstrations in an engaging, interactive and informal way to all ages including children and young people, striving for an inclusive approach
- Experience of using and working within appropriate protocols and procedures such as Cooksafe
- Commitment to working in a values-based culture including non-discriminatory and equal opportunities practice
- Elementary Food Hygiene Certificate
- Willingness to undergo PVG check
Desirable
- Experience of supporting people with higher support needs eg: those with learning difficulties or mental health issues
- Awareness and understanding of community food and health issues
- Experience of monitoring and evaluation
- A keen interest in food growing
- Experience of using social media as a tool to reach target audiences
Application notes
CV and Cover Letter to lorna@ramekinandrollingpin.scot
Closing date: 29th February 2024
Bereavement Support Practitioner (Outreach) - Scotland
- Full time
- £28,000
- Hybrid: based at Child Bereavement UK’s Family Service in Glasgow, and providing outreach support across Edinburgh and Forth Valley.
- Closing 5th January 2025
With thanks to a grant from The Scottish Lottery Community Fund, Child Bereavement UK are able to build on the success of the well-established services based in Glasgow to begin to offer a hybrid model of outreach bereavement support to individuals, couples, families and in group settings, across Edinburgh and the Forth Valley. This is an exciting opportunity for the post holder to support the Bereavement Support Service Lead in Scotland in the provision and evaluation of a developing and extending service that ensures families and professionals can access high quality bereavement support in situations where a baby or child of any age has died, or where children or young people up to the age of 25 are bereaved.
The role will include:
- To support the Bereavement Support Service Lead in developing and establishing Child Bereavement UK’s service as a source of advice and support for families and professionals.
- To manage a caseload and provide a programme of individual and couple sessions and to develop and provide facilitated Groups for Parents bereaved of a baby or child.
- To contribute to the provision of a programme of individual and family support sessions, Groups for Families, Groups for Young People and school liaison.
- To outreach with diverse organisations and community groups including BAME, LGBQT+ organisations to positively support inclusion and engagement of these groups and individuals, and their access to bereavement support services.
- To support the Bereavement Support Service Lead in the selection, training and support of volunteers for the Bereavement Service.
Applicants should have a recognised, health, social care, or counselling qualification, experience in working with children, young people and families, excellent communication skills and be passionate about supporting bereaved families and those whose roles bring them into contact with these families.
Child Bereavement UK offers a generous package of benefits including an employee assistance programme, 5% pension contribution and life assurance scheme.
If you are interested in knowing more, please see the attached job description and person specification or contact karen.smith@childbereavementuk.org
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Top job! Communications and Engagement Advisor
- Full time
- £36,924 – £45,163
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 5th January 2025
The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) works towards ensuring that Scotland’s approach to children and young people in conflict with the law is rights-respecting; contributing to better outcomes for our children, young people and communities. We produce robust ground-breaking work by bringing together children and young people’s contributions, research evidence, practice wisdom and system know-how to operate as a leader for child and youth justice thinking in Scotland and beyond. An evaluation of CYCJ, published in 2020, highlights how our significant contribution stems from our unique role and positioning:
‘CYCJ is a boundary-spanning intermediary organisation. Boundary spanners are capable of contributing to system change. Their work to redress the imbalances of information, to connect and share insight across groups, to coordinate people to collaborate on key issues as well as focused interventions on seemingly intractable issues can come together to create paradigm shifts in the system.’
Our focus for 2020-2025 is on supporting Scotland to comply with its international commitments for children and young people in conflict with the law in relation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), find our strategy on our website.
We work across four workstreams: Practice Development, Policy, Research, and Participation.
CYCJ is primarily funded by the Scottish Government and is based within the University of Strathclyde, in the School of Social Work and Social Policy. Our Executive Governance Group has oversight of CYCJ and our strategic direction, and consists of representatives from across policy, practice, research and lived experience. This post has funding to March 2026 with indicative funding for future years.
We are looking for a Strategic Communications Lead to develop and implement our communications strategy, engaging a wide variety of audiences. Collaborating across teams, you’ll oversee media relations, storytelling, digital campaigns and stakeholder engagement to ensure MCR’s voice is heard by a wide variety of audiences and inspires action.
About the role:
The Strategic Communications Lead oversees a small communications and campaigns team to create, build and deliver spectacular multi platform campaigns and communications activities. The role is crucial in managing both internal and external communications, enhancing public engagement, supporting partnerships staff in mentor recruitment and supporting fundraising activity aligned with the mission of bridging the education, skills and opportunity gap for Scotland's most disadvantaged young people. The role involves strategic thinking, creativity, operational planning and delivery.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and deliver an integrated communications strategy aligned with our goals.
- Lead media relations, securing impactful coverage and managing key relationships.
- Oversee content creation, including digital, social media, and campaigns, ensuring consistent messaging.
- Act as brand guardian, ensuring clarity and cohesion in all communications.
- Provide strategic advice to leadership on key messaging and public engagement opportunities.
- Powering our drive to be recognised nationally, and loved locally and regionally in the communities we serve.
About you:
You’ll have a proven track record in strategic communications, media relations, and campaign delivery, ideally within the charity sector. A skilled communicator and collaborator, you’ll bring creativity, adaptability, and a passion for delivering positive change for young people. You’ll have a relevant portfolio of work that shows your passion for high quality communications and impactful creative output.
About us:
MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity with a passionate team dedicated to helping the UK’s most vulnerable young people gain self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential through mentoring. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our relationship-based mentoring is transformative and has profound positive impacts on young people in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. All 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 volunteer mentors.
Pathways Coordinator – Blairgowrie High School
- Full time
- £24,600
- On site: Blairgowrie
- Closing 10th January 2025
We are looking for a Pathways Coordinator at Blairgowrie High School, 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.
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