Main Purpose of post: To enable Church House, Bridgeton to evolve into a fully comprehensive
and effective Integrated Children and Family Support Centre which will focus its activity on early intervention covering Early Years, Youth Work, and Community and Family Support and so become an even more responsive centre for Christian mission.
Principal Duty
To be responsible for all aspects of the day to day management of the transition to and subsequent operation of the Integrated Children and Family Support Centre.
Qualifications
Essential
Degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 5 years’ experience of working/volunteering in a youth/family/community setting.
Desirable
Leadership/Management Qualification
First Aid
Mental Health First Aid
Duke of Edinburgh Qualifications (leader)
Minibus License
Please complete application form and equal opportunities form electronically and email to smeats17@gmail.com by Tuesday 25th June 2024.
Project Manager
Postcode: G40 3PU
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Would you like to join a vibrant, exciting team working alongside families and volunteers in North Lanarkshire?
An exciting opportunity has arisen within North Lanarkshire to be part of a new early intervention family support service – Families Here and Now. This project is funded by North Lanarkshire Council and will provide holistic support for the whole family in local communities/hub areas.
You will play a key role in developing this service alongside families and community partners. The service is a collaboration between four charities: Barnardo’s, Home-Start Glasgow North and North Lanarkshire (HSGNNL), Action for Children and Impact Arts, and you will work closely with colleagues from these organisations.
This outreach support role covers the North Lanarkshire area, based in or around community hubs/schools/nurseries and family homes. The aim of the service is to enable families (pregnant and/or with children up to age 18 years/26 years for care experienced children) to access supports at the earliest possible time, ensuring a ‘whole family’ and ‘no wrong door’ approach.
The service will operate 7 days a week between the hours of 8 am – 8 pm, 365 days per year.
The postholder will be required to work at least one evening every fortnight and at least one weekend every 8 weeks.
The role is initially funded until April 2027.
Do you have what we are looking for?
Save the Children UK's Media Lead – Scotland is crucial and fulfilling role.
If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!
Please note: This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract (until end of January 2026). This role is based in Scotland.
About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
Job Purpose
Save the Children is looking for an ambitious and driven media professional with exceptional project management skills to develop and lead on Save the Children's media activity in Scotland, as well as line managing and supporting the senior media managers in N. Ireland and Wales and supporting them to implement their strategies.
The role will involve developing and driving the media and communications strategy in Scotland to support fundraising, policy, public affairs and brand objectives. You will also help create materials and social media content for Scotland's communications channels. The scope will cover Save the Children's Scotland, UK-wide and international work.
The role will also line manage two senior media managers – one in Wales and one in Northern Ireland. You will lead and support them to deliver effective media and communications plans, while ensuring strategic co-ordination across the devolved nations and with the Save the Children UK office in England.
You will be highly organised and persuasive, with a good knowledge and understanding of child poverty issues and key political debates. You will have experience as a news journalist or in media handling, and a strong track record of success in obtaining media coverage in a variety of outlets. We are looking for someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a proven ability to manage competing priorities under pressure. You will have demonstrated the ability to manage or support others to achieve results.
As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. You will support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.
Main Accountabilities
The Media Lead – Scotland's key duties will be to:
Person Profile
Aptitude
Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.
Ways of Working:
The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.
Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.
Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.
We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.
Benefits:
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.
Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.
A bit about the role
Action for Children's Intervention Service is a voluntary service designed to improve the outcomes for the most vulnerable, dis-enfranchised children and young people aged 11-18 years who are involved in the criminal justice system and believed to be the victims of criminal exploitation.
The Intervention Service forms partnership with Glasgow Health, Social Care and Police Scotland as part of a multi-agency partnership strategy to intervene in a child or young person's life as early as possible to prevent the likelihood or impact of criminal exploitation.
The aim of the project is to identify and divert children and young people at risk of involvement in serious offending and criminal activity at the earliest opportunity. Offering suitable support and diversion opportunities to those identified as potentially being exploited or coerced to engage in criminal activity as an alternative pathway. Providing intensive 1:1 support to help equip the child or young person with the necessary skills and tools to make positive choices and to re-engage and sustain education, training, or employment.
We provide focused intervention work to allow the child or young person to maximise their true potential and to help them overcome personal and practical barriers that prevent them from making positive lifestyle choices. It is imperative we work alongside the family to provide support and address vulnerabilities to strengthen family relationships.
How you'll help to create brighter futures
Some key responsibilities of a Young Persons Practitioner role are;
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PFS was founded in 1944 and since then we have been at the forefront of shaping policy and services that support the 144,000 single parent families in Scotland. OPFS HQ is in central Edinburgh, there are local services in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Falkirk, Edinburgh and Dundee with National digital and helpline services.
The Regional Coordinator role will contribute to the organisation’s vision of a Scotland in which single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly by coordinating components which contribute to the North Lanarkshire service. The role holder will, working alongside colleagues in OPFS Management Teams, be responsible for strategic direction and delivery of services tailored for single parent families in North Lanarkshire.
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 helping to create lasting solutions to poverty and barriers facing 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.