We are seeking a qualified and compassionate mental health and wellbeing worker.

Deliver face-to-face services for children and young people from armed forces families in a boarding school environment.

Provide essential mental health support, promote emotional wellbeing, and empower young people to navigate challenges faced through our Lighthouse Project at Queen Victoria School (Dunblane), funded by the Veterans Foundation. You will be responsible for planning and delivery of one-to-one, peer group, and drop-in sessions. You will work directly with young people to co-produce mental health and wellbeing resources, to empower young people to become wellbeing ambassadors and support staff and parents to enhance understanding of many relevant topics.

About the Lighthouse project

The Lighthouse project was coproduced with young people from Queen Victoria School in recognition of the unique challenges of forces life and boarding. It has been delivered as a pilot for the past year and has shown success in supporting young people to maintain or improve their mental health and wellbeing. With generous funding from The Veterans Foundation the project Forces Children Scotland will continue the delivery of the Lighthouse Project for a minimum of a further two years.

In this unique role, the post holder will be employed by Forces Children Scotland but based and embedded in Queen Victoria School which is located in Dunblane. The school delivers board and education for children and young people from aged 11-18 years who have parents serving in the armed forces across the United Kingdom and overseas.

About the person we’re looking for

You will need an undergraduate degree in psychology, mental health, social work, education, youth work, or equivalent qualification/experience to apply. Moreover, you require at least 2 years’ experience working in mental health service delivery/support.

Here’s a selection of further essential criteria:

• Experience in working collaboratively and an ability to engage with children and young people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances,.
• Experience in coproducing projects with children and young people in a mental health and wellbeing context.
• Experience in developing and delivering mental health and wellbeing support for children and young.
• Experience in evaluating the impact of mental health and wellbeing.
• Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.
• A strong understanding of trauma and adversity in childhood and the impact this can have on mental health and wellbeing.

Please download our job/person description for further details.

Refugee Sanctuary Scotland (RSS) exists to relieve destitution and promote wellbeing for refugees and people within the asylum system in Scotland. Our vision is a welcoming, inclusive, safe Scotland for refugees and asylum seekers, where all live free of destitution and have the means and opportunities to realise their full potential. Our mission is to provide refugees and people seeking asylum with practical support when it is most needed, build connections between people and use what we learn to campaign for change.

Role Purpose: We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our small committed and vibrant team of staff who deliver incredible impact for their size. Your role will be focused on our strategic objective to ensure the charity’s sustainability by maximising and diversifying income and maintaining/developing the charity’s profile among the public, policy makers and other migrant justice organisations. You will be delivering strategic fundraising and communications, building partnerships, raising unrestricted and restricted funds from diverse income sources to support the sustainability of the charity, and communicating to a wide range of audiences through various platforms including social media and our newsletter, informing asylum seekers and refugees about their rights, raising awareness of the work we do and ensuring we continue to support destitute asylum seekers and refugees.

To thrive in this role, you will need to be driven, organised, tenacious, creative, flexible, have good communication skills and be confident in inspiring existing and new funders and donors to donate raise money. You will build strong relationships and partnerships both internally and externally, managing a varied portfolio of work that touches all aspects of the charity, write compelling funding applications, create campaigns and come up with new and innovative ideas to capture the minds and hearts of potential philanthropists. Our ideal candidate will be an individual who fits with the values of Refugee Sanctuary Scotland

This is a wonderful opportunity for an individual with experience in Business Development, Fundraising, Marketing and/or PR and Communications to make a massive impact across Tayside and support Archie in its mission to support children and families.

The Archie Foundation exists to improve experiences and outcomes for children and their families with healthcare and/or bereavement support needs. Established in 2000, Archie was created to support the construction of the new Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital. Since then, the charity’s reach has extended to include the Highlands and Tayside.

The mission - Transforming experiences and outcomes in healthcare

and bereavement for local children and families

The entry of The Archie Foundation to Tayside centred around the highly successful £2m Appeal to help create a new Children’s Theatre Suite in Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital, which opened in 2022. The local community rallied behind the Archie appeal to support this important project, which is transforming the experiences of undergoing an operation for hundreds of children each year by providing purpose-built, child-friendly facilities. Recent developments have seen the introduction of the Child Bereavement Service to Tayside and the initiation of further projects to support NHS Tayside facilities.

This role

The Business Development and Fundraising Manager, based in Dundee, will be the face of Archie’s across the entire Tayside Region. They will be the driving force behind raising awareness and generating income. They will use their imagination, passion and skills to build relationships, to lead and manage fundraising activities and to build sustainable income streams to support Archie’s work of The Archie Foundation, to transform the lives of children and families.

The successful candidate will go on to engage constantly with beneficiaries of the charity as well as key stakeholders, including the NHS and Education Sectors. They will organise and lead flagship fundraising projects and events, engaging with local community groups, and delivering presentations to boost involvement. They will work closely with corporate supporters to create win-win partnerships and to enhance the charity’s profile through effective PR and communications. They will have the skills to recruit and inspire volunteers to support the Archie Foundation’s fundraising efforts. They will ensure that every supporter of Archie, whether a major philanthropist or a first-time fundraiser, feels valued and informed about the impact their contribution makes to the lives of children and families.

The ideal candidate for this position will be charismatic and engaging, optimistic with lots of energy and passion. They will enjoy and excel in working with different types of people in many different contexts. They will have excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as being organised and efficient. They will be able to work proactively and flexibly, to self-manage, complete and follow up on actions agreed. They will also be resilient, to bounce back when challenges occur.

The Archie Foundation welcomes and encourages applications from different backgrounds for this key position of Business and Development and Fundraising Manager. Whether your experience has been in fundraising, marketing and/or PR/communications, show us and tell us how you work with a customer focus and how you can bring this to make the difference in Tayside for children and families, when they need it most.

Age Scotland is the Scottish charity for older people, working with and supporting thousands of older people across Scotland through our services, our membership network and communities of interest.

The charity has set out an ambitious income generation strategy, seeking to double its income by 2030. The opportunity has arisen for an experienced Head of Commercial Development to join the charity and explore opportunities to develop our commercial revenue stream, including through our established workforce training programmes and other, previously tested initiatives, such as energy provision and financial services products. We are very interested in exploring new products and services that older people tell us that they need or wish to have, particularly where there may be gaps in the market.

As the Head of Commercial Development, you will report to the CEO and work directly with CFO and connect with senior colleagues across the organisation in the delivery of your role. You will lead a team to build on our existing income generation platforms, helping to deliver even greater impact for older people in Scotland in line with our values, seeking to offer high quality services and products to older people at good value.

Living our values, you will approach the role with integrity, while involving, inspiring and empowering our teams, so that together we can create better outcomes for older people in Scotland.

The post will be Scotland-based, a blend of office (Edinburgh-based) and home working. In return for your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment to our values you’ll receive a generous benefits package:

• Generous holiday allowance of 39 days (FTE)

• A range of learning and development opportunities

• Company sick pay

• Healthcare benefit through Westfield Health

• Discounted gym membership

• Cashback scheme from major retailers

• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of 9%

• A comprehensive package of support though our Employee Assistance Programme

• Group life cover up to three times your annual salary

• Cycle to work scheme

• Paid carers leave and dependents’ support

• The option to buy more holidays or sell them

• Enhanced maternity and paternity policies.