Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid is seeking to recruit a women’s worker to provide support to vulnerable women who have experienced domestic abuse.

Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid supports women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse, forced marriage and honour-based abuse primarily from the Asian, Black and Minority Ethnic Community.

Experience of working with women and knowledge and understanding of the impact of domestic abuse, forced marriage and honour-based abuse on women primarily from minority ethnic backgrounds is required.

A suitable qualification that meets with Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) housing support registration is required otherwise training will be provided.

The nature of our work requires a commitment to the feminist analysis of domestic abuse and to the values of Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid. It is essential that you are bilingual and speak English and Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu.

MsMissMrs is recruiting for a dynamic and enthusiastic Community Cook & Workshop Facilitator who shares our passion for the importance of nutritious, affordable food and the economic empowerment of women and their families in Glasgow.

This is an exciting opportunity to play an important role at MsMissMrs, leading the delivery of Batch Cook and Save workshops at our femfoods community kitchen in the heart of North Glasgow, helping us to continue our mission to empower women across Glasgow!

We are looking for a passionate and purpose-driven female who has experience of working in a fast-paced kitchen environment, and training and teaching others to cook. Ideally you will have facilitated cooking workshops in the community, working with all levels of cooking ability. You will have a good knowledge of nutrition, food groups and food budgeting and have a repertoire of hearty, healthy recipes up your sleeve, ready to share!

The core function of the role will be to lead our Batch Cook & Save workshops for women in our community, in our beautiful fully equipped femfoods kitchen in Possilpark. Working closely with women from all backgrounds you will teach the basics of cooking from scratch, nutritional information and provide economic empowerment by showing women how to shop and cook on a budget, ultimately saving money for their families.

In addition, you’ll be responsible for other kitchen duties including food orders and preparation, stock taking, cleaning and planning and budgeting for both kitchen workshops and seasonal delivery of community meals.

You will uphold a high standard of food safety and hygiene and will hold the required food hygiene standard certificates. You’ll take pride in our kitchen, and make sure it is clean, presentable and welcoming at all times.

We will offer training and access to teaching materials and previous recipes for our cooking programme and can also support the right candidate to update their food hygiene and safety certification as required for the role.

We love ideas and we love initiative at MsMissMrs, so we’d hope that you can contribute your skills, passion and experience to developing and growing our Batch Cook and Save programme further, to meet the needs of our community of women and families.

We are a small but mighty team who care passionately about addressing wellbeing inequalities and supporting and empowering women and girls to thrive. Our culture and values are of utmost importance to us as we strive to be collaborative, relational and non-judgemental in everything we do. As an integral part of our sessional team, you will share and embody these values too.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

Location

Blend of home working and office, based in Rose Street, Edinburgh. There will be a requirement to attend in-person events and meeting, based predominantly in Edinburgh. Please talk to us about your flexible working requirements!

The Role

Scottish Women’s Aid has an exciting opportunity to join the Training team, covering maternity for the Learning and Development Coordinator post. The role holder will be responsible for leading on the coordination and delivery of a programme of learning, development and good practice events for Scottish Women’s Aid’s 33 member organisations who deliver frontline services to women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse. Working closely with the Member Services team and the Training team, they will identify key learning and development needs of the network, commission, develop and deliver training and ensure the member learning and development programme is fit for purpose through regular monitoring and evaluation. The role reports directly to the National Training Manager.

Background

Scottish Women’s Aid is the lead organisation in Scotland working to end domestic abuse. We are both a children's rights and a women's rights organisation.

• We directly campaign to institutions and leaders for policies and laws that address the drivers of women’s inequality and improve responses to domestic abuse. This work makes women and children safer and helps them disentangle themselves from their abusers.

• We provide training to public and private bodies from the police and judiciary to child welfare systems, to effectively respond to survivors.

• We raise the profile of domestic abuse nationally and internationally so that domestic abuse is treated like the critical threat to human rights that it is.

• We host Scotland’s 24-Hour Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline to ensure help is always available while actively supporting a network of 33 specialist local Women’s Aid services that directly support and provide refuge to women and children of Scotland affected by domestic abuse

• We are the umbrella organisation for 33 autonomous Women’s Aid groups delivering direct services to women, children and young people across Scotland, providing guidance, support and training to our members

What you’ll do

Working collaboratively with the Training, Member Services, Policy and other teams within SWA, you will coordinate and deliver a learning and development programme for our members, including an online programme of events and tailored, bespoke learning for individual member organisations as needed. You will develop and deliver training and, where appropriate external expertise is required, identify and commission external and associate trainers as part of the learning and development programme. You will undertake continuous monitoring and evaluation of the member learning and development programme to ensure it is meeting members’ needs, of high quality and making an impact.

What We Need

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Experience in a similar role co-ordinating projects, training and events and developing and facilitating training

• Awareness and understanding of the feminist analysis of domestic abuse and the impact on women, children and young people

• Knowledge of the issues, policies and legislation within Scotland affecting women, children and young people who experience domestic abuse

• Knowledge of models of evaluation and quality assurance of training and trainers

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; you’ll be skilled at interpreting and presenting complex issues so they can be easily understood by different audiences and have the ability to engage confidently with and influence a wide range of people at national and local level

What we offer

There are many reasons to work for Scottish Women’s Aid. We have a great working culture and our mission and vision attracts a brilliant staff team. Your hard work is rewarded with a package of support and benefits including:

Flexible working

We offer flexible hybrid working options for the majority of our employees. Some posts are eligible for full-time homeworking. We also offer flexibility for staff and work/life balance through a number of flexible working options such as flexi time, condensed hours, job sharing.

Pay

SWA are a Living wage employer, our pay and grading system offers a competitive starting salary and yearly progression.

Annual Leave

We offer a full-time annual leave entitlement of 30 days (210 hours) per year plus 10 Public Holiday days (70 hours) per year. Leave is accrued at the rate of 3.33 days (23.3 hours) per month.

Pension

SWA believes it's important that we help you save for your retirement so access to Nest pension scheme is given to all eligible employees. SWA contributes 10% of gross contractual earnings on the provision that the employee contributes a minimum of 3% towards their pension contributions.

Learning and Development

SWA supports and develops staff to ensure they have the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities. There is an internal schedule of training on key skills and knowledge relevant to all staff. There is also scope to attend ad hoc training for employees who are working to develop specific skills.

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay

SWA offers staff who meet the criteria for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) an enhanced maternity pay of 20 weeks on full pay and 20 weeks on half pay.

Wellbeing

As part of SWA’s commitment to staff wellbeing, staff are offered access to a confidential 24/7 health and Wellbeing service with AIG which provides confidential advice, counselling and legal support to all staff, and where applicable, immediate family members.

Bike 2 Work

An interest-free loan to purchase a bike, can be arranged up to the value of £1,000.

Edinburgh Leisure Gym Subsidies

Edinburgh based staff are able to access Edinburgh Leisure facilities for the reduced price of £1 per session.

Positive Action

SWA are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the people we serve. We are taking positive action to address an under-representation of minoritised and marginalised women within our workforce.

We offer disabled women the option of requesting that their application is considered under the terms of our Guaranteed Interview Schemes. You will be asked if you wish to be considered when you complete our application form.

Scottish Women’s Aid is an equal opportunities employer, applications will be accepted from women only under Schedule 9, part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

If you would like to discuss the job or any adjustments, whether due to disability or any other reason, please contact us on recruitment@womensaid.scot or on the phone on 0131 226 6606.

SWAN is an autistic-led Charity run for and by autistic women, girls and non-binary people across Scotland.

Reporting to the CEO, the role will involve providing dedicated admin support to SWAN as an organisation and to the staff team. The post holder will be working with other SWAN staff and volunteers to provide the best possible service to those who come to SWAN, and to operate an effective remote office system.

SWAN is a small but very active Charity, so multitasking, time management skills, and the ability to prioritise tasks and function well at busy times are key. The role is interesting and varied and there are opportunities to develop the post in line with your strengths and skills.

You will be working as part of a friendly, supportive team of autistic professionals, in a neuro-inclusive environment.

You can find more information about SWAN on our website and in our Strategy.