Public Affairs and Policy Manager (Scotland)
- Part time
- £45,000 pro-rata
- Remote: Home-based, with regular meetings in Edinburgh and throughout Scotland. It would be desirable for the post holder to be based in the central belt of Scotland.
- Closing 19th August 2024
- Advertised from 10th July 2024
- 3 to 3.5 days per week (7.5 hrs per day). 3-year fixed term contract initially, with plans to extend further subject to funding.
Role
We are looking for an experienced public affairs professional who is passionate about supporting babies’ emotional wellbeing and healthy development.
The post-holder will lead our relationship with the Scottish Government and Parliament, helping ensure the voices of vulnerable babies and their families are heard. You will develop and implement our influencing strategy and be the lead contact with officials and elected representatives, working in close partnership with our Scottish Development Lead and our UK Head of Policy and Communications.
An effective communicator, advocate, and campaigner, you will have an excellent understanding of political processes and policy implementation in Scotland. As this is a new post, you will have an exciting opportunity to develop our first dedicated influencing strategy for Scotland.
A full Job Description is available for download below.
Application notes
To apply for this role please submit a CV and a Supporting Statement HR@parentinfantfoundation.org.uk
In your Supporting Statement, please ensure you demonstrate, referencing examples, that you meet the ‘Essential Experience’ criteria above. Please briefly outline also your interest in this role.
Please ensure that your CV and Supporting Statement are each no more than two pages long.
If you have any queries or please contact HR@parentinfantfoundation.org.uk
The closing date for applications is 5pm on Monday 19 August 2024.
All candidates invited to interview will be notified by Friday 23 August.
Interviews
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 4th or Thursday 5th September
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Top job! Project Manager (Young People)
- Full time
- £38,000 – £42,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 30th September 2024
Are you looking for a fantastic opportunity in an exciting and rewarding role making a difference to children’s lives?
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is a UK-wide charity that exists to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation. We’re bold, we’re pioneering, we’re growing and we want your help.
Our Edinburgh based team – formerly known as Stop It Now Scotland – covers the whole of the country. Our practitioners have extensive backgrounds in child protection and sex offender rehabilitation. We provide individual and groupwork to around 150 adults and adolescents every year who present a sexual risk of harm to children who cannot access statutory service. We work with around 100 partners, family members and members of wider networks around these individuals. We use what we learn from our work to develop and deliver resources, information and training for professionals and the public, so that they can better protect children from harm and prevent abuse before it happens.
About you and the role
We are recruiting a practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team in Edinburgh to lead our work with children, young people and young adults up to the age of 21.
You will head up our flagship project working with high schools in Edinburgh promoting the prevention of harmful sexual behaviour in an educational context. This includes running workshops for parents on how they can promote positive and healthy relational and sexual development. It will include helping teachers respond sensitively and effectively to early concerns about children’s sexual behaviour. And it will involve working with young people themselves to help develop a curriculum that actively promotes prevention of sexual harm. You will work with our research team to help establish evaluation methods for all aspects of this project and to develop a scaleable model of prevention that can be rolled out across all schools, better protecting children from harm. You will work closely with our UK based Schools Project Manager who will support all aspects of this project.
You will also have a small caseload, working with young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour online. You will contribute to training, consultation and policy work in relation to tackling youth perpetrated sexual abuse. It’s a wide ranging and exciting role, and we will be able to support and train the successful candidate in all aspects of our work. You will be supported by our UK based young people’s team.
Our ideal candidate will be a dynamic practitioner with a proven ability to drive projects to achieve required outcomes. You will be professional, proactive and outcome-focused with exceptional communication and engagement skills and an ability to develop partnership ways of working with professionals and agencies. The role requires expert knowledge in relation to working with children who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour and significant experience with supporting and advising leaders, child care professionals, young people and parents. You will have an impeccable understanding of child protection policies and principles and evidence of working with safeguarding partners to keep children safe from harm. A track record of providing consultancy and training to other professionals is desirable.
You will be able to demonstrate confidence in translating the charity’s mission into direct child protection practice and equipping other professionals in tackling child sexual abuse.
Key attributes we are seeking include:
- Deliver assessment and interventions for children, young people and families in relation to harmful sexual behaviour
- Vision and operational capabilities to co-ordinate and deliver on a substantial project focussing on the prevention of harmful sexual behaviour in education settings
- Leadership and management skills in producing successful outcomes
- Impeccable knowledge of safeguarding principles, policies and practices
- Proven track record of working in and/or with education providers
- Collaborative and supportive ethos, enabling effective working with team members and leaders across the charity
- Flexibility and passion to work alongside internal and external colleagues to ensure quality work is delivered efficiently
- Excellent engagement skills and experience of working professionally with professionals (including school staff), young people and parents
- Confidence in providing expert consultancy to internal and external professionals concerning best practices for working with children
- Ability to provide confidential advice to callers, including education leaders and staff
- Effective record keeping in line with the charity’s policy and practice
- Stakeholder engagement and excellent communication skills to promote the mission and values of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation.
This is a highly rewarding role making a genuine difference to children’s lives. It involves working within a friendly, supportive and hardworking team which is committed to keeping children safe from sexual harm.
Why Lucy Faithfull Foundation? We’ll offer you…
- An opportunity to make a positive difference to the lives of children who have the right to live free from sexual abuse and exploitation
- Access to continuous professional development
- A competitive salary and access to a pension scheme
- Access to a hybrid working scheme with a minimum of 2 days in the office
- Full time staff receive 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 30 days following 5 years’ service and in line with our leave year January-December)
- A dedicated employee assistance programme
- Access to Benenden medical cover and Employee discounts
- Free eye tests, discounted gym membership and employee discount savings
Corporate Governance Manager
- Full time
- £45,263 – £50,684
- Hybrid: Thistle House, Haymarket, Edinburgh
- Closing 8th September 2024
Why apply for this role?
Children’s Hearings Scotland (CHS) is undergoing an exciting period of reform designed to make a step change in improving the outcomes for infants, children and young people who need us most. As our Corporate Governance Manager, you will work closely with our Board and Senior Leadership team to support key functions within CHS which enable us to deliver on those improvements.
This is a key strategic role contributing to CHS’s vision to drive transformation and deliver operational excellence. The postholder is responsible for establishing and maintaining the highest levels of corporate governance across the organisation. They will work with the Senior Leadership Team, board members and colleagues across directorates bringing a strategic approach to corporate governance, establishing and managing procedures for effective and impactful corporate governance and pro- actively seek opportunities to build resilience into processes and protocols. The postholder will have in their portfolio, responsibility for strategic risk management, including business continuity, business planning and performance management, information governance and management information and overall responsibility for the secretariat functions.
You will be based at our office in Haymarket, Edinburgh, ensuring our executive and senior leadership teams are supported to the highest standards. Most importantly, as an invaluable enabler of corporate governance, you will help our leaders to deliver on our strategic priorities.
Key Responsibilities
• Strategic corporate governance; understanding, and helping others to understand, the critical role it plays in helping CHS to achieve its corporate plan and strategic outlook.
• Support continuous improvement in our Corporate Governance system, driving forward best practice in governance
• Ensure the statutory annual returns, including the annual report and accounts are prepared in accordance with prescribed timescales.
• Lead the organisational approach to information governance and data protection, setting out expectations and ensuring these are delivered to the highest standard
• Oversight of secretariat function, the governance and business operations function
• Provide independent advice and support to the Director of Business and Finance and the Chief Executive on all matters relating to statutory and legislative compliance and interpretation
• Provide the senior leadership team and the Board with the information, resources, governance, communications and secretariat it needs to run the organisation.
• Responsible for risk management and business continuity
Life at CHS
As an organisation that works within the children’s hearings system, we are passionate about making a positive contribution to improving outcomes for Scotland’s infants, children and young people. Our values are at the very heart of what we do every day. By working with us, you’ll be joining a diverse community of colleagues and volunteers. At CHS we are proud to celebrate difference. We all have different skills, experience and backgrounds and we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture where you can be yourself. We offer an excellent benefits package, from health and wellness to finances and family. including: generous annual leave, flexible working and other leave policies, fantastic pension, Employee Assistance Programme, development opportunities and wider employee wellbeing initiatives.
Diversity and Inclusion
CHS is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during application and assessment process, and upon joining CHS.
Children and Young People Practitioner
- Full time
- £30,239 – £34,226
- On site: Dundee
- Closing 27th September 2024
Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity. We have represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for 100 years. Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others.
These services together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change. SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.
About the Role
The Children and Young People Practitioner will work across Dundee schools and communities to build the mental health knowledge and skills of children, young people, parents, carers, volunteers and staff through mental health capacity building workshops, training programmes, information sessions and resources.
Delivery will also include individual and group work support to young people who are experiencing low mood and anxiety.
What we are looking for
We are looking for individuals with experience delivering individual support and group work to young people around their mental health and wellbeing. They will also be experienced in workshop facilitation, training delivery and development.
With exceptional communication skills and ability to manage own case load, the Children and Young People Practitioner will work flexibly to deliver the wide range of programmes on offer, whilst ensuring practice is of the highest quality at all times.
A driving licence and access to a car is essential for this post.
What we will provide for you
You will work in a supportive environment and will be provided with a full induction along with ongoing training opportunities. You will be given the chance to develop your knowledge and skills, as well as develop professionally.
Some of our benefits include:
- Funded continuous learning and development opportunities, with access to over 100 courses online in addition to classroom and virtual training sessions
- 30 days annual leave rising to 33 after 5 years’ service (pro-rata)
- 4 public holidays (pro-rata)
- 2 paid wellbeing days off per year to use on what matters to you (pro-rata)
- Team wellbeing budgets
- Workplace pension scheme
- Life Assurance policy
- Employee Assistance Programme
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Intandem Family Mentoring Coordinator/ Resource Worker
- Full time
- £26,572 – £28,901
- Hybrid: Dundee office & Kith & Kin Hub
- Closing 9th September 2024
About you:
You will be keen to play a part in making a real and lasting difference to the lives of people living across Dundee by contributing to the sustainability of TCA. You will bring either relevant; lived experience, work experience in this field or hold a relevant qualification. Most importantly you will bring enthusiasm, creativity, and flexibility to this new and exciting role.
The Role
The Intandem Co-ordinator will be responsible for the delivery of our intandem family mentoring service, making a positive difference to care experienced children and young people, who are in kinship care.
The post holder will recruit, train, and support a team of volunteers to mentor children and young people in Kinship Care. By providing mentors this will give this vulnerable group of children and young people the best start in life. The role will include line managing sessional Intandem family mentors who will work with the family to develop goals-focused Whole Family Approach mentoring plans – covering emotional/practical support; coaching/advice around family relationships/child development/parenting skills; harm reduction.
As well as managing sessional staff and volunteers, the role involves engaging with young people and their parent/carers to build relationships and likewise engage with other professionals for joint agency referrals, support, and evaluation. The post holder will contribute to the national intandem programme to record and monitor outcomes and to deliver best practice, as well as work towards developing the evidence base for mentoring young people in Scotland.
Additional Information: More information on the post can be obtained by contacting Mark Harris, Operations Manager, mark.harris@alcoholtayside.com or by phoning 01382 456012.
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