Whole Family Wellbeing Practitioner
- Full time
- £27,759 – £29,432
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 18th September 2024
- Advertised from 4th September 2024
- 35 hours per week. 2 year fixed term.
Role
Home-Start Edinburgh, Home Link Family Support, NHS Lothian’s Parent and Infant Relationship Service (PAIRS), Citizens Advice , Circle, Stepping Stones North Edinburgh, and City of Edinburgh Council’s Early Years Education are delighted to recruit staff for a new transformational partnership approach that will test bespoke holistic whole family supports throughout the early years. The project, ‘The Family Hub’, will ensure that appropriate, universal, and enhanced support is available at the earliest stage possible for all families with a child not yet in an ELC or school setting. This will be achieved by developing a cohesive pathway and menu of supports alongside families.
The project aims to:
- Improve family wellbeing
- Reduce inequalities in family wellbeing
- Long-term reduction in families requiring crisis intervention
- Long-term reduction in the number of children living away from their families
- Increase the number of families taking up wider support.
Home-Start Edinburgh is a volunteer-led charity with over 35 years-experience working in local communities, supporting families with a child under 5 in the home. Whilst our Head Office is in Leith, the successful applicant will be required to support volunteers and families in one of Edinburgh’s four localities. We are recruiting a Whole Family Wellbeing Practitioner, to work within this project. The right person will be someone with a background working alongside families to improve family wellbeing and reduce inequality.
This role is a 2 year fixed term contract.
Application notes
Please complete the application form by Wednesday 18th September at 12pm. Should you need a paper copy of the application form, please contact admin@homestartedinburgh.org.uk.
Interview date is 25th September 2024.
For further information or an informal discussion, please email elizaw@homestartedinburgh.org.uk, or call 0131 553 7819.
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Do you want to work in the beautiful town of Fort William - a relocation allowance of £8,000 is available.
If you would like to have an informal chat before applying please call Rhonda Wilson, Head of Admissions and Programmes in the Highlands, on 07715238337.
About Aberlour Sycamore Fort William
Aberlour provides a number of warm, loving homes for children where everyone learns, laughs, grows into their future and is treasured always. We have a strong ethos of values and a culture that enables us to Be Brave and to Keep the Promise of involving the children and young people as fully as possible in taking decisions that affect their lives.
Our home in Fort William is a Hybrid Model, we have a residential service for children and young people as well as a service we call Sustain Plus, which supports whole families by providing both emotional and practical support. We work with families and parents to secure a nurturing environment for children up to 18 years old. We also help parents/caregivers develop their ability to care for their children, provide practical parenting skills, and engage with their community. Our service provides flexible support of varying intensity and aims to encourage the development of family routines, resilience, and improved parental confidence.
We are looking to appoint a House Manager who will join our strong and thriving Residential/Sustain Plus community in Aberlour.
What we are looking for
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with a passion for supporting vulnerable children and whole families to achieve the best possible outcomes in their lives. The successful candidate will have the drive, determination and cultural values to be able to lead their team to empower the children and young people to make the changes which will ultimately transform their lives.
We want someone who believes that all children and families are deserving of love and someone who will support the team to ensure that our children and families are able to live fulfilling lives.
You should have experience of working in and leading practice, preferably in a children’s house and with families. You must be visible to the team and children which will include working some evenings and weekends.
Ideally you will have knowledge about developmental trauma, how this impacts children’s early life experiences.
A comprehensive support package focussed on achieving excellence in practice is provided to all of our teams and the successful candidate will also receive clinical supervision, provided externally to support their professional practice development and well-being.
If you share our vision of Being Brave for every child, young person and families, and Keeping the Promise, and you have the skills and passion required to meet the challenges of this role we look forward to hearing from you.
You will be required to have or be willing to work towards the qualifications for being a manager in a residential childcare facility: a relevant professional qualification at SCQF level 9 or above plus a management qualification at SCQF level 8 or above.
What we offer
As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.
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Community Fundraiser
- Part time
- £26,000 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Home/Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh
- Closing 12th November 2024
Pregnancy Counselling and Care (Scotland) is a small Edinburgh-based charity that supports families and individuals during pregnancy and early parenthood, or at times of loss, by providing practical and emotional support.
Our Vision:Nobody is left alone to struggle with pregnancy, loss or early parenthood
Our Mission: To support families and individuals during pregnancy and early parenthood, or at times of loss, by providing practical and emotional support
Our Objectives:
We provide support through the delivery of two services:
- Our Counselling Service - providing professional counselling to anyone who is struggling as a result of pregnancy, childbirth, baby loss, miscarriage, termination, stillbirth or infertility
- Our Baby Bank – that supplies baby equipment, clothes and toys to families experiencing poverty
Our Values:
- Respect/ Compassion
- Inclusiveness/Diversity
- Collaboration/Connected
- Dependability/Flexibility
About The Role
The Community Fundraiser post is a relatively new addition to the team at PCCS. We started community fundraising towards the start of 2024, and since the start it has been a very productive and rewarding time for us and those involved.
There is a strong synergy between our potential supporters, both individuals and organisations/corporates and our services – as supporting us through donating baby items or volunteering is an ideal pathway to commit to community fundraising events. The link between the two also helps to increase awareness of our services, and the need for funding to support them.
Furthermore, our move to the Gyle Shopping Centre in February 2024 has really boosted our visibility, accessibility and footfall, and is bringing more potential supporters to us. We are excited to be able to offer this post at 16 hours per week to materialise more support to develop our community fundraising activity. The post will be line managed by the Operations Manager and supported by an experienced community fundraiser board member.
Job Description
- Plan and manage a regular calendar of events, from large scale events such as the Kiltwalk, and running events to one off community events and promote to supporters and encourage uptake
- Administer and support
participants through all aspects of their fundraising journey with us:
- Maintaining contact by email & phone with new fundraisers to encourage fundraising
- Meet with major fundraisers
- Sending resources for event participation
- Attend events where we have participants
- Post-event follow up with fundraisers, including donor feedback to improve their journey
- Attend business networking meetings to help increase awareness of opportunities and follow up corporates and future donors interested in supporting PCCS
- Engage volunteers to help run events, like charity cycles and bag packs
- Update social media with stories of fundraisers and fundraising events
- Use Canva to create posters for events. Create events on Facebook.
- Manage records & monitor Just Giving, Just Running and other platforms
- Produce reports for regular board meetings to monitor progress
- Work with other members of the staff team to maximise support for all aspects of PCCS services
Person Specification
Required:
- Strong event management skills - experience in organising and promoting events
- Track record in growing income
- Experience in maintaining and developing fundraising relationships
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Good copywriting, social media skills and IT skills
- Experience in analysing and reporting on performance
- A proactive and positive approach to problem-solving
- Ability to work effectively, both independently and as part of a team
- Flexibility regarding specific hours worked, and attitude to activities undertaken
- A passion to support others experiencing difficulties in their lives
Preferred:
- Experience of developing fundraising campaigns
- Experience of recruiting and training volunteers
- Experience of managing budgets and meeting targets
Join the Early Years Service of the Multi-Cultural Family Base (MCFB) for this exciting new role of Antenatal Project Worker. Supporting ethnically diverse pregnant people, new parents and infants in the early postnatal period, you will play a transformative role in fostering early relationship and promoting positive perinatal and infant mental health.
We aim for our staff team to be representative of the families we support. We welcome applications from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
The post is funded until October 2027.
Project Worker: Wellbeing & Protection in Sport
- Full time
- £29,500 – £34,490
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 11th November 2024
A fantastic opportunity to support a national service across Scottish sport
This is an exciting time to contribute to the development and delivery of a national service which will support Scottish governing bodies of sport (SGBs) to effectively manage wellbeing and protection concerns for all who participate in sport. The service has been established through a strategic partnership between sportscotland, Children First and SGBs.
We are now looking for a passionate, skilled and confident individual to deliver and implement the service. As Project Worker, you will be part of a team working in partnership with SGBs to:
- support their management of wellbeing and protection concerns, and any subsequent investigations and disciplinary hearings effectively, in a timely and appropriate manner.
- build the knowledge, skills, and confidence of SGB staff and volunteers through training, mentoring and directed learning.
- facilitate the development of resources including practice guidance, tools and templates that support SGBs’ case management of wellbeing and protection concerns.
What kind of person will make a great Project Worker for the Case Management Support Service?
Knowing our shared ambition with sportscotland to ensure safer sport for everyone, you will be someone who:
- believes in the positive value of sport and is committed to making it a safe place for everyone.
- empowers people, staff and volunteers, through successes and challenges.
- is resilient, skilled, and knowledgeable about wellbeing and protection.
- builds strong relationships and works collaboratively with partners.
- is passionate about human rights and anti-discriminatory practice.
- has strong organisational skills and an ability to respond to complex and changing situations.
- assesses situations and provides clear advice.
- is determined and motivated in contributing towards building and delivering a new service to meet identified needs.
Above all else, the most important thing is that you are someone who will do the right thing for children, young people, and adults in sport at every turn.
If you have the above and possess a professional qualification and/or relevant experience from an appropriate sector, such as social work, law, human resources, sports governance, or volunteer management, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Base
You will work flexibly, in a hybrid approach, with a requirement to attend our offices, or those of our partners, for meetings and work as agreed with your line manager.
Salary, Conditions, Pension
We will offer you a competitive salary, generous annual leave entitlement (40 days inclusive of 9 public holidays, pro rata), flexible working opportunities and a contributory pension scheme.
Hours
Full time post of 35 hours per week funded initially until June 2025, with funding anticipated to be extended to June 2027.
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