Family Time Service Manager
- Part time
- £34,255 pro-rata
- On site: Aberdeen (with travel to our other centres, as required)
- Closing 8th November 2024
- Advertised from 10th October 2024
- Permanent. 30 hours per week, this includes every Friday.
- Pension: 8% Employer and 4% Employee contribution
Role
Avenue is dedicated to supporting families during challenging times. We provide a safe, supportive and nurturing environment where families can spend quality time together during Family Time sessions. Our aim is to strengthen family relationships and ensure the wellbeing of children.
We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Family Time Service Manager to lead and oversee our Family Time service. In this role, you will be responsible for managing day to day operations, ensuring the highest standard of service delivery, whilst supporting both families and colleagues.
The Family Time Service Manager will work in collaboration with external stakeholders to facilitate positive and safe family interactions, while also managing staff, maintaining service delivery, and ensuring that all processes comply with relevant guidelines and safeguarding protocols.
The Family Time Service Manager must be a highly organised, empathetic and pro-active individual with proven experience in a managerial role, and experience in childcare or family-facing role. The ideal individual will have excellent communication skills, a strong understanding of safeguarding and child protection, and the ability to manage both people and processes efficiently.
PVG: New applications or scheme record updates will be paid for by Avenue.
Application notes
To apply for the position of Family Time Service Manager, please submit your CV and a covering letter outlining your relevant experience and why you feel you are the right candidate for the position to avenuehr@avenuecharity.org.
The closing date is 5pm on Friday 8th November 2024.
Unfortunately, due to our limited capacity, we are unable to provide feedback to candidates not shortlisted for interview.
AVENUE is a member of Relationships Scotland and is an Equal Opportunities Employer
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Are you a highly organised, proactive, ambitious Fundraiser? Are you looking for the opportunity to work with a great team?
Home-Start Glasgow North and North Lanarkshire is a local family support charity that works alongside families with babies and young children. Supported by volunteers, we are embedded in our local communities and provide a range of services which support families struggling with the challenges of everyday life.
We are seeking a passionate, creative and experienced Fundraising Manager to join our dynamic team. This newly created role will be crucial in developing and implementing fundraising strategies to support our mission and ensure the financial sustainability of the charity.
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What we’re looking for:
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- Proven track record of budget management.
What we offer:
- 25 days holiday per year (plus 12 days public holiday) pro rata.
- 8% employer contribution to a workplace pension scheme.
- Flexible working hours with the ability to work between home and the office. (Based in Netherton, near Anniesland).
- A positive, supportive environment and learning opportunities.
- The chance to be part of a great team.
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- Full time
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- Hybrid: Moray & Highlands
- Closing 10th November 2024
About Aberlour …
Aberlour is Scotland’s leading children’s charity and has been recognised as a Top 100 best places to work winner by the Sunday Times for 2024.
Our strategy is to be bold and brave, to ensure that every child in Scotland has an equal chance. As an organisation we are ambitious to deliver real and lasting change for children, young people and families.
We are committed to doing all we can to deliver on Scotland’s Policy aspirations (The Promise, UNCRC) to be the best place to grow up for all children, young people and families.
What we are looking for...
Due to the postholder’s retirement this is exciting opportunity to join our team.
You will play a key role in leading and delivering the best care and support for children. As an experienced leader you will work with key strategic partners in Moray and Highlands to design and deliver services and models of care that offer the required support for children, young people and families.
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You will hold a relevant professional qualification at SCQF level 9 or above plus a management qualification at SCQF level 8 or above.
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What we offer...
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Service Manager (North Lanarkshire Service)
- Part time
- £31,250 pro-rata
- On site: Coatbridge Office
- Closing 17th November 2024
KO-NEKT provides 1:1 support within the community for children and young people (aged 5-25) with Additional Support Needs (ASN). We fully support the integration and independence of our service users by championing their rights and helping them be the best they can be. Our mission is to support children and young people to live, work and stay in the mainstream of their communities.
Based in our Coatbridge office, you will oversee a team of ASN Support Practitioners and manage a significant caseload of children and young people.
This is a key leadership role, offering an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people, helping them to live full, meaningful and inclusive lives. We’re looking for someone who has the vision, passion and skills to drive our services forward and deliver high-quality support.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a team of ASN Support Practitioners
- Prepare monthly staff rotas, ensuring optimal coverage that meets the needs of service users
- Oversee the delivery of services to children and young people with ASN
- Ensure all service user information (eg, support plans, reviews and outcomes) are accurately entered and regularly updated in our bespoke online system
- Maintain high standards of data integrity and confidentiality
- Build and maintain strong relationships with your team, colleagues, families, social care and all key stakeholders
- Ensure that services meet regulatory standards and continue to improve in quality
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of the Self-Directed Support Act and apply its principles
- Support the business strategy locally and promote the growth of KO-NEKT's services in North Lanarkshire
About You:
- Considerable experience in Social Care, ideally with a background in social work and/or in a senior position within ASN/ASD/Disability service.
- Proven experience with Care Inspectorate values and requirements
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- Excellent communication and partnership-building skills
- Proficient in the use of IT such as Microsoft Office and databases to support daily operations
- Ability to lead strategically at a local level, supporting service expansion
- Full driving license and access to your own vehicle for business use
This role is essential to achieving our mission. If you're a dedicated leader who is ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you!
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