The Yard is an award-winning charity that runs adventure play services for children with disabilities and/or additional support needs and their families.

As a Play Team Leader, you will supervise and deliver a range of inclusive social, recreational and adventure play-based activities at The Yard, with the rest of the play team.

About the role:

Your daily routine will be as varied as the needs of the people you are supporting. You will be ensuring the safety of the children within The Yard, engaging children and young people in creative play, liaising with their parents and carers, schools and other organisations to ensure service satisfaction remains high and supervising the play and volunteering staff effectively.

About you:

If you would like to work in a supportive and understanding work environment, where the team is highly committed to our mission, we would love to have you on board:

This job is for you if you have:

• Experience of working with children and young people with a range of disabilities.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent organisational skills and administrative abilities.
• Leadership skills and team building capacity.

Join our team

Are you passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of families affected by imprisonment? At Families Outside, Scotland's only national charity dedicated solely to supporting these families, we're looking for a dynamic, compassionate, and skilled leader to join us as a Regional Manager.

About the Role

This vital position is your chance to lead a team of dedicated Regional Family Support Coordinators, providing professional support to families and professionals across Scotland. You'll collaborate closely with internal teams and external partners to shape, develop, and deliver effective support services tailored to the needs of families. From managing a regional team to influencing local and national strategies, this role is as rewarding as it is impactful.

Role Summary

Hours: 35 hours per week

Contract: Two years fixed term (subject to renewal where funds allow)

Starting salary: £37,827 - £41,039

Probation period: 6 months

Location: Glasgow/Home-Based

Staff Benefits

• 25 flexible leave days plus 10 public holidays
• 4% matched contribution workplace pension scheme
• Hybrid & flexible working
• Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Laptop and mobile phone for all staff

What You’ll Do

• Lead, inspire, and develop a team of Family Support Coordinators across multiple local authorities.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with community justice and local authorities, ensuring the voices of families are heard.
• Develop and improve family support services to meet regional needs, monitoring effectiveness and driving positive change.
• Represent our values of integrity, expertise, tenacity, and compassion in everything you do.

What We’re Looking For

• A skilled leader with a proven track record in team management and service development.
• Someone who values collaboration and can foster strong relationships with stakeholders.
• A proactive leader with a vision for driving positive change, focused on equipping families with the tools and support they need while ensuring their voices are heard and valued.
• A leader who is committed to trauma-informed and rights-focused practices, creating a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment for families, adults, children, and young people.

Join a values driven organisation where your work makes a lasting impact on families across Scotland. At Families Outside, you'll find a supportive, collaborative environment that values innovation and compassion. We empower our team to lead with purpose, offering opportunities for personal and professional growth while contributing to meaningful life changing work.

We welcome applications from individuals who are passionate about making a difference. If you have the skills, dedication, and drive to support families and create lasting impact, we want to hear from you. We value diverse perspectives and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Together we can shape a brighter future for families affected by imprisonment.

Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people. Our mission is to secure a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people in Scotland and we currently have over 3000 Care Experienced members.

At the heart of Who Cares? Scotland’s work are the rights of Care Experienced children and young people, and the power of their voices to bring about positive change. We provide individual relationship-based independent advocacy and a broad range of imaginative participatory opportunity for Care Experienced young people across Scotland; we work alongside corporate parents and communities of all sorts to broaden understanding; we work with policy makers, leaders and elected representatives locally and nationally to shape law, policy and practice on the basis of all that can be learnt from the voices of those with experience of care - working together to build on the aspirations of The Promise and secure positive change.

The People & Culture Officer will support the People & Culture Manager to provide high quality HR administration. The post holder will have a lead role in the areas of recruitment, payroll collation, supporting employee wellbeing, and coordinating employee relations support. They will also coordinate health and safety and workforce development, implementing exciting organisational learning and development opportunities.

If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you. For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Shahnila Bano, our People & Culture Manager at sbano@whocaresscotland.org

We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of care who meet the criteria for the post.

With Kids

Our lives are so often shaped by our childhoods.

When problems are bottled up in those important early years, they can grow into mental health issues later in life.

But young children don’t have the language skills to properly express what they’re going through. And often when their emotions do come out they can be loud, or scary or get them into trouble.

That’s where With Kids comes in - a unique children’s mental health charity operating across the central belt at the forefront of the provision of Play Therapy in Scotland

Our trained specialists give children the freedom to express their difficulties on their own terms. Using the one form of communication that comes naturally to them – play.

Play Therapy empowers children to understand themselves better, to process life events, and to build confidence and self-esteem. So they can better regulate their emotions, build stronger relationships with their families and peers, and learn to cope with life’s many challenges.

We work alongside the children from an early age, along with their parents, carers, schools and communities – aiming to build long term, self-supporting networks.

Our priorities are to contribute to addressing cycles of poverty by improving the mental health of children, their families and the wider community.

Because difficulties in childhood don’t have to direct our whole lives.

Together we can take a new path.

“I have to give a five-star rating to With Kids. They support me and my family as individuals and as a group. This is the best way of working”

“I love working here and feeling part of a team, an organisation with such as positive approach, shared values, strengths and connections, care and focus on child welfare. With Kids do things properly and are always looking to improve”.

The role

This new role brings an exciting opportunity for a highly organised and motivated individual with extensive fundraising experience to shape the future of With Kids.

You can expect a supportive management team, who take joint responsibility, while you take on the management of all strands of income generation and fundraising. Through this work

you will be helping to shape the future of With Kids and enabling our staff to provide children and families with a high-quality service.

Are you able to hit the ground running with applications to trusts and foundations, while developing other income generation activities and relationships to build income from corporate bodies, individuals, and communities?

The post-holder has the scope to build our relationships with corporate bodies and increase income from individual and community fundraising activities. The role may also lead on, and provide support to, the Business Development Manager and CEO in tendering opportunities.

Ideally you will be a skilled communicator and have the ability to use digital tools and lead on managing online campaigns for income generation.

It’s not expected that the post holder will necessarily have experience in all of these areas, so there is scope to influence the content of our fundraising strategy and develop new skills.