Because every child deserves a fair start in life.

At Home-Start Edinburgh, we believe in the power of early intervention and the life-changing potential of strong, nurturing relationships. We're here for families with young children in Edinburgh facing challenging circumstances—whether it’s isolation, mental health struggles, or financial insecurity. Our skilled volunteers work alongside these families, empowering them to thrive. Now, we’re looking for a Business Support Manager to join our dedicated team and help us continue delivering this vital mission.

About the Role

As Business Support Manager, you'll be at the heart of our operations, providing expert oversight across our administrative, HR, finance and compliance functions. Your work will underpin the successful delivery of our services and ensure the charity runs efficiently and sustainably.

This is a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact behind the scenes of a frontline organisation that helps build stronger families and a fairer Edinburgh. We're looking for someone who shares our commitment to equity, integrity and purposeful work.

What You’ll Do

• Oversee and manage day-to-day business functions, including office administration, HR processes, finance coordination and reporting.
• Support the CEO and senior leadership team with strategic planning, board reporting and regulatory compliance.
• Develop and improve systems and processes that ensure we operate efficiently and transparently.
• Be the point of contact for key partners and stakeholders relating to governance, contracts and procurement.
• Ensure the organisation continues to meet its legal, financial and quality assurance obligations.
• Collaborate with colleagues to enable clear, consistent internal communication and staff support.

What You Bring

We’re looking for someone with:

• Proven experience in a business support, office or charity management role.
• Strong organisational or project management skills, with attention to detail.
• Confidence using digital systems, managing budgets and handling HR or compliance tasks.
• A collaborative and flexible mindset—you’ll be working closely with a small, passionate team.
• Alignment with our values: you are purpose-driven, clear in your communication, and confident in delivering high-quality work that supports better outcomes for children and families.

Why Join Home-Start Edinburgh?

At Home-Start Edinburgh, we are:

• Supportive – We build relationships rooted in trust and understanding.
• Positive – We see potential in every family and in every colleague.
• Professional – We deliver our work with integrity, focus, and expertise.

You’ll be part of a small, mission-driven team with the opportunity to shape processes and make a meaningful contribution. We’re proud of the impact we make together—and we want someone who shares our belief that childhood can’t wait.

Do you want to help create a safer, more compassionate Scotland where all children can grow up safe, loved and respected?

Children First is Scotland’s national children’s charity. Every day, we stand alongside children, families and communities to protect and uphold the rights of every child.

We are looking for an Administrator to join our Safeguarders Panel Team, a dedicated team committed to ensuring the rights of children and young people are at the heart of decisions that affect them.

About the role

You’ll play a key role in delivering high-quality administrative support to ensure the smooth running of our service, helping us meet the needs of children, Safeguarders and partners across Scotland.

As the first point of contact for the team, by phone and email, you will support everything from diary management and reporting to file maintenance and coordination. Working closely with our Contract Co-ordinators and leadership team, your work will make a real difference to children’s lives.

What kind of person are we looking for?

You’ll be someone who shares our commitment to putting children first. You will bring:

• Proven experience in office administration or a relevant qualification
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• A proactive, solution-focused attitude
• Confidence in managing competing priorities and working to tight deadlines
• Great communication skills and a friendly, professional manner

What you’ll get from us

We know that to protect children, we need to support our people. At Children First, you’ll find:

• A supportive, inclusive workplace where your voice matters
• A rewarding role with opportunities to learn and grow
• 40 days annual leave per year (pro rata)
• Flexible and hybrid working options
• Enhanced family leave and wellbeing support
• A contributory pension scheme

Our values

Our core values guide how each one of us works in our individual day to day job:

• With love, we put children first.
• With purpose, we transform children’s lives together.
• With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.

Ready to join us?

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and lived experiences who share our vision and values.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a passionate and dedicated team as a Therapeutic Counsellor within a well-respected charity in Scotland. The post is based in Clackmannanshire (own car and driving licence are essential).

This rewarding role offers the chance to make a real difference by providing a range of assessment, counselling and/or psychological support services to parents affected by domestic abuse, addictions, and related mental health issues, and to contribute towards Circle’s aims of responding to substance use and promoting recovery.

Following a restructuring of our services in South East Scotland we have identified key themes of provision across the locality. You may be allocated to a specific funding stream and/or asked to undertake work in any of the delivery areas detailed below depending on need across the locality.

We currently have a vacancy for a Project Worker 2 post within our Barnardo's Together for Positive Change – Midlothian Intensive Family Support service (BTFPC). BTFPC was established in July 2020 using the intensive family support model which was piloted across Scotland to tackle intergenerational poverty. The focus was to identify and remove barriers to training and work and promote attainment in those families deemed at most risk. BTFPC is a collaborative partnership with Midlothian with key stakeholders being the Early Intervention and Prevention Service and Community Lifelong Learning.

BTFPC aims to address the identified needs of families with children living in Midlothian, who face multiple barriers/challenges to moving out of poverty and provide an offer of holistic whole family support. Many of the children that are referred in through Team Around the Child and or school and will be facing challenges within schools and will already have diagnosed neurodiversity or are awaiting diagnosis.

Support is designed with families to achieve agreed goals following assessment and is time limited to ensure support is effective and families are empowered to maintain changes when support ends. Interventions include parenting sessions, whole family sessions, 1:1 sessions and group work.

If you are passionate about supporting and empowering families to overcome issues around barriers and intergenerational poverty, then we invite you to apply for this role.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.