- Advertised from 1st September 2025
- £16,477 per annum (0.6 FTE) - 21 hours per week with the requirement to work overtime.
Role
Bridgend Farmhouse is a community-owned hub in South Edinburgh dedicated to bringing people together through food, learning, and shared activities. Our community café, catering services, and food-related workshops are at the heart of what we do, supporting local people from diverse backgrounds.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Chef to join our community kitchen team. You will be responsible for preparing and serving delicious, nutritious food in our community café, supporting menu development, and ensuring effective stock control. This role involves working closely with volunteers from a variety of backgrounds and supporting their skills development in a welcoming and inclusive environment.
Our community cafe opens Wednesdays to Sundays. We also prepare food for our outside catering operation and food for internal events during these days.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare, cook, and serve food for the community café in line with our menu and quality standards.
- Collaborate on menu planning and development to reflect seasonal produce and community needs.
- Maintain excellent food hygiene and safety standards in line with HACCP and legal requirements.
- Manage stock levels, carry out stock rotation, and ensure correct storage of all food items.
- Provide a supportive, inclusive, and positive environment for volunteers, assisting them with tasks in the kitchen and café service.
- Contribute to food preparation for catering orders and events when required.
- Ensure the kitchen is kept clean, tidy, and organised at all times.
- Work collaboratively with staff, volunteers, and community members to deliver our shared goals.
- Communicate clearly and respectfully with staff, volunteers, and community members.
- Handle challenging or difficult situations in a calm and professional manner.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Professional cooking experience in a café, restaurant, or similar setting.
- Good knowledge of food hygiene, safety standards, and allergen awareness.
- Experience of stock management and ordering supplies.
- Ability to work collaboratively and respectfully with people from all backgrounds.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to remain calm and solution-focused under pressure.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Experience working in a community kitchen or social enterprise setting.
- An interest in seasonal and sustainable cooking.
- Experience training, mentoring, or supporting volunteers.
Additional Requirements
Given the nature of this role, a PVG certificate (working with protected groups) is required. Bridgend Farmhouse will reimburse the cost of this.
What We Offer
- A supportive, friendly, and inclusive working environment.
- Opportunities to contribute to a community-led project making a real difference.
- Training and professional development opportunities.
Reports to: Food Project Coordinator
Application notes
To apply, please send your CV and reasons why you should be considered for this position to admin@bridgendfarmhouse.org.uk by 5pm on Wednesday 24th September.
Finance Officer
- Part time
- £30,784 pro-rata
- On site: Broomhouse, Edinburgh
- Closing 22nd December 2025
The Finance Officer for the Community One Stop Shop plays a crucial role in ensuring the efficient financial management of the organization. Reporting to the Board Treasurer and CEO the Finance Officer will be responsible for maintaining accurate financial records, preparing financial reports, and supporting budgeting and forecasting activities. This role is essential in upholding financial transparency, compliance, and accountability within the charity.
SCOREscotland is based in South West Edinburgh. Our mission and purpose for existence is to work in partnership with others to address the causes and effects of racism and to promote race equality and break down barriers to the full participation of local black and minority ethnic communities in all aspects of civic life. As a small organisation we offer the benefits of working in a team that is committed to making a difference to the people that we work with.
We are looking for skilled and experienced Sessional Youth Workers who are passionate about engaging with young people and about supporting them to make progress on our outcomes.
Are you passionate about working with young people?
Are you interested in working with the black and minority ethnic (BME) communities?
Are you professional and positive?
Are you a creative team player?
Do you have skills that you would like to share with young people?
The beauty of being a sessional worker is you can vary your hours from weekly to monthly sessions. Our group ages are: 7-18 years old.
We are based at WHALE Arts Centre, Wester Hailes but we take our young people throughout the city and beyond.
Please see attached job description for more details.
We are recruiting a charity finance professional to work as a job share to co-ordinate the financial activities of FHBT. Sound financial control underpins all the great work we do, and this is an opportunity to bring your experience to join a welcoming and high achieving team, and play your part in our work for people and historic places in Fife.
Senior Technical Officer
- Full time or Part time
- £35,156
- Hybrid/Remote: Inverness
- Closing 15th December 2025
Community Energy Scotland is recruiting for a Senior Technical Officer with experience of all aspects of technical project delivery, including scoping of technical work, writing bids and tenders, managing client relationships, overseeing and providing expert input into technical content creation, and delivering outputs on time and to budget.
The role will be part of a wider technical team that delivers the technical aspects of several of Community Energy Scotland’s projects, as well as stand-alone technical work such as feasibility studies and options appraisals. This new senior role requires an energetic, well organised self-starter.
We are particularly looking for candidates who can demonstrate experience and skills in at least two of the following areas:
- Grid assessments
- Development of 30-50MW renewable generation projects
- Non-loan financing for renewable projects
- Cost estimation for renewable generation projects
- System integration of renewable generation projects to buildings or off-grid systems
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