Top job! Head of Family Support
- Full time
- £63,071 – £67,762
- Hybrid: Base in Robin House (Balloch), Rachel House (Kinross), Edinburgh or Glasgow with travel
- Closing 1st March 2026
- Advertised from 13th February 2026
- 37.5 hours, permanent
Role
Lead a National Service That Changes Lives Every Day
This is a rare opportunity to take on a newly created national role at the heart of CHAS’s mission. Every week in Scotland, three children die from a life‑shortening condition. CHAS is there for them - and for their families - providing unwavering, compassionate, specialist care.
Our Family Support teams include senior social workers, child and family workers, play specialists and other experts, working hand‑in‑hand with clinical colleagues across our two hospices, in hospitals, and in homes and communities across Scotland.
We’re looking for an exceptional Head of Family Support to shape and lead the full breadth of these services - from child & family support and therapeutic activities to bereavement, spiritual care and financial wellbeing. Your leadership will ensure families receive holistic, responsive and trauma‑informed support wherever and whenever they need it.
About the Role
Reporting to the Director of Nursing and Family Support, you will:
- Provide strategic leadership across all CHAS family support services
- Lead teams across hospices, hospitals and community settings
- Act as CHAS’s Safeguarding Lead, offering expert oversight and driving safe, compassionate practice organisation-wide.
- Champion continuous improvement, helping families make the most of their precious time together
- Strengthen resilience and support families navigating life-altering adverse experiences.
About You
You will bring:
- Significant leadership experience in children’s services, operating confidently at senior level
- A professional social work qualification, with deep knowledge of GIRFEC, UNCRC and Scottish policy
- Expertise in child protection, safeguarding, and adult support and protection
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams in emotionally complex environments
- Excellent partnership skills, working across HSCPs, local authorities, NHS and the third sector
- A compassionate, values‑driven approach that supports wellbeing, reflection and professional growth
- Confidence in shaping high‑quality, impactful services
- SSSC registration
Why CHAS?
For the families we support, time is precious - and the work you lead will help families live it fully.
Our 2024–2028 Strategic Plan commits us to providing unwavering care from the moment a child is diagnosed through living well, dying well, and beyond into bereavement. As Head of Family Support, you will play a pivotal leadership role in bringing this strategy to life for our family support workforce - shaping services, developing people, and ensuring the highest standards of safe, compassionate and effective care.
We offer:
- Broad national impact: Influence practice across Scotland and contribute to sector‑wide improvement.
- Flexibility: Based at one of our central CHAS sites: Kinross, Balloch, Edinburgh or Glasgow, with frequent presence in our hospices. CHAS provides care and support to children and families across Scotland with staff bases in Aberdeen and Inverness. This role will require Scotland-wide travel, including CHAS sites, local authority and NHS settings and office locations, as well as attendance at external events. Flexibility is essential, and business mileage expenses will be reimbursed. As a family‑friendly organisation, we recognise that flexibility works both ways, and we will support a balanced and adaptable approach to working hours and locations wherever possible.
- Professional growth: A visible, national leadership role with space and support to excel.
- Generous holidays: 35 days, rising to 40 after five years.
- Pension: Opportunity to join the Local Government Pension Scheme for Scotland, administered by Lothian Pension Fund or continued membership of the NHS Scotland Pension Scheme (if applicable)
- Comprehensive benefits:Including life assurance, wellbeing support, employee assistance programme, discount schemes such as Blue Light and Perkbox, and incremental pay progression.
Application notes
If this role inspires you, we’d love to hear from you.
Follow the link to visit our vacancy page, review our recruitment pack and learn more about the role and a career with CHAS! chas.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/4097137
To arrange an informal conversation with Jennifer Rodgers, email executivesupport@chas.org.uk.
For recruitment queries, contact the HR Team on 0131 444 3293 or careers@chas.org.uk.
This role requires a Disclosure Scotland Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check.
Provisional interview date: 31 March.
BME Outreach Women and Children Case Worker (Falkirk)
- Part time
- £26,810 pro-rata
- On site: Falkirk
- Closing 15th March 2026
Shakti is a feminist Black Minority Ethnic voluntary organisation which offers information, emotional/practical support and refuge/temporary accommodation to all Black Minority Ethnic (BME) women and their children, who are experiencing or fleeing domestic abuse.
- Salary: £26,810 per annum (£16,086 pro-rata) + 10% pension
- Hours: Part-time, 21 hours per week; occasional evenings/weekends
- Location: Falkirk
- Closing date: Sunday, 15th March at 12:00 pm.
Key Requirements: The post holder must be a bilingual speaker in a BME community language, preferably Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali or Arabic. The post holder will support Black and Minority Ethnic women, their children and young people experiencing and/or fleeing domestic abuse or forced marriage. Applicants ideally have a minimum of 2 years’ experience of working with Black and Minority Ethnic Communities; an understanding of the legislative and cultural issues surrounding domestic abuse/forced marriage. All applicants must have a minimum of SVQ Level III in Social Care or relevant qualification such as degree in Social Work or Community Education.
Fundraising Administrator
- Full time
- £27,626 – £29,711
- Hybrid: Stepps, Glasgow
- Closing 15th March 2026
Introduction
Are you someone who genuinely wants to make a difference? Are you passionate about inspiring people and building relationships, always offering the highest level of supporter care? If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Fundraising Administrator and we would love to hear from you!
As a Fundraising Administrator, you will be an integral part of the Income Generation and Engagement team, supporting colleagues from across the organisation. As the first point of contact for CHAS’ incredible supporters, you will build and nurture relationships by providing exceptional stewardship.
This is a vital role and requires someone with a great can-do attitude, who is organised and has excellent prioritisation skills. If this sounds like you, please get in touch.
About You
- Experience in an office or customer facing environment
- Ability to work independently within the role, under your own initiative and cooperatively as part of the Supporter Engagement Team
- Excellent administration skills with a sound working knowledge of CRM databases and Microsoft Office packages including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams
- Exceptional communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Excellent attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
- Knowledge and demonstrable experience of adhering to data handling/GDPR laws and codes of conduct
Further Information and How to Apply
At CHAS, staff and volunteers work together as one team, focused on the common goal of reaching every family in Scotland who needs our support. All CHAS staff will at some point work with or alongside volunteers and will be expected to support volunteers.
At CHAS, our ambition is to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking diagnosis that their child is dying, and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. As a Fundraising Administrator, you will be instrumental in achieving this vision and shaping the future of CHAS.
This role will be based in the Stepps office, with some hybrid working and travel to other CHAS sites as required.
Our team typically works up to two days per week from home, with some additional on site presence during our peak campaign periods (usually 3–4 weeks in spring, August, and over Christmas).
Income Generation and Partnerships Manager
- Part time
- £30,102 pro-rata
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 3rd April 2026
North Glasgow Community Food Initiative (NGCFI) is entering a significant phase of organisational development, with access to a new community-owned building, a long-term lease of Milton Community Garden, and the launch of a community food truck in early 2026. These assets present a major opportunity to develop social enterprise activity and earned income that supports long-term financial sustainability.
The Income Generation & Partnerships Manager is a fixed-term, two-year development role. The purpose of the role is to design, test, and embed sustainable income-generation models linked to NGCFI’s assets, ensuring that successful approaches can continue beyond the funding period.
This role is focused on social enterprise development, partnership building, and business planning, and is separate from core frontline service delivery.
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About Us
St Andrew's First Aid has been serving communities across Scotland for over 140 years. Today we're entering an exciting period of transformation, strengthening our volunteer infrastructure, modernising systems, and investing in how we deliver at scale. We’re recruiting across several roles as part of this growth and improvement journey. It’s a genuinely energising time to join us, with real opportunities to shape how we work, enhance service delivery, and contribute to a forward-looking, ambitious organisation.
The Role
We’re looking for an experienced and strategic Volunteer Training & Development Manager to lead our training and volunteer development function. Reporting to the Head of Volunteer Operations, you’ll manage a multi-disciplinary team and ensure our volunteers are trained, supported and equipped to deliver high-quality services in communities and at events nationwide.
This is a senior leadership role combining operational delivery with strategic improvement. You will:
- Line manage Trainer/Assessors, Volunteer & Youth Development Officers and training support staff
- Lead capacity planning, rostering and resource management
- Oversee safeguarding and fulfil the Designated Protection Officer role
- Implement and improve systems, policies and training standards
- Monitor KPIs and drive service improvement
- Develop clear volunteer learning and progression pathways, including youth programmes
- Oversee training budgets and ensure value for money
- Contribute to organisational strategy and annual business planning
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
- Have proven experience leading training and development teams
- Hold a recognised training/assessor qualification
- Bring strong operational planning and people management capability
- Understand safeguarding, compliance and quality assurance frameworks
- Are confident in influencing senior stakeholders and external partners
- Use data and digital systems to inform decisions and improve performance
This role includes periodic evening and weekend working, participation in an on-call rota, and occasional operational or emergency event cover as required.
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