Spartans Community Foundation is a charity and social enterprise in North Edinburgh. We aspire to be a valued organisation that helps to improve the quality of people’s lives in a meaningful way, with love, compassion and dignity at the heart of our approach. We change lives through the power of sport and people.

We are “here for good”.

You can find our more at spartanscf.com

The Spartans Community Foundation operates from a £1.4 million purpose-built Education & Youth Work space, creating exciting opportunities to expand our impact and support even more children and young people across North Edinburgh.

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, experienced, and motivated individual with a strong range of youth work skills and experience to join our vibrant and dedicated Senior Alternative School and Youth Work team where the successful candidate will support young people within a mainstream primary school environment.

Key Objective:

Deliver and develop a high-quality face-to-face youth work service aimed at meeting the needs of children and young people through informal activity-based youth work sessions in an alternative education setting.

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships with young people based on mutual trust and respect.
• Deliver direct face-to-face work with young people in existing and new youth work provision.
• Encourage the involvement of young people in the planning and evaluation of programmes.
• Assist with service development by effectively contributing to planning, delivery, and monitoring and evaluation requirements.
• Develop reflective practice and attend supervision as required.
• Assist in the development of programmes that promote equal opportunities and inclusive environments.
• Deliver a range of fun, engaging activities suitable for various age ranges in a school based setting and alternative education setting.
• Use a wide range of resources to effectively engage with all young people.
• Ensure health and safety is always maintained to the required standards.
• Carry out any other duties as required, including the possibility of residential trips and holiday programmes as required.

Skills Required

• Experience of working with and developing trusting relationships with children and young people aged 7-16 years old.
• Ability to communicate effectively with young people and the ability to motivate and engage them positively.
• Experience of working with and developing trusting relationships with hard-to-reach young people.
• Experience of delivering and developing youth work in a variety of settings.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on your own initiative with minimum supervision.
• Knowledge of issues facing young people within our community.
• Understanding of child protection and safeguarding and willingness to undergo further training.
• An understanding of the needs of socially excluded young people.
• A high level of professionalism in the workplace, including maintaining confidentiality at all times
• Reliability and good timekeeping.

Key Competencies:

• Productivity – Plans work carefully, makes effective use of available time, reprioritises as necessary, consistently delivers high-quality work on time, makes timely decisions, and approaches tasks systematically
• Adaptability – Is open to new ideas and suggestions, suggests new and innovative ways of working, shows a positive approach to change, demonstrates a flexible approach when dealing with others, and remains calm when faced with unexpected problems
• Taking Action – Demonstrates a keen sense of ownership for work, shows resilience when working under pressure, strives to meet targets, rises to tough challenges, and attempts to solve problems before seeking help (adopting a can-do mindset)
• Delivering Customer Impact – Understands customer needs, responds quickly to changing customer needs and/or anticipates customer needs, identifies ways to improve customer service, takes responsibility for sorting out customer problems, and keeps customers informed of developments
• Working with Others (internal & external) – Collaborates effectively with others, develops positive relationships, actively takes part in team activities, is supportive of colleagues, builds trust, and treats everyone as an individual
• Communicates with a Presence – Is always present with others, listens to understand, checks for understanding, communicates key information effectively, talks with enthusiasm and confidence, and adapts communication depending on the audience
• Contributes with Authenticity – Conducts work in an ethical and fair way, acts with integrity, is willing to be vulnerable and fail, takes calculated risks, speaks openly and honestly, and aspires to be a positive role model (adopts a 'big heart, small head' approach)
• Always Learning – Spots and takes opportunities to develop own skills and knowledge, evaluates the impact of actions and initiatives, takes time to self-reflect on behaviours and effectiveness, applies new knowledge and skills to be more effective, and shares learning with colleagues

Responsible to:Education Manager & Senior Youth Worker

Liaises with: All Foundation employees, partners, volunteers and with children and young people aged 7-16 years from across our North Edinburgh community.

Benefits

• Real Living Wage employer
• Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
• First aid training
• Staff uniform (Macron kit allowance)
• On-site parking
• Company pension scheme
• 30 days annual leave including Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. (Pro rata)
• Training and development opportunities
• Free access for employees’ children to Football Development Department holiday and football programmes.

Scottish FA Extra Time Project Outline

The Scottish FA seek to use the power of football to help support and strengthen its clubs and the communities they serve. As part of the ongoing partnership between the Scottish FA and the Scottish Government, the Scottish FA Extra Time Programme aims to provide after school and holiday activity clubs for primary school aged children.

The programme is available to football clubs, trusts and foundations and will look to develop an understanding of how organised activities for children, and wider engagement with local support services, can improve life outcomes, particularly for those families on low incomes.

Scottish FA Extra Time Project Principles

• An increased accessibility to organised children’s activities for targeted families.
• A better understanding of the role that organised children's activities can play in providing food/tackling food insecurities.
• More parents and carers from targeted families can sustain and/or increase their working hours, and/or improve their employment circumstances, take up training, studying or facilitate respite opportunities.
• A way to measure improved mental health and wellbeing for children, parents, and carers.
• A better understanding of additional impacts and outcomes that are realised because of providing targeted families and communities with access to funded organised activities.
• Engagement with parents, carers, and communities to increase community involvement and the numbers of children and families participating in grassroots clubs and organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• To engage and build relationships with parents, carers, and communities to increase community involvement and the numbers of children and families participating in grassroots clubs and organisations.
• To provide direct support and/or therapeutic work with children, young people and families, which may include, group work, family work, and individual work.
• To maintain communication with families of the children and young people we are engaging with via the ASC’s and to promote their involvement in the Extra Time project.
• To plan and deliver workshop sessions for low-income families and provide relevant support where necessary.
• To maintain accurate and detailed records of all sessions.
• To develop and implement evaluation tools to measure the impact of both funding and project aims versus results.
• To develop and maintain effective communication links with local schools, Head Teachers, and SFA Southeast Region members of staff plus any other relevant parties both within and out with North Edinburgh.
• To develop strategic partnerships and links with social sector organisations providing services to children and young people, including low-income families.
• Support Extra Time Youth & Community Coaches to deliver afterschool sessions in line with Foundation policies and procedures.
• To ensure SCF policies and procedures are following risk assessments and lone working policies are being followed.
• To develop, maintain and share a working knowledge of local and national strategies for the future development of football, sport in general, education and health initiatives.

Full job description can be downloaded below.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and skilled worker to lead the delivery of our North Edinburgh Futures programme — a new early intervention project offering safe, engaging, co designed youth work for 10–15 year olds during evenings and weekends.

You will:

• Plan & deliver high quality youth work sessions, workshops & trips
• Lead & support a team of sessional youth workers
• Build positive relationships with young people & families
• Reduce barriers to participation and promote inclusion
• Strengthen partnerships with schools, organisations & specialist providers
• Maintain accurate monitoring records & support reporting to funders
• Promote safeguarding, trauma informed practice & reflective learning
• Work flexibly, including evenings & weekends

You need:

• Minimum 4 years’ experience working with young people in a youth work or related setting
• Experience planning, delivering and evaluating group activities
• Strong safeguarding knowledge and confidence supporting staff
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a wider team
• Understanding of trauma informed, inclusive practice
• Social media confidence
• Experience supporting staff/volunteers (desirable)
• Driving licence or willingness to gain minibus training (desirable)

Edinburgh University Students' Association is looking to recruit a Coordinator (Volunteering Development) - Maternity Cover to join our Student Opportunities team.

Edinburgh University Students’ Association is an award-winning organisation, which exists to provide diverse services, representation, and welfare support to the community of over 49,500 students at the University of Edinburgh. By providing opportunities, helping to create change and offering support, we're here to help students get the most out of their time in Edinburgh. We have five venues around the University of Edinburgh campus – Teviot, King’s Buildings House, Potterrow, the Pleasance and Edinburgh College of Art’s Wee Red Bar – which house our offices, cafés, bars, clubs, spaces for students to meet, study and socialise. These spaces transform into some of the most well loved Edinburgh Festival Fringe venues throughout the month of August each year.

We are a registered charity and all of the income we generate from our commercial activity goes back in to supporting our members. We’re also an organisation with a strategic commitment to support and empower all our staff, and have some exciting plans for the future. Plus, over 90% of our staff would recommend the Students' Association as a place to work. There's never been a better time to apply and join our organisation.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. Edinburgh University Students’ Association is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination.

The Student Opportunities team focusses on supporting and developing a wide range of student-led activity: to ensure students have the opportunity to meet each other and have fun; to build community amongst our members; and to support their personal and professional development.

Our community volunteering offer exists to connect our students with the local community as well as UK based volunteering opportunities with Third Sector organisations, primarily by engaging students in rewarding volunteering opportunities. We offer: a volunteering brokerage, student-led volunteering societies, and access to volunteering partnership projects, as well as advice, resources, funding, and awards and recognition to students who volunteer.

Our offer aims to provide students with both one-off and long-term quality volunteering opportunities to stimulate both personal and professional growth and to provide them with links to the local community to expand their experience while studying at the University of Edinburgh.

Salary: £30,412 - £32,920 (Band D)

In line with our Pay Policy, the successful candidate will typically be offered the lowest salary band point, dependent on experience.

Plus a generous benefits package:

• 35 days per year holiday entitlement
• Company pension with 14.5% employer contribution
• Enhanced company sick pay, leave and loan policies
• Hybrid working - up to 40% working from home per week
• A comprehensive package of support via our Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to money saving discounts from hundreds of retailers via our Pluxee Discounts Hub
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounts on food and drink across our venues