About Aberlour Sycamore Children’s Houses

Aberlour Sycamore Services’ vision is to provide warm, loving homes for children where everyone learns, laughs, grows into their future and is treasured always. At any one time, the residential houses within Sycamore require additional support to help to maintain stability and balance within the teams. Sycamore services are widely recognised in Scotland for providing a range of quality therapeutic residential houses for some of the most vulnerable children and young people in the country. The Service is a national resource and as such receives referrals from throughout Scotland.

What we are looking for....

We are looking for individuals who can integrate seamlessly into our existing team, working alongside it and relief adults to support excellent service delivery. We are looking for a Residential Worker to work 18.75 hours per week to work within our home in Glenrothes. You will work as part of a residential rota including early, late, sleepovers and weekend shifts. You will have a knowledge and understanding of the importance of attachment, trauma and how this can impact on an individual’s development. At times our children express their distress through their behaviour and the role can be emotionally and physically challenging; we are therefore looking for someone who is resilient, understands that behaviour is a means of communication and is trauma responsive.

You will be skilled in building therapeutic relationships with the children, young people and young adults to enable them to feel safe, loved and cared for.

You must have the ability to quickly build your relationships with the adults within the house. The nature of the role is such that you could be working to cover a shift or longer periods as required, including days and wakened nightshifts and you may also be supporting young people to attend school or participate in other learning programmes. You must therefore be able to quickly adapt to the working environment within each house.

You will be comfortable with working within Aberlour’s culture embracing respect, integrity, innovation and the ability to challenge. Demonstration of these qualities will be particularly important in this role given that you will be dipping in and out of the different teams. You must be able to be an exceptional role model for other staff and the young person.

Undertaking the role of Residential Worker will afford you the opportunity to develop and build on a range of transferrable skills which are valued in a range of employment. You will be able to demonstrate excellent flexibility and adaptability with exceptional interpersonal skills, ability to work with different teams and different children, young people and young adults living within our Sycamore Houses.

To have a look at our values to understand more about what we are looking for from our employees click here.

What we offer...

As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers. Please click here to have a look at our Employee Benefits.

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At CHAS, we provide unwavering care across homes, hospices, and hospitals for children who may die young. We create moments of joy and support families at every step on this hardest of journeys.

The role

Children's Hospices Across Scotland is seeking a dedicated and experienced Facilities Coordinator to support the smooth functioning of our properties and facilities across the organisation. In this critical role, you will work with a dedicated internal team and external contractors, supporting compliance with statutory, legislative and Health and Safety requirements. Working with the Commercial Property and Project Manager and Estates and Facilities Manager, you will be an integral part of the facilities team, helping coordinate Hard FM services, day to day property management, support planned and preventative maintenance strategies and maintain high industry standards for CHAS facilities.

You will support on a variety of projects, working across the estate and closely with our internal teams, including clinical and non-clinical staff in our hospices to meet the ongoing needs of children, families, staff, volunteers and visitors.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the Facilities Managers to review procurement, contracts and performance management of service level agreements across the CHAS Estate.

• Ensure effective contractor and supplier management as part of CHAS Quality Management procedures.

• Support accurate reporting of facilities and estate management activities internally and externally.

• Work with the Facilities Managers to support legislative and statutory compliance monitoring across the Estate through the CHAS Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) system.

• Act as the CHAS coordinator for internal and external audits.

• Manage and review CHAS DSE assessments and associated equipment.

• Work collaboratively with the other Facilities Co-ordinator to ensure organised and effective delivery of Facilities Management services across all CHAS sites.

• Support the effective operation of hospice reception services, including coordination of reception staff, rotas and volunteer involvement.

• Support the planning and execution capital works projects

• Help to deliver a robust planned and preventative maintenance programme to ensure the safety, operation and compliance of the CHAS estate.

Requirements

Essential

• Educated to Diploma-Level or relevant experience in Facilities, Estates or Property Management, demonstrating capability.

• Vocational training or on‑the‑job learning in facilities operations, building compliance or a related discipline.

• Working knowledge of statutory compliance and legislative requirements in property and facilities management.

• Good communication skills, across multi-disciplinary teams.

• Good knowledge and experience of working with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).

• Drivers Licence

Desirable

• Relevant H&S qualifications/training e.g. IOSH, NEBOSH

• Project Management qualification or IWFM Level 3

• Working knowledge or training in procurement or financial management.

• Experience of working across multiple sites

• Experienced in the use of building management systems and project management.

Why CHAS?

At CHAS, we care for dying children and their families. However, we also care about you. Some of the benefits of a career at CHAS include:

• A robust induction programme.

• Development opportunities for your career and leadership progression, and the time to prioritise your personal development.

• A supportive and collaborative work environment.

• Opportunity to make a real impact on the community by delivering best-in-class services.

• Working across different parts of Scotland with diverse stakeholders.

• Flexible and hybrid working available.

• The opportunity to continue paying into existing NHS pension schemes (subject to eligibility), or membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Further Information

CHAS support families across the whole of Scotland. Our Head Office is based in Edinburgh, and we have two hospices: Rachel House in Kinross and Robin House in Balloch. We also have our fundraising office in Glasgow, dedicated bases in Aberdeen and Inverness, and Shops in Dalgety Bay, Dunfermline and Kinross.

As this role will closely support our hospices, we would like to speak to candidates who could base themselves from either Edinburgh or Kinross and we do expect regular travel across these sites as required.

If Kinross would be your preferred base location, please note that while this post can normally be based at Rachel House, Kinross, it will temporarily relocate to Mina House, Kinglassie, for approximately 12–18 months from spring/summer 2026 whilst we rebuild Rachel House. Mina House is a 10-12 minute drive from Rachel House. Our facilities team have access to a hot desk within Mina House.

As a team we work flexibly and are happy to discuss how we can meet business needs while accommodating individual working patterns and requirements.

We are open to hearing from applicants who feel they could excel in the role but may not have all the skills listed above. If you have a strong core skillset within facilities management and are eager to learn, we encourage you to apply.

This post is subject to a Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check

We expect interviews to take place on w/c 16th June 2026.