Money Advice Project: Financial Inclusion Officer
- Part time
- £28,392 pro-rata
- East Lothian
- Closing 1st March 2024
- Advertised from 22nd January 2024
- Contract type: Fixed term contract until October 2025 12 hours per week over 3 week days
Role
About us
East Lothian foodbank provides emergency food and support to local people who are experiencing financial hardship. We are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.
Our money advice service was introduced in October 2022 to reflect our commitment to tackle the underlying financial reasons leading to foodbank use. After a successful first year where our service achieved significant financial gains for our service users, we are looking for the right person to join our team to drive forward the same success in years 2 and 3 of our project.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and positive individual to help those using our foodbank to access our money advice service to help improve their circumstances over the long-term.
To achieve this you will collaborate closely with our advice partner Musselburgh Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) to ensure that our advice service continues to target those most in need of our support.
You will regularly monitor and review the effectiveness of the project, utilising key data to inform continuous improvement whilst also taking account of feedback from our key partners and those who use our service.
You will also work as part of the wider foodbank team to support our overall operations and service delivery.
Key tasks related to the role
The Financial Inclusion Officer will have responsibility for the service by:
• Further developing and implementing our plan for years 2&3 of the project including piloting new initiatives to engage with potential users of the service
• Identifying individuals who are most likely to benefit from the service and promoting the service to them
• Developing, maintaining and fostering good working relationships with relevant external agencies, including statutory authorities to ensure all relevant organisations are aware of our money advice service and the wider role of East Lothian Foodbank
• Attending and/or presenting at appropriate forums and events
• Ensure a simple referral pathway to the Money Advice Service and clear processes are in place to support this.
• Identify innovative ways to maximise user engagement with the service
• Monitor and review operational procedures and ongoing engagement with our CAB based advice service
• Monitor and review effectiveness of project on a quarterly basis using data from our advice partner
• Working with our advice partner to identify capacity that can facilitate wider access to the service
• Other tasks to support the foodbank as directed by Foodbank Manager
About you
To succeed and thrive in this role you must have the following skills and experience:
• Experience of engaging with and supporting partnership work with other organisations
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
• Have an understanding of how to improve service quality for the benefit of users
• Excellent communication skills
• Empathetic and non-judgemental
• Full driving licence holder and access to vehicle
• Willingness to work flexible hours
Key Competencies
• Highly organised and self-motivated
• Adaptable and proactive
• Good IT skills
• Ability to identify and capitalise on opportunities
• Committed to the values and mission of East Lothian Foodbank
Application notes
• Applications should be made in the form of a CV and covering letter in support of your application, detailing why you are a suitable candidate for the role.
• Applications must be submitted electronically to: manager@eastlothian.foodbank.org.uk
• Closing date for applications is midday on Friday 1st March. Applications received after this time will not be considered.
• Interviews TBC
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Dunfermline Foodbank is offering an exciting and challenging job opportunity to assist the foodbank manager to help manage and lead a committed group of volunteers as they seek to alleviate hunger, put food on the table, restore dignity and revive hope to local people in crisis in the west of Fife.
Dunfermline Foodbank, established as a Scottish Charity in 2012, has fed over 26,000 men, women and children through its network of five foodbanks covering the west of Fife, as a franchisee of the respected Trussell Trust network of UK foodbanks.
Over the last 12 years, we have expanded our operation to include 5 satellites and a central warehouse, also increasing the number of volunteers to over 200 to better support those affected by food poverty in the West Fife area.
We require a passionate, enthusiastic and organised Assistant Foodbank Manager to continue to help lead us forward to meet future challenges and provide an excellent service for the community.
The working hours are 20 hours per week with a degree of flexibility, covering the open times of our foodbanks, occasional evening presentations and limited weekend work.
Remuneration reflects the responsibility of the post at £13,440 per annum.
The successful candidate will have the following key skills:
- Ability to manage and monitor the development of a project
- Experience of managing people
- Experience of working or volunteering in an organisation that deploys volunteers
- Good oral communication
- Driver with clean licence
- Confident user of email, word processing and internet
- Ability to work independently and unsupervised
- Numerate and comfortable interpreting statistical data
- Honesty and integrity
- Empathy and ability to work with people from disadvantaged, marginalised, or socially excluded backgrounds
As well as having the following personal attributes:
- Passionate about tackling poverty
- A sound understanding of, and experience of engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, including churches and other religious organisations, charities, statutory agencies, organisations, private companies and community groups.
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Rutherglen and Cambuslang Foodbank Manager
- Part time
- £25,500 – £29,000 pro-rata
- On site: Within Rutherglen and Cambuslang area. Regular travel will be required to visit the locations in Rutherglen and Cambuslang and further afield for conferences or to visit other Foodbanks.
- Closing 2nd August 2024
Rutherglen and Cambuslang Foodbank are currently looking to employ a FOODBANK MANAGER for the Rutherglen and Cambuslang Foodbank.
The hours of work will be flexible, but must meet the needs of the service, with some evening and weekend work required.
Full job description is available below.
Early Years Family Wellbeing Practitioner
- Full time
- £29,981
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 8th August 2024
Home Link Family Support, Circle, Stepping Stones North Edinburgh, Home-Start Edinburgh, NHS Lothian’s Parent and Infant Relationship Service (PAIRS), Citizens Advice and Early Years Education are delighted to recruit staff for a new transformational partnership approach that will test bespoke holistic whole family supports throughout the early years.
The project will ensure that appropriate, universal, and enhanced support is available at the earliest stage possible for all families with a child not yet in an ELC or of a pre-school age setting. This will be prioritised by developing a cohesive pathway and menu of supports alongside families.
The project aims to:
- Improve family wellbeing
- Reduce inequalities in family wellbeing
- Long-term reduction in families requiring crisis intervention
- Long-term reduction in the number of children living away from their families
- Increase the number of families taking up wider support.
We are recruiting staff to work across the 4 localities of Edinburgh. Posts are funded for 24 months.
We are looking for individuals with experience of working with children in their early years and their families delivering offering a wide range of interventions in the community and family homes including one to one and group work support. Occasional weekend or evening work may be required as the project develops to ensure equity of access for all families.
Home-Start Edinburgh, Home Link Family Support, NHS Lothian’s Parent and Infant Relationship Service (PAIRS), Citizens Advice , Circle, Stepping Stones North Edinburgh, and City of Edinburgh Council’s Early Years Education are delighted to recruit staff for a new transformational partnership approach that will test bespoke holistic whole family supports throughout the early years. The project, ‘The Family Hub’, will ensure that appropriate, universal, and enhanced support is available at the earliest stage possible for all families with a child not yet in an ELC or school setting. This will be achieved by developing a cohesive pathway and menu of supports alongside families.
The project aims to:
- Improve family wellbeing
- Reduce inequalities in family wellbeing
- Long-term reduction in families requiring crisis intervention
- Long-term reduction in the number of children living away from their families
- Increase the number of families taking up wider support.
Home-Start Edinburgh is recruiting a Senior Co-ordinator, Evaluation & Impact, to support this project as well as the activities of Home-Start Edinburgh. The right person will be someone with a background working alongside families, and an understanding of how to gather evidence to illustrate the impact our service makes. With skills in quality assuring services and data, and supporting improvement activities, you will help drive forward support to families in Edinburgh.
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