The job – Office Co-ordinator at Pilton Community Health Project

We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced Office Co-ordinator/s with reception, administration and building co-ordination experience. This is a busy and varied operational role for people who can offer a warm welcome and enjoy organising everything from room bookings to helping empty the dishwasher to answering emails. No two days are the same.

Place of work and hours of work

This job is based in Pilton Community Health Project, in person. This role is open to part time or full time hours. We are seeking Office Co-ordinator/s to help us between 0845 to 1615 Monday to Thursday and 0845 to 1500 on a Friday. You will be asked your preferred days and hours of work on the application form and we will support family/caring responsibilities work patterns where possible.

About us

We are a small team of community based workers and volunteers. We work alongside local people and families to build happier, healthier lives. Based in the heart of North Edinburgh, our vision is Equality, Wellbeing and Belonging for all in our communities. We were established in 1984 making us the oldest community health project in Scotland.

Our Community Wellbeing Programme tackles the harms of health inequalities by supporting people to take steps to better health by taking control of their own health and wellbeing. This, in turn, creates a healthier, happier, resilient community and environment.

We really enjoy collaborating and often work in partnership to share resources, and to maximise our impact. This ensures we continue to learn and develop to the benefit local people and their families.

Find out more here Working alongside local people to build healthier, happier lives - Pilton Community Health Project and on Pilton Community Health Project | Edinburgh | Facebook

And Our Vision, Mission and Values - Pilton Community Health Project

Equality and Diversity

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to equality and diversity. We particularly welcome applications from groups currently under represented in our team such as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates, men and people from an LGBTQI background.

Fauldhouse and Breich Valley Community Development Trust (F&BV CDT) are primarily focused on addressing poverty, inequality and disadvantage. We work with many partners, CAB, Bridge Project, Advice Shop, WLCAN, Wide Range of Health and Social Care Partners, Schools, Family Servies, and Older Peoples Services.

F&BV are rural, fairly isolated communities. The rural location makes access to mental health and wellbeing services and resources almost impossible for many local people. F&BV CDT would like to employ a Mental Health and Wellbeing Development Worker. We would like to continue to address issues within the community using a person-centred, social prescribing approach.

We want to focus on the person in a way "that enables people to achieve the outcomes that they want (rather than outcomes defined or prescribed by others) "We want to manipulate structures not people".

We currently provide a range of advice and support services via our Anti-Poverty programme, projects which address disadvantage, marginalisation and the cost-of-living crisis. Our work often involves a “revolving door”, where people return with a similar crisis.

We want to continue to work with people through their crisis. But we are keen to continue to work with them as they come out of crisis mode and help them continue on their journey with (for example) support, encouragement and self-help. We also want to ensure we train and include local people, local volunteers who have life experience. F&BV CDT wants the post holder to assist in the recruitment of volunteers who can identify with the issues and concerns, who have come through “crisis” and have found a pathway which has enabled them to improve their life chances, life skills, their potential and their future opportunities. We also want to work with our partners and service providers towards positive outcomes.

The post holder, with support from their line management, The F&BV CDT Team, The Board of Trustees, will work with the individual, family and the wider communities. We want to be here for the individual, family, community for as long as needed, until they no longer feel isolated, alone. Until they feel confident, and they feel that their mental health and their wellbeing has improved, and they are able to continue on a positive pathway.

We think this project offers a very exciting opportunity to develop a new way of working within the local communities.

If you feel you have the knowledge, experience, commitment and the enthusiasm required to fulfil these aims, F&BV CDT would really like to hear from you.

This is a unique opportunity for someone who’s passionate about changing the outcomes for young people and ensuring they are at the centre of our work.

This is an entirely new and exciting project initiative with the potential for the right candidate to work with our team here at Fauldhouse and Breich Valley Community Development Trust to create an innovative Youth Pathway Project.

You will work with, and be fully supported by, our development team, our communications coordinator, our administration and finance support, our experienced management team, and our Board of Trustees.

We would like you to help us to develop our ambitious intentions to create a Youth Pathway Project and ensure young people are at the heart of this initiative, its design and its implementation.

We would like you to help us further develop our cross-sector partnerships and set up a working group. A wide range of partners have already been consulted and fully support the Youth Pathway Project proposal. We want to ensure that we engage with young people to enable them to participate and to have meaningful input into the Youth Pathway Project Planning Process.

With the support of your manager, the board of trustees and relevant partners, we would like you to take a lead role in the construction of a working plan, a document that highlights the aims and objectives of the Youth Pathway Project and how these aims and objectives can/will be achieved.

The Youth Pathway Project will aim to not only help young people with training, skills development and employment opportunities, but to help with confidence building, physical and mental health and wellbeing, life skills, social interaction and more. The “document/plan” will outline how we could address a wide range of issues, needs, concerns and aspirations.

The Youth Pathway would offer young people, who are excluded, disadvantaged, marginalised, who have complex needs and issues a wide range of opportunities.

If you feel you are the forward thinking, enthusiastic, self-motivated person required to help us achieve these goals we would love to hear from you.

If you would like to discuss the post further, or you would like to know more about the Youth Pathway Project initiative, please feel free to contact me for further details,

Julie Smith

Telephone: 01501 773 699

Email: info@fauldhouse.org.uk

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work with a driven team of social enterprise and community developers in one of Scotland’s most well regarded and effective social enterprise support providers. Community Enterprise Ltd is a well-established third sector support organisation with a progressive outlook and a diverse portfolio.

Community Enterprise, with partners from Just Enterprise, the Scottish Community Alliance, and the Development Trust Association launched an online “crisis button” for organisations facing severe and urgent challenges who need the right support and quickly. Over 140 organisations have accessed the service since its launch.

We need to grow the team to keep pace with the demand for this service. We have become established as the ‘go to’ provider for organisations in distress and having secured funding to deliver this service, are now looking to appoint a dedicated lead.

The role will be based within the development team but will focus on those facing challenges. Though some support will be provided by the post holder, this is also a co-ordinating role, drawing together support from across Scotland. We are particularly keen to enhance the capacity and skillset of our team by recruiting someone with strong financial and governance skills and experience. The successful candidate will also support the core work of the development team.