Are you ready to inspire and support a team of amazing volunteers? Join Castle as our Volunteer Coordinator and make a real difference in the Fife community.

We’re looking for someone with experience in volunteer recruitment and management, excellent communication skills, and a passion for building strong communities. You’ll lead volunteer activities, provide support, and promote their incredible work while helping us grow our impact.

Why Join Us?

• Flexible working, including home-based options.

• A chance to lead and inspire volunteers.

• The opportunity to create meaningful change

Due to career progression, we have opportunities for colleagues to join our team. As a Supervising Social Worker, you are the key link for our foster carers with local authorities, and will ensure quality of care for children and young people; identifying positive matches providing support, supervision and development opportunities for foster carers as appropriate. Your role is not only working with our foster carers as you will also link in with children and young people – checking in with them regularly to ensure their view and wishes are being heard and they are supported to achieve positive outcomes and are happy, safe and feel loved.

As a service we continue to grow, and your role will also allow for supporting potential foster carer applicants; building relationships with them as they progress from pre-approval training through their assessment as foster carers.

A typical week

Our team are located across Scotland. Our full-time roles will typically support a caseload of 12 of our amazing fostering families (reduced accordingly dependent on hours). Most of your time will be spent working remotely, however at times there will be travel to our office base in Falkirk for team and other meetings including our fostering panels – all with advance notice and planning. There are also opportunities to support learning, support groups and assessments.

Our carers consistently share that they value the relationships they have with the staff team, particularly their supervising social worker. The flexibility of working with Care Visions Fostering ensures that our team can provide excellent support to our fostering families, while managing their own diary. Our full-time team members generally work their hours Monday to Friday during core office hours. We hold our fostering panels on a Monday, and part-time colleagues ensure they can support this. We provide out of hours on call telephone support (incl. weekends) and our SSWs support this on an 8-weekly rota basis (supported by a manager) with an additional daily payment in respect of this.

Who we are looking for

We would love to work with someone who is a proactive team player with excellent communication skills and the ability to work flexibly, and independently. You must have a good working knowledge of child protection procedures, legislation, and regulations in relation to looked after children and fostering. A good working knowledge and understanding of the challenges facing children, their birth parents and foster carers is key, as well as excellent report writing and assessment skills. Experience of assessing prospective foster carers would be advantageous.

• Degree in Social Work or relevant qualification in the field, such as DipSW, CQSW. (essential)
• Registered with the Social Services Council, or other British equivalent along with PVG scheme membership, Solid experience in fieldwork, residential or in a family placement setting
• A full driving license and use of car (travel will be required).

Our benefits include

• Protected case load of typically 12* fostering families
• 27* days annual leave plus 9 public holidays
• Access to a range of employee benefits including:
• Health and wellbeing – health shield, employee assistance and wellbeing portal
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light card eligibility, and more
• Excellent opportunities for professional development and opportunity to be part of transformational change

*Pro-rata for part-time posts

About Us

Since 2006, Care Visions Fostering has been supporting young people across Scotland to improve their daily lives, development and opportunities after care. We work close to home, operating as a close-knit team. With therapeutic, trauma informed approaches integral, we provide a range of therapeutic supports for all our fostering families, along with our education support to link positively with schools and empower staff and carers to advocate positively in respect of each child or young person.

This is an extremely rewarding role, where you could make a real and significant difference to the lives of children and young people when they need it while working as part of an amazing and committed team of staff and carers.

Keen to hear more?

Listen to one of our team talking about the role youtube.com/watch?v=j2dnfMe4i1U

You can also visit our website for more general information on Care Visions and our values at carevisionsfostering.co.uk

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Sarah McEnhill, Head of Fostering, for an informal chat about the role on 01324 464 200 or sarah.mcenhill@carevisions.co.uk

Due to an internal promotion, we have a vacancy for a Family Support Worker to join our Fife Family Support team. This post will support the delivery of Fife Family Support Service, alongside the Family Support Development Officer and Family Support Officer. This includes delivering community-based services that specifically address the needs of families affected by alcohol and drugs.

The post is located in Fife, includes home working, and has an NHS Fife area-wide remit involving significant travel throughout the area and some to our offices in Glasgow. It is expected that the post holder will be required to work some evenings and occasional weekends. Due to the nature of this post, access to a car is essential. This post will be part of Scottish Families’ staff team and be supervised by the Family Support Development Officer – Fife Family Support Service.

The post-holder will be responsible for delivering a range of support services in Fife to families and support groups affected by someone else’s substance use, ensuring an effective response to the needs of support groups and evaluating and demonstrating the impact of our services. This includes facilitating family support groups, working with individuals on a one-to-one basis, and delivering evidence-based interventions, with the support of the Family Support Development Officer, as required.

Applicants should be educated to HNC level, vocational qualification (level 3) or relevant professional qualification, with experience of direct client work, group work and direct work with families. We are seeking someone with knowledge of issues for families affected by substance use, and the ability to facilitate family support groups, with strong organisational skills, effective interpersonal and communication skills, and an empathetic approach.

You can find out more information about our work in ‘The Cost of Loving, our Strategic Plan 2023-26 and our Impact Report 2023-24.

About us

Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique non-clinical and person-centered support to people affected by poor mental health and mental illness across communities in Scotland. We ensure that everyone has access to the support they need, when they need it and in a way which works best for them. With over 50 years of experience, we’re changing society by changing attitudes, fighting stigma and influencing government, ensuring a better quality of life for those affected by poor mental health and mental illness.

About the role

Change Mental Health is determined to be the leading source of information, advice and guidance on mental health and mental illness in Scotland. We want to make sure that everyone has the tools they need to make the right decisions for themselves and for their families.

The role of the Research and Content Officer is instrumental in ensuring that we do this through being information and research led. The role will work across multiple teams at Change Mental Health to source, summarise and disseminate appropriate research, as well as developing, fact-checking and composing content for our various communications channels. Content will follow best practice and meet industry standards of being user-friendly, accessible, on brand and discoverable on search engines. This educational content will align with our values to inform the public about the extent and broad nature of mental health and mental illness.

The role will sit within the Policy, Public Affairs and Communications team, actively working with the team to source research opportunities, support our wider internal and external communications work, and evidence the impact we create as an organisation.

The Research and Content Officer will closely collaborate internally to ensure our internal and external training is leading edge, supporting funding and tender applications, and working with services to meet their research and content needs for delivery where appropriate.

Additionally, the role will work with external stakeholders – including academic partners – to collaborate on research and to ensure that Change Mental Health is meeting its mission, vision and strategic outcomes.

This role would suit someone who loves learning and sharing knowledge. You will have a passion for mental health, an eye for detail, and will be able to link academia to practical impact and service delivery. You will be an excellent copywriter and familiar with academic research and its practices. You will enjoy providing knowledge and understanding to others, be an excellent team player who can lead innovations independently, while having a solid ability to forge and cultivate powerful relationships – both internally and externally.

Benefits

• 24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial, and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges.
• A 35-hour working week
• Travel season ticket loan.
• A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment.
• Access to purchase a Blue Light Discount Card
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements.
• Generous 37 days’ holiday.
• Two paid Mental Wellbeing days.
• Professional development including funded opportunities.