Chief Executive
- Full time
- £65,000 – £70,000
- Remote: Fully remote, with an ability to work flexibly, including some travel to reflect the distributed location of staff and services.
- Closing 23rd August 2024
- Advertised from 30th July 2024
Role
Forces Children Scotland was founded in 1815, to support Scottish children and young people whose parents were killed or experienced life-changing wounds during the Napoleonic Wars. Today, with over 200 years of experience, Forces Children Scotland is dedicated to supporting children and young people from armed forces and veteran families. The organisation provides a wide range of services, including mental health and wellbeing support and financial aid. By fostering opportunities for youth participation and advocacy, they ensure the voices of these children are heard, respected and acted on. Forces Children Scotland also collaborates with educators and policymakers to address unique challenges faced by forces families, driving meaningful change across Scotland.
The Vision: To make Scotland a place where all children & young people from armed forces and veteran families are listened to, their rights are upheld and empowered to realise their potential and thrive.
The Mission: to become the sector-leading charity in Scotland that supports children and young people, from armed forces communities. To embed their lived experience at the heart of everything we do to provide exciting opportunities to get involved to co-produce our services and amplify their voices to inspire meaningful change.
The role
Forces Children Scotland are searching for their next Chief Executive to lead the charity into the next stage of its history and are seeking a dynamic Chief Executive to lead their mission of supporting children and young people from armed forces and veteran families. The CEO will lead the team and work closely in collaboration with the rest of the senior management team and the Board of Directors, to drive strategic initiatives for the charity. At an exciting and opportunistic time, the successful candidate will join the organisation at a pivotal point to set the next strategic plan for the upcoming 3-4 years.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Education to degree level or equivalent with proven strategic and senior leadership experience.
- Skills in managing, motivating, and developing staff.
- Experience with service delivery for children, young people, and/or Armed Forces community.
- Expertise in resource and budget management, ensuring financial sustainability.
- Strong strategic and operational planning skills.
- Excellent listening skills, to be an advocate for children and young people from armed forces families.
- Inclusive, proactive leader approach with a focus on staff development.
- High interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships across a large range of stakeholders and at all levels
A clear passion for achieving the best outcomes for Armed Forces and veteran families, a commitment to children’s rights, and fostering collaborative partnerships is essential.
Strong political acuity coupled with knowledge of, or the ability to quickly gain an understanding of the regulatory and wider political landscape in relation to children and young people from armed forces communities in Scotland is desirable.
Application notes
For more information on the opportunity and how to apply, please visit aspenpeople.co.uk/FCS
You can contact Catriona Mackie or Lauryn Pringle at Aspen People for a confidential discussion about the role on 0141 212 7555.
Closing date for applications: Friday 23rd August 2024
Venture Trust is a personal development charity whose strengths lie in the trust and relationships we forge. If, like us, you believe everyone has the right to recover from trauma and experience the transformational benefit of being outdoors and in nature, join us and build your career with a charity dedicated to supporting people to live full and fulfilling lives.
This is an exciting time at Venture Trust and we’re looking for a new Director of Operations to join our organisation. This is an important and diverse role, and as a member of the Senior Leadership team, the Director of Operations will work alongside colleagues to develop, embed and grow our new multidisciplinary locality teams to apply our developmental approach in communities, in greenspaces and across Scotland’s wilder places.
We would like our new Director of Operations to:
- provide strategic leadership across all Venture Trust operations and participant service portfolio including 1:1, therapeutic and adventurous activity provision
- lead on ensuring the quality and safety of Venture Trust’s operations across all our services
- innovate new provision, health and safety and staff learning and development
In return, you will receive:
- £53,000 annual salary
- a generous annual leave entitlement (28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays and 3 Christmas holidays)
- an employee benefits package
- flexible and hybrid working
- a joint contributory pension scheme
PEF Family Worker (Leith Primary School)
- Part time
- £31,524 – £34,624 pro-rata
- On site: Leith
- Closing 4th November 2024
The Citadel has a long history of strong relationships with families in the Leith community.
This includes our Families Project, which provides a range of services to parents/carers of children attending the Citadel, including a weekly Parents Drop In and regular Family Days. In the past six years, the Scottish Government’s Pupil Equity Fund has enabled us to extend our positive relationships with families into local primary schools.
The post holder will be based two days per week in Leith Primary School, where they will provide a range of services for parents/carers, including 1:1 support, themed workshops or groups and family learning. They will be based one and a half days per week at the Citadel, where they will work alongside Families Project colleagues, including co-facilitating the Parents Drop In.
This post has been continuously funded through the Pupil Equity Fund since 2018 and the renewal of funding for the next school year is generally confirmed in April.
GIRFEC Support Worker, Inclusion Support Programme
- Full time
- £24,000 – £25,517
- On site: Musselburgh
- Closing 11th November 2024
Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people? Do you want a flexible, varied and meaningful job in a supportive team? Do you value great employee benefits such as generous holidays and an annual training budget? Apply to join us!
Bridges Project is a leading youth work charity that helps young people aged 12-25 in East Lothian and Midlothian overcome challenges and adapt to adulthood. Since 1984, we have helped young people develop their life skills, improve their educational attainment and move into employment or further education. Join our team as we celebrate 40 years of empowering young people!
We have a vacancy for a GIRFEC Support Worker to provide bespoke, individually tailored support packages to young people who have been identified as not engaging or coping with mainstream school.
The successful candidate will:
- Provide a mixture of one to one intervention and group learning to young people, including support in areas such as wellbeing, personal and emotional development and employability
- Support young people to gain employability skills, life skills and accreditation; helping them in to work, apprenticeships, further education or vocational training
- Deliver tailored support packages to young people enabling them to create and realise their career pathways and progress in to post school opportunities
It is essential that candidates have a full, clean driving licence with business insurance and constant use of a car. Membership of the PVG scheme will be an essential requirement of the post. A contributory company pension scheme is offered with a 10% employer contribution.
Community Young Person and Family Support Worker
- Full time
- £28,594
- On site: Scotland Central Belt
- Closing 4th November 2024
Notes: You will be required to travel Scotland-wide, with potential overnight stays aware from home with expenses paid.
Includem is looking for Community Youth & Family Support Workers to join our Includem Response Team working in Scotland Central Belt to support children, young people, and families, when they need it most.
You will manage your own caseload ensuring support plans are developed with the young person to respond to their individual needs and supporting them to improve outcomes in line with GIRFEC principles and the organisations model of support.
You will be expected to actively demonstrate leadership and ownership over effective service delivery to young people, by managing their outcomes through use of line managers, colleagues, and organisational tools, processes, policies and procedures.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Build relationships and deliver outcome-based support to young people and families, involving all key stakeholders.
- Explore values and attitudes with young people in a supportive manner.
- Ensure a focus on regular and appropriate case progression to help young people and families recognise progress.
- Actively participate in the delivery of the Helpline evening and night service so support is available 24/7.
- To support with crisis management and generate solutions for young people and families.
- To build relationships with Local Authorities with varying demands and priorities.
- To ensure support is delivered in line with organisations Policies Procedures, SSSC Codes of Practice & National Guidelines.
A full job description you can find on our website: includem.org/careers
About you
As a Community Youth & Family Support worker, you will have experience of working with young people and engaging vulnerable young people and families who are likely to have faced challenging life circumstances.
You will also have:
- Experience of effectively engaging vulnerable young people and families.
- Experience of managing caseloads and influencing decision making.
- Experience of responding to difficult circumstances where people may be in crisis or engaged in risk taking behaviour.
- Able to provide emotional, practical and social support to young people and families.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Able to routinely evidence practice, including completion of formal reports.
- Reliable and committed to deliver the relationship-based model of intervention.
A UK driving license is an essential requirement to the role. Ideally it would be if you live in the central belt, but not mandatory.
If you would like further information about the role, please call Recruitment on 01414270523
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