- Advertised from 27th June 2025
- 37.5 hours per week, 8am-4pm.
Role
Are you a people-person with a flair for organisation and a passion for making a difference?
Step into a role where every day brings something new, exciting, and meaningful!
As our dynamic service coordinator, you'll be at the heart of the action, supporting a vibrant team of artists, sessional workers, and enthusiastic volunteers who bring joy, creativity, and support to children, young people, and families, both in our Hub Wellbeing Centre and across hospital wards.
Some of the things you’ll be doing:
In short, you’ll be the friendly first point of contact, responding to queries, keeping things running smoothly, and bringing our mission to life, ensuring no child faces hospital alone.
More specifically, you’ll:
- Bringing The Hub to life by creating a safe and vibrant space, from setting up inspiring wellbeing sessions to keeping the space clean, stocked and welcoming.
- Be the go-to support for our incredible artists and sessional workers, ensuring they feel supported, valued, and ready to deliver exceptional experiences.
- Help shape activity delivery across wards and public spaces by attending referral meetings, distributing opportunities, and tracking engagement.
- Lead and inspire our dedicated volunteers, coordinating training and ensuring they feel empowered in their roles.
- Manage referrals and monitor session delivery, supporting consistent, high-quality provision and collecting vital evaluation feedback.
- Keep our communication fresh and engaging with regularly updated notice boards and promotional materials.
Let’s talk about you:
Must haves -
- Confidence in liaising directly with those who need it most.
- Strong communicator who thrives on staying organised and keeps the admin side of things running smoothly.
- Self-starter and team player—you can prioritise effectively, take initiative, and collaborate to meet shared goals.
- Resilient and grounded—you stay calm and compassionate, even in emotionally challenging and traumatic situations.
- Professional and approachable—you understand the importance of setting and maintaining healthy, respectful boundaries.
- Detail-focused—you’re experienced in keeping accurate records, gathering data to show impact, and using it to inform and improve practice.
Nice to haves –
- Trusted and approachable—you’ll confidently work with children, young people and their families, ensuring their unique needs are recognised and connected with the most appropriate help.
- Well-connected and resourceful—you have strong knowledge of local and national services and know how to guide families toward the help they need.
- Supportive and empowering—you bring a collaborative, compassionate approach to guiding volunteers, fostering a positive space where everyone feels valued and can thrive.
Why ECHC?
Working at ECHC is anything but ordinary. You’ll help shape how we work by improving admin systems and processes, building strong relationships with stakeholders, and coordinating meetings that bring brilliant creative minds together. Your guidance and organisation will help our team thrive.
You’ll join a team of passionate, supportive colleagues who truly believe in our mission and in each other. We’ll trust you to lead with heart, think creatively, and yes, even have fun along the way.
We’ve got bold plans for the future, and we’re looking for someone just as driven and visionary to help grow our Children’s Wellbeing Services and take them to the next level.
Still reading? If you made it this far, we think there’s a strong chance you might be our kind of person. Even if you don’t tick every box, we want to encourage you to introduce yourself. Apply today.
Application notes
The closing date for this role is 10 July 2025 at noon.
Interviews will take place on 22 July 2025.
For further details or for an informal conversation please contact Fiona O’Sullivan, Director of Children’s Wellbeing on fiona.osullivan@echcharity.org
To apply for this post please go to our website echcharity.org/join-our-team and complete the application form. Applications should be sent to leigh.drake@echcharity.org
Please note, this role is subject to PVG clearance.
At Social Bite, we believe everyone deserves a safe place to call home. We’re a charity and social enterprise working to break the cycle of homelessness through supported employment, housing solutions, and by giving out more than 165,000 items of free food each year through our Coffee Shops and Charity Partners.
To support these vital programmes we fundraise through a variety of income streams as well as deliver annual large-scale campaigns and events to achieve ambitious targets. The role of Individual Giving Manager will play an important part in helping to raise vital funds to support the mission of ending homelessness.
We’re looking for a passionate, creative, and data-driven Individual Giving Manager to lead our individual giving strategy, inspire our supporters, and help shape this evolving area of our work.
This is a job for someone who loves variety, every day brings something new with exciting growth opportunities. You will be a natural people-person, who enjoys deepening relationships with supporters helping them to feel connected, valued and part of something bigger.
You’ll bring experience in building supporter journeys and shaping the donor giving ladder. You’ll be a team-player, and someone who’s not afraid to take initiative all while keeping a positive, can-do attitude.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- Excellent attention to detail
- A hands-on, proactive approach, you get stuff done, and you do it well.
- A natural problem solver with a solutions-focussed attitude
- A self-starter able to work independently
- Excellent relationship building skills
- A people-first mindset, you genuinely care about our supporters, the people we serve and your colleagues
- A compassionate, energetic approach with a high degree of emotional intelligence
- A real team-player, not afraid to get stuck in to help others
- Ability to represent the work of Social Bite to the public with commitment and integrity
- Passion for the mission of ending homelessness and commitment to working to transform the lives of people affected by homelessness across UK
Youth Work Coordinator
- Full time
- £33,000
- Hybrid: combining remote work with regular in-office collaboration in Edinburgh
- Closing 1st August 2025
About Intercultural Youth Scotland
Intercultural Youth Scotland (IYS) is Scotland’s leading voice for Black and People of Colour (BPoC) children and young people. We exist to create safe, inspiring, and supportive spaces, driven by youth voice and lived experience, to challenge inequality and build a more inclusive Scotland.
About the Role
We’re looking for a passionate and experienced Youth Work Coordinator to lead and grow our creative and empowering Youth Work Programme. This role plays a vital part in delivering high-quality, culturally responsive and youth-led projects that support young people of colour across Scotland.
Within this role, you will oversee programme delivery, manage staff and facilitators, develop new youth-led activities, and build strategic relationships to expand our reach. From youth clubs and studio sessions to issue-based workshops and school outreach, this is a dynamic role requiring creativity, empathy, and leadership. If you’re a committed youth work professional with strong facilitation skills and a drive to make change—we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and coordinate the day-to-day delivery of our Youth Work Programme.
- Support and line-manage Youth Work Officers and freelance facilitators.
- Plan and develop new youth-led activities in collaboration with young people.
- Oversee programme planning, budgeting, evaluation, and reporting.
- Promote the programme to schools, youth organisations, and communities.
- Safeguard the wellbeing of participants as programme safeguarding lead.
- Build partnerships that strengthen programme delivery and impact.
- Work collaboratively across IYS to connect young people to wider services.
For more information about this job and our current programmes, please refer to the full job description.
What You’ll Bring
To be considered for this role you should be able to demonstrate the following skills, knowledge and experiences:
Essential:
- Experience of working directly with young people from diverse backgrounds
- Experience of mentoring young people one to one
- Strong facilitation and relationship-building skills
- At least 2 years’ experience managing youth-focused or education-based projects
- Practical skills in youth work in at least 3 of the following areas:
- Games/Sport/Physical Activity
- Creative Arts/Drama/Music
- Digital
- Life Skills/Employability
- Youth Voice/Participation/Young Leaders
- Issue-based youth work (e.g. drugs, sexual health, homelessness, young offenders)
- Experience evaluating youth work and maintaining monitoring records
- Proven planning, budgeting, and impact reporting experience
- Experience reporting to funders and external partners
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience delivering skills development and youth projects
- Commitment to anti-racism, inclusion, and youth empowerment
- Line management or supervision experience
- Knowledge of the challenges facing young people today
Desirable
- Experience working in or with schools
- Experience in the nonprofit or third sector
- Youth Work qualification
Why Work with Us?
- An opportunity to make a difference
- 4-day full-time working week (32 hours)
- £33,000 salary
- 29 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays) (over 7 weeks!)
- Flexible, hybrid working model
- Employee Assistance Programme
Young Carers Pathways Coordinator
- Full time
- £28,250
- Remote: Home based in Aberdeen
- Closing 24th July 2025
We are recruiting a dedicated and compassionate Young Carers Pathways Coordinator, to lead the delivery of a vital mentoring initiative supporting young carers aged 12-20 across Aberdeen.
About the role:
The Pathways Coordinator will work at the heart of a collaborative effort between MCR Pathways, the Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership, and all members of the Carers Strategy Implementation Group to identify, engage and empower young carers, particularly those currently hidden from formal support. Through strong partnerships, trauma-informed practice and community-based outreach, the Coordinator will build trusted relationships with young carers, facilitate group and one-to-one sessions and support consistent, life-changing mentor matches that help young people thrive emotionally, socially, and in their education and future pathways.
Key responsibilities:
- Adapt and test the MCR mentoring model for young carers outside of school settings, developing clear methods, structures, and protocols based on a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach.
- Identify, connect with and build trusted relationships with young carers and their families, while also developing and growing new relationships with private, voluntary and statutory organisations to establish effective referral routes.
- Plan and deliver the mentoring programme, customising it to meet young carers' needs and clearly documenting what works and what doesn't.
- Undertake stakeholder engagement activities to develop non-stigmatised referral methods, manage incoming referrals and provide pastoral support to young carers.
- Drive mentor recruitment, deliver effective inductions and core mentor training, and provide ongoing support and development to mentors.
- Maintain accurate programme and quality assurance records, including data on MCR's database and contribute to performance reports and case studies.
- Proactively contribute to securing key performance targets, feed back programme improvement strategies and participate in team and training meetings.
About you:
- Exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships with young people, education colleagues, volunteer mentors, key partners and local employers
- Awareness and understanding of the principles of safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Ability and confidence to present programme information and deliver prepared training sessions to groups
- Ability to work well on own initiative, as part of a team and on a flexible basis in response to young person and organisational need
- An understanding of the challenges and barriers that care-experienced and/or vulnerable young people and young adults may encounter
- Experience or a knowledge of processes to document and evidence good practice and positive outcomes.
You may have experience as a Youth, Community or Advice Worker. You will be an empathetic person who is open minded, non-judgemental, resilient and who is driven to improve outcomes for care experienced and other vulnerable young people.
About MCR Pathways:
MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity established in Glasgow in 2007. Our mentoring programme is now delivered in schools across the whole of Scotland. Our passionate team is dedicated to helping the most vulnerable young people gain self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our in-school mentoring has profound impacts on school pupils in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression.
We are thrilled to be working with Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership and the Carers Strategy Implementation Group on this new initiative focusing on matching young carers with mentors. MCR Mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. We model our values and many of us are also mentors ourselves.
Benefits of working for MCR Pathways include: 33 days annual leave in first year rising to 38 days from 2nd year of employment, additional day off for your birthday, Living Pensions Employer, Life Assurance - 4 x salary.
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