This is an exciting role within Lambhill Stables Community Hub. The purpose of the job will be to supervise the kitchen and work alongside a team of dedicated volunteers with various capabilities to deliver our existing menu of café staples and develop exciting seasonal dishes, utilising veg from our community garden.

It is expected that the Kitchen Manager will take responsibility for all aspects of co-ordinating a Community Café, in collaboration with our longstanding Kitchen Supervisor, our Kitchen Assistant and volunteers. The Kitchen Manager will be responsible for maintaining high standards at all times in cleanliness, organisation and food quality and must be able to work effectively with limited supervision and demonstrate leadership in order to motivate others. This job will be expected to contribute to our funded outcomes as follows:

• To increase the confidence, self-esteem and skill level of unemployed adults and young people within the local community.
• To increase the capacity for financial sustainability within the organisation.
• To maintain our excellent community reputation by providing a high quality, customer focused service.
• To be aware of potential market increases.
• To assist local people to have more positive aspirations and to help break cycles of social exclusion, by providing training workshops and ongoing mentorship.
• To assist local people to have access to opportunities which promote healthy lifestyles and improve physical health.

Key tasks and responsibilities:

Managing all aspects of the Café including:

• Effectively leading the development of others, including work relationships.
• Working with and supporting our longstanding Kitchen Supervisor.
• Delegating daily tasks and holding the team accountable for those tasks.
• Arranging Community Café events and hosting study visits.
• Organising work schedules and rotas.
• Co-ordinating volunteers and school aged trainees.
• Managing sessional cooks.
• Organising delivery of cookery classes and demonstrations including “Healthy Eating” and “Eating on a Budget”.
• Menu planning and food purchasing, including making best use of garden produce.
• Developing staff and volunteers through training.
• Controlling a budget and maintaining accurate records.
• Managing and monitoring food stocks.
• Managing and monitoring Health and Safety procedures, ensuring consistent and accurate records are kept for temperature logs and critical control points.
• Minimising and monitoring waste.
• Communicating marketing needs and promotional activity to the wider team.

Essential Qualities:

• Outstanding organisational skills.
• A positive attitude.
• Understanding of all key business standards related to food, service and cleanliness.
• Three years’ experience in a similar role.
• Team player.
• Innovation in relation to utilising seasonal garden produce in ‘specials dishes’.
• Holding a current and valid driver’s licence is desirable, as the successful applicant will be responsible for procurement.

As the Kitchen Manager role includes working with young people and vulnerable adults, the successful applicant will be required to apply to the Protection of Vulnerable Adults Scheme with Disclosure Scotland. The cost of this application will be met by Lambhill Stables.

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.

This is a new post at the Base combining the children's and youth services we are looking for someone to take the lead and develop the existing services at the Base working within this small but highly motivated team.

We are combining the post as both previous part time post have come vacant at the same time.

The post benefits from extended holiday's over the Christmas.

Our mission is to champion the role of voluntary organisations in building a flourishing society and support them to do work that has a positive impact. Our values— accountable, committed, responsive, supportive, progressive, and bold—guide everything we do.

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds, especially from disabled people and those from ethnic minority communities.

About the Role

We’re launching a brand-new Bookkeeping and Independent Examination Service—and we’re looking for a skilled and motivated Bookkeeping Service Adviser to help us build it from the ground up.

This is a unique opportunity to shape a service that will support voluntary organisations across Scotland with their financial management and compliance.

Why Join Us?

• 33 days annual leave + 6 public holidays
• Generous pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
• Flexible and blended working from day one
• Supportive, inclusive, and values-driven culture