Big Hearts is looking to recruit a professional designer with a passion for storytelling through visual media, to work alongside our Marketing and Communications Staff Team.

Purpose of the role

The Graphic Design & Creative Content Officer primarily focuses on delivering brand design assets for print, digital and broadcasting in order to support the charity’s long-term goals. This new role will also help implement a clear and robust creative approach which elevates the Big Hearts’ brand and strengthens the charity’s reach and recognition across the community.

Location

Our office is located in the Wheatfield Stand, Tynecastle Park, Edinburgh, EH11 2NZ.

Hybrid working available, this will be discussed to suit both parties.

Main responsibilities

• Bring design briefs to life in a variety of formats
• Manage a pipeline of design work for print and digital
• Adapt creative concepts across website, social media, fundraising channels
• Send artwork files to external printers and suppliers
• Apply accurately and efficiently the brand and support its adoption by staff
• Edit short videos with animated text, transitions, and branded elements
• Capture photos at projects, match day initiatives and events
• Suggest design-based solutions to support Income and Delivery departments
• Help develop our image library and range of marketing resources
• Follow internal processes including safeguarding, media consent and AI policy

Person specification

Essential skills & expertise required for this role include:

• Professional degree in graphic design or related field
• Proficiency in design software, including Adobe Creative Cloud
• Proven experience in articulating a brand across a range of print and digital assets
• Proven experience in creating artwork files for print
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload

Important info

• This role is subject to PVG scheme disclosure, which will be paid by Big Hearts.
• Two satisfactory references will be requested upon any offer of employment.

Equality & diversity statement

Big Hearts is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, race and religion or belief.

‘Together We Thrive - Building Cultural Bonds in Wester Hailes’

Are you an experienced and passionate project leader able to lead and deliver exciting, engaging and safe sessions with people from a range of ethnicities as they develop self-confidence and a sense of belonging? Come and work for us!

SCOREscotland (Strengthening Communities for Race Equality) is a small and yet mighty charity based in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh. We work in partnership with other organisations to address effects and causes of racism and promote race equality. We aim to break down barriers to full participation of minority and ethnic groups in civic life.

"Together We Thrive" aims to foster positive relationships between New Scots (refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants) and the local Scottish community in South West Edinburgh by creating a welcoming and inclusive program of activities. Please see the attached job description for more details about this exciting role.

WE ARE SEEKING TO RECRUIT AN ENTHUSIASTIC AND COMMITTED SENIOR RESIDENTIAL PROJECT WORKER 3 TO JOIN OURCAERN SHORT BREAKS RESIDENTIAL SERVICE.

Barnardo's Caern Disability Services consists of three unique Projects who deliver a variety of quality services for young people with learning disabilities and/or autism. We have done this for over 40 years.

At the Caern Short Breaks Service, we support up to 5 children and young people aged 5-18 by offering respite and short break packages to them and their families.

Working primarily in the residential setting you will promote the happiness, safety and welfare of the young people. You will play an active role in supporting the children and young people and their families/carers to achieve positive outcomes, as identified in the Young People's Individual Support Plans.

ABOUT YOU

Ideally you will have experience in working directly with children and young people in a residential setting. Experience in supporting children and young people with a learning disability and/or Autism is required.

You will work directly with the children and young people on shift, as part of the staff team on rota. In addition to this your main role will include

• Responsibility for the day to day running of the house
• Leading the staff on shift including rota management, leading practice and ensuring staff are working to high levels of performance in the best interests of the C&YP in our care.
• Supervision of staff including Residential Project Workers and As & When staff
• Supporting the Team Manager and Children's Service Manager with the ongoing development of the Service

The staff team across Caern Services must be fully accepting of our children and be prepared to offer them a professional relationship based on acceptance and informed by our understanding of their individual needs, wishes and experiences. We are passionate about the children and young people that we care for, showing understanding, empathy and consistency in our approach.

You will currently hold or be working towards a SVQ3 (Children and Young People) and also be willing to work towards a recognised SSSC qualification/s relevant to this role (Residential Worker with Supervisory Responsibilities).

This is a full-time position (37 hours). Working on a dayshift rota basis, you will typically work a rota of 5 out of 7 days, including weekends. You will require to be flexible for the needs of the Young People and the Service.

For an informal chat about this role – please call Aileen Gallagher on 0131 339 8840.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment toBarnardo's values.We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Our basis and values