Top job! National Lead for Practice (FGDM and Safeguarding)
- Full time
- £52,282 – £58,765
- Hybrid: Edinburgh / Glasgow
- Closing 24th November 2026
- Advertised from 10th November 2026
- 35 hours per week
Role
In this role, you’ll:
- Lead the development of practice in the key areas of protection of children and prevention of harm in line with our Strategic priorities.
- Lead the ongoing development of FGDM and safeguarding practice within Children First and contribute to external developments with partner agencies.
- Act as the organisation’s designated Child Protection and Safeguarding Lead, ensuring robust systems of review, practice improvement and audit.
- Contribute to an open and accountable culture that puts children’s needs and rights at the centre of policy and practice.
- Represent Children First as a national expert offering specialist knowledge and consultancy.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- A recognised professional qualification in Social Work or a related discipline, with significant senior leadership experience in children’s services, safeguarding or family support.
- Extensive experience of Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) / Family Group Conferencing and a strong track record of leading safeguarding practice, systems and governance.
- Expertise in child protection, family support, children's rights, trauma-informed practice and restorative, strengths-based approaches.
- Experience designing and delivering practice models, training, consultancy or service development initiatives that improve outcomes for children and families.
- The ability to lead, influence and build trusted relationships across organisations, sectors and multi-agency systems.
- Excellent communication, influencing and decision-making skills, with confidence operating in complex and high-profile environments.
- A passion for children's wellbeing and rights, alongside a commitment to continuous learning, reflective practice and improving standards across the sector.
What we offer:
- A workplace with values of with love, with purpose and with strength
- 40 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays
- Pension scheme and wellbeing support
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Access to Westfield Health, giving colleagues and their families confidential counselling support, wellbeing resources, and access to health and lifestyle benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing.
- Blue Light card discount
- A Fair Work accredited workplace
Our Values
Living our values, you will help create a workplace where our people can thrive, ensuring we deliver the best possible support to children and families.
With love, we put children first.
With purpose, we transform lives together.
With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.
Application notes
For further information and to apply, please visit our website.
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Marketing Officer
- Full time
- £30,602 – £35,778
- Hybrid: Edinburgh – hybrid with extensive travel and occasional weekend work
- Closing 12th November 2026
In this role, you’ll:
• Deliver integrated marketing campaigns that amplify the voices of children and families and inspire positive change.
• Lead the creation and promotion of co-produced content including films, animations, stories, social media content and publications.
• Build trusted relationships with children, young people and families, ensuring their experiences shape our communications and campaigns.
• Manage and grow Children First's digital presence through website, email and social media channels, using insight and analytics to improve engagement.
• Champion the Children First brand, ensuring all content is accessible, inclusive, ethical and consistent across channels.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
• Experience delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns and developing compelling content for a range of audiences.
• Experience working collaboratively with children, young people, families or communities to co-produce content and campaigns.
• Strong copywriting, communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams.
• Experience using digital marketing tools including CMS platforms, email marketing systems, video editing and design software.
• A commitment to children's rights, participation and inclusion, alongside a passion for improving outcomes for children and families.
What we offer:
• A workplace with values of with love, with purpose and with strength
• 40 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays
• Pension scheme and wellbeing support
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Access to Westfield Health, giving colleagues and their families confidential counselling support, wellbeing resources, and access to health and lifestyle benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing.
• Blue Light card discount
• A Fair Work accredited workplace
Our Values
Living our values, you will help create a workplace where our people can thrive, ensuring we deliver the best possible support to children and families.
With love, we put children first.
With purpose, we transform lives together.
With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.
Ready to take the next step in your leadership career?
We're looking for an ambitious, values-driven leader to help shape the future of Fife Gingerbread. This newly created senior leadership role offers the opportunity to work alongside our CEO and Board to drive growth, lead change and influence the systems. You'll play a key role in turning our Stargazing Strategy into action while developing your own leadership experience.
Why join us?
For almost 40 years, Fife Gingerbread has supported lone parents and families across Fife, working with over 800 families each year. We're a progressive, family-friendly employer accredited by Flexibility Works and recognised as a Real Living Wage, Real Living Hours and Lone Parent Positive Workplace employer. We offer flexible and hybrid working, an enhanced pension, Employee Assistance Programme and genuine opportunities to develop, grow and thrive in your career
About the role
As Operational Director, you'll provide leadership across key organisational functions including service delivery, governance, finance, workforce planning, performance management, partnerships and income generation. You'll ensure our organisation has the systems, resources and resilience needed to achieve its ambitions. You'll be someone who can think strategically while delivering operationally, build effective partnerships, inspire people and spot opportunities for growth and innovation.
Job Description - Operational Director (Fife)
We're looking for someone who
You will bring strong leadership experience, a track record of delivering results and the ability to build effective partnerships that create meaningful change. You'll be confident leading people, managing performance and contributing to strategic and financial decision-making. Most importantly, you'll share our passion for improving outcomes for families, bring fresh thinking and initiative, and embody our values of courage, connection, genuineness and helping people flourish
Be part of our future
This is more than a leadership role. It's an opportunity to shape an organisation, influence change and make a lasting difference to families across Fife. If you're looking for a role that will inspire, challenge and develop you, we'd love to hear from you. Together, we can create better todays and brighter tomorrows for families across Fife.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact our CEO laura.millar@fifegingerbread.org.uk
Membership and Administration Co-ordinator
- Full time
- £27,850
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 23rd November 2026
We’re looking for a Membership and Administration Co-ordinator to support our Membership Service and Central Services teams. You’ll help maintain and grow our membership, bringing strong organisational, administrative, IT and communication skills. If you enjoy variety, building relationships and working accurately, help us make a difference to children’s lives in Scotland.
About the role
Do you have excellent organisation skills? Are you looking to work in a fast paced and vibrant environment? Do you enjoy the communicating with a wide range of people? Do you have high levels of accuracy in your work? Then this could be the role for you.
We are looking for a new Membership and Administration Co-ordinator. This is a role that offers lots of variety as you would be crucial both in maintaining and building our membership which sits at the heart of Children in Scotland, as well as supporting Central Services.
This role will sit across the Membership Service and Central Services teams. It is suited to someone who likes variety in their role, has an eye for detail and excellent organisational skills, as well as the ability to build relationships across organisations. They will bring with them experience of supporting the delivery of services or activities, including administrative tasks. The role will suit someone who wants to help make a difference in the lives of children in Scotland, by creating a strong foundation to enable our organisation to operate smoothly and efficiently.
About Children in Scotland
Children in Scotland is a welcoming and dynamic charity that amplifies the voices, views and experiences of our members and children, families and professionals across Scotland. We achieve this through direct services, meaningful participation, policy work, inspiring communications and sector-leading events and learning opportunities.
We are a vibrant and inclusive community of dedicated individuals and organisations who use our skills and passion to bring evidence-based and fresh thinking together, with one shared aim of giving all children in Scotland an equal chance to flourish.
We are stronger together in driving lasting impact for Scotland’s children.
Diversity
Children in Scotland values the contribution of all our staff, whatever their background. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open processes, with appointment on merit. We welcome applications from everyone.
Further information
For an informal chat about the job, please contact Cat Kozlowski, Learning and Membership Manager on ckozlowski@childreninscotland.org.uk
Research Officer
- Part time
- £26,640 – £32,560 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Glasgow or Edinburgh
- Closing 18th November 2026
Established in 1944, One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) is the leading charity working with single parent families in Scotland. We provide expert advice, practical support and campaign with parents to make their voices heard to change the systems, policies and attitudes that disadvantage single parent families. We work alongside single parents and their families, placing them at the centre of everything we do. Creating ways to overcome barriers, changing their lives and
fulfilling their potential. We also celebrate the many achievements of single parents and their children.
Our vision is to see a Scotland where single parent families are celebrated in all their diversity, are treated fairly and live free from discrimination and poverty. Our mission is to amplify the voices of single parent families in their unique role as sole carers and providers and together challenge stigma, poverty and inequality to achieve change.
Our values are trust, equity, justice, collaboration and compassion. These are the principles or standards that we consider important in life. They shape behaviour and guide our decisions and actions.
Our strategic objectives shape and guide all roles at OPFS. They are the pillars that underpin all our work. We all will:
- Support single parents to build on their strengths and attributes to achieve their goals.
- Strengthen single parent families’ wellbeing, enabling children to be happy and thrive.
- Influence policies to eradicate child poverty taking an intersectional, equalities approach to policy making.
- Involve single parents, experts by experience, to co-produce OPFS services and policy priorities.
- Challenge societal attitudes and behaviours to fully support and respect single parent families.
About this role
We're looking for an experience Research Officer to join our Policy, Participation and External Relations team. This is an exciting opportunity to drive forward research projects, produce compelling findings, recommendations and high quality impact reports and webinars that bring our findings to life. We're looking for a creative and insightful person who is passionate about creating a Scotland where single parent families can thrive.
For more information, please download the Job Description & Person Specification below.
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