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Tiree Community Development Trust (known as “Urras Thiriodh”) are seeking a Head of Comms and Gaelic to take on a lead role in delivering our ambitious ongoing community development work for the beautiful and vibrant Inner Hebridean island of Tiree.
The newly created role combines management and direct project delivery work and would suit a candidate with relevant experience, strong Scots Gaelic language skills, and a pro-active approach looking to take on a challenge in a unique, bustling and diverse community development environment. You’d join a strong established team with a track record of delivering ambitious projects and vital community services, with the goal of ensuring the sustainable development of a small island community, making Tiree the best possible place to live, work and grow.
The role involves working across our company group to support communications with key stakeholders, with a key focus on embedding the use of Gaelic across our work and ensuring ongoing efforts to retain Gaelic as a living community language.
For further details please refer to the application pack available for download below. Questions can be directed to our Chief Officer at phyl@tireetrust.org.uk
Urras Thiriodh (Tiree Community Development Trust)
Head of Communications and Gaelic
Postcode: PA77 6UP
Fauldhouse and Breich Valley Community Development Trust are looking for an experienced and qualified Development Worker to lead, develop and implement (with support) our Mental Health and Wellbeing Project. The successful candidate would work with the F&BV CDT team to address a range of issues which have an impact on the mental health and wellbeing of people living within our communities.
The Development Worker will take a lead role. Using a person-centred approach to support individuals on a journey of self-help to improve their mental health and wellbeing. To enable people to achieve the outcomes they want, rather than outcomes defined or prescribed by others. It will be important for the Development Worker to encourage the inclusion of local people, local volunteers, who have lived experience to support the project.
The post holder will be supported (by the team, Trustees) to ensure that meaningful partnership working, networking, sign-posting services are enhanced and further developed locally. The successful candidate would need to understand the impact of health inequalities and have demonstrable skills in working with people to achieve their health and wellbeing goals. They will be confident in working with individuals and communities to understand local needs and issues.
F&BV CDT would welcome applications from individuals who are passionate, enthusiastic, and innovative. Who can recognise the exciting potential the mental health and wellbeing project offers the right candidate. Among other things, it is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to develop a range of support, activities, local resources and services for those who may be feeling lonely, isolated, who may be living in poverty, or be excluded from community life.
The successful applicant will be a compassionate and motivated individual, with the ability to connect quickly with the people F&BV supporting, advising, signposting, and developing services and resources locally. It is important that all people are treated respectfully and with dignity.
If you feel that you are the right person for the post, we will welcome your application.
Do you want to help alleviate poverty and improve the lives of families and children?
Within the UK there is over £22bn a year in unclaimed welfare benefits, and in Edinburgh it is estimated that 1 in 4 children are living in poverty. Are you understanding of people’s journeys and the challenges they face in their lives, and how poverty can have an impact on this?
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Growing Families project and help deliver a quality advice service to families with young children in Edinburgh. Working alongside the project’s current advice team and working in partnership with Health Visitors in Edinburgh, this post will support and develop this service. The Advice Worker will provide income maximisation; housing and debt advice as well as budgeting support to expecting families and families with babies and young children who are supported by their Health Visitors. Comprehensive and continuous advice training is provided by CHAI to support this rewarding role.
The Advisor will be part of our wider CHAI ‘Advice For Families’ Team and will benefit from our comprehensive training programme, peer expertise, team support and ethos of continuous learning and development which is at the heart of our service delivery.
Are you?:
* Passionate and committed to making a meaningful difference for families and children.
* Able to quickly learn complex rules and legislation on Welfare Benefits, Debt and Housing.
* Able to grow trusting relationships in a formal setting.
* Understanding of people’s journeys and the challenges they have had in their lives, and how poverty can have an impact on them.
This is an exciting opportunity for an Advice Worker to join our ‘Advice In Schools’ team.
The project provides a high-quality advice service to families in Edinburgh who are impacted by low income and the effects of living in poverty. Working in partnership with all stakeholders including parents, schools and other statutory and third sector agencies, the project takes a whole family and trauma-informed approach to helping parents who may face multiple barriers to moving out of poverty. The Advice Worker will help families by maximising income, providing support to claim benefits as well as offering housing and debt advice. Continuous training is provided and the adviser is expected to contribute to the continued development of this successful service.
The Advisor will be part of our wider CHAI ‘Advice For Families’ Team and will benefit from our comprehensive training programme, peer expertise, team support and ethos of continuous learning and development which is at the heart of our service delivery.
Are you?:
* Passionate and committed to making a meaningful difference for families and children.
* Able to quickly learn complex rules and legislation on Welfare Benefits, Debt and Housing.
* Able to grow trusting relationships in a formal setting.
* Understanding of people’s journeys and the challenges they have had in their lives, and how poverty can have an impact on them.
Auchinleck Community Development Initiative is a company limited by guarantee and was formed in 2005 to assist in the regeneration of the physical, economic, social and cultural infrastructure of the community of Auchinleck in particular but also the surrounding area.
Over the years we have developed & provided a range of activities and projects including the Knowe Garden Centre and other floral and fauna displays, musical entertainment, employability advice and information, addiction recovery services, community cinema and various children and young people's activities and youth clubs. The organisation is based in the local Boswell Community Centre where most of our activities and services take place.
The work of ACDI is guided by our 5-year Development plan and specific Action Plans which are currently being reviewed to take account of our new role as managers of the Boswell Centre. The Community Development Worker will play a key role in the review and implementation of these plans which will have a strong emphasis on capacity building within our existing groups and those developed in the future.
THE ROLE
As a community development worker working with the Auchinleck Community Development Initiative, you'll work with the organisation's existing projects, individuals, families, the wider community and partners, supporting them to:
build trusting and supportive relationships with you and the wider team
identify their assets, needs, opportunities, rights and responsibilities
co-produce what they want to achieve and take appropriate action
co-design activities and services to generate aspiration and confidence
achieve a status of independence and self-government.
You'll do this by acting as a link between the Organisation, the local community and a range of other local authority and voluntary sector providers to ensure that the Boswell Centre is a well-used resource and a focal point within the community.
Your role will frequently involve addressing inequality and the projects you work on will be in communities perceived to be culturally, economically or geographically disadvantaged.
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