Home-Start Glasgow North and North Lanarkshire is a growing, vibrant community charity making a big impact on families in the local area. Our trained volunteers and staff help families with young children through challenging times. In Scotland, over 1500 volunteers support over 3500 families and nearly 6500 children each year through compassionate, confidential help to parents when they need us most.
The parents we support are often overwhelmed and isolated. They may be struggling with mental health, illness, disability, multiple birth, poverty, domestic abuse, separation, or trauma. We provide both 1:1 and group support to families in the community and online.
We are now looking to welcome a new Family Support Coordinator to our North Glasgow team who are based in our Glasgow office, Netherton Community Centre, G13 1AX, though there will be travel across all of North Glasgow.
Hybrid working arrangements in place.
The role is initially funded for one year but is expected to continue beyond this, subject to the availability of funding.
Key responsibilities:
* An understanding of the needs of children and families
* Relevant experience of working alongside families, preferably in the voluntary sector
* Good working knowledge of child protection and child development
* Experience of developing and delivering training
* The ability to supervise and support a caseload of families and volunteers
* Valid UK driving licence and own car required
Home-Start Glasgow North and North Lanarkshire is committed to equal opportunities.
The post is initially funded for one year, with the possibility of extension subject to the availability of additional funding.
Do you have what we’re looking for?
* Highly organised and experienced administrator
* Excellent written and spoken communication skills
* Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
* High attention to detail and accuracy
* A positive team player with the ability to work using your own initiative
* Valid UK driving licence and own car essential
Relationships Scotland Borders is looking for their next part-time Administrator to join our small, but highly committed and supportive team.
Are you looking for a flexible, home-based role that can offer hours to fit around the school run, or other commitments you might have? If so, then read on.
Relationships are at the heart of our lives and here at Relationships Scotland Borders, we support people with their relationship difficulties. We provide a range of support, from individual and couples counselling, Child Contact Centres, to mediation services that can all help to support people to find their own solutions and enhance their wellbeing, mental health and happiness.
We deliver our range of services to help and support children and their families across the Scottish Borders. To support this work, we are looking for someone dynamic, enthusiastic and passionate, with a genuine desire to help others.
Within this role the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that our operations and processes run smoothly and to a high standard, with a core focus on excellent customer service.
We are looking for someone that is based in the Scottish Borders, with at least 5 years of previous experience as an administrator. You will be able to demonstrate experience of working remotely, a self-starter that understands the importance of meeting deadlines and managing your workload effectively. You will have excellent administrative and financial experience, be able to handle confidential information, communicate with clients and their families with care and sensitivity, as well as the ability to manage our work with local solicitors and other partners across the Scottish Borders.
Join us and you'll become part of a team that cares about the work we do and the people we work with. You'll discover opportunities to grow, along with challenges and a shared purpose that'll bring the best out in you.
If you’re interested in learning more about this fantastic role, please take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification, or why not visit our website: relationships-scotlandborders.org
Home-Start Edinburgh is a volunteer-led charity with over 35 years of experience working in local communities, supporting families with a child under 5 in the home. We are currently recruiting for the role of Family Support Coordinator. The successful applicant will be required to support volunteers and families in one of Edinburgh’s four localities.
This role will support families, predominantly through the network of volunteers they recruit, support and train. They will also be expected to contribute to the wider operation and further development of the scheme.
The post-holder will work with the other Family Support Coordinators, as well as other staff, to ensure families receive holistic, high-quality support. They will contribute to the ongoing training and development of volunteers, including delivery of the Volunteer Prep course, as well as networking with other local organisations.
Our lives are so often shaped by our childhoods. When problems are bottled up in those important early years, they can grow into mental health issues later in life.
But young children don’t have the language skills to properly express what they’re going through. That’s where With Kids comes in - a unique children’s mental health charity operating across the central belt at the forefront of the provision of Play Therapy in Scotland.
Our trained specialists give children the freedom to express their difficulties on their own terms. Using the one form of communication that comes naturally to them – play.
Play Therapy empowers children to understand themselves better, to process life events, and to build confidence and self-esteem. So they can better regulate their emotions, build stronger relationships with their families and peers, and learn to cope with life’s many challenges.
We work alongside the children from an early age, along with their parents, carers, schools and communities – aiming to build long-term, self-supporting networks.
Our priorities are to contribute to addressing cycles of poverty by improving the mental health of children, their families and the wider community.
Because difficulties in childhood don’t have to direct our whole lives.
Together we can take a new path.
“I have to give a five-star rating to With Kids. They support me and my family as individuals and as a group. This is the best way of working”
“I love working here and feeling part of a team, an organisation with such a positive approach, shared values, strengths and connections, care and focus on child welfare. With Kids do things properly and are always looking to improve”.
The role
This new role brings an exciting opportunity for a highly organised and motivated individual with extensive fundraising experience to shape the future of With Kids.
You can expect a supportive management team, who take joint responsibility, while you take on the management of all strands of income generation and fundraising. Through this work you will be helping to shape the future of With Kids and enabling our staff to provide children and families with a high-quality service.
Are you able to hit the ground running with applications to trusts and foundations, while developing other income generation activities and relationships to build income from corporate bodies, individuals, and communities?
The post-holder has the scope to build our relationships with corporate bodies and increase income from individual and community fundraising activities. The role may also lead on, and provide support to, the Business Development Manager and CEO in tendering opportunities.
Ideally you will be a skilled communicator and have the ability to use digital tools and lead on managing online campaigns for income generation.
It’s not expected that the post holder will necessarily have experience in all of these areas, so there is scope to influence the content of our fundraising strategy and develop new skills.
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