* On site: Golspie High School or Nairn Academy
* Closing: 26th November 2024
* Advertised from: 12th November 2024
* 24 months, 28 hours a week over 4 or 5 days.
Role
We are looking for two Pathways Coordinators for Golspie High School and Nairn Academy to work with young people, mentors, and school staff involved in our programme.
About the role:
You will be an integral part of the school community and wider MCR team and be the key person delivering the MCR programme to young people in the school.
Key responsibilities:
1. Helping to build exceptional individual relationships with young people across S1 to S6 and delivering S1 & S2 group work.
2. Helping to drive volunteer mentor recruitment. Consistently supporting, actively engaging and motivating mentors from training through the length of their engagement with the programme.
3. Actively support MCR young people to set, experience, then follow their education and employment pathways.
4. Evidence progression, impact and best practice with YP input, quantitative feedback and qualitative case studies.
About you:
1. Exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships with young people aged 11-18 years, education colleagues, volunteer mentors and local employers.
2. Awareness and understanding of the principles of safeguarding and child protection.
3. Ability and confidence to present programme information & deliver prepared training sessions to groups.
4. 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.
5. An understanding of the challenges and barriers that care-experienced and/or vulnerable young people may encounter.
6. Experience or 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 in 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. 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 the first year rising to 38 days from the 2nd year of employment, additional day off for your birthday, Living Pensions Employer, Life Assurance - 4 x salary.
* Remote: Home based with some travel around North Ayrshire
* Closing: 18th November 2024
We are looking for a Mentor Services Coordinator to help recruit and support our volunteer mentors in North Ayrshire.
About the role:
Our Mentor Services Coordinators are the key contacts for our volunteer mentors from their first enquiry about mentoring until they are matched with a young person. The Mentor Services Coordinators conduct in-depth interviews with all prospective volunteer mentors, organise training, organise PVG checks and make the process as smooth as possible.
Key responsibilities:
1. Providing excellent customer service to mentors, volunteers and partners using strong communication skills on the telephone, in virtual meetings, by email and sometimes in person.
2. Ensure all of our volunteer mentors are individually supported and fully engaged at every stage of their mentor journey.
3. Deliver information sessions, participate in mentor one-to-one conversations and facilitate mentor training sessions and other mentor engagement activities.
About you:
1. Experience of or strong interest in working or volunteering in the charity or third sectors.
2. People person with excellent communication and listening skills and empathy.
3. Well organised with great administrative skills and attention to detail.
4. Excellent desktop and database skills.
About us:
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 as well as West London, Hertfordshire and Surrey. 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 mentoring programme has profound impacts on school pupils in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. 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: 33 days annual leave in the first year rising to 38 days from the 2nd year of employment, additional day off for your birthday.
Are you passionate about supporting young people – especially those who have experiences of care or need extra help to make the transition to adulthood, parenthood, employment and education?
Dean and Cauvin Young People’s Trust is one of Scotland’s oldest charities – working in Edinburgh since 1733. Today, we exist to be a place of hope for vulnerable and care experienced children, young people and families in Edinburgh and the Lothians and we do this via our interconnected services which include:
1. 2 residential houses for young people aged 15-21 and young mums and babies.
2. Our Community and Transition team which delivers support to young people and families in the community.
3. Our Wellbeing Hub and outings, breaks and activities.
4. Room 4U our teenage fostering service.
We have been working hard in the last few years to redesign our services to best meet the recommendations of The Promise. We are now looking for new trustees to join us on the next stage of our development as we seek to deliver high-quality care and support with the voices of young people at the heart of all we do.
This is an incredible opportunity to make a difference with young people and build your skills alongside our other trustees. Our Board will always contain those with experience in key areas of work with young people including social work, education and fostering as well as finance and organisational governance. As a part of our origins, we also have representatives from:
1. The Sheriff Principal of the Lothians and Borders.
2. The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
3. The Royal High School of Edinburgh.
4. The Presbytery of Edinburgh of the Church of Scotland.
5. The Councillors of the City of Edinburgh Council.
6. The Faculty of Advocates.
Skills and experience
It is important that we continue to build and diversify our board to ensure we have a range of voices and experiences represented to help us reflect and understand the needs of young people in Edinburgh today.
We are recruiting for Trustees in the following areas:
1. Leadership roles in children and families and child-protection focused services (i.e. social work, residential care, family support).
2. Charitable / third sector – delivery and governance.
3. Fundraising and income generation.
4. Those with lived experiences of care/care-experienced.
5. Those from ethnically diverse and ethnic minority groups.
No previous board experience is necessary as full support and training will be provided.
What we do need is someone who is committed to our values and has an understanding of the current issues affecting young people, of high-quality practice approaches as well as the opportunities and challenges of the third sector.
The most important attributes of trustees joining us include:
1. A willingness to ask questions.
2. A shared belief in our values, aims and objectives.
3. Energy to be an active and engaged trustee.
4. Desire to be a champion for young people and our organisation.
Your responsibilities:
Being a trustee requires a time commitment to the role. Duties/tasks include:
1. Attend 4 board meetings a year (quarterly).
2. Take part in our annual Development session with staff and/or trustees.
There are additional opportunities to attend and contribute to our Finance sub-group and/or Care & Support sub-group. These meet 4 times per year (1-2 weeks before a Board meeting).
If this sounds like an opportunity you can bring your time, skills and passion to – we would love to hear from you.
Could you be part of something different? We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to use their gifts, skills and experience to make a difference to the lives of the people in our parishes and communities.
Castlemilk Parish Church are looking for a Children and Families Worker to serve the needs of both the community and the congregation with relevant groups and individuals to enhance the lives of vulnerable people in the community.
With significant experience of working with children and families, the successful candidate will also have experience of project/centre management with strong interpersonal skills to maintain positive relationships. The candidate must be a committed Christian with an active Church connection (Genuine Occupational Requirement in terms of the Equality Act 2010).
It is essential you have the right to work in the UK before applying to work with us. You will be asked to provide proof of your eligibility to work and remain in the UK if you are invited to attend for an interview.
Your mission (if you choose to accept it): join our small but mighty team in a key role as Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator!
Part time, Edinburgh based, you’ll manage our creative writing workshops and interdisciplinary activities. Your dynamism and creativity will increase our impact in the classroom and your communication skills will positively change the lives of all involved.
You also get to wear a cape! A true superhero!
The Super Power Agency (SPA) is a non-profit organisation that seeks to improve the lives and literacy rates of young people from some of Scotland’s most under-resourced areas. Through creative writing workshops, interdisciplinary activities, and individual mentoring, we work with young people aged 8–18 in schools and community organisations. Our creative writing programmes culminate in the publication of a book of the young people’s writing which is shared with their school, families and community.
Our programmes are free to all young people and serviced predominately by volunteers drawn from the communities we work in and serve.
The work of the SPA is based on that of 826 National (826national.org), an educational charity started in San Francisco, California in 2002. The programmes run by 826 National have now been replicated in 9 US cities as well as internationally in London, Dublin, Sydney, Melbourne, Paris, Buenos Aires and Milan. The SPA is proud to be part of this international network that supports the confidence and creativity of young people across the world.
It is an exciting time to join the Super Power Agency as we work towards our goal to expand across Scotland and serve 3,000 young people each year by 2026. The Writing Facilitator would work closely with the wider SPA team, including our volunteers, as well as teachers, schools and other partners across Scotland. Reporting directly to the Programme Manager, the Writing Facilitator will deliver the in-school element of our writing workshops and programmes.
Our school and community programmes run for 8 or 10 weeks, with school groups participating in one workshop per week. The Writing Facilitator will deliver a suite of different workshops across Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. These sessions vary from creative writing, poetry, and playwriting. The hours will be primarily during the week and during school hours. The Writing Facilitator will also work closely with our SPA volunteers, who support the young people during the in-school workshops.
As well as leading on the delivery of the workshops, the Writing Facilitator will have the opportunity to work with the Programme Manager and wider SPA team to review and shape workshop content. They will also assist the SPA team with the final publication of the young people’s work if necessary.
The part-time role is to be carried out across Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between our core hours of 9:30 am and 3 pm. Workshop delivery is across primary and secondary schools throughout Edinburgh.
A full Job Description and Person Specification is available for download below.
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