* 35 hrs / week until 30th June 2025, with a further funding beyond this being sought.
Role
Do you enjoy working with people?
Do you have excellent communication and presentation skills, and experience working with young people?
We are looking for an enthusiastic Project Officer to join Fast Forward’s Going Forward Programme Team. This rolewill have a focus on formal and informal education settings, and youth participation.
Fast Forward is Scotland’s national youth work agency, focusing on supporting children & young people to makeinformed choices regarding, and take a harm reduction approach to, risk-taking behaviours, towards reducing thenegative impacts of these on their lives and those of their families and wider community.
We promote health through programmes and resources developed by, with and for young people.
Our work is underpinned by the following values:
* Integrity - Our work is dynamic and informed by expertise, lived experience and relevantresearch
* Forward Thinking - We are brave and bold. We are creative in our approach to identifying andresponding to risk taking behaviour.
* Inclusive - We take a person centred approach. We arenon-judgemental and
* respectful.
* Collaborative - We coproduce, partner and learn with youngpeople and experts
* from across the field
Going Forward Project Background
Since May 2017, the Going Forward Project has worked with partner organisations to deliver workshop sessions tovulnerable and at-risk young people in formal and informal education settings.
Our sessions focus on core themes of health, wellbeing and risk-taking behaviours, particularly:
* substance misuse (alcohol, drugs, tobacco, e-cigarettes/vaping)
* sexual health andrelationships
* online safety
* drink spiking
* consent
In line with United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), Fast Foward is committed to developing ourchildren and young people's participation work. We want children and young people's experiences,opinions and suggestions to shape all aspects of our work.
This role will play a key part in supporting this development, embedding a child rights approach to our work. Thiswill include developing our children and young people's Shadow Board.
An application pack is available for download below.
Please complete all sections of the application form and other documents and return to allie@fastforward.org.uk bynoon on Monday 6th May 2024.
Candidates will be invited to meet members of the Fast Forward staff team digitally following shortlisting.
Interviews will be held on Tue 14th May 2024 at the Fast Forward offices, 4 Bernard St, Edinburgh EH6 6PP.
We are looking for a full-time Team Leader to join our dynamic team in Edinburgh.
In this position, you will lead a team of Project Workers as they provide support and opportunity to the adults whoattend Upmo.
On a day-to-day basis, Team Leaders supervise and coordinate activities on site, provided support to staff, ensureonsite operations are in line with policy and procedure and assist Team Managers with case and site management.We are looking for a confident communicator with excellent leadership skills and the ability to multi-task in afast-paced environment.
This Team Leader position is primarily based in our service in Edinburgh, where we offer workshop activities toadults with learning disabilities and autism from Links House in Leith, and St. Margaret's House atMeadowbank.
The starting salary for this position is £24,100.
No formal qualification is necessary, but experience of working in social care is preferred.
* Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh (On site)
* Closing2nd May 2024
Pregnancy Counselling and Care (Scotland) is currently looking to recruit a Baby Bank Development Worker to supportthe running of our Baby Bank, to enable us to increase the capacity of the service.
We have recently moved to the Gyle Shopping Centre which is giving us greater space to work within and access tovolunteers and baby items donations. This role will work closely with the other Baby Bank Development Worker toenable the service to open all weekdays, as currently it is only open Mon to Wed.
This post will also have a particular focus on; firstly, supporting the marketing of the charity, working withvolunteers to deliver regular posts on social media, and secondly, on supporting volunteering opportunitiesthrough working with third sector partners and corporate organisations.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised person with volunteer management and marketing experience to joinour friendly team. The post will be managed by our Operations Manager.
The Association for Fostering, Kinship and Adoption Scotland (AFKA) is an independent charity that promotes andfacilitates evidence-informed best practice in fostering, kinship care and adoption, through advising, training,and influencing practitioners and policymakers, and supporting them to improve outcomes for children andfamilies.
Our Vision is a future where every practitioner working with children, young people and their families isknowledgeable, skilled, confident, and empowered to support the safe, secure, and loving care to which everychild has a right.
Our services support agencies and professionals to implement child centred, evidenced informed practice that involveschildren and their families in decisions about their lives, protect their rights and promotes inclusion. Throughour multi-disciplinary communities of practice, we enable social workers, lawyers, and health professionals towork effectively across professional boundaries to meet the needs of children, their families, and their Carers.As a membership organisation, AFKA Scotland uses its links with professional bodies and agencies across thecountry to contribute to the development of policy and practice at a local and national level. We have acollaborative agreement with CoramBAAF.
AFKA Scotland’s multi-disciplinary team has a wealth of experience and up-to-date expertise in practice relating tokinship care, fostering and adoption and delivers a wide range of workshops, training and consultancy, postqualifying courses, and conferences to assist professionals to develop the knowledge and skills they requirewhen working in this specialist area.
We work closely with our research colleagues in AFKA Scotland, and our research underpins our evidence informedapproach. We are committed to #keepthepromise, have been instrumental in promise funded work and have been on ajourney to adapt to the changing landscape of care in Scotland.
We are seeking to recruit a highly experienced and motivated individual to the role of Administrative Assistant. Thisrole is key in supporting the Business Support and Finance Manager in the day-to-day operational activities ofthe organisation and to the smooth delivery of our Forums, training and workshop activities.
JOB SPECIFICATION
PURPOSE
To provide administrative support to the Business Support & Finance Manager on a day-to-day basis and to supportthe overall work of the organisation.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
National Practitioner Forums and Consortia - in conjunction with lead facilitator, manage the arrangements for thefull range of forums and consortia meetings, including setting dates, sending out agendas, formatting andsending out final notes, collating meeting papers, and keeping distribution lists up-to-date.
Support training and development events (Commissioned Training, Conferences and workshops) – in conjunction withTrainer/Consultants, provide administrative support for management of events including: finalising trainingmaterials for training booklets, creating and sending out booking forms; logging bookings and maintainingdatabase; preparing attendance certificates for participants at all external events; create, collate andanalyse evaluation form returns.
Information Technology – Support staff in their use of IT apps and platforms when they are producing materials ordelivering training.
General Administration – Undertake a range of administrative tasks to support the work of the organisationincluding:
* In conjunction with the Business Support & Finance Manager plan and monitor the action required to run theplanned programme of events.
* Telephones - answer the phone and pass messages to staff asappropriate.
* Email - check generic emails and respond / forward messages asappropriate.
* Photocopying – where required, photocopy training materials / meeting papers for allevents.
* Banking/Post Office – posting office mail and banking cheques when required.
* Library –maintain database and record when books taken out on loan.
* Take notes at staff meetings.
Scotland’s Adoption Register - provide administrative support to Register staff including support for the running offamily finding events when required.
Advice Line Enquiries – record all enquiries, forward to staff, follow up as required, maintain records of completiondates and provide statistical information to Business Support & Finance Manager.
Participation in conferences and other external events – provide administrative support for the running of events aspart of the AFKA Scotland team.
Experience
* A working knowledge of an office environment
* Ability to work as part of a team
* Ability to workon own initiative
* Personal or professional experience of the care system
* Experience of working as part of small enterpriseor charity
Knowledge, skills and abilities
* Computer literate in a range of computer processes which must include Microsoft Access, Word, PowerPoint andExcel and have proficient keyboard skills
* Familiarity with Microsoft 365 including MSTeams
* Working knowledge of social media platforms
* Excellent oral and written communicationskills and telephone manner
* Ability to collate and analyse information and to produce accurate, wellpresented documents
* Self-motivating with excellent organisational skills
Attitude and beliefs
* Positive, problem solving and resourceful
* Clear understanding of the need to maintainconfidentiality
* Flexible working approach
Organisational Relationships: Line Managed by the BusinessSupport & Finance Manager / Responsible to the Executive Director.
* Home based covering West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh & Lomond areas. (Remote)
* Closing3rd May 2024
Want to help children and young people from armed forces communities to realise their potential and thrive?
Deliver life-changing experiences to develop new skills, build confidence, and forge friendships through a sense ofbelonging, shared experiences, and collective purpose.
Co-produce impactful projects, services, and campaigns that amplify lived experience, transform attitudes, and leadtoward meaningful change in local communities in the West of Scotland and for over 12,500 peers acrossScotland.
Establish and maintain a network of youth forums in Helensburgh, West Dunbartonshire, and Lomond. Promote and developactive involvement to reach and support greater numbers from early learning settings and with additional supportneeds (ASN).
Some of the essentials we are looking for in candidates
A relevant qualification, to a minimum standard of HNC/SVQ 3 (SCQF level 7) in a discipline related to working withchildren and young people, or equivalent work experience.
Ideally, you will have experience working with children in Early Years settings.
You will also need a minimum of two years’ experience working in youth work, community, or education settings, aswell as demonstrate knowledge of co-production, child protection, participatory decision-making, and muchmore.
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