Family Support Assistant

• 16 hours per week, flexibly to meet the demands of the Service. 1 year fixed term.

All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support thatenables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to poverty and the barriers facingsingle parents and their children.

The Family Support Assistant role will contribute to the organisation's vision of a Scotland in which single parentsand their children are valued and treated equally and fairly by supporting and delivering the various componentswhich contribute to the Dundee Service.

The role will include the development and delivery of groups and events for single parents and their families. Theywill provide direct interventions to single parents and their families and support the work of Family Supportand Employability Workers. The Family Support Assistant will be promoting our work at networking opportunitiesand outreach activities.

Relationships Scotland is the largest provider of family and relationship support in the country. We offerrelationship counselling, family mediation and child contact centres through a network of 21 Member Servicesacross Scotland. Around 18,000 people receive a face-to-face service each year.

We are looking to appoint a new treasurer to join our Board. The treasurer will be responsible for overseeingfinancial matters on behalf of our Board and will be responsible for ensuring that the organisation has robustfinancial processes to ensure it meets its legal and constitutional requirements. While we encourage and welcomeapplicants of all backgrounds, we are keen to hear from candidates that have experience of charity financialmanagement or are chartered in a suitable accountancy field.

This role would include four board meetings a year (currently a mix of in person and online), along with four onlineOffice Bearer meetings each year, and our AGM.

We want our Board to reflect the diversity of the modern communities we work with, and value the benefits of havingdifferent experience and points of view on our Board. We particularly welcome applications from people livingwith a disability or long-term health condition, LGBTQ+ people, younger people and those from ethnic minoritycommunities.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Regional Family Support Team in the East of Scotland and work to ensurethe delivery of high-quality support to people who have a family member in prison.

We are looking for a Regional Family Support Coordinator to join our team in the East of Scotland. In this positionyou will play a crucial role in supporting families affected by imprisonment who live in Edinburgh, Lothians andScottish Borders and pro-actively engaging with external partners through different means to deliver FamiliesOutside's key messages to ensure everyone is recognising the needs of families affected by imprisonment.

The Regional Family Support Coordinator will be responsible for supporting families, including children and youngpeople at home and in their community via 1:1 work, to address the social and family adversities that people whohave a family member in prison face, so they feel engaged, supported, and empowered. Whilst supporting childrento ensure they are safe, healthy, included, and achieving at home, school, and in the community.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Engaging with prison staff, attending meetings and family events at HMP Edinburgh.
• Providing support tofamilies affected by imprisonment who live in Edinburgh, Lothians, and Scottish Borders.
• Engaging withCommunity Planning Partnerships (CPPs) in relevant surrounding areas including Edinburgh, Lothians, and ScottishBorders.
• Creating links with other organisations working in those areas outlinedabove.
• Collaborative working with Barnardo's, at HMP Edinburgh Prison Visitors' Centre.

About You

With experience of supporting and working alongside families, including children and young people the Regional FamilySupport Coordinator will be able to demonstrate that they are passionate about developing and delivering aquality service that is focused on the rights of families affected by imprisonment in their work and all theydo.

We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic individuals who are passionate about making a difference for familiesimpacted by imprisonment. If you can demonstrate a strong understanding and commitment to our organisationalvalues, we want to hear from you.

• 25 flexible leave days plus 10 public holidays
• Hybrid & flexible working
• Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured)
• 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.