Part-time Family Support Assistant

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom With Kids Full time

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.
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. 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. 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.
Engaging withCommunity Planning Partnerships (CPPs) in relevant surrounding areas including Edinburgh, Lothians, and ScottishBorders.
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.
25 flexible leave days plus 10 public holidays
~ Hybrid & flexible working
~ Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured)
~ 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.
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. 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.
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.
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; Information Technology – Support staff in their use of IT apps and platforms when they are producing materials ordelivering training.
Telephones - answer the phone and pass messages to staff 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.
A working knowledge of an office environment
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
Excellent oral and written communicationskills and telephone manner
Flexible working approach



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