Employment & Volunteering Focus - 26 April

Vacancies

St Vincent's Hospice
Accounts Assistant
We are looking for a detail-oriented P/T Accounts Assistant to maintain and manage our financial records and transactions. The successful candidate will be responsible for handling various financial tasks, including but not limited to recording financial data, reconciling accounts and preparing financial reports.

Staff Nurse
St Vincent’s Hospice is actively recruiting for an additional Staff Nurse, working 37.5 hours per week rotationally within our In-Patient Unit, ensuring the implementation of a high standard of care within the service.
 
Healthcare Assistant
The successful post-holder will have a strong commitment to providing & ensuring excellent person-centred, safe and effective care, with previous experience within a healthcare setting.
 

ReMode
Project Manager
ReMode is a community interest company who work with communities to share creative solutions to the environmental impacts of the fashion and textiles industry. We run an education, events, and outreach programme and currently seek a new Project Manager.


Linstone Housing
Customer Advisor
Are you able to engage with customers and put them at the heart of everything you do? Have you a proven track record of delivering excellent customer service with a ‘can do’ attitude? Can you manage a challenging workload? Are you able to work well within a team but are also happy to use your own initiative?


Stepping Stones for Families
Family Support Worker
Carrick Money Advice and Family Support Service (Girvan)
To provide early intervention and intensive family support to achieve improved outcomes for children, young people and families living in the South Carrick area of South Ayrshire.  A Qualification in Social Work; Community work; minimum SVQ4 CCLD or equivalent qualification and 2 years proven experience of working with parents in a community setting is essential for this post.


Paisley Opera
Partnership Development & Community Engagement Worker - paid internship
We wish to recruit an intern who is currently studying for, or possessing, a recognised qualification in Community Engagement, Partnership Development, or a related discipline to join us as a paid intern, with working hours to be agreed depending on commitments.


True Origin
Office Coordinator
True Origin is an ethical food business with a strong focus on people and planet. At True Origin, we view our primary mission as connecting smallholder farmers and producers from the global south with the UK market while educating UK consumers. This role, reporting to the Office & E-commerce Manager, will be pivotal to the implementation of our growth plans as we continue to develop our current business and put in place building blocks that will enable significant future growth.

This course is designed to help you to capture and release the energy, skills and commitment that volunteers bring to your organisation.
This one day course is designed to help you to capture and release the energy, skills and commitment that volunteers bring to your organisation.
It will also help you to set out an overall framework for volunteering which is very important for both volunteers and staff members, based on the Investing in Volunteer Framework.
Spaces are limited. For more information and to book your place, please contact Louise.
Email: lwalker@engagerenfrewshire.com

Paisley Halloween Parade 2024

Registration of Interest Form for Community Groups and Schools

Just a reminder that you can still register interest in your group or school participating in this year’s Paisley Halloween parade here: https://forms.office.com/e/Kw3e1zRnJ8

It would be great if you can submit your response ideally by Friday 03 May 2024.
  
Key information

Paisley Halloween's Parade will return in 2024, taking place on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th October in Paisley Town Centre.  The parade will last approximately 60-90mins and is planned to start from 7pm each evening. 

We are in the process of appointing a creative parade producer and can provide more details once they are on board. In the meantime, we would appreciate if you would register your interest in having your community group or school involved in the parade so that we can keep in touch with further details.

*Please note participants must be at least 8 years old to take part in the parade. The event takes place in the evening, outdoors and the route will be at least 60-90mins in length, so we need to ensure participants are a suitable age to take part.* 

*Participating groups must be accompanied and chaperoned by their group leaders.*

Please also note that we have limited resources and may not be able to accommodate all groups that wish to participate in the creative workshop programme. However, this does not mean your group will not be able to participate in the parade. 

Volunteer Gardener/Landscaper
Renfrewshire Carers Centre are recruiting now for a volunteer gardener/landscaper. The primary role of the Gardening volunteer is to help look after and bring new ideas to help develop the Community Garden.  You may be doing this on your own or assisting other volunteers, helping to: 

• Clear away weeds, cut back vegetation and prune at appropriate times of year
• Remove litter
• Helping Community garden areas and premises, reporting any concerns.
• General maintenance of the garden area.
• Assisting with watering, weeding, planting, and keeping pathways clear.

Benefits:
Volunteering as a gardener can be rewarding, allowing you to contribute to the community while enjoying the outdoors

• Will give you the opportunity to connect with new people
• Build a sense of achievement
• Improve physical and mental health
• Volunteer Induction training and support
•  Out of pocket expenses

Skills:
Ideally, you would have an interest in gardening and outdoors. Knowledge of plant care would be useful but is not a must.
For more information and information on how to apply, see link below:
Volunteer Gardener/Landscaper (engagerenfrewshire.org)

Role Title: Erskine Motorbike Meet Bucket Collecting and Stall Management
Location: The Erskine Home, Bishopton, PA7 5PU
Closing Date: 19.05.23

For more information please contact:
Sammy Terry – Events Fundraising Officer
Sammy.terry@erskine.org.uk
Events@erskine.org.uk

As a rainbow call companion you’ll be someone who identifies as LGBT+ and who wants to make regular telephone calls to an older LGBT+ person experiencing social isolation or loneliness.
These friendly chats provide a lifeline of friendship for older people and a vital link with the outside world from which they’ve become isolated.

What’s in it for you?
This is a fun, flexible and rewarding role which will enable you to connect with, and make a real and lasting difference to, the life of an older person who is experiencing social isolation or loneliness.
As a valued Re-engage volunteer you’ll receive training, support and regular updates and communication from the Re-engage team.

Tasks include:

• Calling the older person you’ve been matched with for approximately 30 minutes either weekly or fortnightly at an agreed time.
• Following the guidance in the online volunteer training so that your rainbow call companion calls are enjoyable, appropriate and in line with our charitable aims.
• Keeping in regular contact with Re-engage and reporting any concerns to the team.
• Keeping your knowledge and training up to date by reading our monthly volunteer newsletter – Re-engage Matters.

Apply to become a volunteer (reengage.org.uk)

  

A fantastic case study below from YouthLink Scotland on the role and impact of youth work in supporting young people through volunteering opportunities.

“With its strong focus on equity and inclusion, youth work makes a particularly important contribution to tackling poverty, and addressing the Scottish Attainment Challenge. Youth workers provide vital support to young people impacted by poverty and other inequalities, improving educational outcomes, and enabling more young people to successfully transition to positive post-school destinations. Creating and supporting high-quality volunteering experiences is an important part of this wider tapestry of youth work support. Through youth work, young volunteers can build skills, access a range of valuable experiential learning (including accredited awards and qualifications) and make progress towards and into employment.”

To read more, click the link below..
Website-version.pdf (youthlink.scot)

This toolkit by Make Your Mark was designed to support voluntary organisations in Scotland to make their volunteering programmes more inclusive.

This toolkit is the result of a project in 2022/23 supported by the Scottish Government as part of Scotland’s Volunteering Action Plan. Further information on the research that informed this toolkit is available for download in a full project report.

Conducted across 2022-23, the project aimed to investigate the accessibility and inclusivity of volunteering in Scotland, and how barriers to volunteering could be removed.

The toolkit has been designed in response to data generated by a survey of Make Your Mark members (52 respondents from a variety of large, medium and small volunteer-involving organisations across Scotland) and 4 focus groups composed of volunteers and people interested in volunteering.
The survey focused on attitudes and approaches to different aspects of diversity and inclusion in volunteering, especially how positive change can be measured.

You can view the toolkit using the link below.
Make Your Mark: Volunteering Toolkit (Main)
 
Inclusion Checklist
This will be useful when developing an inclusive volunteering plan.
Make Your Mark: Volunteering Toolkit (Main)

More information about Make your Mark can be found on their website
Home • Make Your Mark

Discover what young people think about cyber resilience in youth work during this online event
Date: Monday 20 May 2024
Time: 14:00 – 15:30
Location: Online
Youth Work and Cyber Resilience – What Young People Said Tickets, Mon 20 May 2024 at 14:00 | Eventbrite