Community Cooks

Edinburgh Community Food; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job description

Community Development & Social Enterprise

Disability

Equality & Law

Health

Housing & Homelessness

Learning

Local

Local Infrastructure Organisation

Older People

Other

Social Care

Youth

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• On site: Out-reach based at various locations around the city of Edinburgh
• Closing: 30th April 2025
• Advertised from: 22nd April 2025
• £18/hr. Fixed term: to September 2025. 18 hours/week. Tuesday-Thursday with some flexibility. Two posts.
• Travel expenses renumerated. CPD support and skills development.

Role

The Community Cook sessional workers will join our experienced team, assisting with our community development projects to facilitate cooking group sessions, deliver educational activities and promote positive public health messages around nutrition and lifestyle to children and adults.

Background

Edinburgh Community Food is a dynamic organisation, dedicated to supporting the people of Edinburgh to improve their health and wellbeing through nourishing food and wrap-around support. We deliver multiple food and health-based community initiatives around the city, including Discover! with the City of Edinburgh Council. Supporting families with food discovery, joy, and fun at local community hubs for families during school holidays.

Required

• Cooking skills in a community setting
• REHIS Elementary Food Hygiene or equivalent
• Experience collaborating with vulnerable communities
• Good knowledge of nutritional guidelines
• High level of organisational skills
• Own transport
• Ability to work in a busy environment and use own initiative
• Ability to inspire and encourage young minds

We are currently looking to recruit support workers to join our small team within Inclusion Alliance. The role involves supporting people with learning disabilities to be included in the community and lead an ordinary life. Your work would involve helping people to access educational, social, leisure and work or volunteering opportunities in the community.

No experience or formal qualifications are necessary for the role although a caring nature, positive attitude and a sense of fun are important characteristics to have. New staff will receive paid training and undertake shadow shifts with experienced staff members during induction. We want new staff to feel ready and able to work prior to working on their own for the first time.

We have various vacancies available including part time and relief/casual positions in various locations throughout Edinburgh.

• Working hours are based between the hours of 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday
• We have various permanent and casual vacancies available.
• Relief/Casual pay rate: £12 per hour

Candidates must be caring, motivated and have excellent communication skills whilst being committed to working in a person-centred way ensuring that support is built around the supported person’s wishes and needs.

Benefits include:

• Employer contributory pension scheme
• Funded SVQ 3 qualification and learning opportunity
• Paid annual leave entitlement
• Regular paid supervision sessions
• Regular paid training and development opportunities
• Daytime Monday to Friday working
• Working for a well-established small organisation where person-centred values are at the core.
• Free 24/7 access to employee support app

We are currently looking for qualified Peripatetic Assessors (L&D 9DI) and/or Internal Verifiers (L&D 11) to join our Social Care team.

This role would suit a variety of applicants seeking to earn on a self-employed basis at a capacity that suits them. You may already have a part-time role and be looking for an additional opportunity to develop your career; you may have family commitments that mean you have limited time available or be approaching retirement but be keen to continue to work flexible hours.

The role provides an opportunity to continue to develop knowledge and understanding around the assessment process as well as the skills required to motivate and support staff in their professional development.

Experience working in adult social care services along with the necessary qualifications to register with the SSSC are essential. We offer competitive rates of pay - £16.50 to £18 per hour for assessment and £19 - £22 per hour for IV.

Four Square are looking for a contractor to act as a Reflective Practice Group Practitioner for approximately 5 hours per month.

The Reflective Practice Group Practitioner will engage with the staff across our homelessness accommodation services in a continuous process of analysing their experiences, actions, and decisions to improve their professional practice and personal growth. They will work together to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement, using structured methods or tools to facilitate this reflection.

Pain Concern is a charity providing information and support to people with pain and those who care for them, whether family, friends or healthcare professionals. Visit our website to find out more about what we do, including our Airing Pain radio programme, Pain Matters magazine, information helpline, community pain education sessions and our research and campaigning work.

This non-clinical role supports our aim in delivering community Pain Education and providing information to help people in the self-management of their chronic pain.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to raise awareness, support and coordinate our Pain Education sessions in the community.

Our organisation is committed to safe recruitment in line with the relevant legislation and guidance. Due to the nature of the role, successful applicants will be required to undertake a PVG check and will successfully complete Safeguarding, PREVENT Duty and Trauma online training. The cost of a PVG will be covered by Pain Concern.