Spring by Action for Children

Therapist

• Keeping families who are experiencing difficulties safely together.
• Working in the Functional Family Therapy Team covering the South Ayrshire area.
• Providing weekly, home-based family therapy utilizing the Functional Family Therapy model with families with young people at risk of care or custody between the ages of 8 and 18.
• Carrying a caseload of around 10 families, providing therapeutic support anywhere from 3 to 5 months.
• Flexibility in hours to meet families' needs, working Monday to Friday with some twilight hours required.

FFT Therapist

Manager

• Developing and maintaining effective networks, relationships, partnerships, and contacts to improve service outcomes.
• Successful management and delivery of commissioned services, including managing and developing operational services for children, young people, and their families.
• Draw on your sound knowledge of the needs of children in care and trauma informed practice, to ensure strong and boundaried oversight of the service delivery.
• Leading, motivating, and managing a multidisciplinary staff team working in complex environments.
• Managing the submission of tenders and nurturing new business opportunities.
• Providing visible, enabling, and supporting leadership to promote and encourage a work ethos that is consistent with our values and objectives.
• Demonstrating financial and commercial acumen and awareness through management of budgets, costing and analytics.
• Managing change projects that are service or practice focused.
• Collecting, monitoring, and analysing data and management information.
• Excellent written and communicative skills, also to lead, chair and contribute at meetings.

Children's Services Manager

• As an MST Therapist, you'll work flexibly around the needs of the family to a clinical model (training will be provided on the MST model).
• You will engage and motivate care givers into changing their child's behavioural problems and increase their skill and ability to manage future problems.
• You will assess the families' needs and identify the priorities for you as a therapist to work with them on.
• Therapists visit families regularly in their home or place of convenience to address and work through issues and work collaboratively with other agencies and professionals to co-design interventions consistent with the MST model.
• Participation in a telephone on-call rota, providing support to families when they are in crisis.
• Being involved in weekly clinical group supervision to discuss your families and to support you in adhering to the MST model.

MST Therapist

Field Engineer

• Representing a professional front facing service to Action for Children staff across Scotland.
• Responsible for attending sites, providing technically focused support and solutions.
• Oversee the commissioning and de-commissioning of sites providing technical input and resource.
• Support the Service Desk in providing remote support when not out in the field.
• Maintain professional development through research of recent and relevant developments in Technology.
• Apply continuous improvements to service and processes.
• Provide direction and guidance to less experienced IT staff.
• Develop strong relationships with remote service users and being the Ambassador for the Action for Children IT department.

Analyst

• Providing a professional technical service through face to face, telephone, ticket based and or email communication to Action for Children staff and partner organisations.
• Conduct the fulfilment of service requests, adhering to Technology policies, processes, procedures.
• Take responsibility for incident management, to resolve technical (including complex) incidents, quickly and efficiently.
• Maintain the Technology configuration management database.
• Investigating and identifying trends, gathering evidence to support further investigation by the appropriate teams.
• Process orders efficiently and expeditiously, ensuring payments match goods and services supplied.
• Responsible for the user account administration tasks needed to set up staff transferred to Action for Children.

Service Desk Analyst

People Operations

• Provide insight for the People Directorate colleagues and subject matter experts by providing people data and analytical commentary to help the organisation.
• Identify and impact key people metrics and themes in the core areas of the employee life cycle including recruitment, development, reward and benefits, payroll and people process.
• Provide a first point of contact regarding People related reporting and analytics, that support the service delivery of the People Directorate.
• Ensure that data standards and other process documentation are current, and help to update as we evolve our processes, embedding data standards into everyday People team processes.
• Gain insights through the data we collect, that guide decision making.
• Taking a lead role to protect the confidentiality of all people metrics and associated personal information.
• Supporting and working collaboratively with senior management to define, produce and communicate people insight and trends.
• Presenting context, insight and priorities in a variety of formats.
• Educate and drive adoption within the People team and wider colleagues on how data can be used to their advantage.

FFT Therapist

Children's Services Manager

MST Therapist

Field Engineer

Service Desk Analyst

People Analyst