Advertised from 12 September 2025

Role

The Butterfly Trust is the lead provider of social and psychosocial support for people affected by Cystic Fibrosis throughout Scotland. We provide a comprehensive range of outreach services for all ages of people with Cystic Fibrosis and their families across Scotland.

We aspire to a quality of excellence in our standard of service provision to Scotland’s Cystic Fibrosis Community.  

All of our personnel are expected to maintain those standards when providing support that is focused on promoting emotional wellbeing alongside practical help to maximise income and addresses issues that include housing, benefits, education and employment. Our Befriending support was researched by Queen Margaret University and was presented at both European and World Cystic Fibrosis Conferences, leading to our advice being sought from other Cystic Fibrosis charities globally.

We are looking for a dynamic, proactive and personable individual to join our team. They must have a positive attitude, attention to detail with a genuine passion for supporting other people and who has ambition for their own continued personal and professional development. They will have excellent communication, interpersonal, problem solving and organisational skills, experience in managing or supervising staff or volunteers and able to work with people at all levels.

We will provide both in-house and external training to ensure all of our team have appropriate skills and knowledge to fulfil their role to the best of their ability.

The Children & Families Manager is responsible for providing a range of services to children affected by Cystic Fibrosis, including direct support for carers and supervision of volunteer befrienders who provide direct support to the young people.

They will work in collaboration with specialist medical personnel to ensure provision of professional and integrated medical and social support services as well as liaising with Social Care Services, Local Authorities and other relevant specialist agencies, as required.

Full driving licence and a car is essential.

For this regulated work the successful candidate will be required to gain/maintain PVG scheme membership which will be paid for by the Trust.

We offer:

• Out of pocket expenses
• Mileage allowance
• Individual staff training budget for in-house and external training 
• Generous holiday entitlement 
• 5% Workplace pension

Application notes

Closing date for applications Monday 13 October 2025

Please do not send CV’s as these will not be taken into consideration.

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