The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to utilise and develop your skills, knowledge and experience by working alongside our excellent North Strathclyde Bairns Hoose team.
This is a maternity cover post until October 2026.
Our North Strathclyde Bairns Hoose is an innovative partnership with between Children First, 4 Local Authorities ( East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, and East Dunbartonshire), Police Scotland, SCRA, Scottish Courts, and Crown and Procurator Fiscal Service.
Bairns Hoose is based on the European Barnahus model. Barnahus is a child-friendly, multidisciplinary, and interagency model of justice, care and recovery for children who are victims and witnesses of all forms of violence. A place where all Police, Social Work, Health and Court services are based under one roof. Children receive a coordinated trauma responsive plan to support their journey through the care, protection, and justice system. The aim of the model is to; prevent re-traumatisation caused by delayed and disjointed investigation and court proceedings, to keep children safe, allow them access to fair justice and to help them recover from the trauma of their ordeal.
Scotland’s first Bairns Hoose was opened in 2023 in North Strathclyde and since then has continued to place the best interests of the child at the centre of all the systems that are there to protect them and to offer the child and their family or caregivers all the support they need.
What kind of person will make a great Bairns Hoose Rights, Advocacy and Trauma Recovery Worker for Children First?
• is fiercely passionate about children’s rights
• thinks it’s a privilege to work with and on behalf of children and families
• is kind and will bring their whole selves to the job: heart and mind
• is committed to being part of transformational change alongside children and their families
What kind of Rights, Advocacy and Trauma Recovery Worker will you be?
Knowing our ambition for children, you will be someone who:
• is resilient, skilled and knowledgeable, who wants to transform children’s lives
• can connect well with young people and their families, help them to feel safe and build a relationship based on trust
• understands trauma and knows that with the right support children and young people can recover from complex trauma – there is always a way
• is able to build strong relationships and manage tricky conversations
• is able to work collaboratively with partners
• has a cool head and clear minded at times of pressure
• is able to make decisions
• can inspire colleagues and teams to be even better
• is an amazing ambassador for children and Children First
Above all else, the most important thing to us is that you are someone who will do the right thing for children and their families at every turn.
If you wish to discuss this opportunity, please contact Fiona McBride, Assistant Director at fiona.mcbride@children1st.org.uk
Closing Date for applications: 8th September 2025
Interviews will be held during week beginning 15th September
This is a maternity cover post until October 2026.
Our North Strathclyde Bairns Hoose is an innovative partnership with between Children First, 4 Local Authorities ( East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, and East Dunbartonshire), Police Scotland, SCRA, Scottish Courts, and Crown and Procurator Fiscal Service.
Bairns Hoose is based on the European Barnahus model. Barnahus is a child-friendly, multidisciplinary, and interagency model of justice, care and recovery for children who are victims and witnesses of all forms of violence. A place where all Police, Social Work, Health and Court services are based under one roof. Children receive a coordinated trauma responsive plan to support their journey through the care, protection, and justice system. The aim of the model is to; prevent re-traumatisation caused by delayed and disjointed investigation and court proceedings, to keep children safe, allow them access to fair justice and to help them recover from the trauma of their ordeal.
Scotland’s first Bairns Hoose was opened in 2023 in North Strathclyde and since then has continued to place the best interests of the child at the centre of all the systems that are there to protect them and to offer the child and their family or caregivers all the support they need.
What kind of person will make a great Bairns Hoose Rights, Advocacy and Trauma Recovery Worker for Children First?
• is fiercely passionate about children’s rights
• thinks it’s a privilege to work with and on behalf of children and families
• is kind and will bring their whole selves to the job: heart and mind
• is committed to being part of transformational change alongside children and their families
What kind of Rights, Advocacy and Trauma Recovery Worker will you be?
Knowing our ambition for children, you will be someone who:
• is resilient, skilled and knowledgeable, who wants to transform children’s lives
• can connect well with young people and their families, help them to feel safe and build a relationship based on trust
• understands trauma and knows that with the right support children and young people can recover from complex trauma – there is always a way
• is able to build strong relationships and manage tricky conversations
• is able to work collaboratively with partners
• has a cool head and clear minded at times of pressure
• is able to make decisions
• can inspire colleagues and teams to be even better
• is an amazing ambassador for children and Children First
Above all else, the most important thing to us is that you are someone who will do the right thing for children and their families at every turn.
If you wish to discuss this opportunity, please contact Fiona McBride, Assistant Director at fiona.mcbride@children1st.org.uk
Closing Date for applications: 8th September 2025
Interviews will be held during week beginning 15th September