We are recruiting a Kinship Support Project Worker who will become part of a small team offering support to Kinship carers across East Lothian. Kinship carers have a unique role in caring for their children. In this role you will provide emotional and practice support, advocacy and financial advice and signposting, one to one work with children and young people who are supported by our carers.

We are looking for someone who shares out core values (see website) and a passion for advocating the rights of families. In this role you will also developing supporting Kinship peer support groups as part of a small team, and link in with wider Kinship support services and resources.

This is a new role and we welcome someone who has the drive and vision to develop and shape a new small service. If you would like to discuss this further, please refer to our website for contact details.

If you are an experienced professional with a Social Work, Community work, Counselling or other appropriate qualification we want to hear from you.

This is a part time, fixed term role of 28 hours per week until 01 April 2022. Hours to be worked flexibly to suit the needs of the service.

Summary of role

The JP Morgan Chase Foundation Specialist Debt Helpline Pilot project aims to open up the high quality, free, impartial advice that the CAB network currently offers beyond our existing clients to a wider demographic and volume of people in Scotland, ensuring that everyone can access debt advice in a convenient way, at the point in their life when they need help. This will enable an early resolution for many individuals. The pilot will explore the extent to which complex debt cases can be handled remotely.

The money advice helpline advisers are the first point of contact with clients who access the service from anywhere in Scotland through a dedicated telephone helpline. They will handle casework related to debt cases presented on the helpline.

The specialist debt helpline service is being run by 6 bureaux, and the money helpline advisers will be part of a distributed team, working collaboratively across bureau boundaries.

We are looking to recruit 2 full time posts, one for CAB West Lothian and one for Haddington CAB.

Main responsibilities

By phone, email and video conferencing the money advice helpline advisers provide an effective, holistic diagnosis of the client’s problems, dealing with emergencies, helping to resolve the enquiry, identifying whether the client is able to self-help, arranging follow up meetings as necessary and handling associated casework. Accurate recording of cases will be an important responsibility of this role.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for someone who has minimum of 6 months experience in delivering specialist money advice and debt solutions for clients. We are also looking for someone who has experience of delivering complex advice on the telephone. Any applicant should have excellent communication and organisational abilities and experience of working to KPI’s.

This is a new and exciting project for the CAB network and is a great opportunity for the right applicant to be involved in the development of a debt advice helpline in Scotland.

At Options Lothian we offer a safe, homely environment for a child to come and stay for a short break that gives their families a rest from their caring role. During that break, children enjoy a range of fun activities and experiences with our staff who specialise in taking care of children with disabilities. Our service is very much a ‘home from home’ for the children who stay with us there. Our service is open from Fridays to Sundays every week.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who is passionate about ensuring our young people live their best lives. Whilst not without its challenges and demands, this is a highly rewarding role. We are looking for someone who will contribute to the leadership, management and development of the service for children, young people and their families in line with agreed objectives and assist with service review and evaluation.

You will have relevant experience of working with children and young people with a disability and/or autism in a community or residential setting and understand the impact of disability on inclusion. You are required to meet the qualifications requirement for this post which is at SCQF Level 7 (e.g. HNC, SVQ Level 3) and a practice qualification in a management category or SVQ Social Services and Healthcare SCQF Level 9. This post requires you to register with the Scottish Social Services Council as both a Residential Child Care Worker with Supervisory Responsibilities and a Supervisor in a Housing Support Service.

There is an expectation that you will mainly be working these hours Friday-Sunday offering direct support to the young people as part of our residential rota, this will include evenings, weekends, nights and public holidays. There is also the requirement to undertake the occasional sleep over or night awake shift.

Why should you apply for this post? Well that’s easy…

As a valued part of Aberlour’s management team you will receive a planned and supported induction programme consisting of an extensive training; including CALM Training, Child Protection Training and Moving and Handling Training. You will support the line management of a highly motivated and skilled team to provide a personalised service for our young people.

As an Aberlour employee, you will receive:

• competitive hourly rates with an additional 7% for working unsociable hours

• excellent annual leave entitlement

• access to our group pension scheme

•access to the Aberlour Rewards retail discount scheme

MELD is a community based substance misuse agency providing recovery based services in Midlothian and East Lothian.

MELD is looking for a highly self-motivated individual who has the ability to lead a small administrative team and work on their own initiative. Applicants should have excellent communication skills, good attention to detail and be confident in planning workloads often with conflicting priorities.

The successful candidate will have excellent IT skills with a good working knowledge of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) databases.

Applicants must have proven leadership skills and a positive attitude towards, and commitment to, the rights of people with substance misuse problems.

MELD is a community based substance misuse agency providing recovery based services in Midlothian and East Lothian.

MELD is looking for a Family Support Worker to offer one to one support and group work in East Lothian to family, friends and significant others affected by someone’s drug or alcohol misuse.

A qualification in Health, Education, Social Work or Counselling with demonstrable experience of working with substance misusing clients or their families and an ability to work in a flexible manner are essential criteria.

MELD is a community based substance misuse agency providing recovery based services in Midlothian and East Lothian.

MELD is looking for a highly motivated individual who is committed to providing services for individuals with substance misuse issues and who can work effectively as part of a small team and in partnership with statutory services. You will be expected to provide advice, information and support to individuals who are experiencing difficulties with substance misuse and related issues.

A qualification in Health, Education, Social Work or Counselling with demonstrable experience of working with clients who have difficulties with substance misuse, an ability to work in a flexible manner and adhere to a recovery focussed approach and a full driving licence and own transport are essential criteria.

As the successful candidate you will be responsible for the design and delivery of employability training. Currently, we have a particular focus on Rural Skills and Construction however we will be looking to develop training programmes into other sectors, including hospitality. You will also assume the role of Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) coordinator. This will include liaison with key stakeholders and assessment and verification of certificated courses.

You will manage a small but expanding team of trainers, support staff and volunteers and report regularly to the Ridge board of trustees. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a background in training / teaching who is flexible, imaginative and enthusiastic about developing the skills of individuals to help realise their full potential.

The role can be undertaken as on either a self-employed or employed basis, with remuneration subject to experience. If you have specific questions, please email info@the-ridge.org.uk or call Managing Director Kate Darrah on 07811918109.

Reporting to: Board of Trustees

Management reports: 3 members of staff and over 30 regular volunteers

Budget responsibility: Accountable for operational budgets and financial management

Offer of employment contingent on Basic Disclosure from Disclosure Scotland

We are looking for a candidate with the ambition, experience and passion to help us grow our services while ensuring we deliver a ‘gold standard’ crisis food service to those that need it, when they need it, during the most challenging of times.

You will play a critical role in ensuring the long-term sustainability and growth of our essential local services during very challenging times and in the face of increasing demand. You will have the skills and experience to develop and build a strong team of staff, volunteers and external partners committed to ensuring no one in need in East Lothian goes without food. Working with the Board of Trustees, you will ensure delivery of our strategic aims, including creative measures to help those experiencing food poverty and deprivation in East Lothian by supporting and encouraging self-help and support schemes, mobilising voluntary and community resources and accessing new sources of funding which can extend the reach, scope and scale of operation of the organisation.

Further priorities will include securing income from fundraising and grant income for our core crisis service and developing and resourcing ‘more than food’ projects and taking a strategic lead in helping shape local responses to the root causes of food poverty across East Lothian.

Experience of being accountable for or manager of a front line service would be an advantage.

There may always be a need for our crisis food service, but we believe with the right management we are well placed as an organisation to increase delivery of a range of services and projects to a scale that can have an impact on reducing demand for crisis food interventions and on the issues that contribute to food poverty and insecurity in East Lothian.

CAPS is offering an exciting opportunity for someone to join us to facilitate a new collective advocacy project for people from the LGBTQI+ community with mental health experiences.

This role involves promoting the new project and encouraging people to participate, and then assisting the group to take forward the actions they identify as important to bring about changes to services and or policy. Having direct experience of the issues faced by this community group is essential.

Working autonomously, alongside other Collective Advocacy workers, you should be friendly, enthusiastic and approachable, with the ability to form trusting relationships with the group members and colleagues.

There will be a 6-month probationary period attached to this permanent post. This post will be subject to membership of the PVG Scheme and appropriate check. Currently all our staff are working from home and carrying out their work remotely.