Jobs in Leith Walk, Edinburgh

Are you looking for a role where every day is different and you work in a team to make a real difference to young people’s lives?

Do you want to work directly with young people in the community rather than being stuck behind a desk?

If so, this role may be the perfect opportunity for you!

About the post

Using an outreach approach, the post holder will provide key work, careers guidance and tailored support to young people identified by their school as at risk of leaving without a positive destination, likely to be struggling to engage with mainstream curriculum and have experienced disrupted attendance.

About you

You should be experienced in working with vulnerable young people, have the ability to build excellent working relationships; and be positive, creative and flexible in delivering support. You should also have the ability to demonstrate our values of compassion, respect, integrity and innovation in the work that you do.

How we’ll support you

You’ll be working independently as part of a team of skilled, experienced keyworkers with a supportive manager.

You will have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.

About the service

Cyrenians Key to Potential service provides holistic, person-centred support, to help young people coming up to school-leaving-age to progress into further education, training, or secure employment. This new post is an extension to the Key to Potential project, in response to increasing demand.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness. We understand that there are many routes into homelessness, and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting people towards more positive and stable futures. That’s why all our work is values-led and relationships-based.

Our values

• Compassion: We believe that everyone should have the chance to change, no matter how long that might take.

• Respect: We believe in tolerance, acceptance, valuing diversity and treating each other as equals.

• Integrity: We are committed to the highest quality of work, grounded in honesty, generosity, sincerity and professionalism.

• Innovation: We are willing to take risks, challenge convention and be creative in our search for new ways of working, in particular by taking account of the environmental impact of our decisions.

We have a great opportunity for the right candidate to join our fantastic Finance team!

We are looking for an experienced, and enthusiastic new colleague to join us to assist our Finance and Payroll teams.

Although this role is “all about the money, money, money” …this job is more importantly all about the people we support. If you want to feel that you do a job that matters to the lives of people with support needs, please join us in making a difference every day to individuals, families and to ourselves too.

Our Finance Team is crucial to the success of the organisation and to the quality of service that we provide internally and externally to colleagues, supported people and customers.

In this role, you will be responsible for a range of tasks including:

• Administration, recording, and processing of financial information and procedures

• Ensuring timely and accurate processing of purchase invoices

• Dealing with invoice queries, liaising with the support team managers and senior managers as needed.

• Producing reports and analysis as required

• Assisting with the development of new financial procedures.

• Assisting with the development and implementation of the organisation’s Quality system within the Finance team

The Action Group is an Investors in People Platinum Award winning organisation, and we demonstrate our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion by being a Disability Confident Leader and a proud Stonewall Diversity Champion. The Action Group is accredited as a Living Wage Employer.

We are a strong, supportive, and forward-thinking organisation. If you are a skilled and experienced Finance Officer, with attention to detail skills please apply to join us.

For more detailed information about the role, please have a look at the job description and person specification.

Benefits include:

• Pension

• 24/7 employee assistance programme, with access to free legal advice and counselling

• Good annual leave entitlements

• Ongoing support, training and development opportunities

• TAG Rewards – our exclusive discounts and savings programme

• Travel time payable where applicable

• Mileage allowance where applicable

The Edinburgh Tenants Federation (ETF) has an exciting opportunity for a Development Officer to join our team to support tenants across the City to work in partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council.

Edinburgh Tenants Federation is an award-winning, charitable, voluntary organisation that works to ensure that tenants and residents are able to fully participate to shape their housing and wider services. As a membership organisation, we represent the views of our member groups to influence change across the city. The aim of ETF is simple – we want to change social rented housing in Edinburgh for the better.

ETF is seeking a Development Officer to build on the success of ETF to ensure tenants are at the heart of consultation and have a meaningful role in shaping the City of Edinburgh Council’s housing services. The post will be responsible for providing development support, information, and advice to tenants and communities throughout Edinburgh to ensure they have skills and knowledge to participate fully.

The role of Development Officer includes:

• Developing, delivering and monitoring a project work plan in partnership with tenants, communities, and The City of Edinburgh Council to meet the agree aims, objectives, and timescales of the organisation.
• Providing information, training and development support to ETF member groups to provide them with the skills and knowledge to participate fully.
• Empowering and supporting individual tenants, tenant and resident groups, and the wider community to develop digital confidence.
• Supporting the Council, tenants, and communities to develop good tenant participation and scrutiny practices.
• The ideal candidate must have experience of working with groups, knowledge of housing issues, and a commitment to tenant participation, engagement, and scrutiny.

Do you have proven experience of delivering digital communications to engage audiences? As our Digital Marketing & Social Media Executive you could soon be playing an important role at the heart of our Digital & Marketing Communications Team.

About Changeworks

Changeworks’ vision is for a world where everyone is able to live, work and enjoy life with a low carbon impact. We recognise climate change is the most significant threat to the environment and our way of life.

Passion, integrity, innovation, collaboration and empowerment are the values which drive us.

We are Scotland’s leading environmental charity delivering solutions for low carbon living. A trusted expert with over 35 years’ experience. Our current strategy has four goals:

• Accelerate the improvement of energy efficiency of buildings
• Effectively deploy renewable and low carbon solutions
• Deliver an integrated community approach to low carbon living
• Reduce fuel poverty

About the team

Our new Digital & Marketing Communications team has been established to transform the way that Changeworks engages with our audiences and will lead on organisational and service marketing alongside developing our digital presence. The team overall is responsible for evolving our brand, positioning the organisation as a thought leader and expert, increasing our profile and driving more people to adopt a low-carbon life. Changeworks is currently going through a major brand and digital transformation which result in a new website and a fresh, exciting new look. As our Digital Marketing & Social Media Executive you’ll play a major part in these activities.

About the role

You will ensure Changeworks engages effectively with our stakeholders, funders, customers and the general public through increased social media activity and as part of the wider digital marketing function. You will use your excellent communication skills to develop and deliver engaging content that is relevant to our diverse audiences.

This is an exciting opportunity for a creative and driven communicator to take the lead on the paid and organic functions of our social media channels. As Changeworks looks to expand its work and reach, this new role will support us is in building engagement and awareness of Changeworks’ role in Scotland’s environmental sector.

You will drive our digital campaigns both organically, as well as deliver our paid advertising campaigns, and work alongside the wider marketing team to create innovative content to drive increased numbers of stakeholders and customers to the Changeworks website and its different functions. You’ll also have space to focus on automation and optimising our processes to drive performance.

About you

You will have experience of working in social media, including managing paid social campaigns across a number of social platforms. You will have relevant experience of B2C social media community management on behalf of a major brand, media owner or not-for-profit organisation.

You will have experience of placing online adverts via social media, paid search (PPC) and Google Ad campaigns as well as managing Google Grants, optimising performance to ensure we reach our audiences.

You will have experience planning and writing engaging digital content including managing video content creation (directly or through an agency or video producer). You’ll also have extensive experience of developing and delivering engaging social media content and communications across different channels with creative flair.

You will have used social media management and analysis tools to drive performance improvement.

You will be an outgoing and confident individual with excellent communication and organisational skills.

At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.

Benefits

Joining Changeworks means you become part of an exciting and innovative organisation that really cares about its employees. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.

Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.

The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.

We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Support Worker who is passionate about supporting individuals. We are looking for a dedicated and committed individual, who has gained experience within a social care setting. worked with people who are alcohol dependent, have complex (often homelessness related) health needs and are prone to challenging behaviour and episodic poor physical and mental health.

As a Support Worker you will be responsible for ensuring that a high-quality person-centered support service is delivered. provide positive, practical, and emotional support to the residents that promotes choice and encourages personal responsibility. To be an effective Team Player in a challenging environment and establish and maintain efficient professional relationships with a range of external services.

You must possess or be willing to work towards a suitable qualification in line with the SSSC Regulatory Requirements.

Seeking a committed and enthusiastic individual to join our Gypsy/Traveller team.

An exciting opportunity to inform and influence the provision of public health messaging to Gypsy/Traveller communities in Scotland. The post holder will work with Public Health Scotland, the Scottish Government and the Gypsy/Traveller community to better understand, and respond to, the public health messaging requirements of the community. You will have demonstrable experience of community-based research and evidence based approaches to inform and influence the ongoing development of policy and practice.

Are you searching for a position with purpose? A role to make a real difference? Where your time can be transformational? Join an award-winning charity and passionate team dedicated to ensuring the country’s most vulnerable young people are defined by their talent and never their circumstances. Our in-school mentoring has profound impacts on mentees in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. MCR Mentors make and experience a life changing difference.

At MCR, our driving force is simple – that young people who are in, or on the edges of the care system, will have the same educational outcomes, career opportunities and life chances as any other young person.

We have had a transformational impact in schools and local authorities across Scotland and are looking for two Pathways Coordinator to join our regional team in Edinburgh, based at St Augustine's RC High School and Forrester High School AND Leith Academy and Drummond Community High School. In this role, you will be an integral part of the school community, liaising with education colleagues and external stakeholders, and delivering the programme to young people.

Key responsibilities will be:

• Helping build exceptional individual relationships with young people across S1 to S6 and delivering S1 & S2 group work to full year curriculum.
• Helping to drive mentor recruitment. Consistently supporting, actively engaging and motivating mentors from training through the length of their engagement with the programme.
• Actively support MCR young people to set, experience then follow their education and employment pathways.
• Evidence progression, impact and best practice with YP input, quantitative feedback and qualitative case studies.

The successful candidate will be joining our organisation at a time of exciting growth, where we are launching into new local authorities and developing our programme.

The SPSO is the final stage for complaints about organisations providing public services in Scotland. We investigate complaints across a wide range of sectors including councils, the NHS, housing associations, most water and sewerage providers, the Scottish Government and its agencies and departments, colleges and universities, prisons, and most Scottish public bodies.

We also carry out independent reviews of decisions that councils have made on community care and crisis grant applications under the Scottish Welfare Fund.

We have an additional role as the Independent National Whistleblowing Officer, the final stage for the process for those raising whistleblowing concerns about the NHS in Scotland.

We are looking to recruit a new Team Assistant to join our Improvement, Standards and Engagement (ISE) team. The post-holder will play a pivotal role in the effective running of our team by providing administrative support across all functions of the team. The role will involve management of all shared team email inboxes and administration associated with incoming emails. You will also provide important administrative support for work led by colleagues in the ISE team, such as supporting our Child Friendly Complaints project and our Engagement and Communications Team.

To be successful in this role, ideally you will have a minimum of 1 year's general clerical or administrative experience. You will be able to demonstrate an eye for detail, strong administration and organisation skills, accurate data input skills together with excellent interpersonal skills

At Bield our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We are a non-profit organisation with charitable status committed to providing a wide range of housing, care and support services to enable older people in Scotland to live independent and fulfilling lives.

Our motto is ‘Free to be’ – we strongly believe that older people should be free to make their own choices and be able to live as independently as possible. If you share our values, we’d love for you to join our team and help us on our journey.

We are currently looking to recruit two posts 1) East Scotland (Edinburgh or Dundee) and 2) West Scotland (Glasgow) to join our Customer Service Team as Income Advise Officer on a permanent basis. The working pattern for the two posts is up to 35 hours per week, Monday – Friday.

You will support customer engagement relating to benefits and income advice within a defined geographical area working with internal and external stakeholders and support in the delivery of strategic objectives. The Income Advice Officer will contribute to the continual development of Customer Services policies and procedures and promote good practice across the organisation relating to benefits advice and information.

Person Requirements

• Experience of developing services by supporting individuals and groups.
• Experience of working in social housing and understanding relevant policies and procedures.
• Experience of frontline service delivery and an understanding of different approaches that can be applied.
• Knowledge of welfare rights and the ability to interpret legislative changes and its impact.
• Commitment to working in partnership with internal and external individuals and organisations
• Full UK Driving License and a willingness to drive across Bield’s business areas
• Relevant qualification in welfare rights, Housing, Health and Social Care or an equivalent field at HNC (or equivalent or higher) level.Or, substantial relevant experience and evidence of continuous professional development within the welfare rights and debt advice sector.

Our Benefits

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually
• Car allowance
• Excellent holidays, up to 34 days each year (pro rata for part-time employees)
• Option to buy or sell holidays each year
• A range of learning and development activities including management & leadership programmes, job related training and qualifications to ensure your continuous progress
• Flexible Working Hours Scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Occupational Sick Pay
• Family Friendly Policies
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Career breaks
• Employee Assistance Programme

To assist me, an experienced disabled woman who has just moved to Prestonpans and requires support 24/7 with all aspects of life.

• No experience in care/PA work necessary
• Must be Reliable and conscientious
• If a driver (unfortunately must be over 25 for insurance),
• Good communication in English
• Must be comfortable with cats!

Shifts are worked to allow good work/life balance and account taken of study timetables, childcare, other employment, to best suit everyone. Start/finish times are negotiable. Additional hours relief/cover available, also temporary additional hours available to cover annual leave and the school holidays.