The Health and Wellbeing worker will be based at The Marie Trust day centre. The role will involve increasing awareness of health and wellbeing issues and look at ways to tackling health inequalities for homeless people and vulnerable people with complex needs. The post will involve promoting health knowledge through a variety of activities including facilitating group work, workshops, 1 : 1 support and case work.

The MOT Program aim is to prevent homelessness and supports individuals to sustain tenancies, exit homelessness and to re-engage in communities through the use of a social prescribing model which recognises that people’s health is determined primarily by a range of social, economic and environmental factors. Social prescribing seeks to address people’s needs in a holistic way. We also aim to support individuals to take greater control of their own health.

Glasgow Women’s Aid provides information, support and temporary accommodation for women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse. We have refuge accommodation, follow on services and outreach services both for women and children across Glasgow. We are expanding our services and have a number of exciting opportunities to join our team. We are looking for experienced women who have the innovation and passion to drive our services forward.

Our Children and Young People team provide vital support to children dealing with the trauma of domestic abuse and leaving their home. They ensure that children are given a service which is driven by them and meets their needs. Our service includes 1-1 therapeutic support, therapeutic focused group work and free play sessions. You will also provide support as children move on from refuge. An important part of this role will be the development and delivery of innovative and creative groupwork. It is essential that you have experience of providing 1-1 support and groupwork for children who have experienced gender based violence, along with experience of carrying out Risk Assessments and support planning. You must have a relevant qualification for working with children and young people such as SVQ Level 3 Social Service (Children and Young People).

Glasgow Women’s Aid provides information, support and temporary accommodation for women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse. We have refuge accommodation, follow on services and outreach services both for women and children across Glasgow. We are expanding our services and have a number of exciting opportunities to join our team. We are looking for experienced women who have the innovation and passion to drive our services forward.

As a Women’s Refuge Worker you will provide therapeutic support to women fleeing domestic abuse during their stay in refuge and as they move onto their own tenancy. You will provide person centred support to women as they move through their journey and will advocate to make sure that women’s voices are heard and their needs are met. An important part of this role will be the development and delivery of innovative and creative groupwork. It is essential that you come with a feminist analysis of Domestic Abuse and have either an HNC Social Services or SVQ Level 3 Social Services and Healthcare that allows you to register with SSSC.

Glasgow Women’s Aid provides information, support and temporary accommodation for women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse. We have refuge accommodation, follow on services and outreach services both for women and children across Glasgow. We are expanding our services and have a number of exciting opportunities to join our team. We are looking for experienced women who have the innovation and passion to drive our services forward.

The main aim of our Women’s Outreach Service is to provide support to women in their own community and to support women identified as high risk through the MARAC process. You will provide practical and emotional support to women through support planning and will advocate for women to ensure their voices are heard. You will contact women who are referred to MARAC and provide crisis intervention, risk assessment, safety planning and information about the MARAC process. An important part of this role will be the development and delivery of innovative and creative groupwork. It is essential that you have experience of supporting women who have experienced gender based violence and carrying out Risk Assessments and safety planning. You must also have an HNC Social Services or SVQ Level 3 Social Services and Healthcare and IDAA training would be advantageous.

About us

Snook are on a mission to design a world that works better for people.

We work with organisations to design more effective services which help people thrive. We do this with our design team: engaging with users, building digital products, training our clients, and much more.

In 2019, we’ll be ten years old. In the past five years we’ve scaled more than double our size to a team approaching 40 people, opened a new London office, and worked with brilliant clients — from Cancer Research UK to Hackney City Council, Tesco to the Scottish Government.

Learn more about Snook’s exciting journey here.

About the role

This role will give you the opportunity to manage new business proposals through our end-to-end process, working closely with the senior management team.

You’ll play a pivotal role ensuring the quality and timely completion of new business proposals, which will include holding meetings, structuring and writing new business content, coordinating the team and document management. You’ll coordinate the conversations our team are having with potential clients and track a pipeline of potential new work.

SCIAF is the official overseas aid and development agency of the Catholic Church in Scotland, established in 1965 to express the commitment and concern of the Scottish Catholic community towards poor and marginalised communities across the world. SCIAF’s core principles are built on Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and Integral Human Development (IHD – considers the whole person and all their needs, not just financial, but also physical, natural, social, psychological, spiritual and human).

We are passionate about development education, and working with the Senior Development Education Officer, you will play a key part in delivering a new strategy as we expand our work in schools to a wider audience, in particular, within the Catholic community.

We are looking for an inspiring individual, knowledgeable in Catholic Social Teaching, that will represent SCIAF’s beliefs and values in a professional and engaging manner.

You will be expected, as part of your role, to write and develop resources for our audiences, deliver engaging presentations/workshops, train and manage volunteers and maintain and develop key external relationships.

Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.

When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That’s because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. It happens every five minutes in the UK and changes lives instantly. Recovery is tough, but with the right specialist support and a ton of courage and determination, the brain can adapt. Our specialist support, research and campaigning are only possible with the courage and determination of the stroke community.

We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there.

We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives.

Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.

We’re looking for a highly motivated, organised and enthusiastic individual to join our Regional Fundraising Team in Scotland. This is an exciting fast paced role, where no two days are the same.

You’ll recruit regional corporate partners and support a network of “in aid of” supporters who will carry out their own fundraising so that income generation targets are achieved. You'll also manage and deliver our local Resolution Runs and other products and events, in partnership with our National Events Team.

You will also play an integral part in recruiting volunteers, in partnership with the Volunteering and Community Team, and building relationships with Stroke Association Voluntary Groups.

You will either have direct experience of regional fundraising, or transferable skills from another sector, such as sales. This would also be a great job for someone in a regional fundraising assistant role who is looking to take the next step to manage their own portfolio of supporters, partnerships and events.

The successful candidate will:

• Be an excellent communicator and relationship builder

• Be confident in proactively contacting supporters via phone, email and face to face.

• Need to be a team player.

• Be a self-starter, with the ability to work unsupervised.

• Have a desire to network and seek out new partnership opportunities with local businesses

• Be pro-active and flexible.

• Resilient and good-humoured.

• Be prepared to organise and manage a busy workload to meet deadlines.

The use of a car with business use cover and the ability to drive is essential to be able to fulfil the requirements of the role.

It is option for this role to be home based, please see our homeworking agreement for full details.

This is an exciting time to join the Stroke Association. If you think you have the skills and aptitude for the role, we would love to hear from you. This role will be based in either our Edinburgh or Glasgow office or home based in appropriate area.

Established in 1995, Positive Action in Housing is a Scottish wide, independent, anti-racist homelessness and human rights charity (SC027577) dedicated to supporting women, children and men from refugee and migrant backgrounds to overcome homelessness, poverty, and discrimination, find hope and rebuild their lives. In addition to providing emergency humanitarian aid and face to face support services for vulnerable people, the charity works with social housing providers, local authorities, and other minority ethnic and voluntary organisations to eliminate racial discrimination and hate crime. We believe in a society where everyone has the right to live safe and dignified lives, free from poverty, homelessness or inequality.

We are seeking a member of staff to join our lively, hardworking and friendly team.

We are seeking a skilled, committed and passionate individual to fill our vacancy to plan, implement and deliver all key tasks related to Trusts and Grants fundraising as part of the wider Fund-raising strategy. You will have a demonstrable record of writing strong and compelling funding applications and securing funding from Trusts & Foundations. You will also have a demonstrable record of writing strong funding reports evidencing impact; You will have strong analytical skills. You will have excellent IT skills, and be familiar with spreadsheets, word processing and MS Office. You will know how to prioritise a varied workload under pressure. You are self-motivated.

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to break into policy and research work and join a team that makes a difference. This role will play an important part in Inclusion Scotland’s work to achieve positive changes to policy and practice so that disabled people are fully included in all Scottish society. Based in our Policy and Research Department, you will help us to influence decision-makers and support disabled people and local Disabled People’s Organisations to do the same. We are looking to appoint someone with some relevant and transferable knowledge and skills.

The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland is an independent Scottish Charity and works with the Scottish Government as a strategic intermediary in health and social care with core funding for that purpose. Our vision is for a Scotland where people of all ages who are disabled or living with long term conditions, and unpaid carers, have a strong voice and enjoy their right to live well, as equal and active citizens, free from discrimination, with support and services that put them at the centre.

The aim of the Links Worker Programme is to support people to live well through strengthening connections between community resources and primary care in deprived areas in Scotland.

We are expanding our Links Worker Programme into new GP practices across the city.

The Community Links Practitioner will provide a person-centred service that is responsive to the needs and interests of a GP practice population. They will support them to identify issues that affect their ability to live well. Working collaboratively with individuals, the post holder will support them through decision making processes to help them decide upon the issues that they would like to address and help them to overcome any barriers to addressing these.

You must have experience of working with people who are experiencing complex social and emotional circumstances, and a strong understanding of the challenges faced by people living in areas of socio-economic deprivation in relation to living well.

PVG Scheme membership is required for this post.

SAMH’s George Street Support Service in Aberdeen provides 24/7 specialist support to 6 adults who have severe and enduring mental illnesses and complex needs. Established in the heart of Aberdeen City for over a decade, the service has a widely regarded reputation for excellence in delivering person-centred care based on the fundamental principles of empowerment, self-determination, resilience and hope.

As Senior Support Worker, you will be responsible for managing the caseload for staff within the team and ensuring that clinical practice is of a consistently high standard. Your role will also include supporting the Registered Manager with some aspects of the day to day operational management of the project. Extensive experience of support worker role in similar field and an SVQ 3 in Care or equivalent is essential; SVQ4 and a management qualification would be desirable as is previous management or Senior Support Worker experience. You should have experience of working with service users who have severe and enduring mental health support needs as well as addictions and additional complex needs.

Although predominantly working weekdays during normal office hours, applicants should be flexible in the hours they are available to work, as the post holder may occasionally be required to work evenings, weekends and waking night duty. You will also be required to participate in the local on-call arrangements.

The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (The ALLIANCE) is an independent Scottish Charity funded by a grant from the Scottish Government. Our vision is for a Scotland where people of all ages who are disabled or living with long term conditions, and unpaid carers, have a strong voice and enjoy their right to live well, as equal and active citizens, free from discrimination, with support and services that put them at the centre.

The ALLIANCE has three core aims; we seek to:

• Ensure people are at the centre, that their voices, expertise and rights drive policy and sit at the heart of design, delivery and improvement of support and services.
• Support transformational change, towards approaches that work with individual and community assets, helping people to stay well, supporting human rights, self-management, co-production and independent living.
• Champion and support the third sector as a vital strategic and delivery partner and foster better cross-sector understanding and partnership.

The ALLIANCE is seeking a skilled and committed person to support the development and spread of social innovation approaches and change across health and social care, driven by person-centred and rights based approaches and the principles of co-production and self management.

This is an exciting opportunity to make sure that people living with long term conditions, disabled people and unpaid carers are involved in shaping health and social care policy and the services and support they receive.

The Development Officer role sits within the strategic aims and outcomes of the ALLIANCE. This includes an emphasis on the voice of lived experience, person-centredness and human rights. The ALLIANCE will be working with an increased focus on Realistic Medicines, Health and Social Care Integration, the National Clinical Strategy, the Dementia Strategy and the Health and Social Care Delivery Plan. The Development Officer role will be key in the co-production of these strategies and delivering the outcomes.

Working as part of a team, you will bring a sound understanding of involving people and communities to influence change.

The successful applicant must be able to travel regularly throughout Scotland. A flexible approach to working hours is essential, as occasional additional hours and overnight stays will be required.

Are you passionate about carers of people with dementia having their voices heard – we are!

tide are looking for a enthusiastic Admin Officer for Scotland to join our team to help us to continue to build on our growth and increase the impact of tide across Scotland and the UK.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Admin Officer who will be able to continue the growth and impact of tide across Scotland. You will play a valuable and key role in supporting the smooth running of the office, supporting the wider team to provide high quality services on a daily basis.

Location: Based in our Glasgow Office in Robertson House, 152 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4TB with occasional travel across Scotland and the rest of the UK in particular to our Head Office in Liverpool.

About You

As Admin Officer (Scotland), you will:

• Provide support for general office functions, including answering the telephone, transferring calls, dealing with queries, taking and recording accurate messages, managing diaries and meeting and greeting visitors.
• Oversee the planning and delivery of all logistical arrangements in regard to events, workshops, meetings; including overnight accommodation and making travel arrangements
• Work with the Finance and Resources Manager to oversee day to day finance functions such as petty cash, payment of invoices and payment of expenses for staff and volunteers.
• Be able to travel occasionally around Scotland and the UK to support the team.
• Have a ‘hands on’, ‘can do’ attitude to raising the awareness and impact of tide.

About the Life Story Network and Tide

Life Story Network’s mission is to transform society through the power of life stories to unlock people’s potential and improve their wellbeing.

Our tide programme (soon to become a charity in its own right) works with carers of people with dementia, investing in their personal development to unlock their potential; we empower them to recognise their own value and the contribution they make as individuals and as a collective. We do this through our Carer Development Programme, our Involvement Network and providing influencing opportunities at national, regional and local level.

Are you able to inspire and lead a team to deliver high quality services to LGBT young people? Are you passionate about social change and community development? Can you successfully manage partnerships across all sectors? Based in Glasgow and with operational responsibility for the West of Scotland you will:

• Lead, develop and sustain youth work and other local services
• Support Charter clients through our LGBT Charter Programme
• Develop and manage partnerships across all sectors

As an award-winning innovative care provider, we support the elderly and people living with physical disabilities and long-term conditions across Scotland. We pride ourselves on our knowledge and passion for delivering complex care, making sure that our customers receive high quality care services that can range from visiting a few hours a week to several daily visits.

We deliver our vision of helping our customers live their life to the full through the hard work and dedication of our Support Workers who provide our customers with a wide variety of assistance such as personal hygiene, dressing, medication prompts and light household chores in line with their personal support plans.

Blackwood are currently looking for Support Workers to join our Care Services teams to support our customers living in their own homes in the community and/or in our Care Homes. We operate care services in Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth & Kinross, Edinburgh, Stirling, Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Ayrshire and Inverclyde.

Don’t worry about having any previous care experience, we provide comprehensive training and development opportunities to help you become a great carer!

Our main priority for this job role is to find people who can show our values and behaviours. These are:

• Taking responsibility
• Being open and honest
• Keeping our promises
• Having respect and understanding

The ideal candidate must have:

• A commitment to delivering high quality care
• Strong communication, interpersonal and IT skills
• An ability to work independently in the community and as part of a team
• A relevant qualification (SVQ2), this is not essential as training will be given
• Flexibility to work on a rota basis, including early mornings, evenings and weekends.

…Could this be you?

Blackwood offers a range of employee benefits, including:

• Travel expenses and paid travel time between customer visits
• Fully funded SVQ training on completion of probationary period
• Company sick pay scheme on completion of probationary period
• 34 days’ holiday per annum, pro rata for part-time hours
• Company mobile phone
• Company pension scheme and other benefits
• Payment of PVG and SSSC registration
• Recruit both drivers and walkers on care at home runs
• Fully paid induction and shadowing with experienced carers.
• EE Perks – discount packages for family and friends.

The Supported Housing Worker role requires assisting in the management of the development thus ensuring the tenants are able to enjoy an acceptable standard of living in an environment which is clean, safe and friendly. You will be responsible for overseeing the wellbeing of the tenants and for assisting them in maintaining their independence.

As housing care worker your role will involve working with our tenants to ensure they receive the support and personal care identified in their care plans. You will directly support tenants in their homes by providing individual advice, practical housing support assistance and personal care.

Both roles are to ensure that we are able to offer the best service to our tenants and make it possible for our tenants to continue enjoying as much independent living as they’re able.

As well as a competitive annual salary, our valued team also benefits from:

competitive hourly rates of £9.00 - £9.47 per hour;

guaranteed rota hours working between 7.30 am & 10pm

generous annual leave entitlement;

a choice of pension scheme with employer contributions;

flexible working policies;

access to extensive paid training and development opportunities; and

a supportive and inclusive culture.

We also have opportunities with our Trust Staff Agency - for employees who want to work across different locations, in various roles, with highly flexible hours to suit family commitments - it's a great opportunity with the same training and development that our other roles benefit from.

Previous experience working in social care or the housing sector would be an advantage but this is not always necessary. Our ideal candidate is someone with enthusiasm, a caring nature and willingness to learn as full training, support and ongoing development will be provided.