Jobs in Anderston & City & Yorkhill, Glasgow

Role and Responsibilities

The Lead Practitioner role will contribute to the organisation’s vision of a Scotland in which single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly by coordinating the various components which contribute to the Glasgow Helps Single Parents Project. The role holder will be responsible for day to day management of Financial Inclusion and Family Support staff to enable them to offer a consistent level of support to single parents and their children and to meeting funding obligations. All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children.

Key Tasks

• To provide day to day management to OPFS Glasgow Financial Inclusion and Family Support staff
• Work closely with the manager to support the delivery of OPFS holistic service model across Glasgow through a range of funding streams.
• Be responsible for staff development through regular supervision and annual appraisals in line with organisational procedures
• To work within annual budget set for the Glasgow Helps Single Parents Project and funders’ grant conditions and liaising with project Manager on preparation of budgets.
• To work closely with the Project Manager to submit monitoring and evaluation information to funders in a timely and accurate manner.
• To work in a pro-active, non-discriminatory and culturally sensitive manner that encourages single parents to access services.
• To positively promote the work of OPFS Glasgow services and strengthening existing links with external stakeholders.
• To provide positive role modelling for staff supporting single parents while promoting and supporting good practice and compliance to OPFS’ ethos, policies and procedures.
• To adhere to confidentiality and information sharing protocols and legislation with regard to sensitive data between service users, staff and relevant agencies.
• To support the development of a marketing/ promotion strategy for the service.
• To take part in service evaluation, monitoring and consultations with service users.
• Establishing and maintaining effective liaison with relevant statutory and voluntary agencies including developing partnership initiatives.
• Identifying any new needs that service users may have and developing new services to meet such needs, including working to secure additional funding.
• Any other relevant duties as requested by the Project Manager.

Personal Specifications

Essential Experience

• Relevant degree level qualification or equivalent experience in a related field
• Experience of staff and financial management and monitoring of family support services
• Experience of partnership and multi-agency working  Experience of supporting the development of new services
• Experience of submitting successful funding applications
• Understanding of the roles of key statutory and voluntary agencies supporting families.
• Ability to present to a range of audiences using a variety of communication styles
• Ability to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Competent use of standard IT packages in word processing, spreadsheets, use of databases, and Microsoft Office 365.
• Knowledge of issues affecting single parents in Scotland
• Knowledge and understanding of current legislation whilst supporting the work with children and families
• Commitment to professional development
• Ability to plan, record and evaluate through written reports.
• Flexible to meet the needs of the service
• Clean driving license and access to a car

Terms & Conditions

• Confirmation of Appointment: Contract until March 2022 with the possibility of extending (dependent on funding). Confirmation of appointment is subject to satisfactory completion of a 3- month probationary period.
• Salary: Point 19 – 23 (£27,795 - £33,972)
• Hours of work: Hours of work will be 35 hours per week, worked flexibly to meet the demands of the job
• Holidays: Annual leave entitlement is 25 days and 12 Public holidays.
• Pension: You will be auto enrolled in our pension scheme with a 2% contribution from you and 3% from OPFS. Once the appointment has been confirmed you are eligible to join the Employer's Full Pension scheme with the Pensions Trust. OPFS pays 7% of your salary and you pay a minimum of 3%.
• Training and support and supervision: You will receive induction training and frequent support in the first three months. Thereafter you will receive monthly individual support and supervision and annual appraisals. Regular team meetings will be held and staff have access to internal and external training.
• Equal Opportunities and Family Friendly Employment: OPFS aims to be an equal opportunity and family friendly employer. OPFS has Investors In People status.

Main Duties

The Employability Support Worker will be responsible to the Glasgow Services Manager and will work as a member of OPFS Glasgow Employability Service, to provide employability services for single parents living with complex needs and facing additional barriers to entering suitable employment.

Specific Duties

• Case Management: Support single parents living with complex needs and facing additional barriers to suitable employment by using case management methods, to provide a continuum of consistent support on OPFS clients employability pathway journey into suitable and sustainable employment.
• Families: Help eligible single parents to identify their future goals, assess motivation, develop personal development plans and help in their implementation through individual and group work.
• Barriers: Identify barriers to employment and work with single parents to address those barriers.
• Liaison: Building links with organisations and groups across Glasgow, to identify eligible single parents interested in progressing towards suitable employment.
• Outreach & Engagement: Undertake activities in communities to actively reach eligible single parents as a basis to support their learning and development and engage them in early work preparation and employer matching activities to support positive change within their lives.
• Work/Vocational Activities & Training: Co-ordinate and deliver a range of employability activities to enable single parents facing additional barriers to employment to develop participants core knowledge and skills, helping to increase their access to available employment, training and education opportunities.
• Job Matching: Provide job ready single parents with the help participants need with job searching, interviews, securing and sustaining suitable employment.
• In Work Support: Provide single parents living with complex needs and facing additional barriers to employment with continued support on entering employment, to help parents sustain their jobs.
• Local services: Develop knowledge of services related to employment, training, education, childcare and other support. Develop an effective network of referral agencies to support clients' needs.
• Signpost: single parents to services that will address their needs.
• Money Advice: Liaise with OPFS Financial Inclusion team to offer better off calculations and access to debt support.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Ensure effective recording, monitoring and evaluation procedures are implemented.
• Other Relevant duties: Carrying out any other relevant duties related to the above.

The job description is a broad picture of the post at the time of preparation. It is not an exhaustive list of all possible duties, and it is recognised that jobs change and evolve over time.

Personal Specifications

Essential

1. Qualification: A relevant professional qualification or a good standard of education equivalent to HNC/HND, SVQ3 /4 and combined with relevant experience.

2. Knowledge of issues affecting single parents in Glasgow

3. Experience of group work: candidates should preferably have had experience of running groups and understand group work issues

4. Experience of liaison and partnership working with other agencies

5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

6. IT skills commensurate to the needs of the post

7. Commitment to professional development

8. Flexibility to meet the needs of the services

Desirable:

1. Driving license and use of a vehicle:

2. Experience of work with single parents: Prior experience of work with single parent families in a voluntary sector or statutory context would be helpful.

Terms & Conditions

1. Period of appointment: The post is funded until 31st March 2023. Confirmation of appointment will be dependent on completion of a satisfactory three-month probation period, satisfactory reference and Disclosure checks.

2. Salary: OPFS salary scale points 13 – 17, currently £22,542 - £27,552. Appointments will be made at a point reflective of previous experience.

3. Hours of work: 35 hours weekly with flexibility to meet the needs of clients.

4. Holidays: Annual leave entitlement is 25 days and 12 Public holidays.

5. Pension: You will be auto-enrolled from your start date. OPFS pays 7% of your salary and you pay a minimum of 3%.

6. Training, support and supervision: OPFS is committed to the development of its staff through internal training and access to external training. We also have an annual staff appraisal system in place and all staff receive regular monthly support and supervision from their manager.

7. Equal Opportunities and Family Friendly Employment: OPFS aims to be an equal opportunity and family friendly employer. We have Investors in People status and Living Wage accreditation.

EDT Scotland is currently going through an exciting period of transformation, we are providing a blended approach of face-to-face and digital delivery to young people interested in STEM and future (META) skills. We are looking for a motivated and creative person to help us on this journey and join our dynamic Schools Programme Team to work with young people by creating and delivering our project and experiences with support of our stakeholders and volunteers.

Job Purpose

The School Programme Officer is part of a Scotland team delivering high quality STE(A)M engagement programmes and events to schools/colleges. This role involves responsibility for company renewals and successful programme and event delivery (face to face and virtual).

About EDT

With over 30 years of experience in developing industry-linked STEM educational content, we work closely with stakeholders and beneficiaries to ensure we align our content to relevant curricula and frameworks, including Curriculum for Excellence and experiences and outcomes.

Through the creation and delivery of experiences, projects, placements and Industrial Cadets accredited programmes, we create pathways through education to employment and…

• inspire young minds
• unlock potential
• promote achievement
• encourage attainment
• bridge the gap between industry and education.

Our programmes are designed to bridge the widening divide by employing mixed methods of delivery (face to face and virtual) proven to engage a wide range of young people and meet the needs of industry and education.

Young people are at the heart of what we do and through providing industry informed, curriculum enhancing learning experiences we help them to develop personal and interpersonal skills, fulfil their potential and make informed decisions about their future.

Client Care;

• Recruit and retain companies to take part in an EDT programme(s) in Scotland
• Actively promote the EDT activities, maximise awareness of and participation to new and existing companies and organisations

Programme Delivery:

• Deliver existing and new programmes and events in line with national strategy to a high standard
• Responsible for the overall planning and implementation of the activities within a defined geography
• Actively promote positive and effective communication with stakeholders, including the promotion of EDT on social media where appropriate
• Recruit and build strong relationships with local schools
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with teachers and industry mentors
• Deliver large scale briefing and scheme events
• Work with Schools Delivery team and Industry Engagement Manager to match schools to funders.
• Event Organisation
• Assist with the preparation of event materials, for face-face and virtual events
• Liaise with venues to ensure all our requirements are met
• Prepare and deliver presentations and activities
• ‘Front of house’ role at face to face/virtual events
• Administration
• Ensure schools and pupils are registered for programmes and events
• Ensure CRM data is well utilised and up to date
• Collate and process all monitoring and evaluation feedback in an accurate and timely manner
• Create age appropriate, engaging content and activities for students, aligned to the relevant curricula.

General

• Maintain a good working knowledge of the full range of EDT programmes, activities and accreditations
• Participate in team meetings and activities
• Undertake any other tasks as reasonably required
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships between EDT and external organisations
• Act as an ambassador for EDT to promote positive and effective public relations within the community

Competencies and Attributes

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Creative thinker with the ability to generate new ideas/content.
• Ability to work co-operatively and confidently with colleagues and other stakeholders
• Ability to recognise and meet deadlines
• Ability to manage detail and use databases
• Ability to manage a personal workload
• Ability to work to deadlines, plan workload and demonstrate effective time management
• Energetic and committed with a clear focus on achieving results
• Professional and proactive, with a real pride in quality of work
• Ability to work well in a team, co-operatively with colleagues and other stakeholders
• Positive and resilient attitude
• Adaptable and flexible
• Ability to be an engaging and inspiring ambassador for EDT
• Experience relevant to charity/third sector/youth sector

Special conditions:

The successful candidate will be required to fulfil an enhanced PVG check and a hold a clean driving licence and access to a car.

The post holder will be required to attend meetings and to travel offsite, possible involving overnight stays.

Reporting relationships: Scotland Director

Would you like to make a difference as part of Corra’s team?

Corra Foundation exists to make a difference to the lives of people and communities. It works with others to encourage positive change, opportunity, fairness and growth of aspirations which improve quality of life. Corra wants to see a society in which people create positive change and enjoy fulfilling lives.

In 2020 Corra launched a ten-year strategy. It is long term because making a difference on the big challenges will take time. At its heart is the strong belief that when people find their voice, they unlock the power to make change happen.

We are looking for a Programme Officer to join the People in Place team. This exciting role is central to helping all aspects of the programme be delivered to the highest possible standard.

The Programme Officer is critical to supporting effective operation and delivery of the People in Place programme – helping to ensure that all aspects of the programme are delivered to the highest possible standard.

The Programme Officer will assist in the overall co-ordination of People in Place as well as providing focused support for Getting Alongside Communities and Appetite for Change. This includes:

· Programme support and co-ordination

· Learning and evaluation

· Communications

· Communities research

We are looking for someone who wants to make a positive difference and brings strong skills in: organisation and attention to detail; active listening; communication; facilitation; coding and analysing data; absorbing and prioritising a wide range of potentially complex information.

If you have excellent organisational and communication skills and experience of working in a small team in a busy environment we would love to hear from you.

You will be responsible for responding to enquiries, maintaining financial and administrative office records and servicing the priorities of SSVP Scotland.

Applicants must have excellent organisational skills, be able to work flexibly under pressure and on your own initiative, work effectively both independently and in a team, and be committed to the values and ethos of SSVP.

The Job Description and Personal Specification can be downloaded below.

For further information about the Society and our work, please visit our website ssvpscotland.com

We’re looking for a proactive individual with an understanding of community fundraising and experience of working on a CRM database to join us as a Regional Community Fundraiser and help us maximise our local fundraising activities.

About Shelter Scotland

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet over a million people in Scotland struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter Scotland we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter Scotland and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team

Part of our hugely successful Income Generation division, Shelter’s Community Fundraising team is a new team that has rapidly grown in 2020/21 from 4 to 12 Regional Fundraisers and a central team of 7. Community Fundraising is a key part of Shelter’s long-term fundraising strategy and investment is being made available to fund it. In April 2020 we appointed the first Head of Community Fundraising to grow the team and develop the strategy for local and national community fundraising at Shelter and Shelter Scotland. This continues to be backed by the organisation as Community Fundraising is central or our organisational and income generation strategy.

About the role

Developing and implementing the community fundraising strategy in Glasgow and the West of Scotland is just one of the challenges we’ll expect you to rise to in this role. This will involve focusing on our key audiences of individuals, community organisations, faith, regional corporates, local trusts, volunteers, local events, etc. You will shape and develop your geographical area and local community to establish a tangible relationship with Shelter and its work and provide a high standard of stewardship to add value to current and new Shelter fundraisers and volunteers. Working in the best interests of the charity by contributing to wider fundraising teams' goals whenever possible will be important too. Put simply, you’ll do everything you can to generate more income and attract new long-term supporters.

At the moment this role is remote due to Covid-19 but, once the Glasgow Hub reopens, the department will be looking to develop the Ways of Working framework with the Hub going forward, to see what is possible around working at the Hub, being out in the community and working at home.

About you

To succeed, you’ll need an understanding of community fundraising, experience of working on a CRM database and a proven track record of meeting and exceeding financial targets. You’ll also need experience of developing and implementing innovative ways of engaging supporters and are confident working with volunteers. You’re committed to providing excellent customer service in all your interactions and will be a positive ambassador for Shelter.

As this role is all about engaging with the community, it does involve some travel around the region so you will need a car or access to a vehicle, for which an essential car user allowance is paid.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter Scotland please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity.

SAMH has represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for more than 90 years.

Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others. These services together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.

SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.

Are you an enthusiastic and innovative Community & Events Fundraiser looking to join an ambitious, motivated and highly successful fundraising team?

As Community & Events Fundraiser, you will maximise income to meet or exceed income targets through the development of excellent local relationships, creating opportunities to give, and positioning SAMH as the charity of choice within the community.

Our ideal candidate will be a confident communicator, target driven, ambitious, and will have all the essential skills and passion to help us achieve our aim of inspiring everyone in Scotland who cares about mental health to support our activities.

Join the respectme team and help make Scotland a just, equal and inclusive place for children and young people where they can grow up free from bullying.

respectme, Scotland’s anti-bullying service, was launched in 2007. The service is fully funded by the Scottish Government and is managed by SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) in partnership with LGBT Youth Scotland. We work with all adults involved in the lives of children and young people to give them the practical skills and confidence to deal with children who are bullied and those who bully others.

We aim to build the capacity of these adults to effect change and challenge bullying and stigma at an individual, school, family, community and societal level. We also campaign at a national level to raise awareness of the service and the impact that bullying can have.

This role will be brand new to the team, and the successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to shape the role and take respectme’s work into new and diverse areas.

The participation officer will be crucial to fulfilling our ambitious new plans to strengthen how we embed the voices of children and young people across our service, with a priority focus on co-designing national campaigns and ensuring young people are at the heart of our practice improvement work stream.

The participation officer will be responsible for supporting young people, many with lived experience of bullying, to be safely and effectively engaged and active across the respectme service, as well as collaborating with respectme colleagues to ensure outcomes from this work influence change in schools, education and youth policy more widely.

Street Connect is a Christian charity with a mission to offer hope and opportunity of recovery for individuals disadvantaged by addiction and associated issues including homelessness and poor mental health.

Street Connect are seeking a highly competent individual to support Street Connect’s communications strategy. In this role you will work with the existing Communications Officer to fulfil Street Connect’s communication strategy so that we can deliver our vision to see those marginalised by life-controlling issues, such as drug and alcohol addictions, fulfilling their potential as valuable members of society.

We require an experienced Communications Officer to join our communications team and to support and participate in the planning and implementation of Street Connect’s communications and brand. The role involves writing, editing, co-ordinating design and publishing content across various channels, including the website, social media, and printed materials. The post-holder will plan and implement communications and marketing campaigns to raise awareness of Street Connect and the issues we are tackling.

We offer a unique opportunity to develop your career in a young but rapidly growing organisation that has a proven track record of transforming the lives of some of the most marginalised and disadvantaged individuals in our communities.

For more information on this post please see the attached job description and person specification.

Social Security Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government. In Scotland we have a number of devolved benefits, and it’s our responsibility to ensure that they are managed correctly and fairly, delivering those benefits to the 1.4 million people who rely on them.

Dignity, fairness and respect are at the core of everything we do. We demonstrate these values by making our work as transparent and accountable as possible.

We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the clients we serve. Our benefits will help people from all walks of life in Scotland and it is crucial our workforce reflects this diversity.

We aim to develop within Social Security Scotland, a positive and inclusive culture, which supports our people to flourish, by embedding a working environment where we all treat each other with dignity and respect, and recognise each other’s contributions.

Colleagues of Social Security Scotland work in a diverse, supportive environment. In certain roles staff use flexible working. We are happy to accept your application if you wish to work part-time. You will have a minimum 5 weeks of annual leave (pro rata) in addition to all public and privilege holidays. Roles within Scottish Government allow for a number of other benefits including great support from managers through monthly conversations and a strong mentoring scheme. All staff are given a workstation assessment so that we can make you as comfortable as possible in your new role by putting in place any reasonable adjustments you may require.

Main Duties

The Place Services branch has the responsibility to lead the accommodation, travel, and smarter working arrangements for the Agency. There are two operational teams one located at our headquarters in Dundee and other in Glasgow. A new business management unit is currently being developed to support these operational teams, and to provide leadership in the areas under the responsibility of the Service.

The post holder will report to the Senior Place Manager of the Management Unit of Place Services, and will directly manage a number of key business activities for the Service to support the Agency achieve it’s corporate objectives.

This management role focusses on the areas of finance, risk, and policy. The post holder will be heavily involved in help shape and deliver the short, medium, and long term accommodation, travel, and smarter working arrangements for the Agency.

The role will involve significant collaboration with colleagues in Place Services, and will also link with colleagues across the Agency. The post holder will be guided and supported in the role by Place Services management team.

Specific Duties

• Manage the overall budget for the Service, including liaising with Finance and Workforce Planning colleagues, overseeing the PECOS system, headcount control, and the monthly reporting process; this will involve working closely with colleagues in Place Services to ensure that they administrate their financial transactions properly, and in doing so, achieving best value.
• Manage the overall risk and audit processes for the Service, including liaising with divisional risk and audit colleagues, managing the local risk register, and coordinating risk control activity across the Service.
• Manage, develop, coordinate, and record policy and processes for the Service and Agency as it relates to accommodation, travel, and smarter working; this will involve working closely with Place Service Leads in Dundee and Glasgow.
• Manage and develop a process to record and manage Agency assets under the responsibility of Place Services; this will involve working closely with the Place Service Leads in Dundee and Glasgow.
• Monitor business activity across the Service and Agency, highlight any deviation from planned activity as it relates to accommodation, travel, and smarter working and make proactive recommendations.
• Support the Senior Place Manager complete annual, monthly, and emergent corporate task for the Service; this will involve working closely with Place Service Leads in Dundee and Glasgow.

Essential Criteria

1. Developed leadership skills with the ability to engage internal and external stakeholders to deliver consistent positive results.
2. Developed organisational skills with the ability to demonstrate initiative and prioritise a varying workload to meet targets and deadlines.
3. Developed verbal and written communication skills with the ability to produce complex strategic material that is concise, well-structured, and accurate; with both written and numerical content.
4. Ability to analyse and interpret project and financial information to be able to problem solve, develop solutions, and make recommendations.

Cycling UK is an innovative and engaging organisation working towards bettering the lives of others through cycling, and we’re looking for a development officer to join us in our mission. Play Together on Pedals (PTOP) in Glasgow is a partnership project led by Cycling UK, Play Scotland, and Cycling Scotland.

If you’re passionate about community engagement, adept at project management, and you want to make a real change to people’s lives, this opportunity is for you.

The Play Together on Pedals programme supports young children and their families to discover the joy and freedom of bike riding. This role combines coordinating this impactful programme and managing the Glasgow Community Cycling Network; a collective of community-based active travel organisations across the city. No two days are the same in this role, it is interesting, challenging, and fulfilling.

If you could be the one to drive impact in this role in enabling more people to cycle in Glasgow, we want to hear from you!

Explore the job description for full details on this exciting opportunity. Complete the application form expressing why you are the right candidate for this opening and send to recruitment@cyclinguk.org.

Focus on gearing your supporting statement to exemplify how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role, directly referring to both the job description and person specification. We assess your relative strengths directly against the specified criteria, please bear this in mind when writing your application.

We are looking for relief workers to cover night shifts on weekdays and weekends. Working as part of a team to provide care and support to service users in a residential service. Service user’s capacity ranges from 8 to 25. Two projects are looked after and accommodated and 2 are emergency. Service users have a range of complex needs including addictions and mental health. You must be a good communicator and be able to work Microsoft word on a PC. You will ensure the safety and security of the building at all times and to undertake tasks relating to health and safety including wellbeing checks and general maintenance and cleaning tasks.

You must be reliable, trustworthy, able to risk assess on the go. You must work with a trauma informed approach, be patient, calm and understanding.

Many of the people we work with are vulnerable and have complex issues, therefore, we are looking for highly motivated relief workers with excellent communication skills who have a personal value set that matches ours.

· People focused

· Integrity

· Going the extra mile

· Quality

Shift patterns are between 21:00 – 05:00 and 23:00 – 07:15. There are some periods of lone working in Somerset Place and Shettleston.

· Do you have the motivation to undertake this role?

· Are you a people person who wants to help homeless people improve their lives?

· Do you see yourself working in the social care sector?

If so this could be a stepping stone role into a career in the social care sector. You will have the opportunity to take part in related training and receive one to one inputs to reviewing your work practice.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning.

Responsible for the management, day-to-day running, and adequate resourcing of OPFS national information and advice service.

The Scotland-wide advice and information service for single parents provides the:

• OPFS Advice Service for single parents and practitioners seeking advice via our Helpline, Webchat, advice@, ‘Ask a Question’ and Facebook.
• OPFS Advice Information on-line content about advice issues that matter to single parents.
• OPFS Advice Training service which delivers online and in-person training courses for practitioners working with single parents.

Main Duties Include:

• The effective running of OPFS multi-channel advice service, web-based advice information for single parent families, and training for practitioners on issues affecting single parents.
• Leading on funding applications for the service, working with, and supported by, OPFS Business Development team, managing budgets and reporting back to funders.
• Leading, developing and supporting the A&I team members.
• Ensuring effective deployment of the Advice and Information CRM system.
• Recording the experiences of single parents, analysing these to identify trends and patterns to inform OPFS’ policy and influencing work.
• Representing the work of OPFS to external agencies and developing new areas of work.

Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people. Our mission is to secure a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people in Scotland and we currently have over 3000 members.

At the heart of Who Cares? Scotland’s work are the rights of Care Experienced children and young people, and the power of their voices to bring about positive change. We provide individual relationship-based independent advocacy and a broad range of imaginative participatory opportunity for Care Experienced young people across Scotland; we work alongside corporate parents and communities of all sorts to broaden understanding; we work with policy makers, leaders and elected representatives locally and nationally to shape law, policy and practice on the basis of all that can be learnt from the voices of those with experience of care - working together to build on the aspirations of The Promise and secure positive change.

The Training and Education Officer will work as part of the Training and Education Team at Who Cares? Scotland, reporting to the Training and Education Manager. The post holder’s main responsibility will be to develop positive relationships with Corporate Parents; and to design and deliver projects and activities to Corporate Parents, relevant stakeholders and Care Experienced people, that will help drive positive lasting change for Care Experienced People in Scotland.

You will be joining the Training and Education Team at an exciting time, sitting within a wider Influencing Team at Who Cares? Scotland who collaborate with colleagues to support the influencing of policy makers, leaders, and elected representatives locally and nationally to create opportunities for people with lived experience of care.

The right candidate will be a highly effective communicator, facilitator and presenter and have a keen interest and skill in communicating complex policy landscapes to a wide audience in interesting and engaging ways. Knowledge and experience of delivering learning programmes is essential as is the ability to present to senior professionals across the public, private and third sector.

The location of the postholder is flexible, however they will be expected to travel across Scotland, with a focus on the central belt, regularly to fulfil their remit. Evening and weekend work, including occasional overnight stays, is a requirement of the role.

For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Chloe Dobson, Training and Education Manager, at cdobson@whocaresscotland.org.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with the right values to join our service assisting and supporting vulnerable homeless people to achieve better lives.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide a meaningful support service to identified individuals who live in the project and/or in the community. You will provide a quality service tailored to the assessed needs of each individual by identifying, planning and facilitating support to enable appropriate move-on options for each service user. You will use all of your knowledge and experience to help service users build their life skills and prepare for independent living.

An SVQ3 qualification in social care would be advantageous however not necessary. Other essentials include: experience of working with vulnerable people, addiction issues and challenging behaviour; effective written and verbal communication; knowledge of homelessness issues; and, above all, the determination to make a difference in the lives of our service users.

Typical shift pattern is 4 on from 22:30 to 07:00 over a 4 week set rota. The post is double cover.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning.

In return, we will offer you excellent learning and development opportunities, competitive annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, access to employee assistance programmes such as counselling, and life assurance.

Designed and led by its users and driven by three core principles, People-led, Strengths-based and Connected, Peer Support Scotland by Terrence Higgins Trust has been redefining services for people living with HIV and/or another blood borne virus (BBV) since its inception in 2017. We are pleased to invite applications from reliable, creative and compassionate social care professionals to join the project's small staff team and take the lead on its rolling and varied programme of skills development activities.

Working alongside three other Living Well Specialists whose areas of responsibility are BBV Support, Volunteering, and Peer Support, and in close consultation with the project's service users, the successful candidate will have particular focus on the design, development and roll out of a newly funded Scotland Wide digital skills development offering.

Peer Support Scotland is supported by the National Lottery, the Gannochy Trust and the Scottish Government's Self Management Fund. Funding is currently in place until November 2023.

The Employability Support Worker is a role within the Elevate-Glasgow PSP team which offers a person-centred approach to individuals in their employability journey.

The Employability Support Worker will make a real impact to individuals’ day to day lives as they uniquely tailor their personal development, offer emotional and practical support and set realistic goals as part of their journey to employability opportunities. Assisting participants who have been affected by poor mental health or have experience of homelessness or the criminal justice service as well as those in recovery.

The Employability Support Worker will be employed by, and based in, Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA). GCA is the lead partner of the PSP.

Experience in a previous employability/social/support work environment or voluntary sector role is essential. Candidates must have good communication skills, be flexible and have a positive attitude.

You will require a PVG check through Disclosure Scotland. The job is dependent on suitable references.

Organisation Profile: Elevate-Glasgow is a Public Social Partnership (PSP). Its aim is to improve the design of services for people in recovery from substance misuse regarding their employability and to enhance partner agencies’ commitment to collaboration and innovation in the delivery of support services.

Public Social Partnerships (PSPs) are strategic partnering arrangements, through which the public sector can collaborate with third sector organisations (voluntary, charity and social enterprise organisations) to share responsibility for designing services. A key principle of this approach is that services are designed co-productively with service users.

Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA) was founded in 1965 and is the oldest established Council on Alcohol in Scotland. GCA is a voluntary organisation working to reduce the harm caused by alcohol misuse through the provision of a range of high quality advice, information, counselling, support, prevention and education and training services.

We are looking for two enthusiastic individuals with the right values to join our service assisting and supporting vulnerable homeless people to achieve better lives.

The successful candidates will be expected to provide a meaningful support service to identified individuals who live in the project and/or in the community. You will provide a quality service tailored to the assessed needs of each individual by identifying, planning and facilitating support to enable appropriate move-on options for each service user. You will use all of your knowledge and experience to help service users build their life skills and prepare for independent living.

The post will involve two/three shifts per week (including weekends), however there are good opportunities for overtime. Shift pattern are 06:45-14:45, 10:00-18:00 and 14:15-22:15.

You will have an SVQ3 qualification in social care. Other essentials include: experience of working with vulnerable people, addiction issues and challenging behaviour; effective written and verbal communication; knowledge of homelessness issues; and, above all, the determination to make a difference in the lives of our service users.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning.

In return, we will offer you excellent learning and development opportunities, competitive annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, access to employee assistance programmes such as counselling, and life assurance.

SAMH is Scotland’s mental health charity. For almost 100 years SAMH has promoted the importance of good mental health; delivered dynamic and innovative recovery-focused services across Scotland; campaigned on behalf of people with mental health problems; and challenged stigma and discrimination.

At SAMH, we pride ourselves on the high quality of our support services across Scotland, and as we launch our brand new organisation strategy, we are looking to recruit 7 newly created roles. Senior Service Managers will lead our services to continue to build on their success and shape new developments and innovation across the organisation.

Location

Should be based within the geographical area of remit (home working initially with the expectation of regular service visits). Please indicate on your application the area(s) you wish to be considered for:

1. Lothian and Borders x 1
2. Forth Valley and North Lanarkshire x 1
3. West of Scotland (Greater Glasgow; Inverclyde) x 1

With overall responsibility for high quality standards and delivery across a number of social care services, within one of the geographic locations above, you’ll demonstrate your energy, drive and enthusiasm for excellence in mental health support and social care.

An accomplished communicator, you will have instant credibility when engaging with both internal and external stakeholders and local partnerships and your experience as a senior manager, will enable you to lead, develop, and support your service managers to build positive and effective environments and deliver outstanding quality services.

If you share our passion and vision for a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances we would be delighted to receive an application from you.

Scottish Recovery Consortium are looking for a pro-active, self-starter to join our small paid staff team. The successful post holder will be creative, co- operative and will relish the opportunity to Support, Represent & Connect recovery across the country.

The post holder will focus on the development of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (LEROs) from all over Scotland. The LERO Development Officer will work in partnership with SRC staff teams to identify LEROs who are looking to develop their ideas and business models. The post holder will work directly with these LEROs over a period to support them to develop a sustainable business model and advise them on governance, management, and funding opportunities. This is a senior post in our organisation and requires a person who can act locally, regionally, and nationally with a strategic vision. All SRC staff work collectively with their organisational colleagues and our partners across Scotland.

You will be able to demonstrate your ability to work with lived experience volunteers, staff and strategic decision makers in order to deliver the following:

· Build the capacity and infrastructure of existing and new LEROs to sustain themselves and grow, offering new responses to the challenges of community recovery in Scotland.

· Identify and work with LEROs to develop existing infrastructures within their organisation, i.e. supporting LEROs to understand the process of designing, developing, managing and evaluating their business plan and strategies.

· Support existing and new LEROs to apply for both core grant and project funding whilst advising them on best practices surrounding the management of successful funding awards.

· Work with LEROs to help them understand the legalities of incorporating their organisation. Advising on the different types of charitable status within Scotland and consulting on the correct status for their LERO.

If you think you have what we are looking for please contact our Chief Executive (Jardine Simpson) for an informal conversation on 0141 559 6933 about this exciting new role and to find out if our vision matches yours.

Scottish Recovery Consortium are looking for a pro-active, self-starter to join our small paid staff team. The successful post holder will be creative, co-operative and will relish the opportunity to Support, Represent & Connect recovery across the country.

This role is to support the effective communications of SRC, highlighting the impact of the recovery across Scotland. The role involves successfully planning and executing communication activity across multiple channels including social media, print and online marketing materials. This is a senior post in our organisation and requires a person who can act locally, regionally, and nationally with a strategic vision. All SRC staff work collectively with their organisational colleagues and our partners across Scotland.

You will be able to demonstrate your ability to work with lived experience volunteers, staff and strategic decision makers in order to deliver the following:

· The development and implementation of communication strategies and practise across SRC.

· Develop a comprehensive communications strategy for SRC to disseminate key messages to engage and promote recovery across all sectors, individuals in recovery and their families.

· Promote understanding of recovery in innovative ways, including stories of recovery that challenge stereotypes and stigma. Extensive consultation with those in recovery will be essential.

· Establish strong relationships with local and national media organisations.

· Increase recovery movement visibility to other online communities in Scotland.

· Manage and content curation on all SRC’s social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).

· Manage & maintain the SRC organisational website.

· Ensure that the SRC’s online platforms are managed in line with both the SRC’s communication strategy, ethos and values and any other relevant legislation.

· Build online connections with recovery communities across Scotland and around the world.

· Develop and promote recovery principles and key messaging including development of information materials / resources, brand guidelines and website to ensure consistency and reach to those not in treatment services or mutual aid, including families.

If you think you have what we are looking for please contact our Chief Executive (Jardine Simpson) for an informal conversation on 0141 559 6933 about this exciting new role and to find out if our vision matches yours.

Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) are looking for a dynamic team player who can deliver self-managed outcomes within a small team committed to recovery values. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrable passion to make recovery from substance use happen in every Scottish prison coupled with direct experience of working within SPS or prison healthcare for a number of years.

This role is central to delivering the Scottish Government’s ‘Rights, Respect and Recovery’ national substance use policy within criminal justice and treatment environments.

SRC ‘Support, Represent and Connect’ people with lived experience of dependency issues and recovery. As part of our team you will work at a national policy level, regionally within every prison and their staff teams, work with recovery communities, individual Recoverists (Recovery Activists) and multiple statutory and third sector agencies to ensure recovery is accessible to all prisoners across the national estate. You will have a track record of working alongside lived experience as well as healthcare and prison professionals.

You will be able to demonstrate your ability to work with lived experience volunteers, staff and strategic decision makers in order to deliver the following:

· Recovery development in every prison in Scotland;

· Improvement of Recovery Orientated Systems of Care (ROSC) within treatment and SPS operational systems;

· The delivery of a rights based and person-centered approach amongst staff and service users;

· Improvement in throughcare opportunities for prisoners and assertive connection to community supports (in particular, recovery community networks and lived experience recovery organisations);

· Support the work of SPS national recovery network and lead the development of knowledge and competencies amongst professionals and prisoners to make recovery happen.

If you think you have what we are looking for please contact our Chief Executive (Jardine Simpson) for an informal conversation on 0141 559 6933 about this exciting new role and to find out if our vision matches yours.

Are you a champion of user-focused design and a systematic thinker? Do you have good management skills and extensive experience of creating and producing digital content that's accessible and usable for the end user? Then join Shelter Scotland as a Senior Content Owner and you could soon be playing a vital role at the heart of our digital team.

About Shelter Scotland

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet over a million people in Scotland struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter Scotland we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter Scotland and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the role

Right now, we're busy working with users of our online advice services and people across the organisation to make our services and information simpler, clearer and faster. To do that effectively we need someone like you to lead the team that creates and maintains high-quality, user-focused content. This role will see you develop, deliver and drive the content strategy for our digital advice basing your decisions on user needs and research. You'll manage a team of content designers and have access to a developer and user experience designer, as well as a range of digital professionals such as planners, developers, UX, and service designers as, together, you deliver high-quality multi-media content.

About you

Someone who champions user-focused design and prides themselves on their systematic thinking, you're used to managing a multi-disciplinary team, taking responsibility for the quality of the work of others and providing constructive feedback. You have good knowledge of service design and agile processes, plus you have a good understanding of Search Engine Optimisation. What's more, you're used to leading and running workshops, have a proven ability to take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand and are able to explain your decisions clearly, based on evidence. And, when it comes to being a successful advocate for the needs of the user to inform content design, again you tick all the boxes.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.

Central Scotland – Local Authorities: Falkirk, West Lothian, Clackmannanshire, Stirling

Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people. Our mission is to secure a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people in Scotland and we currently have over 3000 Care Experienced members.

At the heart of Who Cares? Scotland’s work are the rights of Care Experienced children and young people, and the power of their voices to bring about positive change. We provide individual relationship-based independent advocacy and a broad range of imaginative participatory opportunity for Care Experienced young people across Scotland; we work alongside corporate parents and communities of all sorts to broaden understanding; we work with policy makers, leaders and elected representatives locally and nationally to shape law, policy and practice on the basis of all that can be learnt from the voices of those with experience of care - working together to build on the aspirations of The Promise and secure positive change.

You will be joining Who Cares? Scotland at an exciting time, when the voices of those who are in or have experienced care are growing in power, individually and collectively – bringing with them insight, challenge, hope and change.

The right candidate for this post will provide leadership and direct management of Who Cares? Scotland Advocacy and Participation Workers (APW) within the Central regional team, working with a great deal of autonomy and responsibility. You will be brilliant at forming positive relationships with children and young people and will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, adaptable to a wide range of contexts. You will have a proven record of working collaboratively with partners successfully and you will be committed to children’s rights, inclusive working, equal opportunities, and believe that all young people can make transformative change happen in their lives if given the opportunity. A full driving licence and use of a car is also required, due to the regional remit of the post.

If this sounds like you, and you want to help nurture an environment where the voices and views of care experienced children and young people support positive change and where needs are met and opportunities are created, then we would love to hear from you.

For an informal conversation about this opportunity please call Denny Ford, Director of Advocacy and Participation on 07702500709.

Poverty and inequality are the greatest challenges Scotland faces. The Poverty Alliance is building our network across civil society to challenge, and ultimately solve, poverty. An opportunity has arisen to join our management team that will play a key role in helping us achieve our vision of a Scotland without poverty.

A vacancy has arisen for an experienced individual to lead the Poverty Alliance’s Communities and Networks Team. The role will be central to overseeing the continued growth and development of the Poverty Alliance’s network, ensuring that we actively involve Scotland’s diverse civil society in the fight against poverty. In addition, the role will lead our approach to involving people with experience of poverty in our network, ensuring that opportunities for participation are expanded across all our activity.

The right person for this job will have, above all, a commitment to tackling poverty and promoting social change and to the principles and values of participation. You will have extensive experience and knowledge of community development, empowerment or regeneration activity, gained at the local or national levels. Through that experience you will have gained a strong understanding of civil society in Scotland, and of how to build and maintain networks. You will also be someone who takes a collaborative approach to work, who has excellent project planning, development and management experience.

Could you be Key?

Due to the ongoing growth and development of our personalised support services we currently have a number of exciting job opportunities.

Working locally, join one of our teams delivering great quality individualised support where every day is different in this challenging but rewarding role.

If you are caring, reliable, flexible and passionate about getting alongside people providing support to achieve the life they want then... you could be Key!

In turn, you will receive:

· 31 days annual leave

· Occupational Sick Pay

· Access to Employee Counselling Service

· Excellent Training

· Support to achieve a SVQ 2 qualification

No experience necessary! Full training and support will be given to help you achieve your full potential.

If you would like to get involved in support work but cannot commit to a contract due to other commitments, we also have opportunities for you to complement our existing workers by joining our relief register of bank support workers . This will mean you can work in a way that best suits you and fits with your life.

We would encourage you to submit your application as the earliest convenience as we may be able to offer interview at an earlier date to shortlisted candidates. If you would like to arrange an informal chat to find out more do not hesitate to get in touch!

Location: The post is based at Street Connect’s office in Glasgow city centre, with some home based working. You will be required to visit other projects and places to share information about the organisation or to support the development of fundraising. Some weekend and evening work required.

Street Connect is a Christian organisation with a mission to offer hope and opportunity of recovery for people disadvantaged by addiction and associated issues, including homelessness and poor mental health. Our experience has shown us that working closely with partner churches to deliver support within communities is a successful way for people to access the support that they need. We currently have Street Connect partner churches or projects in Glasgow City Centre, Possilpark, Clydebank, Paisley, Greenock and Blackwood. As we continue our vital work in each of these areas, our aim is to grow into new communities and allow as many people as possible to access the support they need.

To help achieve this, we are seeking to recruit a Community Fundraiser to join our Fundraising Team who, working closely with the Fundraising and Marketing Manager, can help shape fundraising within the areas we work.

You will build, develop and maintain strong relationships throughout each area and develop, inspire and motivate volunteers and supporters, both Churches and individuals, to ensure our fundraising activity is as effective as possible in delivering the maximum impact and income by creating opportunities to give.

You will be engaging, inspiring and have excellent interpersonal and relational skills, with the ability to provide exceptional stewardship. You will be able to build and nurture great working relationships and have a flexible approach.

Do you have a heart for the City’s most vulnerable and can assist in heading up a dynamic kitchen? Join our team as we seek to improve the lives of our guests, helping them to flourish and know fullness of life.

Our City Centre Project provides a wonderful space in central Glasgow for many of the city’s homeless community to receive care, connection and advocacy as well as emotional and spiritual support. We welcome up to 160 individuals a day and eating together is at the heart of our care. Food is an essential physical component but sharing food helps build rapport with guests.

We are looking for skilled Chef-Cooks who can run a dynamic kitchen, create tasty and healthy food, and provide oversight and pastoral care for teams of trainees and volunteers. It is desirable for applicants to have catering qualifications, experience of Cooksafe procedures, and experience of caring Christian ministry.

In order to fulfil the Christian Ministry this role entails, applicants should have an active Christian faith with a live church connection in accordance with our Ethos Statement and Values. (see job description). These are occupational requirements in terms of the Equality Act 2010.

This position relates to regulated work and will require membership of the PVG scheme.

Do you have a heart for the City’s most vulnerable and can head up a dynamic kitchen? Join our team as we seek to improve the lives of our guests, helping them to flourish and know fullness of life.

Our City Centre Project provides a wonderful space in central Glasgow for many of the city’s homeless community to receive care, connection and advocacy as well as emotional and spiritual support. We welcome up to 160 individuals a day and eating together is at the heart of our care. Food is an essential physical component but sharing food helps build rapport with guests.

We are looking for skilled Chef-Cooks who can run a dynamic kitchen, create tasty and healthy food, and provide oversight and pastoral care for teams of trainees and volunteers. It is desirable for applicants to have catering qualifications, experience of Cooksafe procedures, and experience of caring Christian ministry.

In order to fulfil the Christian Ministry this role entails, applicants should have an active Christian faith with a live church connection in accordance with our Ethos Statement and Values. (see job description). These are occupational requirements in terms of the Equality Act 2010.

This position relates to regulated work and will require membership of the PVG scheme.

The National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading charity for autistic people. Since 1962, we’ve been transforming lives, changing attitudes and helping to create a society that works for autistic adults and children.

We transform lives by providing support, guidance and practical advice for the 700,000 autistic adults and children in the UK, as well as their three million family members and carers. Autistic people turn to us at key moments or challenging times in their lives, be it getting a diagnosis, going to school or finding work.

We change attitudes by improving public understanding of autism and the difficulties many autistic people face. We also work closely with businesses, local authorities and government to help them provide more autism-friendly spaces, deliver better services and improve laws.

We have come a long way but it is not good enough. There is still so much to do to increase opportunities, reduce social isolation and build a brighter future for people on the spectrum. With your help, we can make it happen.

What we can offer you:

• Pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave
• Excellent induction, training and development programme including training about autism and opportunities to attend our conferences
• Online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits (cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan)
• Access to a 24-hour employee assistance programme

As Media and Communications Officer, you will be central to our mission to increase understanding and awareness among the public of autism and the challenges individuals and their families face.

You’ll have an eye for a good news story, sourcing, developing and placing media pieces in print, online and broadcast, working closely with journalists and other media professionals.

Important to us is supporting and empowering autistic people and their families to share their experiences to create impactful stories which help lead to real understanding and real change.

You’ll also be skilled at coordinating our social media channels, developing engaging and compelling content around the services we provide as well as providing important information to our followers.

You’ll also collect and edit content for our magazine ‘News and Views’ which goes out to our members nationwide, making sure it’s an engaging and informative publication.

Finally, you’re a team player, working well in a small busy team – linking up your work with Policy and Campaigns as well as connecting in with colleagues across the UK with an eye for both the small and bigger picture.

Desirable is prior experience of working in a press office and with communications more broadly, but ultimately, we are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, quick to learn and passionate about making change for autistic people and families.

Giving children and young people the foundations, they need to thrive.

The role

Our STAY mentoring programme provides a community-based support function to young people at greatest risk of withdrawal from learning due to circumstances “within and outside the college campus”. (For example, making applications for accommodation/housing issues, childcare, debt budgeting, family/relationship issues, offending behaviour/judicial system or mental health.

This programme is focused on working with colleges to improve retention rates for groups of young people, particularly those from Care experienced background or defined as having experienced ACEs. The rationale for the service, is the poor retention rates within Colleges for the identified group of young people compared to their peers.

The mentoring programme sits alongside the current provision and support provided by Student Services within the college structure. As a College Retention worker, you will support young people in one of the following locations: - Glasgow Kelvin College Glasgow Clyde College & Glasgow City College and West College Scotland. (You will need a full current driving licence and use of a car for travel between Colleges).

Some engagement may be delivered remotely during the current COVID restrictions.

You will make a difference by:

-Supporting young people from Care Experienced backgrounds to assist them with a successful transition into further education or adapt to college life at enrolment stage by offering support within the college and within their local community, including access to out of hours support.

-Supporting young people to prevent them from withdrawing from further education, due to family/personal/community-based issues.

-Linking with college staff to identify students with barriers to attending or progressing with their college studies or at risk of leaving college into a negative destination and becoming unemployed.

-Offering individualised support for each care-experienced student identified in line with his or her unique needs, issues, and circumstances.

-Deliver sessions on local provision and job search including building confidence, establishing routine, developing CVs, improving interview skills, and participating in work experience or progression routes to positive destinations.

-Ensure all records and compliance paperwork is obtained, accurately completed, and submitted timely.

You will need:

-An SVQ 3 in Social Care, Guidance or equivalent.

-An assessor's qualification is desirable however not essential.

-Experience of working in group settings with young people facing multiple barriers.

-The ability to engage and have an understanding of young people from a wide range of backgrounds.

-The use of a car and business insurance.

This role will lead on not only the delivery of changes that come through the charity’s Information Systems (IS) team, but also be a champion for changing the ways of working with the team within projects. This role has the opportunity to make a real change within Diabetes UK by bringing our wide stakeholder group along on a journey to improve efficiency.

Role Responsibility

• Manage the delivery of project outcomes relating to the IS team
• Start and maintain weekly development/delivery cycles
• Implement new ways of working within the IS team
• Train IS team on best practice around project management and AGILE principles

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will be an experienced AGILE project manager who has run projects using SCRUM development methodologies within teams with a broad number of responsibilities (across support and multiple projects). They should also have had significant involvement in projects that require cultural change within an organisation that brings about more efficient ways of working. Finally, we need someone who is not afraid of getting involved with the detail and really understanding the depth of what they are delivering.

What we can offer you:

• Generous annual leave starting at 25 days plus bank holidays
• A Cash Healthcare Plan (giving you up to £1,500 towards a range of out of pocket health expenses like new glasses, dentist, chiropractor or osteopath appointments)
• Early finish Friday and flexible working as part of our approach to activity based working
• Discounts on gym membership
• Employee assistance programme to give you support on any issues that come up in life
• Annual season ticket loan* (on completion of your probation period and if contract is permanent or longer than 12 months)
• Very active social scene including sport teams, gardening and other activities
• Generous pension provision, life assurance and income protection insurance
• Cycle to work scheme* (eligible for scheme if contract is permanent or longer than 12 months)

*Some benefits aren't available until you've passed your probation period and are dependent on the length of contract.

About the Company

For the 4.8 million people in the UK with diabetes, there’s no day off. So, at Diabetes UK, we’re leading the fight every day, campaigning for better care, treatment and support. We won’t stop until diabetes can do no harm.

We are working to make sure that those affected by diabetes get the best care and support they need to live well with their condition and avoid life-changing complications. We're leading the way by funding critical research, improving healthcare and treatment so we can reach our vision of a world where diabetes can do no harm.

Diabetes UK staff are motivated and experienced and extremely passionate about helping people affected by diabetes. We have been fighting for people with diabetes for more than 80 years and changed millions of lives thanks to the new treatments, technology and policy changes we've been behind.

But there's more to do. And you can be part of it.

We're a diverse bunch and as a charity we recognise and respect the value of everyone.

We’re very excited to have been placed in the top 30 best UK charities to work for, and in the top 75 best large companies in London.

We're committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expect all staff and volunteers to actively support this commitment.

We have a vision of a world where diabetes can do no harm. If you’d like to be part of that, why not join us?

We are seeking to appoint a full-time Men’s Project Worker for our City Centre project in Glasgow.

We work daily to improve the lives of our guests; helping them to flourish and know fullness of life. Our Men’s Project Worker will play a key role in our project team, helping to meet the needs of the numerous men who are already in contact with our services.

In order to fulfil the Christian Ministry this role entails, applicants should have an active Christian faith with a live church connection in accordance with our Ethos Statement and Values. (see job description) Please note we are also seeking to appoint a male candidate for this role. These are occupational requirements in terms of the Equality Act 2010.

This position relates to regulated work and will require membership of the PVG scheme.

Join the Social Enterprise Academy as our new Education Manager to help create a social enterprise in every school in Scotland in the next 3 years.

In their 10 year Strategy for Social Enterprise, the Scottish Government announced its ambition to see a social enterprise in every school in Scotland. We have been tasked with leading on the delivery of this goal.

Since the Social Enterprise in Education programme began we’ve had over 1,600 school engagements across Scotland and in that time we have seen young people change how they see themselves and grow hugely in confidence while building essential skills for the future. We work with nurseries, primary and secondary schools and schools for young people with additional support needs.

From making sustainable crafts to funding community defibrillators to tackling local unemployment through computer coding classes, these young people are stepping up, taking action and demanding change.

Your role will be to lead on this activity for your area, providing strategic planning and a vision for growth of the programme in your Local Authorities and working with the rest of the Education Team and education to make this vision a reality. As part of a highly motivated team, this opportunity offers variety, satisfaction and a great opportunity to lead positive change in your area and be part of something that is making a difference to Scotland.

Job Purpose

To manage the roll out of Social Enterprise Schools in all schools in your area developing relationships with key influencers in Local Authorities, Schools and Social Enterprise Networks. To lead on the success of social enterprise activity at school level, managing School Support Officers, Programme Coordinators and working with Education Facilitators to ensure the growth of the programme, an increased uptake by schools, that stakeholders have a high quality experience and that positive impact on young people, school staff and communities is exceeded in your area. Working as part of a team to support the creation of a youth-led sustainable social enterprise in every school in Scotland.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead on the implementation of the vision, market development and sales strategy for your area, identifying current key aims and priorities of each Local Authority in your area to determine the most appropriate support you can offer to deliver their objectives through Social Enterprise Schools
• Lead on recruiting schools, maintaining high standards and supporting existing schools in your area
• Nurture client relationships, networking and providing ongoing and excellent customer service to clients, funders and partners, representing and promoting Social Enterprise Schools at education, learning and development, and networking events across your area
• Build the profile of Social Enterprise Schools in your area, building and maintaining strong partnerships with key stakeholders in the public and third sector including Local Authorities, Further and Higher Education institutions, Ministers, MPs, MSPs and youth related stakeholders to ensure wider support for young people and the growth of the programme
• Drive direct sales and delivery of Social Enterprise Schools, effectively using the networks that exist within schools, Local Authorities and Regional Improvement Collaboratives to promote the programme
• Manage the support for schools undertaking social enterprise activity and our Social Enterprise Schools Awards in your area. This includes ensuring Programme Coordinators allocate Associate Education Facilitator time efficiently, Schools Support Officers share appropriate resources and support schools to develop their social purpose and their business plans
• Maintain links with key agencies and partners in the field of education and social enterprise including local Education Scotland contacts, Regional Improvement Collaboratives, Local Authorities, SQA (or future equivalent), Social Enterprise Networks, Third Sector Interfaces, Social Enterprises, Development Trusts, Bord na Ghaidlig, Skills Development Scotland, British Council, youth organisations, Young Enterprise Scotland and other organisations supporting young people
• Manage the CPD Programmes in your area, working closely with Associate Education Facilitators to adapt the programme to the group and context, and delegate roles to team members to ensure tech support or physical venue, refreshments, materials and guest speakers are all in place
• Provide supportive management to the Programme Coordinator and/or School Support Officer, contributing to the success of the team as the programme scales up, including working with them to identify their training needs and supporting their professional development

For a full set of criteria please download the recruitment pack from our website.

Organisation profile:

The Social Enterprise Academy is a social change organisation: we exist to support people who are stepping forward to affect positive social change, wherever they may be. We exist to support the many, not the few.

Through dynamic learning and development programmes facilitated by our network of skilled facilitators, we help entrepreneurship and leadership to flourish in organisations, networks, schools and colleges.

With a 17 year track record of successful delivery in Scotland, the Social Enterprise Academy has been sharing its business and learning delivery models for the past 8 years with international partners through a social licence approach.

Responsible for:

• Networking and engagement with communities across Scotland to enhance our profile and develop core connections that can underpin our mission of improving survival rates of pancreatic cancer in Scotland.

• Provide excellent supporter care and stewardship to our volunteer base in Scotland.

• With the support of the Fundraising Development Manager develop meaningful relationships that will help us to achieve our fundraising goals and ambitions for Scotland.

Job context:

In 2020 Pancreatic Cancer Scotland and Pancreatic Cancer Action merged to become one charity, with a united vision to make the 2020’s the decade of change for pancreatic cancer. Our mission is to improve survival rates of pancreatic cancer by ensuring more people are diagnosed early and that everyone has access to effective treatments, support, information, and care. We have a loyal and dedicated army of Scottish supporters, and we need an entrepreneurial individual to help support our continued development and growth over the next decade.

A full Job Description is available for download below.

You will carry out a multitude of activity to plan, manage and deliver our careers, education, and employability programmes to help young people and unemployed adults – particularly those with multiple barriers - into work in hospitality, tourism and leisure. Your work will include facilitating our education programmes in schools, colleges and universities; deliver Ambassador training; as well as delivering our employability programmes. You will also help to improve the appeal of the industry through campaign activity and supporting Business Partners. You will contribute to the targets of getting people into work in the sector and work directly with employers, referral partners, education bodies, and beneficiaries. You will be responsible for data collection and report writing and have a portfolio of business partners to look after

Are you someone that enjoys a fast paced, varied role? We are looking for someone who is proactive, detail oriented and team-minded to join the Future Pathways Team.

Focused on the needs of the people we work with, the Purchasing Officer will ensure survivors access high quality purchased goods, that support them to achieve their outcomes. Familiar with good business procurement and financial assurance practice, the role will coordinate the purchase of goods and produce regular reports analysing purchasing activity and compliance with audit and quality requirements. The post holder will develop good relationships with suppliers to ensure effective purchasing that ensures the best outcomes for survivors.

Hours will be worked flexibly Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.

Further information is included in our application pack.

Positive Action in Housing is an independent, anti-racist homelessness and human rights charity (SC027577) dedicated to supporting women, children and men from refugee and migrant backgrounds to rebuild their lives. We believe in a society where everyone has the right to live safe and dignified lives, free from poverty, homelessness or inequality.

The following vacancy has become available.

Finance Officer

Salary: 21 hours per week (over 4 days) £23,145 – £25,186 pro-rata + 4% Pension

Based in and working from our Glasgow Office

We are looking for a well-organised, self-motivated person with strong bookkeeping skills. You will assist with the finances of a small, but busy charity based in and working from our offices in the centre of Glasgow. You will enjoy working as part of a small, diverse team to maintain and develop the charity’s finance systems. You will be responsible for undertaking accurate and timely recording of income and expenditure, bank reconciliation, purchase ledger, donor’s database, payment of invoices and reclamation of Gift Aid. You will ensure all income and expenditure is accurately named and documentation filed immediately. You will prepare and post general ledger journals and provide regular reports as requested.

You will have the skills and aptitude to accurately maintain our computer-based finance records. You will have excellent IT skills, and are familiar with spreadsheets, word processing, email and MS Office. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as excellent numeracy skills.

You are honest, hard working, self-motivated and know how to work as part of a team. You have a positive outlook and are able to maintain clear communications with colleagues and take the initiative when required. You know how to plan, manage and prioritise a varied workload, meet deadlines and respond flexibly to unforeseen events. An ability to carry out tasks with minimum supervision is essential. You will pay meticulous attention to detail and have the aptitude and skills to learn on the job.

Would you like to be part of shaping how new music is supported and championed in Scotland? Are you passionate about new music?

New Music Scotland (NMS) is seeking to recruit a new Co-Chair to help shape the direction of the organisation. As a relatively small organisation with big ambitions, we are looking for an individual to work with our existing Co-Chair who will compliment and strengthen our Board of Trustees.

About NMS

New Music Scotland is a network of artists, ensembles, orchestras, composers, creators, music educators, sound artists, musicians, producers, promoters and anyone who believes in the importance and value of creating new music in Scotland. We exist to connect, enable and support makers of innovative and experimental new music and our members help drive how we do that.

We believe that new music comes from many different cultural traditions and musical practices; what brings us all together is our passion for and belief in the intrinsic value of new music creation for individuals and society as a whole.

NMS Vision

NMS was set up to help generate a vibrant and thriving new music sector, which will contribute to making Scotland an international leader in contemporary creative music practice. It exists to connect, enable and support makers of innovative and experimental new music: musicians, sound artists, composers, promoters and producers in Scotland. NMS will create and maintain a supportive environment for innovation.

Its aims are as follows:

• To bring together makers who are either wholly or partially engaged in creating/performing new and innovative music and sound, and promoting organisations;
• To establish and maintain communication mechanisms for new music in Scotland;
• To encourage and facilitate collaboration with other art-forms and sectors;
• To provide a supportive environment for innovation in music and sound;
• To actively campaign for the commissioning and programming of new music;
• To increase the awareness and profile of new music in Scotland, both nationally and internationally;
• To explore and disseminate new ways of developing audiences for new music.

Co-Chair Duties and Attributes

As New Music Scotland has recently become a registered charity (SCIO) this is an exciting time to join us and contribute to shaping a bold and inclusive new strategy to support new music makers, performers and promoters to thrive and prosper. The person we are looking for will:

• understand the new music sector,
• understand what effective governance looks like,
• is a strategic thinker,
• is committed to the development and promotion of new music and its makers.
• is a confident networker with strong advocacy skills

Duties of the Co-Chair

The role of the Co-Chair is to act in the interests of the organisation and its members and to ensure that the organisation acts in a manner which is in accordance with its purposes.

The duties are:

• Ensure that NMS complies with its governing document (constitution), charity law and any other relevant legislation.
• Ensure that NMS pursues its objects as defined in its governing document.
• Ensure that NMS applies its resources in pursuance of its objects i.e. not spend money on activities which are not included in the objects, however worthwhile they may be.
• Contribute actively to the Board of Trustees role in giving strategic direction, setting overall policy, defining goals, setting targets, and evaluating performance against agreed targets.
• Safeguard the good name and values of NMS
• Ensure the financial stability of NMS
• Ensure the two staff roles are supported

The personal attributes are:

• A strong and visible passion and commitment to the aims of NMS and its strategic objectives and cause
• Experience of working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong networking capability
• A balance of tact and diplomacy with willingness to challenge and constructively criticise
• Good, independent judgement
• An ability to think creatively
• A willingness to devote the necessary time and effort

In addition to the above statutory duties the Co-Chair should use any specific skills, knowledge or experience they have, to help the board of trustees make sound decisions.

The ability to apply the principles and practice of corporate governance and an understanding of the role of non-executive directors is also essential.

This role is unremunerated. There are four Board meetings per year plus one development day and a minimum commitment of eight days per annum is required. Meetings usually take place within the central belt or online. In addition to Board meetings other contact by email or telephone is necessary.

Due to continuous growth in our workplace wellbeing area, SAMH are now recruiting to our Workplace team to help us improve Scotland’s mental health by training and building capacity in organisations to enable them to effectively supporting their staff needs around mental health and wellbeing.

Around since 1923, SAMH operates over 50 services in communities across Scotland providing mental health social care support, addictions and employment services, among others. These services, together with national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention, physical activity and sport; inform SAMH’s policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.

The Workplace team supports this work through delivering training to organisations both big and small, helping them learn how to support the mental health of their staff.

You’ll deliver training in mental health and wellbeing to various organisations in order to inspire them and to support them to establish and sustain a culture of positive mental health in the workplace with our bespoke training products. You’ll also help us develop our materials, making sure they meet the needs of all of our clients.

You should be a highly experienced trainer, with good knowledge of mental health, able to deliver training face to face and on line and hold the attention of a group of busy people! You are confident to use technology, organised and flexible. You’ve developed great training that delivers the right outcomes, and you’re happy to deliver training to all levels of staff and management. Come and join us.

Benefits

Staff wellbeing is a priority at SAMH

As well as promoting a healthy work-life balance, we offer the following:

• Annual leave 30 days (under 5 years service); 33 days (over 5 years service)
• 4 days public holidays
• Life cover 1.5 times annual salary
• Learning and development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme – confidential support should you need it.

The Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) is seeking to appoint new members to its Board. The appointments are for three years and will run from November 2021.

Information about the Scottish Library and Information Council

SLIC is the independent advisory body to the Scottish Government on library and information related matters. It is a registered charity and an independent company. It is also a membership organisation representing the interests of public, academic, FE College and special interest libraries within Scotland. The organisation has been going through a period of growth, delivering a range of projects and initiatives on behalf of the Scottish Government and partner organisations.

Board Responsibilities

The Board meets four times a year in addition to the AGM. Board members are expected to serve on a sub-committee which would involve a commitment of up to another three days. Board meetings alternate between Dundee and Glasgow.

The Board provides strategic direction and oversight. Major policy decisions are made at Board level drawing on information provided by the Chief Executive and senior management team. The decisions of the Board are actioned through the Chief Executive and senior management team of the organisation.

As Board members will be directors of the organisation applicants must:

• be at least 16 years old
• not be an undischarged bankrupt
• not be a disqualified director

Further information about SLIC can be found on its website scottishlibraries.org

Please note the appointments are on a voluntary basis however reasonable out of pocket expenses will be paid.

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 £9.76 - £10.25 per hour
• guaranteed rota hours working between 7.30am & 10pm
• generous annual leave entitlement
• a choice of pension scheme with employer contributions
• flexible working policies
• access to extensive paid training and development opportunities
• 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.