Jobs in Southside Central, Glasgow

Govanhill Housing Association provides a comprehensive range of services focused on the needs of tenants and owner occupiers in the Govanhill and Merrylee communities. We carry out acquisition and improvement of tenemental stock as well as delivering a new build programme. We work closely with our subsidiary company, Govanhill Community Development Trust, whose community development and regeneration services complement our own role as a social landlord.

We are seeking to appoint an experienced individual to join our Tenancy Services Team and lead a team that specialises on welfare rights matters. As Financial Wellbeing Co-ordinator you will manage a team of staff and lead, motivate, and inspire them to deliver outstanding performance and value for money services. You will be focused on providing assistance and information to ensure tenants and residents understand entitlement to welfare benefits and get the assistance they need to maximise their income.

You will develop and deliver our wider financial inclusion objectives; working alongside other teams to support income maximisation including to reduce/prevent rent arrears, supporting the sustainment of tenancies and challenging poverty.

It is expected that the post holder will be experienced in all aspects of welfare/benefits and appeal tribunals.

You will be an excellent communicator and have an ability to deal with people from a variety of backgrounds explaining complex benefit related matters to customers in an easy to understand manner.

Within our Partnerships and Volunteering Team, we currently have some exciting opportunities to join our Teams across Scotland!

The Partnerships & Volunteering team are responsible for providing quality indirect support to our many Schools, Colleges and Partners who deliver our Education Offer and Personal Development Programmes as well as supporting and developing a dedicated team of volunteers across Scotland. You will be responsible for managing relationships with various partners & volunteers, including Teachers, College staff as well as delivering training, organising events and managing data. You will get the opportunity to develop and introduce enrichment within the Programmes also.

This role is perfect for you if you are great with people and enjoy building relationships, with the occasional face to face delivery with Young People. If you have knowledge of the Education system or experience in working with and managing volunteers that would be a bonus, but not necessary.

We have opportunities available Scotland-Wide, including North-East Scotland, South-West Scotland and Glasgow.

If you are up for a challenge and working in a great team, we would love to hear from you! Your application will be a CV and a supporting statement. Your supporting statement must provide evidence of how you have acquired and applied each of the essential skills, knowledge and experience criteria and if possible, each of the desirable skills, knowledge and experience criteria, outlined in the job description, in current and previous roles, or other scenarios.

For more information, please click here for the job description.

Why we need Youth Development Leads:

Last year, we helped more than 70,000 young people, with three in four young people on our programmes, move into work, education or training.

The young people we help face a range of challenges, such as unemployment, mental health issues or some have been in trouble with the law. Our job is to inspire and support young people, to help them reach their potential so that they can thrive and society can prosper.

We believe all young people should have the chance to succeed, and that young people are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

Perks for working at The Trust:

• Great holiday package! 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays. Office closure the days between Christmas and New Year
• Fantastic Family leave! Receive 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay for maternity and adoption leave. Receive 8 weeks full pay for paternity leave.
• Flexible working! Where operationally possible, you can work hours to fit in with, school hours or care arrangements for example and you can also work from home.
• Interest-free season ticket loans
• Benefits platform! Everything from health and financial wellbeing support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas
• In-house learning platform! Develop your skills for your career and your role
• The Trust will contribute 5% of your salary to the Trust Pension Scheme
• You can volunteer for and/or attend events – music festivals, The Prince’s Trust Awards, active events etc.
• Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Care Coordinator to support in our clinical service delivery. Many of our clients have complex needs and this role ensures that clients acquire the support they need to receive multi-agency services.

About the role

The role involves assessment, care planning and provision of stabilisation support to our most complex clients receiving our services. Working together with our therapists, and legal and welfare staff as part of a truly multi-disciplinary team, the ideal candidate will have prior experience of working in mental health/ social care settings and a passion for working with asylum seekers, refugees and survivors of torture.

This is a pivotal role in the support of pain management strategies for our clients, which involves linking with, GPs, community physio services and running and facilitating 1:1 and group psychological pain management interventions alongside your colleagues. This is an exciting development within the organisation and so we envisage the post holder contributing to implement the national strategy as well as shaping the delivery within the Glasgow Centre.

About you

You will be a registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with significant experience of working in the mental health sector, in addition to having substantial post registration experience. You will possess advanced assessment skills, and be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge of evidence based assessments and interventions. If you have experience of working with Interpreters and with refugees or asylum seekers, it would be advantageous.

In return, we offer a competitive package, with a generous 30 day annual leave entitlement (FTE), and 6% employer pension contribution.

A Job Description is available for download below.

If you would like to discuss the role in more detail, please contact Fiona Crombie by email at: fcrombie@freedomfromtorture.org

To apply, please visit freedomfromtorture.org/jobs-and-volunteering and submit your CV and a covering letter outlining why you would like to be considered, and how you meet the criteria of the role.

About Freedom from Torture

Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.

We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work.

Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS disclosure, as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.

Freedom from Torture is an equal opportunity employer. People with lived experience of torture or asylum, from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

No agencies please.