Midlothian Young Peoples Advice Service (MYPAS) promotes the health and wellbeing of young people and currently focuses on working in the areas of mental health and substance use. MYPAS is a community-based organisation with charitable status and based in Dalkeith, Midlothian. MYPAS has been successful in gaining funding from Midlothian and East Lothian Drug and Alcohol Partnership (MELDAP) to provide young people’s drug and alcohol support services in East Lothian. This is an exciting new initiative and the first time MYPAS will provide services within East Lothian.

MYPAS will recruit two Project Workers to develop and provide young people focussed, needs-led, friendly, confidential and non-judgemental drug and alcohol service for:

• Young people (aged 12 to 19) in East Lothian

The new service will offer:

1. Individual support for young people
2. Group work programmes in all East Lothian schools
3. Staff training
4. Support for families

There is no specific qualification required; however, the post holder will be expected to be educated to degree level. This should be in a relevant field such as Health, Community Education, Social Work or Education, but significant equivalent experience will also be considered. The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary service and work effectively with other agencies in partnership settings. This post will require regular evening and occasional weekend work.

Place of work: The administrative base is in Dalkeith. Travel throughout East Lothian, including operating from other venues, will be required.

Special conditions:

• The Project Worker posts are funded for an initial 2 years. Further 2 year continuation funding is dependent on the progress of the initial 2 year pilot.
• The posts will involve regular evening and occasional weekend working.
• Post holders must be able to travel across East Lothian. The full time post holder will require a driving license and it is essential that they have access to their own vehicle.

Colin Beattie MSP (Midlothian North and Musselburgh) is looking to appoint a Caseworker in his Dalkeith constituency office.

Duties will include providing support with all casework by investigating issues raised through correspondence and surgeries and dealing with general public enquiries.

You will require to be empathetic, a good listener, organised and able to build strong and enduring relationships with local organisations, community groups and constituents.

Our Midlothian service is looking to recruit an enthusiastic person to join our friendly team, delivering support across Midlothian, working from our base in Dalkeith. This is an exciting time to join our service, as we develop our systemic, therapeutic and peer support approach in enabling families in their recovery from the impact of problematic substance use.

Children 1st offer relational based support, taking a restorative, strengths based and trauma informed approach to enable individuals and families to achieve their goals. We are looking for someone who is knowledgeable and experienced in whole family systems approach, with a sound knowledge of the impact of substance misuse on parenting and children. You will have a lead role within the team in coordinating and undertaking assessment of families and creating outcome focused work plans, which will ensure the safety and wellbeing of children. You will have the opportunity to engage in therapeutic 1:1 support with children and their families as well as co-working with colleagues as required.

We can offer you quality support and supervision, workload management, access to a range of opportunities for professional development and the opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children and families.

If you are a professional with a social work, community work, counselling or other appropriate qualification we would like to hear from you.

This a part time, fixed term post of 21 hours per week until 30 September 2022. Hours to be worked flexibly to suit the needs of the families (evenings and occasional weekends as required).

For an informal discussion, please contact Johnny Costello, Service Manager on 0131 654 9540, Midlothian@children1st.org.uk

Do you have an interest in Health and Safety?

Can you make a difference in an organisation that supports Adults with a Learning Disability?

Organisational Profile:

St Joseph’s Services have been providing care and support services to adults with a learning disability in Midlothian and Edinburgh for over 95 years.

Role:

This post represents an exciting opportunity to be the responsible person for Health and Safety for St Joseph’s Services. Ensuring all policies, procedures, risk assessments and documentation across the organisation is regularly reviewed and up to date.

The Health and Safety Officer will liaise with the services to ensure legislative compliance and best practice is being followed and managed effectively.

All staff are expected to work to St Joseph’s Services Vincentian Values and uphold our service promises.

Based at the head office in Roswell you will be part of a small and dynamic team that plays a pivotal role in the operation of St Joseph’s Services – enabling us to ensure that the people we support to grow and prosper as citizens in their community and live happy, healthy, independent lives in their own homes.

Barnardo's Caern community house in Midlothian (Pentland Way) provide full-time residential care for a number of young people with learning disabilities and/or autism.

We are looking to recruit a team of Residential Project Worker 2's on an As & When basis.

We aim to enhance the young people's lives by supporting them to develop their independence in both the domestic environment and the community. Using a person centred approach we aspire to create an environment in which the young people are happy, nurtured and safe.

You will have experience with challenging behaviour in a social care setting and possess qualifications for registration with the SSSC as a Residential Child Care Worker.

Shifts are normally 12hrs and will include some weekends.

Please see the attached job and person profile and pay particular attention to Additional Information attachment.

If you wish to have an informal conversation about this post please contact Wendy Albiston 01968 664792or Isabel McLaren on 0131 339 8840