As an Outreach and Caledonian Specialist Support Worker you will be responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of the Outreach Services, providing a pro-active, holistic service to women who have experienced domestic abuse and whose partner or former partner is attending the Caledonian System men’s programme.

The job involves ensuring that a high standard of crisis intervention and casework support is provided to women escaping, experiencing or requiring support with domestic abuse issues. This includes WASLER’s out-of-hours group work.

What is on offer for the Outreach and Caledonian Specialist Support Worker?

• Training and development
• 25 days annual leave per annum
• 12 public holidays per annum
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted high street shopping vouchers
• 10% pension contribution
• Mileage

Job share considered.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details.

This full time position, fixed term to March 2022 is a great opportunity to join our team in pursuing Women’s Aid South Lanarkshire and East Renfrewshire’s feminist philosophy and mission; ‘all women, children and young people are free from fear’

Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living is run by disabled people and aims to empower disabled people in Glasgow by providing a variety of housing, employment, training and inclusive living support services.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our existing support team in South Lanarkshire developing and promoting Self Directed Support.

You will be responsible for providing information, advice, training and guidance to people with a focus on their options for self-directed support and update and maintain a comprehensive community asset map.

With previous experience in an advice and support role along with experience of providing support and / or training using a community development approach.

This post is funded until March 2022.

Please note that initially you will be required to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

All posts will require PVG scheme membership.

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) increasing to 30 days after 5 years

• 12½ public holidays

• 6% Pension contribution

• Employee discount scheme

• Death in Service Benefit

Are you an exceptional individual who has the ability to make a significant contribution to the COVEY team?

We are seeking passionate, professional, proactive and caring individuals who will fully embrace the COVEY values of Respect, Openness, Commitment, Innovation and Passion.

COVEY is seeking two experienced and skilled team members to grow our Lead Coordinators team, enabling us to further enhance the opportunities to support our young people and families in South / North Lanarkshire in line with our strategic and operational objectives.

COVEY is looking for exceptional individuals who will provide leadership, management and support to staff and volunteers, coordinating and delivering our work with very vulnerable families and young people.

Your Qualities:

· Commitment to personal growth

· Able to self reflect and give and take feedback

· Curiosity, flexibility, adaptability and dedication

· Passionate and highly motivated

· Able to work collaboratively

· Takes full responsibility for delivering areas of responsibility

· Leading by example, creating mutual trust colleagues and volunteers

· Quickly building trust and a strong rapport with young people and their families

· Extremely versatile and highly resilient in supporting complex issues.

We seek someone with the drive, passion and vision to develop and shape projects; to think ahead and bring creative solutions where needed, being able to work in partnership within the whole COVEY team.

Essential:

· You will have held a coordination role for at least three years and have managed staff and volunteers. 5 years experience in working with vulnerable children, young people and families;

· High level of experience in the areas of Child and Adult Protection, Substance Use, Mental Health and other complex issues vulnerable families face;

· Knowledge of the core principles of person-centred, strengths-based approaches in supporting families;

· Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant discipline;

· Experience in managing staff and volunteers;

· Complex case management experience;

· A working knowledge of monitoring and evaluation;

· Confident and capable in internal and external reporting;

· Ability to identify and manage risks and concerns in relation to Child and Adult protection;

· Understanding of the issues surrounding child poverty and other current policy drivers.

With excellent written and verbal communication skills you will also be intuitive. You will demonstrate strong leadership and management skills, having the ability to work to a broad remit where priorities can change daily.

Highly motivated and able to work under pressure and working to targets you will be able to deliver on the desired outcomes. While also maintaining a case load, you will have the ability to observe the attention to detail necessary to ensure excellent case recording and evaluation.

Added Value:

COVEY are interested in having the right people in the right role at the right time and seek those with additional skills and knowledge for the development of the team e.g. Funding, marketing, additional needs and/or addictions specialities, training and mentoring.

Your ability to motivate others will be a key strength, demonstrating skills in leading and developing staff and supporting volunteers. You will be confident in taking the initiative, have problem solving skills and bring a ‘can do’ attitude to the role.

This post is 35 hrs per week and will involve out of hours and possible weekend working.

Essential – Car driver with access to a car / PVG check.

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.

The post will involve four shifts per week, however there are good opportunities for overtime. Typical shift patterns are 07:30 – 15:30; 10:00 – 18:00 and 14:30 – 22:30.

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.

CAS is a young and enthusiastic charity, based in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire which is fast developing a profile for local action to reduce environmental harms. We have now reached the stage where we intend to recruit our first full time Project Worker to play a key part in helping to deliver the Charity’s ambitions.

In the wake of a declared climate emergency and an unsustainable rate of consumption of our one planet’s resources, Climate Action Strathaven (CAS) was established as a charity in 2020 with the following aims:-

• The advancement of citizenship and community development;

• The advancement of environmental protection and improvement.

Since then, we have published “Sustainable Strathaven - A Manifesto” which sets out our ambitions towards Strathaven becoming a leader in environmental sustainability castrathaven.org/cas-manifesto. We want to work together with individuals and community groups to deliver ambitious targets which better reflect the urgency of the climate emergency than those adopted by Governments. To these ends, we intend to work with a range of people and organisations to design and deliver:-

• Influence, through agreeing specific requests and expectations of politicians at both local and national level to promote, in the short term, a green recovery from the disruption of coronavirus and, in the longer term, more ambitious progress against environmental damage;

• Local Action, including finding ways to access resources to improve the energy efficiency of local housing, supporting local businesses based on the principles of a circular economy and encouraging local initiatives, including reducing and recycling waste;

• Sustainable Travel and Transport, through finding ways to make safer walking and cycling options easier than using cars and better public transport for commuting to school and work; this includes the development of a Strathaven Car Club to address the proliferation of cars and offer better and cheaper options for getting around.

A full time Project Worker will provide leadership and a focal point to help members and volunteers develop the 10 Manifesto projects throughout 2021 and beyond, initially concentrating on the first of these projects, namely :-

· Develop the newly established Strathaven Car Club with the potential to significantly reduce the burden of car ownership.

· Further develop the Strathaven Cycle and General Repair Shop at the Town Mill, building on the success of the summer 2020 series of pop-up cycle repair shops, to contribute to the development of a local circular economy, improve health and well-being and reduce car use.

· Support local businesses to adopt low carbon vehicles (electric/hydrogen/hybrid/cargo bikes) for deliveries and business within and around Strathaven.

· Establish a Strathaven Food Growers Scheme.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about the environment and wants to work hard with enthusiastic volunteers to improve the quality of life for all in ML10 and the surroundings.

We are looking for a full time Neighbourhood Development/Activity Co-ordinator to work within the Whitlawburn and Springhall area of South Lanarkshire.

The purpose of the post will be to engage with families and support them to access our services such as play therapy, peer support, sport and social activities. By having a dedicated worker in the area, it will help to remove any barriers which families feel might prevent them from accessing additional support as well as raising additional awareness of the services that REACH provide in the local area.

Established in 2004, Lanarkshire Rape Crisis Centre (LRCC) provides a support, information and advocacy service for survivors aged 12 and over across Lanarkshire who have experienced recent and/or historic sexual violence, including rape, sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation. We also work in schools and with young people across Lanarkshire and strategically with multi-agency partners, towards preventing sexual violence.

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Prevention Worker to deliver and develop our sexual violence prevention work in schools, youth settings and the local community.

Established in 2004, Lanarkshire Rape Crisis Centre (LRCC) provides a support, information and advocacy service for survivors aged 12 and over across Lanarkshire who have experienced recent and/or historic sexual violence, including rape, sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation. We also work in schools and with young people across Lanarkshire and strategically with multi-agency partners, towards preventing sexual violence.

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Support Worker to work as part of our team in delivering our trauma informed support services for survivors have experienced sexual violence.