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Four Square manages a wide range of services throughout Edinburgh and beyond, aimed at providing assistance and opportunities that will enable homeless and other vulnerable people develop the self-confidence and skills necessary for positive and sustainable independent living.

Four Square are looking for a waking Night Project Worker to join their team at their Women’s Refuge in Edinburgh.

You will be approachable, self-motivated and preferably experienced in working with women who have experienced domestic abuse. You will be a friendly and flexible team player, committed to helping people and have a SVQ 3 or equivalent in order to register with the SSSC as a housing support worker. For further information, please contact Four Square by email at hr@foursquare.org.uk or phone 01315577900 option 3.

STOPOVER

Stopover is the main emergency hostel in Edinburgh for homeless young people aged 16-21 inclusive.

Four Square are looking for an experienced, confident and flexible individual, able to manage the hostel during the night, including dealing with challenging behaviour and processing emergency admissions.

For this post at Stopover you will have basic word processing skills and should have, or are able to study towards SVQ Level 3 or similar.

Four Square manages a range of services for individuals and families experiencing personal and social difficulties; including family breakdown, homelessness, imprisonment, substance misuse, mental health issues and unemployment.

Visiting Support provides home visiting support to vulnerable tenants across Edinburgh who are at risk or are experiencing homelessness .

Based at Four Square, you will spend most of your day working in the community. You will be approachable, self-motivated and an excellent communicator. You will have or be working towards SVQ Level 3 Care or other SSSC approved qualification.

A PVG Scheme Disclosure check is required.

EFI is one of the largest second hand furniture stores in Scotland. As a social enterprise, the store provides an independent income stream to the wider homeless charity; and offers volunteering and training opportunities for people using our services. We are looking for a creative, dynamic store manager who can combine good people and business skills with an eye for design and an entrepreneurial approach. We want to make EFI a flagship for the re-use economy and build a sustainable social enterprise that will integrate and support the wider charity as we progress towards our vision of supporting everyone to have a home and their place in the community. Retail experience and people management skills are essential.

This post is a critical one to the future development of Four Square. You will lead and manage support services across Four Square, including our housing support, housing advice and employability services. Working with the Residential Services Manager and the Head of Services, you will work to deliver on our contracts while also developing and improving services. This is a great opportunity for someone committed to support people out of homeless services. You’ll need the vision and passion to lead staff and the energy and enthusiasm to make this a first class service.

A full Job Description is available for download below.