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Glasgow North East Carers Centre, as part of the Glasgow City Carers Partnership, provides practical and emotional supports to unpaid family Carers, who look after a family member or friend who cannot manage alone due to illness or disability.

Working flexibly throughout the North East Glasgow area, our Training and Peer Support Co-ordinator will develop a wide range of relevant training, personal development and peer support opportunities which will enable Carers to manage their caring role and maintain their own health and wellbeing.

Utilising expert training providers when appropriate, programmes will be innovative and continually developing. They will be delivered and accessible in a range of venues throughout our large service area, working in partnership with our Carers Support Workers to enable Carers to achieve the changes and outcomes they have identified as important to them in their lives.

Additional Information

• Hear from one of our current staff about the Family Support Worker position on our twitter page - @gnecarerscentre
• All successful candidates will have relevant experience and knowledge of Carers/Young Carers and the issues they may face, good interpersonal skills and excellent administrative abilities.
• For an application pack please email stephie@gnecarerscentre.com, clearly indicating for which position
• Appointment subject to satisfactory PVG application or scheme update
• Registered Charity No: SC02464.
• Funded by Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (Glasgow City HSCP)

The Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) is the national voice of childminding in Scotland. SCMA is a national Third Sector and membership organisation that promotes childminding as a quality childcare service. Working on behalf of its 4,000 childminder members, SCMA helps to improve the wellbeing and outcomes for Scotland’s children and aims to influence policy to ensure that it is informed by the experiences of childminding. SCMA provides a wide range of support and professional services for members including training and events as well as delivering local services. For more information visit childminding.org.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of Quality and Engagement Officer as we seek to strengthen our membership activity through a planned programme of engagement and outreach activity. As Quality and Engagement Officer you will:

Conduct engagement and outreach activity to promote best practice and contribute to developing the quality, effectiveness and credibility of childminding across Scotland

Represent the organisation and advocate on behalf of childminding at local and national events and forums as required.

Facilitate communication and encourage a two-way flow of information and discussion with childminders at a local level.

You will embrace the ethos and values of SCMA and display enthusiasm, self-motivation and a desire to represent childminding. You will have excellent communication skills as well as the ability to prioritise work, organise information and undertake travel as required.

The post is full time, 36 hours per week and will be office/home based with expected travel in Scotland.

Starting Salary: SJC AP4 Pt 27-30 £24171 - £26755 and we operate a contributory pension scheme which you will be auto-enrolled into (subject to the conditions of the scheme).

About the job

We are currently looking for two full-time Senior Policy Officers (Energy) to join the Impact team in our Edinburgh offices. One position is offered on a permanent basis and the other is offered on a fixed-term basis in line with maternity cover arrangements.

The Impact team at Citizens Advice Scotland seeks to achieve positive change through two main routes:

· Informing and empowering individuals to take action through information, education and campaigning

· Changing policy, practice and law

We work with governments, regulators and business at a UK and Scottish level on improving areas of particular detriment, undertake research and deliver awareness and education campaigns. The Senior Policy Officer (Energy) will be responsible to deliver social change, determining Citizens Advice Scotland’s policy positions in the Energy policy area.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable knowledge and understanding of relevant Energy policy areas across the UK and Scotland, including any associated regulations. You will also have a great ability to effectively interpret quantitative and qualitative data as well as excellent analytical, written and oral communication skills.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of supporting Scotland's largest independent advice network.

Employee benefits

Citizens Advice Scotland offers excellent terms and conditions, including a total of 40 days leave (including public holidays) and a pension scheme with an 8% employer contribution. We have a flexitime scheme which enables our employees to work flexibly in line with organisational requirements, and as an inclusive employer we are happy to consider other flexible working arrangements where appropriate. For more details of some of the other benefits on offer to our employees, please see the section on Employee benefits in the Job Pack.

The Friends of Loch Lomond is seeking to appoint a part time Support Officer who will be an experienced administrator with a proactive attitude to work with the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park’s only independent conservation and heritage charity. The position is currently based in the National Park offices in Balloch.

For over 40 years we have been working to protect and nurture the special qualities of the National Park, promote and celebrate its natural and cultural heritage, and provide support to make the National Park a better place for people and nature. We currently are active on a number of fronts and this post involves supporting a Board of voluntary trustees with the delivery of an interesting and diverse range of programmes and activities.

Use of a car will be required for this post on an occasional basis.

The Support Officer role will include:

· General administrative duties including email & telephone enquiries and taking minutes of meetings

· Manage and update financial, member contact and statistical information in MS Access and other MS Office applications

· Maintain positive contact with Friends of OUR park visitor giving scheme members, business supporters and including collection of monies raised.

· Assist with press and marketing activities to promote the Friends activities including the Friends of OUR park visitor giving scheme

· Regular updates and maintenance of the project award files, the Friends’ website and Facebook posts

· Assist with compilation and distribution of ‘OUR park’ newsletter updates,

· ‘The Voice’ magazine and news releases;

· Identifying and making contact with potential individual members and businesses as directed

· Assist with all aspects of OUR park and Friends events – these include volunteer / fundraising events, scheme member events and meetings.

To work with the CEDAR Mother co-ordinator to develop and manage a community group work programme (CEDAR Project) for children and young people and their mothers with experience of domestic abuse. The co-ordinator role is pivotal to the way in which Cedar Groups are organised and facilitated. You will work alongside the CEDAR Mother’s Groups Co-ordinator to develop, manage and deliver the CEDAR 12-week community group work programme.

Strath Union are looking for an adviser to provide a professional, confidential and accurate wellbeing-related advice and support service, particularly around housing, finance and benefits advice and advocacy, to University of Strathclyde students, developing the quality & impact of advocacy and advice for our members.

For full details please see the attached job description or click on the link below to apply

A rare opportunity is available for a skilled and experienced social care practitioner to join a well-respected service entering its next stage of development.

Childline is the UK's largest free confidential 24-hour helpline for children and young people. It's a unique service with over 1,000 volunteer and staff counsellors working across 12 bases across the UK, supervised by a team of professional supervisors. Childline provided 278,440 counselling sessions to children and young people over 2017/18. The top 3 concerns young people where counselled about where mental and emotional health; family relationships; and suicidal thoughts and feelings. Our website, childline.org.uk, received more than 3 million visits during this period as well as providing online counselling, the website also provides advice and support and a space for peer support on the vibrant message boards. Demand for these services is significant and growing.

It is critical we enable children and young people to access the service when they need it and to ensure a quality service, delivered by well trained and experienced practitioners, this is key to our impact on safeguarding children.

We are keen to hear from individuals with good child protection knowledge, safeguarding and assessment skills, together with sound experience of managing and developing a team. You can apply your understanding of the issues young people are experiencing in modern day society with a calm positive approach and a 'can do' attitude, to support colleagues in an open plan counselling room environment at times of considerable demand. A sound understanding of workforce management, case record management, volunteer management and working online are also important.

You will have a confident presentation style that will enable you to engage with children, adults and other agencies to raise awareness of Childline. Along with a well established management team you will be motivating and engaging your team to recruit, train and develop an excellent service run by a group of highly dedicated and passionate volunteers.

The role will also require you to take on the role of a 24/7 oncall manager on a rota basis with the other Service Managers and the Head of Service. You will also have budget responsibilities local to the base and need to have good awareness of Health and Safety at work. From time to time you may be required to work away from home to attend management meetings.

Without a doubt you will be joining one of the most forward thinking child protection charities in the UK and taking on one of the most rewarding roles out there.

If you are interested in exploring this further, please contact Ziv Israeli on 07917326758.

This post is subject to a PVG check.

Our mission at Victim Support Scotland is to ensure that those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them to recover from their experiences. We want victims and witnesses to be at the heart of everything we do so they have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference. We aim to do this by adhering to our own organisational values of being supportive, striving for excellence and offering personalised and accessible services and these are reflected in the behaviours expected of all staff and volunteers.

We are looking for a number of dynamic senior managers to join our Corporate Leadership Team and have a key role developing future strategies and business planning to ensure that the needs of victims and witnesses are being met.

Head of Service Support & Development will be overall responsible in developing, implementing, delivering, and evaluating the nationwide victim and witness experience across VSS. The Victim and Witness journey at VSS should be provided effectively and efficiently across the organisation, providing exactly the information our victims and witnesses need, in the form they want, when they need it. You will work to ensure that all options of support and new support initiatives will be based on victim and witness insight and provide a great victim and witness experience.

As a Business Improvement and Development expert, you will lead a team of skilled and experienced staff and volunteers to provide a range of functions and capability to support the organisation to develop and implement new and existing structured support services to victims and witnesses through a fully accessible support function, offering victims & witnesses a variety of channels of support to best suit their needs.

This post will be subject to a Standard Disclosure Check.

Glasgow North East Carers Centre, as part of the Glasgow City Carers Partnership, provides practical and emotional supports to unpaid family Carers, who look after a family member or friend who cannot manage alone due to illness or disability.

Working flexibly throughout the North East Glasgow area, our Family Support Worker will co-ordinate and deliver a wide range of services to Carers which will enable them to manage their caring role and maintain their own health and wellbeing. This will include working in partnership with a range of statutory, voluntary and community organisations.

The successful candidates will deliver assessment and care planning techniques which include focussing on personal outcomes important to our service users, working with Carers to ensure that the changes and outcomes important to them in their lives, are at the centre of the services we provide.

Additional Information

• Hear from one of our current staff about the Family Support Worker position on our twitter page - @gnecarerscentre
• All successful candidates will have relevant experience and knowledge of Carers/Young Carers and the issues they may face, good interpersonal skills and excellent administrative abilities.
• For an application pack please email stephie@gnecarerscentre.com, clearly indicating for which position
• Appointment subject to satisfactory PVG application or scheme update
• Registered Charity No: SC02464.
• Funded by Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (Glasgow City HSCP)

East Ayrshire CAB is a progressive and innovative advice organisation providing both generalist advice and specialist casework services. We are seeking an enthusiastic and well-motivated team member with excellent interpersonal skills. The successful applicant will provide advice to members of the Armed Forces community throughout Ayrshire, support bureaux in the provision of advice to this group, will co-ordinate regional activities and provide training as appropriate

The successful applicant will have experience of working in a field that provides both welfare benefits and money advice to a high standard.

Experience of working within a quality standards framework in an advice setting is also desirable.