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The Operations Manager is a key role at the PF which ensures that all aspects of our business, service delivery, and operations are carried out successfully, efficiently, safely, and cost effectively.

The role crosses a number of areas of our business, from everyday appointment administration to our policies and procedures, IT systems and the management of our building. It is a wide ranging, busy job with multiple priorities. As such, we need someone who is efficient, process minded and able to juggle competing demands to support a large team of committed volunteers.

The Operations Manager must be an excellent communicator and able to forge positive relationships with a wide variety of people, bringing staff and volunteers on board with new systems and processes, and ensuring they work within existing policies and procedures.

Organisation profile:

The PF Counselling Service is a COSCA Recognised voluntary counselling agency which offers both short and long term therapy to people over the age of 18, irrespective of where they live or their ability to pay. It was established in 1986 and is now the largest independent charity providing voluntary counselling services in Edinburgh.

The PF offers over 12,000 sessions of counselling a year to over 750 clients, provided by around 100 professionally trained volunteer counsellors. The staff team of four is responsible for all aspects of delivering the service.

Scottish Women’s Aid is excited to recruit for maternity cover for our External Affairs Officer. The role holder plays an important part in the continued development and delivery of key messaging for SWA, increasing awareness of the organisation and ensuring our core values are reflected in all our communications.

The Organisation

Scottish Women’s Aid is Scotland’s leading voluntary sector organisation working to prevent domestic abuse and promote effective policy and practice responses for women, children and young people who experience domestic abuse. We are the umbrella organisation for 36 autonomous Women’s Aid groups delivering direct services to women, children, and young people across Scotland.

What You’ll Do

The External Affairs Officer will develop and support effective media relationships to ensure awareness and understanding of SWA to a wide target audience. You will create meaningful dialogue with appropriate stakeholders, responding to media enquiries and drafting briefing notes, articles and web content aligned to SWA’s core values and strategic priorities.

What We Need

The successful candidate will have communications experience in a similar role, ideally with a sound understanding of parliamentary, political and policy processes. You will have excellent written and verbal skills with the ability to translate complex information for appropriate media use. A sound understanding of social media, website, and content management systems, as well as impact evaluation and measurement, is essential for success in this position.

We’re looking for someone who has

· A sound knowledge and understanding of the ethical considerations associated with media and communications

· The ability to manage communications in relation to external projects and services

· A positive track record of working to support colleagues with local and national campaign priorities

· Knowledge of communicating a gendered message and understanding of the issues relating to violence against women

· Experience of a range of software such as Mailchimp, Drupal, Survey Monkey, MS Office

Cyrenians services recognise the links between substance misuse and homelessness and are committed in supporting people access the help they need to reduce harm to themselves and the community, and to maximise recovery.

Lothian and Edinburgh Abstinence Project (LEAP) is an intensive programme for up to 8 people who want to stop drinking or using drugs. The programme is delivered over 12 weeks and participants attend a structured group work programme Monday to Friday. Cyrenians are working alongside LEAP to provide a therapeutic residential community which participants stay in for the duration of the programme.

We are looking for a skilled and committed Key Workers to join our support team. This role will provide support and encouragement to participants out of hours.

Roles available are to cover:

Back shift: 33.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 3.30pm to 10.00pm), or

Weekends: 26 hours per week (Saturday and Sunday, 9.30am to 10.00pm), or

Night shift: 37 hours per week (over 3 days), or

Night shift: 13 hours per week (one night)

The successful candidates will have excellent interpersonal skills, be patient and tolerant, creative, reflective, flexible and committed to recovery. You should also have the ability to demonstrate Cyrenians values of compassion, respect, integrity and innovation in the work that you do.

Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire and Community Solutions Programme which is the community capacity building and carer support arm of Health and Social Care North Lanarkshire have secured funding through the Scottish Government Support in the Right Direction fund to develop a project supporting people to access social and community care as well as local community supports and services in North Lanarkshire. The project is hosted and managed by North Lanarkshire Disability Forum (NLDF)

The project compliments and adds to existing local social work provision by focussing one to one support for people who are not eligible for a social care budget to ensure they are better supported within the community and are able to access and manage support that maximises their assets and helps meet personal outcomes. This post will run until March 2022 with a possible extension (funding dependant) extending the reach of the project across all localities within North Lanarkshire. We are looking for a strong communicator to strengthen our existing team in helping people through this difficult time by further developing our online groups and connecting people to other local resources, this involves having conversations around practical and emotional issues about community supports, a place to discuss the current climate and the issues for people with or without an SDS budget around a particular issue or topic, e.g. mental health, housing, employment, gardening, art. This role is to provide an opportunity for people to discuss issues in an informal way. The ideal person will also have experience of marketing and promoting projects to engage and encourage involvement of the target group. This post is subject to membership of the PVG scheme.

Are you good at working with people in crisis, do you have experience of providing one to one support if you do then our Duty worker role could be for you. WASLER have a 21 hours a week post funded until September 2021 (with the possibility of being extended beyond this) and are looking for a candidate with an understanding of domestic abuse and its effects on women, children and young people who is able to listen to women and identify the support they need over the telephone and work with them to address these needs including advocating on their behalf.

As a Duty Support Worker you will provide a confidential, safe and supportive information service to women and agencies who contact Women’s Aid South Lanarkshire & East Renfrewshire (WASLER) through our crisis phone line and/or ‘drop in’ service.

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

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

This 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’

What is on offer for the Duty 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

We can only accept applications from women under Schedule 9 (Part 1) of the Equality Act 2010.

The successful candidate will be subject to PVG and reference checks.

Essential for the role

• Personal lived experience of homelessness, alcohol or other drugs, mental health issues and / or involvement in criminal justice system.

• Must be willing to use your lived experience to engage with service users

About the Service

South Lanarkshire Council have secured funding from the Drug Death Taskforce and are working with TPS to deliver a flexible, rapid response service which offers assertive outreach to individuals in crisis or at risk of crisis out of hrs. The service will focus on providing interventions to prevent or manage crisis situation through additional ‘out of hours’ capacity to support existing statutory and commissioned services. The service will ensure that we prevent tenancy and placement breakdown, reduce harm both physical and psychological, prevent drug deaths and connect people into services in the community. Individuals who are at risk of crisis will be alerted to TPS and we will provide check in’s out of hrs to ensure they do not fall into crisis. Additionally, we will be alerted out of hrs to individuals who are in crisis and we will provide a range of interventions including

• Keeping people safe

• Preventing tenancy / placement breakdowns

• Harm reduction information and advice. Understanding how people ‘use’ alcohol and other drugs.

• Distribution of Injecting Equipment Provision (IEP) including new needles, foil, sharp bins etc. as part of harm reduction.

• Targeted distribution of naloxone (peer distribution model) to individuals and friends / family

• Immediate response pathway for near-fatal overdose

• Dry Blood Spot testing, where appropriate, for HIV, Hep B / C.

• Condom distribution

• Emergency food parcels

• Access to period products

• Identification of emergency accommodation if homeless or at risk of losing accommodation

• Engaging with family members out of hours to provide support to keep people safe.

• Sustaining existing engagement with services

• Addressing barriers to engagement with services

• Assertive linkage to treatment and care services

• Identification of other health issues

Main duties and responsibilities

Support to people who use services - To:

• provide support and assistance to people who we support in accordance with their support plans and service aims and to provide insight into the process of recovery through the sharing of experience in a positive way.

• assist with initial and on-going assessments of people who we support.

• advise people who we support in accordance with guidance from senior colleagues or in accordance with the service aims.

• be a key worker as required.

• maintain professional confidentiality and boundaries at all times.

• support and assist people who we support in crisis situations, and/or manage physical risk or behaviour likely to cause incidents, in accordance with the support plan or service protocol.

• travel within the service area you are contracted for and supporting the travel and transportation of people who we support in accordance with their support plan (mobility, own car, service vehicles, public transport etc).

• have an understanding of the causes and effects of social exclusion as is relevant to the service and area in which you work.

Please note that it will be essential to the post to work out of hours and weekends regularly.

Applicants require to be 2 years abstinent from Alcohol and Other Drugs.

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual who has the skills and values to become a Peer Support Worker. It is essential that all candidates have Personal Lived Experience of Homelessness, Alcohol / Other Drugs or Mental Health Issues. By this we mean that you must have experienced the above mentioned directly yourself, not through someone else.

South Lanarkshire Council have secured funding from the Drug Death Taskforce and are working with TPS to deliver a flexible, rapid response service which offers assertive outreach to individuals in crisis or at risk of crisis out of hrs. The service will focus on providing interventions to prevent or manage crisis situation through additional ‘out of hours’ capacity to support existing statutory and commissioned services. The service will ensure that we prevent tenancy and placement breakdown, reduce harm both physical and psychological, prevent drug deaths and connect people into services in the community. Individuals who are at risk of crisis will be alerted to TPS and we will provide check in’s out of hrs to ensure they do not fall into crisis. Additionally, we will be alerted out of hrs to individuals who are in crisis and we will provide a range of interventions including

• Keeping people safe
• Preventing tenancy / placement breakdowns
• Harm reduction information and advice. Understanding how people ‘use’ alcohol and other drugs.
• Distribution of Injecting Equipment Provision (IEP) including new needles, foil, sharp bins etc. as part of harm reduction.
• Targeted distribution of naloxone (peer distribution model) to individuals and friends / family
• Immediate response pathway for near-fatal overdose
• Dry Blood Spot testing, where appropriate, for HIV, Hep B / C.
• Condom distribution
• Emergency food parcels
• Access to period products
• Identification of emergency accommodation if homeless or at risk of losing accommodation
• Engaging with family members out of hours to provide support to keep people safe.
• Sustaining existing engagement with services
• Addressing barriers to engagement with services
• Assertive linkage to treatment and care services
• Identification of other health issues

Main duties and responsibilities

Support to people who use services - To:

• provide support and assistance to people who we support in accordance with their support plans and service aims.
• be responsible for undertaking initial and on-going assessments of people who we support.
• advise people who we support in accordance with guidance from senior colleagues or in accordance with the service aims.
• be a key worker for a person or people who have complex or multiple needs.
• maintain professional confidentiality and boundaries at all times.
• support and assist people who we support in crisis situations, and/or manage physical risk or behaviour likely to cause incidents, in accordance with the support plan or service protocol.
• travel within the service area you are contracted for and supporting the travel and transportation of people who we support in accordance with their support plan (mobility, own car, service vehicles, public transport etc).
• have an good understanding of the causes and effects of social exclusion as is relevant to the service and area in which you work.

Please note that it will be essential to the post to work out of hours and weekends regularly.

Yoker Community Care for Elderly & Disabled aims to ensure that individuals that are elderly or experiencing physical and mental health issues can sustain an active life in their own homes as an alternative to full time health and/or care support. Based in Yoker Resource Centre, the Team Leader will work with staff, trainees and volunteers to address problems of social exclusion and isolation for disabled and elderly people enabling service users to participate in a wide range of community activities and services that will help improve their quality of life and support their ability to live independently.

Skills and Experience

Applicants are invited from those with leadership skills and a genuine commitment to understanding and working closely with people who are elderly or suffer sensory and/or physical impairment. Experience is preferable as is the ability to measure and match the needs of individuals at home or in the project premises. The post holder will require drive, initiative, and ability to communicate at all levels. The post demands supervision and arranging practical training for staff and voluntary workers, as well as the ability to promote and develop the needs for an integrated lifestyle for disabled and older people.

Genuine commitment and understanding of support towards residents in their homes or in the common facilities provided for their benefit is essential. Positive attitudes combined with a strong customer care approach are key qualities required. A willingness to tackle a wide range of tasks and work enthusiastically as part of a team is necessary.

Experience of needs assessment and working with support agencies to formulate a care plan would be an advantage as would an understanding of the emotional, physical and social needs of the elderly, disabled and their families.

Pinkston Watersports is Scotland's 1st and only artificial whitewater course. Our objectives focus on three main areas of Sport, Social Enterprise, and Community. Pinkston and its activities contribute towards community and physical regeneration; a mechanism for the education of young people and adults alike; a centre of sporting excellence; and the promotion of watersports in Scotland. By promoting our sports and making them accessible to all we deliver benefits to the health and wellbeing of local residents and others in the region.

The current Board is well established and diverse but Pinkston is transitioning from a start-up to an established and ambitious social enterprise. As our local area changes with over £750million of new housing developing in Sighthill and significant business initiatives at Port Dundas, Pinkston is looking for new talent to help seize these opportunities and to grow our social enterprise, deliver our charitable objects and play our part in the nations Covid-19 recovery.

We are looking to recruit a new chair and a Director of Finance to help prepare for the transformation occurring in the local area and to seize the opportunity to introduce more people to the wonders of paddling and swimming in the heart of Glasgow.

These voluntary roles involve a commitment of around 4 hours a month. This includes board meetings which are on an evening 6.30-8pm online; usually bi-monthly, but recently monthly due to our Covid-19 response.

We are Scotland’s Armed Forces Children’s Charity

Enable | Empower | Thrive

Young people are at the heart of everything we do. Our ambitious, innovative and impactful projects enable children and young people, from Armed Forces communities across Scotland, to develop in confidence, find their own voice and speak up for what they feel most passionate about. What’s more, our services support our children and young people to realise their potential and explore a wide range of positive futures. Our charity also awards grant funding to Armed Forces families and now, more than ever, we remain passionate and committed to supporting families living through considerable crisis as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. This is your opportunity to join our charity as a Trustee, and we are looking for your passion, commitment and drive to support Armed Forces children and their families thrive across Scotland, during an exciting period of organisational change and development in services.

About the role

We are looking for Trustees who share our vision and values and who have the energy, integrity, passion and skills to drive forward a successful and dynamic future for our charity. Our Trustees are volunteers, who are responsible for the strategic direction of the charity’s services, business plan and organisational policies as well as monitoring the performance of the CEO and team. Our Board of Trustees meet four times a year and consists of up to nine members.

We warmly encourage applications from the widest possible diversity of backgrounds, cultures and experiences, and we are particularly keen on candidates with knowledge and expertise within children’s social care, young people’s mental health and wellbeing as well as children’s rights. As a military charity, it is also important that we strive to ensure those who have served or have gained considerable experience working within the veterans sector are reflected within our Board of Trustees.