Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity. We have represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for 100 years. Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others.
These services together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change. SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.
About the Role
SAMH is delighted to be partnering with Aberdeenshire Council to expand our SAMH Time for Me programme to young people in schools and communities across Aberdeenshire. To achieve this we are seeking experienced practitioners to work full time, and during term-time with young people from Aberdeenshire high schools. Time for Me is a community based 8 session life skills course for young people aged 11 – 18 years experiencing low mood and/or anxiety. Based on the cognitive behavioural approach it provides young people with time and space to explore, discuss and understand their difficult feelings, thoughts and behaviours. It aims to reduce anxiety, improve wellbeing, increase confidence and resilience, and help young people to develop tools to manage life’s challenges.
The programme can be delivered individually within schools or community venues. We also hope to develop and trial a group work programme. The programme can be delivered both face to face and digitally. In addition to Time for Me, the Time for Me Practitioner will deliver a range of digital and face-to-face mental health and wellbeing workshops to parents and carers. These workshops aim to increase mental health awareness, whilst also tackling mental health stigma, and provide information and tools to enable people to support their own and others’ mental health and wellbeing.
What we are looking for
We are looking for individuals with extensive experience of working with young people around their mental health and wellbeing. With exceptional communication skills and ability to manage own case load, you’ll need to be flexible to respond to the needs of the service and young people, ensuring your practice is of the highest quality at all times.
A driving licence and access to a car is essential for this post. What we will provide for you
You will work in a supportive environment and will be provided with a full induction along with ongoing training opportunities. You will be given the chance to develop your knowledge and skills, as well as develop professionally. Some of our benefits include;
Come and join the team at Cyrenians Communities.
Are you passionate about working with young people seeking asylum?
Do you want to work in a small team making a big difference in young people’s lives?
Do you want to work somewhere which ensures that the voice of those with lived experience and staff is central to decision making?
If so, then our Senior Key Worker role at Lotus may be the one for you.
About Our Lotus Community
The Lotus Community is based in North Edinburgh, we offer accommodation and support to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. The purpose of the community is to provide a safe and supported living environment for the young people to live, learn and develop together while they go through their asylum journey.
About the role
You’ll be:
· Providing direct line management to a small team of staff
· Ensuring the referral, induction and moving processed are effective and trauma-informed.
· Ensuring our Safeguarding and Human Trafficking prevention processes are maintained to the highest standard.
· Providing occasional groupwork sessions as part of a programme of wellbeing activities.
· Overseeing the volunteer placements at Lotus and providing support when needed.
About You
We are looking for a flexible, well organised and passionate individual who is aware of the challenges our young unaccompanied children face. You will have experience of working with a similar client group, excellent communication skills, and a creative approach to problem solving. You will also have line management experience, and be motivated to work towards positive change.
You will be joining a staff team committed to the highest quality of care and support, and always striving to develop further. This means there will be great opportunities for you to both learn and develop, while sharing your skills and experiences.
How we’ll support you
An experienced and knowledgeable team member will provide full induction, and your line manager will provide regular support and supervision. You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.
About us
At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a Public Health Approach to Homelessness Prevention. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering all our services.
You can find out more about our impact and our values online.
Rock Trust are delighted to be expanding the successful ‘Housing First for Youth’ service into Glasgow. We are looking for a team member who has experience of supporting young vulnerable people accessing our services. The role will involve working intensively with a small caseload of young people to coordinate and provide emotional and practical support.
The Project Worker will work directly with young people to coordinate and provide emotional and practical support on a 1:1 and group basis. Working with young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to ensure that when homelessness can’t be avoided, their experience of homelessness is rare, brief, and non-recurring.
The Project Worker will offer line management, guidance, and support to Support Assistants and volunteers, working together to support young people to return or remain at home, improve their practical independent living skills, set up their own tenancy and access other services and to reach their full potential. Project Workers are responsible for completing support plans and risk assessments and are the main contact for any key people involved in the care and support of young people.
In addition to the responsibilities in the JD, the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:
About us
Ochil Tower School is a thriving educational and residential community, where 27 children and young people, aged 8-21, with special and complex additional support needs live, learn and grow together.
The aim is always to create a beautiful and calm experience. Ochil Tower School is set in seven acres of stunning Perthshire countryside. This enables its children and young adults to feel more relaxed and better able to forge relationships with peers and staff. They are then more able to build self-esteem, confidence, and their capacity for resilience.
The School provides excellent care and education and is not short on ambition. In October 2018, it opened a new Life Skills Centre. This facility is for young adults aged 18 – 21 and is designed to help them so that they are better prepared for the challenges of living an independent adult life by developing their skills in learning, life, and work. OTS has also been focussed on extending the residential provision to 52 weeks. The Board of Trustees have a commitment to further enhancing and developing the opportunities for the young people, the residential houses, and their plans to build new educational facilities for the school.
The Role
We are seeking to appoint a House Manager who will lead and manage a team that is responsible for ensuring a high quality of care is provided which meets the needs of each individual child and young person at Ochil Tower School.
The Person
We are seeking a highly responsible individual who can demonstrate competency in household management and has the ability to create and maintain a homely and supportive environment. The position requires an ability to resolve conflict and empower the staff team.
You will have previously been a House Manager and/or held supervisory responsibilities as an Assistant Manager and/or Senior Practitioner, evidenced through your CV. You will have clear evidence of leadership and management within a care setting with experience in rota management, support and supervision, auditing and developing the culture and ethos of your house, in line with the values of Ochil Tower School.
Qualifications
As part of the role you will hold;SVQ 4 Social Services at SCQF Level 9 (Children & Young People) and willingness to progress through the Leadership and Management Award Level 10
Requirements
Driving Licence
What we Offer
About us
The Pavillion is a youth organisation that provides a safe and fun environment for children and young people in the Easterhouse area of Glasgow. We provide activities and life skills for the young people including sports, arts and crafts, drama workshops, volunteering opportunities, girls/boys issue based groupwork sessions, drug and alcohol workshops, mental health groupwork sessions, cooking and healthy living. We help reduce social isolation in the community and promote positive friendships and social skills in our young attendees. Our aim is to create, support and inspire the young people by providing them with opportunities, skills and activities.
We are a fast-paced and progressive organisation that aims to support children, young people, their families and the wider local community through the provision of positive activities and opportunities.
The Pavillion supports and serves its community by; continually striving towards an inclusive facility; being a progressive organisation that meets the needs of its community and being a knowledgeable and informed organisation.
We are a key member of Blairtummock & Rogerfield Partnership; a collaboration of local community based organisations schools, nurseries and the college. We work collaboratively to improve the life chances and opportunities for people living in the communities we serve. As a group of partners, we work across all ages which makes this opportunity exciting, innovative and forward thinking.
About the Project
The 'Young Start Progressions' programme at 'The Pavilion' will be a dynamic 2-year programme, led by young people, supported by staff and volunteers and by existing and new partnership opportunities. Our three-pronged approach aims to empower young individuals across various stages of their development:
Primary/Secondary Transitions Programme: We will provide support for P7, S1, and S2 young people as they transition from primary to secondary school, fostering empowerment, confidence, and improved self-esteem in a non-school environment.
Volunteer Mentoring Programme: Expanding on our successful volunteering mentoring initiative, we offer diverse opportunities for young volunteers, connecting them with roles both within Pavilion and through our network of school partnerships and community collaborations.
Attainment Programme: Focused on enhancing pathways for Junior and Senior Club participants, we integrate life skills development seamlessly into existing activities. From goal-setting exercises, certificated activity programmes to accredited learning and further training opportunities.
Purpose of Job
We are seeking a Programme Coordinator to lead the delivery of this project as well as managing the Attainment Worker & Volunteer Development Worker posts attached to this project.
Being creative, innovative and ideas driven, to support delivery of multiple programmes of activity and be able to forge strong positive relationships with partners are key attributes for this post. The postholder will be responsible for taking a coordinated approach to implementing activities with young people that address the key identified issues affecting them, ensuring their needs are addressed and pathways created that help them to succeed.
The postholder should have experience working with a range of age groups and are able to demonstrate experience in taking a youth-led approach to service delivery.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Project Worker to join our Youth Homelessness Support Service, funded by Perth and Kinross Council the service aims to support young people to transistion from homelessness into settled accommodation, as well as supporting those in tenancies who may be at risk of eviction and young people who want to return home and maintain relationships with their families. The Project Worker will work with young people aged 16-25 years.
The Project Worker will be a leading member of the team, establishing positive relationships with partner agencies across Perth, working to ensure that youth homelessness rates reduce, and that a young person’s experience of homelessness is rare, brief and non-recurring.
This post is ideal for a self-starter, who has previous experience of working in a supportive role in a paid or voluntary capacity and is looking for a new challenge.
For applicants that don’t currently meet the requirements for registration as a support worker in a Housing Support service with the SSSC, this post can be offered as a technical apprenticeship giving the successful candidate a pathway to achieving the SVQ level 3 or 4 in Health & Social Care.
The Project Worker post is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund to deliver the Stepping
Stones Project in the Berwickshire area. Stepping Stones Project Worker supports young people aged 10-18 in their communities, with the aim of improving their emotional health and wellbeing, and life chances. The Project Worker will provide universal support to each young person based on their personal needs, helping them to achieve their full potential and to develop skills through non-formal education activities within a universal youth work setting.
The Project Worker will offer support to young people on topics such as emotional health, wellbeing, confidence, transition, anxiety, life-skills cyber-bullying and relationships by offering tailored one-to-one support, targeted small group sessions and youth work activities. The project also supports young people to engage with training, volunteering, youth achievement awards, social action and joint activities with other youth groups in the Scottish Borders.
Responsible to: Connect Berwickshire Youth Project Manager
Pre-Employment Checks: PVG and Satisfactory References
Further Information about Stepping Stones:
This post is part of a partnership approach to youth work where young people can have support, advice and make a difference to themselves and in their communities. Stepping Stones is developed and run by the award-winning Scottish Borders Youth Work Partnership. The Youth Work Partnership is made up of seven lead locality based universal youth groups: Beyond Earlston, Cheviot Youth, TD1 Youth Hub, Escape Youth Services, Connect Berwickshire Youth Project, Tweeddale Youth Action and Rowlands Selkirk.
For further information about Stepping Stones and the Scottish Borders Youth Work Partnership please visit YouthBorders website: Stepping Stones - YouthBorders
The Emotional Wellbeing Officer will work closely with the Youth Work Lead, senior Youth Workers, and Youth Work Staff to ensure that an emotional wellbeing offering is run effectively and efficiently and in accordance with service guidelines, policies and procedures. The role’s main purpose is prevention and early intervention to aid and improve the mental health of children and young people aged 8 – 25 years by providing emotional and practical support in one-to-one and group settings. Support and supervision of this role will lie with the Youth Work Lead. It is expected that the postholder will hold their own case load with referrals coming from Cheviot Youth, schools, our partners in social work, police and the NHS and the charity’s Insight Youth division. They will be expected to lead on any service development and policy work, assisted where appropriate by the Senior Youth Workers and the Youth Work Lead.
Responsible to: Cheviot Youth, Youth Work Lead
Pre-Employment Checks: PVG and Satisfactory References
Further Information about Stepping Stones:
This post is part of a partnership approach to youth work where young people can have support, advice and make a difference to themselves and in their communities. Stepping Stones is developed and run by the award-winning Scottish Borders Youth Work Partnership. The Youth Work Partnership is made up of seven lead locality based universal youth groups: Beyond Earlston, Cheviot Youth, TD1 Youth Hub, Escape Youth Services, Connect Berwickshire Youth Project, Tweeddale Youth Action and Rowlands Selkirk.
For further information about Stepping Stones and the Scottish Borders Youth Work Partnership please visit YouthBorders website: Stepping Stones - YouthBorders
YouthBorders is the network of voluntary and community based youth organisations in the Scottish Borders, supporting and promoting good quality youth work.
As a membership organisation, YouthBorders facilitates networking opportunities and events and provides information and advice to voluntary and community based youth organisations, their volunteers, trustees, youth workers and other partners in the community. We are recognised regionally as the strategic voice of third sector youth organisations and work closely with partners in the public sector to improve outcomes for young people.
A vacancy has arisen for a Project Coordinator for our innovative Stepping Stones project, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. This innovative and unique project has been developed by the Scottish Borders Youth Work Partnership which brings together seven youth work organisations from across the region together with YouthBorders. The post holder will be the principal point of contact and coordination for the Stepping Stones project; taking leadership and responsibility for the management of project data, finances, and governance.
We are seeking an exceptional communicator with experience of project coordination or management. The post-holder will be highly organised, self-motivated and have knowledge and experience of data collection, evaluation and outcomes monitoring.
Key Duties:
Do you have experience working with computerised finance system, finance ledgers, record keeping and ensuring financial controls are followed? Have you completed invoicing and credit control processes and procedures? Do you enjoy providing excellent customer service? If so we would love to hear from you.
About Aberlour
We are a values driven organisation delivering around 40 services across Scotland supporting children, young people and families.
Our central support functions are critical in ensuring our services can provide the best care possible.
What we are looking for....
We are looking for someone to join our finance department working 37.5 hours per week. Most of our head office staff are currently working from home. There will be desk space available in our Stirling office however individuals are able to work a mix of home and office work.
Using your knowledge of financial systems and proficient IT skills you will support a portfolio of services and act as their main contact within the finance department. You will raise, send and organise the payment of invoices, reconcile company accounts and chase late payments.
You will ideally have a relevant professional qualification or significant equivalent experience.
Find out more information on what we are looking for in candidates on our website
At Aberlour we want to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.