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Partners in Advocacy is looking for a part-time Administrator to join our Glasgow team.

Experience of providing a high level of admin support is essential.

Driving license and access to a vehicle essential.

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated individual with an understanding of the needs of unpaid carers to join our team to provide support to carers living in the Peebleshire area and within local Community Hospitals.

Knowledge of Community Care and Carer Legislation is desirable.

2 roles available, one based within our East Hub office (Edinburgh) and one in our West Hub office (Glasgow).

Venture Trust works with people experiencing complicated life circumstances. Through the provision of wilderness-based personal and social development programmes, we equip them with the confidence, motivation and core life skills that they need to make positive changes in their lives.

Our Outreach team delivers high quality participant support across the range of Venture Trust programmes, to engage participants in a dynamic and progressive community and wilderness-based personal development opportunity.

The successful candidates will work with local and national support organisations to raise awareness and knowledge of Venture Trust’s programmes for ex Armed Forces Personnel particularly those with a history of offending behaviours or those reluctant to self-identify as veterans or engage with support. You will offer advice and training to a network of existing and new referral partners on recognising and identifying ex Armed Forces Personnel, particularly those who may not describe themselves as veterans, and specific barriers faced by this cohort and the support options available to them. A particular focus will be on bridging the gap between veteran and civilian organisations, promoting a shared language and understanding of support.

Ideal candidates will have spent time serving in the Armed Forces or will have experience of working with the Armed Forces. Candidates must also display excellent communication skills with the ability to connect with stakeholders at all levels and should be comfortable delivering formal and informal presentations. Strong time management skills to manage a varied and demanding workload, with the ability and willingness to work effectively under own initiative and often in isolation are also essential. Ideally you will be open-minded and understanding with a willingness to work with vulnerable and disaffected individuals, recognising the issues that affect them and ways to guide, encourage and support them. Please note a driving license and access to a vehicle is an essential requirement of this role.

We offer a range of generous benefits including 28 days annual leave and 9 public and bank holiday days, flexible working and a joint contributory pension scheme.

Venture Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity in employment, and follows an equal opportunities policy.

To work closely with the Ccommunity Director to support him / her, other staff members, companions and volunteers to ensure the wellbeing, safe and efficient running and maintenance of the Emmaus Community in Glasgow in line with its ethos and values.

To find out more, please see the Application Pack below.

Fife Women’s Aid is committed to providing quality services for women, children and young people who experience domestic abuse. Fife Women’s Aid operates across Fife and delivers a range of services including counseling, women’s support, refuge management and children and young people’s services.

We are looking for an experienced Support Worker with knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse issues to provide a specialist advocacy service for women in Fife who experience domestic abuse for Fife MARAC (Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferencing).

Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with a range of multi-agency partners essential.

The post is initially funded until 31st March 2020

Membership of Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme is a requirement of this post.

#morethanajob

Do you have what it takes to make a difference?

ENABLE Scotland is a dynamic and vibrant organisation dedicated to improving the lives of people with learning disabilities and we are looking for motivated and driven individuals to join us in striving to ensure they have the same opportunities as everyone else.

We have an exciting opportunity within our East Lothian services, based in our Musselburgh office in Edinburgh, for a dynamic and motivated individual with experience managing teams within the Social Care sector. You must have the passion and drive to lead teams of frontline staff to support individuals to achieve their personal outcomes and live the life they choose.

Sound good so far?

Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate the following:

* Experience working with adults with learning disabilities, epilepsy, autism and physical support needs.

* Experience in using person centred planning techniques in addition to delivering and leading excellent support practices.

* Strong facilitation skills to encourage staff teams to take ownership and responsibility for the quality of support they deliver.

* The ability to effectively communicate with the people we support, staff teams, families and external care professionals.

* Creating and delivering robust service designs, support strategies and risk assessments.

* Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your workload whilst working under pressure.

* SVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent, or willing to work towards this

* Full driving licence with access to your own vehicle for business use.

What's also great about ENABLE Scotland is that we believe in developing all our staff and provide an extensive training programme, combined with a commitment to create career development opportunities including SVQ Level 4.

Remember this is #morethanajob - it's the first step to you making a difference and beginning your career with an award winning charity with its values at its core.

Who are we?

Part political, part business and part charity - NUS is a third sector membership organisation with a twist! Professionally run, but different – the exact-opposite of corporate. Collaborating with over 550 amazing member students’ unions, we provide a huge range of services and support to them. NUS colleagues work together every day to support elected student leaders - as they make change in the world and improve the lives of students - we help make it happen!

What’s the job?

An exciting opportunity has arisen within NUS Scotland to join our team supporting our Think Positive project work. This role will coordinate and deliver a flagship conference on student mental health working to engage stakeholders to learn and share good practice.

The successful candidate should have knowledge or experience in event planning, project delivery and developing relationships with external stakeholders. Excellent communications skills and the ability to work across teams will be especially valued.

This is a fixed term post for 12 months from start date, as part of the Student Mental Health Agreement project funded by the Scottish Government.

Who you are

• With collaboration at the heart of your approach you’ll be excited to work with colleagues and stakeholders to raise the profile of Think Positive’s project work.
• You’ll have experience of planning, delivering and evaluating events.
• You’ll have no problems communicating clearly and effectively including through giving presentations, in writing and also over the phone.
• You’ll have been involved with project work before and will be comfortable planning, delivering and evaluating the work whilst working towards project outcomes.
• You’ll be used to developing relationships with external organisations and are comfortable identifying new ways to work together.
• You’re committed to being an active part of an environment that promotes equality of opportunity whilst recognising and valuing diversity.
• Your personal values will mean you are passionate about continually developing your knowledge and skills with the wider NUS Scotland team.

Why apply?

In return for your passion and experience we offer the flexibility for work-life balance, a competitive salary for the non-profit sector and excellent holidays and benefits.

We’re absolutely open to considering requests for job-share or part-time working.

We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability.

You can be yourself here whoever you are, be proud of the work you do and build a career in a place that knows different is good.

Whoever you are, if you’re looking for something a bit out of the ordinary, we’d love to hear from you.

Food Train is an award winning voluntary organisation, providing practical support services to older people across Scotland, helping them to eat well, live well and age well. Our Dumfries and Galloway branch currently offers 4 services to older people: grocery shopping, home support, befriending and our innovative Meal Makers neighbourhood meal sharing project. We are seeking an outstanding individual to help develop these services in the Nithsdale locality.

We are looking for a suitably experienced and enthusiastic individual committed to the voluntary sector and older people’s services. Applicants will have excellent communication skills and a sound understanding of volunteer management and service delivery. The ideal candidate will have experience of successful people based project development and partnership working in the voluntary sector.

This project has developed from work we are doing with people in the area around Brechin and Edzell to develop more opportunities for older people, including activities that can benefit the whole community. This is part of a wider project: Rural Wisdom is working with people in communities across Scotland and Wales to look at how rural communities work for people as they get older.

This new project is complementing all the good work and activities happening in this area. The aim is to increase the social connections for older people, including those who have additional disabilities or face other challenges, and other people who are, or are at risk of becoming, socially isolated.

There are several parts to the project:

• Organising a gathering every 3 months or so - events that bring together people and community groups, where people have a nice time with and tea and cakes, find out what is going on in the area and have their say about what they would like to see.
• Organising activities that are welcoming and easy for people to take part, such as crafts, music and physical activities that work for people with little confidence or skill and are good fun
• Spreading information about what is happening and reaching people who have few social connections and tend to be missed by existing networks.
• Building a network of Communications Champions – local people who share information with people they know, such as neighbours and members of groups they are part of

The intention is that after a year or so people and community groups in the area will be able to take on the events and activities, such as taking turns to host these and working in partnership to plan and publicises what they do. The person working on this project will work alongside local people to plan how the Community Connections approach continues in the linger-term.

This project has links with a similar project that is being developed in the area around Brechin in Angus, also as a development from the Rural Wisdom work there. We are building links between the people working in each area. There will also be shared learning sessions and joint materials that tell other people what we are learning and doing in both projects.

The project is funded by the Greater Renfrewshire and Angus LEADER programmes as a co-operation project with a similar post in Eaglesham and the surrounding area in East Renfrewshire.

Corra Foundation is delighted to be Comic Relief’s intermediary funding partner in Scotland. This will involve Corra delivering a grant-making programme for small grassroots organisations which are actively working on issues that sit within Comic Relief’s strategic themes of:

· Children Survive & Thrive

· Fighting for Gender Justice

· A Safe Place to Be

· Global Mental Health Matters

We are looking for two people to work on the programme as Grant Advisors, providing excellent information and advice to potential applicants in addition to carrying out fair and thorough assessments of funding applications. The successful post holders will have a working knowledge of the voluntary sector and hands-on experience of assessing funding applications. We will expect you to have a commitment to supporting small charities and communities and for you to be open to testing new ways of grant making.