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The SAMH National Employment Team operates high quality services to support participants to access and sustain employment. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Fair Start Scotland team to make a positive impact on the lives of the participants we support.

This is the most challenging and rewarding job you may ever apply for. The positive impact you can make on peoples’ lives will be down to the quality of support you provide as well as knowing your work will positively improve the lives of your participants and the wider community.

The role of the SAMH Employment Specialist Facilitator has its challenges and opportunities for you and the people you will support into employment. You are expected to deliver very high standards and performance targets in an environment where everyone wants the best for the participant.

Your attitude and personality matter as much as your skills and experience. We are looking for initiative, creativity, energy and determination because, as a SAMH Employment Specialist Facilitator, you’ll be supporting a diverse set of unemployed participants to find lasting jobs. They will each require different support so you’ll be doing a job that’s varied, challenging and genuinely rewarding.

Whatever your experience, we need people with an open-minded, determined attitude who can motivate and inspire both themselves and their participants to succeed. You will need to be comfortable working on your own initiative without the day-to-day presence of line management and one of your key strengths will be building and maintaining positive relationships.

As this post will involve travel throughout Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire, a full driving licence and access to your own transport is essential.

You’ll be rewarded with an excellent salary and benefits package. You can find out more about the work of the National Employment Team on our website.

People often tell us it’s the best job they’ve ever had.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with the right values to join our service assisting and supporting vulnerable homeless people to achieve better lives.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide a meaningful support service to identified individuals who live in the project. You will provide a quality service tailored to the assessed needs of each individual by identifying, planning and facilitating support to enable appropriate move-on options for each service user. You will use all of your knowledge and experience to help service users build their life skills and prepare for independent living.

You will have an HNC or SVQ3 qualification in social care. Other essentials include: experience of working with vulnerable people, addiction issues and challenging behaviour; effective written and verbal communication; knowledge of homelessness issues; and, above all, the determination to make a difference in the lives of our service users.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning.

In return, we will offer you excellent learning and development opportunities, competitive annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, access to employee assistance programmes such as counselling, and life assurance.

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 the development of students’ associations in colleges. This role will support elected student officers, students’ association staff and college professionals to embed the Framework for the Development of Strong and Effective College Students’ Associations in Scotland.

Typical tasks will include delivering training, facilitating meetings, creating and delivering development plans, advising students’ associations on best practice, and running events. The successful candidate should have knowledge or experience of the college sector and experience working in students’ associations or a similar membership-based organisation. Skills in consultancy, project management and stakeholder management will be especially valued.

This is a fixed term post until July 2021, as part of a project funded by the Scottish Funding Council.

Who you are

With collaboration at the heart of your approach you’ll be excited to work with colleagues and members to develop innovative projects that drive forward students’ associations in Scotland.

You may have experience working in a students’ association, or maybe in organisational development or consultancy.

You’ll definitely be comfortable working with students and advising members with sensitivity, gravitas and assertiveness.

You’ll have no problems communicating clearly and effectively, both in writing and also in person and on the phone.

You’ll be used to travel, getting out and about to engage and support our members face to face, and managing competing priorities.

Your personal values will mean you are passionate about developing your knowledge and skills with the wider NUS Scotland team, and working towards collective goals.

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.

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to develop our work with children and families both within the church and in the wider community. The postholder will explore and research the needs of families and young people in the community and continue to develop a programme of regular activities for them which serve as points of contact between community and church. He/she will also continue to develop the co-ordination of progressive Christian teaching amongst children within the church through a vibrant programme that offered a fun, safe learning environment for all, while developing relationships with and supporting families associated with the congregation.

The post is for 20 hours per week and is for a 9-month fixed term contact, as it is a pilot programme to investigate further the needs of the community to inform our work with them.

Langside Church is an active and growing Christian community on the south side of Glasgow. We are an affirming church within the Church of Scotland. Our theology is open, inclusive and progressive, encouraging people to ask questions at all stages of life.

Our modern church building provides a valuable resource within the local community. Finn’s Place, our well-being project operates here, and has been running for five years. Our work with children and families in both congregation and community has been developing during that time.

Key duties and responsibilities will include:

• Co-ordinating Sunday Children’s Group and oversight of programme, using appropriate curriculum that supports the inclusive and progressive approach of the church.
• Building on existing initiatives which seek to reach out and engage with children, young people and families, both inside and outside the church.
• Strengthening links and support new ventures with local schools and community groups.
• Investigating what types of activities and support children, families and young people in the community want/need;
• Completing a report for Langside Church as a result of this research.
• Developing meaningful future activities/support based on what is learned from this research.
• Fostering the development of volunteers in ministry with children and young people.
• Maintaining an accurate record of appropriate contact with children, families and young people which complies with GDPR requirements.
• Undertaking other tasks as may be delegated by his/her line manager.

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work with a growing team of social enterprise and community developers in one of Scotland’s most well regarded and effective social enterprise support providers. Community Enterprise Ltd is a well-established third sector support organisation with a progressive outlook and a growing portfolio. We are looking for someone to join our team to meet the increasing demand for our services. The post involves delivering capacity building and development support to a wide range of clients and projects across Scotland.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with the right values to join our service assisting and supporting vulnerable homeless people to achieve better lives.

The successful candidate will be expected to complement the work of our support teams by ensuring the security of the building through observation and checks, maintaining health, safety and hygiene standards and following procedures such as for financial transactions, admissions and leavers, housing benefit, incident reports and building repairs reports.

You should have sound literacy and numeracy skills and experience of dealing with challenging behaviour. Other essentials include: experience of team working; good verbal communication; the ability to interact with people in an appropriate and positive way; and, above all, the determination to make a difference in the lives of our service users.

The service accommodates and supports people aged 21 and over who are homeless. Typical shifts 8 hours and includes weekends. Housing Assistants manage the accommodated buildings 24/7 and provide a contact point for people who may need some assistance or guidance where required, this involves lone working.

2 x 8 hour shifts over 7 days on a 4 week rolling rota.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning.

In return, we will offer you excellent learning and development opportunities, competitive annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, access to employee assistance programmes such as counselling, and life assurance.

Changing minds, changing lives

Our vision is for a world with good mental health for all.

Our mission is to help people understand, protect and sustain their mental health.

Prevention is at the heart of what we do, because the best way to deal with a crisis is to prevent it from happening in the first place. We inform and influence the development of evidence-based mental health policy at national and local government level. In tandem, we help people to access information about the steps they can take to reduce their mental health risks and increase their resilience.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work with us to maintain, promote and develop the aims and values of the foundation in education settings with a focus on bringing to life the key messages and ambitions of our “Make it Count” campaign in Scotland; our campaign to improve mental health outcomes for school aged children.

MHF Scotland are looking to recruit a Project Coordinator to lead the implementation of two new programmes to be piloted in schools across Scotland; “MHF Stress Less” and the “MHF Peer Education Programme”, while engaging pupils, parents and schools with campaign activities more broadly.

The individual should demonstrate their skills and experience in the design and delivery of learning experiences in educational and/or community settings, as well as excellent organisational and project management skills. Strong communication skills, the ability to work well independently and part of a team, as well as the ability to engage a range of audiences (pupils, teachers and parents) is essential along with a demonstrable understanding of public mental health, education and equality.

As Information Officer, you will be responsible for delivering a range of information activities including talks, presentations and information stands, to provide information to older people with hearing loss and other key audiences in the community. You will also have a key role in managing the team of volunteers supporting the UK Hear to Inform and Connect project, ensuring all volunteers are developed, trained and motivated to provide high quality outreach information services. As a core member of the project team, you will support the development of delivery plans for the project in Scotland, with a particular focus on building collaborative networks with local community groups and organisations who will be involved in and supported by the project.

We are delighted to have been awarded £1 million by the Big Lottery fund to expand our face-to-face volunteer led information services across London and South East England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Thanks to this award we will be able to empower and increase the number of older people who take action to manage their hearing loss.

We help people confronting deafness, tinnitus and hearing loss to live the life they choose. We enable them to take control of their lives and remove the barriers in their way.

Purpose of the post

To develop, implement and evaluate the Learning Strategy and Plan. The strategy will promote excellence in learning experiences motivating and inspiring individuals, groups, and businesses to maximise volunteering and fundraising.

To manage the Learning team including the Moving Poppy outreach staff. The Moving Poppy truck will travel Scotland visiting schools and diverse communities and will include interactive exhibits, artefacts and oral histories of personal stories of military life. Not only will it interpret the heritage of the poppy but will host activities for groups to explore and share a contemporary understanding of remembrance, the nature of conflict and the poppy’s role in modern Scottish society as a symbol of unity and hope and will provide a unique and exciting opportunity to explore and promote all that the poppy stands for.

Key Skills / Qualities

· Knowledge and understanding of the Scottish education system including the Curriculum for Excellence

· Experience of managing projects with the ability to deliver multiple priorities ensuring completion within budget and deadlines

· Ideally experience of managing a team across a number of locations

· Experience of working with external stakeholders and funders such as National Lottery Heritage Funding

· Experience of managing an outreach project/vehicle would be an advantage but not essential

· Experience of the charity environment and ideally knowledge of the military.

· Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to represent the organisation effectively to a wide range of external stakeholders and supporters.

· Strong written communication skills with the ability to create innovative and persuasive presentations and proposals to a range of audiences.

· Good financial management skills including ability to forecast and provide accurate income and expenditure detail.

· Cooperative, adaptable and flexible attitude

· Reliable and dependable with the ability to work independently using your own Initiative

· Experience of managing volunteers.

· PVG registration required

Early Years Scotland is Scotland’s leading national Third Sector specialist organisation that supports our youngest children from birth to 5 years of age.

Our fully qualified early years staff work directly with children and their families to deliver our unique Stay Play and Learn sessions in a variety of settings including nurseries, community halls, schools and prisons. We work increasingly in prisons, and areas where there are children and families who have the greatest need, and will benefit most from our services.

We have been established for over 50 years, and we are very proud of our long and ever-growing track record in supporting Scotland’s youngest children to have the very best start in life.

Early Years Scotland is looking for an exceptional individual to join their Professional Learning Team at an exciting stage in its development. This is an exceptional opportunity and a unique challenge waiting to be shaped by you!

You will work closely with the Head of Professional Learning and Quality Assurance supporting them to achieve the highest standards in all aspects of the Professional Learning Team’s remit.

You will have a pivotal role in shaping learning programmes, creating materials and influencing and improving practice. You will ensure that Early Years Scotland builds on its excellent reputation in this field and becomes a leading and sought after professional learning provider for the early years sector in Scotland.

You will bring a range of experience and skills including:

• a relevant degree level qualification relating to early years
• significant experience of delivering professional learning to qualified early years professionals
• knowledge and experience of developing professional learning programmes
• extensive experience and sound knowledge of current early years policy at local and national level
• enthusiastic team player and an adept self-starter
• A full, current driving licence with own transport insured for business use and membership of PVG Scheme will also be required.

We also offer an excellent range of professional development opportunities and the chance to be truly instrumental in making a difference to the lives of young children across Scotland.