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MARAC Coordinator (Multi-agency risk assessment conference - a process that identifies the highest risk victims of domestic abuse).

Main Purpose: To co-ordinate the MARAC (Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference) meeting in Stirlingshire conduct research and create reports for the MARAC and ensure actions are undertaken.

The Dunblane Development Trust (DDT), a community development trust based in Dunblane, is seeking a part time Volunteer Co-ordinator to support and take forward our work with volunteers.

Our activities are almost entirely managed and carried out by volunteers mainly through the operation of our working groups which cover a range of activities from environmental, handy person and supporting vulnerable members of our community.

We currently have nearly 200 volunteers from all walks of life. We are now looking to expand both the numbers of volunteers we have, the types and range of volunteering opportunities available to people, and through our volunteers, expand the services which we can provide to the local community. This post, funded through Big Lottery, will allow us to progress our ideas.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed person to work alongside the board and our working group leaders.

About us

STEP have been supporting businesses for over three decades. When we started in 1983 we wanted to build more than just an office block, business park or commercial property. We wanted to build a community of businesses where companies could start, grow and lean on each other in a supportive environment.

Today we support 3,000 businesses on average per year and manage over 200 spaces across 5 sites.

All our profits are invested back into business support activities and delivering services that have a positive impact on the local economy.

What you’ll do at STEP

As a Non-Executive Director you will join our Board to support existing members and the Leadership team in shaping and delivering the overall vision and objectives of STEP. You will need to think beyond the numbers and use your knowledge and experience to to help shape the strategic direction of the business bringing passion, positivity and creativity to the Boardroom.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for someone who will always put the company’s interests first, will care about supporting and growing the local economy and who will bring passion, acumen and experience to the Boardroom whilst positively supporting the executive team.

We are a close-knit, driven team that care deeply about delivering the best business support in the Forth Valley area. Therefore, it is important that the person who joins our board is keen to get to know our people and can invest their time and experience in playing an active role on our board.

Remuneration: Expenses Only

Term of Office:2 years

Come and join our new team in our exciting new Residential Children’s House in Auchterhouse?

This is an exciting opportunity to work in our new residential house for children in Auchterhouse near Dundee. You should be organised, used to working in a busy office environment and possess the skills to deliver a full administration service including reception duties, co-ordinating meetings, mail and maintaining manual and electronic storage and retrieval systems. You will also coordinate building and equipment needs as required in consultation with your manager.

An important part of the role is to provide financial administration for the service, supported by the Senior Finance Officer. You must be able to work with high levels of accuracy in recording and inputting data and in providing regular management information, in an agreed format and also responding to ad hoc requests as required.

You must have excellent IT skills, and experience of using the range of Microsoft Office tools on a daily basis: Word, Excel, Outlook etc. You will also need to become familiar with Microsoft Teams which is currently being used extensively during the Covid-19 pandemic.

You will be proficient in using Microsoft Word such as to enable you to support the production of a range of reports. As you will often be the first point of contact within the service for a range of social care, education and other professionals you will need to have strong verbal communication skills.

Community regeneration, employability and training organisation, Stirling Community Enterprise Limited, and our parent Charity Raploch Urban Regeneration Company Limited are looking to welcome two new members to our Board of Trustees / Company Directors as we prepare to support the residents of Stirling to recover from the impacts of COVID.

We are looking to identify two enthusiastic individuals who have a passion for creating sustainable change in terms of economic, social and physical wellbeing for our Stirling wide community.

Positions available are on a voluntary basis.

What we are looking for

We are looking for passionate individuals who can give commitment and time to enable our Charity to meet the increasing demand for support as our country emerges from the pandemic. We are keen that our Board represents a diverse range of backgrounds, interests, and life experiences.

If you are passionate about ensuring everyone has the chance to progress in life and achieve their potential, then please get in touch. Whilst we welcome applications from all who feel they can make a positive contribution to our charitable activities, out Board is particularly keen to hear from those with experience in the following areas:

• Finance and Accounting – Experience working at a strategic level in Finance with a sound knowledge of long-term financial planning.
• Social Enterprise – Strategic level experience of working within a Social Enterprise, understanding of legal structures and experience of developing or overseeing grant funded projects.

What is involved?

As a Charitable Trustee and member of the Board of Company Directors, you would be instrumental in guiding the strategic future of the Charity and its trading subsidiary.

Directors will be expected to attend around 10 meetings per year, including 4 – 5 full board meetings and interim subgroup meetings. We expect Board members to participate in the majority of meetings either in person or via video conferencing.

Directors may at times be asked to play a role in the operation of the charity and trading company by attending events and speaking to the media, depending on the trustee’s particular skills and interests.

Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans Board Members

We are looking for three new Board Members to join Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans to work with us to meet our ambitious new strategy of reaching as many people with sight loss as possible across Scotland, no matter what their age or stage of visual impairment.

Our aim is that no-one should face sight loss alone. At Sight Scotland we already offer expert care, education and support but we want to do more by reaching out in new ways across all of Scotland to many more communities and people with sight loss. Sight Scotland Veterans supports around 1,400 veterans, providing innovative and valuable support to keep them independent through our outreach service, rehabilitation and activity centres.

Our Board plays a key role in supporting our strategic direction and ensuring good governance, supporting us as we work to meet our ambitious new strategy, therefore it is essential that you have an interest in better outcomes for people with sight loss.

We are particularly keen to see applications from those with strategic level experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Community Engagement or Co-production
• Equality, Diversity and Human Rights
• Additional Support Needs or Visual Impairment Education
• Knowledge and Understanding of Veterans’ Issues
• Human Resources / Organisational Development
• Fundraising
• Digital Transformation
• Property
• Medical Research

Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans are sister charities and are the new names for Royal Blind and Scottish War Blinded. Board Members are Trustees of both organisations.

LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people of all ages to overcome the negative impacts of trauma, mental health, inequality, and isolation. We deliver our support to service users through a range of models including:

• Personal development and employability programmes
• Self-help coaching
• Supported accommodation
• Care at home
• Housing support
• Befriending
• Social cafes

At LinkLiving, our values are at the heart of everything we do and we put the people we support first. It is important to us to find people with the right values, behaviours and attitudes to match our own. Our values are:

• Empathy (listen to and understand an individual’s needs and circumstances)
• Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)
• Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)
• Caring (show kindness and concern for others)

As part of the UK government’s Plan for Jobs, a new Kickstart Scheme has been launched that will create hundreds of thousands of new, fully subsidised jobs for young people across the country. As well as aiming to kickstart the country’s economy, it will also provide the opportunity to kickstart the careers of young people who would otherwise be left behind as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Job

Accountable to the Service Delivery Manager, the Employability Project Worker will be responsible for coordinating the delivery of the Kickstart scheme within Link and its partners. This will be through providing one to one support to young people we employ and the departments hosting the six-month Kickstart jobs.

The Employability Project Worker will work in partnership with Job Centre Plus to recruit Kickstart participants and offer these participants one-to-one support and group training. In addition, the Employability Project Worker will provide support to the various departments hosting Kickstart jobs.

About You

The post holder must have a good standard of secondary education including Math’s and English. Due to the role of the Employability Project Worker in delivering group training, we would require you to have experience in the delivery and development of training programmes.

It is essential that the post holder has an understanding of issues affecting young people who are excluded and marginalised and demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to people’s emotional and social health.

It is also essential that the post holder has a flexible, practical and reliable approach and an ability to prioritise and plan your own workload.

You must also have a current driving license and access to a roadworthy car.

For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please refer to the Job Specification in the Job information Pack below.

LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people of all ages to overcome the negative impacts of trauma, mental health, inequality, and isolation. We deliver our support to service users through a range of models including:

• Personal development and employability programmes

• Self-help coaching

• Supported accommodation

• Care at home

• Housing support

• Befriending

• Social cafes

At LinkLiving, our values are at the heart of everything we do and we put the people we support first. It is important to us to find people with the right values, behaviours and attitudes to match our own. Our values are:

• Empathy (listen to and understand an individual’s needs and circumstances)
• Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)
• Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)
• Caring (show kindness and concern for others)

Falkirk Young Persons Service has a particular specialism and growing reputation in successfully working with young people affected by trauma. The service works hard and creatively to maintain the early engagement of these young people who often have very complex and chaotic backgrounds. Falkirk’s Young Person Service consists of Steps to Success and Employability Services which the Service Delivery Manager will oversee.

STEPS TO SUCCESS

Based in Grangemouth, this service is for care experienced young people and is delivered in partnership with Falkirk Council. It consists of 9 self-contained flats, all located in close proximity to a central hub which is staffed flexibly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The service has been designed in partnership with young people and aims to provide intensive support to enable them to develop the independent living skills needed for successful tenancy sustainment as well as to access education / training and employment opportunities.

EMPLOYABILITY SERVICES

Based at Link Academy the Employability team have an excellent track record of supporting young people to develop the personal resilience, practical and emotional skills necessary for successfully moving onto their next steps in learning, personal development and accessing further education and employment. The wide range of supports offered through this service is delivered through a combination of group work and one-one interventions, along with access to accredited training as part of its status as a learning academy and SQA Centre.

The Job

The Service Delivery Manager will be responsible for both services aforementioned and will use their knowledge of social care and employability practice to lead, motivate, develop and supervise staff teams who provide professional trauma-informed services to young people.

Leading by example, the Service Delivery Manager will respond to a review of needs, gaps and best practice, maximising service user involvement and choice. They will oversee support services to service users in line with service delivery and regulatory standards requirements. The Service Delivery Manager will be required to be the Registered Manager for the service and will be required to participate in an on-call rota.

In addition to this the Service Delivery Manager will also manage a complex budget of funding from Health, Local Authority, Scottish Government and others including grant making trusts, and manage a complex and extensive range of stakeholders.

To find out more about a career in care, the following video provides an insight into what you can expect - aquestionofcare.org.uk

About You

The post holder must have a good standard of secondary education and have gained a practice qualification (e.g. Social Services and Healthcare at SCQF Level 9). We are looking for applicants who have experience of leading or being part of a management team leading a care / employability service.

You must be able to demonstrate specialist knowledge and experience in at least one area of care and support (e.g. care-experience, trauma) and have knowledge of issues affecting service users (including any legislative issues).

In addition, the post holder must be able to remain focused in the face of conflicting demands and be able to prioritise and plan their own and other members of the team’s workload.

The Service Delivery Manager must be able to drive and travel between services as required and also meet the requirements of registration with the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme.

Successful applicants will be required to register with SSSC within 6 months of their start date.

For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please refer to the Job Specification in the Job information Pack above.

Further Information

To find out more about what LinkLiving do, please visit our website at linkliving.org.uk

What’s in it for you?

LinkLiving offers excellent terms and conditions, and as an Investor in People and Healthy Working Lives Gold Award holder, we aim to provide a wide range of development opportunities and healthy living initiatives. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities.

You will work with colleagues who share our objectives – our employees, volunteers, funders, and our project partners. In return, we want people who are passionate, caring and dedicated, committed to our vision and values and will work to the highest professional standards.

As a LinkLiving employee, you'll benefit from generous annual leave entitlements, a wide range of learning and development opportunities, highly competitive employer pension contribution rates, discounts on shopping, restaurants and other services via Westfield Rewards, enhanced maternity and sick pay entitlements, employee support and counselling service and occupational health services.

This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration.

LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people of all ages to overcome the negative impacts of trauma, mental health, inequality, and isolation. We deliver our support to service users through a range of models including:

• Personal development and employability programmes

• Self-help coaching

• Supported accommodation

• Care at home

• Housing support

• Befriending

• Social cafes

At LinkLiving, our values are at the heart of everything we do and we put the people we support first. It is important to us to find people with the right values, behaviours and attitudes to match our own. Our values are:

• Empathy (listen to and understand an individual’s needs and circumstances)

• Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)

• Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)

• Caring (show kindness and concern for others)

The Job

The Trauma Trainer/Self Help Coach will be responsible for delivering trauma-informed practice training to front line professionals, both across the Link Group of companies and to external partners and agencies. The post holder will also provide one to one self-help coaching to clients who are being supported through the Practice and Participation team and who could benefit from additional mental health support.

The Trauma Trainer/Self Help Coach will work with individuals to identify self-help goals and provide up to six sessions to work towards these. The sessions will be either face to face or could be delivered through an online platform dependent on individual circumstances.

About You

The post holder will be educated to diploma level (or equivalent) with experience of approaches to self help techniques and/or CBT approach. You must also have experience in the delivery and development of training programmes.

Due to the type of support you will be providing, you must have knowledge of issues affecting people who are excluded and marginalised. In addition, you are also required to have knowledge of NES Trauma informed framework and have demonstrable experience of using a trauma-informed approach.

We also require the postholder to confirm in their application that they have a current driving license and access to a roadworthy car.

Further Information

To find out more about what LinkLiving do, please visit our website at linkliving.org.uk

What’s in it for you?

LinkLiving offers excellent terms and conditions, and as an Investor in People and Healthy Working Lives Gold Award holder, we aim to provide a wide range of development opportunities and healthy living initiatives. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities.

You will work with colleagues who share our objectives – our employees, volunteers, funders, and our project partners. In return, we want people who are passionate, caring and dedicated, committed to our vision and values and will work to the highest professional standards.

As a LinkLiving employee, you'll benefit from generous annual leave entitlements, a wide range of learning and development opportunities, highly competitive employer pension contribution rates, discounts on shopping, restaurants and other services via Westfield Rewards, enhanced maternity and sick pay entitlements, employee support and counselling service and occupational health services.

This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration.

*£21,506.00 - £25,356.00 per annum (dependent on skills & experience). Please note this role is due to undergo job evaluation and is expected to be confirmed as the aforementioned salary but this could be subject to change following the outcome of this evaluation.

You will be involved in supporting the development of local member networks alongside your manager ensuring members are supported to achieve positive life outcomes and lead the life they choose. You will advocate for members, support and facilitate group activities, play a part in helping members utilise, share and develop their skills and promote active citizenship & social inclusion.

‘Together anything is possible’

Your Skills

You are creative, motivated and passionate. Approachable and inclusive in your practice. Able to promote peer support Benefits Be part of a passionate team working to promote active citizenship, independence and community spirit.

6 weeks annual leave, contributary pension, SSSC registration fee paid, Living wage employer, birthday off, work related expenses, continued learning and development opportunities, staff counselling service