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Do you want to work for a caring organisation that believes in people?

Do you want to make a difference?

As a Recovery Coordinator with Change Grow Live, you’ll work with people who use our services, helping them get to where they want to be.

Responsibilities

The West Lothian Assertive Outreach and Criminal Justice Service is a well-established and exciting service covering the whole of West Lothian providing a range of interventions to individuals who are affected by substance misuse and multiple complex issues that can exclude them from accessing the support package they need.

Service provision includes persistent assertive outreach to support individuals to access appropriate care packages. The team deliver interventions in a variety of locations including custody suites, prison estate, hospital, local community clinics and within client's homes or temporary accommodation.

The successful candidate will have an excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field. Also necessary is a commitment to multi-agency partnership working, excellent communication skills and experience of working within an outcome focused approach.

Our values are to be compassionate, open and bold. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

At Aberlour Options Borders we provide a range of support services for young people up to the age of 18 years who have various disabilities. Our aim is to provide families with a short break from their caring role through the provision of high quality child-centred services which provides a positive experience for the young people we work with.

We have a strong reputation for supporting young people with high levels of complex needs, supporting them to grow, learn and maximise their potential. We believe every child has the right to flourish. Our Young People’s Workers play a fundamental role in ensuring that the young people they work with have the best possible experience in working towards their objectives in line with their care plan. Whilst not without its challenges and demands, this is a highly rewarding role, where the work we do has a demonstrable impact on each young person's progress. Using a person centred approach you will provide enabling support ensuring the highest level of physical, personal and emotional care to support children in their daily living and within the local community.

We are looking to recruit two Young People’s Workers, each working 23 hours per week for 42 weeks of the year and 35 hours per week for 10 weeks of the year (school holidays). You will be part of a residential respite rota which will require you to work days, evenings, nights, weekends and public holidays. There will be a requirement to do sleepover shifts with both these contracts. These will be paid at £40 per sleepover. Please see advert on our website for further information about shifts or e-mail us at jobs@aberlour.org.uk.

A Day in the Life of a Young People’s Worker

Our day usually starts around 7.30am with the morning routine. We support our young people to get ready for their day ahead assisting with all aspects of personal hygiene. We then prepare breakfast and medications for each of our young people and organise the day’s activities. We plan mornings out, considering the health and safety requirements for each activity we undertake. After lunch we prepare an in-house activity. This also allows staff to complete daily paperwork such as weekend logs for our young people, updating care plans and review reports etc. In the evening we cook a healthy dinner considering our knowledge of our young peoples’ likes and dislikes and particularly if they have restricted diets.

"Aberlour Options provide a safe, fun and homely environment for respite for our son. He loves going to stay and asks daily when his next visit is" Parent

"My respite treat me like part of the family" Young Person

If you have an interest in working with young people we would like to hear from you. Ideally, candidates will have social care experience, understanding of autism, complex needs and mental health and have the relevant qualifications or will be willing to work towards these.

You will be working alongside a highly motivated and skilled team to provide a personalised service for our young people. As a Young People’s Worker you will receive a planned and supported induction consisting of a varied training programme; including CALM training, Child Protection training and support completing an SVQ Level 3 in line with SSSC requirements.

Many vulnerable children and young people are unable to be supported sufficiently within their own homes and communities. However, by intervening early with person centred approaches we can support children and young people to remain at home rather than moving into residential care.

We are looking for someone to join our team in Perth, who is passionate about supporting children and young people to secure the best possible outcomes as they live and grow within their communities. Our aim is to ensure that children, young people and families are supported to build on their strengths, assets and interests to develop enduring capacity and resilience. We also aim to support local professional stakeholders and communities to coproduce solutions.

Applicants should be enthusiastic, energetic and committed and, working in a culture based on respect, integrity, innovation and the ability to challenge, you will share our vision that collaborative early intervention and engagement is the best option for children and families who are on the ‘edge of care’. You will bring a fresh and collaborative approach and, in discussion with the manager, be willing to try new approaches to ensure strong and trusting relationships are developed with families and stakeholders. You should be dynamic and creative and be able to deliver flexible, person-centred services to vulnerable children and families in a way which can be playful, warm, accepting, curious, tenacious and empathetic.

You will have experience of direct practice within this field of work, including child/adult protection issues. Experience of working with children with additional support needs would be desirable but is not essential. You will work in a variety of settings including the service base, family homes, schools and community sites and deliver work either individually or with groups of children, young people and parents/carers.

A key part of the service is to be able to provide support whenever it is needed including at weekends, during the evening and on public holidays. There is a need to be adept at managing time, balancing the needs of children and families with the administrative elements of the role.

If you would like more information or wish to discuss this post, please contact Tracey Dammer, Service Manager on 07528 970557 for an informal conversation.

Braeburn Home is an independent care home offering high quality nursing care. It is situated in a quiet residential area close to the Royal Botanic Gardens. We provide care to older people who require dedicated nursing and social care and who benefit from the support and companionship of other residents.

We are looking to recruit a full time Care Home Manager whose focus will be to co-ordinate and oversee the running of our care service in a professional and efficient manner.

You will have full responsibility for all aspects of the day-to-day operations of Braeburn Home. You will lead delivery of a cost-effective and professional service focused on quality and a high standard of care, ensuring the Home consistently meets the current government healthcare legislation and regulations. You will achieve this through strong, people-management skills, as well as developing and implementing clear internal policies which promote good practice within the home.

This will include responsibility for managing budgets and resources, working in conjunction with the Accountant, and for the care of our residents in conjunction with the Clinical Lead. You will lead and support the recruitment, performance and ongoing development of our team of care professionals, administrative, and domestic staff.

Building and maintaining strong relationships with residents and their families is a key part of the role. You will also work closely with Board Trustees to build and promote the reputation of the home and to develop external relationships to support the services we provide.

The post holder will require to be registered with SSSC, complying with their minimum qualification requirements and ongoing training as detailed at the time of advertisement. Currently, as a registered care home manager with the SSSC you need to complete both a practice and a management qualification.

A PVG and references check is required for this post, along with a Right to Work in the UK. Candidates will also be required to provide proof of qualifications declared on the application.

SAY Women is a leading provider of services to sexually abused young women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Since 1991 we have pioneered projects and approaches which help young women survivors make progress in their lives, with the help of our support, safe accommodation and opportunities to learn coping strategies, skills for self-care and to feel more empowered.

Our practice is based on gendered analysis, a feminist perspective and trauma-informed approach.

Say Women provides support and accommodation for 8 young women who have experienced homelessness and sexual abuse. Our work with them follows the Judith Herman model, focusing on establishing safety, and then supporting young women’s recovery and their journey towards an independent tenancy and becoming reconnected with a social network and community helping them thrive.

This work is carried out in partnership with Shettleston Housing Association in one accommodation block with flats, and our office and support space, and an outreach flat (shared) nearby.

SAY Women strives to be an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from individuals who are disadvantaged and under-represented in the labour market. These posts are open to female applicants by exemption under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 and subject to PVG disclosure checks.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with the right values to join our service in CB Hamilton (Portwell) and Blantyre to assist and support 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 and/or in the community. 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.

The post will involve variety of 7hr, 7.25hr and 7.5hr hour shifts over a 4 week rota between the hours of 07:15 – 22:00.

You will have an SVQ3 qualification in social care. Other essentials include: experience of working with vulnerable people, addiction issues and challenging behaviour; effective written and verbal communication; computer literacy, 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.

Change grow live Forth Valley are excited to invite applications for 2 Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) posts.

One post will be based in the community and one will be working within the 3 prisons in Forth Valley.

The CBT posts will work in partnership with, and follow, NHS Forth Valley Psychology guidelines and pathways.

Responsibilities

We are looking for applicants who are qualified CBT therapist or counselling psychologist, e.g. minimum level 4 qualification or equivalent (BACP, UKCP, BPS, FDAP) and have experience and knowledge of working with individuals with drug and alcohol issues, offending and social care issues.

The successful applicant will join a multidisciplinary team, and will provide assessment and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy within a coordinated package of care for drug and alcohol users. The CBT therapists will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages and should be committed to equal opportunities.

The CBT therapist will be required to work across a number of operational sites across the area as required and work flexibly to maintain the most appropriate level of service provision. This will include evening and weekend working.

Edinburgh Headway Group (EHG) is an independent Scottish Charity, which for over 36 years has provided information, support and quality rehabilitation services to people with a brain injury and their families and carers. We aim to empower and enrich the lives of adults who have survived an acquired brain injury and to offer a reassuring path of support, hope and positivity for the future.

The Role:

To work alongside our current ABI Planning Manager/Clinical Coordinator to deliver high quality rehabilitation support services for individuals with an acquired brain injury.

Act as first point of contact for our health and social care partners in coordinating information to help build an exciting new web-based patient focused project for neurological conditions.

Our need:

We need a dynamic individual to join us and be determined to achieve results which benefits those we care for and their families. You will be a confident networker and be able to build and maintain positive relationships with our health and social care partners.

We are looking for someone, who has:

• A recognised qualification/experience in health or social care related field.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of ABI and /or other neurological conditions and the impact on individuals and their families.
• Has skills in interpreting and presenting complex and often clinical issues to a variety of audiences.
• Confidence and the ability to influence at all levels.
• Outstanding networking and negotiation skills with a positive track record of working effectively with a range of stakeholders.
• Experienced project management skills to manage a diverse workload within agreed deadlines.

Could you be part of something different? We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to use their gifts, skills and experience to make a different to the lives of the people in our parishes and communities.

Main Purpose of post: To work in vacancies across Argyll, presently in Tarbert, Mid-Argyll and the islands of Islay, and Jura, in coordinating ministries support to vacancies and ensuring that the ordinances of religion are delivered against a background of reducing numbers of full-time ministers of word and sacrament

Four Square have an exciting opportunity for a qualified and experienced female to become our new Senior Community Development Worker. The role is vital to help us achieve our aim of ensuring every woman accessing Womanzone’s services feels safe and secure and has access to the right support to help them recover from trauma and adversity and move on to a positive future. Our aim is that women have a safe and secure home, have a place in their community and a network of positive relationships that support them to build the life they want.

The Role:

The Senior Community Development Worker role has a number of key elements. Firstly, it is to deliver a holistic programme of individual and group support and activities in collaboration with partners in the voluntary and statutory sector, volunteers, peer mentors and social work students on placement.

Alongside service delivery a key part of the role is to undertake research, stakeholder consultation and seek funding opportunities to develop Womanzone into a sustainable project into the future.

To deliver the programme and achieve the outcomes we set at Womanzone, the worker will support social work students on placement by acting as their link worker; they will recruit, train, and support women to become peer mentors and; they will recruit, induct, and support volunteers who are offering their skills to the project.

Other tasks of the role include gathering and evaluating feedback and any complaints, data entry on CRM and other IT systems and preparing quantitative and qualitative data reports regularly to funders commissioners and Four Squares Leadership Team to demonstrate the impact of the service and the direction of the project.

To be a Senior Community Development Worker you will need:

• Strong personal and professional values that align with our Organisational values of integrity, excellence, dignity and support;
• Excellent interpersonal skills with people who use our services, colleagues and partners;
• In-depth understanding of gender-based violence, domestic abuse, homelessness, trauma and adversity and how it impacts life outcomes for those we support and ensure the staff team stays up to date with research and policy developments;
• Excellent group work skills and knowledge of community development approaches;
• A commitment to learning and developing and putting this into practice;
• Be a reflective practitioner and be an active participant in regular reflective practice group supervision;
• A commitment to individual supervision and appraisal processes and motivation to action the personal development plan;
• To support students, peer mentors and volunteers to engage in regular support and supervision;
• To ensure students, peer mentors and volunteers undertake the induction programme;
• Ensure Womanzone meets the standards set down by the Organisation, funders and regulatory bodies;
• Membership of regulatory bodies required of the role and application of the codes and standards to their practice;
• To demonstrate leadership skills be an active participant of the wider management team;
• To be engaged in the wider Organisation’s activities;
• A commitment to working in partnership with other organisation’s and professionals to support people;
• To demonstrate honesty, integrity, trustworthiness and be respectful to all – colleagues, people they support, partners, commissioners etc. and encourage this in the staff team;
• Be committed to excellence and engage in improvement plans for the services or Organisation;
• Be creative in their approach to supporting people;
• And have a good standard of English and math’s and able to produce clear written communications in the form of case notes, reports, diary entries, case studies timeously.

Requirements:

• Must be qualified to degree level in a relevant subject i.e. social work, social sciences, psychology, community education or equivalent etc.;
• To comply always with Four Square’s Code of Conduct, together with its policies and procedures with regards to the maintenance of professional relationships between colleagues, the People We Work With and external organisations;
• To adhere to Four Square's Confidentiality and Data Protection Policy;
• To adhere to Four Square’s policy on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion when working with colleagues, the People We Work With and external organisations;
• To adhere to and maintain, all health and safety standards;
• To work in accordance with Four Square’s core values and mission statement.
• To undertake any other reasonable duties as directed (including providing cover for colleagues, as directed);
• To comply always with the Safeguarding Policy and Procedure;
• To attend conferences/seminars/training, as required.

The Organisation’s Offer:

• Induction and core training programme relevant to the role;
• Regular support and supervision;
• Annual appraisal and CPD action plan;
• Opportunities to engage in Organisational review and development plans.

Terms & Conditions:

• This appointment is until 1st December 2021 to cover Sabbatical Leave;
• We may consider a secondment from another organisation;
• This role is a Job Share with another member of staff and each will work 20 hours per week, flexibly between Monday to Sunday to ensure the services meet their contractual requirements;
• £28,000 per annum pro rata;
• 35 days annual leave entitlement.