We’re looking for an ambitious and enthusiastic partnership coordinator to support the team with a number of exciting projects.

As Inverclyde’s Third Sector Interface, CVS Inverclyde offers a dynamic place to work where you can make a positive difference to the local community.

This is a great opportunity for a graduate or someone looking for an entry-level role to start their career in the Third Sector. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to lead on specific projects and also gain wider experience in relation to health and social care.

The purpose of the role is to provide key support to the Partnership Facilitator. One of the important responsibilities the postholder will have will be coordinating 4 of the networks hosted by CVSI. The successful candidate will help Third Sector organisations and public sector partners to explore a collaborative approach to Inverclyde’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

Eligibility Criteria:

This post is funded by Inverclyde Council’s graduate wage subsidy programme therefore applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Educated to Graduate Level

• Inverclyde resident who is unemployed/unwaged (no minimum length), or who is moving to a new employer to a job that will increase their salary and/or hours.

• Have a legal right to live and work in the UK.

Organisation profile:

CVS Inverclyde is Inverclyde’s Third Sector Interface. CVSI aims to support the third sector to deliver the best outcomes for Inverclyde by providing practical support and improving the strategic environment for the sector.

The organisation is committed to its people and is accredited with Disability Confident, Committed to Excellence, Flexible Working, Healthy Working Lives and the Living Wage.

Based in our Dundee Office, we are looking for enthusiastic people who are capable, caring and committed to undertake statutory social work assessments and care planning for children and adults with a significant sensory loss living in Dundee. You will be qualified Social Worker, registered with SSSC (or equivalent) and have an interest in working with people to reduce the barriers experienced through sensory loss

Job Purpose:

To support service users to overcome the practical and emotional effects of sensory impairment

All posts at NESS require membership of the PVG scheme and disclosure check.

Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Crisis Service

Turning Point Scotland Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Crisis Service offers integrated health and social care which provides low threshold, direct access services for people experiencing a crisis due to alcohol or other drug use including people who may be experiencing homelessness. These include a crisis residential unit, 24-hour Injecting Equipment Provision (needle exchange), wound care, harm reduction advice, signposting and naloxone training and provision.

Proudly partnering with NHSGGC and the Health and Social Care Partnership for over 27 years, we have provided residential and direct access crisis services in a safe environment that challenges stigma and provides the advice and information required to reduce harm and give a space to reflect and consider the next steps towards recovery.

We are committed to helping individuals begin their journey to recovery whilst utilising harm reduction approaches, placing safety at the forefront of care delivery. We are passionate in encouraging citizens who use the service to improve and maintain relationships with family, friends and communities to build on their sense of belonging in society.

Contact Details: Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Crisis Service, 80 Tradeston Street, Glasgow G5 8BG

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

SERVICE DELIVERY

• Ensure a Citizenship approach to delivering services. Citizenship is defined by a persons connection to the 5 R’s: Rights, Responsibilities, Roles, Relationships, resources and their sense of belonging.
• Planning the delivery of most effective nursing interventions based on comprehensive assessment of need.
• To fully involve service users in their care planning ensuring they are given informed choices in regard to nursing care and treatment.
• To work in partnership with medical staff/prescriber to offer a range of evidence-based pharmacological treatments to support stabilisation or detoxification.
• To provide a range of nursing interventions on an individual and/or group work basis including psychological/psychosocial interventions.
• To undertake initial and ongoing assessments of service users at various stages in their engagement with the service, utilising a range of assessment tools and methods to evaluate the severity of dependency and complexity of needs, including history taking, observation, investigations, and use a range of screening tools
• To assist service users to recognise and exercise their rights and provide an appropriate level of professional support to service users to assist them to make informed choices.
• To undertake key working duties and responsibilities in accordance with Turning Point Scotland's Key Working Policy and to alert line managers to any non-compliance by others noted during work activities.
• To administer and dispense prescribed medication to service users in accordance with the instructions on the prescription.
• To act in accordance with the relevant legislation, the Nursing and Midwifery Council code of conduct, and acknowledged good practice and be involved in the clinical governance within the service.
• To assist the Service Manager by networking effectively with workers from other agencies who are involved with service users, purchaser's monitoring requirements, and Turning Point Scotland's needs.
• To assist the Service Manager and Senior Nurse to prepare for Care Inspectorate inspections and other audit activities, and with the implementation of any recommendations or requirements.
• To be personally familiar with and ensure own compliance with Turning Point Scotland's operational policies and procedures, including medication and to alert line managers to any non-compliance by others noted during work activities.
• To ensure effective provision of nursing across Turning Point Scotland you will be deployed to other drug and alcohol services as required.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Care Coordinator to support in our clinical service delivery. Many of our clients have complex needs and this role ensures that clients acquire the support they need to receive multi-agency services.

About the role

The role involves assessment, care planning and provision of stabilisation support to our most complex clients receiving our services. Working together with our therapists, and legal and welfare staff as part of a truly multi-disciplinary team, the ideal candidate will have prior experience of working in mental health/ social care settings and a passion for working with asylum seekers, refugees and survivors of torture.

This is a pivotal role in the support of pain management strategies for our clients, which involves linking with, GPs, community physio services and running and facilitating 1:1 and group psychological pain management interventions alongside your colleagues. This is an exciting development within the organisation and so we envisage the post holder contributing to implement the national strategy as well as shaping the delivery within the Glasgow Centre.

About you

You will be a registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with significant experience of working in the mental health sector, in addition to having substantial post registration experience. You will possess advanced assessment skills, and be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge of evidence based assessments and interventions. If you have experience of working with Interpreters and with refugees or asylum seekers, it would be advantageous.

In return, we offer a competitive package, with a generous 30 day annual leave entitlement (FTE), and 6% employer pension contribution.

A Job Description is available for download below.

If you would like to discuss the role in more detail, please contact Fiona Crombie by email at: fcrombie@freedomfromtorture.org

To apply, please visit freedomfromtorture.org/jobs-and-volunteering and submit your CV and a covering letter outlining why you would like to be considered, and how you meet the criteria of the role.

About Freedom from Torture

Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.

We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work.

Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS disclosure, as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.

Freedom from Torture is an equal opportunity employer. People with lived experience of torture or asylum, from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

No agencies please.