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Scottish Refugee Council is Scotland’s national charity working to support refugees to build new lives in Scotland. A key element of our work is to champion the rights of refugees and advocate for fair and just policies and practice, ensuring those seeking protection have a platform to raise their own voices.

We are expanding our team to deliver this and are seeking two Policy Officer’s to help us deliver positive change. Working with teams across the organisation and in partner organisations you will lead on specific agreed portfolios of work for change.

Please note one Policy Officer’s work will focus on the protection and integration of separated children and the other will focus on the protection and integration of adults. You can express a preference for either post one your application but you will be considered for both roles.

Closing Date: Wednesday 26th August 2020 23:59 p.m.

Expected Interview Date: Tuesday 1st September 2020

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 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.

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; knowledge of homelessness issues; and, above all, the determination to make a difference in the lives of our service users.

The service works within a model of delivery built around Psychologically Informed Environments.

The post will involve four/five shifts per week.

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.

Street Connect is a Christian charity with a mission to offer hope and opportunity of recovery for individuals disadvantaged by addiction and associated issues including homelessness and poor mental health. Street Connect are seeking a confident and inspiring Fundraising and Marketing Manager to join the Management Team of Street Connect.

The Fundraising and Marketing Manager is responsible for leading the development and implementation of Street Connect’s income generation strategy in order to raise funds to support the work of Street Connect. The post holder is also responsible for the development and implementation of Street Connect’s communication strategy to ensure the effective branding, marketing and promotion of Street Connect’s vision, mission and activities to a wide range of stakeholders.

The post holder will be responsible for leading, managing and continuously developing the fundraising and communications teams at Street Connect, playing an essential part in the organisation as it seeks to meet the practical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals with complex needs, including addictions, through a range of interventions.

This is a key role for enabling Street Connect to deliver, our vision of empowered churches, transformed lives and revitalised communities; releasing God-given potential in disadvantaged lives through the mobilised local church.

Street Connect has recently conducted a Strategic Review. In addition to developing a Strategic Framework which will direct our work over the next 3 years this included a pay review and a plan is in place to increase salaries across the organisation over the next 3 years.

For more information on this post please see the attached job description

Move On works with disadvantaged people, supporting them to achieve positive change in their lives and preventing homelessness. From our four bases in Glasgow and Edinburgh we provide a range of services including: training, community based intensive support, employability, mentoring, volunteering opportunities, guidance, advice and information.

Move On has a growing turnover and staff team and is increasingly operating a more complex social enterprise service delivery model.

We require an enthusiastic and experienced person to ensure the efficient and effective running of Move On's financial, administrative and HR systems, enabling the organisation to deliver greatest possible impact for service users and volunteers.

Leading a small team of three part time staff, you will have responsibility for Move On’s day to day financial systems, preparation and processing of monthly payroll, as well as preparation of management accounts. Working with the Executive Director you will also prepare budgets, forecasts and annual audit information.

This is an adoption leave cover post with an anticipated start date in early October, for an initial period of nine months with possible extension.

You will have excellent organisational and communication skills, a commitment to Move On’s values, be a self-starter, bring relevant experience to the role and experience of working with volunteers and disadvantaged people.

Are you passionate about the voluntary sector? Do you believe that by working collectively as a city we can tackle some of the issues contributing to poverty and inequality? Enthusiastic, tenacious, a great communicator, you must enjoy dealing with sector leaders and people with passion. Are you up for a challenge? If you like the sound of the above, then Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations’ Council (EVOC) is looking to recruit a skilled individual to a new and exciting post.

This is a dynamic new role that gives you the opportunity to co-ordinate and deliver the ambitions, messages and services of EVOC and the wider Edinburgh voluntary sector community. We anticipate appointing a highly disciplined, productive individual with excellent work management and planning skills. You will have a keen attention to detail and will flourish by engaging across all EVOC’s stakeholders in the community, voluntary and public sectors, making this job your own. Managing EVOC’s comms platforms, amplifying the voice of EVOC and the wider voluntary sector and delivering internal comms are key functions of this role.

Elpis Trust delivers a person centred housing support service to 18 service users who are experiencing homelessness or are care leavers aged between 16-25 years. The supported accommodation is based in the Core service and satellite flats in the Ruchill and Mayhill area of Glasgow. Elpis provides a high quality support service which addresses service users’ identified and assessed needs and reflects the aims of the service to work within relevant organisational and statutory policies, including health and safety, employment and equality laws. This includes adhering to Scottish Social Services Council codes of practice, National Care Standards and contractual requirements. Staffs work closely with service users to write up support plans and deliver an individually tailored service, utilising Ladders to Success and GIRFEC, SHANARRI Outcomes.

A full Job Description is available for download below.

#BecauseScotlandCares

Because People Matter

Turning Point Scotland is a national social care charity providing services to people with addictions, learning disabilities, mental health issues, those in the criminal justice system and those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

Glasgow Residential Stabilization Service

We aim to provide a 4 to 6 weeks residential service for individuals who are no longer managing their support within a community setting.

Our team of social care, nursing and medical staff will provide treatment and support to individuals who are deemed to be engaging in high risk drug and/or alcohol use with complex needs. Collaboratively working within a Recovery Orientated System of Care (ROSC) to address the individuals’ physical, mental, social and emotional needs. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering a range of interventions in 1:1 and group work settings to support, encourage and motivate individuals to assist them to gain some stability back in their life.

Turning Point Scotland Glasgow Drug Crisis Centre

The Glasgow Drug Crisis Centre is a busy 24/7 service for drug users, combining a Methadone Clinic, Needle Exchange service and a 12 bedded Residential Unit. Its multi-disciplinary teams comprise social care workers, nurses and medical staff, who encourage and support Service Users to find ways of making their drug use less problematic and to achieve a better quality of life. Many Service Users will be unable to cope and be at risk, but whatever the issue Turning Point Scotland is committed to rehabilitation and recovery through effective person centred support.

#BecauseScotlandCares

Because People Matter

Turning Point Scotland is a national social care charity providing services to people with addictions, learning disabilities, mental health issues, those in the criminal justice system and those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

Turning Point Scotland Glasgow Supported Living Service (Glasgow – North East area)

Glasgow Supported Living Services works alongside Glasgow Health and Social care Partnership and local Housing association to provide support to adults with some of the most complex and challenging needs, who live in the East End of Glasgow.

Mental Health issues like personality disorders and neurological conditions like Huntington’s disease can have a huge impact on a person’s ability to remain in their own home.

Housing support, personal care and care at home packages through self-directed support are offered, based on the specific needs of the individual.

With a support plan tailored to suit the individual, people with the most complex needs can participate in their community and enjoy social opportunities.

Cyrenians offers a variety of support to people within the Falkirk area to address the barriers they face to accessing services, employment, volunteering opportunities, as well as tackling social isolation. We also have an established peer mentoring programme for people with experience of the criminal justice system and those recovering from addiction.

As part of this ambitious plans to develop the scope and range of our services to meet new and emerging needs, we have created this post to support our infrastructure and growth. The post holder will be responsible for managing a small team, ensuring our community based services run efficiently and to budget, as well as exploring opportunities to grow our services and reach more people.

We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and ambitious manager to ensure that our services are implemented and delivered to the highest standard. You will have proven management and budget experience, be organised and confident, with strong communications skills that will enable you to engage positively with people from a variety of backgrounds. You will also have experience of working within a project framework and the ability to demonstrate Cyrenians values of compassion, respect, integrity and innovation in the work that you do.

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Cyrenians is a charity working towards a society that truly values and includes all. Our Vision is of an inclusive society in which we all have the opportunities to live valued and fulfilled lives. We work to make that vision a reality through our mission to support people excluded from family, home, work or community on their life journey.

Website: cyrenians.scot