Could you help us save lives?
Do you have a passion for helping vulnerable people enjoy as much fulfilment as they can and feel included in their community? If compassion, care and inclusiveness are an important part of who you are, our opportunities to work away from the routine in a demanding, challenging but emotionally rewarding role could be for you.
Our Turning Point Scotland Services in Edinburgh are looking for people like you to help provide individualised support to adults with a wide range of needs, either on an individual 1:1 basis or alongside others and as part of a team.
North East Edinburgh Recovery Hub
The North East Recovery Hub is a one-stop shop which offers a full range of drug and alcohol treatment and support services. We are a multi - disciplinary team comprising of Voluntary Sector TPS, NHS and social work staff. We are based with our main office in Leith, and a satellite location in Craigmillar.
We understand that everybody’s experience is different. When people come to the Hub, we personalise their care to achieve their goals.
The support we provide is always person centred, we do this by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and our own staff members.
You will be expected to keep accurate records about what you do, so attention to detail and a good grasp of IT are crucial.
Service Coordinator Role
As the Service Coordinator you will have overall responsibility for driving the aims of the service, developing local systems and protocols whilst supporting the service manager in a local and national coordination role.
One of your responsibilities will be to act as duty manager; on these days, you will be responsible for allocation of referrals, attending adult protection meetings, signing off risk assessments care plans, and you will be a point of contact for partners and stakeholders. You will be responsible for the line management, support, and development of the Assistant Service Coordinators, Lead Practitioners, and Support Practitioners. This includes delivering inductions, coordinating training and appraisals, overseeing annual leave requests, creating rotas, and facilitating team meetings.
As Service Coordinator, you will lead on the implementation and recording of DAISy, the collation of data for quarterly reports and any other data required
“EVH – supporting social employers” is an employers’ federation in the voluntary sector, the only one of its kind in Scotland and a market leader in delivering comprehensive HR, business support and recruitment services to over 150 of our employer members throughout Scotland. Our members range from large housing associations to small “social enterprises” and charities, employing over 3,000 staff between them.
Due to the impending retirement of our long-serving Director, we are looking for an inspiring individual with exemplary skills in business development, strategic finance and income generation, someone who has strong commercial awareness and is an excellent communicator, to join us as our new Director. You will use your experience, knowledge and skills to work with our Executive Committee (Governing Body) to achieve our ambitions of business growth for EVH and provide the leadership for increasing and maximising income and in the development of new products to meet our members’ evolving needs.
If you share our passion and ambitions for supporting our social employers, we’d love to hear from you and hope that you will consider applying to become our new Director, the lead officer for this dynamic organisation.
Looking for an opportunity to work for a flexible and family friendly organisation with good pay and conditions?
SCVO is the membership organisation for the voluntary sector in Scotland and we take pride in being a good employer. Our staff can work a blend of office and home working and flexible working requests are a ‘day one right’.
We’re looking for an administrative support officer to join us and support our senior leadership team and board of trustees. We’re looking for someone with the ability to provide administrative support at an executive level, with an understanding of charity governance and working with boards. The role will include a variety of duties including organising and coordinating meetings and travel, preparing accurate minutes and other written correspondence, playing a key role in organising our board of trustees, committees, senior leadership team, staff conferences and monthly all-staff meetings.
This is a full-time role (35 hours per week), we will fully consider part-time hours and job shares. This role can be worked from home with some in-person, in-office meetings (on average once a week). You will be expected to join board and committee meetings in person, these normally take place in our Edinburgh city centre office four times a year.
*Location: This post can be based in Edinburgh or Glasgow. SCVO staff can work a blend of office and home on agreement with their line manager, and within the parameters of our Blended Working policy. This role will involve some in person, office working (on average once a week).
Cassiltoun are committed to regenerating our community not only through first class housing services but by our wider community development work. We also work closely with our subsidiary companies and in partnership with other organisations and agencies.
The Community Team deliver a range of projects that respond to community aspirations and seek to address local issues through an asset-based community development approach. This includes community art initiatives, a community woodland project (Castlemilk Park), digital inclusion support, youth work, health and wellbeing activities, a large number of events, community gardening, community food initiatives, and a volunteer development programme – at the centre of all of these is participation and involvement from the local community.
At Four Square, our vision is for everyone to have a beautiful home and a place in their community.
We provide beautiful accommodation; person centred support; as well as employability and learning opportunities. But we want to grow the level of impact we have. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone passionate, someone like you.
There is a new, exciting vacancy in Four Square for a part-time Community and Event Fundraiser, working within the fundraising and marketing team. This role will help deliver a fundraising strategy to grow and diversify our supporters and income streams, to support homeless people overcome the barriers they face in creating a stable life for themselves in their community.
We are looking for someone who shares our drive and enthusiasm for what we do.
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Our Leith-based Sheltered Housing development is recruiting for a new part-time Cleaner to join our friendly team. As our Cleaner, you’ll play an important part in helping us provide a supportive, caring, and friendly environment for all our sheltered tenants.
There are two parts to this role. This first part is to ensure all common areas are cleaned to the highest standards, in line with our procedures and health and safety requirements. The second part is to assist with delivering social events, such as lunch clubs, coffee mornings and various fundraisers.
We’re looking for someone reliable, thorough, and friendly, who can work on their own initiative and take responsibility for the common area cleaning tasks. There is a requirement for some flexibility to assist with social activities, although we are looking for someone to work Monday to Friday 9am-12pm.
The new post holder will primarily be based at Jameson Place but will also be required to provide holiday cover in our other developments, which are also in Leith.
In return, we offer generous holidays of 35 days per year full-time, rising to 37 after three years (pro rata for part time), a choice of workplace pensions, membership of our rewards and discount scheme, as well as various initiatives to support employee wellbeing.
Harbour Homes is Leith and north Edinburgh’s biggest social landlord, providing thousands of affordable homes from Portobello to Granton and everywhere in between. It’s our mission to: ‘make a positive impact on people’s lives in Leith and north Edinburgh by providing affordable homes and services and creating brilliant communities.
We provide a free, independent high quality advice service for those in need of assistance.
Project activities in this role will include delivery of advice on:
· Rent and mortgage arrears
· Debt, including bankruptcy and other debt options
· Income maximisation and welfare & benefits advice
· Court / Tribunal representation.
On the job training and support will be given.
We are a charity with decades of experience supporting people across Scotland, providing those who need us with support that ranges from Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodiversity, Youth and Adult homelessness and Older People services.
We are recruiting for an experienced Office Administrator/Manager! Salary up to £30k p.a. DOE + benefits This is an exciting opportunity to help support the organisation through a period of complete transformational change and to play an integral part in the revamp of our central processes and procedures. The ideal candidate will have significant administrative experience, preferably in the Social Care Sector (but not essential), and have the skill set and can-do attitude to provide proactive and efficient support throughout this journey of organisational development. The person will be a critical member of our central services.
Why work with us?
**We are also offering a £500 welcome bonus for all newly recruited colleagues**
Fife International Forum is a people led charitable organisation, we strive to value the individual; to be inclusive, innovative, honest, and accountable and to work together.
We engage with and support members of international communities to deal with the many challenges faced in health, social and the economic environment, empowering and enabling families to establish themselves successfully in Scotland.
We are expanding our staff team and looking for highly motivated and dynamic individuals to join our casework team. The roles will involve delivering a holistic information and support service, managing a caseload, and working in partnership with other voluntary sector organisations and local government.
Triage Administrators – full time Salary £20,130 (part-time pro rata)
Posts will be based in Kirkcaldy.
The post holder will work in partnership with colleagues, individuals, and families from international communities to:
The roles require proficiency and confidence in using Microsoft packages and electronic case management systems. Experience of working with vulnerable individuals, ideally with ethnic minority communities. You will have a positive approach to equalities and human rights. Some experience of working with triage systems and case working principles would be advantageous. Successful applicants will be expected to have a good command of English both written and orally. Also, to have the ability to communicate effectively with people whose first language is not English. A willingness to develop through ongoing learning and reflective practice.
CVS Inverclyde are looking for an Operations Manager due to retirement of a long serving and much valued staff member. This is a unique opportunity to join and assist in the operational leadership of CVS Inverclyde as a part of our Senior Management Team.
Reporting directly to the CEO, the post holder will work to strengthen the sector through supporting and managing the delivery of organisational development and capacity building support to the voluntary, community and third sector in 4 core areas including governance, organisational development, volunteering and social enterprise. They are responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of our programmes and creating new opportunities for service development. The post holder will represent CVS Inverclyde on key strategic boards and strengthen and develop our partnerships throughout the 3rd sector.
The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of the voluntary sector and experience of networking between organisations and sectors. A solid understanding of financial and budgetary processes would be advantageous. It is likely that the post holder will have an established track record in a leadership role whilst maintaining a flexible approach to their work. The post holder will also be required to have a clean driving licence and/or access to a car and driver.