goodmoves

We are looking for two enthusiastic individuals with the right values to join our service assisting and supporting vulnerable homeless people to achieve better lives.

The successful candidates 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.

Post 1 will involve 5 shifts per week, Post 2 will involve 4 shifts per week. Both will involve weekend working.

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.

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.

The Pleasance Lifehouse is seeking a highly motivated and dynamic Night Welcome Worker to assist homeless individuals with achieving better lives. The centre is a homeless accommodation situated in Edinburgh’s city centre. It is a progressive, forward thinking project that offers a wide range of support services to its clients.

Key Responsibilities include offering front of house services to clients, ensuring they are signed in or out where required and their queries are handled in a professional manner, referring them to support staff where required. In addition you will:

• Accurately record messages, conduct follow up telephone calls, update log books, handover and H&S records etc.
• Work with clients to resolve conflict using de-escalation skills where appropriate
• Complete building checks which may include patrols of the building
• Carry out some admin, cleaning and laundry duties

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate motivation towards supporting vulnerable clients to achieve focussed and positive life outcomes. You will be eager to work within the ethos of The Salvation Army, with good customer service and time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload.

Benefits: 25 days annual leave + bank holidays; a contributory pension scheme; season ticket loan; an employee assistance programme

Appointment subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK and a satisfactory Disclosure check.

Turning Point Scotland’s HR team supports all of our social care services across Scotland and is based in Govan, Glasgow. The innovative thinking and positive, inclusive approach of the organisation is mirrored within our HR department, which comprises of ten people. Two smaller teams operate within the department providing HR advice, support and planning to an allocated group of services. We work closely with managers and staff at all levels and operate within a unionised environment. Beyond day to day support and employee relations issues, we undertake a full range of tasks and work including organisational development, workforce development planning, recruitment and strategic projects.

Job Description

• To provide day to day leadership to a small team of an administrator and HR Business Partner to provide advice and support to allocated services, managers and staff
• Basic management tasks around scheduling leave, absence reporting, supervision and PDRP (appraisal) and providing feedback to reflect and continuously improve practice, the service provided and for development
• To undertake oversight of the team’s employment law cases: proof reading documents such as investigation reports, ET3s and dismissal letters, reviewing and advising on complex situations, communicating with employment solicitors when required, balancing risk and the law with a pragmatic approach
• Holding a direct caseload- providing HR advice and support to the staff, services and service managers directly for allocated services, which includes attending scheduled meetings in the localities
• To meet strategic goals as agreed with the Head of HR through organisational development and projects with a particular focus on workforce development
• Work with the team to ensure our approach to employee registration with SSSC and PVG issues is dealt with in a consistent, compliant and legal manner
• To provide a strategic business partnering service to support increased retention and recruitment across the team’s services through agreed plans and projects
• Quality assure and oversee some aspects of recruitment (Safer Recruitment) using our on-line recruitment tool
• Reporting as legally required to: the SSSC conduct unit; re. PVG to Disclosure Scotland
• Ensuring internal records of grievance, discipline and absence logs are up to date for reporting
• Providing advice, consultation and communication around complex employee relations situations: TUPE, redundancy, group grievances etc.
• Providing support to the senior management team and Glasgow Office in relation to HR and staffing issues
• Working with the union and union representatives in a unionised environment and with TPS Staff Connects (our employee representative group)
• Working to ICO guidelines and data protection legislation including meeting subject access requests
• To act as a document controller and oversee the HR policies as delegated by the Head of HR, which includes keeping the review schedule up to date, ensuring core copies and correct copies on intranet, assigning to advisors or updating policies yourself, keeping abreast of employment law and case law changes, sector changes and the needs of the business to prioritise the general policy review schedule, new policies and specific alterations. Writing reports on this for audit committee and for executive team policy update schedule.
• Co-ordinating HR based management training: some direct delivery but also arranging with HR Business Partners and Head of Human Resources who will deliver which session and ensuring packs are up to date and relevant
• Travelling as and when required locally with frequency, further but in Scotland with some regularity
• Participating positively as a member of the HR dept., the Head Office team and Turning Point Scotland
• Promoting the values and culture of Turning Point Scotland at all times

We require an enthusiastic and motivated person with good communication and administrative skills to provide admin support to our busy office team. You will cover a wide range of admin tasks including reception, answering and dealing with calls to and from housing associations and clients re. packs, arranging deliveries and collections for packs and donations of household items, petty cash, maintaining filing systems, recording data, updating social media, monitoring and ordering supplies as well as helping assemble packs when necessary, light cleaning duties and offering support to staff and volunteers across the organisation. In house training will be provided and if applicable there is the possibility of studying for a Modern Apprenticeship.

A Job Description is available for download below.

Simon Community Scotland is the largest provider of homelessness services in Scotland, with a reputation for excellence. Everything we do is about and for people: the people we support, our staff, our partners and everyone affected by homelessness. Our values matter to us and we are looking for people who share those, who are committed to making a positive difference, and who are skilled in relating to people and working in a person-centred way to find solutions to help people recover from homelessness. Within our services we are proud to provide accommodation specifically designed for women experiencing homelessness.

The women who enter our accommodation services, usually have multiple experiences of abuse and disadvantage, including= childhood abuse, domestic and sexual violence and exploitation through prostitution including coercion and control. They may have physical and mental health problems, criminal records and experience of street homelessness, any combination of which can lead to learned survival and coping strategies that can often be a barrier to accessing and benefiting from support services.

Our aim is to provide a safe place that accepts women as they are whilst supporting them to identify goals and find ways of moving forward and away from the harms they live with.

Are you as passionate as we are about providing high quality, safe accommodation to women experiencing homelessness? If the answer is yes we are looking for you to join us and work within a fast-paced team of dedicated women who have a woman-centred approach that focuses on safety and recovery.

Key duties and responsibilities will be:

• Provide high quality accommodation and housing related support to women
• Provide individual and, where possible, group work support.
• Ensure that women are provided with a safe, supportive and welcoming environment to supporting hem to stabilise, gain independence skills, sustain their tenancies, and access appropriate move-on accommodation.
• Work within a ,covery and psychologically informed approach, supporting women to maximise their safety, independence and wellbeing.
• Liaise effectively and collaboratively with all appropriate agencies and community groups.
• Take part in the assessment of women; including gathering additional information from supporting agencies
• Carry out needs assessments which effectively establish the support needs of women and enable relevant support to be offered as quickly as possible.
• Advise women on personal safety and safety procedures regarding the accommodation service.
• Be responsible for the accommodation service, ensuring a supportive, homely and safe environment is maintained along with a daily staff presence.
• This is not an exhaustive list of your duties and outlines the general ways in which it is expected you will meet the overall requirements of this post.

We have full and part-time vacancies for support workers as well as opportunities to join our relief staff team. Relief ours are based on service delivery needs and offers an exciting chance to build up your experience and skills, these roles are ideally suited to students and those who can be flexible with their time and availability.

For genuine occupational requirement reasons we are looking to appoint a females only for these posts (exemption under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9)

Fancy pioneering our new homelessness prevention service delivering art projects to communities across Scotland?

Bethany are launching Creative Expressions in January 2020. The service will give the people that we support the means to express themselves and find their own voice by making the creative arts accessible. The range of media will include photography, spoken and written word, poetry, drama, art, film, choirs and music.

The principal role of the Coordinator will be to investigate the needs in communities across Scotland, including the thousands of people we currently support, and assess where short-term projects can be delivered with the potential to lengthen these based on the benefit to the community. Access routes in to projects will initially be through existing Bethany services and partners but open to further external referrals as projects develop.

It is estimated that in addition to the enhancement of existing groups, 3 other creative projects could be developed and delivered each year. These activities would be delivered by arts practitioners organised by the Coordinator and could include wall murals, exhibitions and musical performances.

Candidates will require significant experience and a demonstrable passion for working with people from a range of backgrounds including vulnerable individuals on the margins of society. They must also have a personal interest and engagement in the creative arts that motivates their desire to see lives transformed by participating in these activities.

As Bethany is a Christian organisation this post carries an Occupational Requirement in line with Equality Act 2010. Applicants should have and be able to evidence an active Christian faith and commitment. Successful applicants for this post will require an enhanced disclosure and membership of the PVG scheme.

Thenue Housing Association is based in Glasgow and provides high quality housing to over 3,000 tenants and owners in six areas, mainly in the east end of the city. We have always gone beyond our core housing responsibilities to address the wider needs of our communities and are currently recruiting a Project Worker for our Choices for Change project.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual from a community development background to support the Project Coordinator in delivering Choices for Change. The project supports people who are lonely and socially isolated and is built around a 10 week personal development course delivered in partnership with Glasgow Kelvin College.

Responsibilities include delivering life-skills training to course participants as well as assisting in the recruitment of course participants, assessment of training needs and project monitoring. An additional responsibility will be enabling participants to shape course content to match their needs and aspirations.

You will have relevant community development experience, preferably gained in a similar environment, have excellent communication skills and the ability to manage your own workload. You will have a full current driving licence.

In return, we offer an excellent package including a competitive salary, a Defined Contribution Pension Scheme, 25 days annual leave plus 15 public holidays pro-rata.

Thenue aims to be an equal opportunities employer.