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We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with the right values to join our service assisting and supporting vulnerable care leavers to achieve better lives.

The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of a team to provide meaningful support to service users and to ensure the security of the project. You will manage a small case load, providing person centred support that covers practical, emotional and personal issues. 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; challenging behaviour; effective written and verbal communication; resilience and perseverance in the face of resistance and sometimes aggressive behaviour; knowledge of homelessness; knowledge of issues experienced by young people who have had to be removed from their primary care giver; 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. Please read the attached Role Profile in detail.

Shifts will involve day, mid and back shifts, including weekend working as part of a rolling shift pattern.

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.

Almond Housing Association is working in partnership with West Lothian Youth Action Project to recruit for a Project Co-ordinator to establish a brand new Community Growing Project in Livingston, West Lothian.

Funding has been secured through the Scottish Government Investing in Communities Fund to establish Growing Together: a Community Growing Project to support the Craigshill community to proactively tackle food poverty in a dignified and holistic way.

There are four dimensions to this project: growing, cooking, eating and sharing food.

The project, a partnership between Almond Housing Association and West Lothian Youth Action Project, are recruiting a co-ordinator to facilitate and develop a range of community based ‘plot to plate’ activities along with volunteering opportunities to support local residents’ interest in sourcing and growing food locally. We hope that the project will empower and inspire; supporting the community to understand the ways in which they can make the most effective use of available food resources.

We are currently seeking an experienced individual who is passionate about this type of work and keen to provide much needed support to those who access the service. We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic individual to join our team, with practical experience of community gardening or similar settings working outdoors. Self-motivated, empathetic, and with strong communication and training skills you will initially be employed until the end of June 2022.

LinkLiving is a not-for-profit organisation and Scottish charity. We have been providing specialist services to support health, wellbeing, and community inclusion for over 25 years.

We are committed to positively supporting people to overcome the negative impacts on their lives of ill-health, poverty, inequality and isolation. We work to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are often excluded from society due to vulnerabilities including homelessness, mental health issues, and social isolation. We provide care, support and employability services to over 1,500 people a year.

Whilst we support people of all ages, we have a particular specialism in working with people affected by trauma and in supporting young people.

Over the last decade we have increasingly become recognised for our approach to supporting young people to develop the personal resilience, practical and emotional skills and experience necessary for successfully managing key transitions in their lives, including leaving care, moving into their own tenancy, achieving positive destinations.

At LinkLiving, our values are at the heart of everything we do and we put the people we support first.

Our values are:

* Empathy (listen to and understand an individual's needs and circumstances)

* Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)

* Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)

* Caring (show kindness and concern for others)

Our main aim for this job role is to find people with the right values, behaviours and attitudes to match our own.

We're seeking to recruit some great support workers to work in our new project in Grangemouth. If you share our values, this could be the role for you.

The Service

This exciting new service has been designed by Falkirk Council in consultation with care experienced young people. It aims to provide a stepping stone from local authority care to independent living by providing intensive support to enable young people to develop the skills needed to successfully maintain their tenancies. For a better understanding of LinkLiving's approach to delivering this type of service please click here.

The Job

We have a great opportunity for Support Workers to join our team and be part of an innovative new supported accommodation service for care experienced young people, delivered in partnership with Falkirk Council. Your main role will be to support care experienced young people to create a home, offering practical, emotional and social support to assist them to develop the skills necessary for successful independent living.

You will need to be able to develop warm and effective relationships with service users, supporting them to cope with their lives in a positive and planned way so that they feel valued and supported and in control of their own lives. You will ideally have some experience of multi-agency working, housing support/care at home systems and knowledge of the challenges faced by care experienced young people.

The service will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so flexible working will be required to meet the needs of individual service users and the needs of the service.

What you will need

Personal values which align to those of LinkLiving.

Willingness to work towards and achieve an appropriate qualification recognised by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) - for example, SVQ Social Services and Healthcare at SCQF Level 6.

Ability to meet the standards of care set out in the national Health and Social Care Standards.

Ability to meet the requirements of membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme.

An approach which is flexible, practical, proactive and reliable.

Successful applicants will be required to register with SSSC within 6 months of their start date.

Further Information

For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please refer to the Job Specification on our online recruitment portal.

To find out more about a career in care, the following video provides an insight into what you can expect - aquestionofcare.org.uk

The Deal

LinkLiving offer up to 38 days annual leave pro rata, a wide-range of benefits including flexible working arrangements and access to a generous contributory pension scheme. Working within a supportive environment you can expect a range of training and development opportunities

Changeworks is a leading environmental charity and social enterprise in Scotland. We give people and organisations practical support to live and work more sustainably. We deliver the Home Energy Scotland service in South East Scotland and Highlands & Islands.

We are looking for a Senior Partnership Officer who will have a role at the forefront of tackling fuel poverty in South East Scotland by building effective partnerships with a range of organisations including local authorities, NHS, registered social landlords, and other third sector organisations.

The role is externally facing, using excellent relationship-building skills to identify opportunities to fulfil the objectives of Home Energy Scotland and partner organisations. You will act as a representative for our team at a range of meetings, conferences and events to promote our services.

Home Energy Scotland provides a range of energy efficiency, renewables, transport and water advice to customers, as well as helping people access funding support to feel warmer, save money and live more sustainably, reducing their carbon impact.

Our team delivers advice in a range of settings including phone, face to face and via home visit and training events. We also receive third party referrals via a digital solution, and key to this role is the promotion of these services.

You will have experience working in a partnership setting, working with local government and third sector organisations, with excellent communication and networking skills and an eye for a great opportunity for collaboration.

It is an exciting time to work with Queens Cross and we are looking for dynamic and motivated individuals to join us.

As an innovative and award winning Housing Association we have undertaken a planned programme of change to ensure we continue to deliver excellent services to all of our customers, now and in years to come. This has led to a number of opportunities to work with us to help us achieve our vision of Excellent Housing in Vibrant Communities.

We are a community-based housing association located in the north west of Glasgow. We manage nearly 4,500 homes and provide tenancy support and community development activities to enhance the local area.

Our employees are expected to take ownership of their workload and adopt a solution-focussed approach that makes a difference to our tenants, other customers, and stakeholders. We are looking for candidates with a positive attitude and the ability to build strong working relationships with their colleagues.

Our Wellbeing Service for people aged 60+ has a long established history of providing support to older people living independently in their own homes. Our vision is to create Excellent Housing in Vibrant Communities and to help people live well by providing support when it’s needed most.

We are looking for enthusiastic, empathic individuals committed to the wellbeing of people aged 60+ to join our successful team.

Our service offers a unique approach to helping older people remain active members of their local community, promoting independence, building resilience and working with people to achieve their individual goals.

We provide Queens Cross Housing Association tenancies for people age 60+ and enhanced housing management to help them maintain their tenancy

We deliver ‘interventions’, working with people when their health deteriorates, helping them regain their independence (this work strand is funded to April 2020)

We work one to one with people to support independence and use the good conversation approach to build their resilience

We’ve achieved ‘very good’ ratings from the Care Inspectorate and are looking for exceptional people to join us in the following roles:-

Assistant Wellbeing Worker– equivalent of 35 hours a week

Working from one of our operational bases, working Monday to Friday 8.30am-4.30pm and weekends and public holidays 8.30-12pm on a rota basis

Sessional Support Workers- Flexible hours by agreement at £9.73 per hour

Staff benefits package includes:-

· Generous salary of £ 17717 to £ 19087

· Annual leave entitlement of 27 days plus 13 public holidays (enhanced rate if worked).

· Choice of pension schemes and active personal development plan for our staff

· Job share applications will be welcome.

We are looking for people who have experience in providing support to people and whose values also match that of the organisation – respect, integrity and aspiration.

We are a value led organisation and you will share our commitment to respect, integrity and aspiration.

The post holder will be expected to meet the competency levels expected of all Queens Cross staff particularly with emphasis on attitude, behaviours’ and a customer first approach.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sectors of the community. The Association operates a Job Interview Guarantee Scheme, which means that if you have a disability, and meet the minimum criteria outlined within the Job Description, you will be guaranteed an interview.

To support our LGBTI colleagues and to create an inclusive environment we have signed up to be a Stonewall Diversity Champion. Working with Stonewall Scotland, we ensure that all our policies, procedures and staff benefits align with best practice for sexual orientation, gender identity, equality, diversity and inclusion.

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. 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 service is part of a two site project offering accommodation and support to a total of 18 people; 10 in Alexandria and 8 in Bonhill. The post will involve three 7 - 8hr shifts weekly over a 4 week rota, including weekends. Typical shift patterns are 07:30-15:15 or 15:15- 22:15.

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.

Changeworks’ runs a very successful energy advice and advocacy service for vulnerable householders across East Lothian, Edinburgh and Midlothian and the Scottish Borders regions. We are now seeking to recruit additional advisor capacity within the Affordable Warmth Team. We are therefore seeking energetic and supportive individuals with a ‘can do’ attitude to deliver affordable warmth advice.

You will be highly organised with excellent communication skills and a mature, responsible and client focussed, attitude. An energy or advice providing background is desirable, as is experience of producing high quality written reports, working with disadvantaged people and knowledge of fuel poverty. A Full valid driving licence is desirable or other ways of fulfilling the mobility requirements of the job

We offer an attractive staff benefits package which includes an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

Closing date: Monday 10th February 2020 at 11.30pm

Do you have proven experience of implementing and maintaining technical solutions for use across an organisation and an enthusiasm for learning new skills? Then join Shelter as Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer and you could soon be playing a vital role at the heart of our IT Operations team.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

About the role

Our IT Service Delivery function works to ensure Shelter's software, systems and infrastructure remain available, flexible and secure. Within this team, IT Operations maintains and develops our end user environment and infrastructure - and it's here that we need your expertise. Your primary challenge will be to support and assist with the professional delivery of our private and public-facing server and network infrastructure, ensuring it remains reliable, secure and fit-for-purpose. However, we'll also rely on you to manage, resolve and provide technical escalation for highly complex support issues, or those that require specialist knowledge. Keeping abreast of emerging IT technologies will be important too, as will making recommendations and implementing security and feature enhancements.

About you

To succeed, you'll need experience of managing major updates and the replacement or commissioning of new services. You'll also need to have worked with Windows server Azure deployments and, ideally, some LAMP stack deployments, though not essential. An awareness and understanding of best working practice around information and technology security is important too, while it goes without saying that you have great problem solving skills. Comfortable working as part of team and independently, it is anticipated that some tasks may fall outside of your prior experience, so you'll also need to be keen to learn and develop. A practicable knowledge of data-driven web applications would be desirable but not essential.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We're here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

Apply to join our IT Operations team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Do you have proven experience of devising, managing and leading successful housing policy and research activity to influence Scottish or UK political institutions? Then join Shelter Scotland as our Senior Policy Advocacy Officer and you could soon be playing a vital role in helping us continue to tackle the root causes of Scotland’s housing emergency.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, talented individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our Campaigns and Policy Team is part of Shelter Scotland’s Communication and Policy function. It is responsible for developing policy positions and campaigns on housing and homelessness issues and engaging with partners, decision-makers and our supporters who are critical to the success of our campaigns. As well as formulating proposals for policy change and responding to Government policy initiatives, we work closely with Shelter Scotland services and other teams such as Marketing, Communications and Digital.

About the role

This is a high-profile policy role which will be championing and driving forward policy development, project management and stakeholder engagement, as well as overseeing the delivery of our policy, advocacy and engagement activity across Scotland. For example, during this fixed-term contract you will be instrumental in helping to deliver a significant Shelter Scotland housing campaign and you will also help create a high-profile and effective housing manifesto for the run up to the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.

You will liaise with our four community hubs and other advice and support services to monitor local policy issues emerging from our services. You will responding to local policy and political agendas and developing new policy ideas, campaigns and solutions at a national and local level. Creatively designing new policy, as well as writing and overseeing the development of high-quality think pieces, briefings, content for social media, videos, consultation responses and reports will also be part of your job. You will be line managing two Policy Advocacy Officers.

About you

You’re someone with proven housing policy experience who can hit the ground running. You have an excellent understanding of Scotland’s public policy scenes, including a detailed working knowledge of the Scottish Government, and knowledge of the Scottish Parliament and Committee processes would be useful too. You’re familiar with how public policy is made, influenced and shaped, and are great at evaluating and reporting on the subject. Producing high impact written and verbal policy communication to influence decision makers and persuade key stakeholders will be part of your skill set. You will have some experience of managing a small team and motivating them to produce work to a high standard to maximise the impact we have.

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.