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Midlothian Young Peoples Advice Service (MYPAS) promotes the health and wellbeing of young people and currently focuses on working in the areas of mental health and substance use. MYPAS is a community-based organisation with charitable status and based in Dalkeith, Midlothian. MYPAS has been successful in gaining funding from Midlothian and East Lothian Drug and Alcohol Partnership (MELDAP) to provide young people’s drug and alcohol support services in East Lothian. This is an exciting new initiative and the first time MYPAS will provide services within East Lothian.

MYPAS will recruit two Project Workers to develop and provide young people focussed, needs-led, friendly, confidential and non-judgemental drug and alcohol service for:

• Young people (aged 12 to 19) in East Lothian

The new service will offer:

1. Individual support for young people
2. Group work programmes in all East Lothian schools
3. Staff training
4. Support for families

There is no specific qualification required; however, the post holder will be expected to be educated to degree level. This should be in a relevant field such as Health, Community Education, Social Work or Education, but significant equivalent experience will also be considered. The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary service and work effectively with other agencies in partnership settings. This post will require regular evening and occasional weekend work.

Place of work: The administrative base is in Dalkeith. Travel throughout East Lothian, including operating from other venues, will be required.

Special conditions:

• The Project Worker posts are funded for an initial 2 years. Further 2 year continuation funding is dependent on the progress of the initial 2 year pilot.
• The posts will involve regular evening and occasional weekend working.
• Post holders must be able to travel across East Lothian. The full time post holder will require a driving license and it is essential that they have access to their own vehicle.

We're looking for a skilled Project Officer to support the effective management of large multi-year programmes working with global partners. If you have excellent organisational, written and verbal communication and negotiation skills, we want to hear from you!

We are looking for an individual with a highly developed interest and demonstrable capabilities in partner coordination, organisational systems and policy compliance, who will work very closely with colleagues in Link and our partner bodies. You must be organised and detail-oriented with advanced interpersonal communication skills and excellent systems management experience. You must be able to remotely support a multi-country, multi-cultural team while based in Edinburgh. You must be able to travel regularly to our partner countries, up to four times per year for up to 4 weeks at a time. You will be a strong team player, who is able to work effectively within and across teams.

The Scottish Older People’s Assembly is looking for an enthusiastic and proactive individual to cover maternity leave for the Co-ordinator. The post is initially for 6 months (January – June 2020) with potential to extend for a further 3-6 months dependent on external funding.

This flexible and interesting role would ideally suit someone who has experience of working within the charity/ public sector on citizen engagement, event planning, delivery and evaluation, and preparing reports. The post holder will be responsible to the Trustees of SOPA and although will work closely with the Chair, is required to be confident in working autonomously to deliver agreed outcomes.

A Job Description and Person Specification is available for download below.

Those who are homeless experience some of the worst health outcomes possible, with signicant numbers experiencing serious health conditions and high rates of early morbidity.

Cyrenians has secured funding to take forward a new Pathways project within Edinburgh. The project will be delivered by a multidisciplinary team working closely with staff from the Royal Infirmary and Western General to ensure early identification of patients who are homeless and develop a considered discharge process that will include access to accommodation and support ongoing recovery and resilience, to ultimately improve health outcomes.

We are looking for Key Workers excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to establish trusted relationships with people. You will be a strong advocate for the needs and rights of those you support, and be able to develop relationships and referral routes with a range of community based organisations and accommodation providers. You should also have the ability to demonstrate Cyrenians values of Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Innovation in the work that you do.

The main purpose of the post of Assistant Shop Manager is to support the Shop Manager to generate income by managing the Boutique shop effectively and commercially, to create a unique shopping experience for customers and donors while maintaining the high standards set by CHSS. To identify high value items and to effectively display and promote, in order to support delivery of financial targets. The Assistant Shop Manager is part of the CHSS retail team and is expected to contribute to the department’s goal of raising revenue to support the work of the charity.

Please see the role profile to view the key accountabilities, key challenges and required skills and experience.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, health insurance, employee welfare support and life assurance.

Friends at the End have been operating since 2000 and achieved Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) status in 2018. We are seeking a Communications and Policy Executive to join our team, develop and deliver a communications strategy and ensure our profile grows and is sustained across a number of channels and audience groups.

As we look to increase our impact, and therefore our fundraising activities, we are looking for someone who can develop our public profile as a leading Scottish charity, an organisation that can be trusted to deliver and an organisation that is making a very significant difference in the lives of people approaching the end of life.

The successful candidate will be expected to have demonstrable experience in initiating and developing communication strategies, both in the short and longer term across a range of different media.

As sponsors of the Cross Party Group on End of Life Choices in the Scottish Parliament, it is desirable for candidates to have experience liaising with members of parliament but training can be provided. You will support the chief executive and work alongside the office manager to successfully carry out the organisations activities.

Skills and experience:

· You will likely already work in communications and be a high performing account executive (or similar) looking to move into a more flexible role.

· You will focus on results - knowing the importance of every article, every social media post, every publication and you’ll have a track record of achieving exceptional outcomes.

· You’ll be an excellent writer, capable of producing quality content for printed media and on-line use.

· You’ll have a high degree of attention to detail in your writing.

· You’ll be capable of delivering projects to keep in line with developments.

Qualifications:

You will be degree educated and may well have completed further studies in Communications, PR or Media.

Role location:

The job is located in our Head Office in Glasgow, however we envisage flexible working with the successful candidate working primarily from home. Occasional travel elsewhere in Scotland is required.

Remuneration:

A benefits package is available to the successful candidate. The salary applicable for the role is £ 23,000 per annum FT equivelant.