Are you passionate about homelessness and interested in developing a new service and approaches? Are you creative in your working approach?

If so, this new role working with people and in partnership with others may be the perfect opportunity for you.

About the role

You will lead the capacity building element of a project that aims to develop resources to support people experiencing homelessness and in recovery from gambling harm

Partnership working will be central to this role, and you will work alongside other Cyrenians colleagues, 3rd sector, statutory partners and service users to shape the vision for this project.

About You

You will be an outgoing individual with excellent organisational skills and with a creative and innovative approach. You will be committed to promoting inclusion, and will have experience of working with people with a broad range of life experiences.

How we’ll support you

You’ll be working independently with a supportive manager and a range of internal and external colleagues and partnerships. You will have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering our services. You can find out more about our organisation and our impact online.

Our values

Compassion | Respect | Integrity | Innovation

Website: cyrenians.scot

Are you passionate about creating excellent volunteer experiences? Are you looking to use your skills in volunteer communication, training and engagement to make a difference? Then join Shelter as a Corporate Volunteering Experience Officer and you could soon be playing a vital role within our Corporate Volunteering team.

About Shelter

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.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team

Part of our Equity, Inclusion & Culture Directorate, the Volunteering team is passionate about the positive impacts of volunteering for both individuals and organisations. Collaborative and supportive, we believe that volunteers are a vital part of our growing movement for change. Right now, we’re busy building a new Corporate Volunteering Team that sits within the wider Volunteering Team. We work closely with our High Value Partnerships team, which is responsible for generating income through partnerships with corporate organisations. Successes to date include developing and extending long-term, sector-leading partnerships with companies including HSBC UK, B&Q, M&S and Network Rail across England and Scotland. This is your opportunity to be part of our future success.

About the role

As a Corporate Volunteering Experience Officer, you’ll be instrumental in ensuring a quality corporate volunteering experience that equips volunteers and connects them with our cause. Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for cohesively managing corporate volunteering journeys so that each volunteer is enabled to deliver. Indeed, we’ll rely on you to manage all resources and communications that directly support the corporate volunteer experience, including training delivery. That will involve managing a planned approach to updating and improving resources, as well as developing new resources and methods of engaging with volunteers. And, with an exciting expansion of our partnership with HSBC accompanied by ambitious volunteer engagement plans, you’ll be key to putting a training programme in place for HSBC volunteers too. Supporting an innovative volunteer mentoring offer, managing the recruitment, onboarding and ongoing support of volunteer mentors and developing and expanding mentoring opportunities – all are part of this exciting new role.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About you

To succeed, you’ll need a background in supporting the implementation of best practice approaches to volunteering, particularly in volunteer induction, engagement, communication and learning and development. You’ll also need experience of designing and developing learning content, planning and delivering presentations and facilitating training and workshops. Confident and creative using a range of communication methods, you’re used to using the written word to engage audiences across different comms platforms too. What’s more, you have a proven ability to plan and coordinate projects and prioritise your workload, plus an innovative, solutions-focussed approach. You’re also comfortable working both on your own initiative and collaboratively and have the proficiency using Microsoft Office applications it takes to create engaging resources.

We understand that job security is a top concern for many people when considering their next career move. That's why we want to make sure that you know the full extent of the benefits that come with this fixed-term contract.

Although the contract offered currently has a set end date, we are committed to providing our employees with the same level of support and benefits that we offer our permanent staff. This includes access to training and development opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits package, and a supportive and inclusive work environment. Furthermore, you would be eligible for internal redeployment opportunities should the contract not be extended beyond its end date.

In fact, we are proud to say that our fixed-term employees often take advantage of the opportunity to gain valuable experience and build their skills in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. We are committed to helping our team members succeed and grow, and we believe that this commitment extends to all of our employees, regardless of their length of tenure.

So, if you're looking for a role that offers the benefits and support of a permanent position, along with the excitement and opportunity of a fixed-term contract, we encourage you to apply.

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, payroll giving, 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 be part of our 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.

About the Organisation:

Four Square Scotland is an Edinburgh charity working for more than 40 years to prevent homelessness and promote inclusion. We are driven by our mission to ensure everyone has the opportunity to have a home and a place in their community.

We provide services directly to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to overcome any barriers they may face in creating a stable life for themselves in their community. We apply our core values of Integrity, Excellence, Dignity, and Support to the people we support, our colleagues and our partners.

Alongside our support services, we have a social enterprise focusing on the sustainable reuse of furniture, which provides independent income as well as volunteering and training opportunities for those who use our services.

We are currently recruiting a Senior Practitioner for our Young Persons Accommodation Services, Stopover, where we provide 24 hour support for 18 young people in a recently renovated building in the heart of Edinburgh.

The Role:

The role of Senior Practitioner is vital to help us achieve our aim of ensuring everyone has a home, a place in their community and a network of positive relationships that support them to build the life they want.

Senior Practitioners support a team of Practitioners in developing relationships, often with people who have experienced a great deal of adversity and trauma and for whom having trust in others can be difficult. Senior Practitioners use their skills in coaching and motivating to help Practitioners recognise their own strengths and work with them to build their confidence, resilience and motivation to undertake their role to the highest quality.

Alongside supporting staff, Senior Practitioners are part of the team and work directly with people using services supporting them in the way they wish to build the life they want.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• To be a role model for the team in the application of Four Square values;
• Ensures Practitioners adhere to the SSSC Codes of Practice;
• Delivers the services in line with the Care Inspectorates Health and Social Care Standards;
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with people who use our services, colleagues and partners;
• Provides regular support, supervision and appraisal to the team;
• Supports social work students on placement acting as the Link Worker;
• Has a good understanding of supporting young people impacted by homelessness, trauma and adversity and ensures that the service and individual support is delivered to help young people recover from their experiences;
• Values and prioritises participation of the young people in the development of the service and wider work of the charity;
• Ensures the team stays up to date with current research and policy developments and works with the Head of Services to integrate these into practices;
• Can establish clear professional boundaries with the people we support and supports the team to demonstrate the same professionalism;
• Has a commitment to strengths based practice, delivering the service in a trauma-informed and person centred way;
• Has a commitment to their learning and development and putting this into practice and encourages the team to do the same;
• Is a reflective practitioner and an active participant in regular reflective practice group supervision;
• Has a commitment to working in partnership with other organisations and professionals to support young people and;
• Is engaged in the wider work of the charity enabling staff to participate in the delivery of the strategic plan.

What we expect from you:

At Four Square, we believe in upholding our values and company approach through our Senior Practitioners. We hold them to a high standard to ensure they embody these values and reflect our company's ethos.

For more information look at our full job description or email recruitment@foursquare.org.uk.

What we offer to you:

• 35 days annual leave entitlement rising to 40 days upon completion of 5 years' service.
• Unlimited Access to an Employee Assistance Program
• 15% EFI Shop discount
• Enhanced sick pay (depending on the length of services)
• Pension scheme
• Closed market offers and discounts through our HR System
• Wellbeing events

We are recruiting a new fundraiser to join our Marketing and Fundraising team in our Head Office in Glasgow City centre.

You will use your excellent writing skills and creativity to submit funding applications to support our work with Glasgow’s most vulnerable people. Our teams in three projects work daily to improve the lives of our guests, helping them to flourish and know fullness of life. You will join a fundraising team that generates the income to continue this work to transform lives of those affected by homelessness, poverty and trauma.

Applications are welcomed for a part-time role, which will focus solely on applications to trust and foundations; or a full-time role, which also includes corporate and major donor relationship development.