Multi-agency Lead (Scotland)
- Part time
- £34,232 pro-rata
- Scotland - Remote, with some travel to other locations around the UK.
- Closing 2nd May 2022
- Advertised from 31st March 2022
- Plus London Weighting of £3,000 if applicable. Flexible working considered. Maternity Cover.
- A generous package including 25 days holiday a year, 365 access to Employee Assistance Programme, employee pension scheme with 4% employer contribution, childcare voucher scheme, Cycle2Work scheme, flexible working
Role
We are SafeLives, the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good.
Last year alone, nearly 13,500 professionals received our training. Over 70,000 adults at risk of serious harm or murder and more than 85,000 children received support through dedicated multi-agency support designed by us and delivered with partners. In the last four years, over 2,000 perpetrators have been challenged and supported to change by interventions we created with partners, and that’s just the start.
Together we can end domestic abuse. Forever. For everyone.
Role summary
Your role is to deepen multi-agency capability, consistency and capacity across Scotland, contributing to the following core objectives:
- Improvement of multi-agency practice.
- Amplifying the impact of optimal multi-agency, risk-led approaches.
- Ensuring multi-agency systems are survivor-centred and accessible to all.
You will increase consistency of Marac operation across Scotland by sharing best practice with a network of Marac professionals, partners and stakeholders. You will guide activity to open up the multi-agency pathway for the highest risk women in Scotland, and support creation of an effective collaborative response based around a common understanding of risk and informed by survivors' authentic voice.
The aim of this work is to promote coordinated ways of working that support women to be safer, sooner. This role contributes to Equally Safe Priority 3 and is linked to a broader set of work across the VAWG sector in Scotland that seeks to galvanise whole system improvement for those experiencing domestic abuse. The role is also closely aligned to SafeLives’ Whole Picture Strategy.
Application notes
If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit your 500 word cover letter, CV by 9.00am, Monday 2nd May 2022.
To find out more, please visit our website
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To be the strategic lead for the co-ordination and collaboration of third sector employability services and represent the sector strategically. To work collaboratively with statutory and third sector partners to maximise the impact of the third sector on improving employment outcomes in Fife.
Strong candidate sought to represent and build capacity of third sector employability services and improve employment outcomes in Fife. The successful applicant will work closely with the Local Employability Partnership (Opportunities Fife) and other key strategic partners to develop policy and commissioning of employment services in Fife. They will manage a small team to deliver an established programme of training and events as well as offering one to one support for third sector employability providers to improve collaboration, capacity and skills. Knowledge of co-production and lived experience work would be a bonus.
Top job! Service Manager – Moray Family Wellbeing Service
- Full time
- £42,500 – £48,900
- Elgin (On site)
- Closing 29th April 2024
So why are we looking for a new Service Manager
Our ambition is for every child in Scotland to be safe, loved and well, together with their family. Children 1st is committed to protecting children by preventing harm through abuse and neglect. We will promote their wellbeing by respecting, protecting, and fulfilling children’s human rights.
We have a long history of working with children and families and partners in Moray. Children 1st along with our partners share a determination to act upon the recommendations from The Independent Care Review and deliver The Promise to children and young people. We are also determined that the full incorporation of the UNCRC means that children will have their rights respected in all areas of their lives and will have a real say in the way they are supported.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Manager to lead a large, creative and vibrant team. Our Service delivers a number of diverse supports alongside children and families. Our activities include Whole Family Support alongside our Social Work Colleagues creating alternative plans to support children growing up where they are safe and loved, and Perinatal Mental Health Support for new parents across Moray. Our activity includes both early help and more intensive supports, all based on quality relationships with children and families.
We are looking for a resilient Service Manager who can be a strong leader across the service and organisation. Someone who thinks operationally but understands the big picture too. We need a leader who is in touch with the needs of children, young people and their families who require support and passionate about their rights. We seek a dynamic manager who can build on the service strengths and create the agile and flexible service children and families need.
What kind of person will make a great Service Manager for Children 1st?
- Has experience of keeping children safe in their own families.
- Someone who can ensure that the child and family rights to have their voices heard and considered in decision making.
- Can work autonomously and develop quality relationships with colleagues from a wide range of partner agencies.
- Can help assess children’s and families’ situations and is systemic and reflective.
- Someone who is calm and cool headed in decision making.
- Someone open to always listening to improve and put quality at the centre of everything we do.
- Shares the Children 1st vision for holistic, rights based, trauma informed, whole family support that is developed and enhanced by children and family’s participation and influence.
What kind of leader will you be?
Knowing our ambition for children, you will be someone who is:
- Resilient, skilled and knowledgeable who wants to transform systems as well as children’s lives.
- Able to build great partnerships and to manage and contribute to courageous conversations.
- Able to understand, predict and adapt to the changing children’s service landscape.
- Bringing considerable operational service experience.
- A cool head and clear minded at times of pressure.
- Strategic in decisions and planning and can manage complexity.
- Inspiring colleagues and teams to be even better.
- An amazing ambassador for children and Children 1st.
Above all else, the most important thing to us is that you are someone who will do the right thing for children and their families at every turn.
Base
You will be based in our Elgin service.
Salary, Conditions, Pension, Value
We will offer you a competitive salary, generous annual leave entitlement (40 days inclusive of 9 public holidays), flexible working opportunities and a contributory pension scheme and a place where you will be supported and valued and work with excellent and kind colleagues.
Additionally, Children 1st offers further staff benefits including a cash-back healthcare plan, membership of a Credit Union and access to a cycle to work scheme.
Further Information
This is a permanent, full-time post of 35 hours per week, with flexibility for travel.
Top job! Senior Service Manager – Health & Wellbeing
- Full time or Part time
- £44,132 – £49,796
- Edinburgh based with travel to other sites (Scottish Borders and West Lothian) (On site)
- Closing 30th April 2024
Are you…
- An experienced manager who can think strategically and lead operationally?
- Passionate about the benefits of positive health and wellbeing
- Keen to use relationship-based ways of working to build resilience and reduce social isolation?
Do you want to play a lead role at the heart of an organisation which makes a real difference to people’s lives?
If you’d love to lead an innovative and varied range of services which all promote health & wellbeing, then this could be the job for you! Our Health & Wellbeing pillar provides Preventative and Early Intervention services which support people to build community connections and promote positive health and wellbeing, thereby reducing the risk of homelessness. We know the power of food and greenspace in bringing people together and building community connections.
About the role
The Health & Wellbeing pillar is full of knowledgeable, experienced, dedicated staff, and this role leads them to deliver the following services:
- Reset
- Food Education
- Golden Years
- OPAL (West Lothian and Borders)
You’ll be responsible for leading the pillar’s strategic and operational activities. This includes planning, budgeting, funding, partnerships, quality assurance and risk management.
About you
You will have a knack for translating strategic aims into operational reality. You will be a role model of Cyrenians’ values-led, relationships-based approach, with experience in managing, developing and supporting services and people. You’ll be keen to use your excellent management skills to support your teams, build connections and share learning across the Health & Wellbeing pillar and beyond.
You’ll bring knowledge of health and social inequalities, their impact on people today, alongside excellent partnership-working and contract management skills. You’ll have experience in building, developing and evaluating services. As this is a busy, complex role, you’ll benefit from being organised and skilled in managing expectations and competing priorities.
We welcome applications from people with lived experience of the issues Cyrenians works on.
How we’ll support you
You’ll be supported by an experienced Director of Services, and join a collaborative, knowledgeable senior management team, who will support you to develop and grow in your role. You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians’ support, including our learning programme, and staff wellbeing services.
About Cyrenians
At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a Public Health Approach to Homelessness Prevention. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering all our services. You can find out more about our organisation and our impact online.
Our values
Compassion | Respect | Integrity | Innovation
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