Rock Trust are delighted to be recruiting a new Team Leader for our Housing Services in Edinburgh and East Lothian. The Team Leader (Technical Apprenticeship) provides the opportunity to lead a team of experienced frontline staff and to gain the skills and work experience to achieve the SVQ4 in Health and Social Care.

These services will support young people who are homeless to transition to permanent, independent accommodation. The Team Leader will be expected to:

• Play a leading role in the continuing development of our services
• Lead and manage a team of high performing service delivery staff
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with key partners
• Promote and share evaluation, learning and best practice
• Provide high quality housing support to a reduced caseload

Do you have a passion for enabling individuals to make a positive change in their lives? We’d love to hear from you.

We’re excited to have the opportunity to recruit a new Employability Worker covering Edinburgh and West Lothian.

Who we are:

Venture Trust works with people experiencing complicated life circumstances. Through the provision of wilderness-based personal and social development programmes, we equip them with the confidence, motivation and core life skills that they need to make positive changes in their lives.

The role:

Our Employability Workers:

• are responsible or developing and managing external referral networks to recruit individuals onto our programmes
• support the planning of and lead on the delivery of employability programmes for participants
• provide ongoing pastoral support to identify and remove barriers to employment and broker employability opportunities where possible

For the full job description and person specification, please click here

What we offer:

• Annual starting salary of £22,250 per annum
• 28 days annual leave and 9 public holidays
• Joint contributory pension scheme
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements

We also offer a great working culture that embraces our core values of courage, care, curiosity and collaboration in all we do.

About includem

We are an established Scottish charity helping children, young people and families in challenging circumstances to transform their lives by providing intensive, bespoke support.

Our model of support is based upon building solid relationships of trust. Through this approach we are able to help children and young people to make positive life choices and progress towards the type of future they want to live.

Includem would be nothing without our people. We have over 100 brilliant and dedicated colleagues working across Scotland to provide the support young people need to make positive changes in their lives, and inspire a more hopeful future for young people, their families, and communities.

What Does the Role Involve?

This is a varied role, and the successful candidate will support the charity by delivering an effective and efficient finance function. You will ensure that required information is produced accurately in a timeous fashion with impeccable attention to detail.

This is not a segmented role, and you will have exposure to the full finance function operations – from transactional processing and reconciliations, to assisting with the preparation of Management and Statutory Accounts and audit cycle.

Essential Criteria

• Qualifications or skills and experience at SCQF Level 7 or, have relevant skills and experience in a similar role

• Experience of working in the not-for-profit sector (preferred but not essential)

• Demonstrate ability to work at the highest levels of confidentiality and discretion

• Ability and desire to work in a collaborative manner with stakeholders at all levels

• You will have impeccable attention to detail and understand the requirement to work in-line with internal policies and legal/regulatory rules

• Strong influencing and communication skills

• An analytical approach - able to produce clear, meaningful reports

• Strong administration skills

• Flexible and adaptable with ability to self-manage, be organised and work on own initiative

• Confident and practised in the use of online applications – Outlook, excel, word, powerpoint, SAGE

• Desire and ability to work with IT systems you may not have encountered before

• Results orientated and committed to high personal standards with the desire to achieve and commit to CPD

We value our staff and employee benefits include:

• A full and robust training and induction programme

• Holiday entitlement of 28 days rising to 31 with length of service and 9 public holidays

• Enhanced Employer Pension Contributions

• Free Confidential Employee Counselling Service

• Access to Mental Health First Aiders across the organisation

• Company Mobile Phone and Laptop

• Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations Credit Union

• Discounted holidays and associated benefits

• Access to discounts for charity workers which includes gym memberships, high street shops, online retailers, travel, insurance

• Flexible and agile working and Family friendly policies