Come and join the team at Cyrenians Communities.

Are you passionate about working with young people seeking asylum?

Do you want to work in a small team making a big difference in young people’s lives?

Do you want to work somewhere which ensures that the voice of those with lived experience and staff is central to decision making?

If so, then our Senior Key Worker role at Lotus may be the one for you.

About Our Lotus Community

The Lotus Community is based in North Edinburgh, we offer accommodation and support to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. The purpose of the community is to provide a safe and supported living environment for the young people to live, learn and develop together while they go through their asylum journey.

About the role

You’ll be:

· Providing direct line management to a small team of staff

· Ensuring the referral, induction and moving processed are effective and trauma-informed.

· Ensuring our Safeguarding and Human Trafficking prevention processes are maintained to the highest standard.

· Providing occasional groupwork sessions as part of a programme of wellbeing activities.

· Overseeing the volunteer placements at Lotus and providing support when needed.

About You

We are looking for a flexible, well organised and passionate individual who is aware of the challenges our young unaccompanied children face. You will have experience of working with a similar client group, excellent communication skills, and a creative approach to problem solving. You will also have line management experience, and be motivated to work towards positive change.

You will be joining a staff team committed to the highest quality of care and support, and always striving to develop further. This means there will be great opportunities for you to both learn and develop, while sharing your skills and experiences.

How we’ll support you

An experienced and knowledgeable team member will provide full induction, and your line manager will provide regular support and supervision. You’ll also 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 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 impact and our values online.

Would you like to make a difference to a person’s quality of life? Would you like to learn BSL while being paid? We are looking for caring and motivated Support Workers to support deaf BSL users to join our team. Could that be you?

Who are we?

Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. We were established in 1835 and work with deaf people across Scotland and the South of England. Our work is geared towards empowering all deaf people to achieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access, and opportunity.

As well as our outreach service in Edinburgh, we are expanding our service provision in Glasgow and are looking for people who can make a major contribution to our plans for innovation and growth and who have the commitment and enthusiasm to contribute to the work of our support services to Deaf people throughout Edinburgh and Glasgow.

You can find out more about us at deafaction.org.

About you

We are looking for people who are caring, fun, motivated, willing to learn and show initiative. However, you would need some experience of working in a support service and managing /overseeing a team.

We will provide on the job training with the opportunity to complete formal qualifications in social care. If you have knowledge of BSL, or are a BSL user that is a bonus, however we will provide training if not.

The ideal candidates will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website.

The role

You will be leading a team to support *deaf people living in the community. As well as leading a team you will be lone working in the community, delivering a person-centred service supporting deaf people within their own living environment, to enable them to fully participate in the decisions affecting their lives, ensuring that wherever possible, service users benefit from informed choice, control, and independence. This will include both activities at home and within the community which will promote independence and social inclusion.

You will be accountable to the Support Services Area Manager. By working together, you will ensure that a consistent, high quality support service is provided to deaf service users in their own homes, and that staff are supported to develop and maintain such a service.

Due to the nature of this role, its essential that you can drive and have access to a car.

*deaf: this to includes Deaf Sign Language users, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people.

You will be asked:

• To actively monitor and develop individual and team performance by ensuring effective supervision and Performance Development Reviews/Reports (PDRs).

• Be responsible for any risk assessments at the service users home as part of your Health and Safety responsibilities.

• To provide clear direction, co-ordination, feedback, and day to day line management for the work of a delegated group of staff. Thus, ensuring their motivation to provide outcome focused, person centred services.

• To assess any new service users for the service and match them with staffs.

• To be involved in recruitment for new staff for the service.

• To take an active role in assessments / recordings and to work with service users to develop their skills and abilities to achieve identified outcomes.

• To assist service users with personal care tasks where appropriate.

• To be involved, as appropriate, with all household tasks, maximising service users’ participation.

• To record the day-to-day finances (where relevant) and household budgets of service users.

• To enable service users to access information to be fully informed of their rights and valid expectations from the service provided.

• To ensure the health, safety and security of individuals and their environment.

What is on offer? What do we offer?

• Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions of 6%.

• 32 days leave pro rata (including bank holidays) pro rata for part time.

• 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured.

• In-house Mental Health First Aiders.

• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme.

• Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process

• Death in service benefit

Are you excellent at organising? Great at connecting with people? Could you play a key role in inspiring your community to tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness?

If so, this role nurturing our supporter relationships is for you.

About Cyrenians

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering our services because we understand that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting people towards more positive and stable futures.

About the Relationships Team

Relationships are at the heart of everything we do at Cyrenians, with those we support and those who support us too.

It’s an exciting time for Fundraising at Cyrenians. As a relatively new team, our income generation is growing rapidly. On the cusp of delivering some transformative partnerships and achieving great success with new fundraising methods, we’re expanding our team to continue delivering growth in unrestricted income.

About the role

This role is responsible for looking after our amazing supporters, donors and fundraisers that make what we do possible. You will be their first point of contact, giving you the chance to nurture positive supporter relationships by providing excellent stewardship.

This role is an essential part of our Relationships Team - incorporating Fundraising, Communications and Policy & Public Affairs. It is a rewarding role and is part of a collaborative, supportive and motivated team.

About you

You’ll be an experienced administrator with a ‘can-do’ attitude and a genuine interest in putting our supporters first. Your attention to detail will ensure you’re a whizz at recording and processing donations, and generally supporting putting fundraising ideas into action.

Like us, you’ll be relationships-based and values-led in all that you do. Your excellent organisational skills will keep you on track in a varied role, and your strong interpersonal skills will allow you to inspire all kinds of supporters who choose to tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness with us.

How we’ll support you

As part of the Relationships Team, you’ll be supported by experienced colleagues with a passion to tackle homelessness and its root causes. We’ll encourage you to be creative and innovative in the supporter care you provide, giving you the ownership to build relationships you’re proud of.

You’ll be part of the growing Fundraising team, with the opportunity to work closely with colleagues across Marketing and Communications, the wider Relationships team and Cyrenians projects.

In this role you will learn and develop the skills needed to forge a successful career in the third sector, as well as having access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.