- Advertised from 26th July 2022
- 35 hours per week. Salary: £22,833.64 per annum.
Role
The Big Issue magazine launched in 1991 in response to the growing number of rough sleepers on the streets of London by offering people the opportunity to earn a legitimate income through selling a magazine to the public. Thirty years on, we've helped over 92,000 vendors earn £115 million but our vendors still face the myriad of problems associated with poverty and inequality.
As a Support Worker, you'll not only support us in our mission to dismantle poverty, you'll have a direct involvement in positively impacting the lives of our vendors. You'll be joining a committed and supportive team and an organisation that cares about your personal growth and wellbeing. Not only that, we also offer an ever-growing list of benefits too.
The Role
You'll support vendors on their entire Big Issue journey - from completing their initial induction and selling the magazine through to assisting with financial and digital inclusion and much more.
In addition, we are currently working hard to build new partnerships and networks in our local area to find opportunities for our existing vendors with more opportunities and increase our presence in the community to promote TBI as a route out of poverty. So, if you feel passionately about working collaboratively to enact real change then you will have lots of scope within this role.
Other duties include:
- Inducting new vendors, understanding their individual needs and goals
- Holding regular check-ins with assigned vendors to discuss sales, welfare and gauging if they require referral for further support
- Working with vendors, both in the office and on outreach, to foster a professional relationship and support their sales aspirations
- Selling magazines to vendors, managing pitch allocation, ensuring we have sufficient stock and taking care of banking and sales reporting
Skills & Experience
Some of the skills and experience we look for include:
- Experience of working with vulnerable adults in a frontline or social care setting
- Excellent ability to communicate at all levels and with authenticity both verbally & and in writing
- Confidence in dealing with difficult situations or conversations
- People-focused and ability to adjust your approach depending on the situation
- Confidence in lone working when needed
- Respect for the importance of confidentiality and discretion
- Knowledge of the homelessness sector is desirable but not essential
For a full details of skills and experience, please download the job description from the link below.
Workplace details:
Our office is based at Clockwise in Commercial Street in Edinburgh but you will mostly be working out and about within the community
Salary and Benefits include:
- Salary of £22,833.64 per annum
- Holiday entitlement starting at 25 days per year plus bank holidays on top, increasing by 1 day for each year of employment up to 30 days
- Company sick pay starting at 5 days of full pay, increasing by 5 days with each year of employment (up to 6 weeks)
- Family-friendly benefits including enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Comprehensive flexible working policy open to all staff from day 1 of employment
- Free-of-charge BUPA healthcare cash plan scheme covering everything from dental and physiotherapy costs through to private consultations and scans
- Access to our Employee Assistance programme which includes counselling and a range of therapies
- Life cover - a lump sum for your family or loved ones if the unexpected happens
- Comprehensive programme of professional skills training
Application notes
To apply, please visit thebigissue.livevacancies.co.uk/#/job/details/251
If you have any queries, please email hr@bigissue.com stating the job title.
The Big Issue Group committed to equal opportunities and committed to promoting and enhancing diversity, equality and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applicants from all members of the community and particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA, and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.
Our Group Mission
Building a world that works for everyone. Challenging, innovating, and creating self-help and sustainable business solutions, that dismantle poverty now and for future generations
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Project Worker (Practice and Participation Service)
- Full time
- £24,211 – £26,759
- Edinburgh
- Closing 15th August 2022
Are you passionate about helping people to live a better life? Do you want to work for a charity where your health and wellbeing matter just as much as the people you support? Do you want to be part of a trauma-informed team where you will be supported to develop creative and flexible ways of working?
At LinkLiving, our values and people are at the heart of everything we do including how we recruit our staff. It is important for us to find people who share our values, which are:
- Empathy (listen to and understand an individual’s needs and circumstances)
- Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)
- Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)
- Caring (show kindness and concern for others)
LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people to manage or overcome the effects of negative life experiences (including trauma, mental health challenges, poverty and inequality) so that they can build on their strengths and aspirations in order to live their best possible lives. We support people through a range of models including:
• Personal development and employability programmes
• Self-help coaching
• Supported accommodation
• Care at home
• Housing support
• Befriending
• Social cafes
The Service
The Link Academy team works primarily with people with complex and chaotic backgrounds. The service works hard and creatively to maintain the early engagement of participants. We support people by offering mental health and wellbeing programmes, independent living skills and a wide range of qualifications to support their progression including employability, tenancy, youth work and leadership award qualifications.
The Job
The purpose of the job is to support people to achieve their goals and aspirations through group work by providing opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills. You will be responsible for recruiting, training and supporting the programme participants. You will support the achievement of high standards and provide monitoring information in relation to the project’s outcomes.
You will ensure that opportunities are provided to people equipping them with the skills to make a valuable contribution to the service and their wider community. You will support people into a positive destination whether that be re-engagement with education, training or employment. The Project Worker will provide support and offer guidance to programme participants, develop relationships with other agencies and services and actively promote LinkLiving’s programmes and services.
About You
In order to be considered for this role it is essential that you can demonstrate a good standard of education, e.g. standard grade passes (or equivalent) in core subjects such as English and Maths and also hold an SQA Assessor or willing to work towards it.
Experience of co-ordinating, developing and delivering training programmes is essential for this role.
As you will be working with people with complex needs/backgrounds you must have previous experience in this field.
Additionally, you must have the ability to drive and be able to travel between services, as required.
For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please refer to the Job Specification in the Job information Pack above.
What’s in it for you?
As a LinkLiving employee, you'll benefit from:
• A generous annual leave entitlement of 35 days pro rata per annum (including public holidays) rising to 38 days after completion of three years’ service
• Access to a death in service benefits scheme providing 4x salary
• Enhanced company sick and familial pay entitlements
• A Healthcare cash plan for employee and dependents to support health and wellbeing and discounts on shopping, restaurants, and other services.
• A free and confidential employee assistance program and services for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental and financial well-being
• Employer pension contributions starting at 5% and rising to 6% depending on employee contributions
• Access to a savings and borrowing scheme and much more!
This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration. Link will meet the cost of any new PVG scheme membership or scheme record update.
Further Information
Interested? If you have any questions about the role, please email jobs@linkhaltd.co.uk and we can arrange for someone from the service to call you for an informal chat.
To find out more about what LinkLiving do, please visit our website at linkliving.org.uk
We are looking for enthusiastic and engaging individuals wanting to start their next chapter in their management careers.
We currently have 3 Assistant Team Manager opportunities for the right candidates.
As an Assistant Team Manager, you will generally work alongside other staff on a day-to-day basis to provide a wide variety of support to people with diverse support needs. You will also work closely with other ATMs and Managers, so regular communication and contact is the key to our success.
You need to be organised and able to manage a varying workload that can change on any given day. A good sense of humour and patience are the key to success in the role. The role of ATM within any of our services is to act as a liaison between the service and the managers. You must be digitally connected and comfortable with technology, as most of the tasks are IT based. The job also entails compiling team rotas, undertaking supervisions, and regular audit of the service for things like medication and finances. Along with the team managers, you will be responsible for ensuring that all paperwork is present and regularly updated.
You will be a trusted source of knowledge and guidance for members of the team, and have a hands-on approach to problem solving. If you are a positive, upbeat individual with patience and a good sense of humour this is the job for you!
We welcome applications from candidates with at least one year’s experience of support work/ providing person-centred support to individuals who have support needs. You must be able and prepared to complete an SVQ 2 in Social Care within one year of taking the post, or be the holder of an equivalent qualification. If not already registered with the SSSC, then you must be registered within 6 months of starting the role. If already registered then you will need to update your membership accordingly.
The successful candidate will have outstanding administrative and communication skills, and demonstrate an empathy for The Action Group’s values, especially surrounding confidentiality.
Benefits include:
- Pension
- 24/7 employee assistance programme, with access to free legal advice and counselling
- Good annual leave entitlements
- Ongoing support, training and development opportunities
- TAG Rewards – our exclusive discounts and savings programme
- Travel time payable where applicable
- Mileage allowance where applicable
Sikh Sanjog is a local charity which aims to provide a range of quality opportunities for Sikh and other Minority Ethnic women and their families which reflect their educational, recreational, cultural and social needs recognizing the potential for lifelong learning and social inclusion. Through a combination of community work, youth work and our Social Enterprise Community Café we aim to address the unmet needs of this group. We deliver this through a combination of paid workers and volunteers.
This role would be ideally suited to candidates who have previous experience working in a community development setting with individuals and families experiencing hardship and a wide range of challenges.
We are at an exciting stage in our organisational development experiencing an increased need for our services. Our aim is to continue in our effective support for marginalised people whilst looking to further develop and innovate the service we currently provide.
We have identified the need for this role which will suit candidates who are passionate about empowering individuals and families to meet their social needs. If this is you, then we want to hear from you!
These posts are for females only.
Exempt under Race Relations Act- G.O.Q
Network Engagement Officer
- Full time
- £26,000 – £28,000
- Home based with travel across the UK and to the Leicester office.
- Closing 26th August 2022
Home-Start UK is the leading family charity with trained volunteers and expert support helping families with young children in communities across the UK. We are an umbrella organisation of circa 50 staff that works closely with our network of 184 local Home-Starts – all independent, registered charities.
We are currently looking for three Network Engagement Officers to join our team and support in building relationships, insight gathering and deepening our understanding of the Home-Start Network around the UK.
The ideal candidate(s) will have excellent people skills, be good at building relationships, able to take initiative, plan projects and proactively look for ways to promote the work being done within the cohort of Home-Starts they engage with.
These roles will lead in facilitating and supporting relationship building between a group of approximately 45 local Home-Start sites, in order to assist in our understanding of their needs, shining a light on best practice in both practice and governance, and how we provide support where difficulties exist.
As part of a small team, you will also work across the organisation to bring your insight into our other functions including fundraising, communications and policy, and quality and development to contribute towards wider projects. You will likely bring experience from any of these areas from previous roles you have held.
Each Network Engagement Officer will cover a different region to include Northern Ireland, Scotland or Southern England/Wales as part of a UK wide engagement team. The role is home based but will require regular travel around these areas, so a local base or local knowledge, while not essential, is welcomed.
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