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“Have you got room in your home and heart to foster a teenager?” is the question posed by Room4U, Scotland’s newest fostering agency.

Room4U teenage fostering service provides high quality full time and short break foster placements for teenagers and young parents and babies accommodated by local authorities in South East Scotland.

We are looking for couples and single people willing and able to:

• Offer a full time home to a young person aged 12+ or a young parent and their baby; or
• Offer short term breaks to these young people and, where applicable, their babies.

Foster carers come from a wide variety of backgrounds and walks of life. Foster carers can be young or more mature, have children or be childless, employed or unemployed, home owners or renters. Foster carers come from different ethnic backgrounds and have a variety of faiths or none. Room4U foster carers will be people who:

• Have already enjoyed caring for teenagers at home or work or in a voluntary capacity;
• Enjoy working as part of a team;
• Can be flexible, able to negotiate and compromise;
• Are calm, tolerant, energetic, resourceful and resilient
• Have a spare bedroom for sole use of a teenager or a parent and baby;
• Live within 30 miles of the City of Edinburgh boundary.

Room4U foster carers benefit from being part of a well-established organisation and will access support from our staff team as well as an extensive training programme. Foster carers will benefit from generous weekly fees and allowances.

Although Room4U is new, we are part of one of the oldest child care organisation in Scotland, the Dean and Cauvin Young People’s Trust, which has been in existence since 1733. Room4U brings a wealth of knowledge and experience of adolescents and young parents and babies to the fostering service.

Foster carers are self employed and will not be employees of the Trust.

The Brief: You will be part of a team of front line managers (Support Advisors), you will manage the development workers who are supporting people to live their good lives. You will walk alongside the people we work for to ensure that they receive a high quality service and are supported to achieve their aspirations and be active citizens in their communities. You will be an integral part of developing the C-Change business and strategic outcomes in the West Lothian area.

About you: You are creative, motivated and confident with a ‘can do approach’. You are able to work autonomously and collaboratively in line with C-Change’s aims, ethos and values. You are also approachable and inclusive in your practice.

Your Skills: You are able to manage teams and support them to realise the aspirations of the people they work for. It is essential that you have demonstrated effective communication, IT skills, planning & prioritising, relationship building and multi-disciplinary partnership working skills.

The Reward: Be part of a dynamic, forward thinking organisation working actively to promote and implement a human rights based approach. As well as supporting people to live their best lives and being a key player in a dynamic team.

LCiL are delighted to be recruiting for an experienced Senior HR Administrator. This new role offers a fantastic opportunity for a driven HR professional to thrive in a truly generalist role, within a diverse and dynamic organisation. Reporting to our CEO, you will provide strong generalist support working across all HR work streams.

In this varied and challenging role, you will take responsibility for providing HR support for the organisation and its staff in accordance with the policy objectives of the Board and Employment Law as well as ensuring all administration processes and activities facilitate the smooth running of the office.

With demonstrable experience of working in a HR administration role, you will have pragmatic and highly organised approach. Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential, and you will need great IT skills, including MS Excel and Word. Experience of influencing and positively challenging stakeholders will be key to success in this role, as is the ability to build great relationships. Please see our Job Description for more details.

If you would love to use your skills, talents and experience to be part of a fast paced, diverse and dynamic organisation, we would love to hear from you.

Please apply by downloading our application pack and use the Skills and Experience statement to tell us why you want to work at LCiL and why this role is a great fit for you.

We offer generous pension & death in service schemes, as well as a supportive working environment.

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Turning Point Scotland North East Edinburgh Recovery Services provides recovery focused psychosocial interventions to adults experiencing drug and alcohol-related issues across North East Edinburgh.

We work within a hub model with partners, including NHS Lothian, CEC Social Work and other voluntary agencies to ensure individualised packages of care to enable service users to achieve their recovery goals.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team at the Leith Hub 5 Links Place Edinburgh EH6 7EZ.

You will be providing the high-quality delivery of 1:1 and group recovery focused interventions to those we support. The services are delivered from our main offices and on an outreach basis in pharmacies GP surgery and at client's home where required.

Please note all staff are expected to be able to work across both Leith and Craigmillar sites when required.

As a busy established recovery hub we are seeking candidates who already have some knowledge of drug and alcohol harm reduction and treatment options and can demonstrate experience working with this client group.

Main duties and responsibilities

Support to people who use services - To:

• provide support and assistance to people who we support in accordance with their support plans and service aims.
• be responsible for undertaking initial and on-going assessments of people who we support.
• advise people who we support in accordance with service aims.
• be a key worker for a person or people who have complex or multiple needs or oversee keyworking.
• maintain professional confidentiality and boundaries at all times.
• support and assist people who we support in crisis situations, and/or manage physical risk or behaviour likely to cause incidents, in accordance with the support plan or service protocol.
• travel within the service area you are contracted for and supporting the travel and transportation of people who we support in accordance with their support plan (mobility, own car, service vehicles, public transport etc).
• have an good understanding of the causes and effects of social exclusion as is relevant to the service and area in which you work.