#BecauseScotlandCares

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 guidance from senior colleagues or in accordance with the service aims.

be a key worker for a person or people who have complex or multiple needs.

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.

Cruse Scotland is Scotland’s only open-to-all bereavement charity. As such, we support people of all ages regardless of when the death occurred or the cause of death.

Each year we support over 6,000 people through our helpline, listening and counselling services, specialist support for children and groupwork. We also develop the therapeutic workforce through our development and volunteering opportunities and external training.

We are at an exciting point in our development and are seeking to establish a fundraising team to help us achieve our goal of becoming a sustainable charity that works closely with partner agencies to support Scotland’s bereaved.

About the Role:

We seek to recruit an experienced fundraising professional to lead on the development and implementation of a Trusts, Foundations and Statutory Fundraising strategy.

Reporting directly to the CEO, the postholder will focus on securing grant income from a range of local and national sources that support current services and help us achieve our long-term development plans.

The post will be a combination of home & office based in Edinburgh. Some occasional travel in Scotland may be necessary.

Cruse Scotland is Scotland’s only open-to-all bereavement charity. As such, we support people of all ages regardless of when the death occurred or the cause of death.

Each year we support over 6,000 people through our helpline, listening and counselling services, specialist support for children and groupwork. We also develop the therapeutic workforce through specialist training and volunteering opportunities. Increasingly we are delivering external training too.

We are at an exciting point in our development and are seeking to establish a fundraising team to help us achieve our goal of being a sustainable charity that works closely with partner agencies to support Scotland’s bereaved.

About the Role:

We seek to recruit an experienced fundraising professional to lead on the development and implementation of a Community and Events Fundraising strategy.

Reporting directly to the CEO, this is a new post that will help Cruse Scotland significantly increase income through Community and events activities. It is envisaged that this will be achieved through establishing long-term relationships with key stakeholder groups and utilising digital tools.

The post will be a combination of home & office based in Edinburgh. Some occasional travel in Scotland will be necessary.

MCR Pathways is a transformational secondary school mentoring and talent development programme supporting care-experienced (CE) young people (including those previously), and other vulnerable youngpeople experiencing disadvantage (for example those with a social worker or on the periphery of the care-system) to realise their full potential through education.

MCR was founded to reverse the education and life-chances outcome gap that exists between CE young people and their peers, and to achieve equality of educational outcomes, career opportunities and life chances for all young people. Focused on need, not label. Developed with and by young people over the past 14 years, MCR’s programme dramatically improves educational achievement, wellbeing and post-school destinations.

At its heart, MCR’s model is relationship-based mentoring that has evolved into an integrated programme supporting primary school transition and delivering weekly group work in S1 and S2. Young people from S3 upwards are carefully matched with a volunteer, trained mentor to meet one-to-one on a weekly basis. Young people also have the opportunity to access an offer of employment, college and university experiences.

MCR young people tell their stories far better than us. Hear from one young person who participated in the programme, reflecting on how mentoring has helped her create a better future for herself: Please Watch Emily's Story

We currently work with 72 schools across Scotland and are delighted that the Scottish government has recently announced £19.4 million funding to bring the programme to every secondary school in Scotland. These are really exciting times and we are looking for an exceptional Programme Manager to lead programme implementation and manage our school-based Coordinators across a group of Dundee schools.

The role is an exciting and varied one. As part of our Education & Schools team, you will lead the regional team of school Pathways Coordinators and be supported by our Mentor Services, Marketing and Digital teams.

For this role, you’ll need to be relentlessly driven to ensure all care-experienced and disadvantaged young people in the region are supported to find, grow and use their individual talents and that their education, employment choices and life chances outcomes are maximised. You’ll have experience of managing a team, be highly organised and ambitious to ensure all young people in scope have the opportunity to access the YST Dundee programme.

Please note, this role is subject to a PVG check and two satisfactory references, one of which must be from your current or most recent employer.