Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid provides refuge accommodation, follow-on and outreach services to women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse, forced marriage and honour-based abuse primarily from the Asian, Black and Minority Ethnic Community.
We are recruiting a Women’s Support Worker (Refuge & Follow on) to support women in refuge and when they are leaving to live in the community.
It is essential that you have experience of working with women who have experienced gender-based abuse. A suitable qualification that meets with Scottish Social Services Council housing support registration is required. The nature of our work requires a commitment to the feminist analysis of domestic abuse and to the values of Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid. It is essential that you are bilingual and speak English and Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu.
Includem is recruiting for a Family Support Worker to join our new service providing Targeted Family Support in Aberdeen. Applicants should demonstrate skills in delivering support through an early intervention model supporting families in their communities. In addition this service will also support young people who are in conflict with the law. Applicants should demonstrate skills in supporting diversion from prosecution and demonstrate knowledge of court processes.
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Includem is committed to developing employees and will help you to achieve the relevant qualifications required to carry out the role. These qualifications will be fully funded by includem. The successful candidate should have a full driver’s license and access to a car.
Are you passionate about ocean conservation and sustainable seafood practices? We are looking for an engaging, dedicated and effective Public Affairs Manager to make a real difference in protecting marine life while ensuring the livelihoods of coastal communities.
About Open Seas
The Open Seas Trust is a Scottish charity working on issues of marine conservation and sustainability. We believe in the power of advocacy to drive positive change and protect our oceans for future generations. In our 8 years of operation we have established a strong position as a credible and trusted voice for our oceans and have been involved in several key pieces of political change. We are a small and collaborative team driven and focused on effective strategies for delivering change in our seas.
The Role
As Public Affairs Manager, you'll be at the helm of our policy initiatives, working to shape regulations and drive change in marine conservation and fisheries management. From engaging with politicians to developing advocacy campaigns and strategies, your work will be instrumental in advancing our mission to protect our oceans.
Why Join Us?
The location for this appointment is flexible within Scotland, but with the expectation that a significant amount of time will be spent engaging with politicians in the Scottish Parliament.
Most staff currently work from their homes, but there is also the potential to arrange office space if necessary, and there are regular team days in a hot desking venue in Edinburgh.
Benefits
The role will be paid £36,114 - £40,969.50 per annum
Open Seas offers a matched pension contribution of up to 6%.
The role will be entitled to 25 days paid holiday plus Scottish public holidays.
If you're ready to use your skills and passion to drive positive change for our seas, we want to hear from you! Join us in protecting our oceans and building a more sustainable future for all.
The Post
We are seeking to recruit a Project Fundraiser to secure and maintain current and new income streams with the potential to support the work of the charity.
The Project
The Louise Project is a Christian antipoverty project operating in Govanhill to enable families living with hardship to live flourishing lives and to enable communities to thrive. Govanhill is the most ethnically diverse area of Scotland, and we welcome all people to receive support. The most recent migrant population to arrive are the European Roma from Romania and Slovakia and they are the dominant group support by the project.
The project offers families access to 5 well researched programmes of support, to break the cycle of generational poverty, as follows:
Health All Round aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in the South West area of Edinburgh. The post holder will be responsible for setting up/ delivering a range of community arts groups, managing volunteers and working alongside other local agencies.
HAR has been delivering a range of high quality services for over 30 years in order to improve the health and wellbeing of local people and reduce health inequalities within South West and South Central Edinburgh.
Using a community development approach HAR works with local GP’s and other allied professionals to promote the social model of health and support the most vulnerable people in our community to improve their health outcomes. An average of 250 people per week access HAR services.
The Art for Health Project Worker will support the delivery of our new creative arts programme to support individuals to improve their health and well – being through involvement in the arts.
Are you passionate about making a positive difference in people’s lives and about the opportunities that Self-Directed Support brings to support each person’s individual journey?
Are you an experienced worker in health or social care, looking for an exciting and challenging personal development opportunity?
Do you have excellent Leadership qualities and a willingness and appetite for your own learning and development?
If your answer to these questions is “YES”– you may be the person we are looking for!
At Community Lifestyles, we are committed to developing and delivering high quality, individualised services which support people of all ages with a disability to live a full life, as active citizens within their communities.
In addition to providing direct support to individuals, some of whom may have complex needs, the main responsibilities of the Team Leader role include helping to plan, co-ordinate and monitor service delivery to individuals and to support, supervise and manage workers providing support to these individuals.
We are currently looking to recruit Team Leaders who are highly motivated, confident, and enthusiastic social care practitioners who are able to:
The post includes evening and weekend working and may include sleep over provision/waking night support, as well as some support to workers out with “normal working hours”.
Our staff are our most important asset and as such we offer extensive training and development opportunities, including support to achieve an SVQ 3 and PDA Supervision qualification in Health and Social Care.
You will be part of a supportive, local team and will receive:
ASH Scotland is the leading charity campaigning for effective tobacco control legislation in Scotland. For more than 50 years, ASH Scotland has played a key role in raising awareness about tobacco use and its harmful effects and has contributed to the implementation of effective public health policies to help people who smoke to quit and to protect children from tobacco.
They seek to improve health and quality of life by helping to create a society which supports young people in remaining tobacco-free, helps those who want to stop smoking, protects people from second-hand smoke and challenges the inequalities resulting from use of tobacco and related products such as e-cigarettes. With a mission to create a tobacco-free generation in Scotland by 2034, ASH Scotland is focusing on generating a positive shift in social attitudes to establish a normal expectation of a tobacco-free environment, wherever in Scotland they live.
The Role
Your contribution will be vital in shaping both the long-term strategic vision and the day-to-day operational plans of the organisation. You'll assist in managing resources effectively and participate in evaluating and reporting on the outcomes of these plans.
Your responsibilities will extend to making strategic and operational decisions, ensuring effective implementation with the appropriate resource. You'll play a key role in developing policies related to smoking, health, and wellbeing, taking the lead on some and supporting others as needed.
Another important aspect of the role involves cohesive communication within the organisation and across teams, helping to ensure that information flows smoothly and effectively. Additionally, you'll be engaging with external stakeholders, managing relationships and partnerships on behalf of ASH Scotland, whilst identifying and developing opportunities to generate income and secure funding for the organisation.
In return, alongside a competitive salary, generous employer contribution, 7 weeks annual leave (pro rata), flexible working culture with an office requirement of once a week, you will have the opportunity to operate within an organisation operating at national level with a team who are supportive and passionate, whilst enabling you to use your professional skills and experience to deliver national objectives for Scotland.
To provide free and impartial energy advice service to tenants and homeowners across the Scottish Borders.
The post will allow 20 days per annum annual leave plus public holidays. Additional leave may be granted to facilitate low carbon holiday travel.
Our Energy Advisors help people save energy, stay warm while spending less on fuel and develop skills and confidence to take more control of their energy use and bills. Our work plays a vital role in supporting people in, or at risk of, fuel poverty and makes an important contribution to tackling carbon emissions and climate change.
Location: Sustainable Selkirk office, 5 Tower Street, Selkirk, TD7 4LR (or hybrid of home and office), community locations and people’s homes throughout the Scottish Borders. Some local travel will be required to fulfil the needs of the project, using low-carbon sustainable travel where possible.
Youthzone - Relief SW
Youthzone provides playful, fun and engaging weekend respite sessions for disabled young people aged between 10-16 years old. The aim of the service is to support the young people to develop their self-help skills and social skills as well as building a social/peer group whilst giving their parents some weekend respite. The young people can participate in a range of activities including arts and crafts, cooking, trampolining, puzzles, basketball, outings and many more. Activities are based on young people’s interests and the young people are encouraged to let us know what they would be interested in trying the next time they attend the service.
About the role
We are currently recruiting for Support Workers/Practitioners to work in our weekend services for children and young people with additional support needs based in Edinburgh. We are looking for people who can provide fun, meaningful activities such as baking, arts and crafts, games, sports, trips in the community and outdoor play to support young people to have lots of fun!
As a Support Worker, you will be a key member of the team, providing:
What you need to know
While experience is great, we are really looking for people with the right values. You should have excellent communication skills and be flexible and empathetic.
Hours: We have a flexible approach to the shifts you work, working hours are between 9.30am – 2.30pm at Weekends. As a relief member of staff you can choose the shifts you wish to work!
Location: between both of our Edinburgh Service locations, Craigmiller 11 Harewood Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4NT & Riccarton Research Avenue North, Edinburgh, EH14 4AP
Driving Licence desirable but not essential, as long as able to travel (as required) to meet our young people’s needs.
Job Description: Support Worker (Children)
Experience/qualifications/key skills required
Experience of working in a similar role and environment is desirable as is a willingness to undertake any personal development opportunities. You should have a care related SVQ Level 3, or the willingness to gain this qualification in a given timescale. You should possess good interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative.
Capability Scotland’s benefits:
CVS Falkirk & District is pleased to announce a new vacancy within our team: Community Participation and Engagement Manager. Funded directly by Scottish Government, the Community Participation and Engagement Manager, is a newly created role to shape, and contribute to, an important and innovative programme of work Greener Grangemouth: a 10-year programme as part of the Grangemouth and Falkirk Growth Deal (2024-2034) putting community health and wellbeing at the heart of Grangemouth’s Just Transition Programme.
We are looking for a person who understands the community landscape of Grangemouth, the priorities and challenges faced by the people who live and work in the town and is interested in supporting the transition to net zero through the decarbonisation of industry and community justice.
With strong communication skills, and exceptional at managing relationships, the postholder will engage with a wide network of stakeholders including representatives from the third sector and local communities, industry, business, public sector, and academic sector to create a visible and consistent ‘on the ground’ presence in Grangemouth, focusing on developing relationships with people across the breadth of the community, ensuring those seldom heard have a route to participation, and supporting collaboration across networks.
There is no fixed route map for how to do this and it is a significant challenge. Whilst enhancing community capacity to take part in the Just Transition process in Grangemouth, the Community Participation and Engagement Manager will be fundamental to establishing a new approach to multi-partner participatory democracy.
About CVS Falkirk & District
CVS Falkirk & District is an independent registered charity and company limited by guarantee and is recognised as the Third Sector Interface for the Falkirk Council area. CVS Falkirk & District is committed to supporting the development of community empowerment, driven by local communities working alongside public services to improve the lives of people living in the Falkirk and District area through:
• Strengthening its role as an Anchor Institution to support and empower Falkirk’s communities through the development of a strong and independent third sector.
• Supporting and developing volunteering, social enterprise, organisational development, third sector partnering making key contributions to the delivery of the CPP Falkirk Plan and associated initiatives and strategies.
• Bringing the third sector together through thematic forums and community leadership to contribute to local and national policy and strategic initiatives.
• Continuously improving its services to offer best value to its clients, stakeholders, third sector and communities.
We are a small team, highly motivated and with a wealth of expertise in developing new projects and programmes supporting community participation and engagement through collaboration, co-production and partnerships. We promote continuous learning and work hard to being an inclusive and supportive workplace.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits including hybrid working, an excellent pension scheme, 25 days paid holiday plus 12 public holidays per year as well as a workplace health and wellbeing plan where you can claim back some of the costs associated with essential healthcare, as well as providing access to valuable health and wellbeing services.