Jobs in Clackmannanshire South, Clackmannanshire

Summary

If you are passionate about providing a positive, caring place for children and families, that really makes a difference in the community, then this job is for you!

Serving primarily the South and East of Alloa, but with the possibility of a wider scope, Community House is seeking to appoint an experienced Project Manager who has the vision and skill to support existing projects but also to enhance, integrate and develop new initiatives.

About Community House

Community House is an established charity with its roots in the local community for over 20 years. Supporting some of the most vulnerable children and adults, it employs a team of full time and part time staff. The long-established core of Community House is to provide a safe space which welcomes all.

Currently our projects and services consist of a daily after-school club and daily holiday club during the school holidays, a Helping Hands Group for young adults with additional needs, and other activities with community partners.

What are we looking for in a Project Leader?

We are looking for a person with proven management and leadership skills, who can lead an organisation and has the drive and passion to help Community House achieve its charitable objectives of providing a safe space for the most vulnerable in our community.

As well as overseeing the day-to-day operations of the charity, the successful candidate will be someone who enjoys the variety of working with children and vulnerable adults as well as looking for new ways of engaging with local people to develop new projects and resources.

They will be a team player as well as a team leader and have the skills to develop and maintain partnership working at a strategic level.

Reports to: The Board of Trustees

A full job description is available to download.

An opportunity has arisen within Change Grow Live Forth Valley for two Recovery Coordinators to join our team. Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

Responsibilities

About the role:

• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
• Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral
• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
• Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
• Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination

About you:

• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
• Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills
• Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills
• Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice
• Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders
• Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
• Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards
• Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others.