Jobs in Fountainbridge & Craiglockhart, Edinburgh

Garvald Edinburgh is a long-established Scottish charity supporting adults with intellectual disabilities through creative day opportunities, workshops, community participation, and public-facing social enterprise activities. Rooted in the principles of social therapy inspired by Rudolf Steiner, Garvald places creativity, respect, rhythm, individuality, and community at the centre of personal development. The organisation exists to offer adults with intellectual disabilities meaningful opportunities to develop skills, confidence, and a sense of belonging, achieved through purposeful creative work, strong community integration, and innovative social enterprise.

Operating across multiple sites in Edinburgh, Garvald employs approximately 180 staff and has an annual turnover of over £4.5+ million. The organisation is entering a period of important development, guided by a multi-year strategic plan that includes organisational review, enhancing financial stability, facilities planning, digital transformation, and the continued growth of social enterprise activity. This is a pivotal moment in Garvalds history, offering the opportunity to shape the organisation’s future while strengthening its values-driven culture.

The organisation is now seeking a Human Resources Manager to lead and develop Garvald Edinburgh’s HR function, ensuring that the organisation has the people, policies and culture necessary to fulfil its mission. Working closely with the Head of Finance and Resources, the Senior Management Team and managers, this is a key role in supporting a positive and values-led working environment.

In this role you will provide strategic and operational HR leadership by overseeing the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment, employee relations, performance management and staff retention. The role also encompasses workforce planning, employment law compliance, learning and development, staff wellbeing, employee engagement and volunteer management, ensuring HR practices are effective and aligned with organisational values.

The Human Resources Manager will play a central role in developing and implementing Garvald Edinburgh’s People Plan, supporting organisational development and promoting a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. The role will provide professional advice and guidance to managers and employees, while leading initiatives relating to staff wellbeing, engagement, internal communications and volunteer development.

The successful candidate will bring demonstrable experience in an HR generalist or people-focused role, with a CIPD Level 5 qualification or above, or equivalent relevant experience. You will have sound knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice, alongside experience of providing practical HR advice, managing employee relations matters and developing policies and procedures. You will be confident balancing strategic priorities with day-to-day HR responsibilities. You will also be an effective communicator, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build positive, trusting relationships across the organisation. You will manage sensitive matters with discretion, professionalism and empathy, exercising sound judgement and initiative.

Above all, the Human Resources Manager will combine professional expertise with compassion, integrity and a genuine commitment to people. You will be motivated by the opportunity to contribute to a purpose-driven organisation, helping to create an inclusive and supportive workplace and enabling Garvald Edinburgh to continue delivering meaningful and creative opportunities for the individuals supported by Garvald Edinburgh.

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?

You don't need previous experience or qualifications in this field. If you share our values and have a genuine commitment to supporting people, this could be the role for you.

At LinkLiving, our values and people are at the heart of everything we do:

• 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)

We are proud of the positive culture within our Edinburgh Mental Health Services, recently recognised during a Care Inspection, where inspectors noted that "staff worked extremely well together within a culture of exceptionally strong values, compassion and respect."

We are looking for people who can contribute to that culture by building positive relationships, working collaboratively with colleagues, and treating everyone with dignity, empathy and respect.

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

About the Service

Our Edinburgh Mental Health Services are made up of three housing support teams who provide visiting support across Edinburgh to people experiencing mental ill health.

The service also includes a Core and Cluster accommodation service, providing more intensive, accommodation-based support to people with complex needs, including those who have spent time in long-term hospital care.

Across all parts of the service, our support enables people to live as independently as possible, maintain their tenancy and accommodation, improve their mental and physical wellbeing, and work towards the life they want for themselves.

The Job

We have an exciting opportunity for ambitious and motivated Support Workers to join our Edinburgh Mental Health Services and make a positive difference in the lives of the people we support.

In this role, you will be supported to work in a person-centred and trauma-informed way, building effective relationships with people affected by a range of mental health challenges. You will support people through difficult periods in their lives, helping them build resilience, develop skills and confidence, and work towards recovery and a good life.

Depending on your role within the service, you may provide support through our visiting housing support teams or within our Core and Cluster accommodation service.

You will provide emotional, practical and social support that promotes independence, wellbeing and informed choice in all aspects of daily life.

This role involves the administration of medication for some of the people we support. Full training will be provided.

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?

The benefits of being a LinkLiving employee (subject to the policies and benefit terms and conditions) include:

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non-consolidated pay awards, subject to terms of the scheme
• 35 days’ holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus additional 3 days pro rata after 3 years’ service
• opportunity to buy and sell holiday
• enhanced company sick and family friendly pay
• access to paid SVQ qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities
• funded Disclosure Scotland and Scottish Social Services Council memberships
• defined contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions plus salary exchange and additional voluntary contribution options
• access to a Salary Exchange car leasing scheme, subject to the terms of the scheme
• life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits
• healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependents) to support health and wellbeing plus discounts on shopping, restaurants, and other services
• employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental and financial well-being
• access to purchase annual corporate clothing vouchers
• annual flu vaccination
• access to a credit union savings and borrowing scheme
• cycle to work scheme

For a full list of benefits available to employees, please see the following link - linkliving.org.uk/work-with-us

Successful applicants will be required to apply for registration with SSSC within 3 months of their start date and be registeredwithin 6 months.

This role is subject to PVG membership under the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020. Individuals who are barred from working with children or protected adults will not be considered for this position. Link will meet the cost of any new PVG scheme membership or membership update.

As Connected Communities Lead within Thrive Outdoors, you will help strengthen opportunities for children, young people, families and communities to connect through outdoor play and learning. Working closely with funded organisations, partners and the Scottish Government, you will coordinate programmes and funding, support community engagement and participation, share learning and impact, and help grow investment in outdoor community play across Scotland. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Thrive Outdoors’ vision of embedding outdoor play and learning into the fabric of Scottish life so that all children can thrive.