Jobs in Fountainbridge & Craiglockhart, Edinburgh

Are you a proactive and people-focused leader with a passion for delivering high-quality property management services?

We’re looking for a Property Team Leader based in our Glasgow Office to ensure excellence, compliance, and real value for our customers.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Service Manager - Property and leading a team of two Property Officers and one Property Co-Ordinator, you will be responsible for delivering our property management plan to the highest standard.

This includes assisting the Service Manager with the development and management of the Property Team to ensure that Blackwood’s homes are safe, warm, energy efficient and meet the associations asset strategy while maintaining strong performance outcomes and an excellent tenant experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the delivery of planned, cyclical, and adaptation programmes.
• Provide day-to-day management and leadership to the Property Team.
• Maintain strong collaboration with the Repairs Team Leader and Compliance Manager to deliver seamless service.
• Ensure quality control through regular monitoring of contractor performance and reporting on KPIs.
• Manage budgets, grant claims, and ensure accurate financial records.
• Drive continuous improvement in asset management strategy and service delivery.
• Promote a culture of shared responsibility, accountability, and customer satisfaction.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in asset management, property services, or housing maintenance.
• Strong leadership and line management experience.
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation, CDM regulations, and compliance best practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• A commitment to delivering value-for-money services and enhancing customer experience.

Why Join Us?

Blackwood offers a range of employee benefits, including:

• Comprehensive induction and personal development opportunities
• Company sick pay scheme on completion of probationary period
• 34 days’ holiday per annum, pro rata for part-time hours
• Company pension scheme and Death in Service Benefit
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme Help@hand

All successful candidates will be required to become a PVG scheme member.

We ask that all applicants read the Job Pack (attached to the advert) Blackwood are committed to diversity and inclusion and as an accredited Disability Confident Employer, we will interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the post.

Note to interested applicants:

SPONSORSHIP IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AT BLACKWOOD

Do you want to work with a values-driven organisation that makes a difference in people’s lives? Come and join Wheatley Homes East as a Relief Scheme Cleaner.

About the role

Wheatley Homes East, part of Wheatley Group, provides affordable housing and outstanding services for people in its communities across Edinburgh, the Lothians, and Fife.

We have a great opportunity for a relief scheme cleaner to join Wheatley Homes East at one of its relief retirement housing staff.

As a relief scheme cleaner, you’ll be covering for permanent scheme cleaners who are absent from their service. During this time, you will be responsible for providing a high standard of cleanliness within a residential development. You will ideally have experience of working in a social housing environment. You will also have excellent communication and organisational skills, an understanding of the issues and demands in housing older people, and an ability to work under your own initiative.

The benefits we offer

As part of Wheatley Group, we offer a sector-leading benefits package.

The successful candidate will receive:

• a rewarding career with a competitive salary;
• excellent leave entitlements;
• access to staff inclusion networks promoting an inclusive workplace; and
• 24/7 access to our employee assistance program.

Committed to inclusion

At Wheatley,we are always looking to improve diversity within our teams. We want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute their best work and achieve their full potential.

We actively celebrate our differences and recognise the collective strength this brings to our organisation. It’s important our teams represent the communities we serve, and we welcome applications from any under-represented groups.

Do you want to work with a values-driven organisation that makes a difference in people’s lives? Come and join Wheatley Homes East as a Relief Retirement Housing Manager.

About the role

The role has a focus on supporting people who are 55 and over, living within Wheatley Homes East retirement housing properties. The role will promote and encourage independence and provide housing support where required. They will liaise appropriately with housing and other agencies regarding the welfare of the individual.

Who are we looking for?

The ideal candidate will have experience in a similar environment and have a sound understanding of older people’s services.

They will display an objective and non-discriminatory approach to our diverse client group and will support people to live their best lives.

Committed to inclusion.

At Wheatley, we are always looking to improve diversity within our teams. We want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute their best work and achieve their full potential.

We actively celebrate our individual differences and recognise the collective strength this brings to our organisation. It’s important our teams represent the communities we serve, and we welcome applications from any under-represented groups.

The role will involve covering staff annual leave and sickness leave in our retirement properties across Edinburgh between Monday to Friday, 9am – 1pm.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure check.

Do you want to work with a values-driven organisation that makes a difference to people’s lives? Come and join Wheatley Homes East as a Relief Retirement Housing Manager.

Wheatley Group is Scotland’s leading housing, care and property-management group. Wheatley spans 19 local authority areas across Scotland, providing homes and award-winning services to over 210,000 people.

There couldn’t be a better time to join Wheatley Group as we launch our five-year strategy. Our subsidiaries are all driven by a common commitment and mission to ‘Make homes and lives better’.

At Wheatley, we are committed to building great homes, transforming neighbourhoods and helping customers get the most out of life. As a retirement housing manager, you will be at the heart of this – becoming a familiar face in our retirement housing community, providing a comprehensive, high-quality service to customers.

About the role

The role has a focus on supporting people who are 55 and over, living within Wheatley Homes East retirement housing properties. The role will promote and encourage independence and provide housing support where required. They will liaise appropriately with housing and other agencies regarding the welfare of the individual.

Who are we looking for?

The ideal candidate will have experience in a similar environment and have a sound understanding of older people’s services.

They will display an objective and non-discriminatory approach to our diverse client group and will support people to live their best lives.

You will receive:

• a generous salary;
• excellent annual leave and public holiday entitlement; and
• an attractive employee benefits package.

Committed to inclusion

At Wheatley, we are always looking to improve diversity within our teams. We want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute their best work and achieve their full potential.

We actively celebrate our individual differences and recognise the collective strength this brings our organisation. It’s important our teams represent the communities we serve, and we welcome applications from any under-represented groups.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure check.

Inspiring Scotland is seeking a passionate and proactive Communications and Impact Officer to join our Intandem team. Intandem mentoring supports children and young people experiencing the care system, whether they’re living at home with parents, in kinship care with wider family or friends, or on the edge of care.

Established in 2016, Intandem is managed by Inspiring Scotland and delivered by 12 partner charities across 20 local authorities. Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, we are embarking on a five-year growth plan to ensure every young person growing up in kinship care can access a mentor, no matter where they live in Scotland.

As Intandem mentoring continues to grow, the need for strong communications, effective event planning and dedicated fund management support has never been greater. This is an exciting time to join Intandem, with the opportunity to use your communications skills while gaining experience in, and contributing to, fund management.

The Communications and Impact Officer will play a pivotal role in the Intandem team in the years ahead. The role has three core elements:

1) shaping our communications

2) coordinating events

3) supporting the day-to-day delivery of the Intandem programme

The Intandem team works collaboratively, and you will play an instrumental role as the programme grows and expands its influence. Flexibility is essential, and you will have many opportunities to shape and influence our work.

• Location: Home Based with the expectation of regular travel to the office for team meetings and Scotland-wide locations for meetings and events with external stakeholders.
• Contracted hours: 35 hours per week. We are happy to discuss flexible working.
• Salary: £28,000 – £34,000 per annum, depending on experience. View our full list of benefits in the job description.

Manor Estates Housing Association is seeking to recruit a full-time Housing Assistant to join our busy Housing Management Team. This vacancy has arisen due to a staff member being appointed to another role within the Association.

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:

• Previous experience of working in a housing environment
• Excellent administrative skills
• Strong skills in standard office ICT packages, particularly Word and Excel
• Excellent customer engagement skills, both over the phone and face-to-face
• Previous experience and/or the ability to learn (with training) how to use our housing management software
• A willingness to work collaboratively as part of a small team
• A positive attitude and the desire to make a difference to our organisation and its tenants or customers? And service user.

Key Terms and Conditions

• 25 days annual leave
• 15 days public holidays
• 35-hour working week with flexible working arrangements
• Contributory pension scheme

Who we are

Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information for people living with dementia, their carers and families, campaign for the rights of people with dementia, fund vital dementia research, and support people to better understand and maintain their own brain health.

What you’ll do

Thanks to some fantastic new collaborations, we’re delighted to share an exciting fixed-term opportunity within our Fundraising & Engagement Team. This role will focus on stewarding an exciting new corporate partnership, as well as managing a portfolio of existing partners, helping to generate vital support for our work across Scotland.

Based in our Glasgow office, with occasional travel across Scotland to support partnership activities, you’ll play a key role in developing and coordinating these partnerships. You’ll deliver excellent supporter experiences and work closely with colleagues across Alzheimer Scotland to ensure our partners feel fully connected to the difference their support makes.

What you’ll have

The successful candidate will have a collaborative nature, strong experience in managing corporate partnerships and will be a self-starter who thrives on building meaningful relationships.

It is incredibly important to us that the successful candidate has a positive attitude towards dementia.

If you are someone with fantastic planning and organisational skills who thrives in a fast-paced environment, this is the role for you.

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?

At LinkLiving, our values and people are at the heart of everything we do including how we recruit our staff. It is important for us to find people who share our values, which are:

• 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)

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

The Link Academy team works primarily with people with complex backgrounds. The experiences of these young people often result in low self-esteem and confidence, poor mental health and a pattern of destructive behaviours. Because of this, these young people find it difficult to manage key transitions such as moving into work or training, into a tenancy or leaving care. The service works hard and creatively to maintain the early engagement of participants. By offering mental health and wellbeing programmes, independent living skills and a wide range of qualifications to support their progression, we give young people the tools to better manage their own mental health. Doing so helps them break negative and destructive cycles of behaviour and thinking, with the aim of putting them on the path to having the best life possible. Staff are trained in using a trauma-informed approach to support young people to build confidence, develop resilience and realise their goals for the future.

The Job

The ‘Right Track (Navigating Positive Futures)’’ is a preventive programme which focuses on supporting young people at risk of becoming involved in the criminal justice system, through the provision of one-to-one and group-based support. The Development Worker will have a background in criminal justice and will support young people facing issues including youth crime, antisocial behaviour, family breakdown and school-related difficulties, to achieve their goals and aspirations, providing them with practical tools and techniques to overcome the challenges they are facing. We welcome applications from people with lived experience and professional experience.

The Development Workers will also provide support to parents and caregivers, as well as leading a team of peer education volunteers (16-24) who will use their own lived experiences of the criminal justice system to positively influence young people supported through the programme.

About You

You are passionate about supporting young people to overcome challenges and achieve positive outcomes, particularly those involved in or affected by the criminal justice system. You will be educated to SCQF Level 7 (HNC or equivalent); however, we actively welcome applicants with relevant lived experience who may not hold formal qualifications, as training and qualifications will be supported within the role. In these cases, you must have demonstrable experience of working with this client group.

You will have a minimum of three years’ professional experience in youth work, including direct experience of working with young people in a criminal justice setting. You are skilled at developing, shaping, and delivering engaging programmes that respond to the current challenges facing young people, using a trauma-informed and relationship-based approach.

You are confident in building positive, trusting relationships with young people and have experience creating or identifying resources for one-to-one work and group delivery, including the effective use of digital tools and resources. You will also have experience of building and sustaining partnerships with a range of stakeholders.

You bring a good understanding of current Scottish policies and the social, economic, and systemic challenges affecting young people and families in Scotland. You are highly organised, with excellent planning skills, and are an effective communicator, confident in both oral presentations and written reporting. A good working knowledge of ICT is essential.

You are a collaborative team player with a flexible, can-do attitude, willing to work across different areas as required. Occasional evening or weekend work may be necessary to support specific training programmes or events, although this sits outside normal delivery hours.

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 an Electric vehicle leasing scheme, subject to the terms of the scheme
• life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits to named beneficiaries
• 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
• annual flu vaccination
• access to a savings and borrowing scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• monthly bus pass scheme
• season/travel ticket loan and much more!

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

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.

This post is responsible for delivering activities within our Edinburgh Community Hub. If you are passionate about bicycles and cycling and have an interest in human rights and supporting disadvantaged groups, then this could be the job for you. You will work on a variety of projects that includes repairing bikes, the co-ordination and support of volunteer bike mechanics, bike distributions, bike collections, and special projects and activities as needed. Your main tasks will be associated with increasing our impact in the support of New Scots refugees and asylum seekers through improving workflow management, efficiency and increasing productivity in the repair and distribution of bikes.

You will have proven experience of working with bikes and a recognised bike mechanic qualification such as Velotech or Cytech - or equivalent bike mechanic experience. Experience of volunteering and/or working with volunteers is desirable. Experience of working with refugees/asylum seekers and/or other disadvantaged groups would be advantageous. A good working knowledge of IT and computer skills is essential. A full drivers license is essential. You will be proactive in the co-ordination and safe delivery of activities and ensure the smooth running of the workshop/hub. You will be an effective communicator with staff, volunteers, New Scots and partners. The post holder will maintain an excellent working knowledge of Bikes for Refugees programmes, policies and procedures, and maintain good working relationships with a variety of external stakeholders and partners.

Bikes for Refugees (Scotland) is a fun, interesting and supportive place for you to grow and professionally develop in the charity and voluntary sector. We are a Real Living Wage Employer. We can offer an attractive package of benefits that includes a 35-hour week (pro-rata), supportive working environment, a fully equipped workshop & office, professional training, flexible working, pension contribution, 38 days (pro-rata) annual leave (includes public holidays), and trade discounts.

If you meet our essential requirements and are excited at the prospect of working in a successful, fun and high impact 3rd sector organisation then we would love to hear from you.

For further information and an informal chat about the post contact either:

Craig Buchan, Community Hubs Manager

craig@bikesforrefugees.scot

Steven McCluskey, Founding CEO

steven@bikesforrefugees.scot

Information also available at: - bikesforrefugees.scot

About Us

Waverley Care is Scotland’s leading HIV and hepatitis C charity. Guided by the voices and experiences of the people we support, our work helps shape vital services and influences national policy on sexual health and blood borne viruses. Our vision is a Scotland where everyone living with, or at risk of, HIV and hepatitis C is treated with dignity, acceptance, and respect. Through our services, we create safe spaces where people can connect, share experiences, and build confidence. We work to end isolation and support people affected by HIV or hepatitis C to live well.

About Our Board

Waverley Care’s Board brings together a committed group of trustees who are responsible for the charity’s governance and strategic direction. Working collectively, trustees ensure that Waverley Care remains focused on its purpose and continues to deliver meaningful impact for the people and communities we support.

Who we would like to hear from

Previous experience of being a charity trustee is not essential, as training and mentoring will be available to support successful candidates to develop their skills and confidence in the role. We are seeking people who can contribute insight and perspective to the Board across two areas. You may bring experience in one or both.

We are particularly keen to broaden the diversity of our Board and to include the voices of people from the communities we work with. This may include:

• People with lived experience of HIV or hepatitis C.
• People from communities disproportionately affected by HIV or hepatitis C.
• Professionals with experience working in the HIV or hepatitis C sector

We are also interested in hearing from people who can bring specific professional expertise or qualifications in one or more of the following areas:

• HR
• Fundraising
• Finance

Time Commitment

As a trustee, you would be expected to attend four Board meetings per year. Meetings are normally held quarterly in Edinburgh city centre and, while we encourage trustees to attend in person where possible, a virtual option is also available. In addition to these meetings, trustees may be invited to attend occasional Board and organisation-wide development days.