Jobs in Leith, Edinburgh

The Junction is seeking an enthusiastic and skilled manager to lead the delivery of our high-quality, innovative projects and services. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in ensuring our work meets the needs of young people, delivers meaningful outcomes, and creates lasting impact within our communities.

About The Junction

The Junction is an award-winning charity in North East Edinburgh that supports and improves young people’s health and wellbeing.

Last year, we supported more than 1,800 young people and supported around 150 young people through one-to-one support. As a result of the service:

• 100% of young people learned practical ways to look after their wellbeing
• 88% felt more able to cope with difficult situations
• 94% reduced or stopped substance use or learned how to reduce harm associated.

About this Role

Within this role you will champion youth participation, ensuring that young people have a genuine voice in shaping both our services and the wider development of the organisation. You will build and maintain strong relationships with partners, funders, and stakeholders, helping to strengthen The Junction’s reputation and reach.

You will lead and support a dedicated team of Project Workers, fostering a collaborative, reflective, and supportive working environment where staff and volunteers can thrive. Alongside this, you will take organisational responsibility for safeguarding as The Junction’s Child Protection Officer, ensuring the highest standards of practice and compliance.

Person Specification Summary

Essential

• Experience of supervising and managing others to deliver high-quality services
• Experience managing and leading issues related to child protection and safeguarding
• Experience of developing effective monitoring and evaluation mechanisms
• Experience of working with young people or providing one-to-one support
• Experience of reporting to and building relationships with funders
• Experience of working collaboratively with partners
• Understanding of a range of health wellbeing issues that affect young people (including mental health needs)
• Understanding of inclusive and accessible service delivery
• Passionate about improving the lives of young people
• Empathetic, approachable and positive motivator of others.

Desirable

• Professional qualification in Community Education, Counselling, Social Work, Health Promotion or equivalent
• Experience of managing waiting lists
• Knowledge of trauma informed practice.

What We Offer

• Flexible Working – We offer flexible working hours to accommodate families and childcare, caring responsibilities. Home working is anticipated and welcome for this role.
• Competitive Annual Leave Entitlement - 38 annual leave days in total, pro-rated for part-time positions.
• Competitive Pension Contribution – Auto enrolment in our pension scheme with a 5% contribution from The Junction.
• Positive Working Environment – An opportunity to work with a values-based organisation that is committed to equality & inclusion.

We are looking for a Project Worker to join our team at Bethany Christian Centre, a supported residential community for men who are homeless, providing assistance to individuals in their recovery from addiction.

As a Project Worker, you will be involved in the day-to-day running of the residential unit, providing emotional and practical support to the residents in overcoming addiction, and enabling them to live independently through support planning, assessments and key working and delivering group-work sessions.

An excellent team player with great communication skills, you will have experience and knowledge of our service user group and their surrounding issues. Competence in the use of Microsoft Office tools is essential. SVQ 3 in Social Care or equivalent is desirable, coupled with experience in a Residential/Housing support setting. Lived experience of addiction and recovery, or experience of supporting someone through recovery, would be an advantage.

Successful applicants for this post will require membership of the PVG scheme.

As Bethany is a Christian organisation, this post carries an Occupational Requirement in line with the Equality Act 2010. Please note that one reference must be from your church minister or leader to endorse your live and active Christian faith and commitment.

This post is restricted to male applicants in order to reduce barriers of access for the all-male residents. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK as we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.

Benefits

We are committed to helping our employees flourish personally and professionally. Below are a few examples of the ways we support our employees.

• Bethany provides 30 days of annual leave initially to all contracted staff, rising to a maximum of 40 days depending on length of service.
• Bethany provides enhanced payments for maternity, paternity, and adoption.
• Bethany operates a company pension scheme to which all staff are auto-enrolled, with option to opt out. We will match any staff member’s pension contribution up to a maximum of 5%.
• Bethany provides a death in service benefit scheme.

Details

Starting salary: £27,280 gross per annum pro rata (the role involves regular sleepover, which are paid in addition to your salary)

Permanent Full-time (37.5 hours/week)

Holiday entitlement: 225 hours per year pro rata

Application

Job Description – BCC Project Worker – July 2026

Part 1 Employment Application Form OR 2026

Part 2 Employment Application Form 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our South Services Teams, providing leadership to our Scottish Borders Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Team.

Assistant Service Manager - Scottish Borders CMHWT

• Salary- £32,165 - fixed point 32
• Hours- 36.25 hrs
• Location- Scottish Borders (Galashiels)
• Contract- Permanent
• Responsible to: Deputy Head of Services

We have an exciting leadership opportunity to join our South Services team as the Assistant Service Manager for the Scottish Borders Community Mental Health Team. Within this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the day-to-day delivery of our community mental health and wellbeing services.

You should have experience in; providing leadership and management within services, staff development and supervision, supporting people with their mental health and wellbeing, working as part of a team, meeting service KPI’s, data analysis and preparing data for reporting.

If you have experience in these areas and are passionate about supporting people to fulfil their potential, we’d love to hear from you!

Health in Mind has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated leader to join our South Services Team as Service Manager for our Midlothian Recovery Services, supporting people with their mental health and drug and/or alcohol recovery journey. Within this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the day-to-day delivery of the Recovery Services, including:

• Recovery Peer Support Service (one-to-one support for people seeking support in recovery, including support for women and those who have experienced a near fatal overdose)
• Recovery Peer Connecting Service
• Hostels Peer Support
• Peer Support Groups (including SMART groups) and Peer Training

You should have experience in; providing leadership and management within services, staff development and supervision, supporting people drug and alcohol recovery and mental health, working as part of a team, working with external stakeholders, meeting service KPI’s, data analysis and preparing data for reporting. Supporting our Peer Support Workers and volunteers, who have their own lived experience of recovery is vital in this role.

If you have experience in these areas and are passionate about supporting people to fulfil their potential, we’d love to hear from you!

You will work closely with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help identify energy saving opportunities that deliver carbon and cost savings. You will provide support to help SMEs to overcome barriers to the installation of low carbon technologies (e.g heat pumps and heat pump enabling measures such a building fabric insulation).

You will also provide advice and support on a wider range of technologies to SMEs, helping business to save energy and reduce the cost of their energy bills. This will be done through 1-2-1 conversations, in person events, online webinar training and desk top reviews of technical specifications.

You will be a central part of helping the service deliver effective, high-quality advice and support to enable the installation energy efficiency, low carbon heat and renewables projects, making SMEs more competitive and helping them on their journey towards Net Zero.

The team

Business Energy Scotland is one of the key advice and support services at Energy Saving Trust and is funded by the Scottish Government to provide free and impartial support to help SMEs save energy, carbon, and money.

As Scottish businesses try to overcome the twin challenges of high energy prices and playing their part in reducing carbon emissions, our work is more important than ever. We train, coach, challenge and guide our people within a welcoming and supportive team, and pride ourselves on pulling together to deliver excellent service for our customers.

You will be encouraged to share ideas and drive innovation within a team that values collaboration and individual input, and we draw on the experience and diverse skills of our team members to deliver impactful support for Scottish SMEs in response to the climate emergency.

What you will do

• Actively engage with SMEs to understand their specific energy related opportunities and challenges to establish the most appropriate level of support.
• Liaise with SMEs and contracted energy consultants to secure necessary technical information to enable an energy efficiency assessment to be completed.
• Help the SME with any queries they may have on their bespoke energy assessment report and the recommended measures it contains.
• Identify any barriers to the installation of measures and help to resolve these, including enabling access to the Scottish Government SME Loan Scheme.

What you will bring

• Demonstrable experience of energy efficiency, low-carbon heating, and renewable technologies in buildings.
• Proven experience of delivering a high standard of customer service, the ability to explain complex information in a straightforward accessible way.
• Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing with internal and external customers.

Who we are

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.

Work where you thrive

At Energy Saving Trust, flexibility isn’t just a policy, it’s how we work. Most of our roles can be done remotely, and many of our people choose to work from home full-time. Prefer an office environment? We have welcoming spaces in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and Hadleigh for those who want to connect in person.

We’ll support you with:

• Generous holiday (25 days + bank holidays + extra Christmas leave)
• True flexibility in how and where you work
• Strong pension & life assurance
• Enhanced family leave
• Green travel perks (EV scheme, cycle to work)
• Professional development support
• Yearly wellbeing allowance

These are just some of the benefits we offer.

Want to know more about how we make flexibility real? Check out our Benefits and Culture page

Reasonable adjustments:We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for, everyone.

If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch with recruitment@est.org.uk or call reception on +44 (0)20 7222 0101. We will do our very best to support you.

Diversity and inclusion

Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.

We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the criteria for a role. Find out more here.

VOCAL – Voice of Carers Across Lothian is a carer-led organisation providing a wide range of services to support unpaid carers across Edinburgh and Midlothian.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and capable finance professional to join our team and play a key role in the smooth day-to-day running of VOCAL’s financial operations. This is a busy, varied and hands-on role, managing a variety of transactions across multiple systems with accuracy and attention to detail.

You will take ownership of key financial processes, including managing VOCAL’s finance and grants inboxes, processing invoices, expenses and payments in Xero, and reconciling income from a range of sources such as social enterprise activity and donations. You will also play an important role in supporting carers directly through the accurate and timely processing of carer grants.

Other duties include: overseeing supplier payments; bank and credit card reconciliations; and ensuring all transactions are recorded accurately and in line with financial controls. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation, investigating and resolving queries, and support the Finance Manager with a range of other tasks as required.

The successful candidate will have relevant qualifications and demonstrable accounts payable experience in a similar role, with the ability to manage a varied workload with confidence. You will bring a strong understanding of core accounting principles alongside hands-on experience of using financial systems—particularly Xero—and Microsoft Office.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, enabling you to build positive working relationships and respond effectively to queries. You will be equally comfortable working independently and as part of a supportive team, contributing to a collaborative and values-driven environment.

As Trust and Grants Fundraisers, our job is to inspire grant-makers and trustees to support Bethany Christian Trust in our mission in ending homelessness in Scotland, one person at a time. We are looking for someone who is a talented storyteller, enthusiastic fundraiser, confident networker and dedicated researcher. As part of our team, you will design compelling funding applications, innovate new ways to connect with Trusts and Foundations, and steward vital income for our projects and services.

You will be part of our talented and multi-disciplinary Fundraising Team and be willing to support colleagues from Individual Giving, Communities and Events, and Marketing. Living our values, you will work with colleagues across the charity on funding applications and reports to develop income and enable our mission across Scotland.

You will be located in our head office at Bonnington Road in Leith, Edinburgh.

Bethany Christian Trust is a national charity working across Scotland to change the story of homelessness. We run 30 key services from Stornoway to Edinburgh, supporting over 7,000 people each year. From our fleet of Care Vans delivering a warm meal and a chat to people in need, to community employability drop-ins and supported housing, we are here to support individuals at any stage of their journey out of homelessness.

About LGBT Health and Wellbeing

LGBT Health and Wellbeing was established in 2003 to improve the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people across Scotland.

Today, we are Scotland’s national charity for LGBTQ+ adults, working every day to make sure people have somewhere to turn, somewhere to belong, and somewhere they can be themselves.

We create spaces where LGBTQ+ people can find connection, support and a sense of belonging. We provide services that help people through difficult moments, build confidence and feel less alone. And we use what we learn from our communities to influence the systems, services and decisions that shape our lives.

We are recognised as a trusted and credible voice on LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing, particularly in mental health, trans wellbeing and the experiences of LGBTQ+ elders.

At the heart of everything we do is a simple aim: a Scotland where LGBTQ+ people thrive, no matter who we are.

You can read more about our work and impact in our latest Impact Report.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to lead one of the most ambitious pieces of work in our organisation's history.

Thanks to support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, we're developing Scotland's first LGBTQ+ Inclusive Care Standard - a co-produced framework that will improve how inclusive care is understood, delivered, and experienced across Scotland.

Working alongside LGBTQ+ people with lived experience, care providers, and national partners, you'll lead the development, piloting and implementation of the Standard, helping to create lasting improvements in health and social care while influencing wider policy, practice and systems.

About You

We're looking for someone who enjoys bringing people together, building partnerships and creating meaningful change.

You don't need to have developed a national Standard before, but you'll bring experience of leading projects, working collaboratively and turning ambitious ideas into practical action. Most importantly, you'll share our commitment to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ people and creating a future where inclusive care is the norm, not the exception.

Our People Support Coordinator plays a central role in helping LGBT Health and Wellbeing be a great place to work and volunteer.

About LGBT Health and Wellbeing

LGBT Health and Wellbeing was established in 2003 to improve the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people across Scotland.

Today, we are Scotland’s national charity for LGBTQ+ adults, working every day to make sure people have somewhere to turn, somewhere to belong, and somewhere they can be themselves.

We create spaces where LGBTQ+ people can find connection, support and a sense of belonging. We provide services that help people through difficult moments, build confidence and feel less alone. We also use what we learn from our communities to influence the systems, services and decisions that shape our lives.

Our impact is only possible because of our people. From staff and volunteers delivering frontline services, to trustees providing strategic leadership, every person plays an important role in creating welcoming, inclusive spaces for LGBTQ+ people across Scotland.

We are recognised as a trusted and credible voice on LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing, particularly in mental health, trans wellbeing and the experiences of LGBTQ+ elders.

At the heart of everything we do is a simple aim: a Scotland where LGBTQ+ people thrive, no matter who we are.

You can read more about our work and impact in our latest Impact Report.

The HR Officer role is a new role within Mindroom’s Operational Services team. With ongoing support from the Director of Finance and Operations, together with Mindroom’s external HR consultants Work Nest, the post holder will be the first point of contact for managers and staff members requiring support, advice and guidance on a wide range of HR and employee related matters.

Day to day, you will be responsible for providing a collaborative and forward-thinking human resources service, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and organisational policies and procedures.

The role would suit someone with extensive HR experience who understands what a positive and inclusive workplace culture looks and feels like. With excellent communication skills, you will be an approachable and supportive HR generalist who is able to establish trust and credibility with colleagues and who is able to work collaboratively in finding solutions to a range of both challenging and opportunistic situations.

Organisation profile

As an organisation founded upon lived experience, Mindroom champions all forms of neurodiversity and supports all kinds of minds. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for neurodivergent people by removing barriers, increasing opportunities and shaping a more accessible world.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and grow Mindroom's communications function at a pivotal point in the organisation's development. Following a transformational year, including major multi-year investment and the expansion of our national services, Mindroom needs compelling, strategic communications to match our growth, and you will be central to building that.

You will lead the day-to-day delivery of our external and internal communications, managing our social media presence, website and email communications, and developing content and resources for individuals, families, professionals and funders. You will also help establish stronger communication and brand guidelines, bringing greater consistency and impact to the way we tell our story.

Beyond the day-to-day, you will have real scope to shape how this function works: developing our approach to digital channels, strengthening our use of data to inform content, and building the systems and ways of working that will support Mindroom's communications as we scale. This is a role for someone who enjoys creating structure as much as creating content, and who wants to leave their mark on a growing organisation's voice.

You will work closely with colleagues across Mindroom, including our Business Development and Direct Support teams, to ensure communications reflect the breadth and impact of our work, and connect us with the communities, funders and partners we serve.

Organisation profile

As an organisation founded upon lived experience, Mindroom champions all forms of neurodiversity and supports all kinds of minds. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for neurodivergent people by removing barriers, increasing opportunities and shaping a more accessible world.

We are currently looking to recruit support workers to join our small team within Inclusion Alliance. The role involves supporting people with learning disabilities to be included in the community and lead an ordinary life. Your work would involve helping people to access educational, social, leisure and work or volunteering opportunities in the community.

No experience or formal qualifications are necessary for the role although a caring nature, positive attitude and a sense of fun are important characteristics to have. New staff will receive paid training and undertake shadow shifts with experienced staff members during induction. We want new staff to feel ready and able to work prior to working on their own for the first time.

We have various vacancies available including part time and relief/casual positions in various locations throughout Edinburgh.

Working hours are based between the hours of 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday.

We have various permanent and casual vacancies available.

Relief/Casual pay rate- £13.45

Candidates must be caring, motivated and have excellent communication skills whilst being committed to working in a person-centred way ensuring that support is built around the supported person’s wishes and needs.

Benefits include

• Employer contributory pension scheme
• Funded SVQ 3 qualification and learning opportunity
• Paid annual leave entitlement
• Regular paid supervision sessions
• Regular paid training and development opportunities
• Daytime Monday to Friday working
• Working for a well-established small organisation where person centred values are at the core.Free 24/7 access to employee support app