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:
About you:
CSREC is a charity dedicated to promoting Human Rights & Race Equality in Central Scotland. We thrive thanks to our dedicated staff and our volunteers and are now expanding our Board of Directors. We are recruiting for additional positions to help with governance and management of the organisation, including the advancement of its strategic direction and work.
CSREC wishes to attract committed and suitably qualified individuals from different communities onto its Board. They must demonstrate good knowledge of issues affecting people from ethnic minority communities and be keen to work with others to address these.
Areas of Interest
We are looking for forward thinking individuals with competencies and experiences in the following areas:
1. Equalities and Human Rights
2. Challenges faced by minority ethnic communities
3. Financial management and business development
4. Fundraising and income generation
5. Law / legal matters / constitution / Company House and charity law
6. Voluntary sector management and governance
7. Local and national public service management experience
8. Public Relations
9. Lobbying & Advocacy
10. Human Resources Management
Applications from individuals from a minority ethnic background, or those with experience dealing with ethnic minority communities, are particularly welcome.
Person Specification
Our Directors must have:
1. A commitment to CSREC and its objectives
2. A willingness to devote the necessary time and effort to their duties as a Director
3. A sound understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of a Director.
4. Strategic vision
5. Integrity and good judgement
6. An ability to think creatively
7. An ability to work effectively as a member of a team
8. A willingness to oppose and resist all forms of discrimination
Benefits of joining our Board of Directors
As a Director of CSREC you will be part of a dynamic and well-established organisation at the forefront of challenging inequality and promoting human rights. You will work with others to establish programmes and projects that will change the lives of many people for the better. We are a Board who works collaboratively with the CSREC staff, and other organisation, and supports each other to achieve our goals.
All travel expenses for CSREC business can be reimbursed.
Time Commitment
The Board currently meets once per month in the evening via a blend of in-person and Zoom meetings for approximately 2 hours. Outside of Board meetings there may be additional tasks, such as document writing, subcommittee duties, attending events and supporting staff.
Further Information
If you would like to find out more about the work of CSREC, please visit our web site at csrec.org.uk. For further enquiries or to have an informal discussion, please call: 01324 610950.
We have a very exciting opportunity for a Project Worker to join our small friendly team on a part time basis. If you enjoy working with people, have lived experience of poor mental health or caring for someone who did, and you want to make a difference in the world then get in touch!
If you are as passionate as we are about young people’s voices being at the heart of designing, developing and evaluating the services they access, and the decisions which affect them, then we would love to hear from you!
About the project
Our Youth Participation Lead forms part of our commitment to #KeepThePromise, and will work alongside young people and our staff teams to support our commitment to being Psychologically Informed in all aspects of our work.
About the role
You’ll be empowered to create innovative, inclusive opportunities to engage with young people individually and in groups, online and in-person. You’ll work directly alongside them to build their self-confidence, and create spaces for young people to tell us what they want, how we are doing, and what changes they want to see. Working within our Policy and Participation team, you will also amplify the voice of young people in our policy work.
About you
You will be an outgoing, pro-active and approachable person who enjoys working with young people. You will be committed to promoting inclusion and passionate about developing participatory and innovate ways of working.
How we will support you
You’ll be joining an organisation which values you and the knowledge, skills and experience which you bring. You’ll join a friendly team with a supportive line manager and you’ll have access to our Cyrenians’ learning and development programme, to help you to develop and learn in the role.
About Cyrenians
At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness. We understand that there are many routes into homelessness, and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting people towards more positive and stable futures. That’s why all our work is values-led and relationships-based.
Committed to Ending Abuse (CEA), formerly Falkirk & District Women’s Aid, is seeking to recruit a part-time Marac Co-ordinator. Marac is a multi-agency risk assessment conference which is a process that identifies the highest risk victims of domestic abuse. The purpose of this role is to co-ordinate the Falkirk Marac meetings, conduct research, and create reports for the Marac and ensure all actions are undertaken to safeguard victims from serious harm or homicide.
CEA is a registered Scottish Charity and a Company Limited by Guarantee with a Board of Directors. CEA offers an inclusive service committed to ending all forms of abuse.
We provide support to anyone regardless of age, beliefs, ethnicity, faith, gender, sexual orientation, and race.
The post will commence as soon as possible. The post holder will require successful reference checks, enhanced PVG checks and police clearance and will be expected to work closely with partner agencies. This post is currently funded until September 2026. Two days will be working within CEA Offices and one day will be working from Larbert Police Station.
Benefits such as generous annual leave entitlement and an additional day off on your birthday. Company pension scheme. Resources costs are covered, external and internal supervision costs are covered, and CDP training is supported.
For further information please contact Lisa Marie Pert/Operations Director by e-mail: Lisa@cea.uk.com
This post will be subject to police vetting and enhanced PVG clearance.
Committed to Ending Abuse (CEA), formerly Falkirk & District Women’s Aid, is seeking to recruit a full-time Independent Domestic Abuse Advocate (IDAA). CEA Ltd operates an integrated three-stage trauma recovery model and whilst all staff are expected to work across these areas, the particular focus of this post is Stage One Crisis Recovery. The purpose of which is to keep women, men, and their children safe, free from further serious harm/homicide and to enable recovery from Trauma.
The purpose of this post is to provide an independent advocacy service to women, men who have experienced domestic abuse and are assessed to be at very high risk and possibly at risk of repeat victimisation and have therefore been referred to the MARAC (Multi-agency Risk Assessment Conference).
The post holder will work directly with clients, in conjunction with MARAC colleagues, on a short to medium term basis. They will also formally advocate for individuals within professional advocacy settings providing a true reflection of the views and wishes of the clients they represent to ensure a coordinated community response.
The postholder will also carry a caseload of those clients who are at high risk but not currently within the formal MARAC process.
Key to the role will be supporting women, men in their initial crisis for an intensive time limited period and providing safety planning, practical, emotional, and signposting support.
CEA is a registered Scottish Charity and a Company Limited by Guarantee with a Board of Directors. CEA offers an inclusive service committed to ending all forms of abuse.
We provide support to anyone regardless of age, beliefs, ethnicity, faith, gender, sexual orientation, and race.
The post will commence as soon as possible. The post holder will require successful reference checks, enhanced PVG checks and will be expected to work closely with partner agencies. This post is currently funded until September 2026. This post will be working from CEA Offices.
Benefits such as generous annual leave entitlement and an additional day off on your birthday. Company pension scheme. Travel and resources costs are covered, internal and external supervision costs are covered, and CDP training is supported.
For further information please contact Debbie Jupp/Stage One Crisis Intervention Team Lead by e-mail: Debbie@cea.uk.com
Through a place based approach, the Development Officer Capacity Building will support the development and sustainability of the local third sector by providing tailored organisational development support covering; governance, funding, socially enterprising activity, business planning, volunteering management and community leadership to create strong infrastructures to enable and empower third sector groups and organisations to take forward their aspirations of community ownership and community asset transfer.
This is a key role within our Empowering Communities Programme providing capacity building support services to be a catalyst in community regeneration and community ownership, encouraging community wealth and health building principles through learning and training opportunities, knowledge exchange and peer networking within the third sector and with local and national strategic partners.