Jobs in Midlothian

We have an exciting opportunity for a confident and organised Project Coordinator to help deliver iCare: Identifying Carers, Advancing Recognition and Equality. Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF), iCare is an ambitious five-year system-change project.

Working with carers, practitioners and NHS partners, the project will address barriers to support and drive changes in practice to improve earlier and more consistent identification of unpaid carers across the Lothians. It will support the development of an early carer identification blueprint, strengthen good carer conversations using the Adult Carer Support Plan (ACSP) framework, and co-design and implement a new integrated digital carer identification platform.

The postholder will join a project team comprising an iCare Project & Systems Manager, based within VOCAL, and Project Coordinators covering Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian. The East and West Lothian Project Coordinators will be employed and managed by Carers of East Lothian and Carers of West Lothian respectively. All four roles will work closely together to deliver shared priorities, promote consistent practice and support learning across the Lothians.

The Project Coordinator for Midlothian will undertake a range of duties, including:

• Supporting the day-to-day delivery of iCare by maintaining clear work plans, action logs and records, and ensuring effective follow-up across project workstreams.
• Building positive working relationships with the wider project team, carers, VOCAL colleagues, NHS and community partners, and other carer centres.
• Supporting meaningful carer involvement through the development and coordination of a Carers Assembly, ensuring that carers lived experience helps shape project priorities, changes in practice and digital development.
• Planning and supporting focus groups, workshops, briefings and training sessions with carers and practitioners.
• Supporting co-design and user testing of a digital carer identification platform, while ensuring digital options complement rather than replace non-digital support.
• Gathering feedback and data, and contributing to project learning, evaluation and reporting to the funder.

About you

You will understand unpaid caring and the impact it can have on carers’ health and wellbeing. You will also have a good understanding of the carer support landscape, including the role of Adult Carer Support Plans and the responsibilities of statutory health and social care partners. You will bring experience of supporting a project or service, working collaboratively with others, and engaging people in a respectful and inclusive way. You will also have strong organisational and administrative skills, clear written and verbal communication, digital confidence, and the ability to hold sensitive, person-centred and outcomes-focused conversations.

We are a charity with decades of experience supporting people across Scotland, providing those who need us with support that ranges from Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodiversity, Youth and Adult Homelessness and Older People services.

Guided by our values of Respect and Compassion, we empower both the people we support and our colleagues to Thrive every day

Why Work With Us?

At Care Support Scotland caring isn’t just a job — it’s who we are. Join our dedicated team and help transform lives while growing your own career.

• Pension contributions matched up to 6%
• Financial Flexibility – Access your wages as you earn them with our Earned Wage Access benefit.
• Employee Assistance Programme through HSF
• Contribution to HSF Health Plan – supporting your everyday health needs
• Generous annual leave – 33 days including public holidays, increasing with service
• Supportive absence policies to help when you need time off
• Death in Benefit Cover – 2x annual salary
• Support with funded qualifications
• Career development and progression opportunities

About the Service:

Midlothian Temporary Accommodation Partnership (MTAP) Covers a number of services, providing homelessness support, prevention, emergency and temporary accommodation across Midlothian. We provide Housing Support, Tenancy Support, Housing First and Temporary and Emergency Accommodation services, including self-contained flats for young people and families, as well as emergency accommodation hostels.

Who We Are Looking For

We’re looking for a values-led, compassionate and confident Team Leader to oversee a number of services within the Midlothian area on a 6-month temporary contract. Someone who can provide strong leadership while keeping the people we support at the heart of everything they do.

Experience within homelessness is welcomed, but it isn’t essential. We recognise that strong leadership skills are transferable from other sectors. What matters most is that you share our values of Compassion, Respect and Thrive, are willing to learn and can lead and develop others

Compassion

• Be visible, approachable and supportive, particularly when situations are challenging.
• Lead with empathy and promote trauma-informed practice, encouraging staff to meet people where they are at.
• Support staff wellbeing while maintaining clear expectations and boundaries.

Respect

• Lead by example, treating people fairly, consistently and with dignity.
• Communicate openly and have honest, constructive conversations when standards are not being met.
• Take ownership, make decisions and follow through on agreed actions.

Thrive

• Develop and empower staff to grow in confidence and take responsibility within their roles.
• Recognise good practice, celebrate achievements and encourage reflective learning.
• Be solution-focused and look for opportunities to improve how the team and service work.

Above all, we’re looking for the right person and the right values. We want someone who can bring out the best in others, maintain high standards and create an environment where both staff and the people we support can thrive.

Role and Responsibilities

• Apply your knowledge of best practice, codes of practice and current regulations in the social care sector and ensure the provision of a high quality and socially inclusive service
• Manage support plans and contribute to support reviews alongside Service Managers
• Work with Service Managers on service referrals and staff interviewing & selection procedures
• Assist in monitoring the service’s progress against an agreed business plan including evaluating work and implementing changes to improve results
• Develop, implement and monitor action plans for any team-led changes or external recommendations from the Care Inspectorate, Quality Assurance or Business Assurance
• Contribute, in consultation with the Service Manager and the Finance team, each year’s budget and ensure the financial targets are met
• Develop constructive relationships with national and local statutory, voluntary and community agencies to ensure appropriate resources, support and understanding of the service
• Deputise for the Service Manager, assuming the responsibilities in their absence.

Essential Skills and Attributes

• At least 3 years’ experience of support/care services
• Experience providing support and development to a team
• Partnership working and collaboration
• IT literacy and ability to use and understand data to make informed service decisions
• Qualified to the level required by the SSSC as a manager in housing support services and care at home services,orwillingness to work towards and to successfully complete qualification within the SSSC specified timeframe.

Additional Notes

• Shift work, weekend work may be a requirement of this role.
• PVG scheme membership & SSSC registration are requirements of this post
• Please note, you will be asked to provide evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.
• We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward if a suitable candidate is identified.

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced Support & Development Worker to join our Midlothian Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Team.

In this rewarding role, you will support people experiencing mental health difficulties by developing, coordinating and facilitating psychoeducational and mental wellbeing groups across a range of community venues in Midlothian.

You will take a person-centred, trauma-informed, strengths-based and creative approach, helping individuals build confidence and self-value, develop coping strategies and access appropriate support. You may also be involved in recruiting, supporting and supervising volunteers to help with the groups.

We are looking for someone with experience in developing and delivering group-based activities, knowledge of mental health and self-help strategies, alongside excellent communication, administrative and organisational skills.

The role will be primarily office-based, with regular travel required to community venues across Midlothian. Flexibility in working hours will also be important to ensure our services meet the needs of the people we support.

If you are passionate about mental health and wellbeing, enjoy working collaboratively and want to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives, we would love to hear from you!

Play Therapy Base was founded in 2011 by four play therapists who identified a gap in child-centred play therapy provision in Midlothian. For 15 years we have supported children aged 3 to 14 and their families across the Lothians.

We are now entering the next stage of our development, with a restructure of our senior team. This has created an exciting opportunity for a qualified and experienced Play Therapist to join our team of 15 as Service Manager.

About the role

As Service Manager, you will lead the delivery of our therapy services, working closely with children, parents, carers, staff, and partner organisations. You will make sure our child-centred ethos and high standards of practice run through everything we do and help promote the service across the communities we support.

About you

We are looking for someone who has:

• A professionally accredited Play Therapy qualification with BAPT/ PTUK or equivalent
• Registration with BAPT / PTUK or similar
• Substantial post-qualification experience as a Play Therapist
• Experience of managing and supporting a team
• A real passion for play therapy and a strong commitment to helping children and families grow and flourish together