Apex Scotland is the leading employment and training organisation specialising in work with people with convictions. We believe in a future beyond your past.
Apex Scotland offer a diverse range of services for young people and adults to help them break down barriers to employment, engage in education, or integrate into their communities.
About the role
We are looking for a part-time Practitioner to join our team in our National Upside Service at 17.5 hours per week, covering the Lanarkshire area, working with male, females and young people.
The post will present an opportunity to cover our service we deliver in partnership with Access to industry, Action for Children, Barnardo’s, Circle, Families Outside, Sacro and Turning Point Scotland. Upside is a national throughcare service, available in all parts of Scotland. Throughcare provides people in short-term custody or remand with the practical and emotional support they need to transition to community life. The Service will achieve this by working in partnership with the Scottish Prison Service, Community Justice Social Work and other agencies across Scotland to ensure our approach of focusing on meeting people where they are, addressing immediate challenges, and helping them build sustainable futures within their communities are met.
About you
You will have experience of working in a community environment and an understanding of Throughcare support would be an advantage.
You will have an aptitude for working collaboratively with participants, prison workers, SPS, social work and other partners. Offer a tailored and responsive engagement experience to our participants in a person-centred way. The candidate must be able to complete dynamic and robust risk assessments and follow safeguarding practices. An understanding of Prison Throughcare would be an advantage, as would knowledge and experience in working with databases. You would need to demonstrate flexibility and the ability to work in partnership.
Travel throughout the Lanarkshire and other areas are required, therefore, a driving license and use of a car for work are essential. Evening or weekend working may be required.
Membership of the Prevention of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme is required.
We offer some great benefits, including family friendly policies, flexible and hybrid working and work-life balance. We also have generous annual leave entitlement, employee wellbeing scheme, pension scheme and death in service, company sick pay.
We welcome applications from individuals who share Apex Scotland’s aims and values and value diversity from all sections of the community.
About Recovery Coaching Scotland
Recovery Coaching Scotland is a lived experience organisation supporting people affected by substance use to build fulfilling lives in recovery. We deliver recovery education and support in prisons and communities, combining personal experience with compassionate, professional practice.
Our prison work is delivered in partnership with the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and other partners. We believe that people across all sectors of the prison population should have opportunities to learn, develop and work towards positive change.
Purpose of the role
To deliver RCS’s Self-Coaching and Harm Reduction courses across HMP Glenochil, HMP Shotts and HMP Perth, working with residents from all sectors of the prison population.
You will use your own lived experience of recovery and imprisonment to build trust, encourage participation and help learners develop practical knowledge, confidence and skills. You will create a respectful learning environment where people can reflect on their experiences, understand their choices and take steps towards improved wellbeing and recovery.
A full job description is available to download below.
Numbers tell a story. Help us make it an impactful one.
At Visibility Scotland, finance is about far more than balancing budgets.
Every pound we receive helps blind and vision-impaired people build confidence, increase independence and achieve their goals. As our Accountant, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the financial sustainability of a charity that changes lives every day.
We're looking for an experienced and proactive finance professional who wants their work to have purpose as well as impact. This is an opportunity to become a key member of our leadership team, providing strategic financial insight, strengthening our financial resilience and helping shape the future of our organisation.
As we continue to develop our growing social enterprise and work towards long-term financial sustainability, this is a particularly exciting time to join us. You'll have the opportunity to influence decision-making at the highest level while supporting services that make a genuine difference to people affected by vision impairment and blindness across Scotland.
We're looking for an experienced, proactive and values-driven finance professional who wants their work to have purpose as well as impact.
This is more than an accounting role. It's an opportunity to become a trusted adviser to the CEO and Board, influence strategic decision-making and help shape the future of a respected Scottish charity at a particularly exciting point in its journey. As we continue to grow our social enterprise and strengthen our long-term financial sustainability, you'll be at the heart of ensuring we can continue delivering life-changing services across Scotland.
If you're looking for a finance role where your expertise will influence strategy, drive sustainability and help transform lives, we'd love to hear from you.
For more information, please download the job description below.
Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people. Our strategic vision is to secure a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people in Scotland.
At the heart of Who Cares? Scotland’s work are the rights of Care Experienced people, and the power of their voices to bring about positive change. We provide individual lifelong relationship-based independent advocacy and a range of local and national participatory and engagement opportunities for Care Experienced people across Scotland. We work alongside Corporate Parents and communities to broaden understanding and create change. We work with policy makers, leaders, and elected representatives locally and nationally to shape law, policy, and practice, working together to build on the aspirations of The Promise and secure positive change.
The post holder will work directly with children and young people with experience of care, in an individual relationship-based advocacy role, and within participation and group activity across North Lanarkshire. This unique role requires you to listen to what children and young people with experience of care say and support them to ensure their rights are upheld and their voices are heard in the processes of making decisions about their lives. You will also help facilitate a broad range of participatory and engagement opportunities and create the conditions for collective advocacy.
The right candidate for this post will be brilliant at forming positive relationships with children and young people. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, adaptable to a wide range of contexts. You will enjoy working collaboratively with partners. You will be committed to children’s rights, inclusive working, equal opportunities, and believe that all young people can make transformative change happen in their lives if given the opportunity.
Flexibility will be required given the remit of the role. Some evening and weekend work will be necessary, as will a full driving licence and access to transport.
While we would welcome the knowledge gathered through relevant qualifications, we are just as interested in relevant work experience. We welcome and encourage applications from those with experience of care.
The successful candidate will be joining Who Cares? Scotland at an exciting time, when the voices of those who are in or have experienced care are growing in power, individually and collectively – bringing with them insight, challenge, hope and change.
If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you. To arrange an informal conversation about this opportunity, please contact Caroline Richardson, Director of Advocacy, Participation and Membership on crichardson@whocaresscotland.org
You will be helping children and young people with spina bifida and hydrocephalus feel unstoppable.
We believe every child and young person deserves opportunities to be creative, make connections, build confidence, and reach their potential.
As Creative Activities Worker, you will develop and deliver regular inclusive activities for children and young people. Working closely with families, schools, community organisations, and partner agencies, you will create opportunities that promote creativity, wellbeing, participation, and positive experiences.
You will coordinate a regular programme of activities designed to help children and young people with our conditions explore their creativity and support their wellbeing.
We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, creative, and committed to helping children and young people thrive.
What Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland can offer you
Flexibility – We offer flexible working, including the opportunity to work from home or around caring responsibilities.
Supportive colleagues enabling you to express yourself – Our team values teamwork, learning, and continuous improvement. SBH Scotland staff gave a median score of 8 out of 10 for feeling supported to take risks with new ideas.
We also offer: Workplace pension scheme; salary sacrifice scheme; death in service benefit; childcare voucher scheme; paid Carers Leave; 30 days annual leave entitlement and 4 days Public Holidays; an additional day off for your birthday and wellbeing days.
We strongly encourage applications from disabled people and those with lived experience of disability or caring responsibilities. SBH Scotland is a Disability Confident employer.
For more information please download the job description below.
Main purpose of job: To provide high-quality, trauma-informed, person-centred and survivor-led support to women who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse, with a primary focus on proactive outreach and crisis support. This includes providing short-, medium- and long-term practical and emotional support, information, advocacy, risk assessment and safety planning to empower women to make informed choices, improve their safety and wellbeing and access the support they need. The role also involves providing support to women living in Monklands Women’s Aid refuge accommodation, responding to referrals and crisis situations, and working collaboratively with partner agencies to ensure women and their children receive appropriate, coordinated and timely support. The postholder will contribute to the effective operation, safety and upkeep of refuge accommodation as part of the wider service.
Under Schedule 9 (Part 1) of the Equality Act 2010, only women are eligible to apply.
This is your chance to help disabled people feel unstoppable.
As the Fundraising & Supporter Care Administrator at Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland you will be coordinating our work to connect with our supporters and managing our CRM to bring out the joy in doing good among our supporters.
The Fundraising & Supporter Care Administrator will provide essential administrative support to the fundraising team, ensuring smooth operations and excellent donor care. This role is key to maintaining accurate records, processing donations, and supporting fundraising campaigns and events.
This is an exciting time to be joining the charity with a new five-year strategy, currently in year 2, setting out ambitious plans to grow the charity’s impact and income.
We are looking for a creative thinker, with a proven track record in building movements and engaging with supporters using a variety of methods.
What Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland can offer you
Flexibility– We offer flexible working, including the opportunity to work from home or around caring responsibilities.
An opportunity to express yourself – Staff scored SBH Scotland as 8 out of 10 for being supportive in taking risks with new ideas.
We also offer: Workplace pension scheme; salary sacrifice scheme; death in service benefit; paid Carers Leave; 30 days annual leave entitlement and 4 days Public Holidays; an additional day off for your birthday and wellbeing days.
Reporting to: Challenge Events and Community Fundraising Manager
Place of Work: Hybrid office/home-working model with base being the Dan Young Building, Dullatur G68 0LS. Occasional travel within Scotland to accommodate needs of the team. 60/40 split of working in the office, at key dates of the year it will be required to be in the office full time.
Working Hours:20 hours per week, with working pattern can be discussed. Core working hours are normally between 10am and 2pm, Monday to Friday. (Flexibility around working pattern.)
Change starts with water. Change starts with you.
Every day, millions of people live without clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid exists to change that – for everyone, everywhere. Join us, and your energy will help unlock people’s potential and create a fairer future.
About WaterAid
We’re a global federation driven by one vision: a world where everyone, everywhere has clean water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030.
Guided by our values of Respect, Accountability, Courage, Collaboration, Integrity and Innovation, we work alongside communities, partners and supporters to make lasting change happen.
About the team
The Water Industry Partnerships Team develops and supports WaterAid’s relationships with water companies and the wider water industry in the UK.
We inspire and manage volunteers, steering the development of high-income corporate events, and build opportunities for water company employees and customers to connect with our work.
What you can expect from us:
As our Senior Partnerships Officer, you’ll play an important role in growing and strengthening WaterAid’s partnerships across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
You’ll develop and deliver the partnership strategy for Northern Ireland Water, while managing the Scottish Water partnership day to day. You’ll help grow fundraising income, build excellent relationships with partners and supporters, and lead exciting mass participation fundraising activity across the UK water industry.
This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity for someone who enjoys bringing people together, spotting opportunities and turning ideas into successful partnerships and events.
This role will develop you by giving these opportunities:
What you will be great at:
Although not essential, we’d prefer you to have:
What we want to share with you:
We want our people to have the flexibility, support and time they need to do their best work. Our benefits include:
As part of our annual leave policy, all employees receive three additional days of annual leave on top of their standard allocation of 25 days. These days are designated to cover the period when our UK office closes between Christmas and New Year, allowing all UK WaterAiders to take a well-deserved break.
These days are automatically scheduled and cannot be changed or moved. Annual leave is accrued based on your start date. If sufficient leave has not been accrued by the time of the closure, the 3 days will be taken as unpaid leave or pro-rated, depending on your circumstances.
Do you enjoy a varied workload and feel passionate about promoting recovery? As a Recovery Development Worker, you will help build and strengthen visible recovery within and across communities in North Lanarkshire.
You may bring lived experience of recovery, or skills and experience from a similar role. The post calls for energy, enthusiasm, and adaptability, along with a solution-focused, strengths-based approach when working with everyone connected to Recovery Scotland. Some evening and weekend work is essential to our delivery.
About the job
This role suits someone with lived and/or learned experience of recovery from problematic substance use or addictive behaviours such as problem gambling, or someone who has been directly affected by another person’s substance use or addictive behaviours.
Experience of recovery and resilience instils hope and is a powerful example within recovery communities. Applicants with lived experience of substance use must be at least 24 months free from problematic substance use and not currently engaging with services.
The post holder will be required to join the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme.
About you
You will thrive in a small, enthusiastic, and committed team. You can evidence your experience of promoting recovery, and you are adaptable, use your initiative and are confident working on your own. Drawing on your lived or work experience, you build positive, trusting relationships and keep a clear focus on recovery and resilience.
You have excellent organisational and self-motivation skills, are committed to developing your skills further, and bring dedication and compassion to your work with the team, community members, families, volunteers, and external partners.
About Recovery Scotland
Recovery Scotland is a charity working with local and national partners to support and promote recovery from substance use by making sure lived experience is visible, included and represented. We support communities with a wide range of recovery-focused activities and educational opportunities, working within local and national guidelines to promote resilience and recovery with individuals, families, and communities.
Our work champions community membership, volunteering, self-management, and personal
and professional development.
Do you enjoy working with people, families and communities and feel passionate about promoting recovery? As a Recovery Worker, you will be an important member of NLRC ensuring that NLRC recovery community is vibrant by supporting the planning and facilitation of cafes, drop ins and activities.
You may bring lived experience of recovery, or skills and experience from a similar role. The post calls for energy, enthusiasm, and adaptability, along with excellent communication skills and positive 'can do' attitude when working with everyone connected to Recovery Scotland.
Some evening and weekend work is essential to our delivery.
About the job
This role suits someone with lived and/or learned experience of recovery from problematic substance use or addictive behaviours such as problem gambling, or someone who has been directly affected by another person’s substance use or addictive behaviours.
Experience of recovery and resilience instils hope and is a powerful example within recovery communities. Applicants with lived experience of substance use must be at least 24 months free from problematic substance use and not currently engaging with services.
The post holder will be required to join the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme.
About you
You will enjoy working as part of a team committed to promoting recovery. You are adaptable and can take instruction and guidance from Recovery Development Workers and NLRC Team Lead. You can demonstrate being compassionate when working alongside community members and volunteers to foster recovery and resilience.
You are organised and can adhere to guidance and instructions, are committed to developing your skills further, and can recognise the strengths and assets within the organisation and the community.
About Recovery Scotland
Recovery Scotland is a charity working with local and national partners to support and promote recovery from substance use by making sure lived experience is visible, included and represented. We support communities with a wide range of recovery-focused activities and educational opportunities, working within local and national guidelines to promote resilience and recovery with individuals, families, and communities.
Our work champions community membership, volunteering, self-management, and personal and professional development.
Growing Young Cairnlea is a registered charity (SCIO), established so that children and young people in Airdrie and its environs may hear the Good News of Jesus Christ and be inspired to follow him. The vision of the work is that in a number of settings with Cairnlea Church as a base and then also out in schools and wider community the personal presence of the youth worker will have a significant impact.
Key Responsibilities
Who we are looking for:
The person appointed will have some experience of youth and children’s ministry and by being creative and confident in leadership can build on and extend ministry already in place. Therefore the person
For this post, it is important that you able to demonstrate a commitment to SU Scotland’s ethos, working principles and vision since it is expected that there will be some involvement with Scripture Union. It is also an Occupational Requirement (Equality Act - part 1, schedule 9), that the post-holder is a committed Christian.
The appointment will be subject to a satisfactory PVG Scheme Disclosure and include a probationary period. The post is full-time, but a part-time contract may be considered.
Join Our Board of Directors
Empower Care Scotland is an established charity based in North Lanarkshire. We provide high-quality, person-centred services for children, young people and adults with additional support needs.
We are looking for new Board members to join us and help shape the future development of our charity.
As a Board member, you will become a valued part of our team, contribute ideas and help to make key decisions that support the continued development of our services.
We would be delighted to hear from people from a variety of backgrounds. Previous Board experience is not required, as training and support will be provided. We are particularly interested in people who:
This is a voluntary position and a rewarding opportunity to make a meaningful difference within your local community.
The Support Worker role is to support and engage with people to manage and recover their mental health, in line with our trauma-informed approach. You will help people with safer substance use and assist them with the process when they choose to stop. You will assist our people to build a positive network of connections to enable them to gain and sustain their own housing.
As a Support Worker, you will provide work alongside people impacted by homelessness, addiction, mental health challenges and trauma. You will provide guidance and assistance to the people we support to achieve their goals of securing safe housing and accessing the necessary support to feel secure, manage their challenges and live an independent life free from harm or abuse.