Jobs in Scottish Borders

Are you an experienced Money or Welfare rights advisor – we want to hear from you! …

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Financial Wellbeing Team as part of our Money, debt, benefits and Energy advice delivery, supporting our additional services across the charity.

Our Financial Wellbeing service works alongside families to address the challenges and risks which may have led to vulnerability, promote connection to their local communities, and improve financial stability and resilience. Our aim is to support communities to become more resilient and a place where children feel safe, valued, understood and supported.

The Financial Wellbeing Advisor will work across East regions offering support, community connection, and expert benefit, energy and debt advice. This will enable families to resolve debt and money problems, become more financially resilient and break the cycle of poverty.

A priority for the financial wellbeing advisor will be to increase the capacity of our current service to provide Type I and II Financial wellbeing in one of the most deprived areas in Scotland.

You will work as part of our National Financial wellbeing team offering remote advice to families across Scotland by telephone or webchat. You will support families within their homes, deliver workshops within the community and in schools, and offer drop-in sessions within the community.

If you have experience of delivering money, and debt advice, understand the impact trauma and adversity can have on children and families, and believe that you can apply this to your practice, we want to hear from you.

This is a full time, 35 hours post funded until the 31 March 2029 with the intention to explore funding options beyond this date. Hours to be worked flexibly to suit the needs of families, including evenings and weekends as required.

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate person to join our Borders team as a Support and Development Worker. You will work alongside the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Service Manager and the Borders Team to develop and deliver individual one-to-one support mental health support sessions to people across the Scottish Borders.

You will also hold a caseload of people that you will support on a 1:1 basis to identify their strengths, work towards their goals and realize their potential. Support may include, confidence building, identifying self-management techniques, access and signposting to other support, goal setting and planning. We are seeking an experienced Support and Development Worker, confident in delivering support to people who have challenges around trauma, recovery and mental health.

Regular administrative tasks are required for this role, such as completing case notes, risk assessments and outcome measures. This will include maintaining records in accordance with data protection and use of Microsoft and other IT programs.

You will maintain positive and effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders, key partners, and relevant professionals. Attendance at the Scottish Borders Mental Health Information Stations are also a part of this role, supporting people in the community to access advice and support around their mental health and wellbeing.

If you have experience of supporting people to improve their mental health and wellbeing, or personal experience of managing your own mental health, we’d love to hear from you!

This is a community outreach post and travel is required across the Scottish Borders as part of the role. A good understanding of the locality and community is desirable, applicants with a driving licence and access to a car are preferred.

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our Midlothian Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Team. This post is funded by Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership.

We are recruiting for the post of Development Worker – Engagement Pathways to lead and develop our pathways into services for people. This includes enquiries, initial conversations including risk assessment, baseline outcome measures, reviews and endings and line management responsibilities.

This is an opportunity requiring excellent communication and organisational skills, where the successful candidate will be required to support the journey of people through our services within the Scottish Borders and have an impact on staff development and supervision.

You will be key to maintaining quality within this area of service delivery and in representing our services within the Scottish Borders. You should have experience of working together with people experiencing mental health problems to support them to achieve their aims related to mental health and wellbeing. You should be confident in attending events, holding stalls and offering drop in support and signposting to people at the Mental Health Information Stations across the Scottish Borders. You should also have experience of developing systems and processes and sharing your learning experiences across teams.

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

Burnfoot Community Futures (BCF) is a community development trust based in Burnfoot, Hawick – the largest social housing area in the Scottish Borders.

We are seeking to employ a Youth Development Officer to lead and oversee delivery of the CashBack Burnfoot Youth Project, working alongside community partners and building on ongoing work to address antisocial behaviour and improve outcomes for young people in Burnfoot.

The Youth Development Officer will report to the Hub Manager and work closely with staff, sessional workers and partner organisations to ensure high-quality delivery of the project.

The Role

The purpose of this role is to coordinate, develop and oversee the delivery of the CashBack Burnfoot Youth Project, ensuring it delivers meaningful, engaging and supportive opportunities for young people aged 10–25.

The postholder will work in partnership with organisations including:

• Escape Youth Services
• G10 Sports
• Hawick Boxing Club
• A Positive Start CIC

The role will ensure the project contributes to improving young people’s wellbeing, confidence, skills and life chances, while supporting wider community safety and engagement.

The postholder will be based at Burnfoot Community Hub.

Project Overview

The CashBack Burnfoot Youth Project delivers a structured, year-round programme including:

• Multi-sport sessions (36 weeks)
• Rugby sessions (36 weeks)
• Boxing sessions (24 weeks)
• Youth club sessions (46 weeks)
• Youth café sessions (46 weeks)
• Junior Global Ambassadors programme (35 weeks)
• Street-based youth work
• One-to-one targeted support for young people

Responsibilities

The postholder will:

• Oversee the planning, coordination and delivery of all project activities
• Work alongside, sessional staff and partners to deliver a varied programme
• Ensure sessions are safe, inclusive and engaging for young people
• Build and maintain strong relationships with delivery partners
• Coordinate input from partner organisations to ensure quality and consistency
• Work collaboratively with local services, schools and community groups
• Promote positive participation and reduce antisocial behaviour
• Continuously improve the programme based on:
  • Young people’s feedback
  • Community need
  • Partner input
• Support development of new activities aligned with project aims
• Ensure accurate data collection including:
  • Attendance
  • Outcomes
  • Case studies
• Coordinate reporting to funders in line with CashBack for Communities requirements
• Demonstrate impact against agreed outcomes
• Support and guide sessional staff and volunteers
• Ensure safeguarding and health & safety standards are met
• Contribute to wider community development work where appropriate
• Support sustainability of the project and future funding opportunities
• Be a self-starter able to take initiative
• Work both strategically and operationally
• Be flexible and adaptable in a small organisation setting
• Undertake administrative duties as required
• Deliver against funding outcomes and targets
• To prepare and attend regular support and supervision sessions and participate in staff and personal development training
• To undertake any additional and appropriate duties as required but not out with the post

We would expect applicants to be able to demonstrate the following:

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject OR equivalent experience
• Experience of youth work / community development l
• Experience of coordinating or delivering projects l
• Experience of working with young people (10–25)
• Experience of partnership working Essential
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience of monitoring, evaluation and reporting
• Ability to engage and motivate young people
• Satisfactory PVG registration disclosure check

Desirable

• Full UK driving licence
• Experience of working with vulnerable or at-risk groups
• Experience of managing staff or volunteers

Are you passionate about providing great customer service for our tenants, helping our tenants to maximise their income and sustain their home?

Waverley Housing is a leading provider of quality, affordable homes and services in the Scottish Borders and our vision is to create great communities to live in.

We are looking for a professional, enthusiastic, motivated and customer focussed Tenant Income Maximisation Adviser to join our Housing and Customer Services Team.

This is a varied and rewarding role where you will have the opportunity to build strong relationships with tenants, colleagues, and the partners we work with. While making a tangible difference to helping to maximise the income of tenants, ensuring they can afford to heat their home efficiently and to work together within our communities to tackle both in work and out of work poverty.

At Waverley Housing, we believe in flexible, modern ways of working and we offer hybrid working arrangements. Although this role will require travel to and from our communities, you will have the ability to do this from the office base, at a minimum of two days per week, or remotely.

Current use of a pool car and occasional requirement for own vehicle.

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our South Services Teams, providing leadership to our Midlothian Recovery (Substance Use) and Scottish Borders Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Teams.

We have an exciting leadership opportunity to join our South Services team as the Service Manager for the Scottish Borders Community Mental Health Team and the Midlothian Recovery (Substance Use) 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; leading and managing services, staff leadership and development, supporting people with their mental health and wellbeing, substance use, working as part of a team, meeting funding targets, data analysis and 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!

Who We Are Survivors Unite (SU) is a values-led organization dedicated to providing compassionate, trauma-informed support to survivors in the Scottish Borders. Our Safe Oaks Project offers essential safe spaces and services, and we are looking for a dedicated Business Coordinator to join our Selkirk-based team. This is a vital, part-time role (14 hours per week) offered on a 2-year fixed-term contract with a salary of £32,000 per annum (pro rata). We pride ourselves on being a supportive employer, offering an element of flexible working to help you balance your professional responsibilities with your personal commitments.

The RoleAs Business Coordinator, you will provide the operational backbone for our services, ensuring the smooth delivery of our daily activities. Working closely with our Admin Support Worker, you will manage financial administration, including budgeting, QuickBooks reconciliation, and payroll liaison with Encompass, while overseeing HR documentation and IT systems such as HubSpot, Trello, and Teams. Your role is varied; one day you might be drafting staff contracts, and the next you could be assisting with funding applications for partners like the National Lottery or managing our social media presence.

What You Bring We are seeking a highly organized individual with a proactive "can-do" attitude and a high level of discretion. You should be proficient in IT and financial administration, with a solid grasp of database management and the secure handling of sensitive information. Ideally, you are a flexible problem-solver who enjoys working independently but also thrives in a collaborative, community-focused environment. Above all, you must be committed to the values of Survivors Unite, ensuring that everything from office maintenance to external reporting is handled with the care and excellence our survivors deserve.

TD1 Youth Hub is recruiting a Project Lead for TD1 Cashback Extra, a major three-year youth work project supporting young people aged 11 to 18 in Galashiels and Langlee.

Funded through CashBack for Communities, the project will provide trusted relationships, targeted youth work, positive activities and community-based support for young people affected by poverty, trauma, exclusion, antisocial behaviour and wider risk.

We are looking for an experienced, values-led youth work practitioner who believes in real community work and the difference trusted adults can make in young people’s lives. You will help lead and shape this new project, coordinate delivery, support staff and sessional workers, build strong partnerships and make sure young people get the right support at the right time.

This is a hands-on role. You will need to be comfortable building relationships with young people, planning and leading youth work activity, supporting a small team, working with partners and keeping good records of impact and learning.

The working pattern has some flexibility. The role will normally include one evening youth work session per week and responsibility for coordinating and supporting the Saturday youth work team. Hours can be discussed with the right candidate, between 28 and 35 hours per week.

We offer a supportive team culture, regular supervision, training and development opportunities, and the chance to lead a flagship project with real local impact.

TD1 Youth Hub is committed to safer recruitment, equality, diversity and inclusion. This post involves regulated work with children and young people and will be subject to PVG scheme membership, satisfactory references and right to work checks.

The Abbotsford Trust is the charity that promotes the life, works and legacy of 19th century writer Sir Walter Scott and safeguards his historic home at Abbotsford. This is an important role within a small, but mighty, development team of three people.

If you are keen to get involved in all aspects of fundraising, love being hands on, and would relish being behind the scenes in a historic house, then this could be the role for you. The perfect candidate would have experience with CRMs ideally within a charity, have outstanding attention to detail, be systems orientated/a good project manager, as well as having excellent customer service skills.

Key responsibilities:

• Undertake all fundraising administration and be the ‘super-user’ for the CRM and other donations systems, managing amongst others: donations, direct debits, mailings, newsletters, and analysis.
• Steward donors and funders following the donor journey across all streams of fundraising, primarily membership, major donors and trusts & foundation.
• Maximise income specifically from the Friends of Abbotsford and from gift aid.
• Undertake: a) all monitoring and reporting of funds raised for the Development team, and b) reporting and claiming for grants.

For more details of the role, please download the Job Description.

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

We are committed to improving the lives and opportunities of people living with dementia, their carers, partners, and families as their journey transitions from the first point of contact through to end of life. We believe nobody should face dementia alone.

What you'll do

We are looking for a Community Activities Organiser for the Borders area. You will establish a range of community activities and opportunities across the locality that fill identified gaps and meet the needs of people living with dementia and their families.

What you'll have

Are you a self-starter? Are you confident, innovative and collaborative?

If yes, then this may be the role for you.

The successful applicant will have a positive approach to dementia. You will be flexible, inclusive, creative, and organised in your approach. You will be sensitive and compassionate with the ability to support people in times of difficulty or distress. You will be an excellent communicator who can work effectively both with individuals and with groups. You will have a positive approach to your own continued professional development and a willingness to participate in relevant training. A relevant qualification and previous experience of working with people with dementia would be an advantage.

In return you will be in a role which offers the opportunity to meet great people, have great job satisfaction and be employed by an Organisation that offers a range of employee benefits and career progression opportunities

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual for the exciting position of shop manager for our thriving village shop that very much sees itself as the heart of our community.

Requirements:

• strong food/retail/business experience
• knowledge of EPoS systems
• management of staff teams
• ability to liaise with Management Board

You don't need to have done this exact job before - we're looking for someone with good all-round retail or customer facing experience, who is confident using everyday computer systems, keen to learn and to contribute to the community.

Benefits:

• 37.5 hours per week
• job share considered
• NEST pension

You will be working with a team of experienced volunteers in a friendly shop that attracts local customers, passing walkers, cyclists and trades people in a picturesque village in the foothills of the Cheviots.

Ark is a major provider of Housing, Care and Support to people with long term and enduring conditions such as learning disabilities, mental health issues, dementia and autism.

Ark supports people to live independently in their own homes providing everything from a few hours a week social and life admin support to 24/7 care supporting with personal care, medication, household tasks, attending appointments and leisure activities.

We have lots of opportunities across Scotland for our Support Worker roles. As we provide full training no previous is experience is required.

If you are enthusiastic about supporting people to live their best lives, then apply now to join our team!

Your main duties will include but not be limited to:

• Working with colleagues as part of an effective and efficient team to support vulnerable people.
• Communicate and work well with our supported people to provide individual care and maintain appropriate relationships.
• Being responsible in supporting individuals throughout the activities, giving positive feedback and encouragement.
• Updating and maintaining accurate records using a tablet on Arks Information Management system.

Previous experience of the following is an advantage but not essential as Ark will provide full training: Care Worker, Social worker, Home Carer, Case Worker, Care Assistant, Autism Support Worker, Personal Care Assistant , Social Care Worker.

View our job outline, find out what you working week could look like and hear from our current Support Workers on Arks website arkha.org.uk/work-with-us

Why Ark?

• No Previous Experience Required - Ark provide full training so no previous experience is required making our Support Worker roles the perfect place to start your career in Adult Social Care.
• Get a qualification while you work - Ark fully fund your SVQ2 in Health & Social Care which you complete with the support of our in house SVQ team.
• Employee Discounts - Employee Discounts Portal with 1000s of discounts on your favourite brands including Supermarkets, Cinema Tickets, Gym Membership and Holidays.
• Career Progression -Over 75% of all Managers within Care & Support have been promoted internally.
• Employee Assistance Program - Arks Employee Assistance program (EAP) gives all employees access to counselling sessions. There is also support available through weekly webinars and the EAP Website & App.
• Contracted hours to suit you-We have Full-time, Part-time and Relief Support Worker roles available at our services throughout Scotland.

In return for your valuable contribution, Ark will also offer you:

• Up to 36 days paid holiday per year pro rata
• 4% Contributory pension scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Fully funded PVG & 1st year SSSC registration paid by Ark

Our employees told us in a recent survey that they stay with Ark because they believe in our values, we have supportive managers who continually appreciate their staff and they love making a positive difference in our supported peoples lives, helping them to achieve their dreams.

Ark would love to hear from you whether you are an experienced Support Worker or new to Social Care.

Ark is a major provider of Housing, Care and Support to people with long term and enduring conditions such as learning disabilities, mental health issues, dementia and autism.

Ark supports people to live independently in their own homes providing everything from a few hours a week social and life admin support to 24/7 care supporting with personal care, medication, household tasks, attending appointments and leisure activities.

We have lots of opportunities across Scotland for our Support Worker roles. As we provide full training no previous is experience is required.

If you are enthusiastic about supporting people to live their best lives, then apply now to join our team!

Your main duties will include but not be limited to:

• Working with colleagues as part of an effective and efficient team to support vulnerable people.
• Communicate and work well with our supported people to provide individual care and maintain appropriate relationships.
• Being responsible in supporting individuals throughout the activities, giving positive feedback and encouragement.
• Updating and maintaining accurate records using a tablet on Arks Information Management system.

Previous experience of the following is an advantage but not essential as Ark will provide full training: Care Worker, Social worker, Home Carer, Case Worker, Care Assistant, Autism Support Worker, Personal Care Assistant , Social Care Worker.

View our job outline, find out what you working week could look like and hear from our current Support Workers on Arks website arkha.org.uk/work-with-us

Why Ark?

• No Previous Experience Required - Ark provide full training so no previous experience is required making our Support Worker roles the perfect place to start your career in Adult Social Care.
• Get a qualification while you work - Ark fully fund your SVQ2 in Health & Social Care which you complete with the support of our in house SVQ team.
• Employee Discounts - Employee Discounts Portal with 1000s of discounts on your favourite brands including Supermarkets, Cinema Tickets, Gym Membership and Holidays.
• Career Progression -Over 75% of all Managers within Care & Support have been promoted internally.
• Employee Assistance Program - Arks Employee Assistance program (EAP) gives all employees access to counselling sessions. There is also support available through weekly webinars and the EAP Website & App.
• Contracted hours to suit you-We have Full-time, Part-time and Relief Support Worker roles available at our services throughout Scotland.

In return for your valuable contribution, Ark will also offer you:

• Up to 36 days paid holiday per year pro rata
• 4% Contributory pension scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Fully funded PVG & 1st year SSSC registration paid by Ark

Our employees told us in a recent survey that they stay with Ark because they believe in our values, we have supportive managers who continually appreciate their staff and they love making a positive difference in our supported peoples lives, helping them to achieve their dreams.

Ark would love to hear from you whether you are an experienced Support Worker or new to Social Care.