Do you have a passion for helping vulnerable people enjoy as much fulfilment as they can and feel included in their community? If compassion, care and inclusiveness are an important part of who you are, our opportunities to work away from the routine in a demanding, challenging but emotionally rewarding role could be for you.

At Turning Point Scotland, we have opportunities for Lead Practitioners to help provide individualised support to adults with a wide range of needs, either on an individual 1:1 basis or alongside others and as part of a team.

Embark on an emotionally rewarding journey andapply today!

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Lead Practitioner, unlike other support roles, with Turning Point Scotland, no two days are the same!

Our Lead Practitioner role will include:

• Helping to provide individualised practical and emotional support to adults encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes.
• Supporting individuals with meaningful activities, appointments, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.
• Respond to individuals who present in crisis and use your knowledge, expertise and information gathering to assess what support they require.
• Work alongside statutory services to provide an approach that is right for the person being supported.

Our Crisis Outreach operates from 10am to 10pm (7 days per week) on a 12 hour shift pattern. (4 days one week and 3 days the next, 2 weekends in 4).

About You

You will have a genuine commitment to use your skills to support people to live their best lives. You are someone who shares our belief in reducing the harms of alcohol and other drug use and supporting people to reach their potential. You will have flexibility to work on a rota.

We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team!

About Us – North Lanarkshire Alcohol and Other Drugs Outreach Service

The North Lanarkshire Alcohol and Other Drugs Crisis Outreach Service, provides support to individuals who are over the age of 16.

The service has 3 main parts of delivery these are:

• Overdose response (the team respond to individuals who have had or are at risk of overdose within 24-48 hours of notification).
• Assertive outreach (we “meet people where they are at” ensuring they have access to the support and services they require).
• Crisis response (a partnership with housing colleagues to work with anyone at risk of or experiencing homelessness).

The support we provide is always person centred, we do this by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and our own staff members.

As a Lead Practitioner, you will work with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.

We welcome applications from all candidates who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the pay points of the role and based on experience.

Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.

Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.

Do you have a passion for helping vulnerable people enjoy as much fulfilment as they can and feel included in their community? If compassion, care and inclusiveness are an important part of who you are, our opportunities to work away from the routine in a demanding, challenging but emotionally rewarding role could be for you.

West Dunbartonshire Intensive Assertive Outreach Team provides Assertive Outreach and Intensive Case Management to support people currently experiencing problems with their alcohol and/or other drug use.

The assertive outreach approach offers a person-centred and flexible model of service.

The service adopts a “no wrong door” approach, with multiple points of entry, including self-referral and providing an out of hours response with some overlap to facilitate follow up engagement and referrals to mainstream services and offer short periods of support to those who’s needs are not being met.

This model is designed to take services throughout West Dunbartonshire to reach people who have traditionally struggled to engage, building a trusting relationship during this period.

As a Lead Practitioner, you will work with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.

We welcome applications from all candidates who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the pay points of the role and based on experience.

Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.

Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.

Step Up - Come join our team

At Turning Point Scotland, we have opportunities for an Assistant Service Coordinator to help make a positive impact for people, encouraging them to fulfil their lives with exciting and fun activities, pursue their hobbies and passions & creating memorable experiences.

Embark on an emotionally rewarding journey and apply today!

About You

You will have a genuine commitment to use your skills and experience to support people to live their best lives. You will be supported by an incredibly approachable management team, allowing you to expand on your existing knowledge whilst developing new skills. You will work flexibly on rota.

You will have experience of supporting people with learning disabilities, forensic supports, coaching and developing staff.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity as a first step into a managerial role with Turning Point Scotland where no two days are the same!

As an Assistant Service Co-ordinator, you will work with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing. After a period of induction, you will be able to work autonomously in managing the project.

About Us – Dundee Service

Turning Point Scotland‘s Dundee service provides support to people with a variety of support needs including learning disability, physical disability, autism, mental health illness and community justice. We provide supported living services, housing support and day opportunities to promote independence and choice to individuals in order to enable them to access everyday life experiences including access to education, employment and social activities. We will also provide support with developing relationships and maintaining a home. We work in partnership with service users, their families, health teams, social work teams and advocacy.

If you are dedicated, compassionate, and enthusiastic about making a difference in the lives of vulnerable adults, we would love to hear from you.

Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.

Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.

We welcome applications from all candidates who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the pay points of the role and based on experience.

Getting the Right Support at the Right Time

Turning Point Scotland are working with Fife Council and other partners to achieve the following aim;

‘Ensure people in Cowdenbeath (and surrounding areas) at risk of or experiencing Homelessness, and people who need help to strengthen their housing stability get the right support, at the right time through a co-ordinated system response.’

We are developing an exciting approach of change. To co-ordinate the system, we have created a Whole System approach. The community navigators will be the people on the ground who will support us to work ‘upstream’ and provide the support identified to ensure people get the right support to address an issue they have, at the right time as early as possible.

The Whole System Approach and role will adapt as we learn what works best for the people that need support.

The role may require meetings across Fife and could evolve to providing a similar support in another area of Fife.

Standard working hours are 9am - 5pm Monday - Thursday, and 9am - 4.30pm Friday.

About the role

The role of Community Navigator will support early intervention and prevent a crisis. Our Community Navigator role will include:

• Supporting people in relation to housing, wellbeing and their wider social circumstances.
• Lead on setting up community drop in’s in Cowdenbeath and surrounding area, building relationships and connecting to established community hubs.
• Working with individuals to provide them with easy access to advice or low-level support. This may be one contact or several over a few weeks to help resolve an issue.
• Supporting people with more complex needs to access support within wider services in Fife, ensuring that we do not let go of someone until we are assured that another support service has taken on the Lead Professional role for the person.
• Supporting people to act in their own lives as well as directly providing support with a variety of issues including, accessing employability services, access and engage with mental health services, register with a doctor or mental health/alcohol or other drug services, linking in with welfare services, help registering child at school, etc.
• Building knowledge of local resources and developing a network of working relationships with local providers / services.
• Supporting the implementation of the steering group’s WSA Action plan and feeding in to the steering group to highlight what works well land not so well so that the WSA can learn and change the system. This will include being involved in Task and Finish groups as required, ensuring lived and living experience is heard and valued in the process.

About You

We are looking for someone who is:

• Flexible to adapt their role to meet the needs of the test of change
• Curious by nature to understand why there are barriers to someone being supported and take action to address why these work or doesn’t work for the people we support
• Self-Motivated and has a ‘can do’ attitude to support people
• Kind, Calm and Compassionate when listening and responding to people.

A level of previous working experience in a community based or social care role is an advantage, but not necessary as full training will be provided to you.

We believe the both lived and professional experience you may have is further enhanced by having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity in order to join our team!

About Us – Fife Support Service

The Fife Support Service operates a Whole System Approach team, where these posts will work, in addition to a Housing First Team. This is the start of an exciting journey as we develop the WSA.

We believe that we are not going to end Homelessness by focussing on service delivery alone. Ending, preventing, or responding effectively to homelessness demands input from housing but also from across the public service system – no one service, or approach is going to have all the answers. These inputs need to be coordinated and integrated, underpinned by effective communication and information sharing arrangements and overseen by a strategic structure that brings agencies together around a shared goal. We believe that whatever door someone opens, this is the right door (No Wrong Door Approach) and when this door is opened, they are met with a co-ordinated multi agency response.

Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.

Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.

We welcome applications from all candidates who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the pay points of the role and based on experience.