VOCAL – Voice of Carers Across Lothian is a carer-led organisation providing a wide range of services to support unpaid carers across Edinburgh and Midlothian.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and capable finance professional to join our team and play a key role in the smooth day-to-day running of VOCAL’s financial operations. This is a busy, varied and hands-on role, managing a variety of transactions across multiple systems with accuracy and attention to detail.

You will take ownership of key financial processes, including managing VOCAL’s finance and grants inboxes, processing invoices, expenses and payments in Xero, and reconciling income from a range of sources such as social enterprise activity and donations. You will also play an important role in supporting carers directly through the accurate and timely processing of carer grants.

Other duties include: overseeing supplier payments; bank and credit card reconciliations; and ensuring all transactions are recorded accurately and in line with financial controls. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation, investigating and resolving queries, and support the Finance Manager with a range of other tasks as required.

The successful candidate will have relevant qualifications and demonstrable accounts payable experience in a similar role, with the ability to manage a varied workload with confidence. You will bring a strong understanding of core accounting principles alongside hands-on experience of using financial systems—particularly Xero—and Microsoft Office.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, enabling you to build positive working relationships and respond effectively to queries. You will be equally comfortable working independently and as part of a supportive team, contributing to a collaborative and values-driven environment.

Are you passionate about people and motivated by making a real difference? Do you enjoy meeting new people, building confidence, and supporting others to take positive steps towards sustainable employment?

If so, Community Renewal Trust really want to hear from you.

Community Renewal Trust is a values driven, dynamic, and innovative organisation working at the cutting edge of efforts to end persistent poverty in Scotland. We operate across three neighbourhoods and run two social enterprises, creating meaningful impact and rich learning opportunities every day. This is an exciting chance to be part of a team that is committed, forward thinking, and focused on lasting change.

For an informal chat about this role please contact Michael Byrne - Manager - Michael.Byrne@communityrenewal.org.uk to arrange a convenient time.

About the Role

Manor Estates Housing Association is seeking to recruit a part-time Retirement Housing Manager to join our busy Housing Management Team.

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:

·Previous experience of working in a frontline customer based role

·Experience in providing advice and guidance with good organisational and time management skills

• Awareness of health & safety responsibilities
• Experience in coordinating community activities or support older people
• A willingness to work collaboratively as part of a small team
• A positive attitude and the desire to make a difference to our organisation and its tenants or service users

Key Terms and Conditions

• 12.5 days annual leave
• 7.5 days public holidays
• 17.5 hour working week with flexible working arrangements considered
• Contributory pension scheme

The vacancy

We are looking for a Vision Information Line Advisor to act as the first point of contact for individuals seeking information and support relating to visual impairment. In this role, you will provide clear, accessible and empathetic guidance to a wide range of callers, including people with visual impairments, their families, carers, employers and healthcare professionals. You will play a key part in helping callers understand the options available to them, offering appropriate advice, referrals or signposting to relevant services. Using your judgement, you will recognise when to involve a specialist or manager to ensure every interaction is safe, accurate and consistent. With a strong understanding of our services and processes, alongside awareness of external resources, you will deliver reliable information and create a positive, supportive experience for every caller.

You don’t need to meet every single requirement to be a great candidate. Most people learn parts of the job once they’re in post, so if a role interests you and you believe you could grow into it, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to fair, accessible recruitment. If you need any adjustments, like extra time, a different format, or other support, at any stage of the process, just let us know. Please contact People and Culture via peopleandculture@sightscotland.org.uk who can arrange for any support you need.

About us

For more than 230 years we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved, but we want to do more. We will build on our rich history to create an organisation which is prepared for the future, and ready to respond to the needs of people impacted by vision loss.

Our vision is bold. We want to be at the leading edge of positive societal change by:

• Investing our funds in the support that makes the biggest difference

• Putting our community at the heart of what we do

• Campaigning for change

• Accelerating prevention and treatment of eye conditions

• Fostering a collaborative culture of innovation and learning

We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.

Our organisational values - Transform, Unite and Thrive - underpin all the work we do at Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans.

We are hiring! - Work with Us

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.

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 model is based on The Overdose response Teams, (please see our website for indigo house report).

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.

We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team! We would offer you full support in completing your application.

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

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The Dewar Arts Awards is seeking a Charity Co-ordinator to help manage and develop its programme of support for talented young people in Scotland.

Are you an organised, energetic professional with a passion for supporting the next generation of creative talent in Scotland?

The Dewar Arts Awards is seeking to appoint a new Charity Co-ordinator to join our team. Reporting to the Chair, you will be the main point of contact for applicants and award holders across Scotland, helping them access funding for their artistic development. You will help support a programme that has provided funding to more than 1,300 young people since the Awards were established.

About the Role

This is a flexible and remote part-time position (averaging 17.5 hours per week). While day-to-day duties are carried out from home, you will need to attend four main Trustee meetings each year, alongside key stakeholder meetings, typically held in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Because our work is focused primarily in the Central Belt, this role is ideal for someone living within a two-hour travel radius of these cities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Applications and Nominations: Handle nominations received by email, prepare applications for Trustee meetings, circulate required financial and communication papers, notify applicants of decisions, and update partner organisations.
• Managing Awards: Setting up paper and electronic files for successful awardees, arranging payment of awards (primarily by BACS), keeping accurate records, and following up each year with successful awardees to secure annual/final reports.
• Trustee Meetings: Organising four Trustee meetings each year in Glasgow or Edinburgh, securing venues and catering, scheduling meetings, and creating agendas in consultation with the Chair of Trustees. The role also includes progressing matters arising, promptly producing and circulating minutes, preparing AGM documentation, and ensuring the Annual Report & Accounts are ready for approval at the August meeting.
• General Administration: Respond to enquiries, maintain award schedules, submit signed accounts to OSCR, liaise with advisers, manage tenders, maintain backups and statutory registers, purchase supplies, and ensure timely invoice payments, in adherence with GDPR.

Package & Terms

• Salary: £23,000 per annum (reviewed annually)
• Hours: Part-time, 17.5 hours per week (flexible hours, though workload varies across the year)
• Holidays: 15 days / 105 hours inclusive of bank holidays, taken flexibly
• Location: Remote (Scotland), with meetings in Glasgow/Edinburgh
• Prerequisites: Two references, a Disclosure Scotland check, and the right to work in the UK.

Use your skills in a career that cares!

At Turning Point Scotland, we have opportunities for Lead Practitioners to support individuals experiencing homelessness, at risk of homelessness and or need support to protect their home.

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

About the role

Our Lead Practitioner role will include:

Working with individuals who have a range of complex needs which often sit with homelessness, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives.

Supporting to liaise with local authority/ housing associations staff to help them to secure their own permanent tenancy.

Supporting with life skills to enable them to maintain their tenancy, celebrating achievements and milestones, both big and small.

Supporting them within the community and engaging with external professionals & empowering them to develop skills and independence, promoting their overall growth.

About You

You will have a genuine commitment to use your skills to support people to live their best lives.

You will be supported by a friendly, approachable management team, allowing you to expand on your existing knowledge whilst developing new skills. A level of previous working experience in social care is an advantage, but not necessary as full training will be provided to you.

We believe that 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!

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About Us – Fife Support Service

We believe that a home is a human right and that an individual is best placed to deal with the issues that made them homeless in the first place, in a place they can call home.

Fife Support Service delivers Housing First support, where we work across localities in Kirkcaldy and West Fife to enable people to maintain independent tenancy sustainment, reconnect with their local communities and assist them to build their resilience to prevent repeat homelessness.

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 salary scale points 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.

The Childcare Connector will contribute to the organisation’s vision of a Scotland in which single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly, by supporting the delivery of various components which contribute to the Dundee service, including proactively supporting single parents to find, secure and access flexible childcare that meets their needs, allowing single parents to progress within their current employment, enter employment or enrol in education or training.

The role will include direct work with single parents to understand their needs, their current childcare limitations, and their current barriers to work, education or training. Liaising with childcare providers within Dundee, helping single parents access flexible childcare options and know and understand flexible payment options at local and national level is a key element of this role. This role will include networking and events to promote the Childcare Connector service and will include outreach work with single parents, stakeholders, and partners in and around Dundee.

All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. Our core values of Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration and Compassion are at the heart of everything we do and underpin all aspects of our work.

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Recovery Coordinator who has the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs. With this role you’ll be working as part of the South East Recovery Hub team, based in Gilmerton. The team supports people with their or their loved ones’ drug and/or alcohol issues.

No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key.

Where: Gilmerton, Edinburgh

Hours:Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Contract Type:Permanent

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

Responsibilities

About the role:

• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
• Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral
• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
• Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
• Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination
• Research, design and prepare subject matter and materials for groups / pods.
• Deliver structured content within group settings to service users at various stages of recovery
• Engage with debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups/pods have taken place, reviewing progress and identifying concerns with service users
• Tailor specific workshops around the needs of the service users, such as: anger management, sleep disorders, relationships, etc

About you:

• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
• Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour.
• Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills
• Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills
• Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice
• Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders
• Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
• Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards
• Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others

What we will give to you:

• 27 days’ annual leave (rising with length of service), plus bank holidays (6) – pro rata.
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Several benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• A friendly and supportive team
• Training, career development & progression opportunities
• Generous Refer-a-Friend Scheme

The role

Award-winning animal charity Pet Blood Bank UK is recruiting for a Regional Coordinator based in Scotland.

Working closely with the Area Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful coordination of donation sessions within your region. With a regional collection team comprising of between 15-25 Vets, Nurses and Donor Assistants, you will be a key person in building relationships with our venues, increasing donor recruitment and retention, and developing our growing pool of regional volunteers whilst striving to make sure our donation sessions are successful.

Background

Launched in 2007, Pet Blood Bank UK is the only charity that provides a blood bank service for all vets across the UK. As part of our charitable remit, our aim is to advance animal health and welfare and to relieve suffering by providing quick and convenient access to blood. Every unit of blood helps save up to four other lives, saving thousands of lives every year.

Our values

Caring. Pioneering. Real. These are the values Pet Blood Bank UK is built upon. Our values bind us together as a charity and guide everything we do. We expect every team member to know, understand and embody our values, helping to build our reputation as a pioneering, caring and practical charity. Read more about our values.

What you’ll do

As the Regional Coordinator, you will be responsible for ensuring all the relevant tasks and procedures are adhered to, to successfully coordinate donation sessions within your region. This will involve:

Working closely with the Area Manager who will provide support and guidance on this evolving role.

Ongoing development and support of donation sessions within your region, ensuring sessions run as efficiently and effectively as possible, whilst increasing donor recruitment and attendance.

Responsible for ensuring that any feedback is communicated between the Area Manager and the regional clinical team at the earliest opportunity.

Working alongside the Area Manager to ensure the region is meeting the key performance indicators set out for the collection teams, looking at methods to motivate the team and encourage them to achieve the most successful outcome for each potential donor.

Support the building of a volunteer team within the region, develop a pool of volunteers trained to support sessions, events and, where appropriate, the transport of kit and blood.

Organise and manage the rota for your region by liaising with the team to ensure all sessions are fully covered.

Support the co-ordination and maintenance of session kit stored in Dunfermline, collaborating with Loughborough teams to ensure all items remain fit for purpose.

Help organise and attend events to raise awareness of Pet Blood Bank in your region. You will be required to deliver presentations on Pet Blood Bank to potential donor owners, veterinary professionals, and other organisations.

As part of this role, you will be required to build relations with the other departments within Pet Blood Bank and support the communication between the collection team and other departments.

Due to the nature of the work carried out by Pet Blood Bank, flexibility is key to this role. You will be expected to be part of a weekend duty on-call rota (1 in 6 weekends).

What we need

An excellent, confident communicator (written and verbal) who has a proven background working effectively with a variety of people including peers, clients, and volunteers. Good time management, ability to self-motivate, think proactively, and be an enthusiastic team player who strives for continued improvement. Experience of working within or knowledge of the charity sector is beneficial.

We’re looking for someone who:

Has an animal health related qualification, proven experience working with dogs, or holds a veterinary qualification

Has previous team leadership or supervision experience

Experience using Microsoft Office (word, outlook, excel)

Previous experience of working in a remote environment

Holds a full UK driving licence and has access to their own transport

Has a confident and professional manner with the ability to problem solve

Is committed to positive customer experience

Confident engaging and speaking to the public and professionals.

What’s in it for you

In return, we offer full training, competitive salary with pay progression, contributory pension scheme, lifestyle rewards, and 30 days annual holidays (pro rata, including bank holidays).

Further details

This role comprises of 15 hours administration time per week, these hours are hybrid and worked across Monday/Wednesday and Friday, working 5 hours per day you will have flexibility to pick the hours worked between 9am-5pm ensuring the core hours of 10am-12noon are covered. In addition, it includes a minimum of working 12 blood donation sessions annually (average 3/quarter) at varied locations on weekend days. Flexibility around the time work is undertaken is essential as some evening and weekend work will be required. Full training will be given for both the administration role and to perform a team role on a donation session relevant to qualifications.

Living within the region you are supervising is essential, as well as the flexibility to travel and attend sessions across the whole region. Candidates will need to be based within a 30 minute commute of Dunfermline to allow a minimum of once weekly working from our Dunfermline office.

Travel is required within your region to and from donation sessions and our Dunfermline office, a mileage allowance is paid for this, there is no access to a company vehicle. Occasional travel to neighbouring regions or Pet Blood Bank offices (Loughborough) will be required with notice.