Circle is a registered charity working at the heart of communities across central Scotland. We work with families facing multiple disadvantages because of structural inequality, poverty, drug and alcohol use, imprisonment, physical or mental health, trauma, abuse and loss. We believe that every child, no matter their background or circumstances, should have the support they need to live a happy and healthy life.

We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary, generous pension contribution, flexible working, an employee assistance programme and generous annual leave.

Circle is seeking a Children’s Resilience Worker to join our East Lothian project, funded by Scottish Government and Corra Foundation. The role provides one-to-one, peer and group support to children and young people affected by parental substance use, domestic abuse and complex mental health challenges, helping them build resilience, strengthen family relationships and make positive change.

Funded by Scottish Government and Corra Foundation, this post supports children and young people affected by parental drug or alcohol use through individual, peer and group work. The Children’s Resilience Worker will build on their strengths, help them connect with peers, ensure their voices are heard, and work with parents, carers and partner agencies to provide early, holistic support.

We are looking for a skilled and empathetic professional qualified in social work, social care, education or health, with experience supporting families through a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach.

The successful candidate will have strong communication, teamwork and organisational skills, a good understanding of child development and the challenges facing vulnerable families, and a commitment to equality, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice. This is a meaningful opportunity to be part of a supportive organisation dedicated to improving outcomes for children and families.

About SHARE Scotland

SHARE Scotland is a values-led organisation founded in 1984 by families of young people with complex disabilities. We provide high-quality, person-centred support, enabling individuals to live independently and make meaningful choices about their lives across services in Glasgow, Edinburgh and West Dunbartonshire.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Services Manager (Registered Manager) to lead our services across the West region.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and person-centred care in line with Health and Social Care Standards. You will play a key role in driving service improvement, maintaining regulatory compliance, and achieving positive outcomes for the people we support.

Key Responsibilities

• Service Leadership & Development
• Lead, develop and sustain high-quality services, including oversight of new service implementation and growth opportunities
• Quality & Performance
• Ensure services consistently meet high standards, using audits, data, and feedback to drive continuous improvement
• Regulatory Compliance
• Ensure full compliance with Care Inspectorate requirements, SSSC Codes of Practice, and Registered Manager responsibilities
• Financial Management
• Manage service budgets and ensure effective financial planning and control
• People Management
• Lead and support Service Managers, oversee recruitment and workforce development, and promote a positive learning culture
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Build strong relationships with families, professionals, and partners while representing SHARE Scotland positively
• Health & Safety and Safeguarding
• Ensure safe working environments and robust safeguarding practices
• Strategic Contribution
• Contribute to organisational strategy and continuous improvement initiatives

What We’re Looking For

Essential:

• Significant management experience within a complex care environment
• Strong leadership and team development skills
• Ability to meet Registered Manager requirements
• In-depth knowledge of social care and disability support
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Desirable:

• Relevant qualification (e.g. SVQ Level 4, Social Work, Nursing)
• Management qualification
• Experience in learning disabilities services

Why Join Us?

• Generous 32 days’ annual leave, increasing incrementally after 5 years’ service to a maximum of 42 days
• 4% employer contributory pension, above the statutory minimum
• Be part of a supportive and friendly team culture
• Proud to be an Investors in People (Silver) employer
• Services regularly awarded 6-star ratings by the Care Inspectorate
• Death in Service benefit ( 4 x annual salary)
• Critical illness insurance, providing a lump sum payment upon diagnosis of specified conditions
• HSF Health Plan membership
• Perkbox membership, offering a range of retail and lifestyle discounts
• Excellent opportunities for progression, supported by our active succession planning policy

Our Values

At SHARE Scotland, we are committed to promoting dignity, respect, equality, diversity, and inclusion, ensuring everyone we support has choice and control over their lives.

Values into Action Scotland (VIAS) is recruiting for the post of Sessional Job Coach based at our head office in Hillington, Glasgow and surrounding areas.

We are looking to recruit a pool of Job Coaches to support our Triple E clients to develop their job skills in a real working environment.

You will work with the Senior Lead Consultants and the Triple E teams to provide practical job coaching support in what, for many is their first real job. No experience in necessary as full training will be given.

Background

Values Into Action Scotland provides quality supports and services to create a world that is inclusive for all. Come and help us achieve our vision for a Scotland where people with learning disabilities and/ or neurodivergent people have the same opportunities as everyone else to achieve their goals.

Triple E is a wraparound supported employment service designed to help disabled people aged 16–67 find high-quality jobs. This post will support our services in Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire.

The Candidate

With a strong interest in learning about supported employment, the successful candidate will be confident in their ability to support our clients to develop.

They will also be comfortable working one-to-one within a business setting.

Candidates would benefit from an understanding of the issues that affect people with learning disabilities and/or neurodivergent people.

What We Offer

We offer flexibility, excellent training/ development opportunities, and a competitive salary.

Further Details

The post is as and when required.

VIAS will carry out an PVG check on the successful applicant.

For further information or an informal discussion, please call Courtney Norris (Glasgow) on 07586 690707.

Circle is a registered charity working at the heart of communities across central Scotland. We work with families facing multiple disadvantages because of structural inequality, poverty, drug and alcohol use, imprisonment, physical or mental health, trauma, abuse and loss. We believe that every child, no matter their background or circumstances, should have the support they need to live a happy and healthy life.

Circle is seeking a Young Person's Outreach Worker to join our Grow Your Own Routes programme in East Lothian. Funded by Scottish Governments’ Whole Family Wellbeing Fund and partnered with Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs, the programme aims to ensure that young people affected by substance use are visible, have a voice and are empowered to effect change.

The post holder will work directly with young people affected by family substance use, helping them to reduce its impact and develop the skills and confidence they need to thrive. This varied and rewarding role involves one-to-one work, group facilitation, advocacy, and peer support, delivered in youth and community settings.

The post holder will also contribute to family-inclusive practice, promote recovery, and work closely with partners to share best practice and strengthen support across the community.

We are looking for a skilled and empathetic professional with a qualification in youth and community work, social work, social care, health or education, with experience supporting young people and families using a strengths- based, trauma-informed approach. The successful candidate will have excellent communication and organisational skills, a good understanding of child development and the challenges facing vulnerable families, and a commitment to equality, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice. This is a meaningful opportunity to be part of a supportive organisation dedicated to improving outcomes for children and families.

We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary, generous pension contribution, flexible working, an employee assistance programme and generous annual leave.

Purpose of Post:

The post-holder will work within the East Dunbartonshire Befriending Service, providing social contact and inclusion through volunteers to vulnerable socially isolated adults 18+ who have been referred to the service and reside in East Dunbartonshire. This will be either telephone, one-to-one, or group methods of befriending. You will assist in supporting carefully recruited, selected and trained volunteer befrienders.

Outcomes of the Service:

East Dunbartonshire Befriending Service provides services to increase the social connectedness of its service-users; reduce the isolation and loneliness of its service-users, and ensure that its volunteers have access to high-quality volunteering.

The above post is based in Kirkintilloch but works across the whole of East Dunbartonshire. Travel across East Dunbartonshire and working out of the office will be required.

Suitability:

This role would suit an individual who seeks a work-life balance. Who values job satisfaction and the reward from helping people flourish, gain confidence and experience the joy befriending can give.

Edinburgh Young Carers is seeking a suitably experienced and qualified applicant to co-ordinate our awareness-raising, training and support to schools and Higher Education (HE)/Further Education (FE) establishments across Edinburgh, with the aim to develop whole-school, sustainable approaches in the identification of, and support to, young carers.

The post-holder will support the delivery and development of the ‘We Care: Schools for Young Carers’ award to schools across Edinburgh, and nationwide, and will work in partnership with Capital Carers and Space to ensure consistent delivery of schools and HE/FE work across the four localities of the City.

The candidate will need to be experienced in working with children and young people in formal or informal education settings, with experience of project set-up, management and reporting and in developing and delivering presentations and running training events/workshops for young people and professionals.

Organisation Profile

EYC is a voluntary organisation working with and on behalf of young carers throughout Edinburgh. We are one of the largest and best established independent young carer organisations in Scotland. We have a strong commitment to the rights of children and young people.

Working at EYC and Staff Benefits

EYC is a passionate, fun, supportive place to work. We have a great team and take good care of our staff. Our benefits package includes: 27 days’ annual leave plus all public holidays, 6% matched pension, free healthcare through Benenden Health after 6 months’ probation, hybrid working, flexible hours, Cycle to Work scheme and extensive training opportunities. We are also a recognised Carer Positive employer.

Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime

Who We Are

Victim Support Scotland (VSS) provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim and witness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free, confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs.

Our vision is that people affected by crime – victims, witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice in Scotland. We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference. Our mission at Victim Support Scotland is to ensure that those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them recover from their experiences. We aim to do this by adhering to our own organisational values: Organisational Values

• Victims Are at the Heart of Everything We Do
• We Care
• We Work with Intent
• We Are Ambitious
• We Persevere

Everything we do is driven by our dedication to supporting and empowering victims and witnesses, so they have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed. We are an effective organisation that makes a lasting difference to the people we support, and these values are reflected in the behaviours expected of all staff and volunteers.

VSS is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our service users and has a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG scheme checks in place to ensure this commitment is met.

What is the role?

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Emergency Assistance Fund Administrator. Working week will be between the following days and hours:

• Monday - Friday between 9am - 5pm

Salary band: £24,479 - £31,239. Salary on appointment will normally be at the lower salary point, with progression subject to review - in line with VSS progression arrangements. A higher salary placing will only be considered in exceptional circumstances subject to experience demonstrated.

Primary location: Broadside, 2 Powderhall Road, Edinburgh, EH7 4GB. You will be expected to cover throughout

You will be reporting directly to the Office Manager within the Finance & Estates Team and you will be responsible for providing essential administrative and operational support to ensure the smooth running of the Emergency Assistance Fund. The role will focus on supporting the EAF Coordinator and Locality Managers to ensure the timely purchase and delivery of items and services to applicants. You will support the full process and administration of the fund and undertake any other general office and administrative duties required.

You will bring relevant experience from a similar role, alongside a strong commitment to your own professional development. You will take the lead on procurement for the Emergency Assistance Fund, including ordering items and coordinating delivery and installation where required. You will be responsible for maintaining accurate records, ensuring timely credit card returns, monitoring stock levels, and arranging replenishment as needed. You will also support the creation and ongoing development of processes, procedures, and documentation for the Fund. Within your areas of responsibility, you will ensure compliance with all relevant policies, including GDPR, and that all transactions and communications are accurately logged for audit and reporting purposes.

In addition, you will provide facilities management support, including delivering all aspects of reception facilities, answering incoming calls and coordinating room bookings and catering for meetings and events as required.

If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, we want to hear from you!

What we offer

Holiday

When you work for Victim Support Scotland, your wellbeing is important to us. We offer an enhanced annual leave package of 39 days (pro-rata) holiday. 42 days (pro-rata) from Grade 6 and above.

Pension

Save for the further and join the Standard Life Pension. Your future self will thank you. Our generous employer contribution will help you plan for the future.

Support

Sometimes we all need support and a listening ear. Our free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme can support your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. We also offer enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to a credit union.

Discounts

You will have access to our free health cash plan which includes cover for you and your family across a range of benefits, which include, dental cover, access to a virtual GP, counselling, legal support and discounts on gym memberships, cinema tickets, retail and much more.

Flexibility and development

We are proud of our flexible and inclusive work policies, which help you balance work and life. Supporting employee development is important to us, we offer comprehensive learning and development opportunities.

Who we are?

Teens+ provides post school education and lifelong learning services for young people with complex communication needs including autism and learning disabilities.

The service is person centred and individualised to ensure each student, regardless of their needs, can reach their fullest potential.

Where are we?

We currently have centres in Edinburgh (Liberton Brae, Ravenscroft and McDonald Road, Leith) and in East Lothian, Musselburgh.

This vacancy is for the McDonald Road Centre, Edinburgh.

Purpose of the role!

The Education Supervisor is a key member of the centre’s management team, responsible for leading and supporting staff, overseeing the delivery of high-quality education, and contributing to the overall running of the centre.

The role involves providing effective supervision and people management, working alongside the Centre Manager to manage the staff team and ensure consistent, values-led practice. In partnership with the Education Tutor, the Education Supervisor oversees education delivery to ensure all learning is individualised, meaningful, and aligned with each student’s abilities, needs, and future goals.

The Education Supervisor plays an active role in communication with students, families, and professionals, ensuring a collaborative approach to support and outcomes. They also support the operational management of the centre, including designated compliance responsibilities, ensuring adherence to regulatory frameworks and organisational standards.

Confident in decision-making, the Education Supervisor will contribute to the day-to-day leadership of the centre, including deputising in the absence of the Centre Manager, and supporting wider organisational priorities and continuous improvement.

Who are we looking for?

The successful applicant will have proven experience of working with adults with additional support needs using a person-centred approach.

You will be a confident leader, working closely with the Centre Manager, coaching and leading the staff team to meet the needs of the service, deliver high standards of performance, and create a positive and supportive environment for both staff and students.

You will understand how to connect with the local communities and offer opportunities for development and growth to the students.

You will consistently adhere to the organisation’s values, acting as a positive role model at all times by demonstrating professionalism, integrity, accountability, and respect in your day-to-day practice. You will lead by example, promoting a positive culture, encouraging collaboration, and inspiring others to uphold the standards and behaviours expected across the organisation.

You will be enthusiastic and self-motivated, and must be able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.

You will be able to communicate effectively 1:1 as well as to groups of people.

Ideally you will have had a level of management experience and previous background in education delivery would be advantageous.

The successful applicants will require membership of the PVG (Protection of Vulnerable Groups) Scheme.

Crisis is the national charity for people experiencing homelessness. We have embarked on our 10-year strategy for ending homelessness. We know it is not inevitable. We know together we can end it.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to step into a pivotal senior leadership role at a critical moment for Crisis. We are looking for a Director of Operations on a 12-month fixed term contract or secondment, someone who thrives in periods of transformation and can lead a geographically dispersed senior team. If you are energised by complexity, motivated by mission, and ready to make a real difference during a period of change, we want to hear from you.

With a bold new strategic direction placing Client Services at the heart of ending homelessness, Crisis is implementing a place-based approach to system change, becoming a housing provider, and scaling the impact of our nine Skylights and Christmas offer. This role sits at the centre of that change. You will provide strong, values-led leadership across our Skylights in Edinburgh, Newcastle and Merseyside, senior support to the Lead Clinical Psychologist as well the entirety of Client Services across Great Britain. You will be bold in driving continuous improvement, collaborative in your approach to partnerships, impactful in your use of data and insight, and equitable in your leadership.

About you

• Significant senior leadership experience in a relevant sector, such as homelessness, adult social care, health, education, or employment, with a strong track record of inspiring and empowering people and teams through change.
• Excellent networking, partnership-building and influencing skills, adaptable to a range of audiences from frontline staff to senior politicians and funders
• A proven track record in operational leadership: implementing quality standards, compliance assurance, governance, and driving continuous service improvement
• Strong analytical skills and confidence using data to generate insight that improves service effectiveness, alongside experience managing significant and complex budgets
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and an understanding of psychologically informed, trauma-informed approaches when working with people who have experienced complex adversity
• A genuine commitment to Crisis’ purpose and values, and a passion for ending homelessness — we particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness

Please see the full Job Pack linked below, for a full list of requirements for this role. We realise that long lists of criteria can be daunting, and you may not want to apply for a role unless you feel 100% qualified. However, if you feel you have relevant examples to answer the screening questions, we encourage you to apply.

We believe diversity is a strength, and our aim is to make sure that Crisis truly reflects the communities we serve. We are actively working towards our organisation being a place where everyone can thrive and make their best contribution to our mission of ending homelessness for good. We know that the more perspectives, voices, and experiences we can bring to this work, the better. We particularly welcome applications from people who have lived experience of homelessness, and people from all marginalised groups, communities, and backgrounds.

Working at Crisis

Our values, Bold, Impactful, Collaborative and Equitable, are at the heart of everything we do as we continue in our mission to end homelessness.

Our staff, members, volunteers and supporters are vital to getting the right government policies in place, providing breakthrough services, and building a supportive community. We’ll lead by example to nurture a positive and ambitious workplace guided by ending homelessness.

As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

• A competitive salary. Please note our salaries are fixed to counter inequity and we do not negotiate at offer stage.
• Interest free loans for travel season ticket, cycle to work, and deposit to secure a tenancy.
• Pension scheme with an employer contribution of 8.5%
• 28 days’ annual leave (pro rata) which increases with service to 31 days and the option to purchase up to 10 additional days leave.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption pay.
• Wellbeing Leave to be used flexibly
• And more! (Full list of benefits available on website)

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience, and career.

When you join us, you will have the opportunity to join our staff diversity networks, which aim to champion issues across the organisation, enable staff to be their authentic and best selves and contribute to making Crisis a truly diverse organisation.

JOB PURPOSE

The National Trust for Scotland is Scotland’s largest membership organisation and Scotland’s largest charity land manager. We manage many of Scotland’s most significant woodlands, from the extensive Caledonian pinewoods of Mar Lodge to rainforest hazelwood’s in the Hebrides and endemic Whitebeam woodlands on Arran.

As a founding member of both the Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest and Caledonian Pinewood Partnership and as a key delivery partners with the Scottish Government for landscape scale ecological restoration of native woodland in Scotland, we are recruiting a post to help drive this exciting work.

You will lead the Trusts outreach for native woodland restoration across Scotland, developing several large scale projects. You will build partnerships with private landowners, communities of place and communities of interest, including other eNGOs and conservation organisations. You will have the backing and support of our nature, fundraising, planning, community engagement, estates and media teams.

The focus of your work will be developing two Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest landscape scale projects in West Lochalsh and on Arran and provide initial contact and support to pinewood managers who look after threatened remnants, to bring their sites into recovery.

We are looking for strong communication & diplomacy skills, which can be influential at a network scale. Someone who can build trust and influence in land management situations, across a diverse range of partners with different interests and objectives. Someone who can develop partnership project plans, acting as the bridge between our internal expertise, existing and new partners. In particular you will develop delivery project content to a “shovel ready” stage, so your fundraising colleagues can draft applications.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Making initial contact, maintaining and/or developing ongoing communication and liaison with external landowners, stakeholders and associated organisations.
• Understanding external landowner’s and communities’ values, objectives and constraints and communicating the Trusts, with a view to building trust, understanding and cooperation in relation to collaborative, nature positive land management.
• Develop collegiate partnership operations and memoranda of understanding with both internal and external stakeholder input and support.
• Liase with internal NTS expertise across multiple disciplines, to inform your delivery of external communications and advice to stakeholders.
• Develop collaborative landscape scale funding bids across multiple estates and landholdings, including both NTS land and externally owned land, in association with the Trusts fundraising team.
• Supporting applications for government grants including Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme, Agri Environment Climate Scheme, Nature Restoration Fund etc.
• Coordinate delivery of landscape scale nature restoration projects across multiple estates and landholdings, including both NTS land and externally owned land, including budget management.
• Procure and manage contracts associated with landscape scale nature restoration projects, monitor delivery of grant conditions and complete grant claims & reports.
• Organise partnership meetings and events to strengthen networks and collaboration within the partnership.
• Write reports for partners and funders showing progress against agreed objectives and funding obligations.