Not every job changes lives. This one does.

East Ayrshire Women’s Aid is looking for a passionate, motivated Children & Young People’s Support Worker to support children and young people affected by domestic abuse, helping them rebuild confidence, find their voice and feel safe again.

We’re looking for someone who believes every child deserves to be heard, understands the impact of trauma, builds positive relationships and wants to create lasting change. You will also need to take part in our On Call Rota.

What you’ll bring: experience supporting children and young people, commitment to equality and empowerment, and the ability to travel throughout East Ayrshire.

Why join us? Because this is more than a role—it’s an opportunity to stand alongside children and young people when they need someone most and help shape a future free from abuse.

Ready to make a real impact? Apply today!

Are you passionate about standing alongside women, promoting safety, and supporting recovery from domestic abuse? East Ayrshire Women’s Aid is looking for a compassionate, confident and values-driven Women’s Outreach Support Worker to provide practical and emotional support to women across the community.

In this rewarding role, you will help women identify their strengths, understand their options, build personal safety plans and move forward with confidence. You may work in homes, community venues, our office, the Women’s Centre or other outreach settings, depending on service needs.

Why Join Us?

You’ll provide trauma-informed support, help women plan for safety and recovery, advocate with partner agencies, and support confidence-building activities in the community.

What We're Looking For: We’re looking for someone with relevant support experience, a strong understanding of domestic abuse and trauma-informed practice, excellent communication and record-keeping skills, and a commitment to equality, empowerment and women’s rights. You’ll also need to travel across East Ayrshire and take part in the on-call rota.

What You’ll Bring:You’ll be empathetic, non-judgemental and reflective, with the confidence to build trusting relationships and the drive to deliver high-quality support. You’ll work with integrity, respect and optimism, believing in women’s capacity for growth, choice and change.

If you’re ready to use your skills to make a meaningful difference, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and help women across East Ayrshire move forward with safety, strength and confidence.

After a historic Holyrood Election in 2026, the Liberal Democrats in Edinburgh are looking for a campaign organiser to be the lynchpin in our campaign for the city council elections in May 2027 and beyond. This is a role focussed on running – and winning - an ambitious campaign to put more gold on the map.

Working with an experienced team you will also develop your experience of delivering results in high-pressure, target-driven campaigns in a setting that will open opportunities in a political party, an advocacy organisation, membership body, trade union, charity, or comparable campaigning environment.

This is a great opportunity to take on a high-profile campaigning role with some of the most ambitious local parties in Scotland.

Job Description

Key roles and responsibilities include:

• Taking overall responsibility for delivering the agreed citywide campaign plan.
• Building campaigning and organisational capacity – including recruiting members, donors, deliverers and poster sites.
• Building and managing a team of volunteers who oversee all aspects of capacity building and campaigning.
• Designing and delivering an ongoing programme of doorstep communication with voters.
• Assisting with the design, production, print, and coordination of the delivery of campaign literature.
• Maintaining relevant databases e.g. deliverers, donors, poster sites etc.
• Organising events e.g. action days, social events, etc.
• Maintaining and updating social media, website and other digital infrastructure.
• Supporting fundraising and assisting with fundraising campaigns and events as required.
• Attending relevant conferences, training and other meetings as required.

Personal Specification

The following criteria are considered essential:

• Exceptional personal organisation.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• bility to lead, mobilise and manage volunteers.
• Excellent written communication skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision, self-motivating and able to manage own workload.
• Familiarity with current issues within UK politics and sympathy with the values and principles of the Liberal Democrats.

The following criteria are desirable:

• Experience in delivering effective Liberal Democrat campaigns.
• Experience of Liberal Democrat software and databases (e.g. Affinity Publisher, NationBuilder & Connect)
• Understanding of GDPR, data protection and regulations relevant to political campaigning

We are currently looking to recruit support workers to join our small team within Inclusion Alliance. The role involves supporting people with learning disabilities to be included in the community and lead an ordinary life. Your work would involve helping people to access educational, social, leisure and work or volunteering opportunities in the community.

No experience or formal qualifications are necessary for the role although a caring nature, positive attitude and a sense of fun are important characteristics to have. New staff will receive paid training and undertake shadow shifts with experienced staff members during induction. We want new staff to feel ready and able to work prior to working on their own for the first time.

We have various vacancies available including part time and relief/casual positions in various locations throughout Edinburgh.

Working hours are based between the hours of 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday.

We have various permanent and casual vacancies available.

Relief/Casual pay rate- £13.45

Candidates must be caring, motivated and have excellent communication skills whilst being committed to working in a person-centred way ensuring that support is built around the supported person’s wishes and needs.

Benefits include

• Employer contributory pension scheme
• Funded SVQ 3 qualification and learning opportunity
• Paid annual leave entitlement
• Regular paid supervision sessions
• Regular paid training and development opportunities
• Daytime Monday to Friday working
• Working for a well-established small organisation where person centred values are at the core.Free 24/7 access to employee support app