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Senior Housing Rights Worker
- Part time
- £35,581 pro-rata
- On site: Aberdeen/Dundee
- Closing 27th July 2026
Are you passionate about housing rights and committed to helping people facing the housing emergency? Join Shelter Scotland as a Senior Housing Rights Worker and play a leading role in delivering expert housing advice, supporting communities and influencing positive change.
About the role
We’re looking for someone with experience providing high-quality housing advice, advocacy and casework, alongside the confidence to lead and support others in delivering excellent services. You’ll oversee complex casework, promote housing rights and quality standards, and provide coaching and line management to Housing Rights Workers. Working closely with communities, partner organisations and decision-makers, you’ll build relationships, influence positive change and use evidence and lived experience to improve housing outcomes. You’ll also help lead local projects, support strategic interventions and ensure people affected by the housing emergency are empowered to shape Shelter Scotland’s work and wider housing policy.
Role specifics
We’re looking for someone who can inspire and support others while delivering high-quality housing rights services. You’ll have knowledge of housing and social justice issues, excellent communication skills and the confidence to deliver workshops, presentations and advice to a range of audiences. You’ll be organised, adaptable and able to manage competing priorities, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to build relationships, influence decision-makers and empower individuals and communities. You’ll also be confident using IT systems, gathering evidence and insight, and turning this into meaningful action that helps improve housing outcomes.
Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About the team
There are three Community Teams - North, West and East. These teams of housing rights workers engage with and activate communities in delivering insight and evidence and targeted interventions, to address local issues and contribute towards the Shelter Scotland Housing Emergency campaign for structural change.
Do you have some experience of advice work, preferably with a focus on housing issues, and a real desire to advance your specialist level knowledge? Then join Shelter Scotland as a Housing Rights Worker and you could soon be playing a vital role in helping to identify and resolve the homelessness and bad housing issues facing local communities.
About the role
We’re looking for someone who can provide high-quality housing advice, advocacy and casework to people facing the housing emergency, both in local communities and remotely. You’ll work collaboratively with colleagues and external partners to promote housing rights, deliver capacity-building activities and respond to local housing issues through influencing and advocacy. You’ll also gather evidence and insight to help shape our work, build strong relationships with communities and decision-makers, and support people with lived experience to influence services, campaigns and wider change. Through everything you do, you’ll help ensure Shelter Scotland delivers high-quality, person-centred support while working to tackle the root causes of housing injustice.
Role specifics
We’re looking for someone with excellent communication and relationship-building skills who enjoys working collaboratively to make a real difference. You’ll be confident delivering workshops and presentations, engaging with individuals, communities and partners, and explaining complex information in a clear and accessible way. Experience of housing advice or social justice work would be an advantage, alongside the ability to challenge poor practice, influence decision-makers and solve problems creatively. Ideally, you’ll also be comfortable using a range of IT systems, including Microsoft Office and CRM systems.
Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About the team
There are three Community Teams - North, West and East. These teams of housing rights workers engage with and activate communities in delivering insight and evidence and targeted interventions, to address local issues that contribute towards the Shelter Scotland Housing Emergency campaign for structural change.
MIST National Officer (Experiential Team)
- Full time
- £29,500
- Remote: Home-based with travel throughout Scotland
- Closing 27th July 2026
The Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is seeking a collaborative, proactive and values-driven individual to join our Experiential Team as a MIST National Officer (Experiential Team).
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the implementation and ongoing development of the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Standards, helping to improve access to treatment and related services and reduce drug-related deaths and harms in Scotland.
Working closely with SRC colleagues and in partnership with Public Health Scotland’s Medication Assisted Treatment Standards Implementation Support Team (MIST), you will play an important role in supporting the development of the experiential agenda. You will help ensure that the voices and experiences of people accessing services, family members inform quality improvement and service development across Scotland.
The role involves building strong relationships with a wide range of partners, including Alcohol and Drug Partnerships, NHS services, Health and Social Care Partnerships, third sector organisations, grassroots recovery communities, and people with lived and living experience.
We are looking for someone with excellent relationship-building skills, a strong commitment to a human rights-based approach, and the ability to work collaboratively across national and local structures to support learning, engagement and continuous improvement.
Benefits include:
- 10% pension contribution
- Life assurance
- 28 days annual leave plus public holidays
If you are passionate about recovery, rights-based practice and making a meaningful difference in Scotland’s alcohol and drug sector, we would love to hear from you.
Top job! Solicitor
- Full time
- £45,426 – £54,166
- On site: Edinburgh with travel across Scotland and occasionally internationally
- Closing 12th July 2026
About the role
Incorporation of the UNCRC into Scots law places the Commissioner at the leading edge of child rights strategic litigation. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to use your legal skills to work on cases that will shape the development of Scots law and drive real systemic improvements in children’s lives.
This pivotal role helps promote and safeguard children’s rights in accordance with the duties of the office as set out in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2003. Reporting to the Head of Legal, our Solicitors are responsible for the lawful and effective discharge of the Commissioner’s powers and duties.
As a key member of staff, your principal role will be to exercise the Commissioner’s new strategic litigation power brought in by the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024.
We have already begun using those powers to deliver real impact on issues such as restrain in mental health settings, best interests in eviction actions, access to justice in the tribunal system, and children’s rights in criminal law proceedings.
The Commissioner is uniquely placed to play a leading role, taking the cases no one else can. You will join us as we seek to take the next step, using our litigation powers creatively and strategically to address children’s rights issues across a range of areas of law,
Working as part of the Legal Team, you will be responsible for ensuring the office achieves maximum strategic impact by undertaking swift and robust, human rights analysis of cases and issues, providing advice, drafting submissions, instructing agents and counsel, and directly legally representing the Commissioner where appropriate. Where required by the Commissioner or Head of Legal, you will also provide advice on, and exercise the Commissioner’s other statutory functions, including the investigation powers.
Alongside developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, you will be expected to work directly with children and young people to gain their views and understanding on various complex rights issues, this includes working with our Young Advisers Group.
We’re looking for someone with significant experience of successfully undertaking litigation in a fast-paced environment, and who evidences a commitment to rights-based practice, collaborative working and the highest professional and ethical standards.
Proposals for secondments (a minimum of two years) are very welcome and will be considered on their merits.
Overview of the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland
In 2003 the Scottish Parliament wanted to “make a real difference by creating an independent, high profile and influential post” of Children and Young People’s Commissioner with a responsibility to promote and safeguard the rights of everyone under 18 in Scotland or up to 21 if the young person is in care or has care experience.
Children and young people don’t have the same economic or political power as adults.
Adult systems aren’t designed around children’s needs and when things go wrong it’s much harder for them to get justice. They need a champion who is an independent person able to challenge those in power.
The role of Commissioner must do that, whilst bringing together different parts of the political and institutional systems and society in the best interests of the child. As well as being a champion for rights, a key part of the job is to work with people who make decisions that affect children and young people’s lives so that they deliver on their promises – for example within education, healthcare, housing and justice.
Decision makers must understand their rights obligations and include and listen effectively to children and young people in order to do their jobs properly.
Overview of the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland
In 2003 the Scottish Parliament wanted to “make a real difference by creating an independent, high profile and influential post” of Children and Young People’s Commissioner with a responsibility to promote and safeguard the rights of everyone under 18 in Scotland or up to 21 if the young person is in care or has care experience.
Children and young people don’t have the same economic or political power as adults.
Adult systems aren’t designed around children’s needs and when things go wrong it’s much harder for them to get justice. They need a champion who is an independent person able to challenge those in power.
The role of Commissioner must do that, whilst bringing together different parts of the political and institutional systems and society in the best interests of the child. As well as being a champion for rights, a key part of the job is to work with people who make decisions that affect children and young people’s lives so that they deliver on their promises – for example within education, healthcare, housing and justice.
Decision makers must understand their rights obligations and include and listen effectively to children and young people in order to do their jobs properly.
Who we are
The Commissioner for Children and Young People Scotland is an independent statutory public body. The office has a current budget of £1.76 million and a multidisciplinary team of 18 staff based in an office in Edinburgh but working across Scotland. We promote and safeguard the human rights of everyone in Scotland up to 18 or up to 21 years old if the young person has care experience. Scotland’s children and young people have told us that they need fierce champions for their human rights: people who share our values of bravery, independence, leadership, participation, and respect.
You’d be joining the Commissioner and their hard-working, multidisciplinary and committed team, striving to influence and drive progressive law, policy and practice with children’s human rights. We do this by:
- Raising awareness and understanding of children’s human rights.
- Reviewing law, policy and practice relating to children’s human rights
- Promoting best practice by service providers
- Promoting, commissioning, undertaking and publishing research to promote better implementation of children’s human rights
In doing this, the Commissioner must have regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and act in a way that encourages equal opportunities.
We must also encourage the involvement of children and young people in the work of the office and consult relevant organisations working with, and for children and young people, placing a particular emphasis on those who are less likely to be included or listened to, and those whose rights are most at risk.
Why join us?
You’ll be valued as an essential part of a busy team, working every day to make an impact in children and young people’s lives in Scotland.
You’ll also get the chance to work directly with children and young people.
We are a vibrant, multidisciplinary team who pride ourselves on living our values of bravery, respect, participation, independence and leadership. Our work sits at the forefront of children’s rights in Scotland.
Our fantastic, purpose designed office allows us to work flexibly and welcome children from across Scotland. We believe that The Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland is an amazing place to work.
Not only do we believe we have a friendly and ambitious team which sets us apart and ensures that the work we do is of value to Scotland, we also provide all our employees with a very generous benefits package, rewarding them for the work they do, and ensuring that work-life balance and wellbeing is top priority.
Our employee benefits package includes:
• Competitive Salary
• Access to the Civil Service Alpha Pension Scheme with generous employer pension contribution of 28.97%
• 30 days annual leave plus 11.5 observed public holidays
• Flexible working policies
• Enhanced wellbeing initiatives including our Healthy Living Allowance and access to our Employee Assistance Programme offering shopping discounts, advice and counselling services.
The key strategic issues impacting on this post will be:
- Relevant domestic law including the Commissioner for Children and Young people (Scotland) Act 2003, the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 and the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024
- International human rights instruments
- Developments in domestic and international human rights case law
- The Office’s Strategic Plan 2024-28
Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) School Coordinator in Taycitites Region
- Full time
- £28,644
- On site: Dundee/Perth/Angus
- Closing 16th July 2026
Are you passionate about helping young people prepare for the world of work? Do you have a talent for building strong relationships and creating meaningful opportunities?
We’re looking for a dynamic and motivated Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) School Coordinator in Taycities Region to join our team!
As a DYW School Coordinator, you will play a vital role in shaping the future workforce by:
- Connecting classrooms with careers - building and delivering exciting employer engagement programmes that bring the curriculum to life.
- Boosting young people’s career awareness and skills development- giving them real insight into the world of work.
- Working closely with school leadership teams and local employers to co-create opportunities that reflect both the needs of the school community and the wider regional economy.
- Establishing and maintaining a strong network of employer partners within the local business community.
- Driving national education priorities such as employability, enterprise, and the Career Education Standard.
You’ll be a key part of a collaborative team, reporting to the DYW Operations Manager and working in partnership with the DYW Core Team and local schools.
What we are Looking For:
Someone with great communication and organisational skills, a proactive mindset, and the ability to think strategically. Experience in education, business, or community partnership working would be beneficial.
This is your chance to make a real difference in the lives of young people, bridging the gap between education and employment.
Parish Assistant/Deacon, Knightswood Anniesland Trinity
- Full time
- £32,251 – £40,853
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 14th August 2026
Could you be part of something different? We have a rewarding opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to use their gifts, skills and experience to make a difference to the lives of individuals and communities in the parish of Knightswood Anniesland Trinity.
We are looking for a Parish Assistant or Deacon to support the work of the interim minister to help develop relationships and fellowship in the congregation through assisting the minister in a range of pastoral, congregational and community-related activities.
The hope is the congregation will move into a season of more settled, refreshed and missional ministry in their very large parish, ensuring a flourishing viable congregation moving forward with the postholder providing a greater level of continuity after the period of interim ministry ends.
It is essential you have the right to work in the UK before applying to work with us. You will be asked to provide proof of your eligibility to work and remain in the UK if you are invited to attend for an interview.
This is a full-time role with an agreed flexible/reactive working pattern. However, to accommodate the right candidate, there is the opportunity to apply on a part time basis.
Family Outreach Worker (East Lothian)
- Part time
- £29,362 – £34,032 pro-rata
- Hybrid: East Lothian
- Closing 15th July 2026
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 Family Outreach Worker (21 hours/week) to join our project in East Lothian. Funded by Children’s Services, East Lothian Council/MELDAP (local alcohol and Drugs Partnership) this post aims to provide support to children and families affected by parental drug and/or alcohol use, reducing risks and minimising the impact on children. The post holder will work directly with parents, carers and children to strengthen family relationships, improve parenting capacity, and promote safer, healthier lifestyles.
We are looking for a skilled and empathetic professional with a qualification in social work, social care, education, health, or another relevant discipline.
The successful candidate will have strong communication, teamwork and organisational skills, a good understanding of rights-based approaches 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, parents, carers and their families. We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary, generous pension contribution, flexible working, an employee assistance programme and generous annual leave.
‘Together We Thrive - Building Cultural Bonds in Wester Hailes’
Are you an experienced and passionate project leader able to lead and deliver exciting, engaging and safe sessions with people from a range of ethnicities as they develop self-confidence and a sense of belonging? Come and work for us!
SCOREscotland (Strengthening Communities for Race Equality) is a small and yet mighty charity based in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh. We work in partnership with other organisations to address effects and causes of racism and promote race equality. We aim to break down barriers to full participation of minority and ethnic groups in civic life.
"Together We Thrive" aims to foster positive relationships between New Scots (refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants) and the local Scottish community in South West Edinburgh by creating a welcoming and inclusive program of activities. Please see the attached job description for more details about this exciting role.
Family Outreach Worker – Fathers
- Part time
- £29,362 – £34,032 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 8th July 2026
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 Family Outreach Worker- Fathers ( 18 hours / week) to join our project in Edinburgh. Funded by City of Edinburgh Council/Edinburgh Alcohol and Drug Partnership, this post aims to provide support to children and families affected by parental drug and/or alcohol use, reducing risks and minimising the impact on children. The post holder will work directly with fathers, male carers, and children to strengthen family relationships, improve parenting capacity, and promote safer, healthier lifestyles.
We are looking for a skilled and empathetic professional qualified in social work, social care, education, health or early years/childcare.
The successful candidate will have strong communication, teamwork and organisational skills, a good understanding of rights-based approaches 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, fathers and their families.
We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary, generous pension contribution, flexible working, an employee assistance programme and generous annual leave.
Do you have a heart for young people, a passion for faith and the energy to help pre teens/teenagers feel they truly belong?
Fairmilehead Parish Church, Edinburgh, is seeking an enthusiastic and caring Sunday Youth Worker to help grow and develop our teenage group within the life of our church, building relationships, encouraging faith and creating a space where young people feel safe, valued and excited to come along.
What the role involves:
- Leading and growing a teenage group on Sunday mornings from 10:15am to 12:15pm.
- Supporting young people in their faith journey in creative and relevant ways
- Organising a fun, social outing once a month to build friendships and community
- Organising a yearly fundraiser
- Working alongside the Minister and volunteers to shape an engaging youth programme
What we’re looking for:
- A proven track record of working with young people
- A background in church or Christian youth work. The successful candidate will be a committed Christian with an active church connection (Genuine Occupational Requirement in terms of the Equality Act 2010).
- Someone creative, relational and reliable who has a genuine desire to invest in teenagers and help them flourish
What we offer:
- Pro rata pay according to qualifications and experience.
- A supportive church community
- The chance to make a real and lasting difference