This is a brand new post, created through two-year funding from Macmillan Cancer Support. The Cancer CARE Worker will provide independent advocacy, decision-making support, and peer network development for people living with cancer and their unpaid carers across Fife.

CARE stands for Culture, Agency, Respect, and Equity. These four words describe what every person supported through this project should experience.

This is not a Carer Support Worker role. It sits at a higher level of autonomy and complexity, involving one-to-one clinical liaison, co-facilitation with NHS teams, professional training delivery, and leadership of a lived experience co-design process. It requires someone who can hold professional relationships with oncology teams in the morning and sit with a carer in crisis in the afternoon.

People living with cancer and their unpaid carers do not consistently experience meaningful involvement in treatment decisions. People report leaving appointments confused about what was decided. Clinicians report wanting to do better but lacking time and tools. People from culturally diverse communities, those supporting someone with dementia alongside cancer, and those facing poverty face the highest barriers.

Under the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016, carers have a legal right to be involved in decisions about the person they care for, to have their own needs assessed, and to receive support that allows them to participate fully. In practice, many carers do not experience these rights, and this project exists to close that gap.

This project will not replicate or compete with clinical services. It sits alongside them, filling the gap between what health services can offer and what people living with cancer and those who care for them actually need to feel confident and respected in their care.

A full driving licence and access to a reliable vehicle are essential for this role.

Fife Carers Centre is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We particularly encourage applications from people with lived experience of cancer, caring, or from communities that face barriers to accessing health and care services.

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.

Do you want to help young people build confidence with money and make informed choices for their future? Leavers’ Money Skills is expanding, and we’re looking for an engaging part-time Financial Education Officer to deliver free, impartial financial education workshops in schools across Edinburgh, the Lothians, the Scottish Borders and the wider Central Belt.

This is a rewarding opportunity to work directly with senior phase students, delivering interactive sessions on practical money skills such as budgeting, banking and financial decision-making.

You’ll build relationships with schools and education partners, organise and deliver workshops, gather feedback and help improve our resources as the programme grows. If you enjoy teaching, communicating clearly and making a practical difference to young people’s lives, look at the Job description for further details.

Salary: £32,000 FTE pro rata for 14 hours per week (£12,800)

Hours: Circa 14 hours per week over 2-3 days. School term time.

Term: Fixed term until June 2027 with scope for renewal

Place of work: Home based with regular travel for school visits and workshops. Due to the nature of the role, the successful candidate must be able to travel for school visits and events (travel expenses will be reimbursed as per policy). We are unable to support relocation costs.

Are you a qualified accountant who enjoys partnering with colleagues to turn financial insight into better decisions? Join Shelter as our Project Accountant and play a key role in supporting a high-profile programme that will help deliver our strategic priorities.

About the role

We’re looking for someone who can provide expert financial support to a high-profile programme, ensuring robust budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting throughout its lifecycle. You’ll work closely with programme leads and senior stakeholders to translate operational plans into financial forecasts, provide insightful analysis to support decision-making, and monitor performance, risks and opportunities. The role is responsible for maintaining strong financial controls, ensuring accurate cost allocation, supporting funding applications, and keeping key finance leaders informed of significant financial activities. Through effective business partnering and financial oversight, you’ll help ensure the programme delivers maximum value while remaining financially well managed and compliant.

Role specifics

We’re looking for a qualified accountant (CCAB, CIMA or equivalent) with experience of providing financial support and insight to complex projects and senior stakeholders. You’ll be confident producing budgets, forecasts and financial analysis, assessing financial risks and explaining complex information clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences. Experience of charity finance, including restricted funds, SORP and project accounting, would be an advantage, alongside strong financial control, reporting and forecasting skills. You’ll be highly organised, analytical and proactive, with excellent attention to detail, strong Excel and IT skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities while building effective relationships and influencing decision-making across the organisation.

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

Shelter’s Finance Team sits within the Strategy Enablement Directorate, which also includes HR Operations, Technology and Data, and Governance, Planning and Property. The Finance Team consists of 32 people led by the Assistant Director of Finance.

We are seeking a new Chair to lead our committed Board of Trustees. This is a pivotal leadership role for someone passionate about resolving housing insecurity who wants to make a lasting impact at a national level.

The Chair provides leadership to the Board, works in close partnership with the Chief Executive and ensures the organisation remains accountable to its members and mission. Key responsibilities:

1. Leadership & Strategy: Guide the Board in setting strategic direction, aligned with our purpose, values and resources. Champion long-term vision and monitor progress.
2. Meeting Management: Work with the Chief Executive to set agendas and chair productive, inclusive Board meetings that lead to clear decisions.
3. Governance and Compliance: Promote excellent governance, risk management and financial oversight. Ensure the Board meets all legal duties as company directors and charity trustees.
4. CEO & Staff Support: Provide support and conduct the performance review for the Chief Executive. Facilitate effective communication between the Board and staff.
5. Board Development: Support trustee recruitment, induction and development. Conduct skills audits, nurture a positive culture and encourage full participation.
6. External Representation: Act as an ambassador for the organisation, representing Homeless Network Scotland at key events, with stakeholders, and in the media.

Qualities & Skills We’re Looking For

• Leadership Experience: Influential and impactful leadership in the public, private or voluntary sectors.
• Governance Experience: we value prior experience as a charity Chair, Trustee or Non-Executive Director in Scotland.
• Strategic Thinker: Strong facilitation, communication and decision-making skills.
• Commitment: Deep alignment with our mission to prevent and resolve homelessness. Experience in housing, health or social care is welcome, but not essential.
• Personal Attributes: Collaborative, relationship-builder, resilient and dedicated to good governance.

Practical Details

• Voluntary, unpaid role with reasonable expenses reimbursed.
• Term: three years, with option to stand for re-election.
• Time Commitment: Estimated time commitment is approximately 4-6 hours per month on average.

An exciting opportunity to join a team supporting people affected by substance usage in conjunction with the Edinburgh Access Place

About the project

The Access Place is an integrated service comprising health, housing and social work services under one roof for people experiencing homelessness. The clinical team are supporting people in receipt of medication assisted treatment.

About the role

Working alongside clinicians in the Edinburgh Access Place, you will provide one-to-one person-centred support to people in contact with the GP practice team. You will work with individuals to enable them to identify personal outcomes and priorities for their health and wellbeing and link them to local support services and activities. The role will involve regular travelling around the city to visit clients, attend appointments and conduct assertive outreach. The use of a car may not always be appropriate as parking arrangements vary across the city.

About you

You will have experience of working with people who are experiencing complex social and emotional circumstances, and a strong understanding of the challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness. You will use your excellent interpersonal skills to deliver effective one-to-one work as well as make connections with other organisations to establish referral pathways on behalf of people who use the service

How we will support you

We will encourage you to be creative and innovative in your approach to supporting people.

You will be part of a small team, led by a supportive manager. You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness. We understand that there are many routes into homelessness, and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting people towards more positive and stable futures. That’s why all our work is values-led and relationships-based.

Our values

• Compassion: We believe that everyone should have the chance to change, no matter how long that might take.
• Respect: We believe in tolerance, acceptance, valuing diversity and treating each other as equals.
• Integrity: We are committed to the highest quality of work, grounded in honesty, generosity, sincerity and professionalism.
• Innovation: We are willing to take risks, challenge convention and be creative in our search for new ways of working, in particular by taking account of the environmental impact of our decisions.

Website: cyrenians.scot

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.

Our Turning Point Scotland Services in Turnaround are looking for people like you 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.

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 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.

The Turning Point Scotland Turnaround service delivers focused services that address the complex and interrelated issues of offending behaviour and problematic use of alcohol and other drugs. In 2018, we redesigned our service to also include a Throughcare model.

Since 2007, we have worked alongside councils and social work departments within 22 local authorities including Angus, Argyll & Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Fife, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire.

An asset-based approach has been adopted to help increase an individual’s self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence. Self-development and reflection are key to an individual when putting into practice the skills and learning achieved within the service to help sustain their recovery and offending behaviour.

We value lived experience, please click here to read more about our views.

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

Are you passionate about supporting communities, building resilience and helping people prepare for and recover from flooding? Scottish Flood Forum is looking for two Community Resilience Managers to join our team and play a vital role in strengthening flood resilience across Scotland.

About the Role

As a Community Resilience Manager, you will help develop and deliver Scottish Flood Forum’s community resilience work across Scotland. You will work directly with communities and individuals at risk of flooding, supporting them to understand their flood risk, strengthen local preparedness and recover more effectively when flooding occurs.

This is a highly varied role that will involve partnership working, community engagement, project delivery and regular travel across Scotland. You will need to be comfortable working independently, responding flexibly to community needs and representing Scottish Flood Forum with professionalism and empathy.

About You

We are looking for people who are motivated by practical community action and committed to making a positive difference for those affected by flooding. You will be educated to degree level or equivalent and bring a strong understanding of voluntary sector management, community engagement and partnership working.

• Experience of community engagement and working effectively with community groups
• Experience of working with local government and/or SEPA
• Strong project delivery skills and the ability to manage several priorities at once
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across organisations, communities and individuals
• Flexibility, resilience and the ability to support people in challenging or stressful situations

Why Join Us?

At Scottish Flood Forum, you will be part of work that has a real impact on people’s lives. This is no ordinary 9–5 role: no two days are the same, and you will work with a wide range of communities, partners and individuals across Scotland. If you enjoy variety, meaningful community work and helping people build confidence and resilience, we would like to hear from you.

To learn more about the role, please email our Director at carol@scottishfloodforum.org.

Overview

Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) is the community of 28-member Mountain Rescue Teams. The teams deliver a world class Search and Rescue (SAR) Service and respond to requests from Police Scotland. Our 850 volunteers respond in a moment’s notice, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to provide assistance to people in the outdoors. They give up their time, their beds, abandon their work, and are often called away from their families to assist total strangers. Scottish Mountain Rescue is the representative and coordinating body for mountain rescue teams in Scotland. We support our 25-member teams in a number of areas including raising awareness of the teams through press and social media. This helps the public to know what teams do and supports many aspects of their work from recruitment of new team members to making links to new organisations that can potentially provide vital equipment.

The charity is undergoing a period of change, as it responds to the recommendations of an independent review by the Cranfield Trust. This will change the governance arrangements in the charity, introduce a single point of leadership in the organisation for the first time, and will ensure the charity is fit for the next decades. We also look forward to a new strategy, a refresh of our service offer, and a shift in key relationships as we move to a new governance model. This post is to support the Interim Director to bring energy and resource to the transformation that is required.

Job Role

To support the Board and Interim Director to plan and implement a programme of work to manage a significant strategic and operational shift in the charity, informed by a recent independent review.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the development of a plan of work to support transition, including key milestones, deliverables and reporting arrangements
• Lead on the creation, delivery and monitoring of key strategic and operational projects and priorities, working in collaboration with the Board, wider members and other key stakeholders, overcoming obstacles and barriers to progress
• Lead a new and emerging governance arrangement, supporting the Board to strengthen its governance, improve its role in compliance and oversight of charity activities
• Develop a systematic approach to the management and implementation of the appropriate policies and procedures that comply with the law, and good practice
• Identify and maintain a record of the learning and development requirements for staff and Trustees during the period of change, tracking what is required and what has been provided to support effective transition
• Be the point of contact for contracts with third parties, including providers of HR services, ICT services, and financial support
• Manage the introduction of new governance arrangements including working groups and other committees, evolving a new network of working spaces and networks
• Where required, deputise for the Interim Director in meetings and events, including attendance and contribution to Board meetings

Benefits

• 28 days (FTE) annual leave
• 10 days (FTE) public holidays
• Access to our pension scheme- we offer a 5% pension contribution
• Remote working from home

Purpose of this role: To provide support to Holly Bruce MSP by carrying out research and providing timely and succinct briefings on both Social Justice and Glasgow Southside issues. This role will require a high degree of flexibility and will involve working closely with Holly Bruce MSP, her team, regional colleagues and the wider Scottish Green Group in Parliament. Your role will directly shape the legislation, speeches, and alliances that champion Social Justice. Your insight will empower Holly Bruce MSP to challenge systems, protect rights and build a fairer, more equitable Scotland.

Responsibilities

• Preparing and delivering regular briefings and updates to inform Holly Bruce MSP’s committee work.
• Keeping your knowledge of Social Justice policy areas and local issues up to date.
• Developing relationships and liaising with key external stakeholders e.g. think-tanks, NGOs, charities, unions, and other elected representatives.
• Suggesting parliamentary questions and contributing to speeches.
• Assisting Holly Bruce MSP with legislation e.g. in the form of interpreting amendments, advising on voting intentions, or supporting the development of a Member’s Bill.
• Ensuring all office research complies with data protection legislation and GDPR requirements.
• Checking for any updates to legislation and communicating changes to colleagues.

Requirements

• Be a quick learner with the ability to multitask and work within tight timescales.
• Be able to show initiative and be proactive in your work.
• Be a problem solver with the motivation and resilience to adapt and deal with challenges.
• Have analytical skills with the ability to identify and investigate trends while interpreting data.
• Have the creative flair and expertise to produce accurate and influential work.