Help Shape the Future of an Inclusive Community

Trustee opportunities for people with experience in social care, legal services or human resources

Are you ready to use your skills and experience to help shape the future of a community where everyone is valued, included and supported to live a meaningful life? Camphill Blair Drummond is looking for new Trustees with social care, legal, or human resources expertise to join our Board.

About Us

For over fifty years, Camphill Blair Drummond has been a vibrant community where people live, work, learn and grow together. At the heart of our community are the adults with learning disabilities we support, alongside employees, volunteers, families and friends. Together, we create a place rooted in dignity, purpose and belonging, where every person is valued for who they are and supported to live a meaningful life.

As we look ahead to our next chapter, we are seeking new Trustees who can help guide our organisation, strengthen our governance and support our vision for the future.

Find out more about our community at camphillblairdrummond.org.uk.

Who We Are Looking For

Our Trustees play a vital role in providing strategic oversight, guidance and governance to ensure that Camphill Blair Drummond continues to provide high-quality, person-centred care.

You do not need previous Trustee experience to join us. We are looking for people who can bring their professional expertise, sound judgement and commitment to our values.

If you have experience in one or more of the following areas, we would really like to hear from you:

• Social Care: you have recent experience in regulated adult social care environments

• Legal: you have a background in law, charity law, or governance

• Human Resources and People Management: you have recent experience in a rapidly changing sector

What You Will Do

• Contribute to strategic decision-making, supporting our long-term vision

• Share your professional expertise to strengthen our charity’s governance and operations

• Champion our values of inclusion, respect, and community

• Attend three Board of Trustee meetings per year and an annual development day (in person or virtually) and occasional events

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a lasting impact on the lives of people with disabilities and their families

• A welcoming, collaborative Board of Trustee environment

• Opportunities for personal and professional development

• Reimbursement of reasonable expenses

At Cairn Housing Association, we’re passionate about creating great homes, delivering great services and offering great opportunities for our people.

We are currently recruiting for a Housing Officer (Income) to join our team as part of our ongoing commitment to landlord health and safety compliance for our tenants and residents in over 5000 homes across Scotland.

Reporting to the Income Manager, you will provide an excellent Income Management Service to our tenants and customers. You will also help to deliver a housing management service including debt recovery & enforcement action to maximise income and sustain tenancies. In addition, you will advise & support customers with issues surrounding benefit & welfare entitlement.

Key Responsibilities – What You’ll Do:

• The role is responsible for the delivery of housing management services to meet our agreed KPI’s, SLA’s and legislative requirements.
• Lead & deliver all actions relating to rent arrears/allocation in line with our policies and procedures to deliver an effective housing management service and preserving our income.
• Assist and coordinate strategic projects which support organisational success and future proofing through the delivery of Strategic Action Plans.
• Organise, attend and chair if necessary multi-agency meetings to liaise with other partners and professionals for the effective partnership management of complex, high community risk or sensitive cases as required.
• Deliver an excellent day to day service to provide exceptional & consistent customer service within relevant policy & procedures by communicating effectively with a wide range of individuals with varying needs.
• Perform effective data management to enable accurate reporting and monitoring.
• Manage, develop, motivate and carry out Risk Assessments for direct reports to provide an excellent service suited to current and future organisational needs.
• Build and maintain relationships through partnership working internally and externally to deliver a one team approach.Lead on and enforce legal action in order to comply with our policies and procedures.
• Support colleagues and manage multiple direct reports and contribute towards training new staff to assist with developing the team
• Resolve customer issues and queries and apply creative thinking to identify personalised solutions to the satisfaction of customers.
• Respond to customer contacts, including investigating and responding to 1st stage complaints and assisting with responses to 2nd stage complaints to provide a high level of customer service.
• Contribute to, influence and implement the development of policy and procedures to ensure legislation is followed.
• Monitor budget spend in line with Line Management delegated authority to ensure plans do not exceed allowed expenditure.
• Pursue former tenant debt and recovery of re-chargeable repairs

Requirements – What We’re Looking For:

• Educated to HND level or other relevant professional qualification.
• Significant Line management/supervisory experience and substantial experience within a housing role 3-4 years.
• Significant experience in a similar role delivering a customer focused service.
• Knowledge of the social housing sector as well as a detailed understanding of housing legislation and best practice guidance and a detailed understanding of Welfare Benefits and their interaction within the Social Housing sector.
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Office 365 applications
• Detailed understanding of the scope and content of current legislation and regulations applicable to compliance activities with substantial knowledge of compliance policies.
• It is desirable that you have significant experience of dealing with vulnerable individuals.
• You must a willingness to travel to different sites, training and any other meetings as required
• Disclosure Scotland and Right to Work checks, a valid Driving licence and a car available for business use are mandatory for this role

Employee Benefits: Why Join Cairn?

We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can thrive. Here’s what you can expect:

• Flexible and hybrid working options.
• Health and wellbeing support.
• Tech and cycle-to-work schemes.
• Compassionate leave and more.

We value diversity and warmly welcome applications from all communities. Cairn is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.

The Promise Scotland is responsible for driving the work of change demanded by the conclusions of the Independent Care Review.

We work with all kinds of organisations to support shifts in policy, practice, and culture so Scotland can #KeepThePromise it made to care experienced infants, children, young people, adults, and their families - that every child grows up loved, safe and respected, able to realise their full potential.

Our sole reason for being is to facilitate and support change, wherever that change needs to happen to make sure that Scotland will #KeepThePromise.

More information can be found in the below resources:

Independent Care Review Reports

What Must Change

Plan 24-30

Find out more at thepromise.scot

The role sits within the Governance and Operations function, which ensures that The Promise Scotland is a well-run, effective and efficient organisation by:

• Leading the financial management of the company
• Working as an effective business partner with colleagues across the organisation to ensure finance and central services functions are embedded and working efficiently.
• Leading organisational planning to secure the sustainable running of the organisation for the duration of The Promise Scotland’s lifetime (to 2030)
• Supporting the Board of Directors including full Directors’ meetings and committee meetings
• Providing leadership and support on all areas of legal compliance, including company law, data protection, health and safety and Freedom of Information
• Ensuring The Promise Scotland’s staff recruitment, development policies and procedures reflect best-practice and are appropriately implemented
• Supporting the day-to-day business needs of the team

JOB PURPOSE

This role is a key part of a small team delivering excellent corporate services and finance processes to ensure the smooth running of the support infrastructure of The Promise Scotland.

The role is responsible for finance payments and processes as well as payroll and pensions.

The postholder is responsible for maintaining the online HR platform and coordinating recruitment and induction, as well as assisting senior management with other aspects of HR.

The postholder liaises with the IT provider and is the first point of contact for all team IT queries. The postholder also provides cross-team administrative support as required.

MAIN ACTIVITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Finance

• Holding primary responsibility for the finance payment system, to ensure all providers are paid in good time with appropriate communication about process and expectations
• Accurately recording and processing all income and expenditure including invoices and expenses.
• Responsible for preparing monthly payroll information including calculating pension salary sacrifice payments ensuring employees are paid accurately each month
• Responsible for uploading of pension data to on-line portal, managing records and ensuring GDPR compliance
• Providing support to the Finance & Central Services Manager during budget preparation and end of year audit
• Using Xero accounts software and generating reports as required.
• Using and adapting Approval Max workflow for payment approvals within agreed limits.
• Advising on process improvements to all aspects of the finance system.

Recruitment / HR

• Coordinating staff recruitment including preparing job packs, arranging advertising, processing applications, preparing shortlisting packs arranging interviews and feedback to candidates.
• Acting as Induction Co-ordinator, including organising induction programmes for new staff.
• Ensuring the staff handbook is up-to-date, relevant and used by the team.
• Maintain HR tracking system and staff records such as annual leave, sick leave and other leave.
• Processing leavers, ensuring organisational security practices are adhered to

Office Management

• Maintaining the office in excellent condition, including being first point of contact for Families Outside who are the main lease-holder.
• Organising team meetings, with virtual or meeting room set up as required.
• Managing all ongoing storage and archiving of all Independent Care Review and The Promise Scotland materials, including distribution as required.
• Managing procurement and delivery of all office supplies and services.
• Liaising with the IT support company to ensure that the team have all the hardware they need and are well supported to understand systems.
• Acting as primary point of contact for employee IT issues, liaising with IT support company to resolve hardware and system issues and recommending upgrades and new purchases as required.
• Supporting the smooth running of the IT system on MS Office and Teams ensuring all required channels for effective working.
• Managing the documents on the shared working areas to support team collaboration.
• Working with Finance & Central Services Manager to ensure on-line Cyber security training is delivered to all staff and supporting IT security compliance throughout the organisation

Administrative Support

• Monitoring of department email inboxes to ensure all messages are replied to and shared with relevant members of the team
• •upporting Freedom of Information responses
• Supporting the wider team with document management, finalising of Word, Excel and PDF documents as required as well as updating of websites (training will be provided)
• Supporting the wider team with projects as required, e.g. Plan 24-30, Story of Progress, Oversight Board

This job description is not meant to be exhaustive. It describes the main duties and responsibilities of the post. The Promise Scotland is a small, agile organisation and the job description may change in light of developing organisational needs.

Essential Criteria

The post holder must have:

• Strong finance skills, familiarity with payment systems and confident managing payment processes independently.
• Strong IT skills, able to work with new systems and support team members to use systems effectively.
• Strong word processing skills to support the production of high-quality documents.
• The ability to manage administrative processes
• Good relationship management skills to work with colleagues and suppliers to ensure effective and collaborative working.
• A flexible approach, able to operate in a new and shifting environment.
• Able to use own initiative, work independently and manage work proactively.

The nature of the job demands a strong ethical approach.

WORKING CONDITIONS

The Promise Scotland is based in Gayfield Square in Central Edinburgh. The Promise Scotland strives for a positive and supportive team culture and environment.

Are you passionate about working with people in a person-centered way? Do you want to work in a small team making a big difference in people’s lives? Do you want to work somewhere which ensures that the voice of those with lived experience and staff working in front line roles is central to decision making?

If so, then our Assistant Key worker role may be made for you.

About Crighton Place

Located in Leith, Crighton Place provides supported accommodation and mental health support for up to four people as they make the transition from hospital care back into the community. Our Community model is based on Cyrenians core values, prioritising trusted relationships and putting the person at the heart of the decisions which matter most to them.

About the role

The Assistant Keyworker will work alongside Keyworkers to provide support to individuals living in the community and create a healthy and safe household for the community. The main responsibilities for the role include:

• Supporting our residents with household chores including cooking and cleaning

• Administer medication to residents (training will be provided)

· Ensure all community members are involved in planning and development of the service

About You

As a committed, compassionate and reliable member of the team, you’ll be able to develop trusted relationships with those we support and with your colleagues and be an encouraging presence but able to work at the pace of the individual.

You will be joining a small team of staff committed to the highest quality of care and support and always striving to do develop further. This means there will be great opportunities for you to both learn and develop, while sharing your skills and experiences.

The shift pattern for this position will involve working evenings and weekends on a regular basis. Shifts are 9am to 3pm or 3pm to 9pm.

How we’ll support you

You’ll be joining an experienced and knowledgeable team who will give you full training in all aspects of your role. 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.

Are you passionate about improving the lives of children and young people? Do you have the drive and passion to make a difference?

Fife Women’s Aid are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic Children and Young People’s counsellors to join our Counselling service. The counsellor will provide direct counselling to children and young people who have experience of domestic abuse. This will mainly be delivered face-to-face, with occasional remote working to suit the needs of individual children and young people as required.

Experience / Qualifications

You will have 2 years’ experience in a counselling setting of working with children and young people who have experienced trauma. You will hold a Diploma in Counselling or above and be registered with COSCA, BACP, BAAT or equivalent. You will have excellent communication skills and enhanced knowledge of therapeutic interventions. You will be highly organised team player with skills and ability to work effectively with a range of multi-agency partners.

Please join us for an online session to find out more about FWA counselling services. This will be at 6.30pm on Monday 24th August. Please confirm your attendance to info@fifewomensaid.org.uk and we will send you details of the zoom meeting. We hope to see you there.

If you would like further information about

Committed to Ending Abuse (CEA) provides specialist support to individuals and families affected by domestic abuse through our integrated three-stage Trauma Recovery Model, supporting people on their journey towards safety, recovery and greater independence.

As part of our ongoing service development, we are seeking to recruit an experienced and compassionate Crisis Support Worker to join our dedicated Crisis Intervention Team.

The Crisis Support Worker will provide responsive, time-limited crisis intervention and support to individuals who are experiencing, or have experienced, domestic abuse across the Falkirk area.

Working within a trauma-informed, person-centered and strengths-based approach, the successful candidate will undertake structured risk assessment and safety planning, provide emotional and practical support, advocacy and case management, and work closely with statutory and third-sector partner agencies to reduce risk and support positive outcomes.

The role requires an understanding of the dynamics and impact of domestic abuse, including coercive and controlling behaviour, the barriers survivors may face when seeking support, and the importance of recognising and building upon survivors' existing strengths and protective strategies.

CEA supports women, children, young people and, where appropriate, men affected by domestic abuse. We welcome applications from candidates who have experience of supporting people from diverse backgrounds and circumstances.

We are looking for someone who can work confidently and sensitively with individuals experiencing crisis and complex circumstances, while promoting safety, informed choice, dignity, independence and recovery.

Applicants should have relevant experience within domestic abuse, gender-based violence, social care, community support or a related field. Experience of structured domestic abuse risk assessment, safety planning, multi-agency working and trauma-informed practice would be advantageous.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake appropriate Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme checks.

This role may involve outreach and community-based work across the Falkirk area. Applicants must therefore be able to travel as required to fulfil the duties of the post.

At Money Matters, we believe everyone deserves financial security, a warm home and access to high-quality advice when they need it most.

We're looking for an experienced and motivated Energy & Financial Wellbeing Adviser to join our team and provide holistic support across energy advice, welfare rights and money advice.

Every day you'll help people access vital income, reduce household costs, improve financial wellbeing and build more secure futures.

About the Role

You will provide practical advice and support to individuals and families experiencing financial hardship, helping them to:

• Reduce household energy costs

• Access grants, discounts and energy assistance schemes

• Maximise income through welfare benefits and financial support

• Improve budgeting and financial capability

• Address debt and financial difficulties

• Access the support they are entitled to

You will manage your own caseload, maintain accurate records and work collaboratively with partner organisations to achieve positive outcomes for clients.

We are looking for someone with:

• Experience providing welfare rights, money advice, debt advice or related advice services

• Good knowledge of Universal Credit and other social security benefits

• Experience supporting clients with income maximisation and benefit applications

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Excellent organisational and case management skills

• A person-centred and compassionate approach

• Good IT and digital skills

Experience providing energy advice would be advantageous but is not essential.

A PVG Disclosure is essential for this position.

Help People Regain Financial Control

At Money Matters, we believe everyone deserves financial security, dignity and access to high-quality advice when they need it most.

We're looking for an experienced and motivated Debt Adviser to join our team and provide practical, person-centred support to individuals and families experiencing financial hardship.

Every day you'll help people manage debt, maximise income, improve financial wellbeing and build a more secure future.

About the Role

As a Debt Adviser, you will provide specialist debt advice and support to clients facing a range of financial challenges.

Your role will include:

• Providing debt advice and casework

• Supporting clients to access appropriate debt solutions

• Negotiating with creditors and debt collection agencies

• Maximising household income through welfare benefits and other financial support

• Supporting budgeting and financial capability

• Undertaking benefit entitlement checks

• Managing a varied caseload and maintaining accurate records

• Working collaboratively with colleagues and partner organisations

Operated by Enable Glasgow, Fortune Works is one of Scotland’s largest social enterprises and provides meaningful opportunities for people with a learning disability within Glasgow and surrounding areas. The service combines accessible social and enterprising activities with individualised support for people to make a positive contribution to their community.

We are currently looking for a full time support worker to join our team.

The Support Worker duties will include helping to create, facilitate and maintain positive person-centred activities which support people with a learning disability to play a worthwhile economic role as a valued member of the local community.

The successful candidate will provide a high quality of care and support for service users with a range of learning disabilities and will encourage participation in group activities to support people to gain skills and confidence. The applicant should also have experience of programme planning and review systems. Most importantly they should have a positive and empowering approach to supporting people with learning disabilities.

Benefits

Employee benefits include:

• 33 days leave (including public holidays) rising to 38 days after five years’ service.
• An enhanced pension scheme.
• Free life cover.
• Free access to counselling and wellbeing services.
• Support for training and professional development.
• Consistent working pattern of Monday - Friday, 9am-4pm.

Successful Candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme.

Enable Glasgow strives to apply equal opportunities and diversities principles in all aspects its work.

Fortune Works is part of Enable Glasgow a Charity registered in Scotland No.SC021077. Enable Glasgow is a company Limited by Guarantee No. 250688

Do you want to use data and insight to help tackle Scotland's empty homes? Join Shelter Scotland as a Data and Policy Officerand play an important role in turning data into evidence that influences policy and supports local authorities to bring more empty homes back into use.

About the role

This a role within the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) team which brings together data and policy. Working closely with the Policy and Comms Manager, internal and external stakeholders, you will disseminate key empty homes policy and stats to help the team achieve their strategic aims.

Role specifics

You'll play a key role in ensuring the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership's work is informed by high-quality data and evidence. You'll manage and analyse empty homes data, produce reports and briefings, identify trends, and support the development of evidence-based policy. Working closely with colleagues, local authorities and partner organisations, you'll help deliver surveys, maintain accurate data, ensure compliance, and provide insight that influences action to bring more empty homes back into use.

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

Part of an award-winning Communication & Policy Department, our Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) is a Scottish Government funded project aimed at enabling private sector empty homes to be brought back into use across Scotland. The Partnership achieves this via a mix of policy work, capacity building, training, best practice sharing and awareness raising with councils, community groups and others. It’s also home to the national Empty Homes Advice Service - a public facing advice line that anyone can call for help or to report an empty home.