An exciting opportunity to join a team supporting people at risk of homelessness in a hospital setting
About the project
The Hospital In-reach service operates across 3 sites in Edinburgh; the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, the Western General Hospital and the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. The project supports people to complete courses of treatment within hospital, plan for a discharge into accommodation that suits their needs and provide follow up support to those with the most complex healthcare needs.
A quote from someone who used the service,
“You literally saved my life, I was sitting in my bed thinking I have nowhere to stay, and when they tell me to leave I will be on the streets in winter and won’t survive the cold or I would have to start using again and that would be it for me. Then you came into the ward to offer your service and it was like being sent an Angel to look out for me”
About the role
Working alongside clinicians in the hospital settings, you will provide one-to-one person-centred support to people in hospitals. You will work with individuals to enable them to identify housing options, personal outcomes and priorities for their health and wellbeing and link them to local support services and activities. The role works across multiple hospital sites, as well as community healthcare and accommodation settings. The role regularly involves lone working, with a need to work flexibly across multiple locations on any given day and can be physically demanding.
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 manage relationships with multiple partner agencies.
You will be resilient and thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, with the ability to respond flexibly.
How we will support you
We will encourage you to be creative and innovative in your approach to supporting people.
You will be supported by friendly and close-knit team, have extensive opportunities for learning, and be a key part of the service development and systems change that makes up the current Health & Social Care landscape.
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.
Website: cyrenians.scot
Finance Officer - Clèir Eilean Ì The Church of Scotland in the Highlands and Hebrides
The Finance Officer will oversee the financial affairs of the Presbytery, ensuring compliance with good practice and statutory requirements, fulfil the role of Presbytery Treasurer and train, advise and support local congregational treasurers and book keepers.
You will be fully or part qualified and have experience and knowledge of accounting in the third sector along with expertise in financial policies and procedures, analysis and report writing. You will be able to work collaboratively using your strong communication skills.
To lead and manage the day-to-day operations of Glasgow Wood as a social enterprise, delivering sustainable wood recycling and reuse services, while working towards long-term financial self-sufficiency. The role is responsible for ensuring a safe, efficient and effective operational performance, and developing income-generating opportunities. This role also involves leading and supporting staff, promoting high standards of environmental, social and health and safety performance, all in collaboration with the Board of Directors, Managing Director and wider team
Key Accountabilities:
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Phoenix Futures has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated practitioner to join our North Lanarkshire Services as Family Service Team Manager on a fixed-term basis until 24 April 2027.
This role offers an opportunity to lead and develop a dedicated family support service, working alongside partners to improve outcomes for children, young people, adults and families affected by substance use. You will play a key role in ensuring that family support interventions are safe, effective, evidence-based and responsive to local need, while supporting staff and volunteers to deliver high-quality services.
The Role
As Family Team Manager, you will lead the delivery of the North Lanarkshire Family Service, ensuring that support is accessible, effective and aligned with contractual requirements, organisational priorities and local strategic objectives.
You will provide day-to-day operational leadership to the Family Service Team, ensuring that services are delivered using trauma-informed, rights-based and recovery-focused approaches. The role includes responsibility for service performance, quality assurance, safeguarding, workforce development, partnership working and service improvement.
You will work closely with the Service Manager, Team Managers, commissioners and external partners to ensure that families receive high-quality support that promotes resilience, recovery and positive outcomes.
The postholder will have management responsibility for:
The position is full-time at 37.5 hours per week and may include occasional evening and weekend working to meet service requirements.
As a specialist addiction recovery charity, we have developed considerable expertise in the provision of residential and housing services to support people at all stages of their recovery journey.
As the Cook & Nutrition Lead, you will play a vital role in supporting residents' health, wellbeing and recovery through the provision of nutritious, balanced meals and a positive dining experience. You will lead all aspects of meal planning, food preparation, stock control and kitchen operations, ensuring high standards of nutrition, food safety and hygiene are maintained at all times.
The role extends beyond catering. As a key member of the residential team, you will support residents to develop practical cooking skills, improve their understanding of healthy eating and build confidence in independent living. Through positive engagement, you will contribute to the therapeutic and recovery-focused environment that underpins our Residential Service.
About You
Are you ready to make a profound impact on people's lives? We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated individual to support the success of our well-established residential rehabilitation service.
Your experience and qualities should include:
For more information, please visit the Phoenix Futures website.
You will be helping children and young people with spina bifida and hydrocephalus feel unstoppable.
We believe every child and young person deserves opportunities to be creative, make connections, build confidence, and reach their potential.
As Creative Activities Worker, you will develop and deliver regular inclusive activities for children and young people. Working closely with families, schools, community organisations, and partner agencies, you will create opportunities that promote creativity, wellbeing, participation, and positive experiences.
You will coordinate a regular programme of activities designed to help children and young people with our conditions explore their creativity and support their wellbeing.
We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, creative, and committed to helping children and young people thrive.
What Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland can offer you
Flexibility – We offer flexible working, including the opportunity to work from home or around caring responsibilities.
Supportive colleagues enabling you to express yourself – Our team values teamwork, learning, and continuous improvement. SBH Scotland staff gave a median score of 8 out of 10 for feeling supported to take risks with new ideas.
We also offer: Workplace pension scheme; salary sacrifice scheme; death in service benefit; childcare voucher scheme; paid Carers Leave; 30 days annual leave entitlement and 4 days Public Holidays; an additional day off for your birthday and wellbeing days.
We strongly encourage applications from disabled people and those with lived experience of disability or caring responsibilities. SBH Scotland is a Disability Confident employer.
For more information please download the job description below.
Community Volunteers Enabling You (COVEY) has operated across Lanarkshire for 32 years supporting 5,000 children, young people and parents/carers to become more resilient, safe and better equipped to reach their full potential. COVEY provides 1-1 and group-based befriending, mentoring and family support.
COVEY has an exciting opportunity available for a Coordinator to manage delivery of 1-1 and group-based befriending/mentoring support to children and young people.
COVEY’s consistent relationship-based support, which is centred on the participant’s needs, interests and hopes, improves health and wellbeing, social connections, confidence and increases their engagement with education, training, volunteering or employment.
As a Coordinator, you will have the ability to work collaboratively with children, young people, their families and others who support them. This will involve engaging with various, community, statutory and voluntary agencies and working in close partnership to support vulnerable families.
You would ideally have experience of supporting volunteers, managing a caseload, evaluation and monitoring. We are looking for someone who has a real passion around supporting those who are most vulnerable in our community.
What we offer
We offer a rewarding role with the opportunity to develop your skills and future career in an
enriching environment with the following benefits:
▪ 6% employer pension contribution
▪ 22 days annual leave (rising to up to 27 days) and 10 public holidays
▪ flexible working
▪ one special leave day to celebrate your birthday
▪ HSF Health plan for employees (and their spouse/partner and children) including dental and optical claim back, physio claim back, personal accident coverage, GP, mental health counselling, legal support, discounts for gym, cinema and shopping
▪ access to ScotWest Credit Union offering loans, mortgages and savings accounts
About Aberlour…
Aberlour is Scotland’s leading children’s charity and has been recognised as a Top 100 best places to work winner by the Sunday Times.
Our strategy is to be bold and brave, to ensure that every child in Scotland has an equal chance. As an organisation we are ambitious to deliver real and lasting change for children, young people and families.
What we are looking for...
You will use your extensive knowledge and experience to provide strategic leadership, assurance and operational oversight for data protection, information governance and records management across Aberlour.
Acting as the organisations Data Protection Officer, you will ensure that statutory and regulatory requirements are met, promote good practice for physical and digital records and provide professional leadership and expertise.
Leading a small team and working closely with the IT and Digital team you will develop necessary systems, lead assurance activity and establish proportionate monitoring and audit arrangements to ensure an organisational approach to data protection by design and default.
You will have a relevant professional qualification in archives and/or records/information management or equivalent experience plus a practitioner/advanced certificate in Data Protection.
Ideally, you will have practical experience of governing records held in Microsoft 365, including SharePoint and OneDrive, and in an enterprise case management system such as Dynamics 365.
Have a look at our values on the Aberlour website to understand more about what we are looking for from our employees.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme, life assurance worth 3x salary and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers. Find out more about our Employee Benefits here and our commitment to Equality and Diversity on our website.
Aberlour is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our service users and uses a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG Scheme checks to ensure this commitment is not compromised.
Horatio’s Garden is a nationwide charity improving the lives of people with spinal injuries by creating and expertly staffing beautiful gardens.
The Patient Experience Manager will play a key role in helping patients and their families use and enjoy the garden. You will represent Horatio’s Garden in Scotland alongside the Head Gardener ensuring the garden runs smoothly as a thriving, welcoming space. Developing and nurturing relationships with numerous stakeholders is key to the success of this role.
You will join a national team representing seven other gardens across the charity’s existing projects. In the Glasgow garden you will have joint leadership with the Head Gardener. This will require you to have excellent communication and people management skills as you work within the framework of the Charity’s ethos and values. You will have joint line management responsibility for the part-time Garden Coordinator, and you will manage a team of volunteers to nurture the beautiful space for people with spinal injuries and their visitors.
As part of leading the team you will develop and maintain relationships with senior staff, clinical and non-clinical NHS staff, corporate sponsors, funders and colleagues in the Fundraising and Communications teams. You will work closely and collaboratively with the other garden teams and the National Patient Experience Manager to ensure our strategic goals are achieved and best practice shared. You will be managed by the Patient Experience Director.
The gardens have been beautifully designed and maintained, and the role of the garden needs to reflect an appropriate environment for patients and their families at all stages of their stay. From the initial welcome, right throughout their time in the unit and after they have left. Your role will ensure all internal spaces within the garden also reflect a beautifully curated, nurtured and comfortable environment, in line with the charity’s look and feel.
You will be responsible for developing and delivering activities, supported by the National Patient Experience Manager to ensure our high standards are kept, and in collaboration with the wider Spinal Injuries team in Glasgow. The activities need to be patient led, varied and suitable for all needs. They will mainly be held at the weekend or in the afternoons as these are critical times in the garden when most patients are available and often have friends and family to visit. The Patient Experience programme should include seasonal celebrations, social and art and craft activities. External facilitators also deliver workshops and live music performances.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a confident, proactive individual who has outstanding communication and relationship building skills and is efficient and well organised. You will need to be adaptable, friendly and confident working with a wide range of people including people with spinal injuries and their families, NHS staff, volunteers and many different teams within the charity.
In this role, you’ll:
• Be based at home but opportunities to work in our Edinburgh and Glasgow offices, covering the East and Central belt of Scotland.
• Be part of a highly effective and efficient team.
• Be responsible for providing support to Safeguarders and monitor their practice against Practice Standards.
• Liaise with key partner agencies and be a point of contact regarding queries, feedback or concerns relating to operational issues.
• Attend partnership and multi-agency meetings ‘Children’s Hearing Improvement Partnerships’ (CHIPS) in your area of work.
• Plan and facilitate support sessions with Safeguarders either as a one to one or in small groups in line with Performance, Support and Monitoring Framework.
• Support the continuation of operational delivery of contributing to agreed tasks such as Safeguarder recruitment, induction and training, development of newsletter and monthly communications to Safeguarders and the ongoing support and development of Safeguarders in line with the team work plan and contract delivery.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
• Experience and knowledge of the Children’s Hearing System and relevant supporting legislation.
• Experience of working with children and families in a trauma informed and sensitive way.
• Experience of support and supervision of staff and or volunteers
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to build meaningful relationships, listening and proving constructive feedback.
• A proactive, collaborative approach and commitment to our values.
What we offer:
• A workplace with values of with love, with purpose and with strength
• 40 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays
• Pension scheme and wellbeing support
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Access to Westfield Health, giving colleagues and their families confidential counselling support, wellbeing resources, and access to health and lifestyle benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing.
• Blue Light card discount
• A Fair Work accredited workplace
Our Values
Living our values, you will help create a workplace where our people can thrive, ensuring we deliver the best possible support to children and families.
With love, we put children first.
With purpose, we transform lives together.
With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.
For more information, please download the job description below.