About Us

Borders Carers Centre is dedicated to improving outcomes for unpaid carers across the Scottish Borders. We provide a range of services to help carers achieve positive personal outcomes and maintain their wellbeing.

We offer advice, information and support, which includes assessing carer needs and producing carers support plans, benefits support, grants & funding, short breaks and peer support groups. We also offer a counselling service, hospital services and a programme of events and activities.

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated Operations Manager to lead our Carer Liaison Team and ensure the Centre operates efficiently and effectively. You’ll play a key role in supporting staff, overseeing service delivery, and contributing to the strategic development of the organisation.

This is a new role within the organisation and is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of carers while shaping the future of a respected local charity.

Key Responsibilities

• Line manage, support, and develop the Carer Liaison Team through supervision, mentoring, and reflective practice.
• Ensure high-quality support for carers that promotes independence and wellbeing.
• Oversee operational communications, events, and deputise for the Chief Officer when required.
• Contribute to organisational planning, monitoring, and reporting.
• Promote collaborative working across the team and with external partners.

About You

You’ll be a confident leader with strong interpersonal skills and a passion for supporting carers. You should have:

• Proven experience in team management and service delivery.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• A proactive, solution-focused approach.
• A full driving licence and access to a reliable vehicle (travel across the Borders required).

It does not matter whether your route into support work has been through housing, social care, homelessness, youth work, community services or lived experience-informed practice. If you care about young people having a safe, supportive place to call home, and you know how to lead with compassion, clarity and respect, this could be the next move for you.

Supported Accommodation South Ayrshire helps reduce repeat homelessness by providing high-quality housing support in Ayr for young people aged 16 to 25. As Senior Support Worker, you will support the Service Manager with the day-to-day leadership of the programme and help make sure young people receive safe, person-centred and strengths-based support.

Right There has spent 200 years standing alongside people in Scotland. Last year, we supported almost 4,000 people to stay in their homes and stay connected to the people they love. We provide tailored support for people living with the effects of homelessness, poverty, addiction or family breakdown, meeting people where they are with no judgement and walking alongside them at the right time.

What you’ll do

• Lead and support a team. You will build positive relationships with Support Workers, provide regular supervision and appraisals, support rota planning and help create a team culture where colleagues feel supported to do their best work.
• Keep young people at the centre. You will make sure support plans, risk assessments, reviews and Keeping You Safe Plans are meaningful, up to date and focused on each person’s strengths, safety and aspirations.
• Support a safe, high-quality service. You will help maintain a safe environment, support high standards of accommodation, audit files, follow incident processes and report required Care Inspectorate notifications.
• Work in a trauma-informed way. You will promote person-centred planning, unconditional positive regard, psychologically informed practice and harm reduction approaches.
• Build strong relationships locally. You will represent Right There with local authority colleagues, social work, housing services and community partners, supporting links that help young people move forward.
• Support improvement and participation. You will contribute to team meetings, reflective practice, service development, complaints resolution and opportunities for the people we support to shape the service.

What you’ll bring

You may already be supervising or leading a team in housing, social care or support services, or you may be ready to take the next step into a broader leadership role. We are interested in the experience you bring, the way you work with people and your commitment to learning.

• You hold SVQ Level 3 in Social Services and Health Care, or an equivalent SCQF qualification, or are willing to work towards this.
• You hold, or are willing to undertake, a relevant management or supervision qualification, such as PDA Health and Social Care Supervision.
• You have experience of supervising, leading or supporting colleagues, or can show clear leadership skills.
• You have experience of working with people whose needs are relevant to this service area.
• You understand person-centred support, professional boundaries, safeguarding, confidentiality and the importance of respectful relationships.
• You can organise your time, prioritise well, meet deadlines and support staff resources around people’s needs.
• You can communicate clearly and respectfully, including through written records, reports and day-to-day conversations.
• You are confident using Microsoft Office and can work with information to support service quality and improvement.

You do not need to have followed one fixed route into this role. Experience in third sector services, housing, social care, youth work, community support, crisis work, partnership working or team coordination could all be relevant. If this role excites you but you do not meet every point, we still encourage you to apply.

Our offer

• Full-time, permanent
• Salary up to £36,002 per annum
• Core place of work: 42 Chalmers Road, Ayr, KA7 2JQ.
• Working hours are Monday to Friday between 9.00am and 10.00pm in shifts defined by your line manager, depending on service needs. Flexibility is required to work evenings and weekends when needed.
• Annual leave of 234 hours, equivalent to 6 weeks, pro rata in the first year, rising to 312 hours, equivalent to 8 weeks, pro rata in the second year. This includes public holidays.
• People’s Pension, subject to eligibility.
• Access to flexible working around programme needs, wellbeing support, learning and development, funded qualifications where appropriate, Health Shield, Cycle to Work, Blue Light Card and other employee benefits.

About Us

We are a charity that recently celebrated 200 years of standing alongside people in Scotland. Last year we supported almost 4,000 people to stay in their homes and stay connected to the people they love.

CashBack Connections supports young people from across North and South Lanarkshire aged 10-16, who are at risk of involvement in antisocial behaviour and/ or offending. We will be providing 5 groups based in different locations across North and South Lanarkshire and where required will offer additional 1-1 support for the young people.

The Groups aim to encourage and empower young people to identify positive pathways of their choosing by providing activities that focus on both social and practical life skills, including:

• Creative workshops: arts, crafts, music, and drama that allow participants to express themselves creatively and build confidence.
• Life skills workshops: age-appropriate activities that foster self-sufficiency and resilience.
• Physical activities: to promote wellbeing and improve physical health.
• Community outings: activities chosen to enhance social skills and provide experiences that may otherwise be inaccessible.

The Group Facilitators will help co-design the calendar of activities in collaboration with the young people to ensure their ideas and voices are the focus and drive for each session. You will be a positive role model supporting the children and young people to actively engage with the activity, feel safe and respected and build meaningful peer relationships. As a result we are aspiring to reduce the risk of antisocial behaviour/offending and help the young people to realise their full potential.

You will have a supportive team of volunteers that will look to you for support and guidance. You will work collaboratively with the Project Coordinators to ensure all activities are risk assessed and children and young people at risk are supported in line with our Child Protection and Safeguarding polices, creating individualised, robust support plans.

We are looking for people who are enthusiastic, empathetic and inspiring to join our team and lived experience is desired.

Community Volunteers Enabling You | Registered Charity No: SCO20754

Breakdown of Hours

− 2 hours for group delivery to around 10 young people.

− 1 hour to assist with pick up and drop offs for the young people to remove barriers for attending the group.

− 2 hours dedicated to recording notes and session reports, planning and preparing for the weekly groups and any other task that the Project Coordinator may need assistance with.

If a candidate is interested in running 2 groups at a 10 hour contract, please highlight this in the application.

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 A/L (rising to up to 27 days) and 10 public holidays (pro-rata).
• One special leave day to celebrate your birthday
• Flexible working
• Reimbursement of travel expenses.
• HSF Health plan (including dental, optical, physio claim back, personal accident coverage, GP, mental health counselling, legal support, and discounts for gym, cinema, and shopping)
• Quarterly staff wellbeing activities
• Access to ScotWest Credit Union (loans, mortgages, and savings accounts)
• Access to learning and development opportunities

Glasgow Women’s Aid provides information, support and temporary accommodation for women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse. We have refuge accommodation, follow on services and outreach services both for women and children across Glasgow.

The purpose of this role is to provide therapeutic support to women experiencing domestic abuse, during their stay in refuge and as they move out into the community. This will involve providing innovative and creative 1-1 and group work support. You will provide person centred support to women as they move through their journey and will advocate to make sure that women’s voices are heard and their needs are met.

It is essential that you have experience of providing support to women who have experienced gender-based violence. A suitable qualification that meets with SSSC Housing Support registration is also required (examples would be HNC Social Services or SVQ Level 3 Social Services and Healthcare). The nature of our work requires a commitment to the feminist analysis of domestic abuse and to the values of Glasgow Women’s Aid. Due to the nature of the role it is essential that you have a driving license and access to a car.

Do you love and want to serve the local church? Do you want to know that you’re making a difference? We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to use their gifts, skills and experience to ensure a safe, and welcoming environment for all our activities.

Background to the Post

Maryhill Ruchill Parish is a busy church serving a large parish in the North West of Glasgow. We have a small but really well used and well maintained building and we work in partnership to deliver activities to support the people of this most wonderful and challenging part of Glasgow. The last few years has seen considerable change for us, as we have emerged from the pandemic and took on a union. What we need for the next chapter in our story is stability, and this post will be vital to us achieving that.

Purpose of the Post

The Church Officer will work as part of a staff team to ensure the smooth running of activities on site, to provide a warm welcome and safe environment for all. Working primarily to,

• Prepare for all activities in the building
• Open up and manage key holders
• Monitor the condition of the building
• Keep the premises clean and tidy.

The post holder will be responsible to the Parish Minister, Maryhill Ruchill Parish Church (Line Manager).

We are looking for Trustees to join our Board

Our Association oversees and promotes a diverse range of activities within the Southside Community Centre. Situated in central Edinburgh, the Centre serves the diverse local community. Its activities also attract individuals from across the city and South-East Scotland. Supported by major grant-funding from a broad range of organisations, including sizable financial support from the National Lottery, the Association is currently extending the use of the Centre’s facilities to more community activities. A major opportunity has emerged to develop the Centre as part of the recently issued Community Centre Strategy issued by the City of Edinburgh Council. We now wish to take advantage of this Council initiative to support a greater range of ways with which to enhance the well-being of the community.

The Association is led by a Board of Trustees. We are seeking to recruit a small number of motivated individuals to help govern our growing charity. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from those with specialist knowledge, skills and experience in:

• Community learning, development and stakeholder engagement
• Business or legal background
• Governance and leadership
• Strategic planning
• Finance

This is an exciting time to join our charity as we have celebrated various successes over the past two years including: recruiting our first Chief Executive, extending our community centre opening hours to include weekends, expanding the range of services we deliver, and significantly increasing the amount of external grant funding we receive. We look forward to continuing to achieve further success as we continue to develop our services, including re-launching our new in-house community café and developing a long-term strategic plan.

We are keen that our Board reflects our diverse local community and we therefore welcome individuals from all minority and disadvantaged groups.

This is therefore a challenging and rewarding time to join our charity as we look towards the future. Over coming months, we need to: agree a new lease arrangements with our landlord, City of Edinburgh Council, explore and decide upon the long-term future of how our building is managed, while continuing to sustain and grow the range of services we currently provide.

Are you excited by the thought of working for an organisation whose mission is to inspire changes in behaviour to improve our environment, the quality of people’s lives, their wellbeing, and the places that they care for? If you answered yes, please read on……

Who we are

Keep Scotland Beautiful is your charity inspiring action for our environment.

Our vision is for a clean, green, sustainable Scotland. We are a practical organisation working with communities, schools, businesses, local and national government, public bodies and individuals to help combat climate change, tackle litter and waste, restore nature and biodiversity and improve the places we care for.

We support the ambitions of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

We offer a fantastic benefits package in return for your talent. These include but are not limited to a generous pension scheme; hybrid working; development opportunities; a 35-hour work week (28 hours for 0.8FTE), along with an annual free volunteer day to take your skills or interests to support others. We operate a hybrid working policy, which allows a balance between home/remote working and coming to our office Hub in Stirling.

What the role is

This is a Part-Time (28 hrs/wk), Fixed Term post to 31 March 2027.

Reporting to the Campaigns and Social Innovations Manager (CSIM), the Campaign Support Officer will support the development, administration, communications and delivery of a range of campaigns and projects across the Campaigns and Social Innovation Team with a focus on Upstream Battle and actions as part of the work across the Marine Litter Strategy and National Litter and Flytipping Strategy.

What you’ll need to have

We are looking for outgoing, enthusiastic and creative individuals with:

• Understanding/experience of campaign development and delivery
• Understanding/experience of administration processes and procedures
• Experience of data and evidence gathering
• Experience of community engagement
• Understanding/experience of a range of communication activities including social media techniques and applications
• Experience of supporting a team across a complex workload

Travel across Scotland and a valid, full UK driving licence is required for this role.

Does this sound like you?

If you feel you have the elements to be our Campaigns Support Officer, we would love to hear from you.

Are you excited by the thought of working for an organisation whose mission is to inspire changes in behaviour to improve our environment, the quality of people’s lives, their wellbeing, and the places that they care for? If you answered yes, please read on……

Who we are

Keep Scotland Beautiful is your charity inspiring action for our environment.

Our vision is for a clean, green, sustainable Scotland. We are a practical organisation working with communities, schools, businesses, local and national government, public bodies and individuals to help combat climate change, tackle litter and waste, restore nature and biodiversity and improve the places we care for.

We support the ambitions of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

We offer a fantastic benefits package in return for your talent. These include but are not limited to a generous pension scheme; hybrid working; development opportunities; a 35-hour work week (28 hours for 0.8FTE), along with an annual free volunteer day to take your skills or interests to support others. We operate a hybrid working policy, which allows a balance between home/remote working and coming to our office Hub in Stirling.

What the role is

This is a Part-Time (28 hrs/wk), Fixed Term post to 31 March 2027.

Reporting to the Senior Officer, Campaigns and Interventions (SOCI), the Campaigns and Interventions Officer (CIO) will lead and facilitate the development and delivery of our work on marine and riverine litter, including our activities for the Marine Litter Strategy, our Upstream Battle Campaign, and associated activities.

This will include the delivery of projects, interventions and activities, managing relationships with national and local stakeholders, and undertaking monitoring and evaluation.

What you’ll need to have

We are looking for outgoing, enthusiastic and creative individuals with:

• Understanding of environmental issues and policy relating to litter, plastics pollution, circular economy and/or climate change
• Experience in environmental campaigns, education, and awareness raising
• Ability to create, maintain and enhance working partnerships
• Experience of community engagement
• Experience of coordinating and supporting campaign supporters and volunteers
• Experience of working on a range of communications platforms and channels to support campaign delivery
• Undertaking evaluation, developing case studies and writing reports

Travel across Scotland and a valid, full UK driving licence is required for this role.

Does this sound like you?

If you feel you have the elements to be our Campaigns and Interventions Officer, we would love to hear from you.

Prospects Across Scotland prospectsacrossscotland.org.uk is a small Christian charity (SC048143) established in 2018, with a big heart for supporting full inclusion of adults with learning disabilities and autism in all aspects of church life. We are looking for someone to help build our fundraising so we can continue to spread this important work throughout Scotland.

You will have a track record of success in applying for general and restricted grant funds, and will be able to supply referees. It would be important to have an understanding of our ethos and the focus of the charity specifically on inclusion in church life and for spiritual needs as this impacts the type of trusts you could apply to for funding. You will find our website useful to get an understanding of what we do.

The job involves working from home and reporting regularly to trustees, and may suit someone retired or working part time. Familiarity with Charity Suite and Xero would be helpful.

We currently have one part-time employee.

Please contact Linda Sharp (Chair) lindasharp01@aol.com for more details.

Would you like to join a vibrant, exciting team working alongside families and volunteers in North Lanarkshire?

Families Here and Now Service (FHANS) is an exciting project created in 2024 as part of the Scottish Government’s Whole Family Wellbeing Fund. This project is funded by North Lanarkshire Council providing holistic support for the whole family in local communities/hub areas.

You will play a key role in developing this service, working alongside families and community partners. The service is a collaboration between four charities: Barnardo’s, Home-Start Glasgow North and North Lanarkshire, Action for Children and Impact Arts, and you will work closely with colleagues from these organisations.

This outreach support role covers the North Lanarkshire area, based in or around community hubs/schools/nurseries and family homes. The aim of the service is to enable families (pregnant and/or with children up to age 18 years/26 years for care experienced children) to access supports at the earliest possible time, ensuring a ‘whole family’ and ‘no wrong door’ approach.

The service operates 7 days a week between the hours of 8 am – 8 pm, 365 days per year and is staffed on a rota basis.

The postholder will be required to work at least one evening per week and at least one weekend in four.

A valid UK driving licence and access to a car are essential for the role. The role is initially funded until 31 March 2028.

Do you have what we are looking for?

• Creative personality and passionate about working with children and families
• Experience of supporting pregnant families and families with children of all ages (up to age 18)
• Good IT skills (Microsoft)
• Team player, but ability to self-motivate and inspire others