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.

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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.

Overview of Citizens Advice Edinburgh

The Citizens Advice Service was first established in Edinburgh in 1939. Over the years it has grown to deliver services from 4 main Bureaux (Dundas Street, Leith, Muirhouse and Portobello) and over 20 project/outreach

locations across the capital. In 2007 the separate Bureaux merged to form Citizens Advice Edinburgh (CAE, Charity Number SC038195).

Through a team of core and project staff and over 120 highly trained and committed volunteers, CAE provides a free, confidential, independent and impartial service to the citizens of Edinburgh on a wide range of issues including:

• Debt and money
• Welfare Rights
• Consumer issues
• Immigration
• Employment and workforce problems
• Housing
• Relationship and family issues
• Discrimination
• Health services
• Legal rights & responsibilities

Background:

The Patient Rights (Scotland) Act was passed in February 2011. The Act created the Patient Advice and Support Service (PASS) to promote awareness of patient rights and responsibilities, to assist people to deal with issues affecting their health and wellbeing and to provide advice and support to those wishing to give feedback or comments, or to raise concerns or complaints about NHS care received.

Purpose of the Post:

Patient Advisers will work with the Citizens Advice bureau/x in their local health board area and will also contribute to services provided throughout Scotland via a national PASS telephone advice line and by email and webchat via a national PASS website. The Patient Adviser will provide direct advice and information to clients; support bureaux volunteers to deliver information and advice relevant to the service; produce performance and monitoring reports; assist with the marketing and promotion of the service; and liaise with external organisations in order to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of PASS.

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 Recruitment & People Coordinator who plays a pivotal role in the delivery of an excellent HR support and advisory service to support the HR function in delivering and coordinating the service to our employees, in alignment with Cairn’s vision, values and business requirements.

Key Responsibilities – What You’ll Do:

• Provide effective coordination on a wide range of generalist HR activities, to support the HR function.
• Deliver excellent customer service as the first point of contact in HR and offer first line advice to employees and external customers on all relevant policies and procedures to ensure a consistent and compliant service.
• Create the content for updates to inform the wider business on HR matters and changes, then deliver through channels such as the intranet and other necessary means, to ensure effective communication.
• Responsible for data management on all HR/OD systems with excellent attention to detail to enable accurate reporting and monitoring, and in line with legislation.
• Produce and analyse reports to support Recruitment initiatives and to promote a diverse workforce.
• Manage annual leave processes across the Association, including holiday carryover and public holidays to ensure accurate leave entitlements, together with, calculating, reporting and storing data where necessary.
• Identify, support and implement the continuous development of HR process improvements to improve the HR Service and employee experience.

Payroll

• Work in partnership with Finance team to provide the necessary information and changes within the organisation, to ensure that monthly payroll is delivered on time and accurately.
• Provide accurate information on time including dates for employees who have been absent from work, on maternity leave or any other pay impacting processes.

Requirements – What We’re Looking For:

• You will have at least 2 years’ experience in an HR environment, preferably within a similar role, experience within an admin-based role and experience working with HR related systems.
• You will also have significant experience in working with Microsoft Office and be able to demonstrate experience of communicating with colleagues at all levels of an organisation.
• Disclosure Scotland and Right to Work checks, willingness to travel occasionally with full UK driving licence and access to car suitable 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.

Are you experienced in building community power or supporting communities to get active through walking or cycling schemes?

Are you experienced in building community power and running projects which support communities facing barriers to build their efficacy?

Are you passionate about raising the voices of communities that are most affected by climate but which are least often heard? If so we’d love to hear from you!

We are particularly keen to hear from people who experience marginalisation and minoritisation or who are often excluded from decision-making processes. For example, people of colour; people from working-class backgrounds; people from LGBTQ and migrant communities; care-experienced young people and people with disabilities.

About us

Parents for Future Scotland became a charity two years ago as a result of grassroots parent organising and is now a small self-employed staff team with a growing network of activists. We seek to make climate action the norm among all parents in Scotland. We are in the midst of a big step change, increasing our influence and reach across the country, and we need you to help us in doing so. This post will be the first of its kind within the organisation.

About the role

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly-motivated Community Project Manager to lead the delivery of our Active Travel and Clean Air Project across 10 Edinburgh schools. This role combines project management, community engagement and partnership development. You will work directly with parents, schools, as well as local council and community partners to increase active and sustainable travel, establish and strengthen walking and bike buses , deliver air-pollution awareness activities, and build long-term community leadership. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting schools to develop tailored action plans, empowering parents to lead change within their communities and ensuring active travel schemes become sustainable beyond the life of the project.

Key responsibilities

• Work with the Learning For Sustainability lead within Edinburgh City Council to onboard schools where necessary.
• Set clear expectations with schools on what they will need to deliver in order to take part in our clean air project.
• Establish excellent relationships with key staff in schools and maintain regular contact in order to support the delivery and promotion of the project.
• Identify and up-skill community “leads” within each school community, giving them the skills/confidence to organise and lead their own self-sustaining active travel initiatives.
• Support the running of active travel schemes on the ground in the mornings term-time (Mon - Friday) until they become self-sustaining.
• Develop bespoke active travel action plans for each participating school and an overall work plan/strategy which demonstrates how the project will meet wider organisational goals.
• Encourage peer-to-peer learning and knowledge sharing amongst school groups.
• Build a pool of volunteers who can deliver air pollution workshops in schools through (1) training volunteers in workshop facilitation skills and the content of our air pollution workshops (2) setting up workshops with participating schools
• Post on our socials regularly and be an active member on our WhatsApp community
• Monitor project outcomes and ensure delivery against targets.
• Maintain accurate records, collect monitoring data and contribute to project reporting.
• Work closely with partner organisations, local authorities and schools to maximise project impact.
• Promote a strong understanding of Parents For Future Scotland amongst parent communities, within your local authority and with partner organisations, and support parents to become organisation members.
• Share learning and best practice through local and national networks.
• Contribute to wider discussions on active travel, climate action and public health.

Skills and experience

• You must be able to competently ride a bike.
• You must be a qualified Cycle Ride Leader and First Aid trained or be willing to complete the training at your own expense within the first 3 months of starting.
• The candidate will be our ambassador on the ground. It is vital that they feel inspired by our vision, mission and aims, and that they have a proven ability to motivate and inspire others.
• Experience of delivering and managing community projects.
• Proven ability to tailor messaging to different audiences.
• Proven experience of creating strong relationships with partner organisations, communities facing additional barriers and local councils.
• Proven experience of building the skills, confidence and capacities of communities.
• Experience of devising and facilitating workshops, meetings and community discussions.
• Experience of conducting monitoring and evaluation and report writing.
• An understanding of active travel, public health, environmental issues or behaviour change.
• An understanding of social justice perspectives and the systems that cause climate breakdown

Desirable

• Previous experience of working on sustainability and/or active travel-related community projects or initiatives.

What we offer

• 3 days per week on a self-employed basis at £200 per day for 28 weeks (term-time) from August - 31st March (£16,800 in total)
• Flexible work environment with flexible hours (although this role will require that you are able to be present for the school commute up to five mornings per week (Mon- Fri term-time). For this reason we will only consider applicants who live in or nearby Edinburgh.
• Working from home (with team check-ins regularly).
• We are a fledgling organisation so your skills/expertise will help shape our direction.

Could you help shape the future of an award-winning Scottish charity?

Simba is recruiting a new Chair of Trustees to provide strategic leadership and governance as we continue supporting thousands of bereaved families across Scotland every year.

We're looking for an experienced trustee and values-led leader who brings compassion, strategic thinking, and a commitment to supporting families affected by baby loss.

This is a unique opportunity within a respected national charity and help ensure every baby is honoured and remembered.