You will be providing information, emotional and practical support to families with children with a wide range of support needs, empowering them to understand and access the support available to them from external services.

About you:

Are you driven to understand the needs of service users and identify appropriate ways to meet their needs? Do you thrive in connecting families with other parents and carers with lived experience?

This job is for you if you have:

• a strong understanding of the needs of families who have children with a disability or additional support needs
• knowledge of children’s rights, trauma informed and inclusive practices
• excellent relationship building skills
• an understanding of child and adult protection practices

If you would like to work in a supportive and understanding work environment, ensuring that families feel valued and part of an inclusive community, we would love to have you on board.

Organisation Profile

Scottish Alcohol Counselling Consortium (SACC) is a small, member-led organisation of councils on alcohol and local, voluntary alcohol and addiction support agencies. Our member organisations all provide alcohol counselling or one to one support as part of their services.

Our aim is to make a meaningful contribution to communities across Scotland by improving counselling and support for individuals and families affected by alcohol and other addictions.

The post is currently hosted by Murray’s Initiative and the successful candidate will be employed by them. Murray’s Initiative (formally known as Glasgow Council on Alcohol) is an independent Scottish charity that works to reduce alcohol and drug-related harm at both individual and community levels. Established in 1965, Murray’s Initiative adopts a long-term, trauma-informed and asset-based approach to changing the culture around substance use. Its services are built on a person-centred, harm-reduction model, supporting people whether their goal is to reduce consumption or achieve abstinence.

Role :

SACC is looking to attract experienced trainers who hold a COSCA Trainer Accreditation to deliver SACC’s bespoke Counselling People Towards Behaviour Change (CPTBC) course. CPTBC is a 30-hour course accredited by COSCA usually delivered over 8 weeks (negotiable).

The delivery is split between 70% in-person delivery and 30% online delivery. SACC would guarantee at least one course delivery per annum; delivery location is dependent based on geographical demand and can be negotiated.

• Flat fee per course delivery & marking: £2,500
• Zoom use included on SACC Zoom account
• CPD access

SACC adheres to the COSCA ethical framework for good practice in counselling, psychotherapy and counselling skills. We also ensure that all trainers contracted by SACC are members of COSCA and suitably qualified.

Additionally, this post requires membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme for protected adults. Successful applicants will be required to join the PVG Scheme and have personal liability insurance.

Any questions about the post, please contact SACC Manager Michaela Zemachová.

michaela@scotacc.org

Are you passionate about people and motivated by making a real difference? Do you enjoy meeting new people, building confidence, and supporting others to take positive steps towards sustainable employment?

If so, Community Renewal Trust really want to hear from you.

Community Renewal Trust is a values driven, dynamic, and innovative organisation working at the cutting edge of efforts to end persistent poverty in Scotland. We operate across three neighbourhoods and run two social enterprises, creating meaningful impact and rich learning opportunities every day. This is an exciting chance to be part of a team that is committed, forward thinking, and focused on lasting change.

For an informal chat about this role please contact Michael Byrne - Manager - Michael.Byrne@communityrenewal.org.uk to arrange a convenient time.

Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information to people with dementia, their carers and families, we campaign for the rights of people with dementia and fund vital dementia research.

We are committed to improving the lives and opportunities of people living with dementia, their carers, partners, and families as their journey transitions from the first point of contact through to end of life. We believe nobody should face dementia alone.

What you'll do

We are looking for a Community Activities Organiser for the Borders area. You will establish a range of community activities and opportunities across the locality that fill identified gaps and meet the needs of people living with dementia and their families.

What you'll have

Are you a self-starter? Are you confident, innovative and collaborative?

If yes, then this may be the role for you.

The successful applicant will have a positive approach to dementia. You will be flexible, inclusive, creative, and organised in your approach. You will be sensitive and compassionate with the ability to support people in times of difficulty or distress. You will be an excellent communicator who can work effectively both with individuals and with groups. You will have a positive approach to your own continued professional development and a willingness to participate in relevant training. A relevant qualification and previous experience of working with people with dementia would be an advantage.

In return you will be in a role which offers the opportunity to meet great people, have great job satisfaction and be employed by an Organisation that offers a range of employee benefits and career progression opportunities

St Margaret of Scotland Hospice is seeking a Volunteer Coordinator to lead, support and develop our volunteer programme. This is a key role that ensures volunteers are recruited, trained, supported and recognised, and that their skills are matched effectively to the needs of our patients, families and services.

You will work closely with managers, staff and volunteers across the hospice to ensure a positive and meaningful volunteering experience.

About Us

St Margaret of Scotland Hospice has been a cornerstone of our community, offering compassionate care that is holistic and considers the spiritual, physical, psychological, emotional and social needs of our patients. We want every patient to achieve realistic goals and to reach their full potential until death, valuing what they have to offer, respecting the autonomy of the individual and encouraging them to participate in their own care together with their family and friends.

It is our ambition that the Hospice is regarded as a centre of excellence for the provision, research and teaching of specialist palliative and complex clinical care.

About the Role:

Our people, both employed staff and volunteers are fundamental to the Hospice. Their dedication and commitment underpin the success of the Hospice and are essential in enabling us to deliver compassionate, high-quality care to patients and their families.

This role focuses on achieving the required number of volunteers through the development and delivery of effective recruitment campaigns. It involves building, nurturing, and maintaining strong relationships with staff, volunteers, community and corporate partners to ensure their ongoing engagement and retention.

Key Responsibilities:

• To build and maintain a culture of volunteering that makes St Margaret of Scotland Hospice the place of choice for current and future volunteers.
• To ensure creative, safe and effective volunteer recruitment processes.
• To develop and maintain training & development programmes that support volunteers in their role and meet the needs of the organisation.
• To ensure all volunteers are supported and can contribute to service delivery as required.
• To identify opportunities to ensure our volunteer numbers allow us to deliver our corporate aims and objectives.
• To provide content for social media.
• To organise and Chair our Hospice-wide Volunteer Management Group

Experience within the voluntary, charity, healthcare or hospice sector would be an advantage, but is not essential.

About You:

We’re looking for a dynamic team member with a track record in delivering successful plans and achieving outcomes and objectives. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, values driven environment and be passionate about making a tangible difference in people’s lives.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent personal organisation skills with a high attention to detail
• Well organised, able to manage a number of tasks at any one time
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with a diverse range of people
• A flexible and non-judgemental approach to people and work
• A valid driving licence is required with access to a car

At St Margaret of Scotland Hospice, you’ll be part of a dedicated and compassionate team committed to making a meaningful impact. This is a unique opportunity to lead on the development of our volunteer programme.

Alongside joining a great team, you will benefit from:

• Excellent training, development and mentorship
• Employer’s Pension Scheme
• A rage of personal benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme; access to our subsidised restaurant, access to our onsite gym and pool and onsite car parking.

Do you want to use your skills to make it possible for people with myeloma to live longer and better lives? We are looking for a Peer Service Co-ordinator who will facilitate the delivery of our Peer Service and collaborate on the future development and improvements of the service.

You will have experience of recruiting, training, and supervising staff or volunteers. Experience working with a diverse range of communities would be an advantage as we are looking to increase our reach. The role holder will have an understanding of the challenges that may arise from delivering digital/telephone support and the ability to understand and meet training and development needs of volunteers.

You’ll have excellent communication, organisational and IT skills as well as being self-motivated, committed with a desire to make a difference and willing to develop and expand the role. Experience of facilitating peer support services, with a focus on volunteer/user involvement in service delivery would be an advantage but not essential.

About the role

The Peer Service Co-ordinator will facilitate and develop the Peer Service, a tailored support service utilising volunteers to provide peer support both in and out of standard office hours.

The postholder will be expected to train and develop the volunteers who support the Peer Buddy service, make suggestions for improvements and recruit and train new volunteers to increase the diversity of the volunteer pool. You will support in delivering ongoing improvements and further service development to enhance the offerings of the peer service while working with the Peer Service Lead to ensure possible risks have been identified, assessed and effective risk management strategies have been put in place.

You will need to develop and maintain a good understanding of myeloma and its’ related conditions, including patient need, and develop and evaluate the service in line with this.

This role will be part of the team responsible for running this service and provide supervision and training to volunteers. They will be expected to adhere to safeguarding principles and good governance.

About us

Myeloma UK is the only UK charity focused on the incurable blood cancer, myeloma and its related conditions. We provide support and influence access to treatments, while researching a cure. Thanks to life-extending treatments and support, today many people affected by myeloma are able to live longer and to live well.

We are committed to bringing together the best and brightest people to help us ensure that every person affected by myeloma has an empowered present and a hopeful future.

Our ultimate goal is to find a cure and make myeloma history. Until then, our mission is to help every person living with myeloma, live well, for as long as possible. We are committed to diagnosing myeloma earlier, discovering and sharing knowledge, transforming the patient experience and influencing positive change.

Our culture

Wellbeing and staff engagement are at the heart of our culture. We offer employees a range of benefits including a pension salary exchange scheme, flexitime, flexible working which includes both home and hub-based office working, health plan, employee assistance plan and holiday purchase scheme. We are committed to providing learning and development opportunities for all our employees.

This is a hands-on, creative role working directly with young people aged 16–24.

You’ll lead a new Fair Trade Youth Collective in Glasgow, supporting young people to build skills, design campaigns, and take action on issues like Fair Trade, climate justice and global inequality.

The role is all about supporting young people to move from participants to leaders – shaping campaigns, creating content and influencing change in their communities.

Why work with us?

We’re a small, ambitious team working to build a fairer world through trade.

We offer:

• A 4-day working week (32 hours, no reduction in pay). Same benefits applied to part time workers.
• Flexible, trust-based working
• Meaningful, values-driven work
• A supportive and collaborative team

We particularly welcome applications from people currently underrepresented in Fair Trade, climate and global citizenship spaces.

Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity. Today, we operate over 70 services in communities across Scotland, providing mental health social care support, addictions and employment services, among others. Together with national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention, and physical activity and sport, these services inform SAMH’s policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.

SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.

SAMH hosts ‘United to Prevent Suicide’; which is the social movement aspect of the national suicide prevention strategy, Creating Hope Together. We are a mass participation project open to anyone in Scotland who is passionate about preventing suicide, often due to lived experience of crisis and bereavement.

We support our members to take action in their own lives, their communities, and at a national level. In the past year, United to Prevent Suicide has undertaken a strategy to become a more member-led organisation, with new projects launched and more planned.

The post-holder will work alongside the Social Movement Development Manager to grow the movement, strengthen our participatory practice, and deliver key projects.

What we are looking for:

To be successful in this post you will need experience of working with sensitive subjects and with people who have had difficult life experiences, and be confident developing and sustaining excellent working relationships with volunteers and community members.

This role is ideal for anyone who believes in the power of collective movements to tackle entrenched social problems, and who believes that relationships of trust, solidarity and action can be part of a journey of recovery.

The role will require some travel and evening and weekend working as per the needs of the project.

What we will provide for you

You will work in a supportive environment and will be provided with a full induction and training opportunities. You will be given the chance to develop your knowledge and skills, as well as develop professionally. Some of our benefits include;

• Reimbursement of PVG & Disclosure costs.
• Funded continuous learning and development opportunities, access to over 100 courses online in addition to classroom and virtual training sessions
• 30 days annual leave rising to 33 after 5 years’ service (pro rata)
• 4 public holidays (pro rata)
• 2 paid wellbeing days off per year to use on what matters to you (pro rata)
• Team wellbeing budgets
• Workplace pension scheme
• Life Assurance policy
• Employee Assistance Programme

Health in Mind offers a range of counselling services. We are seeking a compassionate and qualified Counsellor who is fluent in British Sign Language (BSL) to join our team in a self-employed capacity. You will provide face-to-face and online one-to-one counselling individuals facing a range of emotional and psychological challenges in our Lothian Deaf Counselling service.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver confidential counselling sessions tailored to client needs
• Maintain accurate and timely client records
• Work collaboratively and have good communication with the Counselling Team Leader and Administrator
• Uphold ethical and professional standards in line with BACP guidelines

Requirements:

• Recognised counselling qualification (Diploma or Masters Level)
• Registration with COSCA, NCPS, BACP, UKCP, HCPC or other relevant professional body
• Experience working with diverse client groups, including people who have experiences of trauma
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Changes have secured funding from the National Lottery Fairer Lives Community Fund to continue delivering ‘Well Connected’ a befriending programme supporting positive mental health and wellbeing to those most isolated in our community. The befriending coordinator will be responsible for all aspects of the project (alongside their job share), from assessment and delivery to evaluation. The postholder will train and manage volunteers, work with other staff at the charity and host an East Lothian Befriending Network to share best practice.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, skilled and highly motivated candidate who is confident working with a high degree of autonomy in continuing this project and ensuring it’s success. This is a part time job share role. 16 hours to be worked Monday (afternoon/evening) and Wednesday daytime (ideally).

Changes Equalities statement:

“Changes strive to ensure fair and inclusive services which celebrate and value the diversity of the community of East Lothian. Changes welcome opportunities to improve equality, diversity and inclusion within the organisation and we will continue to review our progress and champion equalities.”

About Changes

Changes believes in positive mental health and wellbeing for everyone. As a charity in East Lothian, Changes is here to help the community achieve and maintain positive mental health and wellbeing by providing a wide range of services and activities including 1-1 therapy, support groups and courses, healthy living activities, training, and volunteering opportunities.

Services are free and open to everyone over the age of 18 living, or registered with a GP, in East Lothian. Changes provides support for a wide range of challenges including stress, panic, low mood, low self-esteem, anxiety, worry, depression, and negative thinking. Activities are friendly, welcoming, and inclusive and offer opportunities to meet new people, get active and get involved in the local community.

Our Vision:

Our vision is that everyone in East Lothian enjoys positive mental health and wellbeing.

Our Mission:

Changes have grown from within the community to enable people to achieve and maintain good mental health and wellbeing through:

• Support groups and courses
• Therapy from experienced therapists
• Physical wellbeing activities
• Training our community to support others

Our Values:

Compassion – We treat our work, our community, our partners and each other with warmth, respect and compassion.

Welcoming – We offer a warm, friendly and supportive welcome to everyone. We know it’s not always easy to ask for help but we’re here to support you.

Community – We are an inclusive community which celebrates and values the diversity of East Lothian and everyone living there.