Help People Secure the Support They Are Entitled To

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

We're looking for an experienced and passionate Tribunal Representative to join our Financial Inclusion Team and help individuals challenge decisions, secure their rights and access vital financial support.

Every day you'll support people facing financial hardship by representing them through the appeals process and helping them achieve positive outcomes at Social Security and Disability Benefit Tribunals.

About the Role

You will provide specialist welfare rights advice, advocacy and representation to clients challenging benefit decisions.

The role will include:

• Preparing Mandatory Reconsideration requests

• Preparing appeal submissions and supporting evidence

• Representing clients at Social Security and Disability Benefit Tribunals

• Providing specialist welfare rights advice and casework

• Maximising household income through benefit entitlement and financial support

• Supporting clients to access grants and additional sources of assistance

• Managing a varied caseload and maintaining accurate records

• Working collaboratively with colleagues and partner organisations

What We're Looking For

We are looking for someone with:

• Experience providing welfare rights advice

• Experience preparing Mandatory Reconsiderations and appeals

• Experience representing clients at tribunal hearings

• Strong knowledge of Social Security Scotland and DWP benefits

• Experience supporting income maximisation

• Excellent communication, advocacy and report-writing skills

• Strong organisational and case management abilities

• A commitment to delivering excellent client-centred services

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

ACCORD Hospice provides specialist palliative and end-of-life care to people living with life-limiting illnesses across Renfrewshire and parts of East Renfrewshire. Supporting patients and families both within the hospice and in the community, ACCORD is dedicated to ensuring people receive compassionate, high-quality care when they need it most. The hospice relies heavily on the generosity of supporters, volunteers, businesses, and the wider community to continue delivering its vital services free of charge.

ACCORD Hospice is now seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Fundraiser to join its Fundraising and Communications team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving income growth, developing meaningful supporter relationships, and increasing awareness of the hospice across the local community.

The successful candidate will support the delivery of fundraising activity across community, corporate, events, and general fundraising streams, helping to maximise income from both existing and new supporters. The role will involve developing and managing relationships with local businesses, organisations, community groups, and volunteers, while identifying innovative opportunities to grow fundraising income and supporter engagement.

A key aspect of the role will include managing the hospice’s portfolio of fundraising events and campaigns, securing long-term corporate partnerships, including Charity of the Year relationships, and supporting stewardship activity to ensure supporters receive an excellent experience. You will also play an important role in promoting the work of ACCORD Hospice through presentations, networking opportunities, community engagement activity, and digital communications.

Working closely with the Strategic Lead Income Generation and Partnerships, you will help lead and support a collaborative fundraising culture across the organisation. The role also includes line management responsibility for the Fundraising Administrator and Community Fundraiser, ensuring effective supporter stewardship, income processing, and event support are delivered to a high standard.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience across a broad range of fundraising disciplines, including Corporate Fundraising, Legacies, Events, and General Fundraising, alongside a proven track record of delivering income growth within the voluntary sector. You will be an excellent communicator with strong organisational and relationship management skills, capable of managing multiple priorities while inspiring supporters, colleagues, and volunteers alike.

This is a rewarding opportunity for an ambitious and proactive fundraising professional who is passionate about building community relationships and making a meaningful difference to the lives of patients and families supported by ACCORD Hospice.

ACCORD Hospice provides specialist palliative and end-of-life care to people living with life-limiting illnesses across Renfrewshire and parts of East Renfrewshire. Supporting patients and families both within the hospice and in the community, ACCORD is dedicated to ensuring people receive compassionate, high-quality care when they need it most. The hospice relies heavily on the generosity of supporters, volunteers, businesses, and the wider community to continue delivering its vital services free of charge.

ACCORD Hospice is now seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Fundraiser to join its Fundraising and Communications team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving income growth, developing meaningful supporter relationships, and increasing awareness of the hospice across the local community.

The successful candidate will support the delivery of fundraising activity across community, corporate, events, and general fundraising streams, helping to maximise income from both existing and new supporters. The role will involve developing and managing relationships with local businesses, organisations, community groups, and volunteers, while identifying innovative opportunities to grow fundraising income and supporter engagement.

A key aspect of the role will include managing the hospice’s portfolio of fundraising events and campaigns, securing long-term corporate partnerships, including Charity of the Year relationships, and supporting stewardship activity to ensure supporters receive an excellent experience. You will also play an important role in promoting the work of ACCORD Hospice through presentations, networking opportunities, community engagement activity, and digital communications.

Working closely with the Fundraising & Communications Manager, you will help lead and support a collaborative fundraising culture across the organisation. The role also includes line management responsibility for the Fundraising Administrator and Community Fundraiser, ensuring effective supporter stewardship, income processing, and event support are delivered to a high standard.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience across a broad range of fundraising disciplines, including Corporate Fundraising, Legacies, Events, and General Fundraising, alongside a proven track record of delivering income growth within the voluntary sector. You will be an excellent communicator with strong organisational and relationship management skills, capable of managing multiple priorities while inspiring supporters, colleagues, and volunteers alike.

This is a rewarding opportunity for an ambitious and proactive fundraising professional who is passionate about building community relationships and making a meaningful difference to the lives of patients and families supported by ACCORD Hospice.

Sistema Scotland’s vision is to improve lives and strengthen communities. Working with children, young people and their families, we focus on early intervention and stimulating generational social change. By playing music together in ensembles and orchestras, we aim to grow confidence, respect, teamwork and aspiration in the children, young people and communities we work with.

We deliver our work through six Big Noise programmes in Govanhill in Glasgow, Raploch & Fallin in Stirling, Torry in Aberdeen, Douglas in Dundee and Wester Hailes in Edinburgh.

This is an exciting opportunity for a full-time Administrator to join the team in Big Noise Govanhill, Glasgow.

Working alongside an Operations Administrator, you will support the Senior Team and Operations Manager at Big Noise Govanhill by providing excellent administrative support, procedures and processes to ensure the continued success and growth of the programme. You will also have face to face engagement with adults and children at after-school club, ensuring a smooth-running signing in and out procedure.

You will be an experienced administrator, with excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage a high-pressure workload. You will lead on general communications with parents, so you must also be an effective communicator with both adults and children.

This is a permanent full-time post working 5 days (35 hours) per week, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm (with one-hour unpaid lunch break).

We believe our people should represent the communities we work with. That’s why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We recognise and celebrate the fact that our people come from diverse backgrounds. We positively welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities or longstanding health conditions, people who are LGBTQ+, and people from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as well as people of all ages.

We also welcome applications from all nationalities; however, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for these roles, so before you apply for this post, please ensure that you have the right to work in the UK. For more details on eligibility to work in the UK, please visit gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

For further details please visit our website makeabignoise.org.uk/work-with-us where you can view the full job/person specification and complete our online application form (no CVs please). For any additional information please e-mail recruitment@sistemascotland.org.uk or telephone 01786 236914.

The vacancy

We are looking for a Vision Information Line Advisor to act as the first point of contact for individuals seeking information and support relating to visual impairment. In this role, you will provide clear, accessible and empathetic guidance to a wide range of callers, including people with visual impairments, their families, carers, employers and healthcare professionals. You will play a key part in helping callers understand the options available to them, offering appropriate advice, referrals or signposting to relevant services. Using your judgement, you will recognise when to involve a specialist or manager to ensure every interaction is safe, accurate and consistent. With a strong understanding of our services and processes, alongside awareness of external resources, you will deliver reliable information and create a positive, supportive experience for every caller.

You don’t need to meet every single requirement to be a great candidate. Most people learn parts of the job once they’re in post, so if a role interests you and you believe you could grow into it, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to fair, accessible recruitment. If you need any adjustments, like extra time, a different format, or other support, at any stage of the process, just let us know. Please contact People and Culture via peopleandculture@sightscotland.org.uk who can arrange for any support you need.

About us

For more than 230 years we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved, but we want to do more. We will build on our rich history to create an organisation which is prepared for the future, and ready to respond to the needs of people impacted by vision loss.

Our vision is bold. We want to be at the leading edge of positive societal change by:

• Investing our funds in the support that makes the biggest difference

• Putting our community at the heart of what we do

• Campaigning for change

• Accelerating prevention and treatment of eye conditions

• Fostering a collaborative culture of innovation and learning

We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.

Our organisational values - Transform, Unite and Thrive - underpin all the work we do at Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans.

We are hiring! - Work with Us

Do you have a passion for helping vulnerable people enjoy as much fulfilment as they can and feel included in their community? If compassion, care and inclusiveness are an important part of who you are, our opportunities to work away from the routine in a demanding, challenging but emotionally rewarding role could be for you.

About Us – North Lanarkshire Alcohol and Other Drugs Outreach Service

The North Lanarkshire Alcohol and Other Drugs Crisis Outreach Service, provides support to individuals who are over the age of 16. The service model is based on The Overdose response Teams, (please see our website for indigo house report).

The service has 3 main parts of delivery these are:

• Overdose response (the team respond to individuals who have had or are at risk of overdose within 24-48 hours of notification).
• Assertive outreach (we “meet people where they are at” ensuring they have access to the support and services they require).
• Crisis response (a partnership with housing colleagues to work with anyone at risk of or experiencing homelessness).

The support we provide is always person centred, we do this by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and our own staff members.

We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team! We would offer you full support in completing your application.

As a Lead Practitioner, you will work with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.

We welcome applications from all candidates who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the pay points of the role and based on experience.

Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.

Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date

We value lived experience, pleaseclick hereto read more about our views.

Use your skills in a career that cares!

At Turning Point Scotland, we have opportunities for Lead Practitioners to support individuals experiencing homelessness, at risk of homelessness and or need support to protect their home.

Standard working hours are 9am - 5pm Monday - Thursday, and 9am - 4.30pm Friday.

About the role

Our Lead Practitioner role will include:

Working with individuals who have a range of complex needs which often sit with homelessness, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives.

Supporting to liaise with local authority/ housing associations staff to help them to secure their own permanent tenancy.

Supporting with life skills to enable them to maintain their tenancy, celebrating achievements and milestones, both big and small.

Supporting them within the community and engaging with external professionals & empowering them to develop skills and independence, promoting their overall growth.

About You

You will have a genuine commitment to use your skills to support people to live their best lives.

You will be supported by a friendly, approachable management team, allowing you to expand on your existing knowledge whilst developing new skills. A level of previous working experience in social care is an advantage, but not necessary as full training will be provided to you.

We believe that both lived and professional experience you may have is further enhanced by having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity in order to join our team!

We value lived experience, please click here to read more about our views.

About Us – Fife Support Service

We believe that a home is a human right and that an individual is best placed to deal with the issues that made them homeless in the first place, in a place they can call home.

Fife Support Service delivers Housing First support, where we work across localities in Kirkcaldy and West Fife to enable people to maintain independent tenancy sustainment, reconnect with their local communities and assist them to build their resilience to prevent repeat homelessness.

We welcome applications from all candidates who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the salary scale points and based on experience.

Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.

Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.

Edinburgh University Students' Association is looking to recruit an Officer (Peer Support) to join our Student Opportunities team.

Edinburgh University Students’ Association is an award-winning organisation, which exists to provide diverse services, representation, and welfare support to the community of over 49,500 students at the University of Edinburgh. By providing opportunities, helping to create change and offering support, we're here to help students get the most out of their time in Edinburgh. We have five venues around the University of Edinburgh campus – Teviot, King’s Buildings House, Potterrow, the Pleasance and Edinburgh College of Art’s Wee Red Bar – which house our offices, cafés, bars, clubs, spaces for students to meet, study and socialise. These spaces transform into some of the most well loved Edinburgh Festival Fringe venues throughout the month of August each year.

We are a registered charity and all of the income we generate from our commercial activity goes back in to supporting our members. We’re also an organisation with a strategic commitment to support and empower all our staff, and have some exciting plans for the future. Plus, over 90% of our staff would recommend the Students' Association as a place to work. There's never been a better time to apply and join our organisation.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. Edinburgh University Students’ Association is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination.

The Student Opportunities team focuses on supporting and developing a wide range of student led activity, and additional opportunities to ensure students have the opportunity to meet each other and have fun; to build community amongst our members; and to support their personal and professional development.

Salary: £29,280 - £30,190 (Band C)

In line with our Pay Policy, the successful candidate will typically be offered the lowest salary band point, dependent on experience.

Plus a generous benefits package:

• 35 days per year holiday entitlement
• Company pension with 14.5% employer contribution
• Enhanced company sick pay, leave and loan policies
• Hybrid working - up to 40% working from home per week
• A comprehensive package of support via our Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to money saving discounts from hundreds of retailers via our Pluxee Discounts Hub
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounts on food and drink across our venues

Hours:37.5 hours per week

Contract: Salaried - Permanent

The Role:

The Officer (Peer Support) will empower students to take a holistic and autonomous approach to community building and facilitate the development and expansion of peer-led activity across the Association and the wider University environment.

This will include:

Supporting school-based peer support programmes of activity in line with the Association’s methodologies and approaches

Leading the annual distribution of grants to students (Student Opportunities Development Fund)

Developing evidence-based guides to support student-led community building and wellbeing activities

Collaborating with departmental colleagues to empower students to lead community building activity (Blether Together)

Working collaboratively with student sabbatical officers, staff, and the wider student body to develop robust, evidence-based plans for future community building events that celebrate the diversity of the student population

Supporting a review of the Association’s contribution to peer mentoring programmes across the university and associated change management plans

This role will also work as part of a team on delivering support for a wider range of student groups and will contribute to our overall objective of providing all students access to diverse, inclusive and innovative activities and developments, in order to enhance their student experience.

You will collaborate with colleagues within Student Opportunities and a variety of other teams across the Association, including planning for Welcome Week, Careers Fairs, National Volunteering Week, Give it A Go, Student Awards etc.

The Person:

You will be a confident and experienced project worker with excellent communication and interpersonal, organisational and IT skills. You will have a proven track record of supporting peer support opportunities for young adults. As the front line of support for our members, you will be a natural people-person with a flair for on-the-spot problem-solving, an ability to stay calm under pressure, and a natural warmth.

You will maintain high expectations of yourself and others, with a passion for supporting students to make connections and grow through wider personal development, who takes pride in your work and that of your team. Customer satisfaction and service excellence will be central to your work with a consistently professional approach to your duties and keen attention to detail.

You will be motivated by working in a complex multi-disciplinary environment, engaging effectively and proactively with all departments across the Association to provide the very best for our members.