Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique support to people with severe and enduring mental ill health. With over 50 years’ experience across Scotland, we believe people affected by poor mental health and illness deserve the highest quality of support in the community and that every person has the right to be valued and to share in the opportunities, challenges, and joys of everyday life.
The Senior Support Workers in the Thrive Welcome Teams undertake short-term focused work with a wide range of people. They help people to identify what is important to them and the steps they can take to manage their mental health and wellbeing. The workers connect people into community services, treatment options and self-management resources as appropriate.
They work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and Peer Workers within the locality and develop positive working relationships with other Health and Social Care colleagues, the wider third sector and community organisations in the city. They contribute to the overall development of the Thrive vision, ensuring that the service is accessible and visible and meets the needs of the local community.
Key Responsibilities:
Essential Criteria:
General Duties
This job profile and list of duties is not exhaustive and serves only to highlight the main requirements. The line manager may stipulate other reasonable requirements and projects commensurate with the general profile and grade of the post.
All successful candidates will require a PVG Membership. Please be aware that it is classed as an offence if you apply for this role and are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children or vulnerable adults.
Benefits:
The work at the Centre is greatly supported by a team of dedicated volunteers. A key aspect to this role will be to recruit, induct, manage and support volunteers to work across all aspects of The Women's Centre Glasgow
We are seeking a compassionate, enthusiastic worker to improve the lives of women and families across Glasgow.
About The Women’s Centre
The Women’s Centre Glasgow provides a safe, confidential and welcoming space to women living in the city and surrounding area. We provide a range of activities and services including; a drop-in café, counselling, health and wellbeing services, mother and baby classes, creative and educational activities. We welcome women of all identities and believe in the power of working together to bring about positive change.
What we offer
The opportunity to work in a vibrant community-based centre as part of a small, welcoming and dynamic team.
The Women’s Centre Glasgow has a long history of making a difference to the lives of women, we are seeking to build on our existing programme by responding creatively to the needs of women who currently use the centre and to develop work which will attract new community members and volunteers to the Centre. This work will positively impact and empower women.
The role offers an exciting opportunity to take responsibility for developing our current volunteer programme which supports the work of the centre.
You will be entitled to 20 days Annual Leave, Public Holidays, and extra days during Christmas shutdown.
The Women’s Centre Glasgow provides a range of services to address the physical and mental health wellbeing of women. The successful candidate will build on the existing health and wellbeing work and develop a range of new activities.
We are seeking a compassionate, enthusiastic worker to improve the lives of women and families across Glasgow.
About The Women’s Centre
The Women’s Centre Glasgow provides a safe, confidential and welcoming space to women living in the city and surrounding area. We provide a range of activities and services including; a drop-in café, counselling, health and wellbeing services, mother and baby classes, creative and educational activities. We welcome women of all identities and believe in the power of working together to bring about positive change.
What we offer
The opportunity to work in a vibrant community-based centre as part of a small, welcoming and dynamic team.
The Women’s Centre Glasgow has a long history of making a difference to the lives of women, we are seeking to build on our existing programme by responding creatively to the needs of women who currently use the centre and to develop work which will attract new community members and volunteers to the Centre. This work will positively impact and empower women.
The role offers an exciting opportunity to take responsibility for developing our wellbeing programme, and expanding on our current events and activities.
You will be entitled to 20 days Annual Leave, Public Holidays, and extra days during Christmas shutdown.
About Us
Inverness, Badenoch and Strathspey CAB is an independent charity providing advice, information and support to people across our community. We are a friendly team of over 80 employees and volunteers working over 3 locations (Inverness, Raigmore and Aviemore) delivering a busy advice service to members of the public. We strive to deliver a good quality service that meets the needs of our clients in a non-judgemental and confidential manner.
The Role
This role is responsible for supporting the smooth running of our reception area and ensuring that clients who contact the bureau receive excellent customer service which meets their individual needs.
We are interested to hear from good team players who have experience of working in a similar environment and are confident in dealing with clients who may be vulnerable or have multiple needs. The successful candidate will have a strong customer focus and treat everyone in a non-judgemental, respectful and confidential manner. The job holder will be supported through an initial training programme and encouraged to continually develop during their time with us.
Community Renewal Trust is a values-led, dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland. With 45 staff in three neighbourhoods and running two social enterprises there is always lots of impact and interesting learning.
Our work always places people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.
Community Renewal Trust works by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups).
A set of core values guides all the work of Community Renewal:
• TRUSTING – Our impact is built on choosing to place trust in people.
• TRUSTWORTHY – Our trustworthiness is what makes our relationships grow.
• LEARNING – Our charity is about learning so we celebrate success but also appreciate failure
• BUILDING ON STRENGTHS – Our aim is always to build on strengths: we reject paternalism
• ALONGSIDE COMMUNITIES – Our aim is always to stay alongside people for as long as it takes.
• ACHIEVING PREVENTION – Our choice is to be proactive so we can achieve prevention, build resilience and find the right people at the right time.
• INSPIRING TRANSFORMATION – Our focus is always inspiring towards transformation, rather than incremental change.
This is an ideal role for a local community member who is looking to get involved in fantastic community events and learn about how to lead their own events or local activities while also gaining workplace experience.
The idea is to collaborate with our existing team around events in Bingham, Magdalene and the Hays that will take place in Autumn and Winter 2024-25 including seasonal events (e.g. Christmas), drop-in sessions, fun activities for families and others.
We need someone who can make a positive difference themselves and is enthused by community activities and supporting their neighbours. We also need someone who is prepared to learn about and follow some of the health and safety or similar regulations we need to follow around events. But this is also a chance to find how you can identify and use your strengths, ideas and learn skills.
This is an ideal role for a local community member who is looking to get involved in fantastic community events and learn about how to lead their own events or local activities while also gaining workplace experience.
The idea is to collaborate with our existing team around events in Bingham, Magdalene and the Hays that will take place in Autumn and Winter 2024-25 including seasonal events (e.g. Christmas), drop-in sessions, fun activities for families and others.
We need someone who can make a positive difference themselves and is enthused by community activities and supporting their neighbours. We also need someone who is prepared to learn about and follow some of the health and safety or similar regulations we need to follow around events. But this is also a chance to find how you can identify and use your strengths, ideas and learn skills.
Community Renewal Trust is a values-led, dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland. With 45 staff in three neighbourhoods and running two social enterprises there is always lots of impact and interesting learning.
Community Renewal works among deprived communities to develop, deliver and share better approaches to proactively find the right people in the right places where transformative and empowering work can make the most difference. These approaches always place people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.
Community Renewal alleviates poverty by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups). This work is about testing change which can inform policy, be scaled up or replicated to achieve a much greater impact than our direct delivery alone.
A set of core values guides all the work of Community Renewal:
• TRUSTING – Our impact is built on choosing to place trust in people.
• TRUSTWORTHY – Our trustworthiness is what makes our relationships grow.
• LEARNING – Our charity is about learning so we celebrate success but also appreciate failure
• BUILDING ON STRENGTHS – Our aim is always to build on strengths: we reject paternalism
• ALONGSIDE COMMUNITIES – Our aim is always to stay alongside people for as long as it takes.
• ACHIEVING PREVENTION – Our choice is to be proactive so we can achieve prevention, build resilience and find the right people at the right time.
• INSPIRING TRANSFORMATION – Our focus is always inspiring towards transformation, rather than incremental change.
This role is part of the Community Renewal Lifting Neighbourhoods Together team. This team brings together community workers and transformative caseworkers with specialist knowledge of different ways to support people in deprived neighbourhoods – for example welfare rights, employability, community food and health/mental health.
A five year grant from National Lottery Community Fund is core to enabling this team to operate in a different methodology which is deeply aligned with Community Renewal Trust’s core approach and values as described above.
This role is a fixed term activity to:
- Recruit a cohort of additional volunteers to support activities and services in the community.
- Ensure the best possible support is available to existing volunteers in the area to consider their needs and aspirations.
- Create an effective volunteer recruitment, on-boarding and retention process and increase knowledge in the team of these topics.
- Provide training and support training to volunteers in leading listening conversations and holistic conversations.
- Learn from work in Walker to make good use of volunteers in a Lifting Neighbourhoods Together approach and share this with the team.
Community Renewal is a dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland.
In keeping with our atmosphere of trusting and valuing our staff we offer generous benefits, policies and a flexible approach to working.
Community Renewal works among deprived communities to develop, deliver and share better approaches to unlocking flourishing lives and flourishing neighbourhoods. These approaches always place people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.
Community Renewal alleviates poverty by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups). This work is about testing change which can inform policy, be scaled up or replicated to achieve a much greater impact than our direct delivery alone.
The role will be as part of our Citywide Next Step Team specialising in providing employability and welfare advice support to people presently facing unemployment and who are actively seeking to return to work. The successful applicant will be working with clients across the city both in community settings and remotely taking an active role at job fares and setting up training sessions for clients. We are keen to hear from people with experience in Employer Engagement.
We are an established, respected and trusted organisation that has been rooted in the heart of our community for many years. We use relationship-focussed, play-based, interactions to focus on the wellbeing of children and families, as well as the regeneration of the local area.
We are passionate about play and what it can do for the individual, family and community. We inspire both children and families to overcome their difficulties, build strengths and resilience and fulfil their goals more effectively.
We support the people of Armadale to help shape and build their own community. Our success is dependent upon the creativeness, enthusiasm, passion, experience, knowledge and empathy of our staff. All of our work is about prevention and early intervention. We work in partnership with a wide-range of stakeholders and are well connected and trusted, both as a strategic partner, that has the pulse of the local community and as a key delivery member of the Armadale Regeneration Team.
This job has a key role within the organisation to ensure we achieve our aims, and will:
• Promote positive emotional wellbeing for our service users
• Immerse children in high quality play opportunities
• Develop & deliver our family learning and adult support groups
• Offer bespoke one-to-one family support
• Practice in a way that is Trauma Informed
• Establish and maintain strong networks & positive relationships with partner agencies
• Lead our Pantry service with dignity
• Ensure that we continue to deliver, as a key anchor agency in the local Regeneration Team
• Signpost to relevant partner agencies and maintain a sound local knowledge
• Work with colleagues to develop and maintain our outdoor space
• Be inclusive and diverse, to minimise inequalities
• Contribute to our social media presence
You will be:
• Enthusiastic, passionate and caring
• Creative, engaging and motivated
• Experienced in working with families
• Flexible in your approach to work
• Loves play and understands its importance
• Positive about working and play outdoors
• Fun loving and enthusiastic in your approach to work
• Able to establish authentic connections with people
• Professional at all times
• Experienced in working within and contributing to, multiagency teams
• Excellent at organisational skills, as this role is varied and fast paced
• Approachable and non-judgemental
• Passionate about fairness and equality
• Able to work autonomously and take ownership and responsibility for delivering results
• A reflective practitioner who is keen to develop, learn and grow
In return we offer:
• A fun workplace
• A competitive salary
• 32 days annual leave
• An organisation that is committed to ensuring staff wellbeing
• Enhanced maternity, sick pay and stakeholder pension
Qualifications/experience: No specific qualification requirement, but experience of family and partnership work, is essential
Are you passionate about promoting equality and human rights in Scotland? Do you have experience operating at a senior level, with a commitment to active listening, collaborative working, and strategic thinking, while exercising impartiality. If so, we have a unique opportunity for you to make a difference as a Scotland Committee Member for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Our Scotland Committee is responsible for overseeing and guiding the Commission's work in Scotland, advising our Commissioners on policies and programs affecting people living in Scotland, contributing a Scottish perspective to the Commission's strategic and business plans, and advising on matters relating to equality and human rights.
As a Committee Member, you will work closely with the Committee chair and Scotland Commissioner, Dr Lesley Sawers, and support the Commission's important work of promoting equality and human rights for the people of Scotland. You will have the opportunity to shape the development of policy and strategic priorities in Scotland and represent the Commission in Scotland.
But being a Committee Member isn't just about the work you'll be doing. It's about the impact you'll be making. Our current Committee Members have shared how being a part of the Committee has given them a unique opportunity to make a difference, to influence the equality and human rights agenda in Scotland, and to develop their personal skills through interesting and thought-provoking debate on current equality issues.
To be considered for this unique opportunity, we seek individuals with significant senior-level experience who value diversity of thought and opinion. Candidates from the third sector, NGOs, or charities are particularly encouraged to apply. We are looking for experts by experience, especially those with a strong background in regulation and a proven understanding of the equality and human rights agenda across Britain, with a specific focus on Scotland. A practical understanding of Scotland's social, economic, cultural, legal, and political contexts is essential. We particularly welcome applications from people who belong to disadvantaged groups including disabilities and ethnic minorities.
If you have a passion for promoting equality and human rights, along with the necessary skills and experience, we invite you to apply. You will have the chance to work with dedicated and expert colleagues, shape policy and strategic priorities, and make a real difference in the lives of people in Scotland.
Committee members will be expected to commit to 12 days per year to the role. Committee members will be remunerated at £250 per day plus reasonable expenses, as agreed by the Commission.
Aberlour is featured in the top 100 Sunday Times big organisations Best Places to Work 2024.
About Aberlour Sustain Falkirk
This service works alongside families, communities and partners to offer caring and responsive support to young people and families. Aberlour Sustain Falkirk delivers the support families need, when they need it, every day of the year. The aim of the service is to ensure that children and young people can continue to flourish at home, at school and in their local community.
Working with Social Work Services, this innovative and creative Falkirk service focuses on supporting young people aged 12 and above, who may be on the ‘edge of care’ so that they remain living with their family in their local communities.
Our Service works with young people and their families to enhance relationships, build on existing strengths and interests, help build confidence and encourage new community connections. Our aim is to help all families feel safe, confident, capable, and included. Our approach has been developed through consultation with families and partners.
What we are looking for....
We are looking for candidates who are passionate about supporting young people, families and communities, who are flexible and share our vision that collaborative working and relationship based early intervention is the best option for young people and families who are feeling overwhelmed or excluded.
Not afraid to test new ways of working, you will bring a fresh, caring, compassionate and collaborative approach which responds empathically to the needs of young people and their families. The work will include early mornings, evenings and weekends. You will have experience of direct practice within this field of work, including child/adult protection issues as well as having experience of working with young people.
You will work within a variety of locations in the Falkirk area, including family homes, schools and community settings.
At Aberlour we want to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, 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 and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.