Are you passionate about helping people sustain their recovery? Do you want to be part of a dynamic recovery community?

If so, this is an excellent opportunity to take on a meaningful and rewarding role where your actions will make a difference to people’s lives and to the community. Be part of a multidisciplinary team and a vibrant charity that has been supporting and empowering vulnerable adults since 1975.

Recovery Scotland is a charity dedicated to providing a range of recovery focussed services for people affected by addictions. We provide opportunities to help people change their addictive behaviours, engage with recovery communities and fulfil their aspirations.

We are looking to appoint a Recovery Worker to provide a range of recovery focussed activities within the Clackmannanshire Council – Justice Services and to develop an effective Recovery Peer Mentoring support for individuals who affected by problematic substance use and addictive behaviours.

You will be passionate and enthusiastic about recovery. If in recovery, we are looking for you to have had a minimum of one year stability from problematic substance use or addictive behaviours. You will have a good understanding of the impact that substance use can have on individuals, families and communities and you will be familiar with what works to promote and sustain recovery. An ability to work flexibly and creatively in motivating, supporting and encouraging people in recovery is essential.

This post require an enhanced disclosure. Successful candidates must undertake a satisfactory Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Record for Restricted Work with Protected Adults

Circular Communities Scotland (previously CRNS) is a small but rapidly growing national charity, doubling our staff and turnover in the last year.

We are a membership network with a vision for a thriving circular economy in Scotland with local communities benefiting from the social, environmental, and economic outcomes. With a growing membership of over 230 charities and social enterprises we are always looking for new ways to support the reuse, repair and recycling Third Sector and see our vision become a reality.

This role is designed to underpin the next chapter of our growth and you will be at the heart of delivering future environmental and social justice in Scotland.

As Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer you will be at the heart of this organisation at an exciting time. The successful candidate will be pro-active and driven, exceptionally well organised, a proven problem-solver and strong at relating to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. An ability to tune in to the CEO’s leadership style whilst also being proactive, empowered, and self-directed is key.

A wider element of this role is to provide administrative support to the whole organisation. This will involve a wide range of tasks for which flexibility, proactivity, excellent IT skills (particularly Microsoft Office365 but also Salesforce, WordPress etc), project management abilities, strong written and verbal communication skills are all essential. As a support to a wide range of staff, projects and processes you will need to manage your workload against agreed priorities and be comfortable saying no when necessary and managing sometimes conflicting expectations.

We are determined to get the right person to join our strong team which is why we are open to exploring different options regarding place of work (office, hybrid or home-based) within commuting distance of our Stirling Office. Whilst we initially agreed budget for a 3-day week we are also willing to consider up to full-time working for the right candidate. Please make any location or hours-based requirements clear in your application. At all levels of the organisation, we are strongly committed to staff wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion.

Background:Poppyscotland heads a funding partnership of several other charities that support the armed forces community. This partnership has funded the CAB service to deliver an advice and support service to the armed forces community. The armed forces community is defined as those personnel who are currently serving, those who have served in the past, and their dependants. (This definition also includes certain Merchant Navy personnel).

Main Purpose: ASAP Regional Support Officer will work with the Citizens Advice bureaux in the defined regional areas. The officer will provide advice to members of the armed forces community, support bureaux in the provision of advice to the armed forces community, will co-ordinate regional activities and may provide training

Responsibilities

• To undertake advice for members of the armed forces community

• To support bureaux advice workers in their handling of advice and support to the armed forces community by providing effective consultancy and guidance

• To establish good working relationships with each bureau in the defined regional area

• To participate in the identification of staff training needs and in the development of training materials and training plans, in association with national and regional colleagues,

• To provide training to volunteer and other advisers working in the relevant areas in order to maintain up to date approaches to benefits and other advice issues for the armed forces community

• To work with other voluntary and statutory agencies in promoting the growth of armed forces community advice and support in the relevant areas, including awareness raising work with community groups

• To establish and maintain a database of specialist agencies for referral purposes

• To establish and develop working relationships with other relevant agencies

• To monitor the operation of the Armed Services Advice service and identify areas of development

• To maintain accurate, confidential records of all casework in keeping with CAB service requirements

• To record and collate the amounts of benefit income raised and other statistics in order to contribute to the social policy work of the region

• Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by the CEO

Team Work

• Attend and participate in the national and regional Armed Services Advice project team meetings

• Liaise closely with the ASAP Co-ordinator, Citizens Advice Scotland and other regional support areas

Accountability

• Provide written reports for and attend 3 monthly supervision sessions and annual appraisal

• Provide reports for and attend any regional group meetings