Sacro is a Scottish community justice organisation with a powerful purpose: to help people move forward, rebuild lives and create safer communities. For 55 years, we have delivered innovative services across Community Justice, Community Safety and Public Protection, supporting people affected by harm, conflict and offending.

Joining Sacro means being part of work that offers hope, protection and real opportunities for positive change.

We’re proud to be recognised as:

• Investing in Volunteers accredited
• Investors in People Gold
• A Living Wage Employer
• A Disability Confident Committed employer

About the Role

We’re seeking a Justice Worker to join a new Scottish Government-funded Bail Support pilot programme. This is a unique opportunity to help shape and deliver a new service that aims to improve outcomes for people involved in the justice system while contributing to safe and stronger communities across Scotland.

Working with people assessed by Justice Social Work as suitable for supervised bail, but who have instead been granted bail without supervision, you will provide practical, person-centred support to help them understand and comply with their bail conditions.

You will work collaboratively with Justice Social Work and a range of partner agencies to help individuals access the services and support they need to improve their wellbeing and deliver positive longer-term changes.

As part of an overall 18-month pilot, the successful candidate will join the service in October for an initial 15 months, with referrals expected to commence in November. While funding is currently in place for the pilot period, there is potential for the service to continue beyond this timeframe.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day service delivery, including case management, engaging compassionately with people supported, working in partnership and enabling connection with local support and communities.
• Assess risk and need, produce clear reports, maintain case records and effectively manage competing priorities.
• Develop tailored intervention and action plans to support positive outcomes across a range of person-centred needs including accommodation, education, employment, life skills, wellbeing, health, relationships and substance misuse.

Required Skills & Experience

• A valid driving license and access to a car are essential for this post
• Experience of supporting people who have a history of offending behaviour and/or substance misuse
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective multi-agency partnerships.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet competing demands.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle, with the ability to travel as required.

Benefits

At Sacro, we know our people are our greatest asset. That’s why we offer a competitive benefits package, including:

• Flexible working options
• 8% employer pension contribution
• 31 days’ annual leave + bonus birthday off
• Enhanced family-friendly policies
• Enhanced company sick pay

Plus, a range of additional benefits, including death in service cover, cycle to work scheme, wellbeing support and everyday shopping discounts.

LEAP Sports is looking for a passionate and motivated Project Officer – Highlands & Moray to lead our OUT and About in the Highlands project.

The project aims to improve the mental wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ people across the Highlands and Moray through sport, physical activity and the outdoors. You’ll work directly with local LGBTIQ+ communities, develop opportunities for people to get active, build partnerships with local organisations and support sports clubs and groups to become more inclusive.

We’re looking for someone with experience of community engagement and partnership working, a strong understanding of equality and LGBTIQ+ inclusion, and a belief in the positive role sport and physical activity can play in health and wellbeing.

The role is 18 hours per week and home-based within the Highlands or Moray, with regular travel across the area. Some evening and weekend work will be required.

Fife Women’s Aid are looking for an additional full-time member of staff to increase the capacity of our existing MARAC team, working with women experiencing domestic abuse who are at high levels of risk.

If you want to help make a difference in the lives of women, children and young people with experience of domestic abuse, have direct experience of providing one to one person-centred support, an understanding of the causes and impacts of domestic abuse along with good interpersonal skills then you may be the person we are looking for. Applicants will have at least 2 years’ experience of working in a support or advocacy role. The MARAC team is a small supportive team with a wealth of experience to share with new workers. Training will also be provided for the successful candidates.

The successful applicant(s) will have at least SVQ Level III or equivalent level of qualification in social care or other relevant subject, or equivalent experience and willingness to work towards a qualification.

Please join us for an online session to find out more about FWA MARAC service. This will be at 6.30pm on Monday 19th October. 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.

Fife Women’s Aid is a feminist organisation and strives to be a supportive and empowering employer offering competitive terms and conditions.

Membership of Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme is a requirement for this post.

If you would like further information about the post, please contact Claire Rigby, Team Manager at claire.rigby@fifewomensaid.org.uk.

The STAR Centre is seeking two full-time Outreach Support and Advocacy Workers (35 hours per week) who will work across North and South Ayrshire, with one worker based in each area. Full details of the requirements for these posts are contained in the application packs.

This is an essential car user post. Only applicants who have a full, clean drivers licence and the use of a car for the workday will be considered.

Could you play a vital role within our national Support Line, helping deliver Scotland's mission to eradicate child poverty?

Join Children First and be part of a once in a generation transformation in how families access help to alleviate crisis, prevent harm and build long term stability to break the cycle of child poverty.

Funded by the Scottish Government, we are doubling the size of our Support Line with the aim of supporting 7,500 more families across Scotland in the first year. Through this investment, we are creating an accessible national front door to family support, ensuring families can access practical, emotional and financial help when they need it most.

As Scotland's national children's charity, we've been preventing harm, supporting recovery and driving change since 1884. Our ambitious plans build on decades of experience delivering cash-first, short, medium and long-term holistic support to families living in, or at risk of, poverty.

We're looking for passionate, talented and ambitious professionals to join our growing team and help shape the future of family support in Scotland.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the direction, development and quality assurance of Children First's Welfare Benefits and Debt Advice Service.

As Senior Money Advisor, you will provide leadership, supervision and support to a team of advisers, ensuring families receive high-quality welfare benefits, debt and financial wellbeing advice that improves outcomes for children and reduces the impact of poverty.

Alongside leading a team, you will maintain a small caseload of complex cases, providing specialist welfare benefits and debt advice, supporting Social Security appeals and working directly with families experiencing financial hardship. You will help families maximise income, manage debt, access entitlements and build greater financial resilience.

Working across Children First and alongside external partners, you will contribute to service development, quality assurance, partnership working and continuous improvement, ensuring our financial wellbeing services remain accessible, effective and impactful for families across Scotland.

Why This Role Matters

Poverty remains one of the greatest threats to childhood in Scotland.

At Children First, we know that financial hardship affects every aspect of family life. By providing timely, expert advice and support, we can help alleviate crisis, strengthen family wellbeing and create better outcomes for children.

As Senior Money Advisor, your expertise will directly contribute to our ambition to reduce child poverty and ensure families have access to the support they need to thrive

What We're Looking For

We're looking for an experienced and values-driven leader with a strong background in welfare benefits and debt advice who is passionate about reducing child poverty and improving outcomes for children and families.

You will bring:

• Significant experience providing welfare benefits and debt advice.
• Experience leading, supervising or developing staff and advisers.
• Strong knowledge of social security systems, welfare benefits and debt management.
• The ability to manage complex casework and provide specialist advice.
• Excellent coaching, communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience working collaboratively with a range of partners and stakeholders.
• A commitment to high-quality advice practice, continuous improvement and relational working.
• The ability to lead through change while maintaining service quality and compliance standards.

Above all, you will share our commitment to putting children at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values

Everything we do is guided by our values:

With Love

We put children first with compassion and kindness.

With Purpose

We work alongside families and partners to transform children's lives together.

With Strength

We do whatever it takes to protect Scotland's children.

What You'll Get From Us

At Children First, you'll be part of a values-led organisation committed to supporting and developing our people.

We offer:

• 40 days annual leave, inclusive of public holidays.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• Access to Westfield Health and wellbeing support.
• Blue Light Card discounts.
• A Fair Work accredited workplace.
• Ongoing learning and professional development opportunities.
• The opportunity to help shape a national service that is transforming how families access support across Scotland.

Join Us

If you share our belief that every child in Scotland can grow up free from poverty and are committed to making it happen, we want to hear from you.

Together, we can alleviate crisis, prevent harm, strengthen families and create brighter futures for children across Scotland.

The STAR Centre is seeking a full-time Prevention and Education Worker (35 hours per week) worker to work in schools across North, South, and East Ayrshire. This work is part of a national programme of prevention running in secondary schools across Scotland (Prevention | Rape Crisis Scotland) and will involve direct work with young people from age 11 – 18 years in schools, as well as some work in youth settings across the region.

Salary: SJC pt 48-51 £34,307 - £35,654 (six-month probationary period for this post)

This is an essential car user post. Only applicants who have a full, clean drivers licence and the use of a car for the workday will be considered.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Support line Advice Service as well as support our Wider aims as a charity.

Our Advice service works alongside support colleagues to help families to address the challenges and risks which may have led to vulnerability, promote connection to their local communities, and improve financial stability and resilience. Our aim is to support communities to become more resilient and a place where children feel safe, valued, understood and supported.

The Energy Advisor will work within an integrated model of family support, community connection, and expert Energy advice and exploring money and debt advice. This will enable families to stay connected, keep homes warm and resolve debt and money problems, become more financially resilient and break the cycle of fuel poverty.

A priority for the Energy Advisor will be to increase the Energy advice and support we offer our families and with the capacity of our current services to provide Type I and II money advice in one of the most deprived areas in Scotland.

You will work as part of our National Money Advice team. You will support families within their homes, by telephone and other digital methods deliver workshops within the community and in schools and offer drop-in sessions within the community.

If you have experience of energy advice welfare rights, income maximization, money and debt advice, understand the impact trauma and adversity can have on children and families, and believe that you can apply this to your practice, we want to hear from you.

This is a full time, 35 hours post. Hours to be worked flexibly to suit the needs of families, including evenings and weekends as required.

What we offer:

• A workplace with values of with love, with purpose and with strength
• 40 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays
• Pension scheme and wellbeing support
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Access to Westfield Health, giving colleagues and their families confidential counselling support, wellbeing resources, and access to health and lifestyle benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing.
• Blue Light card discount
• A Fair Work accredited workplace

Our Values

Living our values, you will help create a workplace where our people can thrive, ensuring we deliver the best possible support to children and families.

With love, we put children first.

With purpose, we transform lives together.

With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.

Overall Job Purpose

The LGBTI key case worker posts are specifically to support the BME LGBTI service users however the post holder will also be supporting other service users as well. This project will benefit BME women and young people living in Scotland experiencing or at risk of domestic abuse (DA) and requiring support concerning their gender identity and or sexuality. The purpose of the job is to support LGBTI BME women, their children if any and young people, who approach Shakti as a result of experiencing domestic abuse in particular due to their gender recognition and or sexuality. Women and young people are referred to Shakti from a number of sources or they refer themselves. Support can take a number of forms, depending on a woman’s needs: information, practical help, referring to other agencies, emotional support, and advocacy. The worker must be able to assess a woman’s needs sensitively and sympathetically and to find appropriate ways to respond. She must be able to manage her caseload and work with her colleagues in Shakti and other agencies on behalf of women and children. Working in partnership with other members of staff and in liaison with other agencies the case worker must also ensure that information and support is available to help resettle women when they are moving to permanent accommodation from the refuge or temporary accommodation. The worker is also to support other non LGBTI women to meet the demand for our service.

Key Requirements: The post holder must be a bilingual speaker in a BME community language, preferably Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali or Arabic. The post holder will support Black and Minority Ethnic women, their children and young people experiencing and/or fleeing domestic abuse or forced marriage. Applicants ideally have a minimum of 2 years’ experience of working with Black and Minority Ethnic Communities; an understanding of the legislative and cultural issues surrounding domestic abuse/forced marriage. All applicants must have a minimum of SVQ Level III in Social Care or relevant qualification such as degree in Social Work or Community Education.

Organisation Profile

Shakti Women’s Aid is a feminist voluntary organisation which provides information, emotional/ practical support, and refuge/ temporary accommodation to all black minority ethnic women and their children who are experiencing or fleeing domestic abuse.

Shakti is seeking to recruit an experienced and qualified Key Case Worker to support women from black minority ethnic communities.

Overall, Job Purpose

The purpose of the job is to support women, and children (if any) and young people, who approach Shakti as a result of experiencing domestic abuse. Women are referred to Shakti from a number of sources or they refer themselves. Support can take a number of forms, depending on a woman’s needs: information, practical help, referring to other agencies, emotional support, and advocacy. The worker must be able to assess a woman’s needs sensitively and sympathetically and to find appropriate ways to respond. She must be able to manage her caseload and work with her colleagues in Shakti and other agencies on behalf of women, children and young people. Working in partnership with other members of staff and in liaison with other agencies, the case worker must also ensure that information and support is available to help women in the refuge and other temporary accommodation and resettle them when they are moving to permanent accommodation from the refuge or temporary accommodation.

Key Requirements: The post holder must be a bilingual speaker in a BME community language, preferably Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese, Tagalog or other East Asian language. The post holder will support Black and Minority Ethnic women, their children and young people experiencing and/or fleeing domestic abuse or forced marriage. Applicants ideally have a minimum of 2 years’ experience of working with Black and Minority Ethnic Communities; an understanding of the legislative and cultural issues surrounding domestic abuse/forced marriage. All applicants must have a minimum of SVQ Level III in Social Care or relevant qualification such as degree in Social Work or Community Education.

Overall Job Purpose

The post holder will deal with referrals from Fife. The post holder will be working in partnership with the Outreach and Housing and Advocacy case workers to provide a culture sensitive service to Black Minority Ethnic Women.

She will work in partnership with the other Women’s Aid and partner agencies in the areas where the women come from to:

• Make links with black and minority ethnic women in the community
• Raise awareness of domestic abuse and gender-based violence amongst women and the wider black and minority ethnic community
• Inform black and minority ethnic women, children and young people about support services available
• Provide direct support to black and minority ethnic women, children and young people who have experienced gender-based violence, working in partnership with existing support services
• Work with professionals to increase their capacity to effectively support black and minority ethnic women, children and young people who have experienced gender-based violence

The worker will be managed on a day-to-day basis by their team leader and will be given support and supervision. Direct supervision session will take place every 6 – 8 weeks

Key Requirements: The post holder must be a bilingual speaker in a BME community language, preferably Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali or Arabic. The post holder will support Black and Minority Ethnic women, their children and young people experiencing and/or fleeing domestic abuse or forced marriage. Applicants ideally have a minimum of 2 years’ experience of working with Black and Minority Ethnic Communities; an understanding of the legislative and cultural issues surrounding domestic abuse/forced marriage. All applicants must have a minimum of SVQ Level III in Social Care or relevant qualification such as degree in Social Work or Community Education.