About BEACON:

Citizens Advice Edinburgh, Capital City Partnership, Fife Gingerbread, Midlothian Sure Start, Circle, Passion4Fusion, The Poverty Alliance and Glasgow Caledonian University are working in partnership to deliver BEACON, a service designed to tackle the roots cause of poverty experienced by ethnically diverse families.

BEACON — Building Equity, Accessibility and Connecting Opportunities Network — will support 200 ethnically diverse families and up to 600 individuals through a relational, wrap-around whole-family keyworker model.

The project will ensure support is available where and when families need it across the Edinburgh and Southeast Scotland region.

Each partner in the consortium will provide additional capacity and specialist expertise to reach ethnically diverse families and improve engagement and outcomes.

Maximising Income and Reducing Barriers to Employment: Citizens Advice Advisers will provide specialist advice, focused on helping families address financial, welfare rights, debt and immigration-related barriers that can prevent them from stabilising household circumstances and progressing towards longer-term outcomes.

You will provide specialist financial, welfare rights, debt and immigration advice that complements whole family keyworker support. This is targeted at low-income ethnically diverse families, particularly those facing overlapping barriers to poverty reduction and those falling within Scottish child poverty priority family types.

You will support the Advice Service Manager in capacity building, strengthening other organisations and advisers to work more effectively with families facing immigration barriers, including the no recourse to public funds condition. This will involve delivering presentations and creating and updating resources.

The overall role of Citizens Advice therefore strengthens the BEACON model by helping families address immediate financial and advice-related pressures while supporting wider outcomes around stability, wellbeing, income maximisation and progression.

This is an excellent opportunity to join one of the cities leading charities and make a substantial contribution to your local community. Competitive salaries and a 7% Employers Pension Contribution are among the many benefits of joining this fantastic organisation. If you are looking for a new opportunity, full details are included in the role descriptions. For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Shaina Gabi, Advice Services Manager Immigration by email at ShainaGabi@cabedinburgh.org.uk

This is a new role to unlock the potential of support from community and commercial sources.

We are seeking someone with an ambitious can-do approach to focus on raising unrestricted funds from three funding strands:

1. Businesses
2. Community groups
3. Challengers using fundraising platforms such as JustGiving and Enthuse

Refuweegee is celebrating its tenth year of welcoming forcibly displaced people to Glasgow, and broader Scotland. We are a small team of six full-time staff and nine part-time staff welcoming approximately 1,000 visitors to our space every week.

Our visitors depend upon Refuweegee as a welcoming and supportive environment that provides essential material help, emotional stability, social connection and a sense of dignity.

We work hard be a place of belonging, emotional safety and friendship for people. Our work has always been driven by community demand: we adapt to what people need and want.

Refuweegee is recognised as an effective pathway to integration, confidence-building and social participation: we are a sanctuary for forcibly displaced people.

We are here for everyone, no questions asked. This wholly inclusive approach is a deliberate act to build bridges between communities.

We care for our visitors, and we care for our staff. We constantly review well-being and professional development and provide group training and individual opportunities.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a central, strategic role within the Commission, focusing on developing and ensuring delivery of SHRC’s legal powers and duties under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 (the “Act”).

With a background in law and policy, in addition to a working knowledge of human rights, and particularly the rights of the child in a domestic context, your skills will be used to lead on interventions undertaken by the Commission, develop proposals for potential areas of own name litigation and manage live cases. You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining a network with a variety of stakeholders.

You will uphold the SHRC’s values and be confident representing the Commission with external audiences.

At The Advocacy Project, we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and put the people we support at the centre of everything we do. We are an independent advocacy charity providing one-to-one advocacy for adults across Glasgow, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire.

We support people to have their voices heard in decisions about their care, treatment and lives, particularly when they may otherwise find it difficult to be heard. Our work is guided by our values of fairness, independence, inclusion and resilience.

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Delivery Manager to lead our Glasgow team of advocates and ensure our busy, fast-moving service runs effectively. Referrals arrive steadily, often at short notice, and may relate to mental health tribunals, adult support and protection, and other time-critical processes. You will make sure the right advocate reaches the right person at the right time, while maintaining high standards of independent advocacy practice.

What you'll do

• Lead, line manage and support a team of advocates, including supervision, caseload oversight and staff wellbeing
• Manage referral flow and allocate work so urgent cases are covered and caseloads remain manageable
• Ensure practice meets independent advocacy principles and standards
• Retrieve and maintain accurate service data; analyse referral volumes, caseloads, performance and outcomes to identify trends and pressure points; and produce timely monitoring reports for commissioners and internal stakeholders.
• Build effective working relationships with health and social care and other partner organisations
• Help shape the service as demand and commissioning requirements evolve

What we're looking for

• Experience of leading and supervising staff in a frontline service
• Sound judgement under pressure, with the ability to reprioritise quickly
• A clear understanding of independent advocacy, or experience in a closely related field such as social care, mental health or rights-based work
• Confidence using case management systems and service data
• Confident using Microsoft 365 applications and other IT systems
• A strong commitment to placing the people we support at the centre of everything we do

This role would suit someone who remains calm and focused in a busy environment, protects their team’s capacity and is committed to achieving the best outcomes for people who use the service. In return, we offer a generous package of salary, pension, dynamic working, annual leave, CPD, and a wellbeing package.

We are a disability and carer-positive employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and a PVG check.

Every conversation can change a childhood. Every volunteer can change a life.

Help us build Scotland's biggest team of volunteers standing alongside children and families

At Children First, we believe every child should be safe, loved and able to enjoy a happy childhood.

We're transforming how families across Scotland access support through our growing national Support Line. Backed by Scottish Government investment, we're expanding our reach so that thousands more families can access practical, emotional and financial support when they need it most.

To help us achieve this, we're looking for an exceptional Support Line Volunteer Coordinator to recruit, inspire and lead a team of volunteers who will help children and families across Scotland thrive.

Why this role matters

This is not simply a volunteer management role.

You will build and lead a volunteer programme that directly contributes to tackling child poverty, reducing isolation and improving outcomes for children and families across Scotland.

Working across our Support Line and Whole Family Support Programme, you'll ensure volunteers are recruited safely, trained effectively and supported to make a real difference. You'll create opportunities for people to use their skills, compassion and lived experience to strengthen communities and improve lives.

Your leadership will help ensure more families have somewhere to turn before challenges become crises.

What you'll do

• Recruit, train and develop volunteers across Scotland
• Create a positive, inclusive and rewarding volunteer experience
• Provide supervision, coaching and wellbeing support
• Ensure the highest standards of safeguarding and safe practice
• Build partnerships with communities, colleges, employers and third sector organisations
• Use data, feedback and insight to improve volunteer impact
• Help shape a national volunteer programme that supports Children First's ambitious growth plans

We're looking for someone who

You might be the right person if you:

• Have experience recruiting, managing and developing volunteers
• Enjoy helping people grow their confidence and skills
• Can build trusted relationships with a wide range of people
• Are organised, adaptable and able to balance competing priorities
• Understand safeguarding, professional boundaries and quality assurance
• Believe in the power of volunteering to create social change
• Share our commitment to tackling child poverty and supporting families
• Are passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people

Experience in volunteer management, family support, advice services, community services or the third sector would be particularly valuable.

What you'll get from us

With Love. With Purpose. With Strength.

Alongside a role where you can make a genuine difference, you'll receive:

• 40 days annual leave including public holidays
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Generous pension scheme
• Westfield Health and wellbeing support
• Blue Light Card discounts
• A Fair Work accredited workplace
• Learning, development and career opportunities
• The chance to help shape a growing national service supporting families across Scotland

Who we are

Children First is Scotland's national children's charity.

We protect children from harm, support recovery from trauma and abuse and provide practical, emotional and financial support to families. We stand alongside children, families and communities because we believe every child deserves a safe childhood.

Our values guide everything we do:

With Love - We put children first with compassion and kindness, always.

With Purpose - We collaborate to transform children's lives together.

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

Join us and help build a volunteer movement that gives every family in Scotland a place to turn.

Do you want to create a safer, brighter future for all children in Scotland?

Children First, Scotland’s national children’s charity, is seeking to appoint a part-time (17.5 hours) Support line Service Manager. By joining our team, you will help us stand up for children, keep them safe and support them to recover from trauma and abuse through our national and local services.

The role

Based in Edinburgh, with hybrid working an option, the role involves leading on the day-to-day implementation, management, development and growth of our free confidential support line for families, carers and professionals in Scotland.

Today’s generation are facing unprecedented challenges. From mental health, money worries and online harm, to struggles at school, our support line can offer emotional, practical and financial support to any family in Scotland. We also offer advice to anyone who is concerned about a child’s wellbeing.

Taking a child-centred approach, you will work to ensure the safety of children and young people by protecting and promoting their rights.

What we are looking for

You will be an inspiring leader and will possess a degree or diploma in social work, or equivalent professional qualification at SCQF level 9, in addition to recent significant experience in a relevant practice area relating to young people. Experience working in mental health, emotional wellbeing or trauma-informed support services is desirable.

What you can expect from us

As well as a rewarding career and development opportunities, we offer 40 days annual leave per year pro rata, a contributory pension scheme, generous maternity/adoption and paternity leave, flexible working opportunities and wellbeing support.

With a supportive and inclusive working environment, the salary for this role is £42,500 - £48,900 pro rate per annum covering 17.5 hours per week (21,250 to £24,450).

Our values

Living our values, you will make a direct impact to the lives of children across Scotland. With love, we put children first. With purpose, we transform children’s lives together. With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.

We believe all children should have hopes, dreams and opportunities. But for many they don’t exist. This has to stop. We must put children first.

We welcome and encourage applications from potential colleagues from all backgrounds, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, belief, disability who share our values.

Do you have what it takes to join our team and help us protect children and keep them safe? We would love to hear from you.

Tracy Gilbert MP is recruiting for a Communications Officer to support her work as the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North and Leith.

The ideal candidate will lead on drafting and developing content, bringing a creative flair to maximise impact and reach. There are three strands of work pertinent to this role:

Digital and Social Media Presence – the successful candidate will be responsible for developing and managing Tracy’s website and social media content.

Constituency Communications and Campaigns – the successful candidate will help play a role in communicating directly with constituents on Tracy’s work in Parliament and across the constituency through letters and leaflets and be responsible for drafting and sending out Tracy’s regular e-newsletter. The successful candidate will also attend some meetings with stakeholders and coordinate follow up actions.

Press – the successful candidate will lead on Tracy’s engagement with journalists by responding to press enquiries and identifying opportunities to promote Tracy’s work through press releases, opinion pieces and articles.

What would success look like in the first year?

• Growing Tracy’s social media outreach by developing a strategy to increase her reach on Facebook and Instagram.
• Bringing a creative flair and being a natural innovator to come up with ideas to make exciting and dynamic social media content.
• Devising and running a successful advertising campaign to double the number of subscribers to Tracy’s E-newsletter.
• Securing press coverage in Scottish, UK and relevant industry publications to further Tracy’s campaigns on tackling violence against women and girls, sex trafficking and international surrogacy.
• Work with Tracy’s Caseworker team to integrate her digital communications and casework output.

Job Description

• Analyse patterns of enquiries and produce reports
• Attend constituency meetings as appropriate
• Critically analyse patterns of enquiries and articulate findings in reports and communication with MP
• Draft responses to constituents
• Ensure records are kept and information managed confidentially in line with data protection.
• Establish, monitor and update a social media and online presence in the constituency.
• Follow up on social media queries and comments
• Gather relevant information to assist with resolving cases
• Manage and monitor social media enquiries, dealing with cases that do not need to be transferred
• Monitor media coverage, liaise with media, prepare press releases as required.
• Produce press releases, liaise with media, meeting deadlines as appropriate.
• Retain records and information confidentially and in line with Data Protection Act
• There may be a requirement for the role holder to work outside of the normal working hours.
• Design and develop engaging, targeted content and messages across a range of channels.
• Ensure online presence is meeting the demands of the constituents, the locality, and the MP.
• Manage the MP’s website contents.

Person Specification

• Experience in communications, public affairs, journalism, marketing, politics and/or communications consulting.
• Experience creating content and adverts for social media, digital channels and email marketing platforms.
• Experience working with national and/or local media.
• Confidence using Microsoft Office.
• Confidence using Canva, Adobe and video editing tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Awareness of local and national political issues.
• Sympathetic to the aims and values of Tracy Gilbert MP and the Labour Party

If you are a strong match against most but not all of the person specification, Tracy would be keen to hear from you.

tracygilbert.co.uk/communications-officer-or-senior-communications-officer

You will work directly with neurodivergent children and young people up to age 25, providing person-centred support including 1:1 issue-based information, advice, advocacy, coaching, and support with transitions. Support is delivered through in-person sessions, virtual meetings, phone calls, email, and text, and as the service develops, the role may also involve working with small groups.

You will work with children and young people to develop plans that promote positive outcomes and uphold their rights. This includes helping them understand their neurotype and identify their strengths, challenges, and support needs, so they can communicate these effectively and be well supported across their lives. You will also help develop resources and contribute to service development.

You will be an excellent communicator, able to adapt your approach to build strong, trusting relationships with neurodivergent children and young people, and to engage effectively with a range of stakeholders.

This post may occasionally require evening and/or weekend work and will involve significant travel across Edinburgh and the Lothians. This is a hybrid role, combining home working, community settings, and attending our Edinburgh office when required.

Organisation profile

Founded on lived experience, Mindroom champions all forms of neurodiversity and supports all kinds of minds. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for neurodivergent people by removing barriers, increasing opportunities, and shaping a more accessible world.

Support Choices is a small charity based in Perth & Kinross, Scotland. We exist to ensure that some of the most vulnerable people in our communities, older adults, disabled individuals, and unpaid carers have the care and support they need to live life on their own terms. We provide independent advice, advocacy, and practical help to people navigating the complexities of social care and Self-Directed Support (SDS).

The main responsibility of the Community Broker’s post is to provide independent support and advice about Self Directed Support (SDS) and social care to those who need it. To help people and carers make informed decisions and plans for their social care and to maximise their choice and control over those arrangements.

Further to these key elements, Community Broker will contribute to the ongoing development and implementation of projects within the organisation, as well as playing a proactive role in their own development.

Previous applicants need not apply

Do you want to make a positive impact on the lives of children and young people with a disability and or Autism?

About Options Moray

Aberlour Options Moray is a community-based service for children/young people with learning disabilities offering residential, short breaks, family-based care and community support matched with the individual needs of every young person.

What we are looking for....

We are looking for a Young People’s Worker, to work 35 hours per week on a permanent basis. The team work no more than 4 days before a day off and currently have every second weekend off. Rotas are designed around the needs of the young people we care for and ensuring the wellness of the practitioners we employ. Late shifts are 2.00pm to 10.00pm. Early shifts are 7.30am to 2.30pm. Overnight sleep ins are part of the role, alongside an awake member of night staff. Shifts can be subject to change as and when required for the needs of the service.

Individuals need to bring a range of qualities to the role including being playful, warm and accepting and must be able to adapt their practice to appropriately meet the varying individual needs of each young person. This role can be challenging but is also immensely rewarding and provides postholders with rich opportunities to develop their own practice and understanding of the needs of children and young people with disabilities.

You must be comfortable working in a culture based on respect, integrity, innovation and the ability to challenge – both yourself and other people. We support our staff to be as effective as they can be through dedicated training and supervision. In return our staff act as exceptional role models supporting the children and young people, as well as sharing knowledge and learning with colleagues.

Ideally, you will have a relevant professional qualification at SCQF level 7 or above, or be willing to work to this requirement as per SSSC registration.

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. Have a look at our values to understand more about what we are looking for from our employees.

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. Find out more about our Employee Benefits and our commitment to Equality and Diversity.

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