We are seeking a motivated and people-focused People and Culture Advisor to contribute to the development of our People and Culture service, supporting our commitment to creating a positive, inclusive and engaging workplace where our people can thrive. Working closely with the People and Culture Manager and colleagues across the organisation, you will play an important role in supporting our people, strengthening our HR practices and helping to deliver our wider organisational people priorities.

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Beatson Cancer Charity as a People and Culture Advisor. Key responsibilities include:

• Manage employee relations cases and provide practical advice and coaching to managers, escalating complex or high-risk matters appropriately.
• Develop and review People and Culture policies, supporting fair, consistent practice and compliance with employment legislation.
• Analyse workforce data and employee feedback to inform recommendations, monitor people KPIs and improve the employee experience.
• Advise managers on recruitment and selection, support effective onboarding and contribute to workforce planning, retention and succession initiatives.
• Support employee engagement, wellbeing, recognition and inclusion initiatives, and help managers act on employee feedback.
• Lead or support People and Culture projects, organisational change and service improvements, including manager training and resources.
• Work closely with the People and Culture team and colleagues across the charity to deliver a coordinated service, maintain accurate records and handle sensitive information confidentially.

Benefits

• 40 days annual leave pro rata, inclusive of public holidays.
• Generous pension scheme with 7% employer and 3% employee contributions.
• Supportive and collaborative working culture.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme providing 24/7 confidential wellbeing, financial and legal support.

About You

As a people-focused People and Culture Advisor you will meet the following criteria:

Essential

• CIPD Level 5 qualified or working towards the qualification.
• Have at least 2–3 years' experience in an HR advisory role or equivalent generalist HR position, including responsibility for employee relations matters.
• Practical experience supporting disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence, performance or capability processes.
• Sound working knowledge of employment legislation, HR policies and best practice, with the ability to apply these appropriately in practice.
• Experience advising and supporting line managers on people management matters and procedural requirements.
• Strong analytical skills, including experience interpreting workforce information and producing accurate management reports.
• Experience using HR systems and maintaining appropriate employee relations records and documentation.
• Strong organisational, planning and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage a varied workload independently.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain HR matters clearly and provide practical advice.
• A proactive and solutions-focused approach, with the ability to exercise professional judgement, recognise risk and escalate matters appropriately.

Desirable

• Experience contributing to policy development, organisational change or HR service improvement initiatives.
• Experience supporting employee engagement, wellbeing, retention or organisational development projects.
• Experience developing or delivering line manager training, guidance or resources.
• Experience working within the charity or wider third-sector environment.

About the Organisation

Beatson Cancer Charity supports and enhances the treatment, care and wellbeing of current, former and future cancer patients and their families. Working in partnership with the NHS, The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre and all related facilities. We also offer the wider community a unique opportunity to contribute to the advancement of cancer care.

The successful candidate will lead a distinctive 24/7 supported living service and help shape its next stage of development. We are seeking an experienced, values-led manager who can inspire a multidisciplinary team, strengthen partnerships and ensure that 22 adults with learning disabilities receive consistently high-quality, person-centred support.

About us

Established in 2015, Esmond Street provides high-quality, 24/7 supported living for 22 older adults with learning disabilities and people with additional complex needs. One of the few services of its kind in Glasgow, it was developed to meet growing demand for specialised, person-centred support that can adapt as people’s needs change.

Esmond Street is part of Enable Glasgow, a membership organisation that provides services for people with learning disabilities across the city. Our work includes supported living, social opportunities, social enterprise activity, advocacy and campaigning. Founded in 1957, Enable Glasgow now supports around 200 people directly and has almost 400 members.

About the Role

Reporting to the Head of Supported Living, the Service Manager will lead Esmond Street through its next stage of development. You will lead and develop the staff team, build strong relationships with family members, external professionals, commissioning authorities and regulatory agencies, and ensure that Enable Glasgow’s values are evident in day-to-day practice and future service development.

We are looking for a manager who shares Enable Glasgow’s commitment to the right of people with learning disabilities to live fulfilling and meaningful lives. You will bring empathy, sound judgement and a genuine commitment to helping each person live the life they choose.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership & Management: this role involves managing and supporting a dynamic staff team, including support workers, housekeepers, catering staff and our senior support workers. It also involves conducting regular support and supervision, appraisals, and supporting continuous professional development.
• Service Delivery & Quality Assurance: to coordinate the operational management of the service, ensuring compliance with Care Inspectorate standards, legislative frameworks, and internal policies.
• Safeguarding & Risk Management: to lead on protection inquiries and implement robust risk assessments to safeguard vulnerable individuals.
• Resource Management: to effectively manage allocated budgets, play a role in commissioning appropriate care packages, and allocate resources efficiently to meet local population needs.
• Partnership Working: to collaborate closely with health and social care partners, other third-sector organisations, and family networks, promoting integrated, holistic support.

What We Are Looking For:

You will need to demonstrate the following experience, qualifications and professional requirements. Where a management qualification is not already held, we will support the successful candidate to work towards one.

• Experience: Significant experience in a health or social care setting, including a proven track record in a leadership or supervisory capacity.
• Qualifications: SVQ Level 4 in Health and Social Care (or equivalent professional qualification) alongside a recognised management qualification, or a willingness to work towards one.
• Professional Registration: Active registration (or immediate eligibility to register) with the Scottish Social Services Council.
• Key Skills: Excellent written and oral communication, sound budget handling abilities, and the resilience to manage challenging situations under pressure.
• Background Check: To join the PVG Scheme or to have your membership updated.

Benefits

Employee benefits include:

• 33 days leave (including public holidays) rising to 38 days after five years’ service.
• An enhanced pension scheme.
• Free life cover.
• Free access to counselling and wellbeing services.
• Support for training and professional development.

Enable Glasgow strives to apply equal opportunities and diversities principles to all aspects of its work.

All successful candidates are required to join the PVG Scheme (or to have their membership updated).

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role

Embracing Difference, Leading Change

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of autistic people and their families? We're looking for a Community Advisor to join our National Advice Line Team!

Working closely with the Senior Community Advisor, you will provide free, accessible and needs-led support to autistic people, families and professionals. The Advice Line supports thousands of enquiries each year and plays a vital role in shaping wider Scottish Autism services and community supports. Every day brings opportunities to listen, advise, empower and connect people with the information and support they need.

Every day is different. You may be providing autism-specific information and advice, listening to lived experiences, or helping families and professionals navigate the wider support landscape.

This role offers a blend of home working and travel to support outreach and engagement across autistic/autism communities, as well as our commissioned support services. Community engagement varies according to local needs and service priorities, so a degree of flexibility is required.

In this role you will:

• Develop and deliver advice, information, support and guidance to autistic people, their families and professionals via our advice line.
• Support autistic people, and their parents and carers to access our free to access community advice services and events, such as Get Set 4 Autism and Click and Connect.
• Promote awareness and understanding of the needs of autistic people amongst parents and carers, as well as communities.
• Identify gaps in access to information and support, to inform development of community advice services.
• Support the delivery of new projects and community services as they develop.

About you:

• You’ll have professional autism practice experience, with the ability to translate complex theoretical knowledge into accessible and practical advice. We welcome lived experience of autism, supported by a strong foundation of professional practice, and an understanding of the diversity of autistic experience.
• Contemporary knowledge and understanding of autism, autistic people and their families across the lifespan, with the ability to provide enabling, person-centred support that empowers individuals.
• Experience of supporting individuals in complex situations, including those experiencing heightened levels of distress or confusion.
• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills, with the ability to identify individual underlying needs, explore options and pathways collaboratively, and provide meaningful, person-centred support, recognising that immediate resolution may not always be possible.
• Ability to work across a diverse range of settings, delivering and facilitating individual and group-based support tailored to the needs of different audiences, including autistic people, and parents or carers.
• Ability to self-manage and organise diverse workstreams.
• Sound knowledge of education, health and social service contexts across Scotland as they apply to autistic people and their families.
• Align with our organisational values.

Social Work Scotland is the professional body for social work managers and leaders. We are a membership organisation with over 350 individual and corporate members. We exist to promote and support the development of the social work profession, and to inform, influence and improve public policy and public services.

We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified and registered social worker with experience of children and families social work to join a multi-agency team with a remit to deliver the National Inter-agency Referral Discussion (IRD) Learning and Development Programme. All applicants should have knowledge and experience of child protection and GIRFEC, and relevant legislation, policy and practice in Scotland.

Inter-agency Referral Discussion (IRD) practice is identified as a cornerstone of the child protection system. This process is central to ensuring risk to a child or young person is identified, mitigated and appropriate support is put in place.

Working collaboratively as part of a team from social work, police and health, this post will deliver a national learning and development programme for IRDs to build specialist knowledge and skills, to enhance the protection of children. Delivery of the programme will be in local area across the country to support consistency of practice based on the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021 - updated 2023.

Under a collaborative leadership and management model from Police Scotland, Social Work Scotland and NHS Education for Scotland, the team will work together to deliver the agreed objectives.

The work of the National Team contributes directly to policy and practice developments in the wider children’s services landscape, including, but not limited to, GIRFEC, The Promise, UNCRC, Bairns’ Hoose, Scottish Child Interview Model (SCIM), Age of Criminal Responsibility and implementation of the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland.

The successful candidate will deliver the training programme to police, social work and health IRD participants, support the programme of ongoing practice evaluation and contribute to ongoing development of the programme.

The work will require travel and overnight stays across Scotland to deliver training in local areas.

The successful candidate should be an experienced social work professional, committed to working on a multi-agency basis, applying trauma informed practice and focused on the rights and needs of children and families and with experience or evidence of capacity in relation to training.

Embracing difference, leading change

We're looking for a passionate and motivated leader to join our Central Area Services team, supporting autistic adults across housing support, care at home, day opportunities, and outreach services.

As a Senior Autism Practitioner, you'll lead and develop a team of Autism Practitioners, ensuring high-quality, person-centred support is delivered every day. You'll coach and mentor colleagues, build strong partnerships with families and professionals, and help create positive outcomes for the people we support.

This is an exciting opportunity to further your leadership career while making a real difference in people's lives.

What We're Looking For:

• Someone who leads by example, embedding our values of Belonging, Empowering, Curiosity and Integrity in everyday interactions and decisions.
• Experience in a supervisory or management role within social care
• Experience supporting autistic people
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel, with the ability and willingness to learn new systems, including rota planning software.
• Full UK driving licence
• Flexibility to work a variety of shifts and participate in an on-call rota

Why Join Scottish Autism?

At Scottish Autism, people are at the heart of everything we do. As Scotland’s leading autism charity, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture where difference is embraced, individual voices are valued, and everyone has the opportunity to thrive. Our work is guided by four core values: Belonging, Empowering, Curiosity and Integrity, which shape how colleagues support autistic people, work together and drive positive change.

We also offer a generous benefits package including:

• Competitive salary with clear progression opportunities
• 32 days annual leave (pro rata), increasing with service
• Sector-leading training and development from day one
• Fully funded professional qualifications - we'll support you to achieve relevant qualifications, including SVQ Level 4 and Leadership & Management for Care Services, if required.
• Employer pension contributions of up to 9%
• Life assurance scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Retail and lifestyle discounts

Organisation profile:

Dean and Cauvin Young People’s Trust is one of Edinburgh’s oldest and established charities, providing residential group living and community, family and group work support to children, young people and families. We are committed to implementing The Promise and building strong and caring relationships with our young people rooted in our values of Care, Perseverance, Acceptance and Hope. We provide a scaffolding of love and support around them as they take their first steps towards a confident and independent future.

Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to come and join our team as a Residential Worker based at Chestnut Wynd, our house for young people. Situated in West Granton, our purpose-built house provides a safe and nurturing home for up to five young people aged 15-21 and a range of modern facilities and wellbeing spaces designed to help them grow, develop and make a successful transition to young adulthood.

As part of a team you will work closely with the young people we live alongside to provide the daily care and support they need and the advice and guidance to manage their health and wellbeing, independent learning and living skills, education and training needs. Our house staff also work closely with our community-based team to provide additional 1:1 and group supports to young people and to further develop their social and community connections. We work together with families, social work, health services and other colleagues to keep the strengths, aspirations and voice of the young person at the heart of all we do while ensuring their safety and welfare is always maintained.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to be part of our team as we adapt our services to #KeepThePromise. We are looking for skilled individuals who are passionate about working with young people building strong relationships with them. This role will suit someone who understands child development, trauma-informed practice and is skilled in planning and delivering robust assessment and interventions with young people, as well as being positive and thoughtful, and rights focused.

A residential worker is a hugely important role for us. As a key part of our team you contribute to creating a culture of nurture and care for our young people while also ensuring the house is maintained and resourced to meet the needs of young people and staff.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to be part of our team as we adapt our services to #KeepThePromise. We are looking for someone who is:

• An individual who is skilled in planning and delivering a range of 1:1 and group-based practice approaches with young people.
• Values-led and rights focused.
• Able to have honest and courageous conversations
• Passionate about working alongside children, young people and families.
• Able to build strong and effective relationships with young people, their family and professional and social support networks.
• Works in a way that that is rooted in an understanding of child and young people’s developmental needs, trauma-informed and restorative approaches.
• Can undertake assessment and care-planning processes for young people to ensure a focus on positive outcomes.
• Flexible, creative and fun!

This role involves a shift pattern over a six-week rota and therefore requires weekend working, and sleep-ins.

We are committed to the development of all our staff and the successful applicants will have access to:

• Regular support and supervision
• Continuous Professional Development
• Training and learning opportunities.
• Discounted access to our holiday caravan
• Our Employee Assistance Scheme

If you are someone who can make a difference for young people and have relevant experience with social work, youth/community/family work or other relevant experiences then we want to hear from you!

We have an exciting opportunity for a confident and organised Project Coordinator to help deliver iCare: Identifying Carers, Advancing Recognition and Equality. Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF), iCare is an ambitious five-year system-change project.

Working with carers, practitioners and NHS partners, the project will address barriers to support and drive changes in practice to improve earlier and more consistent identification of unpaid carers across the Lothians. It will support the development of an early carer identification blueprint, strengthen good carer conversations using the Adult Carer Support Plan (ACSP) framework, and co-design and implement a new integrated digital carer identification platform.

The postholder will join a project team comprising an iCare Project & Systems Manager, based within VOCAL, and Project Coordinators covering Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian. The East and West Lothian Project Coordinators will be employed and managed by Carers of East Lothian and Carers of West Lothian respectively. All four roles will work closely together to deliver shared priorities, promote consistent practice and support learning across the Lothians.

The Project Coordinator for Midlothian will undertake a range of duties, including:

• Supporting the day-to-day delivery of iCare by maintaining clear work plans, action logs and records, and ensuring effective follow-up across project workstreams.
• Building positive working relationships with the wider project team, carers, VOCAL colleagues, NHS and community partners, and other carer centres.
• Supporting meaningful carer involvement through the development and coordination of a Carers Assembly, ensuring that carers lived experience helps shape project priorities, changes in practice and digital development.
• Planning and supporting focus groups, workshops, briefings and training sessions with carers and practitioners.
• Supporting co-design and user testing of a digital carer identification platform, while ensuring digital options complement rather than replace non-digital support.
• Gathering feedback and data, and contributing to project learning, evaluation and reporting to the funder.

About you

You will understand unpaid caring and the impact it can have on carers’ health and wellbeing. You will also have a good understanding of the carer support landscape, including the role of Adult Carer Support Plans and the responsibilities of statutory health and social care partners. You will bring experience of supporting a project or service, working collaboratively with others, and engaging people in a respectful and inclusive way. You will also have strong organisational and administrative skills, clear written and verbal communication, digital confidence, and the ability to hold sensitive, person-centred and outcomes-focused conversations.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project & Systems Manager to take a lead role in iCare: Identifying Carers, Advancing Recognition and Equality, an ambitious five-year system- change project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF).

iCare aims to improve earlier and more consistent identification of unpaid carers across the Lothians, addressing barriers to support and helping to create meaningful and lasting change in practice. The project will develop an early carer identification blueprint, strengthen good carer conversations using the Adult Carer Support Plan (ACSP) framework, and co-design and implement a new integrated digital carer identification platform.

Working with iCare Project Coordinators in East, West and Midlothian (the iCare Project Team), and under the direction of the iCare Project Steering Group, you will lead and coordinate delivery across the project. You will line-manage VOCAL’s Midlothian iCare Project Coordinator and provide professional leadership and coordination across the wider iCare team. The East and West Lothian Project Coordinators will be employed and line managed by partner organisations Carers of East Lothian and Carers of West Lothian respectively.

This is a senior, hands-on role with key responsibilities that include:

• leading the day-to-day delivery of iCare across the Lothians, ensuring delivery remains focused on agreed plans, milestones, outcomes and funder requirements;
• coordinating the different strands of the programme, managing priorities, dependencies, risks and issues;
• supporting the iCare Project Steering Group and translating agreed priorities and decisions into effective delivery;
• leading monitoring, evaluation and reporting, using evidence and feedback to understand progress and support continuous improvement;
• developing strong and effective partnerships across health, social care, the third sector, research, digital and community organisations;
• championing consistent, high-quality approaches to early carer identification, good carer conversations, ACSPs and preventative support;
• ensuring carers meaningfully influence the project through the Carers Assembly and wider inclusive engagement; and
• ensuring that new digital approaches complement rather than replace, non-digital routes to support.

As iCare develops a digital platform, you will also help to ensure that VOCAL’s own systems, processes and practice develop alongside it. This will include translating carer, practitioner and organisational requirements into practical system and process improvements and ensuring that VOCAL’s case-management arrangements, recording practices and carer journeys develop appropriately.

About you

We are looking for someone who can bring people, practice and systems together and turn an ambitious vision into practical, coordinated change. You will have experience of leading and managing projects, services or programmes and supporting organisational, service or systems change.

A confident and collaborative partnership worker, you will be skilled at building relationships, bringing people with you and engaging others in a respectful and inclusive way. You will also have experience of working alongside digital or technical colleagues to develop services or systems, from defining operational requirements and co-design through to testing and implementation.

You will have a good understanding of unpaid caring and the impact it can have on carers’ health and wellbeing, alongside knowledge of the carer support landscape and relevant legislation. This will include an understanding of the health and social care system in Lothian and Scotland, and how to influence and support practice change within complex systems.

We are a charity with decades of experience supporting people across Scotland, providing those who need us with support that ranges from Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodiversity, Youth and Adult Homelessness and Older People services.

Guided by our values of Respect and Compassion, we empower both the people we support and our colleagues to Thrive every day

Why Work With Us?

At Care Support Scotland caring isn’t just a job — it’s who we are. Join our dedicated team and help transform lives while growing your own career.

• Pension contributions matched up to 6%
• Financial Flexibility – Access your wages as you earn them with our Earned Wage Access benefit.
• Employee Assistance Programme through HSF
• Contribution to HSF Health Plan – supporting your everyday health needs
• Generous annual leave – 33 days including public holidays, increasing with service
• Supportive absence policies to help when you need time off
• Death in Benefit Cover – 2x annual salary
• Support with funded qualifications
• Career development and progression opportunities

About the Service:

Midlothian Temporary Accommodation Partnership (MTAP) Covers a number of services, providing homelessness support, prevention, emergency and temporary accommodation across Midlothian. We provide Housing Support, Tenancy Support, Housing First and Temporary and Emergency Accommodation services, including self-contained flats for young people and families, as well as emergency accommodation hostels.

Who We Are Looking For

We’re looking for a values-led, compassionate and confident Team Leader to oversee a number of services within the Midlothian area on a 6-month temporary contract. Someone who can provide strong leadership while keeping the people we support at the heart of everything they do.

Experience within homelessness is welcomed, but it isn’t essential. We recognise that strong leadership skills are transferable from other sectors. What matters most is that you share our values of Compassion, Respect and Thrive, are willing to learn and can lead and develop others

Compassion

• Be visible, approachable and supportive, particularly when situations are challenging.
• Lead with empathy and promote trauma-informed practice, encouraging staff to meet people where they are at.
• Support staff wellbeing while maintaining clear expectations and boundaries.

Respect

• Lead by example, treating people fairly, consistently and with dignity.
• Communicate openly and have honest, constructive conversations when standards are not being met.
• Take ownership, make decisions and follow through on agreed actions.

Thrive

• Develop and empower staff to grow in confidence and take responsibility within their roles.
• Recognise good practice, celebrate achievements and encourage reflective learning.
• Be solution-focused and look for opportunities to improve how the team and service work.

Above all, we’re looking for the right person and the right values. We want someone who can bring out the best in others, maintain high standards and create an environment where both staff and the people we support can thrive.

Role and Responsibilities

• Apply your knowledge of best practice, codes of practice and current regulations in the social care sector and ensure the provision of a high quality and socially inclusive service
• Manage support plans and contribute to support reviews alongside Service Managers
• Work with Service Managers on service referrals and staff interviewing & selection procedures
• Assist in monitoring the service’s progress against an agreed business plan including evaluating work and implementing changes to improve results
• Develop, implement and monitor action plans for any team-led changes or external recommendations from the Care Inspectorate, Quality Assurance or Business Assurance
• Contribute, in consultation with the Service Manager and the Finance team, each year’s budget and ensure the financial targets are met
• Develop constructive relationships with national and local statutory, voluntary and community agencies to ensure appropriate resources, support and understanding of the service
• Deputise for the Service Manager, assuming the responsibilities in their absence.

Essential Skills and Attributes

• At least 3 years’ experience of support/care services
• Experience providing support and development to a team
• Partnership working and collaboration
• IT literacy and ability to use and understand data to make informed service decisions
• Qualified to the level required by the SSSC as a manager in housing support services and care at home services,orwillingness to work towards and to successfully complete qualification within the SSSC specified timeframe.

Additional Notes

• Shift work, weekend work may be a requirement of this role.
• PVG scheme membership & SSSC registration are requirements of this post
• Please note, you will be asked to provide evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.
• We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward if a suitable candidate is identified.

An exciting opportunity to join a team supporting people at risk of homelessness in a hospital setting

About the project

The Hospital In-reach service operates across 3 sites in Edinburgh; the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, the Western General Hospital and the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. The project supports people to complete courses of treatment within hospital, plan for a discharge into accommodation that suits their needs and provide follow up support to those with the most complex healthcare needs.

A quote from someone who used the service,

“You literally saved my life, I was sitting in my bed thinking I have nowhere to stay, and when they tell me to leave I will be on the streets in winter and won’t survive the cold or I would have to start using again and that would be it for me. Then you came into the ward to offer your service and it was like being sent an Angel to look out for me”

About the role

Working alongside clinicians in the hospital settings, you will provide one-to-one person-centred support to people in hospitals. You will work with individuals to enable them to identify housing options, personal outcomes and priorities for their health and wellbeing and link them to local support services and activities. The role works across multiple hospital sites, as well as community healthcare and accommodation settings. The role regularly involves lone working, with a need to work flexibly across multiple locations on any given day and can be physically demanding.

About you

You will have experience of working with people who are experiencing complex social and emotional circumstances, and a strong understanding of the challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness. You will use your excellent interpersonal skills to deliver effective one-to-one work as well as manage relationships with multiple partner agencies.

You will be resilient and thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, with the ability to respond flexibly.

How we will support you

We will encourage you to be creative and innovative in your approach to supporting people.

You will be supported by friendly and close-knit team, have extensive opportunities for learning, and be a key part of the service development and systems change that makes up the current Health & Social Care landscape.

You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme and staff wellbeing services.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness. We understand that there are many routes into homelessness, and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting people towards more positive and stable futures. That’s why all our work is values-led and relationships-based.

Website: cyrenians.scot