SOSCH is seeking a CLH Coordinator to provide support to the development and delivery of community-led housing projects across the South of Scotland.
SOSCH is an award winning Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) that supports community-led housing and regeneration across the South of Scotland. The post-holder will:
For this exciting opportunity, we are seeking application from individuals educated to degree level and/or with demonstrable relevant experience in one or more of the following areas –
Organisation Profile:
The Scottish Alcohol Counselling Consortium (SACC) is a small, member-led organisation of councils on alcohol and local, voluntary alcohol and addiction support agencies. Our member organisations all provide alcohol counselling or one to one support as part of their services.
Our aim is to make a meaningful contribution to communities across Scotland – by improving counselling and support for individuals and families affected by alcohol and other addictions.
The post is currently hosted by Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA) and the successful candidate will be employed by them. GCA is a voluntary organisation working with individuals, families and communities to promote healthy, happy and resilient communities free from harm caused by alcohol, drug and mental health issues. GCA’s mission is to provide evidence-based support to individuals, families and communities to improve health and wellbeing across Scotland.
Role:
SACC is looking to attract experienced tutors who are COSCA accredited as trainers to deliver SACC’s bespoke Counselling People Towards Behaviour Change (CPTBC) course.
CPTBC is a 30-hour COSCA-accredited course usually delivered over 8 weeks. The delivery is split between 70% in-person delivery and 30% online delivery. For more information, please see our website: scotacc.org/training.
SACC would guarantee at least one course delivery per annum, delivery location can be negotiated.
SACC adheres to the COSCA ethical framework for good practice in counselling, psychotherapy, and counselling skills. We also ensure that all trainers employed by SACC are members of COSCA and suitably qualified.
Additionally, the individual will be required to hold a PVG registration and have personal liability insurance.
Due to career progression, we have opportunities for colleagues to join our team. As a Supervising Social Worker, you are the key link for our foster carers with local authorities, and will ensure quality of care for children and young people; identifying positive matches providing support, supervision and development opportunities for foster carers as appropriate. Your role is not only working with our foster carers as you will also link in with children and young people – checking in with them regularly to ensure their view and wishes are being heard and they are supported to achieve positive outcomes and are happy, safe and feel loved.
As a service we continue to grow, and your role will also allow for supporting potential foster carer applicants; building relationships with them as they progress from pre-approval training through their assessment as foster carers.
A typical week
Our team are located across Scotland. Our full-time roles will typically support a caseload of 12 of our amazing fostering families (reduced accordingly dependent on hours). Most of your time will be spent working remotely, however at times there will be travel to our office base in Falkirk for team and other meetings including our fostering panels – all with advance notice and planning. There are also opportunities to support learning, support groups and assessments.
Our carers consistently share that they value the relationships they have with the staff team, particularly their supervising social worker. The flexibility of working with Care Visions Fostering ensures that our team can provide excellent support to our fostering families, while managing their own diary. Our full-time team members generally work their hours Monday to Friday during core office hours. We hold our fostering panels on a Monday, and part-time colleagues ensure they can support this. We provide out of hours on call telephone support (incl. weekends) and our SSWs support this on an 8-weekly rota basis (supported by a manager) with an additional daily payment in respect of this.
Who we are looking for
We would love to work with someone who is a proactive team player with excellent communication skills and the ability to work flexibly, and independently. You must have a good working knowledge of child protection procedures, legislation, and regulations in relation to looked after children and fostering. A good working knowledge and understanding of the challenges facing children, their birth parents and foster carers is key, as well as excellent report writing and assessment skills. Experience of assessing prospective foster carers would be advantageous.
Our benefits include
*Pro-rata for part-time posts
About Us
Since 2006, Care Visions Fostering has been supporting young people across Scotland to improve their daily lives, development and opportunities after care. We work close to home, operating as a close-knit team. With therapeutic, trauma informed approaches integral, we provide a range of therapeutic supports for all our fostering families, along with our education support to link positively with schools and empower staff and carers to advocate positively in respect of each child or young person.
This is an extremely rewarding role, where you could make a real and significant difference to the lives of children and young people when they need it while working as part of an amazing and committed team of staff and carers.
Keen to hear more?
Listen to one of our team talking about the role youtube.com/watch?v=j2dnfMe4i1U
You can also visit our website for more general information on Care Visions and our values at carevisionsfostering.co.uk
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Sarah McEnhill, Head of Fostering, for an informal chat about the role on 01324 464 200 or sarah.mcenhill@carevisions.co.uk
The Society provides direct financial support to single women aged over 50 who are in need and has been doing so since 1847.
We have a vacancy for a Caseworker to cover the Angus, Grampian, Highlands & Islands areas. Ideally the post holder will be located in Aberdeenshire, but the right person is more important than the right location.
Caseworkers assess both new applicants and existing beneficiaries against the Society’s eligibility criteria, and provide light touch advice and support including signposting to other services. An understanding of the challenges that older women living on low incomes face is crucial, and good knowledge of welfare benefits / money advice is very help helpful, although this is not primarily an advice role. Most importantly, we are looking for someone with significant experience and a non-judgemental, empathic approach who can help the Society to understand people’s circumstances and to find the best ways for the Society to prioritise and offer support.
The Society offers excellent conditions, flexible working and the opportunity to develop a uniquely positive working relationship with the women the Society supports. While the post is home based, it will involve significant travel throughout the post holder’s region (including occasional overnight stays) and to attend meetings in Edinburgh a few times a year. PVG membership is essential as are a driver’s licence and access to a car. Mileage is paid at 53ppm.
We are recruiting for a Programme Health and Safety Lead to join us on a part time basis. The post holder will provide strategic and hands on health and safety assistance to our programmes and support services, ensuring all functions of the organisation comply with current health and safety legislation, acts, regulations, official guidance and standards.
Main duties and responsibilities will include:
Compliance and Information Management
Communication and Engagement
Full details can be found in the job & person specification with can be downloaded on our website.
What we expect from you..
Our values make us who we are and define our actions and behaviours every day. We’d expect the post-holder to uphold and represent our organisation in a way that reflects our values and person-centred way of working.
We’re looking for someone that has gained experience in a similar role with IOSH registration and NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety. You will have excellent knowledge of health and safety regulations and risk management practices, coupled with experience of investigating, reporting and analysing risk, accidents, incidents and dangerous occurrences.
A First Aid trainer qualification and certification is desirable as is ISO 45001 H&S Auditor certification.
What you can expect from us..
Shape the Future of Social Care: Join us as a SVQ Assessor/Internal Verifier!
Are you passionate about developing others and ensuring quality learning experiences in social care? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where your skills can make a real difference?
TRFS is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Peripatetic Workplace Internal Verifier/Assessor to join our dedicated Learning & Development team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a vital role in supporting our operational staff to achieve SVQs in Social Services and Healthcare, contributing directly to the high-quality care we provide.
What We Offer:
Work Style: Hybrid working, aligned to a regional office. Predominantly home-based, with some travel to services within Scotland as required.
Impact: Be a key player in ensuring quality learning and development opportunities for our staff and contribute to a positive learning culture.
Kit: We’ll provide a laptop and a mobile phone.
Benefits: A range of employee benefits including access to exclusive offers/discounts through TRFS Rewards, staff participatory fund, employee assistance program, and much more!
As a part of our close-knit team of SVQ Assessors/Internal Verifiers, you will be instrumental in supporting our SQA Approved Centre, which was awarded “high confidence” from SQA and “outstanding” feedback in our latest external verifications..
You will assess and internally verify candidates in Social Services and Healthcare at SVQ Levels 2, 3, and 4, ensuring adherence to SQA and TRFS standards. Your expertise will be crucial in guiding learners through the SVQ process, utilising our e-portfolio system (Smart Assessor) and fostering a positive learning environment. You'll manage a caseload of candidates, also play a key role in the ongoing coordination, administration, and evaluation of SVQ delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
What We're Looking For:
Desirable:
We have two roles both on a permanent basis with fixed hours open to negotiation, one based in Caithness and one in Sutherland – FTE £24484.
An opportunity has become available within the Children and Young People’s Team at CASWA. We are looking for two hard-working, dedicated and enthusiastic professionals to join our team.
Key responsibilities will include working directly with children and young people who have experienced domestic abuse on a one-to-one setting, providing person-centred and led support.
Applicants should possess excellent communication skills, be self-motivated and flexible and have proven experience of supporting children and young people in a similar environment.
The post requires applicants to be SVQ qualified in Health and Social Care or equivalent (or be willing to work towards this qualification).
Applicants should have an understanding of domestic abuse and violence against women. In addition, applicants should demonstrate a willingness to participate in the awareness raising work of the service.
Role Requirements:
The successful candidates will be required to support children and young people throughout Caithness and Sutherland and will be office based in one of our offices, with the opportunity to work flexibly, as agreed with Line Manager.
These posts are funded and subject to on-going evaluation and are open to women only: (Equality Act 2010 Work Occupational Requirement Exception, Schedule 9 Paragraph 1)
Fauldhouse and Breich Valley Community Development Trust (F&BV CDT) are primarily focused on addressing poverty, inequality and disadvantage. We work with many partners, CAB, Bridge Project, Advice Shop, WLCAN, Wide Range of Health and Social Care Partners, Schools, Family Servies, and Older Peoples Services.
F&BV are rural, fairly isolated communities. The rural location makes access to mental health and wellbeing services and resources almost impossible for many local people. F&BV CDT would like to employ a Mental Health and Wellbeing Development Worker. We would like to continue to address issues within the community using a person-centred, social prescribing approach.
We want to focus on the person in a way "that enables people to achieve the outcomes that they want (rather than outcomes defined or prescribed by others) "We want to manipulate structures not people".
We currently provide a range of advice and support services via our Anti-Poverty programme, projects which address disadvantage, marginalisation and the cost-of-living crisis. Our work often involves a “revolving door”, where people return with a similar crisis.
We want to continue to work with people through their crisis. But we are keen to continue to work with them as they come out of crisis mode and help them continue on their journey with (for example) support, encouragement and self-help. We also want to ensure we train and include local people, local volunteers who have life experience. F&BV CDT wants the post holder to assist in the recruitment of volunteers who can identify with the issues and concerns, who have come through “crisis” and have found a pathway which has enabled them to improve their life chances, life skills, their potential and their future opportunities. We also want to work with our partners and service providers towards positive outcomes.
The post holder, with support from their line management, The F&BV CDT Team, The Board of Trustees, will work with the individual, family and the wider communities. We want to be here for the individual, family, community for as long as needed, until they no longer feel isolated, alone. Until they feel confident, and they feel that their mental health and their wellbeing has improved, and they are able to continue on a positive pathway.
We think this project offers a very exciting opportunity to develop a new way of working within the local communities.
If you feel you have the knowledge, experience, commitment and the enthusiasm required to fulfil these aims, F&BV CDT would really like to hear from you.
We’re experts in helping communities live more sustainably – making social and environmental change happen, project by project, so people and our planet can thrive.
We believe powerful change can be simple to make: small steps everyone can take to make their own lives better can help our world towards a healthier, more sustainable future too.
As our Energy Advice Officer, you’ll work with FEL colleagues to help community organisations, volunteers and householders to take part in a range of energy saving activities; to help improve energy efficiency and thermal comfort; and adapt to the climate emergency and take local action to mitigate its effects. You’ll be responsible for improving energy expertise among current and future community leaders, and for helping them build local engagement around the issue, particularly in areas where it’s currently low. You’ll help communities create energy saver plans and then gather the evidence and build the networks they need to attract investment and resources to deliver those plans. You will help householders improve energy efficiency through home visits, phone, and in-person advice.
You’ll work closely with the FEL Communications team to raise awareness and understanding of the climate and nature emergency, in particular related to energy themes and to grow our FEL membership. You’ll then help our members advocate effectively for climate action and amplify the voices of their communities in pushing for change specifically relating to energy themes. You’ll also be involved in recruiting, retaining and supporting volunteers, and will manage up to 15 of them directly.
Your base will be at our main Stirling offices, but we support hybrid and home working too. This role involves travelling to community centres and private residences across the Forth Valley. You’ll also need to be able to work evenings and weekends from time to time. Please note that this role includes providing householder advice in their homes.
This role requires full PVG checks.
We’re experts in helping communities live more sustainably – making social and environmental change happen, project by project, so people and our planet can thrive.
We believe powerful change can be simple to make: small steps everyone can take to make their own lives better can help our world towards a healthier, more sustainable future too.
As our Renewable Energy Advice Officer, you’ll work with FEL colleagues to help community organisations, volunteers and householders to take part in energy saving activities. Your role will specifically be about advising on renewable energy solutions to help improve energy efficiency and thermal comfort, and adapt to the climate emergency and take local action to mitigate its effects.
You’ll be responsible for improving energy expertise among current and future community leaders, and for helping them build local engagement around the issue, particularly in areas where it’s currently low. You’ll help them communities create energy saver plans, advise on renewable energy as part of the plans and then gather the evidence and build the networks they need to attract investment and resources to deliver them. You will help householders improve energy efficiency through home visits, phone, and in-person advice.
You’ll work closely with the FEL Communications team to raise awareness and understanding of the climate and nature emergency, in particular related to renewable energy themes and to grow our FEL membership. You’ll then help our members advocate effectively for climate action and amplify the voices of their communities in pushing for change specifically relating to energy themes. You’ll also be involved in recruiting, retaining and supporting volunteers, and will manage up to 15 of them directly.