Fife Women’s Aid are looking for a part-time Team Senior to join our supportive management team. The role will involve managing our women’s and children’s counselling services, including overseeing student placements.

Candidates should demonstrate a high degree of motivation, the ability to support and lead staff, knowledge of counselling interventions and trauma-informed practice and the ability to work effectively as part of a team.

The successful applicants will have at least SVQ Level IV or equivalent level of qualification in management or counselling/another relevant subject, or a willingness to work towards a qualification.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a high degree of motivation and have the ability to work on their own as well as part of a team.

Please join us for an online session to find out more about FWA counselling services. This will be at6.30pm on Tuesday 7th February. 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.

Thistle are looking to recruit an ICJ practitioner to join the Wellbeing Team on a fixed term period (up to end April 2025)

Are you a health and social care practitioner with proven experience of supporting vulnerable people to explore managing health, wellbeing and difficult life situations?

Do you believe people are experts in their own lives and with the right support people can tap into their own strengths and resilience to improve their lives?

Do you thrive working autonomously in the community setting with vulnerable people presenting with potentially high levels of distress?

Based within Thistle’s Wellbeing Team that serves people living in Midlothian, the Macmillan ICJ Practitioner will support people’s non-clinical needs following a cancer diagnosis, as part of a new Lothian-wide service called ‘Improving the Cancer Journey (ICJ), funded by Macmillan Cancer Support. The Macmillan ICJ Practitioner will help to promote self-management and address people’s holistic needs during and after cancer treatment and work across organisational boundaries with partners to ensure the best possible outcomes for people affected by cancer.

The post holder will:

• Provide self-management support to people affected by cancer, including family and carers.
• Carry out an initial Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA).
• The HNA will help the post holder to negotiate and agree with the person their personal outcomes (PO) and a Care and Support plan (CSP)
• The CSP will include actions the person is confident to do themselves alongside additional supports such as ongoing referrals, signposting to information, advice and supports including Welfare Benefits, local physical activity programmes and access to Thistle’s 1-1 and group based self-management support.
• The holistic needs assessment (HNA) will be continually monitored and reviewed to ensure the best outcomes for each individual are achieved
• Develop their competence and practice to support people to achieve their personal outcomes using person centred, solution focused and collaborative strengths based approaches.
• Support the eventual integration of HNA into the wellbeing service by sharing the approach across the wellbeing team.

Work normally takes place on the premises of community-based partner organisations, but at the current time, is most likely to be required to work virtually, e.g. from home where the use of telephone and on-line remote platforms including NHS Near Me options may constitute a significant portion of the working day.

Employee Benefits

• Fantastic training (on full pay)
• This includes enhanced learning in person-centred practice, leadership skills, IT and other bespoke training courses.
• Contributory pension scheme
• Non-contributory death in service benefit scheme
• 35 days of annual leave
• Free Thistle Gym membership
• Membership of the HSF Health Plan*
• Refer a Friend scheme, paying £250 for successfully referring someone to work with us

*This membership can be extended to cover immediate family members after completion of a satisfactory probationary period.

An inflation related pay offer has been agreed and with effect from 01 April 2023 the salary scale for this post will be £26,211 to £28,759 (Dependent on skills and experience)

Are you passionate about helping people to live a better life?

Do you want to work for a charity where your health and wellbeing matter just as much as the people you support?

Do you want to be part of a trauma-informed team where you will be supported to develop creative and flexible ways of working?

At LinkLiving, our values and people are at the heart of everything we do including how we recruit our staff. It is important for us to find people who share our values, which are:

• Empathy (listen to and understand an individual’s needs and circumstances)
• Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)
• Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)
• Caring (show kindness and concern for others)

LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people to manage or overcome the effects of negative life experiences (including trauma, mental health challenges, poverty and inequality) so that they can build on their strengths and aspirations in order to live their best possible lives. We support people through a range of models including:

• Personal development and employability programmes
• Self-help coaching
• Supported accommodation
• Care at home
• Housing support
• Befriending
• Social cafes

The Service

The Link Academy team works primarily with people with complex and chaotic backgrounds. The service works hard and creatively to maintain the early engagement of participants. We support people by offering mental health and wellbeing programmes, independent living skills and a wide range of qualifications to support their progression including employability, tenancy, personal development and leadership award qualifications.

The Job

The purpose of the job is to support people to achieve their goals and aspirations through group work by providing opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills. You will be responsible for recruiting, training and supporting the programme participants. You will support the achievement of high standards and provide monitoring information in relation to the project’s outcomes.

You will ensure that opportunities are provided to people equipping them with the skills to make a valuable contribution to the service and their wider community. You will support people into a positive destination whether that be re-engagement with education, training or employment. In the role you will provide support and offer guidance to programme participants, develop relationships with other agencies and services and actively promote LinkLiving’s programmes and services.

About You

in order to be considered for this role it is essential that you can demonstrate a good standard of education, e.g. standard grade passes (or equivalent) in core subjects such as English and Maths and also hold an SQA Assessor qualification or be willing to work towards it.

As you will be working with people with complex needs/backgrounds you must have previous experience in this field combined with experience of co-ordinating, developing and delivering training programmes.

Additionally, you must have the ability to drive and be able to travel between services, as required.

For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please refer to the Job Specification in the Job information Pack above.

What’s in it for you?

The benefits of being a LinkLiving employee (subject to the policies and benefit terms and conditions) include:

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non-consolidated pay awards, subject to terms of the scheme
• 35 days’ holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus additional 3 days pro rata after 3 years’ service, with an opportunity to buy and sell holiday
• temporary enhanced business travel mileage allowance to support employees with increased fuel costs
• access to paid SVQ qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities and funded Disclosure Scotland and Scottish Social Services Council memberships
• defined contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions plus salary exchange and additional voluntary contribution options
• life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits to named beneficiaries
• healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependents) to support health and wellbeing plus discounts on shopping, restaurants, and other services
• employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental and financial well-being
• discounted travel schemes including cycle to work scheme, monthly bus pass scheme and travel ticket loan and much more!

This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration. Link will meet the cost of any new PVG scheme membership or scheme record update.

We are seeking a Full-Time staff member who shares our values and has the experience and skills to support adults with autism and learning disabilities, within their homes (Supported Living), to access meaningful work, and to have fun and develop relationships.

Previous experience of working with adults with learning disabilities is essential, as is a good understanding of autism and the needs of people who use different forms of communication and a confidence in working with people with behaviour that challenges.

Tiphereth is a Camphill community based on the edge of the Pentland hills in Edinburgh supporting adults with learning disabilities and autism in a range of day services, supported living, residential care, and social enterprises.

Key Tasks

• To build relationships with people using a person-centred approach founded on dignity and respect for individuality, and that enables choice and control

• To provide shared support, 1:1 and 2:1 support.

• To work positively with any behaviours of concern.

• To provide care and support with personal / intimate care tasks, administering medication safely, assisting a person’s mobility safely including using equipment, supporting meals, social activities, outings and attending appointments.

• To support people to live in a rich environment, manage a tenancy and build a home.

• To share and support members with daily cleaning tasks and maintain safe and aesthetically pleasing working/living environments

• To support people to participate as fully as possible in tasks and activities that interest and engage them, developing skills and a sense of purpose and value

• To act as keyworker for some people taking a lead role in ensuring outcomes, support plans and risk assessments are reviewed at least every 6 months.

• To build good relations with families, carers, and other relevant professionals.

• To plan, organise and facilitate group and individual activities

• To work as an effective member of a team following agreed procedures, and contributing to professional discussions and a positive team working environment

• Support members both inside the home, but also to utilise the outside spaces, supporting gardening, growing vegetable and plants, and enjoying nature.

First started by Aberdeen University students as a soup kitchen, Aberdeen Cyrenians now put the needs of North East Scotland's most vulnerable and socially excluded people first — leading at the frontline of service, care and influence for 50+ years.

Aberdeen Cyrenians work continuously to shift perceptions and change the outlook on homelessness and vulnerability in society — the reality often differs drastically from the 'labels' that people use when thinking of those who need support. Not accepting the current perception of homelessness is something that underpins Aberdeen Cyrenians' work. Our approach puts the reality of these situations front and centre.

This reality reminds us that anyone can find themselves in difficulty, and Aberdeen Cyrenians exist to support anyone and everyone — whether they're living on the street, at high financial risk, in an abusive living situation, struggling with mental health issues, struggling with substance addiction or involved in the justice system. Our core values support a mission that prioritises close assistance, unique care and standing steadfastly by people in the midst of their most vulnerable moments.

It's the passion and integrity of Aberdeen Cyrenians that makes us a formidable force against homelessness, abuse, violence and social exclusion — we make a lifechanging difference when working alongside the people who need their support the most.

Join our team and make a real difference every day

Working at Aberdeen Cyrenians, you will be helping vulnerable people, who are often at the margins of society, every single day. You will be helping them to build a positive future, resolve their current issues and move towards positive outcomes.

In addition to competitive rates of pay, we offer both on the job and formal training, support achieving professional qualifications and good career prospects.

You can expect the following working for us:

• Comprehensive training through our online Learning Management System
• Opportunity to pursue on the job qualifications and career progression
• Industry leading systems and technology - we use an amazing apps to support our care at home services and case management systems, which helps us to ensure paperwork is streamlined and as much time as possible is spent with the service user
• Online timesheets and expenses paid weekly
• We are a Living Wage Foundation accredited employer - pay is reviewed annually each April
• Benefits including Bike to Work Scheme and retail discounts
• Employee Assistance programme offering confidential support 24/7/365
• Mileage paid at the national rate
• A warm and friendly team environment where everyone is valued.

One of our core values is that we value diversity and inclusion: exclusion has no place in our workplaces. Please let us know if you need us to make adjustments to allow you to apply for a role or attend an interview with Aberdeen Cyrenians.

If you are care experienced or have lived experience aligned to our area of work, we guarantee you an interview, subject to you meeting the minimum requirements of the role that you are applying for. We are also a Disability Confident employer.

Nothing we achieve would be possible without our employees - that's why we're as committed to their careers and professional development as they are.

You can find out more about us at weareac.org

About Ending Violence and Abuse Aberdeen ("EVAA")

Aberdeen Cyrenians Ending Violence and Abuse Aberdeen (EVAA) service work across the whole spectrum of gender-based abuse, recognising that many may experience multiple forms of abuse and crisis at once, and have different short and long-term needs. Providing person-centred holistic support for individuals, we help with both emergency and recovery, working collaboratively within local partnerships and inclusively through specialist support for LGBTQ+ abuse, sexual exploitation and trafficking.

Our aim is to ensure people are safe and healthy, respected and included, and that they are treated equally and compassionately.

Values are at the heart of our organisation informing the decisions we make, the way we offer support to our service users and our staff, and the foundation of how we deliver crisis support that is holistic, person-centred, trauma-informed and compassionate.

Are you enthusiastic about making a difference in young people’s lives?

Helm’s long-term vision is a Scotland where all young people dare to dream and can make those dreams a reality. Our more immediate mission is to ensure that young people in Scotland have access to the education and training that supports them to learn. Our strategy for achieving this focuses on three key activities, which we believe, will make education, training and employment accessible and achievable for all:

• Give Young People a Voice
• Remove Barriers to Learning and Employment
• Develop Education, Training and Employment Services

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual to support young people in Dundee to gain qualifications and move into employment. The successful candidate will have the experience in supporting young people in groups and through one to ones.

Key responsibilities in the role include:

• Plan and monitor programmes/projects to ensure maximum effectiveness and suitable outcomes for young people.
• Review and evaluate programme/project effectiveness in line with contractual commitments and organisation procedures.
• Implement and ensure compliance with quality assurance procedures for all programmes/projects both internal and external.
• Meet all Operational Health & Safety requirements.
• Provide informal and formal support and supervision to team members.
• Ensure and support a positive environment of youth participation throughout the organisation.

What do we give you in return? We provide you with a competitive salary, 35 days annual leave, health benefits, a pension plan, a generous range of benefits and job satisfaction with a real opportunity to make a difference every day.

We are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all young people and use a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG Scheme checks to ensure this commitment is not compromised.

Are you looking for a role in which you will help to improve the lives of families? One that encourages you to share your expertise, build new skills and feel valued by colleagues, clients and the organisation you work for?

We are looking for a Financial Wellbeing Officer for North Scotland. The successful applicant will join Scottish Huntington’s Association at an exciting time as we prepare to launch our 2023-28 Standing Tall strategy to transform the care and support of Huntington’s families.

This follows two years of significant expansion in specialist teams, growth in funding, a rise in media engagement and parliamentary support for our work, and the success of our ground-breaking Dance 100 event in Glasgow.

Scottish Huntington’s Association is an ambitious and hard-working organisation, recognised at national and international levels for its expertise and approach. It is the only charity in Scotland dedicated exclusively to families impacted by Huntington’s disease, a devastating hereditary condition that changes the brain and causes severe and complex physical, mental and cognitive symptoms.

Purpose of role:

You will work as part of our Financial Wellbeing Service to significantly improve the financial outcomes of families by delivering a holistic advice service. The role involves working directly with vulnerable families in the North of Scotland, providing information, advice and guidance to those referred to the service.

The range of services provided includes advice focusing on four key areas – welfare rights; debt, energy and future planning. You will be expected to have considerable expertise in delivering a high quality service, however additional training will be offered in any areas for which additional experience is required.

You will work in an integrated way with a range of Scottish Huntington’s Association staff including the adult clinical team, youth advisors, volunteers and professional staff from a number of external organisations. You will also provide education and training when appropriate and participate in the development of literature to meet the needs of the families.

The successful candidate should be able to work flexibly and autonomously using their own initiative. Good listening, communication and interpersonal qualities are essential, as is excellent attention to detail in addition to organisational and caseload management skills. The post holder will be also be expected to help promote an awareness of the issues affecting families in the Huntington’s disease community as widely as possible.

Please note: Hybrid working means a lot of our staff are working partially from home. While the post holder will have access to an office base, it is essential that some home working is possible.

Space is a community anchor organisation supporting people and their families in South Edinburgh, with some of our services stretching citywide. Our mission is:

‘To nurture, support & inspire, so that lives are fuller, potential is fulfilled & community connections flourish.’

Space deliver 17 projects, with over 60 staff and 250 volunteers. We deliver diverse services supporting young people, families, older people and carers amongst others, engaging with local people more than 34,000 times last year.

For more information about Space and all our projects can be found on our website – spacescot.org

The Role

Space are seeking to recruit a suitably experienced Counsellor or Art Therapist to deliver one to one support to children and young people aged 5-26 years of age.

Through therapeutic support, the post holder will build young people’s confidence and self-esteem, enabling them to better cope with their individual challenges.

Suitable candidates for this role must have worked with young people under 26yrs in a therapeutic setting, ideally having some experience of working with children aged 5-18yrs, and have a broad understanding of the difficulties young people face.

The post holder will attend regular support and supervision with Space Head of Youth & Families as well as attend external clinical supervision to discuss caseload, the cost of which will be paid by Space.

PVG: This post requires membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme

Download the full job description and person specification can be found below.

Wellbeing Together South West Partnership

This role is part of the Wellbeing Together South West partnership, which has been set up to offer early support to 5-24 year olds, and young people who are care experienced aged up to 26 years.

Focused on mental health, wellbeing, and distress, the free services within the partnership will be delivered by four community organisations – Space @ The Broomhouse Hub, SAMH, Big Hearts Community Trust and With Kids.

With funding from the Scottish Government, this partnership aims to provide support at the earliest opportunity to prevent mental health challenges developing for children and young people and reduce the need for them to require intensive mental health services.

Space is a community anchor organisation supporting people and their families in South Edinburgh, with some of our services stretching citywide. Our mission is:

‘To nurture, support & inspire, so that lives are fuller, potential is fulfilled & community connections flourish.’

Space deliver 17 projects, with over 60 staff and 250 volunteers. We deliver diverse services supporting young people, families, older people and carers amongst others, engaging with local people more than 34,000 times last year.

For more information about Space and all our projects can be found on our website – spacescot.org

The Role

Space are seeking to recruit a suitably experienced and skilled Engagement Worker to join our Adult Carers team in South West Edinburgh to develop a new, creative and innovative project for isolated Carers aged 26-35.

The post holder will work as part of our growing Carers Team to improve the health, wellbeing and personal development of carers aged 26-35 in the South West of Edinburgh via access to person centred support that reflects their needs and interests.

This post will facilitate and develop engagement opportunities such as drop-ins and community events to identify and involve isolated carers age 26-35 in our community projects.

This post will support and empower isolated carers and help inform our practice in outreach and community engagement for the future.

Candidates will need to have suitable qualifications, have experience of working with adult carers and have at least two years proven experience in a role delivering individual and group work.

This post will require some evening and weekend working.

PVG: This post requires membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme

Download the full job description and person specification can be found below.

We are looking for a Senior Community Link Workers with a passion for community development work and for supporting people to improve their mental and physical health outcomes. In this varied, new role you will be part of a large team across the Highlands that will take referrals from NHS Primary Care, supporting people whose health issues are rooted in social deprivation. The project will be embedded with Primary Care services and will develop links to community resources, ensuring that strong, working links are established between GP practices and their local communities. Working closely with GPs, Practice Nurses and other members of a Primary Care GP Practice or Practice Cluster, you will make links to community resources in order to help people improve their holistic health outcomes.

You will work with local community groups, voluntary sector agencies and NHS Highland Primary Care colleagues to contribute to development of community resources that can support people towards their health goals. Responsible to the Project Manager and taking a key leadership role in the Community Link Worker Team, you will make an important and innovative contribution to strengthening links between GP Practices and their local communities. You will work with local community groups, voluntary sector agencies and NHS Highland Primary Care colleagues to contribute to development of community resources that can support people towards their health goals. Depending on the particular area of the Highlands in which you are based you may also:

• have responsibility for a caseload, using Personal Support Planning to work collaboratively with people you support to reach their health goals.
• have a line management role for Community Link Worker staff

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for people who are, ideally, educated to SVQ level 3 or who have relevant experience of work in health and social care. You should have a sound theory base for social care interventions including risk assessment and you should be able to apply an analytical approach in finding solutions to problems.

We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and the charity and are a “Happy to Talk Flexible” employer.

If you are passionate about enabling Change Mental Health to deliver a valuable service to the Scottish community and feel your profile matches this role’s criteria, then we want to hear from you!

Why work with us:

Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique support to people with severe and enduring mental ill health. With 50 years’ experience across Scotland, we believe people affected by poor mental health and illness deserve the highest quality of support in the community and that every person has the right to be valued and to share in the opportunities, challenges, and joys of everyday life.

Our person-centred approach puts the people we work with at the heart of what we do ensuring they have greater opportunity, can build confidence and social skills, and become more integrated into their communities. By building connections and support around individual needs, our team of nearly 200 staff and 800 members value the lived experience which informs the services we deliver. We look beyond illness by taking a holistic approach that ensures no one has to face mental ill health alone.

Benefits:

• Professional development including funded opportunities.
• A generous 37 days’ holiday.
• A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan.
• A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment.
• 24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges.
• Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements
• Paid Mental Wellbeing Days
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Blue Light discount card