Join our team as a Recovery Worker in Dumfries and Galloway.

Our vibrant and busy services in Dumfries and Galloway provides support to people concerned about their own, or someone else's alcohol or drug use. We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic Recovery Worker who is motivated to work as part of a thriving and diverse team, ensuring recovery opportunities are available for individuals at any point in their recovery journey.

You will strive to work collaboratively with partners and communities, ensuring that we are as accessible as possible and that the principles of a Recovery Oriented System of Care and true person centred practice are at the heart of all that we do. An SVQ Level 3 in Social Services and Health care and registration with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is essential for this post.

Please refer to the linked job description to support your application.

As a Recovery Worker, we offer a starting salary of £26,250 per annum, rising each year in line with our pay progression salary bands, to £30,900 per year. For further details please reach out to a member of the recruitment team via recruitment@wearewithyou.org.uk.

As a leading charity supporting people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges, we operate over 80 services across England and Scotland, providing free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year. Find out more about us on our website.

Job Description

Our Recovery Workers work with our service users to help them to determine what their goals, ambitions and passions are, working with them to create the best treatment plan for their needs and to get them onto the path to recovery. This is an integral role for With You - as a frontline worker, you will deliver continuity of care through effective partnership working, care coordination, delivery of interventions and key work responsibilities. You will manage an active caseload of service users, connecting quickly with the people we support, treating them respectfully and with dignity.

The service in Dumfries and Galloway operate out of two main offices, all others locations are covered by outreach work. This is a busy established service and WithYou have held the contract here since 2011. Partnership working is essential and flexibility is required by staff to ensure clients are offered the best support available to help them in recovery.

This is a permanent, full time post working 37.5 hours per week, occasional evening and weekend working may be required.

some Saturday working may be required on a rota basis.

Company Benefits

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
• Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
• Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
• Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
• We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period

Essential Skills

We are looking for positive and motivated candidates who are able to communicate with a wide range of people and in different settings. You will also be organised with excellent time management skills.

To be successful in this role you will:

• have attained SVQ level 3 in Social Services & Healthcare or equivalent
• already be registered with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) or meet the registration requirements
• have a driving license and access to a vehicle
• have some experience of working in a health, social care, or related setting
• have some experience of delivering services in a community setting
• have knowledge and understanding of delivering evidence-based interventions
• have the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with clients and colleagues alike
• be resilient under pressure and able to prioritise you work
• able to be flexible with your working hours on occasion and be happy to support other With You locations when needed
• a driving license and access to a vehicle

Ideally you will also have previous experience of working or volunteering with people who misuse substances. We welcome applications from those with lived experience.

You will also need to meet our safeguarding requirements of a satisfactory enhanced PVG check.

The Board of Trustees of Better Lives Partnership is recruiting a Service Lead – West.

The Service Lead role is key to the delivery and development of our services. They are responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, and person-centred services in the West of the region by leading the team, managing budgets, and maintaining compliance with relevant standards and expectations. They oversee daily operations, support staff through supervision and training, and implement the delivery of the area based Operational Plan. The Service Lead will promote and adhere to the values, philosophy and policies of BLP at all times.

We are recruiting a Service Lead to:

• Ensure the effective operation of all BLP services for the West of the region, working to the objectives which will be set out in the Strategic Plan for BLP and work with the Operations Director to create an area-specific Operational Plan and then lead on the delivery of said plan to grow, develop and enhance our service delivery in a sustainable way.
• Provide clear leadership and line management to the delivery team, by providing and ensuring regular support and supervision, annual reviews, training and development. Ensuring BLP services maintain a high standard of delivery and that all BLP policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Oversee the operational delivery of accredited qualifications to ensure compliance with awarding body requirements. Ensure the integrity of assessment through rigorous moderation and quality assurance mechanisms.
• Be the named Deputy Safeguarding Lead for the organisation and ensure service users, staff and volunteers have knowledge of and operate within the BLP Child and Adult Protection Policy and Procedure at all times.
• Maintain links to service users through involvement with BLP activities; ensuring services are delivered and developed to meet their needs by listening to and involving service users. Ensure all service users are tracked through our programme using our systems, policies and procedures, ensuring that all service users have a clear understanding of their journey with our service and have active input into their journey in a person-centred way.
• Budgetary management of the BLP services delivered in the West of the region.
• Lead on gathering, monitoring and evaluating service performance data to demonstrate outcomes and impact. Provide high quality information, analysis and case studies to the Operations Director and the Head of Fundraising and Communications for reporting to funders, trustees and partners. Be the person responsible for local communications and promotion of the service.

The Board is looking for a dynamic and innovative person to deliver on our first Strategic Plan. The person will need to be able to plan their own work patterns, be flexible and able to deliver to tight deadlines. The post will be based in the West of the region at our Stranraer site. Access to a car is essential since the position will cover wide areas of rural Dumfries and Galloway.

This is a great opportunity for a person with experience of leadership in the Third Sector, education, employability or working with young people to be at the forefront of exciting developments in Dumfries and Galloway.

Nith Valley LEAF Trust (NVLT) has an exciting new opportunity for a development officer to transform our volunteer led community trust into a professional, friendly, business orientated thriving organisation generating its own income to service current and future projects.

We want someone to lead this initiative:

Key Aims

• To make NVLT a more Professionally run Organisation.
• To develop more self-generated income for NVLT

NVLT is still run by volunteers with a help of one part time activities coordinator. The Board of Directors is aging and lacks time and skills to manage the range of current and potential new projects. NVLT needs to move to using a more professional skilled work force with volunteer support and the Board concentrating on community oversight. To do this more priority needs to be given to income generating projects, of which NVLT has several, to sustain NVLT long-term and reduce its reliance on grant funding which is time consuming and sporadic. We are good at obtaining grants but success is uncertain

NVLT also need to adopt better financial control with budgeting/cash flow and develop and follow a full strategic plan.

Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.

By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as a Supported SelfManagement Facilitator, you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.

You will be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Services form a nationwide network of local services, including our Supported Self-Management programme, community support groups, nurses, volunteers and one-to-one support teams helping families adjust to life with a heart or lung condition or after a stroke.

We are looking for a Supported Self-Management Facilitator to join our amazing team in the Dumfries & Galloway area. This role is focused on making sure that people affected by chest, heart and stroke conditions have access to our evidence-based Chronic Disease Supported Self Management programme, enabling people with our conditions to live with, and beyond, their new reality.

Through delivering our Supported Self-Management programme, you will support people to develop the skills, knowledge and tools to confidently selfmanage their health condition and live as independently as possible. You’ll also

help people to get back to doing the things that are important to them – from simple things like walking to their local shop following a stroke, to returning to a sky-high hobby of gliding!

You will co-facilitate the delivery of our 6-week Chronic Disease Self Management workshops with another trained facilitator and line manage any volunteers who support the delivery of these sessions. You will lead and motivate participants within a group setting to take control of their lives in a positive way, raising their confidence and empowering them to develop the skills to set and achieve goals, make strong and supportive connections with their workshop peers and make meaningful changes to their lifestyle to support their ongoing self management journey. Candidates don’t need to have medical knowledge, or previous experience as a Chronic Disease Supported Self-Management Facilitator, as full training is provided. We are looking for someone with a positive attitude towards people with disabilities and long-term conditions and an understanding of the challenges faced by people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid. You should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to engage with others confidently and deliver key information, clearly. At Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, our mission is to ensure there’s No Life Half Lived in Scotland – and you can be a vital part of that. We are Scotland’s leading organisation for person-centred, user-led community support for people with our health conditions. Applicants must have a car and a current valid driving licence (expenses are paid at mileage rate). CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”. In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a PVG check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.