This is an opportunity to make a positive impact on peoples’ lives and in the community.
Inspired Community Enterprise Trust (ICET) based in Dumfries, creates employability training, and wider citizenship opportunities for young people with additional support needs (ASN). We support young people with ASN to gain vocational training and SQV accredited qualifications through our Social Enterprise Training Café, The Usual Place, and a growing events business which provide a range of hospitality focussed vocational learning opportunities.
Statistically, employment outcomes for people with learning disabilities are extremely low, with national employment rates between 4-8%. This is compared to over 74% employment for the general population. The experiences of the young people we work with reflect that gap and is evidenced in feelings of isolation, exclusion,low self-esteem and lack of confidence. Our mission at ICET is to work for local change and better employment outcomes for young people. As a progressive provider for rights-based development we play an active leadership role in supporting statutory partners to understand how our communities can become fairer places to live and work and help break down barriers to enable this achievement.
ICET is a financially strong organisation with exciting opportunities ahead of us, so it’s a great time for someone looking for a career defining opportunity to expand their strategic leadership experience within an organisation with a strong social purpose and progressive people culture.
About the role
Working closely with the Chief Operating Officer and the Board of Trustees you will play a pivotal role in shaping the continued success of ICET in ensuring the voices of young people are heard and their aspirations enabled. Key responsibilities include providing leadership and management of colleagues, programmes, and resources to implement ICET’s strategic and operational plans effectively.
As a highly motivated and emotionally intelligent leader, you'll demonstrate sound judgement under pressure and possess strong problem-solving skills. Your commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion in the workplace will be evident, aligning with ICET's vision and values.
What you will bring
As an established strategic leader, you will bring experience of working with key stakeholders and an ability to develop good relationships with Government bodies, public bodies, charities and private sector agencies as well as user and carer groups. All with a view to influencing, informing and reshaping public policy around employment opportunities for young people with ASN.
The role at ICET is anything but commonplace. The above attributes would ideally be combined with the experience of running a social enterprise noted for great customer service and in conjunction with the COO, transforming the business operations of the organisation.
A place where everyone can thrive is reflected in our Values.
Everyone is of equal value. Everyone can contribute to their community. Everyone should be treated with dignity and respect.
ICET have a competitive benefits package including 28 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays and mandatory shut down period over Christmas/ New Year) and an employee pension scheme with ICET contributing 3% of salary. We are a Living Wage employer and a Disability Confident Leader looking to reduce the disability employment gap.
Special conditions:
Midlothian Young Peoples Advice Service (MYPAS) promotes the health and wellbeing of young people across East Lothian and Midlothian and currently focuses on working in the areas of mental health and substance use. MYPAS is a community-based organisation with charitable status and based in Dalkeith.
The postholder will be responsible for providing a range of business support functions including fundraising and business development to the Chief Executive, Management Team, the staff team and to the Board, to allow the service delivery teams to provide services that meet the needs of young people. This will include elements of business development, fundraising, communications, marketing, policy development, research and administrative support.
Educated to degree level/equivalent professional qualification or can demonstrate equivalent experience, you will be comfortable working with a wide range of organisations and individuals, have excellent communications skills and able to manage the pressures of working in a swift moving landscape in a service dedicated to improving outcomes for vulnerable young people.
This post may require evening and occasional weekend work.
DVVA are looking for an experienced and motivated individual to ensure the smooth running of the organisation. You’ll manage our city centre offices, promoting our meeting facilities and maximising income from the building. You will also have a key role in ensuring the effective management of resources and will provide administrative leadership and support to the organisation and Board of Directors.
You’ll have a background and experience in administration and/or building management. You will be great at developing and maintaining effective relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders from external contractors and suppliers to colleagues within the organisation. Ideally you’ll be qualified to degree level and also have a qualification or experience in health and safety. You’ll be a creative, solution-focused and positive person with strong line management skills.
For over 15 years, SWCT has played a vital role within the local communities that we serve. We offer safe, affordable, reliable and accessible transport options to constituted non-profit making organisations and third sector groups within the City of Glasgow area. In addition, our Patient Transport Service is increasingly becoming a lifeline to hundreds of patients unable to use public transport to access vital medical appointments.
Our Service Manager is the key point of contact for our organisation, both internally and externally, and this role will appeal to someone with excellent people skills. The role will also be suited to someone with the ability to manage their own and their teams’ workloads, prioritising effectively among competing deadlines. It also offers the new postholder excellent opportunity to bring in innovative ideas to grow both our SWCT minibus and patient transport services to support more people in our community.
A full job description can be downloaded below.
Special conditions:
Role
Responsible for the development of health and wellbeing initiatives within the MYPAS LGBT+ service. This will include delivering:
We are looking for someone who has experience of supporting and working with young people in a non-judgmental and empathetic way. A good knowledge and understanding of the issues affecting LGBT+ young people is essential.
There is no specific qualification required; however, the post holder will be expected to be educated to degree level. This should be in a relevant field such as Health, Community Education, Social Work or Education, but significant equivalent experience will also be considered. The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary service and work effectively with other agencies in partnership settings. This post may require regular evening working.
The Community Link Worker programme in Inverclyde is funded by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Community Link Workers are based within GP Practices and they work across the community, third sector and public sector to support people to live well through strengthening connections between community resources and primary care.
Community Link Workers provide a service that is responsive to the needs and interests of a GP practice population, who are often living in an area affected by socio-economic deprivation. They support patients to identify issues that affect their ability to live well. Taking a person-centred approach, the post holder will support individuals to help them identify personal outcomes and priorities that they would like to address, overcome any barriers to addressing these and link them to local and national support services and activities.
The Community Link Worker will support the existing GP practice teams to become better equipped to match local and national support services to the needs of individuals attending for health and welbeing care. They will also build relationships and processes between the GP practices and community resources, statutory organisations, other health services and voluntary organisations.
CVS Inverclyde is commissioned by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to deliver the Community Link Worker service in Inverclyde. These posts are funded until March 2025 initially, with a view to contracts being extended in line with our commissioning/refunding arrangements.
Purpose: To promote Selkirk Regeneration’s project, Sustainable Selkirk, and deliver events within the local community.
Responsible to:Project Coordinator
Sustainable Selkirk
Sustainable Selkirk is a community-led project delivered by Selkirk Regeneration and funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. Sustainable Selkirk aims to bring the Selkirk community together to take action towards climate change. The project has three broad outcomes; to reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions, promote sustainable travel and increase awareness of the climate crisis. We’re looking for someone who is motivated and passionate about community-level climate action to help achieve our project objectives.
A healthy community is a happy community, and vice versa. Therefore, Sustainable Selkirk delivers projects that are focused on enhancing social well-being and promoting resilience to meet the needs of the local people, whilst encouraging longer-term practical and meaningful action in response to climate change. We deliver a range of activities including providing home energy advice, e-bike trials and skills training.
This is an exciting time to join Sustainable Selkirk. We plan to grow our team as we expand our activities to meet the needs of our community and tackle the inextricably linked issues of climate change and the cost-of-living crisis. We are working to make Selkirk and the surrounding area a greener, fairer and climate-ready community.
Specific responsibilities:
General responsibilities:
Knowledge, Experience, Skills and Personal Attributes:
Are you passionate about supporting children and families? Are you interested in a leadership role working with families?
Due to retirement of the current post-holder, we are looking for our next Child Contact Centre Manager to join our professional, highly motivated and friendly team based in Dundee, overseeing the operation of our Children’s Contact services covering Tayside and Fife.
What we offer:
The position is full-time, 35 hours per week, and is permanent.
We are ambitious about diversity and inclusion. If you have worked with children, young people and families and if you have the right skills for the role, we want to hear from you. We encourage applications from the right candidates regardless of gender, age, religion, belief, race, sexual orientation or disability.
The person specification gives a broad indication of expectations. Please get in touch if you feel you would have a lot to offer even if it isn’t an exact match with our requirements.
The Cost of Living crisis is unprecedented in social history and continues to have a devastating impact on the lives of many Stirling citizens. The need for advice, information and crisis intervention support around money, debt, shortages of fuel and food is huge and continues to grow.
The Cost of Living Support Worker is responsible for supporting volunteer advisers deal with the increase in casework / demand due to Cost of Living drivers.
The post holder will increase volunteer advisors capacity to deal with cost of living driven enquiries & support the main Bureau volunteer led generalist service to deal with the increased volume of enquiries.
The post holder will act as support and mentor to both office-based and remotely enabled advice volunteers ensuring they have the necessary support to deal with enquires effectively and efficiently.
General Responsibilities
• To act as the main point of contact and mentor for all advice volunteers seeking casework/advice support on Cost of Living driven enquiries
• To support bureau based & remotely enabled volunteers to assist in the delivery of the core advice service
• To provide advice support for remote & bureau based volunteer workers particularly in relation to complex/crisis Cost of Living crises driven client enquiries.
• Provide advice for maximising income & support volunteer advisers in the provision of advice & assist people maximise their income by accessing such support as is available to them (e.g. benefits and grants).
• Provide advice & support volunteer advisers in the provision of advice for managing debt. Helping people identify their options and strategies, enabling them to get control of their borrowings or removing the burden of debt entirely.
• To undertake supervisory roles within the office – e.g. 2nd tier technical support on complex Cost of Living driven enquiries
• To communicate frequently with volunteer advisers to ensure they are satisfied, well-placed and any concerns are addressed.
• To help ensure the purpose of the Stirling CAB, its actions, policies, procedures and the role of the volunteer is clearly communicated, understood and implemented.
• To help represent and present the views of volunteers and volunteering related matters to senior management.
• Help ensure that the required monthly CAB statistics are provided to the Deputy Manager
• To carry out any other reasonable task requested by CAB management or required by the Board of trustees.
Accountability
• Provide written reports to monthly supervision sessions with Deputy Manager
• Attend annual appraisal
• Attend Annual General Meeting and quarterly reviews of role with CEO
The purpose of the Fund Programme Co-ordinator is to support the delivery of funds which are administered by TSDG, specifically the Dumfries and Galloway Social Enterprise Grant Programe funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Main Responsibilities
Be responsible for the day-to-day administration of the Dumfries and Galloway Social Enterprise Grant Programme in Dumfries and Galloway as directed by the Lead Officer, Funding and Fund Management. This includes:
Download the job description & personal specification below for further information about the role.