- Advertised from 18th November 2022
Role
Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime. We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference.
What is the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a National Support Centre Manager.
Reporting directly to Head of Service Support & Development, you will be responsible for day-to-day management of Victim Support Scotland’s National Support Centre to ensure the provision of a high quality, trauma-sensitive support service to victims & witnesses throughout Scotland. Responsible for implementing and managing ongoing effective delivery of Victim Support Scotland’s National Support Centre – through a dedicated team of NSC Supervisors and volunteers. You will be responsible for ensuring, within your area of responsibility, that VSS’s strategic objectives are being implemented and will have a key role in developing future strategies and business planning to ensure that the needs of victims and witnesses are being met.
If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, then this may be the role for you.
What you’ll need to be successful
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or above or minimum 3-4 years relevant management experience.
- Management qualification.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Skills/Abilities
- Experience of managing change and project management.
- Excellent written and presentation skills.
- Negotiation skills.
- Demonstrate digital approaches to your area of work.
- Ability to develop effective internal and external relationships and networks that enable the understanding and delivery of broad organisational goals.
- Effective leadership style, able to build confidence and motivate and improve performance.
- Extensive experience of service delivery relating to vulnerable and/ or service users who have experienced trauma.
- The ability to plan and organise a complex workload with shifting deadlines in order to meet specific targets, ensuring quality output.
- Ability to think in innovative ways and skilled at problem solving.
- Ability to deliver stretching objectives through effective prioritisation, and efficient use of resources.
- Analytical skills – must be able to understand, collect, analyse, report and present data.
- Budget management.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills, along with the ability and confidence to provide advice and guidance to build positive working relationships.
- First class communication and customer service skills, with the ability to develop long term business relationships and networks.
Experience
- Over 3 years’ experience at manager level.
- Managing staff and volunteers who have experienced vicarious Trauma.
- Experience of co-production and service design approaches.
- Proven skills in influencing, communication and working collaboratively; building professional networks to enhance organisation profile.
Knowledge
- Good working knowledge of the voluntary/charitable sector in Scotland.
- Knowledge and understanding of the needs of victims & witnesses or those that have experienced trauma.
- Knowledge and understanding of the victims’ journey through the criminal justice system.
- Knowledge of VSS and the work we undertake.
- Excellent working knowledge of partnerships.
- Extensive knowledge of legislation and policy e.g. GDPR, Safeguarding, Health and Safety and developing high quality services in relation to these.
Behaviours
- Highly self-motivated with effective leadership style and a self-managing “can do” attitude.
- Determination and willingness to take on new challenges and responsibilities.
- Willing to challenge stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination and bias,
- Ability to cope with rapid and sustained change and competing demands.
- Results focused.
- Honesty and integrity.
- Strong approach to performance management with the ability to define and measure outcomes of success.
- Strategic thinker, able to deliver a vision of the future organisation.
- Willing to be flexible in working hours and able to travel as required.
What we offer?
When you work for Victim Support Scotland, your wellbeing is important to us. Not only do we offer an enhanced annual leave package, but you will also have access to our free health cash plan which includes cover for you and your family across a range of benefits.
Health Cash Plan Benefits include
- Dental cover,
- Access to a virtual GP and advice line,
- Counselling,
- Legal support,
- Discounts on gym memberships, cinema tickets and much more.
- Annual Leave - 39 days
Who We Are?
Victim Support Scotland provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim and witness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free, confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs.
Our vision is that people affected by crime – victims, witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice in Scotland. Our mission is to ensure that all those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them to recover from their experiences.
All our work is guided and underpinned by our six core principles of being engaging and compassionate; inclusive and accessible; person-centred; adaptive, flexible, and responsive; collaborative; and knowledgeable and skilled.
Now is the time to join Victim Support Scotland, helping us work towards the ambitions of our 5-year plan: Empowering people affected by crime: VSS Strategy 2021-2026.
Application notes
To find out more about the role and to apply, please visit our website.
Please note - This post will be subject to a satisfactory PVG check, references, and proof that you have the right to work indefinitely in the UK.
We are looking to recruit a passionate, committed person, with experience of working with young people and adults to join our team join our team as a Navigator supporting individuals away from violence.
In this equally challenging and rewarding role you will have the opportunity to be a stabilising influence on young people & adults and walk alongside them as they create healthier, safer lives.
Women’s Services Worker (Female Only*)
- Full time
- £28,260 – £31,282
- On site: Co-located in Patons Building, Alloa, Clackmannanshire
- Closing 23rd August 2024
Help us to make a difference!
Sacro’s mission is to deliver life-changing services that empower people, give hope and protection, and help to build safe communities.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the early interventions introduced by Clackmannanshire Councils Justice Hub aimed at addressing Domestic Abuse. This multi-disciplinary team works in partnership with Clackmannanshire’s Violence Against Women and Girls and Community Justice Partnerships, providing support on a voluntary basis for those affected by Domestic Abuse.
Space is a co-production partnership between Sacro, Clackmannanshire Justice Services and Clackmannanshire Housing Service. Safe Space will provide early intervention support to females who’s partners have behaved abusively towards them.
This is a transformational role and the successful candidate will split their time between:
- Working closely with Clackmannanshire Housing Service supporting women where domestic abuse is an issue and to achieve secure and sustainable housing outcomes, including support to retain their own home where that is the preferred outcome
- Providing support for female victims of domestic abuse whose partners/ex-partners are being assessed for, or are attending, the Caledonian group
- Supporting women who are referred in via one of our three Early Intervention pilot projects (STRIVE and Non Court Mandated Caledonian and men’s self-referral phone line)
- To work collaboratively as part of a multi disciplinary, multi agency hub to provide a wrap around service for women referred to Safe Space
Successful candidates will undertake the suite of Caledonian training necessary to undertaking all aspects of the role. This training will take please over the coming months.
Support will include:
- Providing information, support and safety planning to all women who are referred appropriately to the service. This will in most cases involve working closely with them in a variety of settings including their own homes
- Conduct risk assessments and needs assessments
- Liaise with agencies and work to a multi agency model in order to contribute effectively to the safety of women and their children
The successful candidate will be co-located with the Clackmannanshire Justice Team – two days of which will be within the Housing Support Service.
Applicants are required to have a working knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse and will involve delivering a service tailored to the needs of women surviving domestic abuse. Experience of working in this area, the ability to work on one’s own initiative and to work in partnership is desirable. Good communication and organisational skills are required as well as risk assessment and management skills.
Applicants should be educated to at least a Higher National Certificate level or hold a SVQ 3 in a relevant subject, such as Social Care.
The post holder will work with statutory and non-statutory agencies and partners. They will also receive specialist training and ongoing supervision for this role. The post requires hours to be worked flexibly and will include some evening work.
Children and Young People Service Manager
- Full time
- £36,949 – £40,110
- Hybrid: Edinburgh or Glasgow with hybrid working
- Closing 19th August 2024
Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity. SAMH has represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for 100 years. Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others.
These services together with our national programme work in See Me, Respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change. SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.
For Scotland’s Mental Health
About the Role
SAMH aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children, young people and the adults around them, through a range of mental health targeted supports, as well as capacity building work, information and other resources.
We are entering a new and exciting phase in our Children and Young People offering and seek an experienced Service Manager to support our projects and staff.
Working alongside the Children and Young People Development Manager the Service Manager will ensure the smooth delivery of our projects, consolidating and developing systems, structures and practice, to ensure the best outcomes for those we support and engage with.
They will manage a staff team of practitioners supporting a range of projects across Scottish localities.
The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge and experience of children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, and have worked with schools, youth groups, health including CAMHS.
The service manager will have excellent people, leadership and communication skills, with experience in staff management, service development and young person-centred support work. They will have an understanding of the challenges that children, young people and their families’ experience, which impacts on mental health and wellbeing, along with the barriers they face getting the support that they require.
With experience in project funding, contracts and partnership working they will work alongside SAMH colleagues, funders, local authorities, health boards and other partners to support and review existing projects and delivery models, along with the development of new and innovative approaches, in line with our strategy in supporting children and young people’s mental health.
A full drivers licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
What we will provide for you
You will work in a supportive environment and will be provided with a full induction and training opportunities. You will be given the chance to develop your knowledge and skills, as well as develop professionally. Some of our benefits include;
- Reimbursement of PVG, Disclosure.
- Funded continuous learning and development opportunities, access to over 100 courses online in addition to classroom and virtual training sessions
- 30 days annual leave rising to 33 after 5 years’ service
- 4 public holidays
- 2 paid wellbeing days off per year to use on what matters to you
- Team wellbeing budgets
- Workplace pension scheme
- Life Assurance policy
- Employee Assistance Programme
Home-Start Edinburgh, Home Link Family Support, NHS Lothian’s Parent and Infant Relationship Service (PAIRS), Citizens Advice , Circle, Stepping Stones North Edinburgh, and City of Edinburgh Council’s Early Years Education are delighted to recruit staff for a new transformational partnership approach that will test bespoke holistic whole family supports throughout the early years. The project, ‘The Family Hub’, will ensure that appropriate, universal, and enhanced support is available at the earliest stage possible for all families with a child not yet in an ELC or school setting. This will be achieved by developing a cohesive pathway and menu of supports alongside families.
The project aims to:
- Improve family wellbeing
- Reduce inequalities in family wellbeing
- Long-term reduction in families requiring crisis intervention
- Long-term reduction in the number of children living away from their families
- Increase the number of families taking up wider support.
Home-Start Edinburgh is recruiting a Senior Co-ordinator, Evaluation & Impact, to support this project as well as the activities of Home-Start Edinburgh. The right person will be someone with a background working alongside families, and an understanding of how to gather evidence to illustrate the impact our service makes. With skills in quality assuring services and data, and supporting improvement activities, you will help drive forward support to families in Edinburgh.
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