We are looking for a full-time Team Leader to join our dynamic team in Edinburgh.

In this position, you will lead a team of Project Workers as they provide support and opportunity to the adults who attend Upmo.

On a day-to-day basis, Team Leaders supervise and coordinate activities on site, provided support to staff, ensure onsite operations are in line with policy and procedure and assist Team Managers with case and site management. We are looking for a confident communicator with excellent leadership skills and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

This Team Leader position is primarily based in our service in Edinburgh, where we offer workshop activities to adults with learning disabilities and autism from Links House in Leith, and St. Margaret's House at Meadowbank.

The starting salary for this position is £24,100.

No formal qualification is necessary, but experience of working in social care is preferred.

AdvoCard is a well-established and highly regarded advocacy organisation in Edinburgh. Primarily providing independent advocacy to individuals affected by mental ill-health and/or problematic substance use, we work individually and collectively with a range of advocacy partners to ensure their voices are heard and their rights upheld.

We are seeking a passionate and dedicated Community Engagement Officer to join our team. As a Community Engagement Officer, you will play a vital role in fostering positive relationships between AdvoCard and the wider community as we begin our new Digital Advocacy Project. You will be responsible for developing and implementing outreach strategies to engage community organisations, health professionals and advocacy partners with the aim towards building and maintaining robust referral pathways into the project.

Essential

• Knowledge of mental health conditions and the barriers to digital communication.
• Experience of managing your own workload.
• Experience of engagement work, outreach, or related roles.

Desirable skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to connect with diverse audiences and build rapport.
• Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to multitask and prioritise effectively.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and social media platforms.
• Passion for making a positive impact in the community and a commitment to social change.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development opportunities to enhance skills and advance career growth.
• 42 days holiday per year
• Employees Assistance programme including access to 1 – 1 counselling support

Would you like to make a difference to a person’s quality of life? Would you like to learn BSL while being paid? We are looking for caring and motivated Support Workers to support deaf BSL users to join our team. Could that be you?

Who are we?

Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. We were established in 1835 and work with deaf people across Scotland and the South of England. Our work is geared towards empowering all deaf people to achieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access, and opportunity.

As well as our outreach service in Edinburgh, we are expanding our service provision in Glasgow and are looking for people who can make a major contribution to our plans for innovation and growth and who have the commitment and enthusiasm to contribute to the work of our support services to Deaf people throughout Edinburgh and Glasgow.

You can find out more about us at deafaction.org.

About you

We are looking for people who are caring, fun, motivated, willing to learn and show initiative. However, you would need some experience of working in a support service and managing /overseeing a team.

We will provide on the job training with the opportunity to complete formal qualifications in social care. If you have knowledge of BSL, or are a BSL user that is a bonus, however we will provide training if not.

The ideal candidates will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website.

The role

You will be leading a team to support *deaf people living in the community. As well as leading a team you will be lone working in the community, delivering a person-centred service supporting deaf people within their own living environment, to enable them to fully participate in the decisions affecting their lives, ensuring that wherever possible, service users benefit from informed choice, control, and independence. This will include both activities at home and within the community which will promote independence and social inclusion.

You will be accountable to the Support Services Area Manager. By working together, you will ensure that a consistent, high quality support service is provided to deaf service users in their own homes, and that staff are supported to develop and maintain such a service.

Due to the nature of this role, its essential that you can drive and have access to a car.

*deaf: this to includes Deaf Sign Language users, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people.

You will be asked:

• To actively monitor and develop individual and team performance by ensuring effective supervision and Performance Development Reviews/Reports (PDRs).

• Be responsible for any risk assessments at the service users home as part of your Health and Safety responsibilities.

• To provide clear direction, co-ordination, feedback, and day to day line management for the work of a delegated group of staff. Thus, ensuring their motivation to provide outcome focused, person centred services.

• To assess any new service users for the service and match them with staffs.

• To be involved in recruitment for new staff for the service.

• To take an active role in assessments / recordings and to work with service users to develop their skills and abilities to achieve identified outcomes.

• To assist service users with personal care tasks where appropriate.

• To be involved, as appropriate, with all household tasks, maximising service users’ participation.

• To record the day-to-day finances (where relevant) and household budgets of service users.

• To enable service users to access information to be fully informed of their rights and valid expectations from the service provided.

• To ensure the health, safety and security of individuals and their environment.

What is on offer? What do we offer?

• Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions of 6%.

• 32 days leave pro rata (including bank holidays) pro rata for part time.

• 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured.

• In-house Mental Health First Aiders.

• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme.

• Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process

• Death in service benefit

We seek a part time (28 hours per week) Learning Coordinator to promote and deliver Lead Scotland’s Perth and Kinross Digital Skills Project. This is a learning service for digitally excluded people, including disabled people, carers and those who experience barriers.

About you:

Are you committed to engaging and supporting disabled people and carers to build confidence and digital skills? Are you committed to delivering accessible learning opportunities and supporting people to progress?

Are you passionate about using a community-based adult learning approach, supporting people to get online safely and to realise the benefits of thinking digitally? Are you confident in communicating one to one and with groups and have a flexible and creative approach to problem-solving?

Would you enjoy being an active part of the Lead Scotland team as we develop new, exciting accessible digital learning opportunities?

Do you have great organisational skills, previous experience of supporting disabled people experiencing a range of barriers, of working one-to-one and in groups with learners, and of designing and delivering learning programmes?

Do you have access to transport as you will be working in homes and communities across Perth and Kinross?

Do you have an assessor’s award? No? Would you be willing to work towards this?

Interested in hearing about working with Lead? Watch our information video at lead.org.uk/current-job-vacancies .

This post is home-based in Perth and Kinross and involves regulated work for which a satisfactory PVG will be required. Lead Scotland has a Recruiting People with Convictions Policy.