Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of families and children?

COVEY has two exciting opportunities available for Coordinators to manage delivery of 1-1 and group-based befriending/ mentoring support to children and young people.

COVEY’s consistent relationship-based support, which is centred on the participant’s needs, interests and hopes, improves health and wellbeing, social connections, confidence and increases their engagement with education, training, volunteering or employment.

As a Coordinator, you will have the ability to work collaboratively with children, young people, their families and others who support them. This will involve engaging with various, community, statutory and voluntary agencies and working in close partnership to support vulnerable families.

You would ideally have experience of supporting volunteers, managing a caseload, evaluation and monitoring. We are looking for someone who has a real passion around supporting those who are most vulnerable in our community.

Essential requirements:

• Available for at least two evenings per week where required
• Enhanced PVG required for this post
• Full Driving License with access to a car for business use/purposes

Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of families and children? COVEY has two exciting opportunities available for Coordinators to manage delivery of 1-1 and group-based befriending/ mentoring support to children and young people.

COVEY’s consistent relationship-based support, which is centred on the participant’s needs, interests and hopes, improves health and wellbeing, social connections, confidence and increases their engagement with education, training, volunteering or employment.

As a Coordinator, you will have the ability to work collaboratively with children, young people, their families and others who support them. This will involve engaging with various, community, statutory and voluntary agencies and working in close partnership to support vulnerable families.

You would ideally have experience of supporting volunteers, managing a caseload, evaluation and monitoring. We are looking for someone who has a real passion around supporting those who are most vulnerable in our community.

Essential requirements:

• Available for at least two evenings per week where required
• Enhanced PVG required for this post
• Full Driving License with access to a car for business use/purposes

We are excited to announce the opportunity for a Participation Manager to join the SYP team.

Working within SYP’s youth-led structure, our Participation and Programmes Manager will support the Head of Participation and Programmes, working with the Participation and Programmes team to deliver SYP’s Participation, Project, Programmes and training activities, in line with the organisation’s strategic objectives.

Reports to: Head of Participation and Programmes

We are recruiting for a Locality Manager to lead our service provision in Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and South Lanarkshire.

In Glasgow this relates to directly managing a supported accommodation service as well as a service supporting young people living semi independently. In East Dunbartonshire, the post holder will be responsible for leading a tenancy support service enabling people to access and sustain tenancies.

Our South Lanarkshire service focuses on community housing support.

Right There is a charity working to prevent people becoming homeless and separated from their loved ones.

We’re here for children and adults who are living with the effects of poverty, addiction or broken relationships. Walking alongside people at home and in the community, we provide tailored support and form trusting relationships to help people feel happier, safer and more confident to live their lives.

Rooted in communities across Scotland for almost 200 years, we’re there for people going through tough times. Our work won’t stop until everyone has an equal chance to create a safe and supportive place to call home.

Main duties and responsibilities include:

• Directly manage delivery of Glasgow and East Dunbartonshire service from Branston Court Service in Maryhill
• Ensure robust person-centred planning is at the heart of delivery with maintained and accurate support plans recording SMART outcomes.
• Lead your portfolio with emphasis on best practice, qualitative based outcomes and robust operational controls
• Responsibility for service development and excellence leading on the collation and implementation of annual review and improvement programme.
• Investigate new opportunities allied to and/or supporting existing service provision
• Support leadership and senior management colleagues develop new service proposals and tenders of new and existing activity.
• Lead the teams to deliver great “customer” service and a People First Approach
• Build your team taking responsibility for recruitment, induction and performance using support and supervision and appraisal tools.
• Responsibility for the learning and continued professional development of yourself and your teams, actively encouraging reflective practice for team learning
• Accountable for service specific data collection, analysis and regular agreed reporting
• Deliver on service performance, using KPI data to support decision making and planning for current programmes.
• Analyse both external and internal data/information to support future growth, development and planning
• Responsible for upholding the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) Codes of Practice and Health and Social Care Standards within your programme.
• Lead Glasgow and West partnership with key commissioners involved in service review and reporting.
• Responsible for compiling and managing the approved annual budgets
• Ensure services operate within financial parameters and targets

What we expect from you

Our values make us who we are and define our actions and behaviours every day. We’d expect the post-holder to uphold and represent our organisation in a way that reflects our values and person-centred way of working.

We need you to be qualified to SVQ Level 3 in Social Services and Healthcare (previously Health and Social Care), SCQF Level 7 or HNC in Social Services. We also need you to be qualified in, or willing to work towards SVQ Level 4 Social Services and Healthcare and SVQ Level 4 in Management, or SCQF equivalent.

We’re looking for someone that has experience of managing a service, with the ability to lead and take ownership and accountability for the programmes. We also need you to have knowledge and experience of working to Care Inspectorate standards as well as having experience of building, leading and managing a team.

What you can expect from us

We value our staff as our greatest asset and will provide the following working conditions:

The post holder will report to the Operations and Business Manager.

Your normal working hours are an average of 39 per week. These hours are usually worked Monday to Friday, and flexibly between the hours of 8.00am to 6.00pm, with core hours over the period from 10am to 4pm with one-hour unpaid. Variations to these hours must be agreed with your line manager.

Your usual place of work will be 95 Panmure Street, Glasgow, G51 2JA.

Annual leave entitlement of 234 hours holiday (equivalent to 6 weeks) pro rata per year in the first year rising to 312 hours (equivalent to 8 weeks) pro rata per year in the second. This includes public holidays.

You will be automatically enrolled into the People’s Pension in the month that you will complete 3-months of employment, provided you meet the auto-enrolment criteria.

Life Insurance from day one

Option to purchase and sell annual leave.

Cycle to work scheme.

Ongoing learning and development

Wellness programmes