Mentor Relationship Managers (North and East Regions)
- Full time
- £28,000 – £32,000
- Home based in North or East Scotland
- Closing 1st July 2022
- Advertised from 6th June 2022
Role
Are you searching for a position with purpose? A role to make a real difference? Where your time can be transformational? Join an award-winning charity and passionate team dedicated to ensuring the country’s most vulnerable young people are defined by their talent and never their circumstances. Our in-school mentoring has profound impacts on mentees in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. MCR Mentors make and experience a life changing difference.
MCR Pathways is a national, award-winning mentoring programme dedicated to addressing the long-standing inequality in education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances for young people in care and those experiencing vulnerability or disadvantage.
We are recruiting Mentor Relationship Managers for North (Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Highland and Shetland) and East (Dundee, Fife, Edinburgh and the Lothians) Scotland , to lead on the engagement and vital ongoing support of our community of life changing volunteer mentors. You’ll establish a deeply personal service that inspires every volunteer and individual to feel a hugely valued part of the MCR family and cause. This is exceptional customer service and relationship building in practice for a cause that matters for a lifetime. You will be a motivated, committed and resilient person who can lead from the front and be the mentor champion for each of the young people, schools, ambassadors, mentors, their employers and the communities we serve. As such, you will be home based but there will be significant travel around the region. See the full job description and person specification on our website.
The successful candidate will be joining our organisation at a time of exciting growth, where we are launching into new local authorities and developing our programme.
Application notes
To find out more and to apply, please visit our website
Closing Date: Friday 1 July 2022 at 5pm
Interview Dates: Tuesday 12 or Thursday 14 July 2022 TBC
Lead Practitioner - North East Edinburgh Recovery Service (NEERS)
- Full time or Part time
- £25,326 – £28,394
- On site: Edinburgh - Leith and Old Town
- Closing 20th September 2024
CAREERS THAT CARE
Do you have experience of working with vulnerable people and an understanding of alcohol and other drugs related harm?
If this is you, we have an exciting opportunity in North East Edinburgh Service for experienced Lead Practitioners in the field of Alcohol and Other Drugs.
These full and part time roles are working Monday to Friday with the occasional evenings.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity for a Lead Practitioner, unlike other support roles, with Turning Point Scotland, no two days are the same!
You will be responsible for being the first point of contact carrying out initial assessments, building trusting relationships and ongoing keyworker support with communication an essential part of the role.
You will also be expected to work in a groupwork setting and/or provide Assertive Outreach to individual’s homes, GP practices and across multiple community settings in the North East of Edinburgh. You will be offering harm reduction advice and interventions to some of the most vulnerable and high-risk people who use drugs. These individuals may have had multiple non-fatal overdoses and are not currently engaged with treatment and or support services.
About You
As our Lead Practitioner, you will have knowledge and experience of drug and alcohol related harm. You will be working within the service delivery rota of Monday to Friday. Alongside the Service Manager and the Service Coordinator to direct and manage the day to day support within the Edinburgh Service ensuring advanced level of social care support including responsibility for service delivery and development which includes providing line management support to the staff team.
You will be passionate and committed and be creative in ways of engaging people, including home visits (alongside a colleague) offering support in the community. Making a difference to people’s lives, you will continue providing support until they are able to engage in more structured support within the hub.
About Us – North East Edinburgh Recovery Hub
The North East Recovery Hub offers a full range of drug and alcohol treatment and support services. We are a multi - disciplinary team comprising of Voluntary Sector, NHS and social work staff. We are based with our main office in Leith and working across our satellite location in Craigmillar.
Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the salary scale points.
Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.
Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.
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Top job! Business Development, Marketing and Innovation Director
- Full time
- £74,305
- Hybrid: 2 days a week in Aberdeen past induction
- Closing 23rd September 2024
Do you have a business brain, a marketing instinct and a taste for innovation? Are you passionate about helping the most marginalised people to flourish, thrive and reach their potential? This brand-new role is for a special individual with vision and imagination as well as proven practical expertise across marketing and income generation, business development and innovation.
In this role you will have the opportunity to connect the people and businesses of Aberdeen and the North-East of Scotland with those who most need support. You will have the freedom to explore new ways of working, new ways of engaging with supporter groups and new ways of generating income – from traditional marketing, fundraising and sales approaches to new models of co-funding and social investment – all alongside local authority-commissioned services.
There will be opportunities to extend the reach and impact of VSA services, learning from local communities, not only as professionals but as neighbours and friends; to broaden the network of financial and business support from commercial, philanthropic and community organisations, and from the people of Aberdeen – and ultimately help to transform the lives of those who most need the professional services and support of VSA.
As part of the senior team, you will work directly with the CEO and the Senior Management Team, supported by a committed Board of local trustees, in building a thriving community of investment in the care and wellbeing of the people of Aberdeen and the North-East – and contributing to more and better services to meet the care needs of all local communities.
Your role will include leading the marketing, communications and fundraising team, building a stronger connection with the VSA brand, increasing awareness and confidence in how the organisation delivers impact, increasing their fundraising and new income stream capacity, and nurturing a highly-motivated and effective team.
We are keen to speak to candidates with experience in the following areas:
- Income Generation (in particular; Legacy, Major Gift/Philanthropy, Corporate and/or Individual Giving.
- Innovation – experience and implementation of a business case/strategy at this level in a similar role.
- Senior Management/Leadership – experience in a similar role at this level with a non profit would be an advantage.
Can you work with a local community to encourage their explorations of the Christian faith?
We are looking for someone with a deep and mature Christian faith who has experience of working across communities, and working with families and Under-40s to join our Christian Outreach Leadership team and work alongside a vibrant and enthusiastic team of volunteers.
Our Full-Time Christian Outreach Leader who will play a key leadership role within the Dunblane Church of Scotland Grouping (DCG), to reach out across the community of Dunblane (Perthshire, Scotland). With a strong focus on those under the age of 40, the post holder will explore, coordinate and deliver ways in which connections can be made to those in the community who might be encouraged to explore the Christian faith. The role holder will undertake a range of Community Outreach duties that will look at, and deliver, patterns of worship more relevant to this age group.
Please note that this role is currently funded through an award received from Seeds For Change and is for a 3 year period in the first instance after which other funds to support the role will need to be found.
Organisation profile:
The Dunblane Church of Scotland Grouping (DCG), Dunblane Cathedral and St. Blane's wish to consolidate and further develop previous outreach work in the parishes, which started to draw the Churches in the grouping together in a new way. The Dunblane community covers parishes of around 13,000 people of which approximately 41% are under the age of 40yrs and 42% of the population state they have no religion. There is a strong and cohesive sense of community expressed by residents, a variety of opportunities available, often at cost, and excellent uniformed organisations in the area. However, there are also issues of isolation, lack of youth space and a desire to form new worshipping communities.
The Christian Outreach Leader will work within the existing ministry team within the DCG, supported by the Leadership Team (LT), which comprises seven elders and members from Dunblane Cathedral & St. Blane’s, and existing volunteer groups within the grouping to deliver on the aims and objectives of this role. The role holder is expected to participate, on an agreed basis, in worship at churches within the DCG.
The role holder will report to the LT on a quarterly basis to monitor progress and steer direction of the Christian Outreach Activities. The LT will then report to the respective Kirk Sessions of the two churches.
Please note that it is an essential requirement of this role that the post-holder is a committed Christian with a live church connection, which is a Genuine Occupational Requirement in terms of the Equality Act 2010.
Support Worker: Street Team (Edinburgh)
- Full time
- £23,400 – £25,094
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 24th September 2024
About Simon Community Scotland
Simon Community Scotland is the largest provider of homelessness services in Scotland.
Our vision is for everyone to have a safe place to live with access to the support they need. Every day we help make positive things happen for people facing extremely difficult circumstances.
Everything we do is about and for people: the people we support, our staff, our partners and everyone affected by homelessness.
Our values are built into every area of activity and tell the story of how people remain at the heart of the Simon Community.
Job Summary
The Simon Community is Scotland's leading homelessness charity. We are creative and innovative. We get things done with care and compassion that make a difference to our community, being true to our values. We are a community of staff, volunteers, and people that we support.
We are looking for someone passionate about changing the expectations and experiences of people we support, many of whom have experienced significant trauma, exclusion, and stigma. They often engage in risk-taking behaviors that put their physical and mental health, and their lives at risk. Despite their challenges, they have incredible resilience, survival skills, and a wicked sense of humor. They know what a good, and not-so-good service looks like.
Creating strong partnership relationships is essential in order to offer the best options for the people we support and help them link in with services they may have struggled to access in the past.
Our Edinburgh street team responds to people who are rough sleeping, meeting them where they are at and providing that crucial first link into care. The team is out and about in all weathers on foot, bike, and car reaching out to all areas of Edinburgh. Supporting someone through the initial first steps on the journey from rough sleeping to more settled arrangements is challenging but incredibly rewarding and with this role, you will have the opportunity to work with those who are most far removed from society and show them that they matter.
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