- Advertised from 9th June 2022
- 37 hour per week – Flexibly 5 days over 7, from 8am – 10pm with overnight back up responsibilities on a planned basis.
Role
At includem we work closely with children, young people, families, and services across the community to support young people to make positive life choices and progress towards the type of future they want to live. Keeping connected focuses specifically on providing 1:1 mentoring support and groupwork to promote positive mental health and wellbeing.
Overall, the focus of the Team Manager is to lead and develop a team of professional individuals to be accountable, responsible to take managed risk to meet the needs of the young people, their families/carers and service funders from entry through to move on, ensuring outcomes are evidenced and recorded on our Management Information System.
Engage effectively with partner agencies on a day-to-day basis and also pro-actively seek new opportunities for partnership/collaborative working.
Models’ positive leadership that is accountable, positively role models and leads by example.
Ensure evaluation of Includem service is happening at all levels and that information is actively recorded and utilised to promote services internally and externally.
Application notes
Please email your application form and the Equal Opportunities form to the HR Department: hrassist@includem.co.uk or post it back to: includem HR Department, Includem, Unit 6000, Academy Office Park, Gower Street, Glasgow G51 1PR
Closing date: Midnight, 22nd June
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We are recruiting for a Locality Manager to lead our service provision across the city of Edinburgh and the East.
In Edinburgh this is directly managing Our Visiting Home Service in the Northwest and Southwest of the city as well as overseeing the management of three supported accommodation programmes in the Broomhouse and Pilton areas. The Locality Manager will directly line manager a Service Manager in the city.
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 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 the Edinburgh and East service and be service located in the city(potentially from Leith in the first instance)
- Lead service delivery in line with Right There’s aims, values and strategic objectives
- Lead your portfolio with emphasis on best practice, qualitative based outcomes and robust operational controls
- Ensure robust person-centred planning is at the heart of delivery with maintained and accurate support plans recording SMART outcomes.
- Responsibility for service development and excellence leading on the collation and implementation of annual review and improvement programme.
- Take ownership for growth of services under responsibility
- 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 Edinburgh and East delivery teams with a clear focus on delivery performance and outcome attainment
- Lead the teams to deliver great “customer” service and a People First Approach
- Work in partnership with Right There colleagues; promote clear and singular communication
- Embrace a positive working culture working collaboratively, promoting inclusiveness, cooperation, trust and open exchange of ideas to fulfil Right There’s strategic aims supporting line managers and delivery staff to do likewise.
- 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.
- Responsible for upholding the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) Codes of Practice and Health and Social Care Standards within your programme.
- Lead the Edinburgh and East services in partnership with key commissioners involved in service review and reporting.
- Take the lead in service delivery matters as they apply to the Care Inspectorate, building positive working relations with respective Inspectorate staff.
- 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 Head of Operations-Services.
- Your normal working hours are an average of 35 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 26 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5AA
- Annual leave entitlement of 210 hours holiday (equivalent to 6 weeks) pro rata per year in the first year rising to 280 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
Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people? Do you want a flexible, varied and meaningful job in a supportive team? Do you value great employee benefits such as 360 Wellbeing membership and an annual training budget? Apply to join us!
Bridges Project is a leading youth work charity that helps young people aged 12-25 in East Lothian and Midlothian overcome challenges and adapt to adulthood. For nearly 40 years, we have helped young people develop their life skills, improve their educational attainment and move into employment or further education.
We have a vacancy for an Educational Support Worker to deliver an effective casework and group work service to young people experiencing a range of challenges such as non-attendance at school, low attainment, poor mental health and family poverty.
The successful candidate will:
- Support young people to gain employability skills, life skills and accreditation; helping them in to work, apprenticeships, further education or vocational training
- Provide vocational/industry specific accreditation and training to groups of young people alongside individual support to address particular barriers
- Take the lead on the service and to provide an effective interface between young people, partners and stakeholders involved in the service.
This is an exciting position in which the successful candidate will take pride in developing a programme of delivery which will provide young people with clear pathways to positive destinations.
It is essential that candidates have a full, clean driving licence and constant use of a car. Membership of the PVG scheme will be an essential requirement of the post. A contributory company pension scheme is offered with a 10% employer contribution.
Youth Development Worker (Youth Justice Voices)
- Part time
- £28,500 pro-rata
- Home-based although most of your time will be planning and facilitating participation work in Aberdeen and work from our participation space/office in Glasgow as and when required (Remote)
- Closing 14th April 2024
Anyone working in Throughcare and Aftercare will already know who we are and what we do. That we have a strong reputation for living our values and are well respected for our approach to co-design with care experienced young people transitioning into adulthood, care leavers, and the workforce that supports them.
For anyone else reading this advert, you should know that we are Scotland’s only national charity and membership organisation for all those working with young people leaving care. We have a unique blend of statutory, third sector and private sector members who have the responsibility and accountability to improve the life chances of Scotland's care-experienced young people, and we support them through the following 5 pillars of our strategic plan:
- Listening to Young People
- Connecting Members
- Influencing Policy
- A system that privileges relationships
- All underpinned by: Good Governance.
At the centre of all our work is the voice of young people/adults leaving care and making the change to the system, policy and practice that will allow them to live happy successful lives on their own terms.
As we orientate to delivering on the Promise in 2024 and beyond, and to ensure the rights and voices of care experienced people and the workforce around them are heard, we are building capacity into the operational management of our team to accelerate our strategic priorities.
So if Staf sounds like the type of organisation you would like to contribute to; if you are open to working hard to support the internal culture and approach to being part of a small team that has each other’s back to deliver on our strategic priorities as you do the work itself; and if you have the required skills and experience to ‘hit the ground running’ then we would love to hear from you.
In return we can offer you the salary, annual leave and pension contribution outlined in the job description; flexibility over work base; an internal organisational culture committed to space for reflective supervision and team committed to working in a trauma-informed way and living our Values, We Listen. We Care. We Love.
Community Volunteers Enabling You (COVEY) has operated across Lanarkshire for 31 years supporting 4,500 children, young people and parents/carers to become more resilient, safe and better equipped to reach their full potential. COVEY provides 1-1 and group-based befriending, mentoring and intensive family support.
This role will support the CEO, Deputy CEO & Operations Leader and wider Leadership Team (LT) by leading on administrative, clerical and finance support including HR & Payroll administration, Salesforce CRM updates/reports, office enquiries, board/LT administration and operations assistance where required.
We are looking for someone who has experience in office management and administration, with strong interpersonal skills to manage internal and external relationships effectively and appropriately. You will be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook) and have an understanding of HR requirements, including relevant policies and procedures, and Health and Safety. Experience using CRM systems and accounting packages such as Xero would also be desirable.
What we offer
We offer a rewarding role with the opportunity to develop your skills and future career in an enriching environment with the following benefits:
- 6% employer pension contribution
- flexible working (including flexi-time)
- access to learning and development opportunities
- one special leave day to celebrate your birthday
- annual staff and volunteer recognition awards
- quarterly staff wellbeing activities
- annual all staff outing/activity
- HSF Health plan for employees (and their spouse/partner and children) including dental and optical claim back, physio claim back, personal accident coverage, GP, mental health counselling, legal support, discounts for gym, cinema and shopping
- access to ScotWest Credit Union offering loans, mortgages and savings accounts
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