- Advertised from 16th January 2023
- Fixed Term Contract until March 2025 (with possibility of extension)
Role
Organisation Details
Capital City Partnership (CCP) is an arm’s length company of the City of Edinburgh Council and is tasked with the operational development, management and support of local and regional employability and poverty reduction measures.
It takes a flexible approach to changing economic conditions, needs and opportunities but its core functions comprise.
• The management of all employability related grants and contracts awarded to external providers by the council and other key partners
• The management of assessment processes related to bids received for such grants and contracts and making recommendations for funding
• The provision of policy advice, research and development support (including secretariat functions) to the city’s Jobs Strategy Partnership and partners
• The development and maintenance of common communications and management information infrastructure for the Jobs Strategy Partnership
• Development and support of the Joined Up for Jobs network and the Joined Up for Business partnership
• Increasingly, provision of support to the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal skills programme
CCP is also a lead agency in the UK and Scottish Government’s £1.3bn Edinburgh & South-East Scotland City Region Deal (ESES CRD) under the theme of the Integrated Regional Employability and Skills (IRES) Programme – covering Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian, Fife and Scottish Borders.
Job Purpose
Joined Up for Business (JUfB) is coordinated by Capital City Partnership (CCP) and is a collaborative group of public sector organisations which brings together a range of employer services under one framework, making it easier for businesses to access the support they need.
JUfB works on a "no wrong door" approach and offers a bespoke, free recruitment and training service, as well as a business growth support advice for SMEs and helps organisations to identify funding initiatives that can support across these areas. We also support contractors in meeting their employability focused community benefits targets across the city.
JUfB directly links with the city’s employability network, Joined Up for Jobs (JUfJ) to create, maximise and simplify access to high-quality employment and training opportunities for Edinburgh citizens.
This post is to provide a central point of contact and co-ordination for the city’s Employer Engagement strategy, adopting and promoting the ‘no wrong door’ approach and promoting to employers the benefits of adopting the Real Living Wage, Living Hours and inclusive practices as outlined within the Scottish Government Fair Work strategy.
The Employer Relationship Manager is a key contact for employers, employability providers and contractors in the co-ordination of daily activities and projects and has responsibility for developing and maintaining strong and effective partnership relationships to ensure that opportunities are accessible for key client groups and referral routes to vacancies are maximised.
The postholder will be required to support the city’s offer to businesses who are recruiting, growing, or developing their workforce and further maintain and enhance the delivery of a high quality, customer focused and responsive service to Edinburgh employers. Supporting contractors with community benefits forms part of this offer.
Application notes
CLOSING DATE: 11pm, Sunday the 29th of January 2023.
HOW TO APPLY: Please send your CV and cover letter in one document to paige.evans@capitalcitypartnership.org, along with our Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form.
CCP actively encourages applications from people from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
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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.
Access to Industry Caseworker Project: EdinMe
- Full time or Part time
- £27,581 – £29,744
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 12th August 2024
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Access to Industry’s Young Peoples Service. You will work in a trauma informed way supporting young people aged 16-21, with complex health and social care issues, to progress towards education, training or employment. You will be part of a small team working one-to-one with young people as well as developing and delivering structured group work.
Key Responsibility areas will include:
Service Delivery:This role will focus on the intensive case management of young people from the City of Edinburgh who have mental health issues which may be a result of adverse childhood experiences. Their challenges to progress may be compounded by emerging issues with substances; offending behaviour; family support; and/or accommodation. You will work in outreach, to engage with Edinburgh’s young people including i.e., schools, Through-Care After-Care, young person’s substance misuse practitioners and HMP YOI Polmont (linking with AI’s Passport CashBack project).
Caseworker support:You will work one to one with young people, assessing their needs, devise action plans and work holistically. Support will be flexible, from employability to welfare advice.
You will work to progress clients into training programmes, employment, and education.
Over time you will develop small-group work programmes that meet the needs of young people you support.
Targets: The project has annual targets and outcomes that you will work towards achieving and achieving evidence of for funders. This is monitored monthly through team meetings and within support and supervision.
Partnership: Pivotal to your role, you will be working with other services and agencies to build positive networks for young people and referral sources into the service.
Administration: You will administer all aspects of the project from referrals, training, progression routes and employer engagement.
AI Team: You will play a part in the wider team of AI through attendance at internal meetings and participation in shared services across the teams.
Quality Assurance & Management Systems: You will maintain excellent records and will maintain case management through use of the Management Information Systems, Helix.
Health & Safety and Property Management: You will ensure a healthy and safe environment, and the protection and best use of property and equipment, by implementing and observing AI policies and procedures. You will ensure that all work opportunities are carried out in accordance with Health and Safety legislation and good practice.
Communications: You will be an effective communicator as you will be working with external agencies, specialist providers and employers and attending meetings on AI’s behalf. You will contribute to internal reporting procedures both written and verbally. You will market the project externally. You will ensure client and organisation confidentiality at all times.
Other Requirements:The post holder will be expected to manage their own caseload and work with minimum supervision partly in an outreach capacity.
Top job! Breast Cancer Centre House Manager
- Full time
- £37,500 – £45,000
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 12th August 2024
The House of Hope will exist to help people in Edinburgh and the surrounding areas. The centre will be a haven away from the outside world where those who are impacted by breast cancer can be who they need to be in a safe space, whilst offering connectivity, support, and friendship.
Cancer is hard and takes its toll on you and those around you. We aim to nurture, improve the quality of life, and enrich the emotional wellbeing of our users by offering sanctuary and support within a home-like environment at a time when they need it most.
You are more than a diagnosis. The service will be designed to be person centred with the voice of the patients and their families at the heart of The House.
The Role:
This is an exciting opportunity to be responsible for leading the launch, growth and development of professional, effective and accessible breast cancer support services for The House of Hope Scotland.
We have an experienced and passionate board of trustees, working alongside an active network of volunteers. You will report to the Chief Executive Officer and will work closely with our trustees and patient volunteers.
This dynamic role requires an individual who displays strong interpersonal skills and the ability to manage a multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate must be proactive, adaptive and responsive to the changeable demands of working in a person-centred environment.
You will be the first point of contact for operations within The House of Hope. You will with the board and CEO to develop the launch operational strategy and programme, overseeing the refurbishment of the building and begin to carve out relationships with service providers and stakeholders.
We need a self-starter who is passionate about supporting those impacted by breast cancer - no two days will be the same.
Signposting and working in partnership with organisations across Scotland who can provide services of benefit to our user group will play another key part in this role. You will support the CEO and trustees with building relationships both across the Scottish cancer network and with potential service providers. We also want to work to increase our networks with health professionals, to help them support their patients.
Within the House of Hope itself and digitally we will provide information and support for those with breast cancer via a direct patient support service. You will help to establish and sustain support groups for breast cancer patients and their families, providing patient information about breast cancer to patients and major centres of breast cancer treatment, and running events (both online and face to face).
This is a unique and exciting role that will allow you to use your skillset to work with us to develop and open The House of Hope Scotland. The CEO, trustees, founders and wider voluntary team will support you at every stage.
Mentor Advocacy
- Full time
- £25,664
- Remote: Flexible working – Delivery of this service is within Fife and Perth & Kinross local authorities. Please consider this when applying.
- Closing 28th July 2024
Are you a passionate and caring individual that believes in social justice for all and can build positive relationships providing support and advocate on behalf of individuals that are currently involved with Justice Services.
The Wise Group, Community Justice Team are looking for 3 x mentors to provide a Throughcare support service to people who are currently on remand within HMP Perth, returning to Fife, are at risk of homelessness on release and are likely to be released direct from Court. The candidate will liaise with the customer and several services to allow the customer to reintegrate back into the community, this would include arranging help with housing, debt, benefits, addictions, and family relationships and ongoing support.
You may well have a previous offending background and spent some time in prison. If so, now is the chance to put this experience to good use and become a Mentor.
A full driving licence and daily use of a car is required as there will be some travelling required in this post.
Home broadband connection is also required to allow home working.
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