- Advertised from 5th July 2022
- 35 hours per week. Salary: Circa £26k – dependent on experience. Permanent.
Role
About Us
Founded in 1997, GamCare is the leading provider of information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling harms. We operate the National Gambling Helpline, provide treatment for anyone who is harmed by gambling, create awareness about safer gambling and treatment, and encourage an effective approach to safer gambling within the gambling industry.
The Role
This is a great opportunity to join GamCare as we are in a position to appoint a Gambling Treatment Practitioner with qualifications or experience in health or social care, and an empathic style to enable people to change their behaviour through skilled intervention.
Crucially, you will ensure that psychosocial, and recovery support interventions are delivered as part of cohesive recovery plan while working collaboratively with external and partner organisations to achieve positive outcomes for service users.
You will be working with problem gamblers and others affected by problem gambling to support them in reaching their recovery goals.
We are looking for an individual to work full-time which will include currently 4 days 9-5pm and 1 day 12-8pm per week (fixed day), Monday to Friday and potentially occasional Saturdays (9-2pm) but negotiable.
Key Responsibilities
Providing face to face and online advice, assessment, brief or structured interventions and group programmes to help clients achieve their recovery goals
Providing case management and working within an integrated care pathway
Ensuring safeguarding issues are managed effectively.
· Provide advice and information to people affected by Gambling harms
· Undertake screening, triage and comprehensive assessments of needs with individuals and families and couples
· Provide recovery oriented brief, extended brief, and longer-term structured psychosocial interventions to people affected by Gambling harms using motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural approaches
· Facilitate group-based programmes
· Engage with potential stakeholders to support referral pathways
About you
Are you passionate about supporting others to make positive changes in their lives? Do you want to make a difference by providing support and interventions to people experiencing gambling related harms?
If this sounds like you, and you would like to be part of a committed, dynamic, and highly supportive team, providing exceptional support to those whose lives are impacted by gambling, then we would love to hear from you!
You will be an excellent communicator, with lots of emotional intelligence, and the ability to prioritise your own self-care and wellbeing. You will have great organisational skills, be a strong team player and be confident navigating IT systems and software packages.
You should have significant experience in individual client work in the field of addictions, mental health or a social care setting with adults or young people. You should be flexible in using a range of low and high-intensity interventions and modalities including Cognitive Behavioural (CBT) tools.
The successful candidate would live at a reasonable distance from Gamcare office due to expectations of working from the office when required.
Benefits You Can Enjoy
· 33 days basic annual leave entitlement per annum including bank holidays which increases with service
· A generous Pension Scheme - we contribute 6% and you contribute 2%.
· Discretionary company sick pay from day one of service.
· Employee Assistance Programme – 24-hour support
· Cycle to Work Scheme
· We also have a vibrant and diverse event calendar full of monthly initiatives and webinars to support the ongoing physical and mental wellbeing of our people.
This post requires a PVG check.
Application notes
Closing date for applications: 9am Friday 29 July 2022
Interviews will take place online via video conference
To apply, please go onto the GamCare website and complete an application form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Survey.
For further information, please contact Lisa Patton Team Leader GamCare Scotland: 07950171748
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You will be joining the largest network of advice providers in the UK, with excellent professional development opportunities and competitive remuneration packages.
You will also be part of a community led organisation, with a substantial profile, making a real difference to your local community and supporting those in greatest need.
Advice Services Managers oversee our day-to-day advice service, recruit, support and supervise a team of staff and volunteers, provide expert knowledge and quality assurance and represent the organisation in campaigning for changes to policies and legislation on the issues that impact the lives of people in Edinburgh and across the UK.
For more information, please see the detailed Job Pack, including Role Description and Person Specification and visit our website at citizensadviceedinburgh.org.uk
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- Full time
- £32,100
- Remote: Mainly working from home, but some travel for meetings will be required.
- Closing 10th January 2026
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The times we live through are frequently described as unprecedented.
A century pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis has magnified and entrenched inequality.
But it has also shown that change can happen rapidly and can make a real difference.
We need change. We need new ideas when old solutions cannot solve new problems.
Money Advice Scotland is Scotland’s money charity. Our mission is to be the driving force towards financial wellbeing for the people of Scotland.
We believe we will achieve this by supporting the advice workforce, empowering citizens to get help and support, and advocating for fairer policy.
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Full details are available in the job description below.
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- Full time
- £32,100
- Remote: Mainly working from home, but some travel for meetings will be required.
- Closing 10th January 2026
About Money Advice Scotland
The times we live through are frequently described as unprecedented.
A century pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis has magnified and entrenched inequality.
But it has also shown that change can happen rapidly and can make a real difference.
We need change. We need new ideas when old solutions cannot solve new problems.
Money Advice Scotland is Scotland’s money charity. Our mission is to be the driving force towards financial wellbeing for the people of Scotland.
We believe we will achieve this by supporting the advice workforce, empowering citizens to get help and support, and advocating for fairer policy.
About the role
Our Financial Wellbeing Team works towards the strategic aim of improving financial health and wellbeing.
We do this by delivering evidence-based money guidance to several audiences, including schools, colleges, communities, and workplaces.
We also deliver financial wellbeing training to professionals, administer our e-learning modules and create a wide range of digital resources so that people can access financial information in a format that is most suited to their needs.
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This role involves a new and innovative prevention approach thanks to funding from the Robertson Trust.
Full details are available in the job description below.
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- Part time
- £32,323 pro-rata
- On site: Penicuik
- Closing 12th January 2026
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