Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime

Who We Are

Victim Support Scotland (VSS) provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim and witness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free, confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs.

Our vision is that people affected by crime – victims, witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice in Scotland. We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference. Our mission at Victim Support Scotland is to ensure that those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them recover from their experiences. We aim to do this by adhering to our own organisational values:

• Victims Are at the Heart of Everything We Do
• We Care
• We Work with Intent
• We Are Ambitious
• We Persevere

Everything we do is driven by our dedication to supporting and empowering victims and witnesses, so they have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed. We are an effective organisation that makes a lasting difference to the people we support, and these values are reflected in the behaviours expected of all staff and volunteers.

VSS is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our service users and has a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG scheme checks in place to ensure this commitment is met.

What is the role?

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Anti-Social Behaviour Project Coordinator. 21hpw 1-Years Fixed-Term contract with possible extension. Working hours to be agreed between the following days and hours: Monday - Friday between 8am - 8pm & Saturdays 10am - 4pm.

Salary band: £31,890 - £42,109. Salary on appointment will normally be at the lower salary point, with progression subject to review - in line with VSS progression arrangements. A higher salary placing will only be considered in exceptional circumstances subject to experience demonstrated.

Primary location: Broadside House, 2 Powerhall Road, Edinburgh, EH7 4GB. You will be expected to work throughout Edinburgh, Lothian & Borders locality.

As a member of the Service Delivery team, you will be reporting to the Head of Service Delivery, the Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Project Coordinator is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Victim Support Scotland’s anti-social behaviour service delivery across the organisation.

You will ensure that all ASB-related support is delivered to a high standard, is trauma-informed, victim-centred and rights-based, and is aligned with Victim Support Scotland’s strategic objectives.

You will lead on service development, partnership working, quality assurance, performance management, and monitoring and evaluation for ASB work across VSS.

You will lead the development and delivery of resources, guidance and training to improve support for people impacted by anti-social behaviour, ensuring practical tools are available for landlords, letting agents and other stakeholders in the private rented sector. By improving sector knowledge and pathways to support, the project will help victims feel safer, sustain their tenancy, and recover from harm caused by anti-social behaviour.

You will bring experience from a similar role and a commitment to your own professional development. As a confident and supportive leader, you will know how to motivate others, build trust, and drive performance. You’re comfortable working with data gathering, analysing, and presenting insights that help shape decisions. You believe in fairness and inclusion with the confidence to challenge discrimination, bias, or stereotyping when you see it. Alongside this, you have a solid understanding of the voluntary and charity sector, and willingness to be flexible in working hours and able to travel as required.

If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, we want to hear from you!

Further details of this role are available in the job description – Anti-Social Behaviour Project Coordinator

Please note - This post will be subject to a satisfactory PVG check.

What we offer

• Holiday:When you work for Victim Support Scotland, your wellbeing is important to us. We offer an enhanced annual leave package of 39 days (pro-rata) holiday. 42 days (pro-rata) from Grade 6 and above.
• Pension: Save for the further and join the Standard Life Pension. Your future self will thank you. Our generous employer contribution will help you plan for the future.
• Support: Sometimes we all need support and a listening ear. Our free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme can support your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. We also offer enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to a credit union.
• Discounts:You will have access to our free health cash plan which includes cover for you and your family across a range of benefits, which include, dental cover, access to a virtual GP, counselling, legal support and discounts on gym memberships, cinema tickets, retail and much more.
• Flexibility and development: We are proud of our flexible and inclusive work policies, which help you balance work and life. Supporting employee development is important to us, we offer comprehensive learning and development opportunities.

Where the role fits in our organisation

Our Partnerships and Communities Group are responsible for our work with the third sector, partners and communities across Dumfries and Galloway. The group leads on community insights and involvement, Locality Hubs, sector advice, training and development, building sector capacity, encouraging community involvement and representing the third sector. Key partnerships are with Dumfries and Galloway Council, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, Community Planning, Scottish Government and national sector bodies. The team includes Lead Officers, Development Officers, Support Officers, Coordinators and professional advisors.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a dedicated and relationship-driven colleague to lead an exciting one-year programme focused on improving community support for people living with Energy Limiting Conditions (ELCs). You’ll be at the heart of strengthening understanding, coordination, and sector capacity across Dumfries & Galloway — with the opportunity to shape future work around wider long-term conditions.

If you thrive on engagement, insight-gathering, and helping organisations build their confidence to support people with fluctuating conditions, this role is for you.

What you’ll do

• Carry out a region-wide mapping and gapping exercise to understand current community support.
• Build strong relationships with third sector organisations, community groups, practitioners, and lived experience voices.
• Facilitate conversations, engagement sessions, and two forum-style events to deepen shared understanding.
• Develop resources, guidance, and introductory capacity-building activity to strengthen sector confidence.
• Capture insights, identify priority needs, and highlight opportunities for future development and investment.
• Produce clear reports, summaries, and a baseline evidence report with recommendations for future work.
• Explore how learning from ELCs can inform support for wider long-term conditions.
• Represent TSDG and support collaborative working across our community health and wellbeing portfolio.

More about you

• You bring experience from within, or closely alongside, the third sector — ideally in community health, wellbeing, or long-term conditions.
• You are exceptionally organised — able to manage multiple priorities, track actions, and keep workstreams aligned.
• You’re confident creating and maintaining documentation, whether that’s action notes, work plans, trackers, or briefing materials.
• You have strong communication skills and can build positive relationships with partners from different sectors.
• You’re comfortable analysing information, capturing learning, and communicating it clearly and accessibly
• You’re digitally confident, with experience using tools such as Teams, shared drives, spreadsheets, or project management platforms.
• You work well both independently and as part of a dispersed team, sharing knowledge and supporting colleagues.
• You are self-motivated, committed to improvement, and keen to contribute to a programme that strengthens the sector and the communities we serve.

Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime

Who We Are

Victim Support Scotland (VSS) provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim and witness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free, confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs.

Our vision is that people affected by crime – victims, witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice in Scotland. We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference. Our mission at Victim Support Scotland is to ensure that those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them recover from their experiences. We aim to do this by adhering to our own organisational values:

• Victims Are at the Heart of Everything We Do
• We Care
• We Work with Intent
• We Are Ambitious
• We Persevere

Everything we do is driven by our dedication to supporting and empowering victims and witnesses, so they have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed. We are an effective organisation that makes a lasting difference to the people we support, and these values are reflected in the behaviours expected of all staff and volunteers.

VSS is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our service users and has a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG scheme checks in place to ensure this commitment is met.

What is the role?

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Anti-Social Behaviour Support Worker. 21hpw, 2-Years Fixed-Term contract with possible extension. Working hours to be agreed be between the following days and hours: Monday - Friday between 8am - 8pm & Saturdays 10am - 4pm

Salary band: £27,598 - £36,445. Salary on appointment will normally be at the lower salary point, with progression subject to review - in line with VSS progression arrangements. A higher salary placing will only be considered in exceptional circumstances subject to experience demonstrated.

Primary location: Broadside House, 2 Powerhall Road, Edinburgh, EH7 4GB. You will be expected to work throughout Edinburgh, Lothian & Borders locality.

This role is based within the Edinburgh, Lothian and Borders locality reporting to the Locality Manager, the Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Support Worker will provide tailored, one-to-one support to people affected by ASB, helping them to feel safe, heard, informed, and empowered.

The role involves assessing individual needs and risks, developing and reviewing support plans, and coordinating with partner agencies to ensure an effective and joined-up response. Working within the VSS framework, the postholder will uphold victims’ rights, maintain accurate case records, and contribute to the development of peer support opportunities. Where appropriate, the ASB Support Worker will also support and work alongside volunteers to facilitate safe, inclusive group sessions that promote recovery and shared experience.

In addition to delivering 1-1 support this role will support the Anti-Social Behaviour Project Coordinator to build partnerships nationally to establish effective referral pathways and raise awareness of Victim Support Scotland services.

You will bring experience from a similar role and a commitment to your own professional development. As a confident and supportive leader, you will know how to motivate others, build trust, and drive performance. You’re comfortable working with data gathering, analysing, and presenting insights that help shape decisions. You believe in fairness and inclusion with the confidence to challenge discrimination, bias, or stereotyping when you see it. Alongside this, you have a solid understanding of the voluntary and charity sector, and willingness to be flexible in working hours and able to travel as required.

If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, we want to hear from you!

Further details of this role are available in the job description – Anti-Social Behaviour Support Worker

Please note - This post will be subject to a satisfactory PVG check.

What we offer

• Holiday:When you work for Victim Support Scotland, your wellbeing is important to us. We offer an enhanced annual leave package of 39 days (pro-rata) holiday. 42 days (pro-rata) from Grade 6 and above.
• Pension: Save for the further and join the Standard Life Pension. Your future self will thank you. Our generous employer contribution will help you plan for the future.
• Support: Sometimes we all need support and a listening ear. Our free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme can support your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. We also offer enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to a credit union.
• Discounts:You will have access to our free health cash plan which includes cover for you and your family across a range of benefits, which include, dental cover, access to a virtual GP, counselling, legal support and discounts on gym memberships, cinema tickets, retail and much more.
• Flexibility and development: We are proud of our flexible and inclusive work policies, which help you balance work and life. Supporting employee development is important to us, we offer comprehensive learning and development opportunities.

Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.

By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as a Community Support Services Coordinator you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.

You will be part of Scotland’s leading health charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service provides access to a range of supported self management and community recovery services to support people across Scotland to manage their health as well as possible and adjust to life after a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or after a stroke.

The Coordinator plays a vital role in delivering Community Support services across the Lothian area for people living with chest, heart, and stroke conditions, as well as Long Covid.

They are responsible for leading a high-quality, person-centred service that empowers individuals to build confidence, manage their condition, and work towards their own goals. This includes the recruitment, retention, and line management of volunteers who provide goal-oriented and time-limited support, helping people take positive steps towards greater independence and self-management.

The Coordinator will also develop strong local connections and a detailed community map to support effective signposting, ensuring people can access the right support at the right time.

Please note that due to the nature of this role, working with service users within their homes and in the community across Lothian, access to a car is a requirement for this role.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.

CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a PVG check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background