Dean and Cauvin Young People’s Trust is one of Edinburgh’s oldest and established charities, providing residential group living and community, family and group work support to children, young people and families. We are committed to implementing The Promise and building strong and caring relationships with our young people rooted in our values of Care, Perseverance, Acceptance and Hope. We provide a scaffolding of love and support around them as they take their first steps towards a confident and independent future.

Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to come and join our team as a Residential Worker based in our new Chestnut Wynd house for young people. Situated in West Granton, our newly-built house provides a safe and nurturing home for up to five young people aged 15-21 and a range of modern facilities and wellbeing spaces designed to help them grow, develop and make a successful transition to young adulthood.

As part of a team you will work closely with the young people we live alongside to provide the daily care and support they need and the advice and guidance to manage their health and wellbeing, independent learning and living skills, education and training needs. Our house staff also work closely with our community-based team to provide additional 1:1 and group supports to young people and to further develop their social and community connections. We work together with families, social work, health services and other colleagues to keep the strengths, aspirations and voice of the young person at the heart of all we do while ensuring their safety and welfare is always maintained.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to be part of our team as we adapt our services to #KeepThePromise. We are looking for skilled individuals who are passionate about working with young people building strong relationships with them. This role will suit someone who understands child development, trauma-informed practice and is skilled in planning and delivering robust assessment and interventions with young people, as well as being positive and thoughtful, and rights focused.

A residential worker is a hugely important role for us. As a key part of our team you contribute to creating a culture of nurture and care for our young people while also ensuring the house is maintained and resourced to meet the needs of young people and staff.

We are looking for someone who is:

• An individual who is skilled in planning and delivering a range of 1:1 and group-based practice approaches with young people.
• Values-led and rights focused.
• Able to have honest and courageous conversations
• Passionate about working alongside children, young people and families.
• Able to build strong and effective relationships with young people, their family and professional and social support networks.
• Works in a way that that is rooted in an understanding of child and young people’s developmental needs, trauma-informed and restorative approaches.
• Can undertake assessment and care-planning processes for young people to ensure a focus on positive outcomes.
• Flexible, creative and fun!

This role involves a shift pattern over a six-week rota and therefore requires weekend working, and sleep-ins.

We are committed to the development of all our staff and the successful applicants will have access to:

• Regular support and supervision
• Continuous Professional Development
• Training and learning opportunities.
• Discounted access to our holiday caravan
• Our Employee Assistance Scheme

If you are someone who can make a difference for young people and have relevant experience with social work, youth/community/family work or other relevant experiences then we want to hear from you!

LCIL is a user-led organisation providing a range of services that enable Disabled People to live independently in the community of their choice.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and help shape and develop our work with disabled people across Edinburgh and the Lothians.

We do this in part through our advice and information services:

• Our Independent Living Service provides independent advice and information as well as support to disabled people, their carers, and families on all aspects of Self-Directed Support. This service covers all of Edinburgh and the Lothians.

• Our Disability Advice and Information Service provides specialist advice and information to empower disabled people across Edinburgh and the Lothians, to understand and access their rights and welfare benefits entitlements.

We’re looking for a Service Manager to support our advice and information services, providing day-to-day leadership and support to both services, ensuring strategic and operational goals are successfully met.

This post is an essential management role contributing to LCiL’s ongoing sustainability, enabling it to take forward a new three-year strategic plan, which is currently being developed.

Service Manager role:

• The post holder will manage a team and oversee the delivery of advice and information services.

• Implement strong monitoring and evaluation processes.

• Promote and represent LCiL at relevant networks and events.

• Ensure that all services agreed targets and deadlines are achieved.

We offer generous benefits, including 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, up to 8% pension contributions and company sick pay.

Please refer to the job description and personal specification for further information.

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Gaby Nolan via HR@lothiancil.org.uk

Are you an experienced communications professional with a passion for social justice and creating engaging funding proposals?

Are you a creative copywriter, and storyteller? Do you thrive in collaborative working spaces, and enjoy developing lasting partnerships?

If so, this role in our fundraising team may be perfect for you.

Role

As Trust and Grants Fundraisers, you will inspire grant-makers and trustees to support Bethany Christian Trust in our mission to end homelessness in Scotland, one person at a time. We are looking for someone who is a talented storyteller, enthusiastic fundraiser, confident networker and dedicated researcher. As part of our team, you will design compelling funding applications, innovate new ways to connect with Trusts and Foundations, and steward vital income for our projects and services.

You will be part of our talented and multi-disciplinary Fundraising Team and be willing to support colleagues from Individual Giving, Communities and Events, and Marketing. Living our values, you will work with colleagues across the charity on funding applications and reports to develop income and enable our mission across Scotland.

You will be located in our head office at Bonnington Road in Leith, Edinburgh.

Bethany Christian Trust is a national charity working across Scotland to change the story of homelessness. We run 30 key services from Stornoway to Edinburgh, supporting over 7000 people each year. From our fleet of care vans delivering a warm meal and a chat to people in need, to community employability drop-ins and supported housing, we are here to support individuals at any stage of their journey out of homelessness.

We are committed to helping our employees flourish personally and professionally. Below are a few examples of the ways we support our employees.

• Bethany provides 30 days of annual leave initially to all contracted staff, rising to a maximum of 40 days depending on length of service.
• Bethany provides enhanced payments for maternity, paternity, and adoption.
• Bethany operates a company pension scheme to which all staff are auto-enrolled, with option to opt out. We will match any staff member’s pension contribution up to a maximum of 5%.
• Bethany provides a death in service benefit scheme.

LCIL is a user-led organisation providing a range of services that enable Disabled People to live independently in the community of their choice.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and help shape and develop our work with disabled people across Edinburgh and the Lothians.

We’re looking for an experienced payroll officer who is ready to progress into a managerial role. We are looking for someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, providing day-to-day leadership & guidance to our payroll and financial management service teams to ensure accurate, seamless, efficient, and timely execution of our payrolls in accordance with UK laws, regulations and company policies, and drive process improvement/standardisation across payroll activity.

Our Payroll Team currently provides a comprehensive, computerised payroll service for an average of 650+ Personal Assistant Employers who are employing around 1,000+ Personal Assistants per month. The Personal Assistant Employers figures continue to increase at a steady rate. The number of PAs employed fluctuates monthly.

The Financial Management Service provides financial support of holding bank accounts in service users’ names to ensure that they can access SDS care packages. This service means that we ensure all payroll is paid on time and correctly, we also support the service user with the management of this account. The number of service users can also fluctuate however, an average of around 150-200 service user’s access this service per month.

Please refer to the job description and personal specification for further information.