- Advertised from 3rd July 2024
- 35 hours/week, Monday to Friday, 9am – 4pm. Can work 1 day per week from home.
- Employers pension, generous holidays and competitive travel expenses.
Role
SHAX is a social enterprise and registered charity that provides support for people affected by homelessness and/or poverty. The charity reuses, recycles and repurposes donations to help others, but also to divert household waste from landfill. In addition to providing emergency home Starter Packs that help people to sustain new tenancies, SHAX operates a re-use furniture warehouse at The Crichton in Dumfries. This provides affordable, quality-checked furniture and other household accessories for the wider community and provides volunteer and work placement opportunities for local people. Income is reinvested into the organisation to fulfil its social purpose.
Due to the current manager retiring after 10 years in the role, SHAX has a vacancy for a full-time Manager based at our warehouse in Dumfries.
This is a demanding but rewarding role for an experienced third sector manager who is passionate about supporting some of the most deprived people in our communities, protecting the planet and providing training and volunteering opportunities for local people.
The successful candidate will be self-motivated and capable of managing the strategic and day-to-day operations of the organisation, with the support of a dedicated team of trustees, employees and volunteers.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity for the right person to manage the growth and development of SHAX, in a way that will have a positive impact on people, place, partnerships and priorities.
Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the Manager will lead and motivate a small team of employees and volunteers, enhance services, ensure legal obligations are met, generate income through commercial opportunities and grant funding and be the main point of contact with strategic partners and funders as well as the local community.
Application notes
To find out more and to receive an application pack please email info@shax.org.uk
For informal enquiries, email Joyce Harkness at joyce.harkness@shax.org.uk
Closing date for applications is Friday 26th July
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Top job! Managing Principal Solicitor
- Full time
- £55,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh/Glasgow
- Closing 30th October 2024
Shelter Scotland is seeking a new Managing Principal Solicitor to lead the Shelter Scotland Housing Law Service. This is an exciting opportunity to head up a dynamic team of talented specialist housing solicitors.
The role will require strong leadership supervising and managing strategic litigation pursuing complex or novel points of law. The team have been at the forefront of some of the most influential pieces of strategic housing legal work in Scotland over the years. A keen interest in developing and testing the law in this area will be a key attribute for the role.
About the role
As Managing Principal Solicitor, you will:
- Lead the Shelter Scotland Housing Law Service to achieve, and evidence progress towards the strategic goals of the organisation.
- Manage the day-to-day running and operations of the Shelter Scotland Housing Law Service, including people, practice and financial management, and compliance with Law Society rules.
- Be instrumental in ensuring the service provided is of a consistently high quality, providing support, oversight, development and motivation to the team to enable them to reach their full potential and realise their career goals.
About you
See the JD on our website for further details on the role specific responsibilities. They will include having:
- Qualified to degree level in Scottish Law
- Comprehensive knowledge of Scottish Housing Law
- 5 years of experience: unrestricted practicing certificate and civil litigation
- People management experience
- The ability to make evidence-led decisions
Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About Shelter Scotland Law Service
Currently, Shelter Scotland Housing Law Service operates as a sole practitioner firm, with a wider legal team who are both lawyers and lay people. All individuals are employed by Shelter Scotland, with the Principal Solicitor or their nominee entitled to take part in the recruitment of firm staff. Whilst the Firm undertakes to operate within the policies and parameters of Shelter Scotland, it is the Firm’s responsibility to comply with LSS compliance and obligations to maintain its registration with the LSS.
Shelter Scotland are actively looking at different business models for the future of the Law Service, in which the Managing Principal Solicitor would play a key role.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
Safeguarding statement
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
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Four Square Scotland is an Edinburgh charity working for more than 40 years to prevent homelessness and promote inclusion. We provide services directly to people who are homeless, or who are at risk of homelessness to overcome any barriers they may face in creating a stable life for themselves in their community. At the core of Four Square are the values upon which the organisation is based. These are equally applied to the people we support, our colleagues and our partners and are: Integrity; Excellence; Dignity; Support.
We are recruiting for an HR Coordinator to join our team. This role is all about people: supporting them through all aspects of their time with Four Square. Supporting managers to lead their teams, you’ll oversee recruitment, induction, skills training and help deliver our payroll function.
We are looking for a solutions based, flexible, and approachable person to fill this role. You must have a strong attention to detail and experience of working in HR.
For more information, please download the full job description.
Project Worker – Upstream (School based prevention service)
- Full time
- £24,799 – £27,928
- Hybrid: Perth & Kinross
- Closing 4th November 2024
Join our mission to end youth homelessness in Scotland!
For over 30 years, we have been dedicated to preventing youth homelessness and supporting young people in building better futures.
This exciting and new role within the Rock Trust involves contributing to the new National Upstream project (homelessness prevention model).
Upstream is an innovative schools-based preventive model that utilises a universal screening tool to identify and support students at risk of homelessness.
The role requires skills inclusive of excellent communication skills, the ability to establish and nurture key partnerships and relationships with stakeholders, work directly with young people to provide emotional and practical support on a 1:1 basis in schools, at home and/or within the community.
Additionally, you will be digitally proficient in the use of Apps and IT with the ability to analyse and interpret data to identify young people who may require support, in collaboration with stakeholders.
Project Worker - Fife
- Full time
- £24,799 – £27,929
- Hybrid: Across Fife with occasional home working, office base in Dunfermline.
- Closing 29th October 2024
Working as part of our innovative Housing First for Youth Team, The Project Worker will work directly with young people to coordinate and provide emotional and practical support. Providing an assertive outreach approach the Project Worker will Work with young people to secure and manage their own permanent home, providing support in their home and in their local community to ensure that a young person’s experience of homelessness is rare, brief, and non-recurring.
The Project Worker will support young people to improve their practical independent living skills, access other services and to reach their full potential. Project Workers are responsible for completing support plans and risk assessments and are the main contact for any key people involved in the care and support of young people.
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