Locality Development Worker
- Full time
- £22,000
- On site: Angus
- Closing 11th November 2024
- Advertised from 18th October 2024
Role
PURPOSE OF POST: Engage with Angus communities to promote community development and encourage volunteering, while supporting initiatives that drive positive change. This role helps build a more resilient and sustainable Third Sector in Angus by offering inclusive volunteering opportunities, organisational support, training, and evidence-based interventions.
MAIN DUTIES:
- Build capacity of voluntary organisations, volunteering groups and aspiring social enterprises.
- Create up to date and engaging resources tailored for specific target audiences.
- Identify barriers to volunteering and implement strategies to overcome them.
- Promote volunteering and the benefits to individuals and groups by a variety of means, including community events, delivering information sessions and online sessions
- Create positive working relationships with organisations where there is the potential for people to gain new skills, lead to employment and give back to the community
- Work in partnership with Angus Health and Social Care Partnership (AHSCP) and Community Planning Partnership (CPP) developments at an operational level.
- Develop local empowerment opportunities through meaningful community engagement approaches with local communities, organisations and volunteer movements.
- Build strong working relationships with community workers, key organisations, and local communities to encourage participation and promote coordinated approaches across Angus.
- Collaborate with communities and key partners through consultation, as well as awareness, learning, and training events.
- Coordinate with communities and partners to evaluate needs, including addressing issues raised by community planning partners, and contribute to collaborative efforts.
- Facilitate and develop volunteer management/coordination through providing facilitated forums and sharing best practice.
- Offer communities opportunities to build their capacity and empower them to foster positive and sustainable change, using models of best practice and co-production.
- In collaboration with communities and key partners, create and support new initiatives and opportunities that enhance service delivery
- Assist Community Link Workers in the area by facilitating continuous learning and development, sharing local information, and providing monthly updates.
- Assist in creating and delivering networking, learning, and development opportunities to help organisations and groups meet best practice standards
- Provide guidance on best practice and signpost to funding opportunities
- Help support the start-up of organisations by helping with constitutions and organisational governance support.
- Recognise and report issues and 'knowledge gaps' among volunteers, volunteer-involving organisations, and communities.
- Make links with local health workers to identify other opportunities through VAA online directory system (Community Connector) and other means to ensure people get the right help at the right time.
- First point of contact for all local Third Sector organisations, community/volunteering groups and social enterprises within the locality.
- Engage with communities and groups to establish needs and wants to promote preventive work around mental health and wellbeing.
- Undertake monitoring requirements, report outcomes and provide service updates as required
This list is not exhaustive and other duties may be required.
We have a post available for each of the below areas, please state which area you would like an application for when applying:
Brechin/Montrose
Forfar/Kirriemuir
Arbroath
Application notes
For an application pack, please contact Katrina Taylor katrina@voluntaryactionangus.org.uk.
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Top job! Employers Advice Services Manager
- Full time
- £40,264 – £41,231
- Hybrid: Glasgow - Flexible combination of GCVS Offices and home working
- Closing 27th November 2024
GCVS is looking to recruit an experienced Employers Advice Service Manager to lead a team providing advice services to Third Sector organisations across Scotland on a commercial basis. The team offers third sector organisations expert advice, information, support, consultancy, and training in the areas of HR, Health and Safety, Recruitment and Data protection. The service has been running since 2000 and GCVS is ambitious to continue growing the service to ensure third sector organisations without access to internal specialised resources, receive personalised support that offers excellence and value for money.
Applicants should have a professional HR qualification (ideally CIPD qualified) and demonstrate extensive knowledge and experience of employers’ legal responsibilities as well as good practice in all aspects of Human Resources and managing staff. Significant experience of demonstrating astute situational awareness in the delivery of support to external organisations on sensitive matters is essential to succeed in this post.
Funding to ensure the sustainability of the service is supported from income generation through subscriptions, consultancy and training, so the post holder will be expected to market as well as deliver the service.
Responsible to: GCVS Head of Sector Development
More Information on the Job Description, Person Specification and Main Employment conditions is included in one document to make it easier to download.
fulfil their potential and work towards employment opportunities?
If so, this new Wellbeing Keyworker role is for you!
About the service
Our Wellbeing Works service is a new offering that aims to provide support for people with mild to moderate mental health conditions to empower them to develop a pathway to employment.
About the role
This role will be pivotal in creating trusted relationships with both clients and partner organisations to ensure that each pathway to employment is unique to individual clients and designed to reach the best possible outcome. Your main duties will include:
- Meeting clients to identify a support action plan; and regular follow-up sessions to review their progress
- Facilitate workshops and intervention sessions that provide participants with skills and mechanisms to better manage their mental health and improve wellbeing
- Working alongside various partner organisations to access additional support and opportunities
- Monitoring and evaluating the uptake and impact of the service
It is a role that provides the opportunity to work with people who have complex problems and to make a real difference to their lives.
About you
You will have experience supporting people with mental health conditions and be motivated to empower people on their employability journey. You should also have:
- Excellent relationship building skills
- Proven experience of building and maintaining strong partnerships with relevant services
- A commitment to reducing the stigma faced by people with mental health conditions
How we’ll support you
You will have a supportive manager who will provide the space of regular supervision sessions and development conversations to ensure that your wellbeing is protected, and you are set up for success.
You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.
About Cyrenians
At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering our services. You can find out more about our organisation and our impact online.
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- Full time
- £28,251 – £35,290
- On site: Fife
- Closing 15th November 2024
The Rehabilitation Worker will facilitate positive lifestyle changes for clients by developing and implementing individual Action Plans to enable clients to live predominantly without using substances. The successful candidate will be based within the Making It Work for Families (MIWFF) Service, a partnership between FIRST, Clued Up, Gingerbread and Citizen’s Advice and Rights Fife.
Candidates should:
- be qualified to Degree/Diploma level or equivalent in Social Work, Nursing, Community Learning and Development or hold an SVQ4 Social Services and Healthcare at SCQF Level 9 to be placed on Grade A of the scale. SVQ 3/HNC will be Grade B;
- have experience of working with individuals with issues relating to their drug and/or alcohol use;
- be computer literate.
The service operates on a Fife-wide basis therefore the ability to travel across Fife is essential. FIRST operate a blended model of office/home working.
Post Diagnostic Support Link Worker - East Lothian
- Part time
- £29,640 – £32,812 pro-rata
- On site: Older Adult Community Mental Health Team, East Lothian Community Hospital, Haddington, EH41 3PF
- Closing 17th November 2024
Are you a creative and motivated individual with the passion and drive to support people with a recent diagnosis of dementia to live well in their community?
If so, you can be part of a National Team of Post Diagnostic Support Link Workers (PDS Link Workers) providing high quality, person centered support to people living with dementia and their families for a minimum of a year following diagnosis in line the Scottish Government’s minimum guarantee.
The aim of the PDS National Service is to enable people to live well with dementia and is centered around Alzheimer Scotland's 5 pillar model so that people move on to a period of supported self- management.
The model includes understanding the illness and coming to terms with the diagnosis, peer support, connecting and maintaining links with their community along with planning for future care and decision making to develop an outcome focused plan to support their future hopes, desires, and aspirations.
Supporting our East Lothian locality, the post will be based within the Older Adult Community Mental Health Team, East Lothian Community Hospital, Haddington, EH41 3PF. Alzheimer Scotland’s PDS Link Workers are required to be effective team workers and have the skills to build and maintain relationships with colleagues both within Alzheimer Scotland, the NHS, and other stakeholders.
Skills in using digital platforms are essential as we use a blended approach to support people that involve some virtual meetings and on-line groups.
Applicants must hold a recognised relevant professional qualification, have a good understanding of dementia and how it affects people and their families along with excellent communication skills, a warm flexible approach, combined with skills in empathy and relationship building.
In addition, you should have skills and knowledge at the Enhanced Level of the Promoting Excellence Framework or be able to evidence you are working towards its completion.
This post requires a full driving licence and access to a car.
The successful candidate for this post will be subject to a criminal check through Disclosure Scotland.
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