Introduction

People are at the heart of who we are and what we do. Day-by-day, person-to-person, we tailor what we offer to what people need. We’re here to provide consistent, friendly and informed support so people can explore options and take ‘the next step’ towards a positive future. We welcome people with a wide range of skills and experiences to our team – including those who have lived through homelessness. To make a difference, we need to work flexibly, with everyday leadership, humour and a ‘can do’ spirit. We want to make it easy, make it right, and make it happen – not only for the people we support but also for each other. Our #OneTeam ethos is at the core of who we are, and it means caring for and supporting each other regardless of our role, service, or location. This is how we roll. We want people who share these values to join us and become a part of the Simon Community Scotland family.

Step into your career with the unique opportunity to join our Learning and Development team and support us to evolve our digital training content and improve internal communication.

Job Summary

Our Internal Content Creator will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and delivering engaging and impactful e-learning content that supports the organisation's mission of providing services to individuals experiencing homelessness. This role will involve collaborating with subject matter experts, including our staff, those we support and experience homelessness, and other stakeholders, to create innovative and effective e-learning modules that align with our organisational goals and values.

Another exciting element of this role is the opportunity to take part in leadership training funded by The Rank Foundation called Time to Shine. The programme will allow the successful candidate to develop their leadership potential, skills, and talent. Please click here for more information.

Job Purpose

We take pride in offering our staff invaluable opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills in alignment with our values and processes. Recognising our work's unique psychological and trauma-informed nature, we plan to co-develop training programs that reflect our practice by incorporating the insights of individuals with lived or current experiences. Our Internal Content Creator will collaborate with the Head of Learning and Development to explore and create specialised training to engage and motivate staff, equipping them with the skills needed to deliver safer services for people experiencing homelessness.

You will report to the Head of Learning and Development, work in harmony with the wider team, and look outwardly to develop your practice area in partnership with the Rank Foundation through the Time to Shine Programme. Participation in the programme will include attending leadership programme events, requiring travel across the UK and staying away from home. It is essential our Time to Shine leader attends all of the events throughout the year: Please click here for more information.

Key Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities in this post are as follows:

Content Development:

Develop and create high-quality e-learning content that effectively delivers learning objectives, including interactive modules, simulations, and assessments.

Collaborate with our staff and the people we support to ensure the accuracy and relevance of content, particularly on the subjects of homelessness, harm reduction and health conditions.

Utilise instructional design principles and adult learning theories to create engaging and effective e-learning experiences.

Project Management:

Manage e-learning projects from start to finish, including planning, development, and deployment.

Meet deadlines and adhere to project timelines.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery.

Technical Skills:

Willingness to learn how to use LMS systems to create new e-learning content for our staff team.

Familiarity with video editing software and tools or willingness to learn.

Use AI to create content from existing Best Practice Guides.

Accessibility:

Ensure all e-learning content is accessible to learners with disabilities, adhering to accessibility standards.

You have additional responsibilities to align with our values:

Warmth and Regard

Recognising and valuing everyone (Equality and Diversity)

Treating people with kindness, dignity and respect

Acting with compassion

Showing warmth and welcome to everyone

Taking difficult decisions sensitively and with due regard to others

Taking a calm, professional and intelligent approach to stigma

Inclusion and Participation

Encouraging the participation and inclusion of people we support

Exploring choices and options with people we support or fellow colleagues

Making things easy for others

Embracing technology in delivering your role

Supporting people we support, staff and volunteers to become digitally included

Personalised and Creative

Innovation and creativity

Helping to find solutions that are a good fit for someone, irrespective of who they are or the problem they have

When someone isn’t at their best, quickly recognise there’s probably something else going on, and find ways to respond with care

Supportive and Ambitious

Helping to bring hope through our words and actions

Helping to build trust

Being supportive and showing care

Partnership and Collaboration

Fostering positive relationships with our partners

Building team togetherness and collaboration

Fostering a positive problem-solving vibe

Leadership and Learning

Making things happen

Motivating and inspiring others

Taking time to reflect on what’s working and what isn’t

Taking care of our ‘places and spaces’ so they feel tidy and welcoming

Asking for help and learning to do things better

Playing an active role in our social media strategy

*These core digital responsibilities are part of every role at the Simon Community.

Digital inclusion is embedded as part of our service delivery. Some of the people we support need to gain experience and knowledge of the internet and using email. If you are in a frontline role, you will be expected to help them connect, understand, and be safe, as well as promote digital inclusion for people unable to access the benefits of the online world. As a team member, you are also expected to be an ‘active learner’ yourself and support colleagues’ digital learning (e.g. sharing tips or advice on using our systems), so that we all get better at using digital tools.

Our digital platform is a key part of our working environment.Our operating platform is Google Workspace, a cloud-based system that allows you to share files, collaborate, communicate, meet, and access the organisation remotely. We will provide you with a Chromebook and Android smartphone to do this. Our Management Information System (MIS) is Netsuite. You will be trained in using Netsuite and its applications. Our Human Resources system is HiBob. You will be trained on how to access HiBob and use it effectively throughout your time with us. We have a team intranet—the IMPACT Platform—for updates, resources, and ‘all things Simon’.

Sharing our work publicly helps to change society’s misconceptions about homelessness and generate support.We use various forms of social media to inform, communicate, gather support and share what we do, including websites, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. We expect everyone to share what we do through various media outlets – e.g. helping to create blogs, videos, social media posts, information pieces and news items. This helps people understand what we do better understand homelessness. This helps grow public empathy for the people we support. We also get a huge amount of support from people and organisations, so we want to share what we do as a result of that support.

Service: Fife Support Service

Use your skills in a career that cares!

Homelessness and Prevention

At Turning Point Scotland, we have opportunities for Lead Practitioners to support individuals experiencing homelessness, at risk of homelessness and or need support to protect their home.

Standard working hours are 9am - 5pm Monday - Thursday, and 9am - 4.30pm Friday.

About the role

Our Lead Practitioner role will include:

• Working with individuals who have a range of complex needs which often sit with homelessness, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives.

• Supporting to liaise with local authority/ housing associations staff to help them to secure their own permanent tenancy.

• Supporting with life skills to enable them to maintain their tenancy, celebrating achievements and milestones, both big and small.

• Supporting them within the community and engaging with external professionals & empowering them to develop skills and independence, promoting their overall growth.

About You

You will have a genuine commitment to use your skills to support people to live their best lives.

You will be supported by a friendly, approachable management team, allowing you to expand on your existing knowledge whilst developing new skills. A level of previous working experience in social care is an advantage, but not necessary as full training will be provided to you.

We believe the both lived and professional experience you may have is further enhanced by having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity in order to join our team!

About Us – Fife Support Service

We believe that a home is a human right and that an individual is best placed to deal with the issues that made them homeless in the first place, in a place they can call home.

Fife Support Service delivers Housing First support, where we work across localities in Kirkcaldy and West Fife to enable people to maintain independent tenancy sustainment, reconnect with their local communities and assist them to build their resilience to prevent repeat homelessness.

Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.

Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the salary scale points and based on experience.

Are you passionate about supporting young people – especially those who have experiences of care or need extra help to make the transition to adulthood, parenthood, employment and education?

Dean and Cauvin Young People’s Trust is one of Scotland’s oldest charities – working in Edinburgh since 1733. Today, we exist to be a place of hope for vulnerable and care experienced children, young people and families in Edinburgh and the Lothians and we do this via our interconnected services which include:

• 2 residential houses for young people aged 15-21 and young mums and babies

• Our Community and Transition team which delivers support to young people and families in the community

• Our Wellbeing Hub and outings, breaks and activities

• Room 4U our teenage fostering service.

We have been working hard in the last few years to redesign our services to best meet the recommendations of The Promise. We are now looking for new trustees to join us on the next stage of our development as we seek to deliver high-quality care and support with the voices of young people at the heart of all we do.

Join us

This is an incredible opportunity to make a difference with young people and build your skills alongside our other trustees. Our Board will always contain those with experience in key areas of work with young people including social work, education and fostering as well as finance and organisational governance. As a part of our origins, we also have representatives from:

• The Sheriff Principal of the Lothians and Borders

• The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

• The Royal High School of Edinburgh

• The Presbytery of Edinburgh of the Church of Scotland

• The Councillors of the City of Edinburgh Council

• The Faculty of Advocates

Skills and experience

It is important that we continue to build and diversify our board to ensure we have a range of voices and experiences represented to help us reflect and understand the needs of young people in Edinburgh today.

We are recruiting for Trustees in the following areas:

• Leadership roles in children and families and child-protection focused services (i.e. social work, residential care, family support)

• Charitable / third sector – delivery and governance

• Fundraising and income generation

• Those with lived experiences of care/care-experienced

• Those from ethnically diverse and ethnic minority groups

• Young people aged 18-26

No previous board experience is necessary as full support and training will be provided.

What we do need is someone who is committed to our values and has an understanding of the current issues affecting young people, of high-quality practice approaches as well as the opportunities and challenges of the third sector.

The most important attributes of trustees joining us include:

• A willingness to ask questions

• A shared belief in our values, aims and objectives

• Energy to be an active and engaged trustee

• Desire to be a champion for young people and our organisation

Your responsibilities

Being a trustee requires a time commitment to the role. Duties/tasks include:

• Attend 4 board meetings a year (quarterly)

• Take part in our annual Development session with staff and/or trustees

There are additional opportunities to attend and contribute to our Finance sub-group and/or Care & Support sub-group. These meet 4 times per year (1-2 weeks before a Board meeting).

If this sounds like an opportunity you can bring your time, skills and passion to – we would love to hear from you.

Could you be part of something different? We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to use their gifts, skills and experience to make a difference to the lives of the people in our parishes and communities.

Castlemilk Parish Church are looking for a Children and Families Worker to serve the needs of both the community and the congregation with relevant groups and individuals to enhance the lives of vulnerable people in the community.

With significant experience of working with children and families, the successful candidate will also have experience of project/centre management with strong interpersonal skills to maintain positive relationships. The candidate must be a committed Christian with an active Church connection (Genuine Occupational Requirement in terms of the Equality Act 2010).

It is essential you have the right to work in the UK before applying to work with us. You will be asked to provide proof of your eligibility to work and remain in the UK if you are invited to attend for an interview.