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.

Service: Angus

Use your skills in a Career That Cares!!

At Turning Point Scotland, we have opportunities to help make a positive impact for people, encouraging them to fulfil their lives with exciting and fun activities, pursue their hobbies and passions & creating memorable experiences in this support role.

Embark on an emotionally rewarding journey and apply today!

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity unlike other support roles, with Turning Point Scotland, no two days are the same!

Our role will include:

• Helping to provide individualised support to adults with a wide range of needs, either on an individual 1:1 basis or alongside others and as part of a team.

• Supporting individuals within the community and engaging with their hobbies and interests & empowering individuals to develop skills and independence, promoting their overall growth.

• Attending various community groups and accompanying our service users to attend activities they are passionate about, from taking a trip to the cinema, enjoying a morning swim or attending local groups or community projects, accompany on holidays and trips away with the individuals we support.

• Assist with personal care, ensuring their comfort and wellbeing.

• Celebrate achievements and milestones, both big and small, to create a rewarding and positive environment.

About You

No previous working experience is needed; full training will be provided to you. We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team!

You will have a genuine commitment to use your skills to support people to live their best lives. You will be supported by an incredibly approachable management team, allowing you to expand on your existing knowledge whilst developing new skills. You will have flexibility to work on a rota.

About Us – Angus

Turning Point Scotland’s Angus service provides support to individuals with complex needs including learning disability and autism in their own homes, living in the community and support them with every day opportunities that promotes independence and choice.

We strive to enable people to access everyday life experiences including access to education, employment/volunteering and social activities. We will also provide support with developing relationships and maintaining a home. We work in partnership with health teams, social work teams, Community justice teams, Police and advocacy.

We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team! We would offer you full support in completing your application.

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 pay points of the role and based on experience.

This is a new role created to support the development of our Tenancy Support and Housing Support / Housing First provision in Midlothian. You will work alongside our two existing Service Managers in Midlothian (Homelessness Accommodation and Learning Disability and Neurodiversity) to ensure we meet the needs of the community of Midlothian, and develop and sustain meaningful, impactful relationships with our commissioners and wider stakeholders.

This is a critical role that is responsible for leading a team that works to ensure that hundreds of Midlothian residents are able to avoid homelessness, by providing pro-active and preventative tenancy support activities that maintain tenancies. The team also works to Housing First principles, providing an elastic tolerance and relationship based approach to working with individuals with complex and multi-faceted needs.

You will lead a dynamic team of staff and will work with colleagues in Business Development and Corporate Services to support the on-going development and innovation of the service, with the longer term aim to grow the service outside of the Midlothian area. This is a great opportunity for someone who wishes to bring their existing experience of leading and managing Housing Support services and who would like to develop their career further.

Care Support Scotland is committed to developing colleagues, ensuring they have the right support and opportunities to thrive in their career.

Care Support Scotland

We are a charity with decades of experience supporting people across Scotland, providing those who need us with support that ranges from Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodiversity, Youth and Adult homelessness and Older People services.

Why work with us?

We have the following benefits to help attract and retain the best talent, ensuring we provide high quality care to those we support, this includes:

· 6% employer pension contribution

· Death in benefit cover (2 times salary)

· Enhanced Sick Pay

· Fully funded qualifications

· Career development and progression opportunities

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.