Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is looking for a pro-active, team player to join the team to work within our Prison and Healthcare project.

As an employee of the Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC), reporting to the Prison Recovery Development Lead. The successful post holder will have a unique opportunity to work within Scottish Prisons establishments developing and promoting peer lead recovery initiatives, creating a culture of recovery across the Scottish prison service by supporting the development of an operational approach to the “Recovery from Within” project, which works in collaboration with all stakeholders and promotes a person-centred approach to Recovery

The role involves facilitate groups delivering SRC’s “Recovery from Within” learning offerings to residents and staff across the prison service with a focus on developing community assets and supporting sustainable peer led Recovery development within prisons.

Your role will be to:

· Facilitate the delivery of SRC “Recovery from Within” learning offerings to residents, staff and partners developing greater awareness of the experience of addiction and recovery within key institutions

· Build relationships that will support the continuum of recovery for residents which compliments the core work and traditional approaches of prisons, substance use services, criminal justice and healthcare systems.

The Counselling Service Team Coordinator is pivotal in providing operational and strategic support to counsellors and supervisors across Health Centres and Outreach Centres. The role ensures that counselling services meet professional standards and adhere to the COSCA Ethical Framework & Codes of Practice. This includes overseeing service delivery, facilitating training, and fostering strong partnerships with stakeholders. The position is critical to maintaining service excellence, compliance, and ethical integrity.

This service offers individual, free and confidential counselling for people experiencing alcohol/substance-related difficulties and those impacted by someone else’s alcohol issue. The service is provided by trained staff, students and volunteers. Individuals access the service either directly or by being referred by another source such as a GP, Addictions or Social Work Teams. The service addresses health and social wellbeing, while promoting and supporting the development of trauma informed practice.

The post holder will support the ADAPT Manager to manage and co-ordinate a high-quality service within FASS, whilst ensuring staff counsellors, volunteers and students receive appropriate supervision, support, and guidance.

Due to the nature of our Collective Management structure, this is a unique role. We are the last true collective organisation that operates within the Scottish Women’s Aid Network. You will be involved in and have shared ownership of all areas of work Clydebank Women’s Aid undertakes.

Fundamentally, this is a role that allows the opportunity to work with other feminists who, like you, are committed to improving the lives of women, children and young people who have experienced domestic abuse and overthrowing patriarchy. By working collectively, we are each able to take our equal share of the workload and as such promote a supportive and positive work environment. We value each other, our experiences, our health, our skills – both collectively and individually – and we are committed to upholding our compassionate and trusting work culture, our sisterhood and, our positive relationships through formal and informal practices such as bi-annual team building events.

This would be the ideal role for someone who does not want to be working from home and is looking for a varied and interesting role as no two days in Clydebank Women’s Aid are the same. You will have the unique perspective as a worker and a manager. By supporting the women, children, and young people directly, you will gain first-hand insight into the challenges and barriers they face. You will have the opportunity to contribute to local and national campaigns and legislation that could ultimately make a difference to the issues that the women, children, and young people that we support face on a day-to-day basis. Your passion, vision, attitudes, skills, and ideas will be valued and will be used to propel Clydebank Women’s Aid forward.

You will also be a Trustee of the charity and as such you will be required to make collective decisions on behalf of Clydebank Women’s Aid and ensure we are carrying out our remit for the public benefit, comply with and work to Clydebank Women’s Aid constitution, act in Clydebank Women’s Aid’s best wishes, manage Clydebank Women’s Aid resources responsibly, act with reasonable care and skill and ensure Clydebank Women’s Aid is accountable by complying with statutory accounting and reporting requirements that demonstrate that the charity is run well. We would urge candidates to look over the information on Trustee duties on office of the Scottish Charity Register website for more information: oscr.org.uk/managing-a-charity/trustee-duties

As a worker and Collective Manager at Clydebank Women’s Aid, we are all trained to the same level and have access to the same training opportunities, and Clydebank Women’s Aid will invest in your personal and professional development. With this, we do not have the expectation that you already have completed specific qualifications. Instead, we ask that you will be willing to work towards and gain an SVQ that meets both the standards of Clydebank Women’s Aid and the SSSC. The cost of which will be funded by Clydebank Women’s Aid. The cost of SSSC registration and PVG updates will also be covered by Clydebank Women’s Aid (within budgetary constraints).

Generous employment package:

• 14% employer pension contribution

• Continuous training and personal development opportunities

• Costs covered to complete SVQ level 9&10.

• Costs of PVG and SSSC registration covered.

• 30 days Annual leave and 12 Public holidays (pro rata)

• 7.5% of salary on-call payment

Exclusions:

Clydebank Women’s Aid is an Equal Opportunities Employer and positively welcomes applications from women from all sections of the community.

Only women need apply under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

Successful applicants will be subjected to disclosure check through the PVG Scheme. This post is subject to suitable references and a successful completion of Induction.

Next steps:

We ask that you fully read the attached Applicant Information Pack for a full understanding of what is required for this interesting and varied role.

If you would like to apply for this post, please complete our 1st Stage screening form available here:

The closing date to complete Stage 1 of the application process is 9am Wednesday 8th January 2025.

Applicants who are successful will move onto Stage 2 and will be invited via email to complete our application form. Applicants will receive this email no later than the end of the day on Friday 10th January 2025.

To be considered for this role, second stage application forms must be returned by 9am Monday 27th of January 2025.

Interviews will take place on Saturday 8th of February 2025 between 10am and 3pm. Interviews will be conducted by 2 members of the collective and 1 external party.

My Support Day is a charity based within South Lanarkshire which supports families and loved ones who have been affected by someone else’s substance use. The support is person cantered, and individuals are supported via 1:1, support group both face to face and online.

My Support Day is in partnership with Liber8 to deliver the commissioned South Lanarkshire Alcohol and Drug Partnership (SL ADP) service FREE – Family Recovery Everyone Everywhere. This service is based across South Lanarkshire to access one-to-one support, group support, learning and development and events for the whole family. This service will also offer counselling, mediation and therapeutic services to Individuals using the service which can tailor their support to suit their needs.

My support Day is seeking to recruit a Project Lead for the FREE Service who can effectively make plans that support project goals and lead the team to perform efficiently. They will work diligently to keep their team engaged, motivated, and focused on the task at hand whilst working in line with not only local but also national strategy with focus to embedding a Whole Family Approach and Family Inclusive Practice throughout South Lanarkshire Community. To achieve this the Project Lead will ensure that staff and volunteers go through a comprehensive training to enable a high quality of support given to families and individual that have been affected by someone else’s substance use. The Project Lead will be responsible for raising awareness of the FREE Service and working collaboratively with the South Lanarkshire families and individuals, community members, statutory services, third sector organisations.

We advise that if you wish to discuss the vacancy further or would like to find out more details that you contact us on 01698 673012.