Four Square Homelessness Charity is seeking a dedicated Waking Night Practitioner to join our Domestic Abuse and Gender based violence service, this position plays a crucial role in providing overnight support to individuals experiencing homelessness. The ideal candidate will be vigilant, empathetic, and committed to creating a safe and secure environment for vulnerable women during the night.

The service addresses the unique and complex needs of individuals who are experiencing both homelessness and abuse. This service aims to provide support, protection, and resources to survivors of domestic abuse and gender-based violence who are also facing the challenges of homelessness.

This is a waking nights post, with shift pattern 9.45pm - 7.45am, working 3 shifts/4 shifts per week on a rotational basis.

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.

About QNIS: The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) is a small charity doing big things. QNIS works with and supports community nurses and midwives all over Scotland, providing leadership and practice development opportunities. We also work closely with a range of other public and third sector organisations to advocate for the community nursing and midwifery professions.

The role: We have a great opportunity for a business support officer to join our small team. This wide-ranging and diverse role will see you providing high quality, professional business support across the organisation. You will be involved in a wide range of activities including supporting projects and events, diary management, and coordinating external suppliers. You will engage with stakeholders at all levels, including liaising with nurses and midwives, supporting senior managers, and coordinating committee meetings for the Board of Trustees. Being a small team, we need someone who is also happy to roll their sleeves up and pitch in, scanning documents, packing boxes, or running to the shops when required.

The post is full time (37.5 hours). The place of work is our office in central Edinburgh. We support hybrid working, this is dependent on business needs and would likely require a minimum of two days per week in the office. We are offering a starting salary of £30,686 (FTE). Benefits include:

• Contributory pension scheme, and salary sacrifice.
• Non-contributory death in service benefit scheme.
• 38 days of annual leave including public holidays and a day off on your birthday.
• The opportunity to work with a passionate and friendly team focused on making a difference for community nurses and midwives, and the people they support, across Scotland.
• Learning and development opportunities.

About you: An experienced administrator, you will be able to meet deadlines while maintaining a very high level of attention to detail. With strong IT skills and an ability to manage a range of work with many parallel sub-projects, you will have excellent organisation and planning skills. Experience of working with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems would be an advantage. Crucial to success in the role will be a high level of self-awareness, the ability to communicate clearly, cheerfully and tactfully with people at all levels, both internally and externally. We are looking for someone who brings energy, creativity and kindness to the team.

For more information about the role and the organisation, please download the Excellence Profile and visit the QNIS website. The Excellence Profile sets out how we might expect someone who is experienced and flourishing in the role to perform and we are not assuming that an individual will have the full suite of capabilities at appointment.

Person Specification

Essential

• Confident working across multiple workstreams and projects simultaneously
• Experience of providing comprehensive support to committees and or project leads
• Minute taking and meeting and diary management
• Experience of building relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to prioritise, plan and organise own workload to meet deadlines.
• Able to work collaboratively as part of a team and contribute to a positive working environment and culture
• Strong IT skills including proficient use of Office 365, MS Teams and Sharepoint
• Interest in working for a small charity

Desirable Experience

• Previous PA experience
• Experience planning and supporting events
• Use and management of a CRM system
• Willingness to provide support across the organisation when required

We are looking for an experienced Finance Assistant to support our Finance Officer for approximately 14 hours per week. Experience of Xero would be an advantage.

Edinburgh Napier Students’ Association (that’s ‘ENSA’ to our friends) exists to enable students to make the most of their university experience. We do this by representing, supporting and developing Edinburgh Napier students to be successful in their studies; to try out new things; to engage in, and contribute to, university life; to be healthy and happy; to bring about positive change; and to have fun.

The Finance Assistant will process accounts receivable/payable and arrange online authorisations for payments (including salaries). They will also assist in the preparation and monitoring of budgets and ensure that financial policies are being followed. They will help to keep proper financial records, ensure that effective financial procedures and controls are in place and assist the Finance Officer in liaising with completing annual accounts.

Reports to: Finance Officer

Please see the Job Description & Person Spec PDF for more information.