Service Lead: Connect Hub / Soft Edges
- Full time
- £36,609 – £42,736
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 12th November 2025
- Advertised from 29th October 2025
- 12 months - Maternity cover
Role
About Simon Community Scotland
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 that people can explore options and take ‘the next step’ towards their 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. We care for and support each other regardless of our role, service or location. We want people who share these values to join us and become a part of the Simon Community Scotland team.
Job Specific Description
This is an exciting leadership opportunity to bring together two pioneering and transformative services working with women experiencing homelessness in Glasgow: the newly developed Soft Edges and the established Connect Hub.
Soft Edges is a multi-agency government funded project, with Simon Community Scotland leading on the operational delivery, the aim of the service is to connect with women who have experienced barriers to accessing support for a number of reasons.
Soft Edges will be a co-produced and trauma-informed service built in partnership with women, supporting women that services struggle to reach. The Connect Hub offers a community based, drop-in model that prioritises flexibility, safety, and meaningful engagement and support alongside women experiencing homelessness in Glasgow City Centre.
A key focus of this role in the first six months will be to lead the co-design of the Soft Edges service alongside women with lived and living experience. This includes collaboratively shaping the full service offer - from outreach and housing pathways to staffing structures, job roles, and operational design. The successful candidate will guide an inclusive, creative and empowering design process that ensures the resulting service is grounded in the real needs, strengths, and aspirations of women that traditional systems and structures have historically struggled to serve.
Alongside this, you will provide strategic leadership for the Connect Hub, an established four-day-a-week community service for women, and manage a skilled multidisciplinary team across both services. You'll work in partnership with clinical psychology and partner agencies to deliver responsive, trauma-informed and relational support that creates meaningful change in women's lives and challenges systemic barriers.
This role requires a compassionate and strategic leader who can build trusting relationships, lead with compassion, support staff wellbeing, and champion co-production, all while ensuring services are sustainable, integrated, and impactful
Key Responsibilities
Strategic and Service Leadership
Lead the co-design phase of the Soft Edges service, working alongside women to define:
- The service offer and model of support
- Team structure and job roles
- Values, principles and practice approach
- Service spaces and operational approaches
- Ensure lived and living experience drives every aspect of the Soft Edges design, embedding trauma-informed values from day one.
- Sharing and developing the service alongside broader strategic partners across Health and Social Care Partnership
- Translate the co-design outcomes into a fully developed, operationally ready service for launch after the initial six-month design phase.
- Ensure services remain aligned with trauma informed and co-production values.
- Provide ongoing operational leadership of the Connect Hub, ensuring it remains a responsive, trauma-informed, and accessible service for women in Glasgow.
Team Leadership
- Provide direct line management to the Soft Edges and Connect Hub team, and leadership support to the Practitioner Psychologist and Assistant Psychologist.
- Work in close partnership with the Clinical Psychologist and Head of Service to embed psychologically-informed environments (PIE) and trauma-informed care throughout the service.
- Ensure the recruitment and onboarding of new team members for Soft Edges aligns with co-designed values and role profiles.
- Ensure all staff are supported through supervision, coaching, and reflective practice, in collaboration with psychology colleagues.
- Actively promote wellbeing, emotional safety, and professional growth within staff teams.
- Model compassionate and values-based leadership in all relationships and decisions.
Partnership and System Engagement
- Build strong and strategic relationships across sectors (e.g. housing, health, VAWG, justice, social work, mental health) to improve pathways and systems of care for women.
- Represent the services and Simon Community Scotland in local forums and multi-agency settings.
- Champion systems change through storytelling, influence, and collaborative working, informed by women's lived experience, creating space for women to shape service design. Support team members to have regular care meetings to ensure multiagency working alongside women - steering the need for stronger communication across both public and third sector organisations involved in a women's care.
Budget and Resource Management
- Oversee and manage grant funded budgets across both services, ensuring accountability, transparency and delivery.
- Lead on securing additional funding and income generation opportunities, in collaboration with internal teams.
- Maintain clear and accessible reporting to funders, commissioners and stakeholders.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
- Oversee service monitoring and evaluation processes that are participatory, woman-centred, and deliver on outcomes for women.
- Collaborate with the psychology team and research partners to capture and share learning, impact and insight.
- Embed continuous improvement through learning reviews, co-production forums, and meaningful feedback loops.
Our Values & Approach
All SCS employees are expected to demonstrate the following values in their work:
- Warmth and Regard
- Recognising and valuing everyone
- 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 clients, 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 recognising there’s probably something else. going on, and finding 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
Application notes
To apply, and for more information, please visit our website.
Closing Date: 12 November, 2025
Treasurer
- Management Board
- Unpaid
- Hybrid: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth and online
- Closing 8th December 2025
Treasurer - Cruse Scotland Bereavement Support
A unique opportunity to contribute your financial expertise to an organisation making a profound difference to bereaved people across Scotland
About the Role:Cruse Scotland is currently seeking a new Trustee to take on the key role of Treasurer who as well as fulfilling the duties of a general Trustee, would undertake the added responsibility of providing strategic oversight of Cruse Scotland’s financial affairs.
The role of Treasurer ensures that effective and appropriate financial measures, controls and procedures are adhered to, and will prepare and present reports to the Board and its Financial and Audit Committee. The Treasurer will work closely with fellow board members in discussing the financial health of the organisation and consider options for ongoing sustainability. The Board meet quarterly as does the Finance and Audit Committee.
About Cruse Scotland:We are Scotland’s leading bereavement charity, providing bereavement support to anyone in Scotland who needs us. Bereavement is often one of the toughest experiences that people will face in their lifetime and for some it can be truly debilitating and completely overwhelming. The range of support we offer includes our Free Bereavement Helpline, GriefChat (instant web-based support), individual and group counselling support, children and young people’s services, training to workplace support and more. See our Get Support section for more information
The most remarkable thing about Cruse Scotland is the fact that our client services are delivered purely by a volunteer workforce - all of whom - are trained to professional standards. It’s fair to say that their motivation and commitment is contagious, and as such, we value their contributions highly.
Our volunteer workforce of 250 people are located in communities across Scotland, and are supported by a staff team of 23, the majority of whom are employed part time. Without our volunteers our organisation simply would not exist. This of course includes the contributions of those who oversee the governance of our charity - our trustees - all of whom are volunteers too. Our trustees comprise a broad range of professions and expertise and are an engaged, committed and friendly bunch. Meet them here: Our People : Cruse Scotland
Next Steps:
For more detail about the role please see the following documents:
- role descriptor (see attached Treasurer Role Descriptor) (pdf)
- OSCR | Guidance and good practice for charity trustees
- Cruse Scotland Annual Accounts 2024-25
- Cruse Scotland Strategy 2022-27
Top job! Clinical Psychologist
- Full time
- £49,120 – £60,543
- Hybrid: Locations in the West of Scotland
- Closing 2nd January 2026
About Simon Community Scotland
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 that people can explore options and take ‘the next step’ towards their 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. We care for and support each other regardless of our role, service or location. We want people who share these values to join us and become a part of the Simon Community Scotland team.
Job Summary
Within Simon Community, we pride ourselves in taking a psychological and trauma informed approach to our work. We understand the people we work with have likely experienced and continue to experience adverse life events which lead to trauma responses, impacting both physical and mental health. The role of psychology within Simon Community ensures psychological theories and principles are embedded within the organisation in a creative and flexible way. Providing psychological safety and the best wellbeing possible for everyone accessing or working for Simon Community Scotland.
Our psychology team within the organisation is continuing to grow, demonstrating their value and importance to our ever evolving services and support. We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist to lead on this work in our West of Scotland teams and take an active leadership role within the organisation. The key focus of this role will be to support the organisation to continue to implement psychologically informed environment principles and trauma informed care, creating and maintaining psychological safety for all. This work will be carried out under the supervision of a Prinicipal Clinical Psychologist external to Simon Community Scotland. The job plan will be agreed with the Director of Services, working independently within the framework, policies and procedures of the organisation. The job plan will cover both direct and indirect work, with more focus on indirect, it is an opportunity to use the range of skills of a Clinical Psychologist; leadership, formulation, consultation, supervision, research and service development. The job will include working across different services in the West of Scotland, including supported accommodation, community support hubs and outreach. This job description will be subject to review as the psychology team, as well as the organisational need
develops and the postholder will be a key stakeholder in that review. This is an exciting opportunity to really explore what Clinical Psychology can offer those facing severe and multiple disadvantage and implement needed change, thinking creatively, in an organisation that puts ‘being human’ and relationships at the heart of the work.
Are you passionate about the power of data to drive real-world change? Do you have the analytical skills to turn complex information into actionable insights that improve young people's lives? MCR Pathways is looking for an enthusiastic and rigorous Evidence and Impact Officer to join our Systems, Evidence and Impact team in Glasgow.
About the Role:
This pivotal role supports the continuous improvement of our mentoring programme by ensuring we have a robust evidence base. You will be instrumental in evaluating our impact on young people, mentors and the wider education system, ensuring our decisions are always evidence-based and aligned with our mission.
Key responsibilities:
- Data Analysis: Conduct thoughtful and robust quantitative and qualitative data analysis to generate actionable insights for internal teams and stakeholders.
- Evaluation: Support the development of our Outcomes Evaluation Framework and monitoring tools.
- Data Visualisation: Use tools like Tableau/Looker Studio to create clear and accessible data visualisations and reports.
- Consultation: Organise and lead consultative meetings with Young People (YP) ambassadors and volunteer mentors to gather direct, qualitative feedback.
- System Improvement: Work with regional teams to continuously improve our monitoring and evaluation systems and data collection methods.
- Impact Reporting: Produce evidence and impact reports for a variety of internal and external audiences, including annual reports for schools/LAs, funders and our annual review.
- Performance Monitoring: Monitor, evaluate and report regularly on the Outcomes and Evaluation Framework, clearly showing the difference we are making as well as areas for improvement.
- Stakeholder Support: Provide relevant data to support policy and operational priorities, funding applications, and collaborative research with external partners.
About you:
- Proven experience in qualitative and quantitative data analysis and interpretation.
- Experience in planning, structuring, and developing detailed Impact reports.
- Proficiency in using data visualisation tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker Studio, Google Sheets).
- Experience of practical monitoring and evaluation processes, with a good understanding of different M&E methods.
- Ability to interpret complex data and present it in clear, concise language to a variety of audiences, including internal teams and external stakeholders.
- A commitment to continuous improvement, with an ability to work creatively and collaboratively to generate insights in a complex environment.
- The ability to communicate naturally and empathetically with young people.
About MCR Pathways:
MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity established in Glasgow in 2007. Our mentoring programme is now delivered in schools across the whole of Scotland as well as South East and North East England. We are committed to helping young people gain self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our mentoring programme has profound impacts on school pupils in their confidence, wellbeing and post-school progression. MCR Mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference.
You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. MCR Pathways’ values are Respect, Communication, Trust and Growth and they inform everything we do.
Benefits of working for MCR Pathways include: 33 days annual leave in first year rising to 38 days from 2nd year of employment, additional day off for your birthday, Living Pensions Employer, Life Assurance - 4 x salary.
Senior Support Worker - Eastfield
- Full time
- £26,264 – £26,526
- On site: Eastfield
- Closing 19th December 2025
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. Guided by our values of Respect and Compassion, we empower both the people we support and our colleagues to Thrive every day
Why work with us?
At Care Support Scotland caring isn’t just a job — it’s who we are. Join our dedicated team and help transform lives while growing your own career.
• Pension contributions matched up to 6%
• Financial Flexibility – Access your wages as you earn them with our Earned Wage Access benefit.
• Employee Assistance Programme through HSF
• Contribution to HSF Health Plan – supporting your everyday health needs
• Generous annual leave – 33 days including public holidays, increasing with service
• Supportive absence policies to help when you need time off
• Death in Benefit Cover – 2x annual salary
• Support with funded qualifications
• Career development and progression opportunities
Who we are looking for?
Are you passionate about supporting people to overcome challenges, build stability, and move towards independent living? Do you have experience in social care and a commitment to equality and inclusion? If so, we want to hear from you.
We’re recruiting a Senior Support Worker to lead frontline delivery of personalised, high-quality, and compassionate support to individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness. You’ll be part of a dedicated team delivering tenancy support, housing management assistance, and wellbeing services tailored to individual needs.
Eastfield is a high support needs service, supporting people with multiple and complex needs as such as substance use, mental health and physical health. This does not involve any personal care or administering any medication
Role and responsibilities
• Coordinate and deliver support plans addressing tenancy sustainment, substance use, mental health, housing needs, and personal development.
• Responsible for coordinating and maintaining staff rotas for their service.
• Work directly with individuals to help them achieve their goals, build life skills, and improve health and wellbeing.
• Act as a keyworker and oversee support delivery, ensuring accurate and professional records.
• Liaise with external partners, including housing teams, healthcare services, and advocacy groups.
• Provide leadership on shift and supervision to support workers in the absence of the Team Leader.
• Promote inclusion, empowerment, and trauma-informed practice in all areas of support.
Essential Skills and Attributes
• A recognised social care qualification at SCQF Level 6 or above.
• Experience working in adult social care, ideally in homelessness, housing support or mental health.
• Confident in report writing, support planning, and using digital systems.
• Understanding of SSSC codes of practice and Care Inspectorate standards.
• Strong values of compassion, dignity, and respect for all.
• Ability to read, speak and write in English at CEFR level B1 or higher.
• Commitment to the values and mission of Care Support Scotland, and to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
Desired skills and attributes
• Previous social care practitioner (skilled worker) experience,
• Previous supervisory experience
• Previous specialist training experience directly related to the role.
Additional Notes
• Shift work, weekend work may be a requirement of this role.
• PVG scheme membership & SSSC registration are requirements of this post
• Please note, you will be asked to provide evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.
• We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward if a suitable candidate is identified.
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