Mission Statement

Our long-term vision is to end youth homelessness. Our more immediate mission is to ensure that every young person in Scotland has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, resolve and move on from

homelessness, making it rare, brief, and non-recurring.

Context

Working as part of our innovative Fife Housing First for Youth Project, the Project Worker will work directly with young people aged 16-25 years to coordinate and provide emotional and practical support to avoid, resolve and

move on from homelessness.

Working directly with young people in their home or within a community setting the Project Worker will support young people to secure/maintain a permanent home, improve their independent living skills, access other services,

manage finances and engage with resources within their communities.

The Project Worker will offer line management, guidance, and support to Support Assistants and volunteers. The Project Workers are responsible for completing support plans and risk assessments and acting as co-ordinator for any key people involved in the care and support of young people.

We’re looking for a General Manager for the Four Square Park Café in Saughton Park.

The café is very special. In the middle of Saughton Park, the Four Square Park café occupies a beautiful setting amongst formal gardens. With a diverse range of visitors using the play park, sports facilities, skate park and bandstand, it provides comfort food and drinks from local suppliers, using local ingredients where possible. It employs local young people in the summer and is a place for community groups, friends and visitors to gather. Dog friendly, child friendly, accessible and with welcoming staff, it has become a much-loved community asset.

The role is about providing consistently good service to the people who have always used the café and about bringing more people in to enjoy it. As with all park cafes, weather has a big influence on our sales so the role is equally about driving business on the wet and wintry days and maximising business during the summer.

You’ll report to our experienced Director of Social Enterprise who will coach and support you to succeed in the role. You’ll manage an assistant manager, and a chef and your team will also include permanent café assistants and seasonal staff for the busier months. You’ll have dedicated time off the rota to enable you to manage and promote the café. And in your first year you’ll have leadership training and coaching to help you do well in your role.

Are you passionate about helping people at a time in their life when they need it most?

About Fresh Start

Fresh Start has been active in Edinburgh for over 20 years with a mission to help people make a home for themselves. We aim to support individuals and families transitioning out of homelessness and at risk of homelessness by providing practical assistance, skill development, and advocacy to enable lasting, positive change.

Fresh Start is a value led organisation that works with people on the basis of Respect, Collaboration and Empowerment. These values underpin all our services such as Fresh Rooms.

About the role

Getting the keys to your new home after experiencing homelessness should be an exciting and happy time. However, peeling wallpaper, stained walls or your least favourite colour can make it hard to settle into your new home. The Fresh Rooms service works alongside our service users to help make their home feel refreshed and personalised. Through this we hope to reduce the likelihood of any of our service users becoming homeless again. Working alongside the service users and dedicated volunteers to transform a home makes it an extremely satisfying and rewarding experience.

As a Fresh Rooms Service Coordinator, you will be passionate about helping people to thrive, not just survive and to establish and make a home for themselves.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Engaging with service users to agree the work required in the home and understand any additional needs of the service user
• Assisting Service users to access wider Fresh Start services (e.g. starter packs)
• Co-ordinating and transporting teams of volunteers to provide people with a painting and decorating service
• Painting alongside service users and volunteers when needed
• Working with longstanding volunteers and teams of corporate volunteers
• Working in a small team with another coordinator to ensure high standards of service delivery are meeting the needs of the people we work for

Are you flexible, energetic and a great team player? Then this is your opportunity to join a dynamic service that delivers to a high standard and keeps our service users at the centre of everything we do.