- Advertised from 3rd March 2026
Role
About the role:
Our administration team is the backbone of our organisation, providing efficient, reliable, and professional support across all departments. They manage a wide range of tasks including office management, travel arrangements, event coordination, database maintenance and supporting our accounts, human resources and project teams.
Known for their attention to detail, adaptability, and proactive approach, the team ensures that day-to-day operations run smoothly, they consistently demonstrate versatility and a can-do attitude, taking on new challenges with enthusiasm and professionalism
The Senior Administrator will provide a range of general administrative and clerical support across the organisation, including extensive use of Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook (diary management), Word (reports), PowerPoint (presentations), Excel (spreadsheets), and Access (database management).
The Administration Team maintain excellent working relationships, giving staff confidence in delegating tasks and trusting in reliable, high-quality outcomes. The postholder is expected to be highly proactive, taking initiative to identify priorities, solve problems, and ensure tasks are completed efficiently and to a high standard.
Benefits
SDF offers generous annual leave, competitive pension contributions, enhanced sick pay, learning and development opportunities, and access to an employee counselling service. We are committed to supporting a healthy work–life balance through flexible working arrangements.
A full job description and application form are available on our website: sdf.org.uk/sdf-jobs
We aim to make our recruitment process work for people, please approach us if you have any particular requirements.
We actively encourage applications from people with lived or living experience of drug use, and from candidates of all backgrounds and identities. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the communities we serve.
If you would like to discuss the role in more detail, please contact the office on 0141 221 1175 and we will arrange for the line manager to call you.
* The admin team typically attend the office 2–3 days per week and working at home for the remainder, office attendance and specific days are determined by organisational needs and may vary from week to week. There may be some occasions where attendance in the office is required up to five days per week.
Application notes
Closing Date: Thursday 12th March 2026
Interviews: Friday 20th March 2026 only and will be held in Glasgow.
How to apply
Important: You should not start your application on the Breathe HR system until you have completed and are ready to upload the SDF application form available from our website.
- View the Job Description online or download a copy for future reference.
- Download the Application Form (Word document).
- Complete the application form in full.
- Once completed, access our online HR system using the link below: hr.breathehr.com/v/senior-administrator-45529
- Upload your completed application form to submit your application
(you only have 24hrs to upload the application form once your interest is registered on the Breathe HR system).
Please note: A CV or cover letter is not required and will not be considered.
Prison Recovery Development Officer
- Full time
- £29,500
- Remote: Home-based with regular travel throughout Scotland
- Closing 17th March 2026
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.
About Us:
Murray’s Initiative (formally known as Glasgow Council on Alcohol) is an independent Scottish charity that works to reduce alcohol and drug-related harm at both individual and community levels. Established in 1965, Murray’s Initiative adopts a long-term, trauma-informed and asset-based approach to changing the culture around substance use. Its services are built on a person-centred, harm-reduction model, supporting people whether their goal is to reduce consumption or achieve abstinence.
Murray’s Initiative offers free, confidential counselling services for people concerned about their own or someone else's drinking. Murray’s Initiative delivers a range of interventions including groupwork and employability support as well as a number of holistic and inclusive services, such as a women’s service for survivors of gender-based violence, young persons peer education service, LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing support and tailored wellbeing programmes.
Murray’s Initiative is also a recognised provider of professional development, offering a comprehensive training portfolio including education aimed at increasing awareness of alcohol use and promoting healthier lifestyles, COSCA Counselling Skills and a Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Murray’s Initiative deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire, helping people make meaningful, positive change in their lives.
The foundation of Murray’s Initiative is our supportive and inclusive culture for all who engage and work with us.
About the Role:
The role of Community Engagement Worker is to provide a community-based Alcohol Brief Intervention (ABI) service in the wider community and primary care settings within Greater Glasgow in partnership with other statutory, voluntary and community agencies within the area.
As part of the role, the Community Engagement Worker will host alcohol information stalls in communities across Greater Glasgow to talk to members of the public about alcohol consumption and provide evidence based screenings and interventions.
The postholder will also be support the wider Education & Development team on delivery of the Alcohol Brief Interventions Skills training.
Travel throughout Greater Glasgow will be essential for this role.
The Community Engagement Worker will report to the Service Manager – Education & Development.
This post requires membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme for protected adults. Successful applicants will be required to join the PVG Scheme.
Senior Harm Reduction and Stabilisation Practitioner
- Full time
- £30,000
- On site: Inverclyde
- Closing 13th March 2026
Moving On Inverclyde is developing an extended-hours Harm Reduction and Stabilisation Service in partnership with Inverclyde Alcohol and Drug Recovery Service (ADRS).
This service supports adults following a non-fatal overdose or identified high-risk alcohol or drug incident. Our focus is straightforward: safety, stabilisation, and reconnection at critical points of vulnerability.
We are seeking a Senior Harm Reduction and Stabilisation Practitioner to lead this developing service. You will provide oversight during extended hours, support proportionate risk decision-making, supervise practitioners, and ensure consistent, trauma-informed practice.
This is a non-clinical role. Clinical assessment and prescribing remain the responsibility of NHS partners.
The service operates seven days per week between 9am and 10pm. Regular evening and weekend working is essential.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has significant experience supporting adults affected by substance use
- Is confident managing risk and making sound decisions
- Can provide calm leadership in dynamic situations
- Works well within partnership settings
- Shares our harm reduction and recovery values
We recognise the value of lived experience and the insight it can bring. We welcome applications from individuals who combine personal insight with the skills and experience required for this role.
Full UK driving licence required.
This is an opportunity to shape a new pathway within Inverclyde — strengthening safety, partnership working and recovery at moments when support matters most.
Senior Learning and Engagement Officer
- Full time or Part time
- £37,000
- Hybrid: Working from home and Edinburgh or Glasgow office
- Closing 15th March 2026
We are on an exciting journey. We have positioned ourselves as the leading HIV charity in Scotland and our aim is to effectively influence the policy and service landscape to ensure that Scotland reaches zero HIV transmission by 2030. We are achieving this through raising awareness of HIV and undertaking projects to meet different workforces and communities education needs.
HIV Informed is a national education resource for Scotland’s health and social care workforce, launched by Waverley Care in December 2025.
It is a free online learning hub designed to:
• Challenge outdated knowledge and misconceptions about HIV
• Provide accurate, up-to-date information on HIV today
• Reduce stigma and discrimination
• Support professionals to deliver inclusive, respectful, stigma‑free care
The learning hub includes structured learning modules, knowledge quizzes to support learning and reflection, engaging videos and lived experience content and downloadable learning resources for use in practice and training.
HIV Informed was developed by Waverley Care in partnership with NHS Scotland and people living with HIV and is funded by the Scottish Government.
This post will work to actively promote and embed HIV Informed within health and social care settings across Scotland. The role will achieve this through delivering short awareness sessions and developing existing resources for frontline staff.
This role would collaborate with health and social care management teams and learning and development teams to support the implementation of HIV informed in workforce development plans. Furthermore, the postholder will attend national conferences, network meetings and stakeholder events.
About You
We welcome applications from people with lived experience of HIV, as well as those with professional experience in health, social care, or community engagement. We are looking for someone with:
• A demonstrable interest in, and passion for, improving the lives of people affected by blood-borne viruses (BBVs), in particular people disproportionately affected by HIV
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop positive relationships with a range of stakeholders
• Experience in project management and leading in an area of work
• Experience in delivering training, stakeholder relationship development, and engagement
• Experience of working in health and social care learning and development settings
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills appropriate for a wide range of audiences
• Be a strong team player, able to use your initiative and reflect on your practice
• Interested in development opportunities and further training
Why Join Us?
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a progressive organisation at a pivotal moment in Scotland’s public health journey. You’ll have the chance to influence real change, working alongside passionate colleagues committed to making a lasting impact on people’s lives.
We offer a supportive working environment with hybrid working options, professional development opportunities and a generous annual leave entitlement.
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