Independent Living Officer
- Part time
- £26,520 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Edinburgh and the Lothians
- Closing 14th October 2026
- Advertised from 23rd September 2026
- £15,912 per annum for 21 hours / 0.6 FTE. Fixed-term until 31 March 2029 (with potential extension subject to funding and performance).
Role
Would you like to help make a genuine difference in someone’s life? Join LCIL and be part of a team that is changing lives every day.
We are currently recruiting a part-time Independent Living Officer to join our dedicated and supportive team. If you are passionate about empowering Disabled people and supporting people to achieve greater choice, control and independence, we would love to hear from you.
At LCIL, we are a user-led organisation committed to supporting Disabled people to live independently in the community of their choice. Everything we do is grounded in inclusion, respect and collaboration, placing people at the heart of our services.
We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate:
- Knowledge of Self-Directed Support, direct payments, Personal Assistant arrangements and independent living services.
- Experience of providing advice, information and one-to-one support to individuals, carers or families.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships and support people to make informed decisions.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a varied caseload while maintaining accurate records.
- A commitment to the Social Model of Disability, equality, inclusion and person-led approaches to support.
You will be confident working with Disabled people, individuals with long-term health conditions, older people, carers and families, supporting them to understand their rights, access services and develop independent living
The role includes supporting people who employ Personal Assistants, providing guidance on recruitment, employment responsibilities and accessing the resources needed to manage their support effectively. You will also work collaboratively with partner organisations, statutory services and colleagues across LCIL to help deliver high-quality, person-centred support.
Following initial training in our Edinburgh office, you will work flexibly across office, home and outreach settings, helping people achieve greater choice, control and independence in their daily lives.
Why Join LCIL?
We offer a supportive and flexible working environment, including:
- Flexible and hybrid working patterns
- 25 days annual leave + 10 public holidays (prorated for 0.6 FTE)
- Generous employer pension contribution
- Opportunities for personal and professional development
We want you to feel confident and prepared. That is why all shortlisted candidates will receive interview questions in advance.
We value thoughtful, considered responses and are keen to hear about the full range of skills and experience you can bring. This is your chance to show us what matters and how you can make an impact.
Application notes
PVG membership is required for successful applicants
We welcome questions about the recruitment process - contact Caitlin McPherson at HR@lothiancil.org.uk
Application packs: can be download from below or from LCIL’s website or call 0131 475 2350
Closing date: Wednesday 14th October 2026
Interviews: Monday 26th October 2026
LCIL is an equal opportunities employer. Applications from Disabled people are particularly welcome. We are also a disability confident employer and will provide any support needed throughout the recruitment process - please contact HR@lothiancil.org.uk if you require assistance.
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The Head of Corporate Services is a senior strategic leadership role responsible for the effective management and development of the organisation’s corporate functions, with a primary professional lead for finance, accounting and financial governance.
The postholder will ensure strong financial stewardship, robust governance, and high‑quality corporate support that enables safe, effective and sustainable delivery of care and support services. The role plays a critical part in organisational resilience, assurance to the Board, and delivery of the Workforce Excellence and financial sustainability strategies.
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
Helpline Co-ordinator
- Part time
- £24,479 pro-rata
- Remote: Home Based - ensuring a quiet confidential space
- Closing 2nd November 2026
About You: Are you an organised, compassionate and confident communicator who enjoys supporting people and making a real difference? Cruse Scotland is looking for a Helpline Co-ordinator to join our small but mighty staff team and help coordinate our national Helpline service, supporting bereaved people across Scotland. We are looking for someone who is organised, reliable and confident communicating with a wide range of people.
You will ideally have:
- Experience of working with people who may be vulnerable, distressed or in difficult circumstances.
- Strong communication and listening skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and accurate data-entry skills.
- Good IT skills and confidence using databases, email and other digital systems.
- The ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information appropriately.
- The ability to work calmly and professionally when situations are challenging.
- Experience of supporting or working alongside volunteers would be an advantage.
- The ability to work independently while also being an active and supportive member of a team.
Most importantly, you will share our commitment to providing compassionate and accessible support to people experiencing bereavement.
About The Role: Working closely with the Helpline Manager, you will help ensure the smooth and effective day-to-day running of the Helpline.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting and coordinating our dedicated Helpline volunteers.
- Taking Helpline calls during busier periods and providing a calm, compassionate and professional response to callers.
- Supporting volunteers when they are dealing with challenging or complex calls.
- Responding to clients and third parties via email.
- Processing referral forms and ensuring information is accurately recorded on our database.
- Maintaining accurate and timely records and completing regular data entry.
- Following established procedures to support the safety and wellbeing of callers, volunteers and colleagues.
- Contributing to team meetings, training and ongoing development.
- Supporting the wider Helpline team with day-to-day administration and coordination.
People contacting our Helpline may be experiencing significant distress, and on occasion may express thoughts of suicide or self-harm. You will therefore need to be able to remain calm and professional in challenging situations, follow agreed procedures and seek appropriate support when required. Full support, guidance and training will be provided.
About the organisation: Cruse Scotland is Scotland's leading bereavement charity. We provide bereavement support to anyone in Scotland who needs us, whenever they need us.
Our services include Helpline support, individual and group counselling, support for children and young people, bereavement support and training for workplaces – alongside a range of other services and resources.
Our services are delivered with the support of a dedicated volunteer workforce who are trained to professional standards. Their commitment, compassion and enthusiasm are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to invest in our volunteers through ongoing training, connection, support and development opportunities.
Our Helpline: Our Helpline volunteers provide an outstanding service to bereaved people across Scotland. They are home-based and located throughout the country, connecting regularly through virtual meetings, training and opportunities to meet in person.
The Helpline Co-ordinator plays an important role in creating those connections – supporting volunteers, helping them feel part of a team and ensuring they have the information and support they need to provide the best possible service.
The Helpline is also an important gateway into Cruse Scotland's wider services, while providing immediate emotional support to anyone in Scotland who needs someone to talk to about their grief.
Your new colleagues: Our volunteer workforce of around 250 people is based in communities across Scotland, working across our North, South, East and West areas. They are supported by a staff team of around 22 people.
Our staff team brings together a wide range of skills and experience across client services, volunteer management and support, training, income generation and charity governance.
Although we are a relatively small team, we place a strong emphasis on connection, collaboration and supporting one another. We meet fortnightly as a whole staff team and value the sense of community this creates.
Feedback from our staff satisfaction survey included:
“I haven't been here long but I can confidently say Cruse Scotland is one of the best organisations I have worked for, both from work and flexibility and overall organisation support from all staff and management”
“I find Cruse Scotland to be a very inclusive organisation with a great ethos, responsive to staff and volunteers”
If you are passionate about supporting people through bereavement, enjoy working as part of a supportive team and would like to play a key role in delivering an essential national service, we would love to hear from you
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
At Cruse Scotland, we believe that everyone should be treated with dignity, fairness and respect. We are committed to creating an inclusive organisation where our staff, volunteers and the people we support feel valued and able to be themselves.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from people whose experiences and perspectives are currently underrepresented within our organisation.
Our recruitment decisions are based on the skills, experience and qualities needed for the role. We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, accessible and free from discrimination.
If you have a disability, health condition or other access requirement and would benefit from adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to discuss how we can support you
Safeguarding
Cruse Scotland is committed to safeguarding the wellbeing of everyone who uses our services, as well as our staff and volunteers. All staff are expected to contribute to a safe and supportive environment and to follow our safeguarding policies and procedures.
This role involves contact with people who may be vulnerable or experiencing significant distress. Appropriate pre-employment checks will therefore be undertaken in line with the requirements of the role and our safeguarding responsibilities.
Right To Work
Candidates will be required to provide appropriate evidence of their right to work in the UK as part of our recruitment process.
Reasonable Adjustments
We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know and we will do our best to support you.
Our services in Glasgow, managed from our locality office in Govan, Glasgow, are looking for a long-term Operations Manager. This role would suit an experienced, values-oriented, person-centred social care professional. With a desire to lead teams working to support adults and young people, you will be familiar with the complex challenges that people can face, whether that is a young person experiencing distress, a person experiencing housing issues, or someone having their first experience of psychosis.
As an Operations Manager, you will be working closely with the Local Management Team – a brilliant team of experienced, social care managers – with the ability to manage your own diary and work routines.
This role has a good degree of autonomy, within clearly defined values and strategic objectives. You will be working within a busy and dynamic locality, which requires the flexibility to be responsive to the ever-changing environment. Contributing to the strategic management of Carr Gomm, you will have an appreciation of organisational values while developing a greater understanding of the organisational goals and objectives both for the people we support and all colleagues.
This is a dynamic role in which you will never settle for ‘good enough’ but will always prioritise effectively in an ever-changing environment. You will appreciate that there is always capacity to innovate, improve, develop and stretch targets in the pursuit of a more equitable society in which people can lead full and positive lives as active citizens.
Reporting to the Senior Operations Manager, the Operations Manager is an essential role for the success and development of the locality.
Success in this role
The key to being successful in this role, in Glasgow, is the experience of managing person-centred services to individuals, and an awareness of what getting it right for people means, both when driving quality in existing services, and in developing new services. We are committed to always shaping our services to meet the needs of people within the city of Glasgow, and are keen to hear your experience of managing young people’s services, of managing services to people with mental ill health, or any other kind of complex service. For full details, please refer to the job description on our website carrgomm.org/jobs/operations-manager-glasgow
Who we are looking for:
Successful Operations Managers may come from different backgrounds and have a range of work and life experiences. All are creative and a have flair for engaging and inspiring people, whilst sharing our values of respect, interdependence, choice, control, openness and honesty, kindness, and compassion.
About Carr Gomm
Carr Gomm is a leading Scottish social care and community development charity. We provide person-centred support to over 4500 people every year so they can live their best possible life.
Our services are based on our values and reflect the choices and aspirations of each individual and community we work with. Our qualified staff work with people in their homes and communities, supporting people in their day-to-day lives and making plans to achieve their hopes and dreams in the future. Carr Gomm also fundraises to tackle isolation and loneliness in our communities through projects and activities across Scotland.
What We Offer
As a way of demonstrating how much we value you and your commitment we offer a range of great benefits:
- 35 days holiday per year, increasing to 40 days with length of service
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and sick leave
- A Defined Contribution pension scheme, with incremental employer contributions
- Access to the Carr Gomm App: which includes free physiotherapy, health coaching and counselling
- Free Blue Light Card (giving access to thousands of discounts and promotions)
- Membership of a credit union
- Cycle to work scheme; and more!
Area Manager (East Area)
- Part time
- £28,600 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Perth/Fife/Home-based A minimum presence in Perth office required 1 day per week, approx. 1 day per fortnight in Fife, the remaining days can be home-based or from Perth office.
- Closing 12th October 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and experienced manager to oversee the day-to-day management of Cruse Scotland East Area, this includes our teams in Fife, Dundee, Angus and Perth & Kinross and the Tayside and Fife Walk & Talk Groups and Cruse Scotland Alternative Pathways support.
Candidates are required to have excellent interpersonal and organisational skills to provide volunteer managerial support, which is often provided from a distance.
Excellent communication skills are essential as the postholder is required to respond effectively to a wide range of enquiries which include bereaved people. You will be required to establish effective working relationships with a range of Cruse Scotland volunteers and staff, as well as funders and partnership organisations. Experience in volunteer management would be advantageous.
Due to the geographical spread of the role, from time to time the postholder will be required to travel to each of the service bases within the East Area; and to other locations within Scotland for meetings and training.
Whilst the role is hybrid, we have an office base in Perth so there will be a regular requirement to have a routine presence in the office.
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 helpline, instant web-based support, individual and group counselling support, children and young people’s services, training to workplaces and more. See our website crusescotland.org.uk for more information.
The most remarkable thing about Cruse Scotland is the fact that our client services are delivered purely by a volunteer workforce - who are all 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 small but mighty staff team of 18, the majority of whom are employed part time. The staff team comprise a mix of roles and talents and share a similar passion for the work of Cruse Scotland. The staff team connects fortnightly to ensure a real sense of community and good relationships across the team.
Feedback from our staff satisfaction survey included:
“I haven't been here long, but I can confidently say Cruse Scotland is one of the best organisations I have worked for, both from work and flexibility and overall organisation support from all staff and management”
“I find Cruse Scotland to be a very inclusive organisation with a great ethos, responsive to staff and volunteers”
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