- Advertised from 28th June 2024
- Hours and schedule to be agreed for work up to 31st March 2025, £18.90 per hour.
Role
We are looking for a sessional worker to someone to promote and deliver Lead’s Perth and Kinross Tenants Digital Project. This is a digital skills service to support tenants to be able to access information and council services online and use digital media to participate in communities and tenancy related involvement opportunities
- Perth and Kinross Tenants Digital Project – support people who are disabled, unpaid carers and others who are digitally excluded to learn relevant digital skills matching their motivation to learn. The sessional worker will support tenants to build confidence and skills use of support and information services, through confidence building, one to ones, group learning, involvement events, tailored programmes, provision of digital devices and bespoke assistance. The time commitment in hours per week will be agreed by negotiation but is likely to be around 25 to 30 hours per week flexibly worked up to 31st March 2025, agreed mileage will be included.
The work is mostly in person working in a peripatetic way using local community venues and learner’s own homes to deliver learning. Home office for Administration base.
It is regulated work for which a satisfactory PVG will be required.
About you:
You will be passionate about the transformative power of digital skills, digital confidence, and adult learning. You will be confident in communicating one-to-one and with groups and have a flexible and creative approach to problem-solving.
You will be enthusiastic with good organisational skills and have previous experience of supporting people experiencing a range of barriers to enhance and improve their basic digital skills and cyber safety. You will be capable of working one-to-one with learners, and of tailoring and delivering learning programmes. The role involves travelling throughout the local authority areas to meet one to one and group learner demand.
This role involves regulated work for which a satisfactory PVG will be required. Lead Scotland has a Recruiting People with Convictions Policy.
Applications from disabled people:
Lead has Disability Confident status, and we encourage applications from disabled people. All disabled people meeting the minimum requirements will get a guaranteed interview. Information about our commitment to recruit disabled people is available on our website. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in the online form. This will in no way disadvantage you in the recruitment process. All job application information can be made in alternative formats on request including braille, large print and audio and people can make applications in alternative formats.
Application notes
Recruitment paperwork is kept for 6 months before it is destroyed. Please complete our anonymous equal opportunities form to help us ensure we are attracting a broad range of candidates.
How to apply:
1. Answer the questions in this online application form. This will help us assess your approach and transferable skills for this specific role and replaces a cover letter.
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2. Email your CV to recruitment@lead.org.uk.
Our website has the job description and more information.
If you have any further queries about the role, please email recruitment@lead.org.uk.
Closing Date: Noon 15th July 2024
Interviews: Week beginning 22nd July 2024.
Lead Scotland is a charity which provides learning, befriending and helpline services for disabled people and carers. Charity no. SC003949
Support Workers & Relief Support Workers
- Part time
- Sessional
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 6th September 2025
We are currently looking to recruit support workers to join our small team within Inclusion Alliance. The role involves supporting people with learning disabilities to be included in the community and lead an ordinary life. Your work would involve helping people to access educational, social, leisure and work or volunteering opportunities in the community.
No experience or formal qualifications are necessary for the role although a caring nature, positive attitude and a sense of fun are important characteristics to have. New staff will receive paid training and undertake shadow shifts with experienced staff members during induction. We want new staff to feel ready and able to work prior to working on their own for the first time.
We have various vacancies available including part time and relief/casual positions in various locations throughout Edinburgh.
- Working hours are based between the hours of 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday
- We have various permanent and casual vacancies available.
- Relief/ Casual pay rate- £12 per hour
Candidates must be caring, motivated and have excellent communication skills whilst being committed to working in a person-centred way ensuring that support is built around the supported person’s wishes and needs.
Benefits include
- Employer contributory pension scheme
- Funded SVQ 3 qualification and learning opportunity
- Paid annual leave entitlement
- Regular paid supervision sessions
- Regular paid training and development opportunities
- Daytime Monday to Friday working
- Working for a well-established small organisation where person centred values are at the core.
- Free 24/7 access to employee support app
Information and Advocacy Worker (one year contract)
- Part time
- £26,500 pro-rata
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 7th March 2025
Are you searching for a job where you can make a difference? Do you have direct experience of supporting a child with additional support needs? Kindred supports families of children with the most complex medical needs in Scotland. As an Information and Advocacy Worker you will be providing information and emotional support to parents. We’d like someone to come and join our friendly, energetic team, based at our office in central Edinburgh.
Key Skills:
Good communication skills to be able to work effectively with referrers and individuals using the service. Compassionate listening, be able to alleviate individual’s feelings of distress. Be highly resourceful in supporting individuals i.e., identifying coping strategies, self-management techniques and onward referral where appropriate. Be confident and competent to apply risk assessment, safety planning, and escalation processes where appropriate. SVQ 3 or equivalent or willingness to work towards achieving this qualification is essential.
GAMH aims to promote equality of opportunity in service delivery as well as in employment practice. To achieve this, we positively welcome applicants from all sections of the community. Accordingly, if you have any requirements regarding your application, please contact Laura Middell on 0141 552 5592.
Appointment is subject to receipt of two satisfactory references. All staff will have Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Membership/Enhanced Disclosure Scotland check completed before any client contact commences. If you think you could contribute to our organisation, application packs are available on our website at gamh.org.uk
All applicants must be able to work flexibly; early morning, evening and weekend working may be required.
These posts are regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. An offer of work with Glasgow Association for Mental Health will be subject to the outcome of this check being satisfactory.
Employment Programme Coordinator
- Part time
- £27,276 – £32,235 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Working primarily from home with some in-person working
- Closing 3rd March 2025
Inclusion Scotland is a national network of disabled people, their organisations and allies. Through our partnerships we reach large numbers of disabled people across Scotland. We are a Disabled People’s Organisation – run by disabled people.
Inclusion Scotland works to achieve positive changes to policy and practice, so that disabled people are fully included throughout all Scottish society as equal citizens.
We support disabled people to participate and to be decision-makers themselves, promoting our equal representation and our right to make choices.
At Inclusion Scotland our approach to diversity is simple: it’s about embracing everyone. From cultivating a culture where all team members can be their best at work, to deploying diversity initiatives that support and welcome all.
We’re working to build a more equitable workplace and society.
We are delighted to have opportunities for new people to join us and want to meet candidates who share our values and commitment to Inclusion Scotland’s mission. Applications from disabled people are particularly welcome.
We are looking for an Employment Programme Coordinator to work alongside our existing Coordinator to deliver and further develop the Employment programme and contribute to achieving the vision of disabled people being fully included throughout all Scottish society as equal citizens.
The role involves the delivery, promotion and ongoing development of Inclusion Scotland’s Employment programme, including the “We Can Work” national disability internship programme which offers paid internships in the voluntary and public sectors and within the Scottish Parliament. The role will also focus on extending internships to the private sector and developing other opportunities to support disabled people’s employment.
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