Carers of East Lothian is the local organisation supporting adults who care for family and friends. We have an excellent reputation, recently gaining recognition through the Carers Trust ‘Excellence for Carers’ Award and have recently secured the contract to deliver adult carer services across East Lothian for an initial two-year period and a total period of up to six years, to 2031. We are a Carer Positive Exemplary employer, as well as being Disability Confident Committed and a Living Wage employer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the first point of contact for carers and professionals, handling enquiries and referrals with sensitivity and confidentiality.
• Maintain accurate client records, manage referrals, and arrange clinic appointments (e.g. Legal Advice, Power of Attorney).
• Provide admin support for carer events and workshops, process small grants, and update financial records.
• Support reception area upkeep, office supplies, and general admin tasks including mailings, info packs, and Board support.
• Assist the wider team and volunteers while ensuring compliance with data protection and health & safety policies.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience in reception or office admin
• Great communication and interpersonal skills
• Good IT skills and attention to detail
• A team player with a commitment to supporting unpaid carers

Very flexible working and 6% matched pension.

Trustee required to drive Strategic Marketing & Profile Raising for Amisfield Preservation Trust

Have you a track record in strategic marketing and a flair for elevating profiles? Amisfield Preservation Trust (Amisfield.org.uk), a registered charity which has restored and manages the UK’s largest volunteer-led walled garden as a community wellbeing resource for East Lothian, is looking for a trustee to join the Board and help raise our profile, increase our membership and visitor numbers, and underpin a sustainable funding model.

About Us- Based just outside Haddington in East Lothian, Amisfield Preservation Trust is dedicated to preserving and enhancing an eight-acre historic walled garden that offers a serene retreat and wellbeing resource to locals, volunteers and visitors alike.

The Role - As a Trustee with a strategic marketing focus, you will help:

• Shape Strategic Direction: Provide high-level insight into marketing, communications, and public engagement to elevate the Trust’s profile.

• Boost Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivate relationships with key partners, donors, and the local community to strengthen our brand and secure our future.

• Drive Visibility: Develop and implement strategies that spotlight our unique story and community impact.

• Champion Innovation: Bring creative, out-of-the-box thinking to guide our messaging and broaden our reach in unprecedented ways.

Who We Are Looking For - We seek someone who:

• Has proven experience in strategic marketing, communications, or a related discipline.

• Has a track record of crafting narratives that resonate and build strong brand recognition.

• Is happy to contribute time and expertise in a non-paid trustee capacity.

• Has excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively with a board of passionate, like-minded individuals.

Why Join Us? - This is an opportunity to leave a lasting mark by helping ensure the long-term viability of the garden. Amisfield deserves to be more widely known and visited and to have long-term secure funding.

If you're ready to bring your strategic marketing prowess to a role that could make a deep, lasting impact, we would love to hear from you.

Blue Triangle is a social care organisation that empowers people to thrive, by delivering solutions in connected communities which focus on the needs of each individual. We are looking for enthusiastic people who share our values (Kind, Passionate and Creative) to join our services accommodating and supporting people experiencing homelessness and empowering them to thrive.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning, which we will support you to achieve.

Blue Triangle recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

What we offer:

Aside from offering a supportive and friendly environment where our people are valued and appreciated, we’ll see that your hard work and drive to succeed is rewarded.

• Competitive Salary and Pension Options
• Full time & Part time hours available
• Double pay for festive bank holidays
• Long service awards
• Fully funded SVQ3
• Access to our benefits platform with high street voucher and tech discounts and cycle to work scheme to name a few!
• Inhouse training programmes
• Significant Gym discounts
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• 24/7 access to employee assistance programme, including counselling
• A wide range of family friendly policies
• Life Assurance cover of 3 times your salary
• Credit Union
• £200 refer a friend scheme

And many more!

About the Role:

As a Support Worker, you’ll work as part of a team in providing safe, secure, supported accommodation for the people who use our services. You’ll do this by providing practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives.

Main Responsibilities:

These Support Worker roles working at our Musselburgh Port Seton service in East Lothian all involve working on a rota covering various dayshift patterns. Hours offered range from 40 hours per week, 20 hours per week and 16 hours per week temporary outreach work. The Support Worker will:

• work as part of a team providing safe, secure, supported accommodation for homeless people.
• support, review, monitor and evaluate through our case management system, to achieve a positive person-centred outcome for the people we work with in line with organisational, statutory and legislative requirements.
• maintain and update all recording systems and documentation in line with relevant policies, procedures and practice guidelines, including the occupancy agreement, within required timeframes.
• provide, plan and facilitate key work meetings, key work sessions, meetings, reviews and other internal/external meetings in conjunction with the person’s support plan.
• provide general advocacy and advice to the people we support, including assistance to enable them to meet the conditions of their occupancy agreements.

About You:

• To join us, you need to have a genuine passion for helping people.
• Ideally, possess 1 year of experience of working with vulnerable people and challenging behaviour which can be from personal, voluntary and/or professional experience.
• Demonstrated commitment and ability to undertake care practice in accordance with Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) code of practice, National Care Standards, Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and the Associations policies and procedures.
• Ability to relate empathetically to people and recognise their right to choice and independence.
• Ability to work flexibly and as a lone worker.
• Able to use Microsoft or equivalent applications competently.
• Ideally, hold and SVQ level 2 or above and be willing to work towards an SVQ 3.
• We care about one another whilst taking pride in the service we offer. You will be working in a company with a strong identity an,d with the guidance and support of experienced Managers you will be able to develop in your career

Due to the Safer Recruitment requirements by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) and Care Inspectorate we do not accept CV’s and you must therefore complete our application form.

Please note we do not accept applications from out with the UK as we do not have a UK visa sponsorship license.