Are you an organised and collaborative professional with a passion for access to justice and using the law to create meaningful change? Then join Shelter Scotland as our Legal Practice Manager and play a vital role in supporting our expert legal team to deliver high-impact services that tackle homelessness and bad housing across Scotland.

About the role

The Legal Practice Manager will play a key role in the effective operation of the Law Service, ensuring the legal team is supported to deliver Shelter’s strategic aims through our legal work. Reporting directly to the Principal Solicitor, the postholder will be responsible for the supervision of 2 legal administrators.

The Legal Practice Manager will support the delivery of our externally funded projects, including our Borders and Tayside Housing Law Advice project, which is Grant funded under the Scottish Legal Aid Board administered Early Resolution and Advice Programme.

Role specifics

We're looking for a Legal Practice Manager to join our team, working closely with the Principal Solicitor to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of our legal service. This varied and rewarding role includes supervising legal administrators, overseeing administrative and finance processes, coordinating diaries and meetings, and supporting HR and recruitment.

You'll play a key part in managing data and reporting systems, support solicitors to fee legal aid work, help with budgeting and finance, and preparing internal and external reports. You’ll also be involved in audits, promoting our services, and exploring new funding and development opportunities. With a focus on compliance, professional development, and service improvement, this is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a supportive, values-led legal team making a real impact.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About the team

Shelter Scotland is the leading homelessness charity in Scotland with a strong track record of influencing Scottish policy and legislation. We help over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services.

Shelter Scotland Housing Law Service provides free and Legal Aid funded legal advice and expert representation to help people with housing issues across Scotland. Our solicitors provide expert advice and representation at Courts and Tribunals to help people keep their homes, access housing and improve their housing conditions.

Are you looking for a role where every day is different, and you work in a role that makes a real difference to young people’s lives?

If so, this role may be the perfect opportunity for you!

About the service

Cyrenians Key to Potential service provides holistic, person-centred support, to help young people coming up to school leaving age to progress into further education, training, or secure employment.

About the role

Using an outreach approach, the post holder will provide key work, careers guidance and tailored support to young people identified by their school as at risk of leaving without a positive destination. Your main responsibilities will be:

• Support a caseload of young people across Falkirk
• Building relationships with partners in schools and other agencies
• Contribute to the continuous monitoring of the project’s success

This is an outreach role and will involve lone-working, home visits and accompanying young people to meetings and appointments across the Falkirk area.

About you

You should have experience working with young people and understand the challenges faced by young people when leaving school, including mental health and neurodiversity. You should also be:

• Excellent at building trusted relationships, with young people and partner agencies
• Knowledgeable on the options available to school leavers
• Organised, flexible and able to manage your own workload

How we’ll support you

You’ll be working independently but with a supportive manager. We will encourage you use your creativity to innovate new activities and support you to introduce them. You will also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a Public Health Approach to Homelessness Prevention. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering all our services.

You can find out more about our impact and our values online.

About Bridges Partnership - Glasgow

The Bridges Partnership is jointly provided by Aberlour Glasgow Family Support Service and Shelter Scotland to provide support to mothers and their children living in the North East of Glasgow areas who are or have been affected by domestic abuse.

What we are looking for....

We are looking for a Child and Family Worker to join our team, working 37.5 hours per week. As this post includes an unsocial hours allowance, you are required to be flexible with your approach and available to work weekends, evenings and public holidays to meet the needs of the families you would support.

As a Child and Family Worker within our Bridges Partnership project you will;

· Undertake risk assessment and work to develop safety plans

· Advocate in statutory meetings, court settings and with other agencies on behalf of women and children who have or are experiencing domestic abuse.

· Using the safe and together model, you will develop reports to be used in courts in relation to civil and criminal proceedings.

· Work in partnership with the parents, either on a 1:1 basis or in groups to enhance their parenting skills and build their confidence

· Work with children and parents in a therapeutic and trauma-based approach to help them reach their full potential.

· Provide housing information and assistance

· Inform women and children of their rights

· Signposting and helping each mother to access additional services as needed.

You will have relevant experience and a sound knowledge of domestic abuse and the impact on the children and adult survivor and relevant theory in attachment and parenting. You should be able to demonstrate an understanding and commitment to women and children’s rights. You will hold a relevant professional qualification at SCQF level 7 or above. It is desired that you are IDDA trained or are willing to work towards this.

At Aberlour we want to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. To have a look at our values to understand more about what we are looking for from our employeesclick here.

What we offer...

As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers. Find out more about our Employee Benefits here and our commitment to Equality and Diversity here.

Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people. Our mission is to secure a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people in Scotland and we currently have over 3000 Care Experienced members.

At the heart of Who Cares? Scotland’s work are the rights of Care Experienced children and young people, and the power of their voices to bring about positive change. We provide individual relationship-based independent advocacy and a broad range of imaginative participatory opportunity for Care Experienced young people across Scotland; we work alongside corporate parents and communities of all sorts to broaden understanding; we work with policy makers, leaders and elected representatives locally and nationally to shape law, policy and practice on the basis of all that can be learnt from the voices of those with experience of care - working together to build on the aspirations of The Promise and secure positive change.

The post holder will work directly with children and young people with experience of care, in an individual relationship-based advocacy role, and within participation and group activity across our West Central region. This unique role requires you to listen to what children and young people with experience of care say and support them to ensure their rights are upheld and their voices are heard in the processes of making decisions about their lives. You will also help facilitate a broad range of participatory and engagement opportunities and create the conditions for collective advocacy.

The right candidate for this post will be brilliant at forming positive relationships with children and young people. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, adaptable to a wide range of contexts. You will enjoy working collaboratively with partners. You will be committed to children’s rights, inclusive working, equal opportunities, and believe that all young people can make transformative change happen in their lives if given the opportunity.

The successful candidate will be joining Who Cares? Scotland and working within the West Central locality team at an exciting time, when the voices of those who are in or have experienced care are growing in power, individually and collectively - bringing with them insight, challenge, hope and change. Flexibility will be required given the remit of the role. Some evening and weekend work will be necessary, as will a full driving licence and access to transport.

If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you. For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Jamie McAnally, our Advocacy and Participation Manager for our West Central team on jmcanally@whocaresscotland.org.