Carers of West Dunbartonshire is an innovative and value-based charity, which supports those over 18 years who look after a family member or friend due to illness, disability, frailty or addiction. This exciting new post is funded in part by the Time to Live Short breaks Fund.
As the Short breaks Co-ordinator, you will develop and manage the organisation’s Short breaks and Respitality service. You will be a highly motivated individual who ideally has experience in Community Care and a good understanding of the issues relating to unpaid adult carers.
Application notes
Please submit your application to Andrea Murray, Carers of West Dunbartonshire, 41 Kilbowie Road, Clydebank, G81 1BL. Email: andrea@carerswd.org
Successful applicants will be subject to a PVG check.
Carers of West Dunbartonshire’s commitment to Equal Opportunities is reflected in our selection process.
We need someone that can motivate others to support our work, that can build long-term relationships with donors and local businesses, and who can turn ideas into fun events or grant applications to raise much-needed funds. You need to be enthusiastic, a good communicator, and able to travel throughout East Dunbartonshire. Experience of fundraising or sales/marketing is useful.
This is an exciting opportunity to build on our recent fundraising successes, and after recent local authority funding cuts, help Carers Link build back stronger to give local carers and families the support they need and deserve. This is a job where you can make great things happen. A job where you can make a real difference.
Are you committed to delivering best practice to support children and young people with complex needs?
Are you ready to use your experience and skill to shape practice in delivering quality services to children and young people?
Do you feel excited about the opportunity to take your first step towards a management position?
If so, this is a great opportunity for you.
About Options Aberdeen
Aberlour Options Aberdeen is a short breaks service supporting children, young people, and their families affected by disability. This includes the provision of overnight, outreach, and community-based short breaks as well as care at home. The service aims to provide holistic support to children and families that promotes and develops resilience.
What we are looking for...
As someone who has built up experience working in disability services, you will have the confidence to guide and direct the provision of care to the children and young people in the service. You will play a pivotal role, working in partnership with parents and families to meet the emotional and physical needs of children and young people with complex disabilities.
When on shift, you will play a lead role, mentoring and supporting staff and being a role model, delivering excellence in the services we provide. This includes providing supervision to staff and contributing to development plans in accordance with Aberlour policies. You will assist in assessing, planning, and delivering services, taking responsibility for ensuring that assessment and interventions are prepared, monitored, and evaluated.
Engaging positively with children, young people, and families, you will plan and implement appropriate support for the children and young people. Sensitive and accurate reporting is a key responsibility, and so you will have good written communication skills and the ability to learn how to use effectively our recording system.
This role offers the opportunity to consolidate and build on your experience combined with the ability to enhance your skills and knowledge through training, and taking additional supportive roles within the services to develop key skills and knowledge through training and development of staff.
As part of the management team, you will play an active role in ensuring that shift duties are delegated and completed in accordance with service guidance.
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. Aberlour’s values are critical and drive everything we do. We will be looking for someone who can demonstrate how Aberlour’s values of Respect, Innovation, Integrity, and Challenge will be visible in their practice. You must be comfortable working in an environment where Aberlour’s values are lived in practice.
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.
Glasgow East End Community Carers are looking for an experienced person to work with our support team in providing advocacy support to unpaid carers.
We have a large group of parent carers who have children with autism and they often have to deal with school headteachers, teachers, and other support staff in making sure their child receives the appropriate support in school.
Parents often find it difficult to deal with these situations by themselves, and we are looking for someone with advocacy experience to come alongside them and enable them to make their case and get the best possible outcome for their child.
We also work with other carers, some who are older who also need support in dealing with the Health Service, Social Work, Housing Associations, etc.
The role will also include working as part of our team in supporting unpaid carers with the challenges of their role in caring for a loved one. This includes information and advice, support with benefits, working with peer support groups, emotional support, and training.
If you are passionate about making sure people’s voices are heard, we would like to hear from you.
1. On site: Edinburgh. A mix of working in NHS offices and community venues in South West Edinburgh
2. Closing 16th March 2025
About Thrive
Thrive Edinburgh is about thinking big and thinking differently. We have made it our goal to promote mental health and protect our citizens’ resilience, self-esteem, family strength, and joy, and reduce the toll of mental ill-health on individuals, our communities, and our city.
The Thrive Welcome Teams are comprised of organisations that provide social, practical, learning, and clinical support.
The South West partnership is between Space, SAMH, and the Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership. Our organisations share a commitment to the Thrive vision and values of trust, respect, collaboration, person-centeredness, innovation, and compassion. Together we deliver a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency response so that citizens receive the right help for their mental health, at the right time.
The main role of a Thrive Peer Worker is to use their own lived experience of mental health recovery journey to promote good mental health practices with citizens within our communities.
This is achieved by providing short-term, one-to-one, emotional and practical mental health support. Through confidential conversations, a safe space is provided for people to discuss issues at their own pace, using person-centered tools to help others identify their strengths, and work towards achievable and meaningful recovery goals.
Key tasks in the job:
1. Hold initial conversations to assess needs and risk, ensuring people access the services that will best support them.
2. Guide people to create individual support plans that draw on their own strengths.
3. Provide short-term support through 1:1 meetings, typically between 2-6 sessions, drawing on your own mental health journey.
4. Be well connected in the community to understand the different services on offer and the criteria for referring.
5. Accompany individuals to appointments to connect them into services.
6. Attend cross-team meetings to discuss cases and share learning.
7. Attend open access ‘drop-in’ sessions that are held within community venues, providing people with instant access to advice and signposting.
The full job description listing all key tasks is attached.
About Space
Space is a community anchor organisation supporting people and their families in South West Edinburgh, with some of our services stretching city-wide.
WE BELIEVE THAT CONNECTIONS BUILD COMMUNITIES
Space delivers 22 projects, with 60+ staff and over 200 volunteers. We deliver diverse services supporting young people, families, older people, and carers amongst others.
For more information about Space and all our projects can be found on our website – spacescot.org
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