Community Caseworker, Men

• 35 hours per week / 2 FTE Length of Post31 March 2028

Role

About the Role: Access to Industry (AI) is one of 8 partners delivering the new justice National Voluntary Throughcare Programme (NVTP) which is led by Sacro. We are looking for enthusiastic and compassionate self-starters to support men as they transition from custody into the community. Your aim will be to support positive outcomes for the individuals you work with.

The NVTP works with males, females, and young people across Scotland. These roles are focused on recruiting caseworkers, working one-to-one, to support men returning to Edinburgh, Lothians, and Borders areas of Scotland.

Key responsibilities to clients will include:

• Delivering effective pre-release support and planning.
• Conducting needs assessments for individuals.
• Establishing trusting and genuine relationships, rooted in trauma-informed principles.
• Participating in multi-agency meetings.
• Delivering gate liberation support.
• Completing risk assessments and adhering to safeguarding best practices.
• Maintaining accurate and timely records on the case management system.
• Maximizing engagement through assertive outreach support.
• Identifying appropriate onward referral routes at the earliest appropriate point.
• Enabling a mutually agreed support exit plan.

You will do this by:

• Working collaboratively with the wider AI and National partnership team to deliver relational support for people accessing the NVTP, supporting team meetings, and service improvement.
• Upholding high-quality service standards.
• Undertaking required role training (including that provided by the NVTP and AI).
• Being flexible and responsive to service demand including working across cohorts and regional areas as required.

AI Team: You will play a part in the wider team of AI through attendance at internal meetings and participation in shared services across the teams.

Health and Safety & Property Management: You will ensure a healthy and safe environment and the protection and best use of property and equipment by implementing and observing AI policies and procedures.

Other Requirements:The post holder will be expected to manage their own caseload and work with minimum supervision partly in an outreach capacity.

Application notes

An application pack is available for download below.

* Delivery locations are across Edinburgh, Lothians, and Borders. If you have a specific geographical preference, please note this when applying.

Closing date for applications is: 5pm Monday 3 March 2025

Interviews will be held in Edinburgh on: Thursday 6 March 2025

About the Roles: We are looking for enthusiastic and compassionate self-starters to support women and young people as they transition from custody into the community. Your aim will be to support positive outcomes for the individuals you work with.

Key responsibilities to clients will include:

• Delivering effective pre-release support and planning.
• Conducting needs assessments for individuals.
• Establishing trusting and genuine relationships, rooted in trauma-informed principles.
• Participating in multi-agency meetings.
• Delivering gate liberation support.
• Completing risk assessments and adhering to safeguarding best practices.
• Maintaining accurate and timely records on the case management system.
• Maximizing engagement through assertive outreach support.
• Identifying appropriate onward referral routes at the earliest appropriate point.
• Enabling a mutually agreed support exit plan.

You will do this by:

• Working collaboratively with the wider AI and National partnership team to deliver relational support for people accessing the NVTP, supporting team meetings, and service improvement.
• Upholding high-quality service standards.
• Undertaking required role training (including that provided by the NVTP and AI).
• Being flexible and responsive to service demand including working across cohorts and regional areas as required.

AI Team: You will play a part in the wider team of AI through attendance at internal meetings and participation in shared services across the teams.

Health and Safety & Property Management: You will ensure a healthy and safe environment and the protection and best use of property and equipment by implementing and observing AI policies and procedures.

Other Requirements:The post holder will be expected to manage their own caseload and work with minimum supervision partly in an outreach capacity.

This Scottish Government funded programme will deliver inclusive voluntary throughcare services across Scotland for men, women, and young people serving a short-term sentence or following a period on remand. A collaborative and relationship-based partnership model underpins delivery in supporting people to achieve positive outcomes for both them and wider communities.

We are recruiting for skilled and experienced colleagues who can demonstrate a commitment to providing high-quality through-care services to join our Barnardo's delivery team. We are looking for 3 Throughcare Community Worker roles:

• Throughcare Community Worker covering Ayrshire/Dumfries Galloway supporting females and young people
• Throughcare Community Workers covering Tayside supporting females and young people

Your role will be to support people returning to their community following a short-term sentence or period on remand providing relational and practical support that is tailored and responsive to the needs of the person. Working collaboratively with Throughcare Prison Worker colleagues and a range of partners you will support in coordinated pre-release planning to ensure a person's journey is effectively supported. This will involve supporting connections to local, and specialist, services where appropriate and importantly wider community connections.

You will have the ability to establish trusting and genuine relationships with compassionate approaches. You will be self-motivated and understand the importance of collaboration and working in partnership across organisations and sectors to support the best outcomes for people. You will be keen to support your team, Pod area, and wider service delivery demonstrating flexibility to service demand as required.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to be involved in shaping and delivering a new high-profile government-funded project, that is making a difference to people's lives.

This role will involve working as part of a dynamic local team with workers from across partner organisations. Primarily remotely, with some work expected within your locality and travel as required to support engagement across the partnership.

Being educated to at least SVQ level 3 or equivalent is desirable. Experience of supporting individuals in a community setting, a current driving licence and use of a car for work and being computer literate with proficient experience of Microsoft tools are essential.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work, and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive, and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive, and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility, and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs, or any combination of these.

• Barnardo's believes in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro-rata.
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme.
• A host of family-friendly leave options including company Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options.
• Service related sick pay from day 1.
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution.
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension.
• Interest free season ticket loans.
• Discounts and cashback from high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays, and much more via our Benefit Portal.
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores.
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy, etc.
• Free access to round-the-clock employee assistance program for advice and support.
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer.

*T&C's apply based on contract.

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity, and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

• Hybrid: Mostly working from home with some time in the Edinburgh City Centre Office.
• Closing 6th March 2025.

About Us

Zero Tolerance is a Scottish charity working to end men’s violence against women by promoting gender equality and challenging attitudes which normalise violence and abuse. We are a values-led organisation and seek to improve the way we integrate feminism, equality, and diversity into our work. We ensure our HR policies and practices reflect our values (including enhanced parental leave, miscarriage and menopause policies and flexible working) and our salary framework is fair and competitive. We are committed to staff learning and development and have recently launched a paid reading week for all staff.

Zero Tolerance has a commitment to diversity and challenging all forms of inequality alongside gender inequality. We are open to as many different voices as there are experiences, but particularly welcome applications from Minority Ethnic, LGBT+, disabled, migrant, and other backgrounds currently underrepresented within the women’s sector.

Our aims

1. We will lead campaigning in Scotland to end all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG) by raising public and political awareness of its cause and challenging gender inequality.

2. We will challenge and support key institutions to embed VAWG prevention in their work.

3. We will advance and share the evidence base on preventing VAWG.

4. We will make Zero Tolerance a place where feminist leadership happens.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a Support Officer to join our team to support Zero Tolerance’s work to promote gender equality and primary prevention of men’s violence in youth work, education, and the early years.

This is a fixed term post to 31st March 2026.

You will support the development and delivery of the Zero Tolerance Under Pressure programme for youth workers and support the Children and Young People: Policy and Practice Officer to monitor current trends and concerns for youth workers in the area of violence against women and girls (VAWG), identifying key areas to address through Under Pressure training.

The successful candidate will organise training sessions and develop materials to support training and other sessions (e.g. workshops) with youth workers. You will develop and maintain effective working relationships with freelance trainers and partner organisations and represent Zero Tolerance at Children and Young People events as required. This is not a training role; the focus is on providing support for our children and young people work, and coordinating the delivery of Under Pressure by freelance trainers and other specialists.

What we need

The successful candidate will have experience of organising training or events and developing resources, with knowledge and understanding of violence against women and gender equality. You’ll be a skilled communicator with the ability to create accessible and engaging resources and present complex ideas to a variety of audiences.

• Organisational skills, managing both reactive and planned work.

• Attention to detail.

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary with annual pay progression. We operate a grading structure based on five salary grades. New employees start on point 1 of each salary grade and receive annual increments until the top of the grade is reached. This role is Grade 2, pro rata of £28,561 - £31,526.

• 28 days annual leave plus 10 public holidays (pro-rata) and a flexible working hours policy.

• We actively encourage continuous professional development for all our employees and have implemented a paid reading week and continuous training opportunities for individual learning and whole team development.

• On site: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Galashiels, Girvan, Fife, Inverness, Stornoway, Duns and more.
• Closing 30th April 2025.

The Supported Housing Worker role requires assisting in the management of the development thus ensuring the tenants are able to enjoy an acceptable standard of living in an environment which is clean, safe and friendly. You will be responsible for overseeing the wellbeing of the tenants and for assisting them in maintaining their independence.

As Housing Care Worker your role will involve working with our tenants to ensure they receive the support and personal care identified in their care plans. You will directly support tenants in their homes by providing individual advice, practical housing support assistance, and personal care.

Both roles are to ensure that we are able to offer the best service to our tenants and make it possible for our tenants to continue enjoying as much independent living as they’re able.

As well as a competitive annual salary, our valued team also benefits from:

• competitive hourly rates of £12.25 - £12.50 per hour (pay award pending).

• guaranteed rota hours working between 7.30am & 10pm.

• generous annual leave entitlement.

• a choice of pension scheme with employer contributions.

• flexible working policies.

• access to extensive paid training and development opportunities.

• a supportive and inclusive culture.

Previous experience working in social care or the housing sector would be an advantage, but this is not always necessary. Our ideal candidate is someone with enthusiasm, a caring nature, and a willingness to learn as full training, support, and ongoing development will be provided.