Salary: Point 39-43 (£39,047 – £43,202).
Hours: 36.25 hours per week (full time)
Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow
Future Pathways offers support to people who were abused or neglected a child when they were in the Scottish care system. The service was established alongside the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry and has expanded considerably since its start in 2016. Future Pathways’ aim is to help people live well. To change paths, enjoy life, succeed and grow.
We have a great opportunity for someone with lived and learned experience to lead the development of Peer Support programme at Future Pathways.
Peer Support offers something deeply human that other services cannot always provide – mutual understanding without hierarchy. It offers community and a place to just ‘be’ without a focus on goals, recovery or moving ‘forward’. It offers a place to be both held and helpful.
Enthused and empathetic, this role will draw on lived and learned experience to extend the scope and reach of Peer Support at Future Pathways, working with ‘Voices for a Better Future’ lived experience group to guide programme development.
With a warm, relational approach and superb communication skills, you will support a team to develop and deliver a growing range of activities. Reaching our shortlist is straightforward providing you can say ‘yes’ to our list of ‘must haves’:
- We’d like a degree in Health and Social Care, Social Work or equivalent but, if you hold a recognised, relevant professional qualification at a minimum SVQ Level 4 with relevant workplace experience this works too.
- Up to date child and vulnerable adult protection knowledge together and ideally completion of suicide prevention training such as ASIST.
- You are an exceptional compassionate individual with lived and learned experience of working with those who’ve faced personal challenges, childhood disturbance, abuse, separation, institutional care and trauma
- Curiosity, empathy and a focus on learning, empowerment, collaboration and self- awareness.
- Worked with staff in accordance with the statutory framework and requirement including GDPR, BACP, the SSSC and the Care Inspectorate.
Committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, we embrace and encourage people from all walks of life, including welcoming applications from Neurodiverse individuals. It is important to us that you feel comfortable and confident and, as such, we are willing to adjust or adapt our application, interview and selection process to suit your needs, including working patterns and hybrid working wherever and whenever we can. Simply contact us and we’ll come back to you.
This role requires regular but not continuous office presence. Travel across Scotland is periodically required.
Application Notes
- Closing date: 5pm, Friday 19 June 2026
- Interview date: Week commencing 29 June 2026
- Completed applications should be submitted to: [email protected]. Please see application pack for further instructions. Please note we do not accept CVs.
- Should you wish to speak to us for an informal discussion about the role, please speak to Flora Henderson: [email protected]
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