Job Description
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Would you like to help change the lives of people with cerebral palsy throughout Scotland?
Can you offer a proven track record of successful fundraising to a thriving Scottish charity?
An opportunity has arisen to play a major part in shaping the future of Cerebral Palsy Scotland as one of the Senior Management Team. The post will suit an experienced fundraising professional with at least 7 years’ experience. A successful track record of managing large, multi-year grants, report writing and confidence in setting and managing budgets is essential. Experience of working with communications colleagues is desirable together with knowledge of website management, social media, brand development and working with external partners.
Cerebral Palsy Scotland is committed to successful flexible working and we are happy to discuss any questions regarding making this work for you.
Cerebral Palsy Scotland Bradbury House 10 High Craighall Road Glasgow G4 9UD
- Hybrid role (working from home, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Hospital sites and Visibility Scotland Head Office)
- Closing 16th July 2021
Working at local and national level, Visibility Scotland aims to affect positive change and improve outcomes for visually impaired people of all ages. We want to empower and encourage children and adults to focus on what they can do, not what they cannot.
For the first time ever, Visibility Scotland are now recruiting a qualified Occupational Therapist (OT). To apply for this exciting full time post, you must be passionate, creative, inspiring and able to work under your own initiative.
This new role will require the successful candidate to design and deliver an exciting new self-management programme aimed at teaching people living with a visual impairment healthy habits and everyday strategies.
You will design a unique, rolling six week peer support programme, providing person centred advice on: posture, visual awareness, hand eye coordination and movement within indoor spaces for people of all ages living with a visual impairment.
You will liaise with patients, family members and professionals to ensure that people experiencing changes to their daily life due to a visual impairment receive the correct support at the right time. You must have excellent communication skills and the innate desire to provide inclusive support to all.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a motivated and ambitious organisation. You will ideally have a proven track record in health and social care or the willingness and motivation to learn, and you must have team spirit!
Funding for this project has been provided by the Self-Management Fund for Scotland administered on behalf of the Scottish Government by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) with support from the William Grant Foundation.
- Covering the Scotland region on a homestart, office-based arrangement. Based in either Forfar, Edinburgh, or Glasgow, the role will require travel across the region.
- Closing 18th July 2021
This role will manage a team of Children and Young people Habilitation Specialists working across Scotland, therefore experience of working with children and young people aged 0-25 years or a strong desire to work with children is important in this role.
The Skills, Information & Support Services (SISS) Operations Manager helps those with sight loss to live the life they choose by leading and managing a cross functional operations team of staff and volunteers working with children and young people and their families to provide the consistent delivery of person-centred services in accordance with their needs. This will include supporting the development and training of Trainees and inducting new starters to the team.
The successful person will need to demonstrate an understanding of the Scottish context of health, social care, statutory and 3rd sectors organisations relevant to Children’s services and associated legislation, policy, and practice.
This position will be covering the Scotland region on a homestart, office-based arrangement. Based in either Forfar, Edinburgh, or Glasgow, the role will require travel across the region.
This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year. As a charity, we’re always keen to support flexible working as best we can. We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.
More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.
We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.
Candidate requirements
To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;
- Proven experience of planning and delivering person-centred services to meet the needs of adults, children and young people with sight loss and their families.
- Extensive experience and proven ability to work safely with adults, children and young people with developed understanding of both child protection issues and the issues affecting all vulnerable groups.
- Able to demonstrate experience of managing a complex operations environment where exceptional, customer-focused service delivery is achieved.
- Experience of handling safeguarding concerns within a service delivery setting.
- Experience of professional supervision of staff working with children with complex needs.
- Experience with current/innovative business communication or cloud sharing devices such as: Zoom, SharePoint, Prezi etc.
For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.
If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.
Are you an experienced Accountant with excellent Excel skills who’s on the lookout for an exciting fresh new challenge? We have the perfect role for you!
We're looking for an experienced and motivated individual to join our Finance Team as Branch Accountant on a full-time, permanent basis.
This is an exciting, evolving role that can be based in any of our offices across Scotland or working from home. However, we will need you to have flexibility to travel across Scotland on occasion once current restrictions are lifted.
Cornerstone is one of Scotland's largest charities with over 40 years' experience providing care and support for adults and children with various support needs across Scotland.
There's never been a more meaningful and exciting time to join the Health & Social Care sector. The recent global pandemic has brought into sharp focus just how essential appropriately funded, high quality social care is. This post has an important part to play in ensuring that we deliver exceptional financial support in an efficient, effective and customer focussed way.
The Role
As a key member of our Finance team, you’ll work closely with our Directors and their Branch teams, providing advice and guidance in relation to their financial performance for their allocated regions. As part of your role, you’ll also lead and participate in Cornerstone Central services projects.
Using your financial expertise, you will provide highly professional and effective support on budgets and financial processes to ensure we are performing with maximum financial efficiency and effectiveness to meet our strategic and operational objectives.
If you’re looking for the next step on your career in social care, you’ve just discovered it.
Lanarkshire Houses is a registered care home split across two geographical areas of South Lanarkshire, Lanark & Carluke, and we are looking to hire a Team Leader who shares our values and will support the Service Manager in delivering a service that allows our customers to achieve their goals.
Working for us no two days will be the same as you work with various customers supporting them to access what they enjoy.
During your shift you might be at the local day centre, going to the cinema, creating works of art or enjoying a picnic all the while keeping our customers safe and cared for. If you are passionate about assisting others to live full and happy lives, we want to hear from you!
About the Role
We are looking to recruit a Team Leader who will support our Service Manager in managing our teams and lead the way with this new opportunity. You will ensure that our people continue to receive the exceptional, person-centred support we provide. The role will require you to have vision and confidence to nurture service growth.
We are looking for someone who is keen to implement innovation while maintaining a positive environment and service. This role is ideal for someone who wants to put their values a vision into practice. If you think you fit the bill - we want to hear from you.