Cerebral Palsy Scotland
Cerebral Palsy Scotland

Charity registered in Scotland SC022695

Cerebral Palsy Scotland help people with cerebral palsy to build skills, knowledge, confidence and relationships. We advocate for the CP community to have life-long access to knowledgeable, compassionate services and support.

Current vacancies

Fundraising Manager

  • Full time
  • £30,000 – £35,000
  • Glasgow with flexible working
  • Closing 11th December 2023

Cerebral Palsy Scotland is an exciting charity that improves the lives of children and adults with cerebral palsy through specialist therapy, support and information.

The Fundraising Manager will be part of our small but mighty fundraising and communications team. The post holder will lead on our portfolio of trust and foundations and individual supporters, contributing towards achieving the team’s annual income targets and ensuring donors have a positive experience of supporting Cerebral Palsy Scotland.

The role includes thinking imaginatively about our work for trust and grant applications and supporting individuals who raise funds to support our work. You will build and maintain strong fundraising relationships.

We don’t expect you to have experience of every part of the role, but if you are someone with fundraising experience, ambitious to take the next step in their career, then we will support you through in-house and external training to support your continued personal and professional development.

You will be joining a successful and well-established charity, bringing your skills to a truly fantastic cause and a fun, friendly and supportive team environment.

What we offer:

  • 25 days annual leave plus 10 bank holidays (pro rata)
  • Employer pension contribution of up to 5%
  • Death in service benefit of four times salary
  • Flexible working including job share
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Relationship Fundraiser

  • Part time
  • £28,000 – £30,000 pro-rata
  • Glasgow with flexible working
  • Closing 30th October 2023

Cerebral Palsy Scotland is a charity that improves the lives of children and adults with cerebral palsy through specialist therapy, support and information.

We’re ambitious for people with cerebral palsy. For over 25 years our therapists have worked alongside people/those with cerebral palsy, their families and carers, helping them develop practical skills which transform daily life.

Founded by a group of determined parents whose children were unable to get the specialised therapy they needed close to home, we’re the only cerebral palsy charity in Scotland. As we’ve grown, the cerebral palsy community has continued to be at the heart of everything we do.

We bring people with cerebral palsy and their families together. Our support service offers a listening ear and advice. We share our knowledge and skills through shared working, courses and conferences. We raise awareness and we campaign for life-long access to knowledgeable, compassionate services and support.

Every day in Scotland, people with cerebral palsy are not getting enough support. We need donations to power our work, so that every person with cerebral palsy can reach their full potential.

We’re entering an exciting time with plans to increase our reach further having had a successful 18 months of increased fundraising and engagement. We are recruiting a Relationship Fundraiser who will be part of our future growth and will thrive on being involved in a range of fundraising activities and projects.

The Relationship Fundraiser will be the person who makes sure that everyone who gives to Cerebral Palsy Scotland, attends an event or fundraises for us has a great experience of being involved with the charity and understands the impact of their donations.

You will have the opportunity to join an ambitious organisation and work alongside a highly motivated team. Our recent success resulted in us winning the Best supporter Experience award at the Chartered Institute of Fundraising Scotland Awards in September 2023. As you will be helping support the charity to achieve future success, so we will be committed to supporting you as you develop your fundraising career.

This is a role that would suit someone with fundraising experience or who has transferable skills. We don't expect you to have experience of every part of the role and the person specification has been written to reflect this. This role will particularly suit an individual who has some fundraising experience and is ready to take the next step in their career. It would also suit someone who enjoys building relationships is proactive, organised and are motivated to try new things.

You will be joining a successful and well-established charity as it embarks on our next phase of growth and bring your skills to a truly fantastic cause and a fun, friendly and supportive team environment.

What we offer

  • 25 days annual leave plus 10 bank holidays (pro rata)
  • Employer pension contribution of up to 5%
  • Death in service benefit of four times salary
  • Flexible working

For an informal chat about this role please contact Isla Campbell Lupton on recruitment@cpscot.org.uk .

If you want to find out what we are like to work with, please get in touch and we will provide details of a freelancer we work with and one of our volunteers who will be happy to send you some details. Email us on recruitment@cpscot.org.uk.

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Top job! Senior Clinical Psychologist

  • Part time
  • £49,997 – £56,438 pro-rata
  • Glasgow G4
  • Closing 14th August 2023

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly skilled and committed team supporting those affected by cerebral palsy and offers scope to lead on the novel development of delivering highly specialised supports for the CP community.

Cerebral Palsy Scotland are looking for a clinical psychologist who would be responsible for the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with cerebral palsy at our centre in Glasgow and across Scotland as part of an existing multi-disciplinary therapy team. You will be responsible for ensuring psychologically informed frameworks underpin the therapeutic supports offered across the service with a particular responsibility for the continuing development of mental health and wellbeing promotion across the CP community.

The post holder will work with our Senior Therapists and report directly to the Centre Manager and will contribute to service development and strategic leadership of our clinical services.

Cerebral Palsy Scotland are an SPPA registered employer, so we can offer employment with continued membership of an existing NHS pension scheme. We are a fair work employer. We have a flexible work policy for all employees and we invest in regular training and development opportunities for all our staff. In all that we do, we are guided by Our mission and values - Cerebral Palsy Scotland

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Trainee Fundraiser

  • Full time
  • £23,000 – £25,000
  • Glasgow
  • Closing 17th July 2023

Cerebral Palsy Scotland is a charity that improves the lives of children and adults with cerebral palsy through specialist therapy, support and information.

We’re ambitious for people with cerebral palsy. For over 25 years our therapists have worked alongside people/those with cerebral palsy, their families and carers, helping them develop practical skills which transform daily life.

Founded by a group of determined parents whose children were unable to get the specialised therapy they needed close to home, we’re the only cerebral palsy charity in Scotland. As we’ve grown, the cerebral palsy community has continued to be at the heart of everything we do.

We bring people with cerebral palsy and their families together. Our support service offers a listening ear and advice. We share our knowledge and skills through shared working, courses and conferences. We raise awareness and we campaign for life-long access to knowledgeable, compassionate services and support.

Every day in Scotland, people with cerebral palsy are not getting enough support. We need donations to power our work, so that every person with cerebral palsy can reach their full potential.

We’re entering an exciting time with plans to increase our reach further having had a successful 18 months of increased fundraising and engagement. We are recruiting a Trainee Fundraiser who will be part of our future growth and will thrive on being involved in a range of fundraising activities. As you will be helping support the charity to achieve future success, so we are committed to supporting you as you develop your fundraising career.

You will have the opportunity to join an ambitious organisation and work alongside a highly motivated team. We are a learning organisation and if appointed, we will fund and support you with gaining the Chartered Institute of Fundraising Certificate of Fundraising. The Certificate helps fundraisers become more confident and understand how to make a genuine difference.

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising and Communications you will support the Fundraising and Communications team on a range of activities and projects to gain a breadth of experience of all fundraising, communication and marketing disciplines, and gain a rounded view of charitable fundraising and the role fundraising plays in charities.

This is an entry level role that is perfect for someone who is interested in joining the charity sector and wants to learn. We don't expect you to have any charity experience for this role, just enthusiasm. This role will particularly suit an individual who is starting out on their fundraising career or has been a volunteer in a fundraising department. It would also suit someone who enjoys building relationships, thinking on their feet, is proactive, organised and are motivated to try new things and contribute ideas.

You will be joining a successful and well-established charity as it embarks on this ambitious phase of growth and bring your skills to a truly fantastic cause and a fun, friendly and supportive team environment.

What we offer

  • 25 days annual leave plus 10 bank holidays (pro rata)
  • Employer pension contribution of up to 5%
  • Flexible working
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Impact Analyst

  • Part time
  • £28,000 – £30,000 pro-rata
  • Glasgow
  • Closing 9th May 2022

Cerebral Palsy Scotland is currently recruiting an Impact Analyst.

We’re entering an exciting time with plans to increase our reach following a rebrand in 2020 and having formed a new Senior Management Team in 2021.

To complement this we are recruiting an Impact Analyst who will support the delivery of Cerebral Palsy Scotland’s work by leading the design, delivery and management of our data and evaluation programme to ensure the charity is using data to improve and create impactful services for people with cerebral palsy in Scotland.

Every role in our team makes a real difference to people with cerebral palsy in Scotland.

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Fundraiser

  • Part time
  • £22,500 pro-rata
  • Glasgow with flexible working. Once we return to office working, some of the weekly hours will be office based.
  • Closing 28th March 2022

Cerebral Palsy Scotland is a charity that improves the lives of children and adults with cerebral palsy through specialist therapy, support and information.

We’re ambitious for people with cerebral palsy. For over 25 years our therapists have worked alongside people/those with cerebral palsy, their families and carers, helping them develop practical skills which transform daily life.

Founded by a group of determined parents whose children were unable to get the specialised therapy they needed close to home, we’re the only cerebral palsy charity in Scotland. As we’ve grown, the cerebral palsy community has continued to be at the heart of everything we do.

We bring people with cerebral palsy and their families together. Our support service offers a listening ear and advice. We share our knowledge and skills through shared working, courses and conferences. We raise awareness and we campaign for life-long access to knowledgeable, compassionate services and support.

Every day in Scotland, people with cerebral palsy are not getting enough support. We need donations to power our work, so that every person with cerebral palsy can reach their full potential.

We’re entering an exciting time with plans to increase our reach following a rebrand in 2020 and having formed a new Senior Management Team, including recruiting a new Head of Fundraising and Communications. To complement this we are recruiting a Fundraising Trainee who will be part of our future growth and will thrive on being involved in a range of fundraising activities. As you will be helping support the charity to achieve future success, so we are committed to supporting you as you develop your fundraising career.

You will have the opportunity to join an ambitious organisation and work alongside a highly motivated team. We are a learning organisation and if appointed, we will fund and support you with gaining the Chartered Institute of Fundraising Certificate of Fundraising. The Certificate helps fundraisers become more confident and understand how to make a genuine difference.

Reporting to the Head of Fundraising and Communications you will support the Fundraising and Communications team on a range of activities and projects to gain a breadth of experience of all fundraising, communication and marketing disciplines, and gain a rounded view of charitable fundraising and the role fundraising plays in charities.

This role will particularly suit an individual who is just starting out on their fundraising career or has been a volunteer in a fundraising department. It would also suit someone who enjoys building relationships, thinking on their feet, is proactive, organised and are motivated to try new things and contribute ideas.

You will be joining a successful and well-established charity as it embarks on this ambitious phase of growth and bring your skills to a truly fantastic cause and a fun, friendly and supportive team environment.

What we offer

· 25 days annual leave plus 10 bank holidays (pro rata)

· Employer pension contribution of up to 5%

· Flexible working

For an informal chat about this role please contact Isla Campbell Lupton on Isla.CampbellLupton@cpscot.org.uk .

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Top job! Centre Manager

  • Full time
  • £40,000
  • Glasgow
  • Closing 30th June 2021

Are you highly motivated and want to join our dynamic team? Would you like to help change the lives of people with cerebral palsy throughout Scotland? A new opportunity has arisen to play a major part in shaping the future of Cerebral Palsy Scotland as one of the Senior Management Team.

This is a new post that has been designed to support the Trustees and CEO and ensure the smooth running of services to our beneficiaries from our centre in Glasgow. The post will suit an experienced administrator and manager who enjoys the challenge and variety of working with a small and committed multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate will have HR, data protection and accounting experience.

Cerebral Palsy Scotland is committed to successful flexible working and we are happy to discuss any questions regarding making this work for you.

Applications are now invited.

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Top job! Head of Fundraising & Communications

  • Full time
  • £55,000
  • Glasgow
  • Closing 21st May 2021

Are you highly motivated and want to join our dynamic team?

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.

Applications are now invited.

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