A national role with the opportunity to shape health and safety across Cornerstone.

We have a great opportunity for an experienced health and safety professional to influence practice at a national level.

Working with colleagues across our organisation you'll strengthen governance, improve consistency and develop practical approaches to managing risk.

Based at our Glasgow, Dundee or Aberdeen office, this role offers hybrid working alongside regular travel across our services and locations. You'll work closely with teams across Cornerstone, building relationships and providing visible, practical health and safety leadership.

About the role

At Cornerstone, our purpose is to enable the people we support to live valued lives in their communities.

As our Health and Safety Lead, you'll play a key role in ensuring our approach to health and safety supports this purpose while meeting our legal and regulatory responsibilities.

You'll be Cornerstone’s competent person for health and safety, helping colleagues understand legal requirements, manage risk effectively and embed a positive, proportionate safety culture.

This is a broad and influential role, combining strategic oversight with practical support. You'll help shape and continuously improve Cornerstone’s health and safety framework, providing assurance that our policies, systems and practices are effective, proportionate and compliant.

You'll help translate legislation and good practice into approaches that work in the context of our services and play an important role in using data, audit findings and incident learning to identify risks and drive meaningful improvement.

Key responsibilities

• Act as Cornerstone’s competent person for health and safety, providing expert advice and guidance across the organisation.
• Maintain and continuously improve health and safety policies, systems, procedures and guidance.
• Develop and deliver audit, inspection and assurance programmes, identifying areas for improvement.
• Provide practical advice on risk assessments, safe systems of work and legal compliance.
• Analyse health and safety performance data and produce clear reports, trends and recommendations.
• Support incident investigations, root cause analysis and organisational learning.
• Work with managers to implement effective, proportionate and sustainable health and safety practices.
• Support engagement with regulators, inspectors, insurers and professional advisers.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of health and safety training and capability-building programmes.

What we're looking for

You'llbe an experienced health and safety professional with the knowledge and confidence to balance legal compliance, effective risk management and operational requirements.

We'll need you to be comfortable working at both a strategic and practical level, providing clear advice and building effective relationships with colleagues across a large, multi-site organisation.

Essential qualifications and experience

• Relevant occupational health and safety qualification, such as a NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent (SCQF Level 10).
• Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Experience in a health and safety advisory, assurance, compliance or risk management role.
• Experience of audits, inspections, investigations and risk assessments.
• Ability to interpret legislation and translate complex requirements into clear, practical guidance.
• Strong communication, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience using data to identify trends, risks and areas for improvement.
• Experience working across a dispersed, multi-site organisation.
• Experience within social care, health, housing, the third sector or another regulated environment.

Desirable

• Certified or Chartered membership of IOSH or an equivalent professional body.
• Experience working with regulators, inspectors, auditors, insurers or external advisers.

Why Cornerstone

Our values, Caring, Person-Centred, Professional and Pioneering underpin how we work and the services we provide.

This role provides you with an opportunity to influence health and safety practice across a national organisation, strengthen our approach to risk and assurance, and support the delivery of safe, high-quality services across Scotland.

So, if you are an experienced health and safety professional looking for a role where you can use your expertise to influence practice across a large organisation, we would like to hear from you. Apply now!

The Head of Corporate Services is a senior strategic leadership role responsible for the effective management and development of the organisation’s corporate functions, with a primary professional lead for finance, accounting and financial governance.

The postholder will ensure strong financial stewardship, robust governance, and high‑quality corporate support that enables safe, effective and sustainable delivery of care and support services. The role plays a critical part in organisational resilience, assurance to the Board, and delivery of the Workforce Excellence and financial sustainability strategies.

Care Support Scotland

We are a charity with decades of experience supporting people across Scotland, providing those who need us with support that ranges from Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodiversity, Youth and Adult Homelessness and Older People services. Guided by our values of Respect and Compassion, we empower both the people we support and our colleagues to Thrive every day

Why Work With Us?

At Care Support Scotland caring isn’t just a job — it’s who we are. Join our dedicated team and help transform lives while growing your own career.

• Pension contributions matched up to 6%
• Financial Flexibility – Access your wages as you earn them with our Earned Wage Access benefit.
• Employee Assistance Programme through HSF
• Contribution to HSF Health Plan – supporting your everyday health needs
• Generous annual leave – 33 days including public holidays, increasing with service
• Supportive absence policies to help when you need time off
• Death in Benefit Cover – 2x annual salary
• Support with funded qualifications
• Career development and progression opportunities

Kids Operating Room is an ambitious and growing international organisation working to transform access to life-changing surgical care for children in countries where specialist treatment is often out of reach. By partnering with local healthcare systems and supporting the delivery of essential paediatric surgery, the organisation helps children receive the care they need, while contributing to stronger and more sustainable surgical capacity. With a strong track record of impact, an entrepreneurial approach and ambitious plans for the future, Kids Operating Room is now entering an exciting phase of growth and development, creating an opportunity to significantly extend its reach and long-term impact.

The organisation is now seeking a new Director of Fundraising to lead the next phase of income growth and development. This is a pivotal leadership role responsible for developing and delivering a diversified fundraising strategy across major donors, philanthropy, corporate partnerships, trusts and foundations, and legacy giving.

Working closely with the CEO and Founders as a member of the Senior Leadership Team, the Director will personally contribute to income generation, building relationships, making asks, opening networks and identifying new opportunities, while leading and developing a high-performing fundraising team. A key priority will be maximising transformational support from philanthropists, high-net-worth individuals and corporate partners, while developing new and sustainable income streams, including a strong legacy programme.

The Director will play an important role in creating an organisation-wide culture of fundraising, ensuring opportunities are maximised regardless of where relationships originate. They will work collaboratively with the CEO and Founders on key donor relationships and fundraising opportunities, while providing clear leadership, direction and support to the fundraising team. The role will also involve working closely with the Communications team to strengthen Kids Operating Room’s brand, profile and supporter engagement. The Director will help develop compelling fundraising propositions, identify opportunities to raise awareness of the organisation’s work and explore new approaches to ambassador and supporter engagement.

To succeed in this role, you will be an experienced senior fundraiser with a strong track record of generating significant income and building meaningful relationships with donors, partners and supporters. You will combine strategic thinking with a hands-on approach and be confident personally developing relationships, making asks, opening doors and pursuing new opportunities.

You will be an inspiring and collaborative leader, with the credibility to engage high-net-worth individuals, corporate leaders and senior stakeholders. Experience across multiple fundraising disciplines will be important, ideally including legacy giving, alongside a proven ability to develop teams and work effectively with founders and senior leaders. An entrepreneurial, resilient and opportunity-focused approach will be essential.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious fundraising leader to play a central role in the next stage of Kids Operating Room’s growth. Working alongside the CEO and Founders, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to build new networks, secure transformational support, develop sustainable income and help maximise the impact of Kids Operating Room’s work for children around the world.

We are looking forward to interviewing for the position of Head of Asset Management and Compliance.

This is a key role for an experienced professional with a background in property, technical services and/or asset management, who can combine strong technical knowledge with effective leadership, sound judgement and a commitment to delivering safe, high-quality homes and services for our mixed tenure communities.

You will lead and develop the Technical Team, ensuring that our property services meet the required technical, regulatory, compliance and customer standards. You will procure and drive forward significant multi-tenure works programmes on time and within budget, including external fabric and common repairs, component replacement, and cyclical maintenance.

You will play an important role in identifying property risks, driving service improvement, and supporting evidence-based investment and asset management decisions. You will bring with you strategic and technical leadership, demonstrate excellent customer care skills, and be an effective team player who works collaboratively across teams and builds strong relationships with stakeholders.

Please refer to the Person Specification for a full list of the knowledge, skills and experience required for the role.

Key tasks include:

1. Leading the Technical Team through a range of planned and ad-hoc works across common, cyclical and component replacement projects; to optimise compliance with regulatory standards and to meet GWHA business objectives.
2. Developing and implementing effective Asset Management strategies / initiatives / KPI’s / policies / procedures / mitigating risk and demonstrating compliance with governance, legislative and regulatory requirements.
3. Leading the preparation of procurement business cases in compliance with procurement strategy, ensuring timely preparation of work specifications and tenders / evaluations, to meet project planning and governance objectives.
4. Leading the cross-service appointment of relevant consultants and contractors, development of service agreements / contract documentation and supporting ongoing performance management.
5. Leading risk assessment, performance and compliance reporting and preparation of MC / governance reports.
6. Leading organisational Health & Safety and Compliance (including routine PPM): Common Inspections (SCS), Roof and Gutter cleaning, AGS, Fall Arrest Systems, Lift Maintenance, Water, Electrical, Fire, and Office Safety.
7. As Responsible Person for Asbestos and Legionella management ensure day to day alignment of technical and repairs services with the relevant management systems.

In return, GWHA offer generous EVH Terms and Conditions including:

• 25 days annual leave and 15 public holidays
• defined contribution pension scheme
• Death in Service Benefit
• Flexible working practices including flexi time, enhanced occupational maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Specific GWHA benefits including; annual service commitment award, long service award and additional festive leave
• Professional development & training opportunities

GWHA are accredited by Flexibility Works as a Flexible Workplace.

About includem…

Founded in 2000, Includem is a Scottish charity working alongside children, young people and families to help transform lives. We provide relationship-based, flexible support that is available when it is needed most, helping young people build on their strengths, make positive choices and move towards the future they want.

We work with children and young people in care, families facing challenges, and those navigating education, mental health, justice or transitions into adulthood.

This is where you come in. Working for Includem means using your skills, experience and leadership to make a meaningful difference in an organisation where relationships, creativity and impact matter.

With a focus on external engagement, the Head of Development is responsible for identifying, developing and securing sustainable growth opportunities that enable Includem to extend its impact across Scotland.

As part of the Executive Team, the postholder will lead the organisation’s business development, strategic partnerships, fundraising, communications, policy and influencing activity, ensuring Includem remains at the forefront of supporting children, young people and families. Working closely with service delivery teams, the executive team and board, they will identify emerging opportunities, shape innovative service responses, strengthen external relationships and use evidence and impact data to influence policy and secure future investment.

This role plays a pivotal part in ensuring Includem has a strong external profile, diversified income streams, a robust evidence base on Includem’s model and impact and an influential voice in shaping services and public policy.

Benefits

Includem offers the following benefits:

28 days annual leave, increasing to 31 days with 5 years’ service.

9 public holidays

Employee Assistance Programme

Counselling service

Family friendly leave

SSSC Registration

Blue Light Card

Company pension

Medicash

Charity Worker Discounts

Personal Assurance

Dundee Heritage Trust (DHT) is a highly regarded heritage charity responsible for some of Dundee's most significant and internationally recognised attractions, including RRS Discovery, Discovery Point and Verdant Works. Through its heritage, collections, learning and visitor experiences, the Trust connects people with Dundee's rich industrial and maritime history and creates opportunities for learning, inspiration and engagement.

The Trust is now seeking a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead the organisation into an exciting new phase of transformation, growth and development. This is a pivotal leadership role, responsible for shaping and delivering the Trust's strategic direction, strengthening financial sustainability, growing audiences and income, and maximising the impact of its world-class heritage assets.

Reporting directly to the Board of Trustees, the CEO will provide strong, visible and collaborative leadership across DHT, working closely with the Chair, Trustees, Executive Management Team and wider staff team. They will ensure the organisation remains financially sustainable, operationally effective and focused on delivering its charitable objectives, while creating a positive and high-performing culture where people are valued, empowered and accountable.

A major priority for the incoming CEO will be leading the Trust through a significant period of transformation, including the Discovery Point Transformed project, representing an investment of approximately £11 million. This ambitious project provides an opportunity to transform the visitor experience at Discovery Point, strengthen the Trust's commercial and learning offer, attract new audiences and help secure the long-term future of RRS Discovery. The CEO will play a key role in ensuring this investment delivers lasting heritage, visitor, community and financial benefits for the organisation.

Financial sustainability and growth will also be central to the role. The CEO will work closely with the Finance, Commercial and Development teams to strengthen and diversify income streams across admissions, commercial activity, grants, donations and high-net-worth fundraising. They will provide strategic oversight of financial performance, cash, reserves and investment, while identifying new opportunities for sustainable growth and ensuring that commercial activity remains aligned with the Trust's charitable purpose.

To succeed in this role, you will be an experienced senior leader with a strong track record of strategic and organisational leadership, financial management, income generation and people development. You will bring the ability to balance commercial opportunities with charitable purpose and will be comfortable operating at Board level and working across a diverse range of stakeholders.

You will be a strategic and creative thinker who can translate ambition into practical delivery, combined with strong communication, influencing and decision-making skills. Experience within the arts, culture, heritage, museum, visitor attraction, charity or wider not-for-profit sector will be highly relevant, alongside experience of leading change, major projects, fundraising and developing sustainable income.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious and values-led leader to shape the future of one of Scotland's most distinctive heritage organisations. With significant heritage assets, a committed team and a major capital investment programme underway, the incoming CEO will have a unique opportunity to protect the past, transform the present and build a sustainable future for Dundee Heritage Trust.

Help shape the future of support for unpaid carers in Angus

Every day, unpaid carers across Angus provide vital care and support to family members, friends and neighbours. Their contribution is invaluable, yet caring can often impact health, wellbeing, employment, finances and opportunities.

At Angus Carers Centre, we work with and for unpaid carers to ensure they are recognised, valued and supported. Through information, advocacy, wellbeing support and opportunities for connection, we help carers navigate challenges, access support and achieve their own aspirations alongside their caring role.

Established in 1996, Angus Carers Centre has grown to support almost 2,000 adult and young carers across Angus each year. Our dedicated team of 25 staff and over 20 volunteers are passionate about improving lives and ensuring carers' voices are heard at both a local and national level.

Our vision is that all unpaid carers in Angus receive the information, support and recognition they need to feel valued, confident and able to fulfil their own potential.

As we enter an exciting new chapter, there has never been a better time to join Angus Carers Centre. We are about to embark on a new strategic planning process that will shape our vision, priorities and direction for the next five years. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence that journey and help shape the future of support for unpaid carers across Angus.

The Opportunity

This is a pivotal leadership role within Angus Carers Centre.

Reporting directly to the Board of Directors and working closely with the Chief Financial Officer, you will be responsible for translating strategic ambition into operational delivery while ensuring unpaid carers remain at the heart of everything we do.

You will lead and develop our services, support and inspire our people, strengthen partnerships across Angus and beyond, and ensure our organisation is well-positioned to respond to the opportunities and challenges facing carers and the wider third sector.

We are looking for a confident, collaborative and values-led leader with a strong understanding of Scotland's third sector and health and social care landscape.

You will be equally comfortable contributing to strategic discussions, leading and developing teams, influencing partners and stakeholders, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality services that improve outcomes for unpaid carers.

Who We're Looking For

We are seeking someone who understands that the best outcomes for unpaid carers are achieved when organisations work together.

You will have experience developing partnerships across the third sector, health and social care and public sector organisations, with the ability to build trusted relationships that create positive change.

You may already be leading services within a charity, health and social care organisation or community-based service. Equally, you may bring transferable leadership experience combined with a strong understanding of partnership working and the challenges facing carers and communities.

Knowledge of Angus and its key stakeholder networks would be advantageous, but most importantly, you will have the skills, experience and commitment to build meaningful relationships that strengthen support for unpaid carers.

About the Role

As Head of Services and Operations, you will provide leadership across all aspects of service delivery and operational performance.

You will ensure our services are safe, effective, person-centred and responsive to carers' changing needs. You will support and develop staff and volunteers, strengthen organisational performance and sustainability, and work collaboratively with partners to influence positive outcomes for carers.

The role requires a balance of strategic thinking and practical leadership, ensuring the organisation remains focused on both long-term ambitions and day-to-day excellence.

A senior housing leadership role, with a 4-day working week and the opportunity to shape customer experience across Ark.

At Ark, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. As a values-driven housing and social care organisation, we create inclusive communities where people can live with dignity, independence and belonging.

We are seeking an Assistant Director of Housing & Customer Experience to lead our Housing, Neighbourhood and Customer Services functions across the Ark Group. This is a key role at an exciting time as we continue to strengthen our customer-first approach and deliver excellent outcomes.. You will help shape our emerging new 5 year business plan, evolve our digital services, drive customer satisfaction and ensure we have the people, systems and partnerships needed to deliver our long-term ambitions.

About The Role

This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role with significant influence across the organisation. You will help shape how Ark delivers housing and customer services, ensuring our services remain responsive, customer-focused, compliant and fit for the future.

Our corporate services roles are based on a 4-day working week, with no loss of pay. We believe this supports focused time, healthier workloads and more sustainable performance, helping colleagues do their best work while maintaining balance.

As a member of Ark’s Senior Leadership Team, you will provide leadership and business management across housing management, tenancy sustainment, neighbourhood services, customer services and customer engagement. You will play a pivotal role in delivering Ark’s strategic priorities, strengthening customer outcomes and embedding a culture of service excellence across the organisation.

Day to day, you’ll be involved in things like:

• Leading Ark’s Housing and Customer Experience strategic priorities;
• Operational responsibility for Ark’s subsidiary companies; Ark Services Limited and Ark Commercial Investment Limited
• Providing strategic advice to the Executive Team, Senior Leadership Team and Board of Management;
• Driving customer engagement, insight and service improvement;
• Leading performance, compliance and regulatory assurance activities;
• Using customer feedback and performance data to improve outcomes;
• Developing high-performing teams and a culture of customer service excellence;
• Building partnerships with local authorities, regulators and key stakeholders.

About You

We’re looking for someone who brings:

• A strong track record in a senior housing, portfolio management, customer experience or related leadership role;
• Experience operating as part of a senior leadership team;
• Experience leading customer-focused services and service improvement;
• Strong knowledge of housing regulation, governance and compliance;
• Experience using performance data and customer insight to support decision-making;
• Experience preparing Board papers and presenting at senior governance forums;
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Most importantly, you will be a visible, inclusive and values-driven leader who can build trust, influence effectively and support others to deliver excellent outcomes.

You will bring professional credibility, sound judgement and the ability to balance strategic ambition with practical delivery.

Why Work With Us?

At Ark, you will join an organisation with a clear social purpose and a genuine commitment to improving lives.

You will also join us at an exciting time as we continue to strengthen our customer experience offer, develop our services and deliver on our strategic ambitions. This role provides the opportunity to shape how housing and customer services are delivered across Ark for years to come.

As Assistant Director of Housing & Customer Experience, you will lead services that directly affect thousands of customers and communities across Ark. This role offers the opportunity to influence strategic direction, drive meaningful service improvement and make a lasting difference to people’s lives.

We offer:

• A 4-day working week with no loss of pay;
• Hybrid working;
• A generous annual leave allowance, with additional leave awarded as your service grows;
• 4% contributory pension (salary sacrifice scheme);
• Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing support;
• Employee discounts, access to Blue Light Card and Cycle to Work scheme;
• Annual leave buy and sell options.

Ark is a values-driven housing and social care organisation. We aim to create inclusive communities where people can live with dignity, independence and a sense of belonging, and that starts with how we treat our colleagues.

The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland are recruiting for a Director of Partnerships and Communications who shares our values and ambitions to strengthen NYOS’ profile and celebrate its distinctive role in Scotland’s cultural life.

The Director of Partnerships and Communications is a new role within our dynamic and forward-thinking team. As an integral part of the Senior Management Team, the successful candidate will help ensure that the value and impact of NYOS’ work is understood across Scotland and beyond.

Dyslexia Scotland is an award-winning, sector-leading organisation that champions the exceptional value of dyslexia to Scottish society. Full-time national roles rarely emerge and are highly sought after in our high performing team. Our current CEO is retiring after nineteen successful years of leadership, creating an important opportunity for the right candidate to deliver our ambitious plan for a dyslexia-friendly Scotland. We welcome applications from candidates with the drive and compassion to fulfil this vital leadership role.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced individual to lead the delivery of our new 5-year strategy, Working Towards a Dyslexia-friendly Scotland. You will join an established team with a clear purpose and a national profile.

Dyslexia Scotland is an established national membership organisation that aims to inspire and enable people with dyslexia to reach their potential while working towards a dyslexia-friendly Scotland. Based in Stirling with a small staff team of nine (eight full-time equivalent), we have a network of 19 volunteer-led local branches across Scotland offering support at a grassroots level, as well as two Dyslexic Adult Networks. Around 150 volunteers play a vital and valued role in our work, involved in a wide range of national and local roles, including the President, Ambassadors, Board of Directors and Council.

Experience Required:

• Significant senior leadership experience, with evidence of developing and delivering strategy and translating ambition into organisational results.
• Strong financial acumen, including experience of budgetary oversight, financial planning, sustainability and making sound decisions about organisational resources. Experience of generating and diversifying income, and developing strong relationships with funders, partners, donors or other sources of investment.
• A strong personal commitment to inclusion, equity and social justice, with the ability to ensure that lived experience meaningfully influences organisational priorities and decision-making.
• A track record of leading, developing and motivating people, building positive organisational cultures and successfully leading through change.
• A strong understanding of effective governance, organisational risk and accountability, with experience of working constructively with a Board or equivalent governing body.
• Evidence of building effective relationships and partnerships with senior stakeholders and influencing beyond organisational boundaries.
• An excellent communicator with the confidence and credibility to represent Dyslexia Scotland publicly, communicate complex issues clearly and build support for the organisation’s purpose.

Desirable Experience:

• Knowledge and understanding of dyslexia and inclusive practice and the experiences of people with dyslexia.
• Experience of influencing public policy or practice.
• Knowledge of the Scottish policy and public-service environment.
• Experience within the third sector, public or purpose-led sectors.
• Experience of working with or alongside people with lived experience and with volunteers to shape organisational strategy or services.

Additional information

This is a hands-on role within a small, ambitious national organisation. The successful candidate will be comfortable taking responsibility for the overall leadership of the charity while working collaboratively with a supportive Board, staff, volunteers, branches, members and partners.

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Scottish Charity No: SC 000951 Company No: SC153321