Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.
Our people are central to our success in delivering services for older people in Scotland. We pride ourselves on having a positive working environment and culture.
As the Head of Dementia, you will provide strategic leadership for Age Scotland’s dementia work, including (but not limited to):
Living our values, you will approach the role with integrity, while involving, inspiring, and empowering our teams, so that together we can create better outcomes for older people in Scotland.
The post will be Scotland-based, a blend of office (Edinburgh-based) and home working. As a hybrid role the intention is that office based and external facing work will constitute 40% of working time over each month. Age Scotland is a flexible employer and flexible work patters are available. In return for your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment to our values you’ll receive a generous benefits package:
Are you passionate about leading a community organisation with an experienced, committed team delivering vital health services to local people facing entrenched multiple deprivation?
The Health Agency (THA) is a leading community-based organisation providing services within the integrated Health and Social Care Healthy Living Centre in Wester Hailes. Set up in 1999, it aims to make a positive and meaningful impact on the physical and mental health and wellbeing of those who live within the local community.
THA does this in partnership with the local community through a rich provision of services covering;
We are seeking an inspiring and dynamic Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead our organisation. As the CEO you will be overall accountable for the vision and delivery of exceptional standards of critical services to the local community in Wester Hailes as well as the best possible employee experience for all working at The Health Agency.
Key Responsibilities
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
What We Offer
Are you looking for a fantastic opportunity in an exciting and rewarding role making a difference to children’s lives?
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is a UK-wide charity that exists to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation. We’re bold, we’re pioneering, we’re growing and we want your help.
Our Edinburgh based team – formerly known as Stop It Now Scotland – covers the whole of the country. Our practitioners have extensive backgrounds in child protection and sex offender rehabilitation. We provide individual and groupwork to around 150 adults and adolescents every year who present a sexual risk of harm to children who cannot access statutory service. We work with around 100 partners, family members and members of wider networks around these individuals. We use what we learn from our work to develop and deliver resources, information and training for professionals and the public, so that they can better protect children from harm and prevent abuse before it happens.
About you and the role
We are recruiting a practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team in Edinburgh to lead our work with children, young people and young adults up to the age of 21.
You will head up our flagship project working with high schools in Edinburgh promoting the prevention of harmful sexual behaviour in an educational context. This includes running workshops for parents on how they can promote positive and healthy relational and sexual development. It will include helping teachers respond sensitively and effectively to early concerns about children’s sexual behaviour. And it will involve working with young people themselves to help develop a curriculum that actively promotes prevention of sexual harm. You will work with our research team to help establish evaluation methods for all aspects of this project and to develop a scaleable model of prevention that can be rolled out across all schools, better protecting children from harm. You will work closely with our UK based Schools Project Manager who will support all aspects of this project.
You will also have a small caseload, working with young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour online. You will contribute to training, consultation and policy work in relation to tackling youth perpetrated sexual abuse. It’s a wide ranging and exciting role, and we will be able to support and train the successful candidate in all aspects of our work. You will be supported by our UK based young people’s team.
Our ideal candidate will be a dynamic practitioner with a proven ability to drive projects to achieve required outcomes. You will be professional, proactive and outcome-focused with exceptional communication and engagement skills and an ability to develop partnership ways of working with professionals and agencies. The role requires expert knowledge in relation to working with children who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour and significant experience with supporting and advising leaders, child care professionals, young people and parents. You will have an impeccable understanding of child protection policies and principles and evidence of working with safeguarding partners to keep children safe from harm. A track record of providing consultancy and training to other professionals is desirable.
You will be able to demonstrate confidence in translating the charity’s mission into direct child protection practice and equipping other professionals in tackling child sexual abuse.
Key attributes we are seeking include:
This is a highly rewarding role making a genuine difference to children’s lives. It involves working within a friendly, supportive and hardworking team which is committed to keeping children safe from sexual harm.
Why Lucy Faithfull Foundation? We’ll offer you…
AWS Executive are working in partnership with Space to appoint their Head of Service (Enterprise and Learning) based The Broomhouse Hub in Edinburgh. This is a part time role 21 hours per week, over 3 days.
Space @ The Broomhouse Hub is a Scottish Award-nominated charity championing community development and bringing people together.
Job Purpose
Key Responsibilities:
Delivery
Leadership and people management
Finance and Fundraising
We help young people to build life-long belief in themselves, supporting them to take on their own challenges, follow their own passions and discover talents they never knew they had. Because when you prove yourself that you’re ready for anything nothing can hold you back.
Do you want to be part of that?
The Operations Manager is responsible for managing a team of geographically dispersed Operations Officers to support the operational delivery and development of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) across Scotland.
Operations Officers directly support a variety of Licensed Organisations (LOs) comprising mainly of schools, but they also work with other organisations including colleges, local authorities, charities, pupil referral units, youth groups and young offender institutions. The Operations Manager role involves managing, coaching, and supporting Operations Officers to undertake their role and building strong partnerships to increase DofE’s engagement across communities in Scotland.
As a DofE country team, our focus is on building capacity within our licensed organisations to support more young people to engage with DofE and on identifying and stewarding strong partnerships within local communities to increase engagement with DofE, particularly within those communities who face barriers to participation. Together with the Scotland Director, two further Operations Managers and a Business Support Manager, the Operations Manager role involves being an active and engaged member of the Scotland management team, developing, and delivering the Scotland business plan to meet national strategic goals.
The role will be field-based and when not attending meetings, employees will work from home. You will need to have an appropriate home office set up and live within Scotland.
What we are looking for:
We are looking to recruit a dynamic, proactive, and effective team player with extensive people management experience to join the Scotland team. You will report to the Scotland Director and will be responsible for the day-to-day management of your Operations team and delivery of the DofE Scotland business plan. The role will also involve contributing to national working groups to support our charity wide strategic goals.
You will be a passionate advocate for the work of the DofE and be driven to realise the charity’s strategic ambition to give more than one million young people the chance to participate in our life-changing programmes, over the next five years.
Community Energy Scotland is recruiting for a Head of Development. The Head of Development role is vital to CES’ continuing function as a leading community energy development charity. It requires creativity, excellent networking and project development skills, foresight in identifying and accessing project funding opportunities and the ability to construct compelling funding bids. We’re looking for a colleague who will be highly committed to CES and our mission, experienced in either development and fundraising in the community and third sector and/or community energy and who will be able to work effectively on their own and in a team context.
We’re seeking a new leader for the Scottish Seabird Centre
After 6 years leading the Scottish Seabird Centre the Chief Executive Officer – Susan Davies FRSB - is moving on. This presents an opportunity for someone with a passion for inspiring people to act for Scotland’s marine environment to shape the future of our Charity and visitor attraction as we move into the next 25 years of our journey.
Chair, Stuart Housden said, “We are very grateful for the leadership that Susan has provided to the Scottish Seabird Centre on its path to playing a more prominent role in marine nature conservation in Scotland and to promoting our visitor attraction and activities to educate and inspire more people to act for Scotland’s seas and amazing wildlife found there. Despite this having been a challenging period, not least with the pandemic and rising business costs, we have established much stronger links with our local and science communities and continue to increase our reach and impact through new partnerships.
With a new 5-year strategy and business plan to develop in the coming year this is a great opportunity for someone to build on the progress made as we enter the next 25 years in our Charity’s journey”.
Susan Davies said “The Scottish Seabird Centre will always hold a place in my heart; especially our dedicated team and the conservation, education and community partnerships we have developed. The time is now right, with the recent support we have secured to grow our membership base, in developing partnerships and being more sustainable and inclusive in our approach, to pass on the reins to a new leader as we approach our 25th year”.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Operations manager in Carr Gomm (due to the retirement of the current post holder), primarily based in our Falkirk office in Forth Valley.
This role would suit an experienced, values-oriented, person-centered social care professional. With a desire to lead teams working to support adults with learning and physical disabilities, you will be familiar with the complex challenges that people can face, with a determination to support people to live full, meaningful lives.
The role:
As an operations manager, you will be working closely with the Local Management Team – a brilliant team of experienced, social care managers. With the ability to manage your own diary and work routines you will thrive in roles with a good degree of autonomy, within clearly defined values and strategic objectives. You will be working within a busy and dynamic locality, which requires the flexibility to be responsive to the ever-changing environment. Contributing to the strategic management of Carr Gomm, you will have an appreciation of organisational values while developing a greater understanding of the organisational goals and objectives both for the people we support and all colleagues.
Excellent communication skills are crucial as a key contact for our internal and external partners. This role requires strong leadership and the passion to drive the locality towards achieving Carr Gomm’s strategic objectives.
This is a dynamic role in which you will never settle for ‘good enough’ but will always prioritize effectively in an ever-changing environment. You will appreciate that there is always capacity to innovate, improve, develop and stretch targets in the pursuit of a more equitable society in which people can lead full and positive lives as active citizens.
Reporting to the Senior Operations Manager, the Operations Manager is a key role for the success and development of the locality.
Success in this role includes, but is not limited to:
Who we are looking for:
Successful Operations Managers may come from different backgrounds and have a range of work and life experiences. All are creative and a have flair for engaging and inspiring people, whilst sharing our values of respect, interdependence, choice, control, openness and honesty, kindness, and compassion.
Key to being successful in this role in Forth Valley is the experience of managing person-centered services to individuals with often quite complex learning and physical disabilities, and an awareness of what getting it right for people means, both when developing new services, and when driving quality in existing services.
In our eyes, the best Operations Managers are natural leaders who are passionate, logical, and flexible; they have excellent communication and people skills which they use to forge strong, productive relationships; and they have the capacity to deliver. They are also confident problem solvers – curious with potential solutions and ideas to improve new ways of working and contribute to the development of Carr Gomm.
We expect that you will have experience of managing a range of community care services providing complex support. We also expect that you will have an understanding the Scottish Social Care sector, alongside good knowledge of the requirements of regulatory bodies such as the Care Inspectorate and SSSC. Professional qualifications (enabling registration with SSSC) and / or the ability to demonstrate relevant skills and experiences are desirable, as is an ability to demonstrate the experience of work which matches the requirements of this profile.
About Carr Gomm
Carr Gomm is a leading Scottish social care and community development charity. We provide person-centered support to over 4500 people every year so they can live their best possible life.
Our services are based on our values and reflect the choices and aspirations of each individual and community we work with. Our qualified staff work with people in their homes and communities, supporting people in their day-to-day lives and making plans to achieve their hopes and dreams in the future. Carr Gomm also fundraises to tackle isolation and loneliness in our communities through projects and activities across Scotland.
Benefits
Through our partnership we reach large numbers of disabled people across Scotland. At Inclusion Scotland, we believe that all disabled people should have the same freedom, choice, dignity, and control as other citizens at home, at work and in the community. It does not necessarily mean living by yourself or fending for yourself. It means rights to practical assistance and support to participate in society and live an ordinary life.
We are seeking to appoint a Head of Development & Programmes who can lead on business development opportunities and programmes. Using your knowledge, innovation and creativity, you will identify opportunities, including those which will increase or generate income. You will lead our existing programmes and deliver new ones. Working as part of the leadership team, your input will help to shape the future direction of the organisation as we deliver our mission.
You will share our passion for and commitment to ensuring the needs, rights and aspirations of disabled people are at the heart of everything Inclusion Scotland does.
As an experienced Leader, you will be a motivational communicator who will inspire others to live our organisation’s values – and help to ensure that these values underpin everything we do.
We are committed to supporting any adjustments that you may require for completing your application. If you have the leadership skills, drive and compassion to work with colleagues and your team to take Inclusion Scotland on the next part of our journey, we’d love to hear from you.
Do you have a business brain, a marketing instinct and a taste for innovation? Are you passionate about helping the most marginalised people to flourish, thrive and reach their potential? This brand-new role is for a special individual with vision and imagination as well as proven practical expertise across marketing and income generation, business development and innovation.
In this role you will have the opportunity to connect the people and businesses of Aberdeen and the North-East of Scotland with those who most need support. You will have the freedom to explore new ways of working, new ways of engaging with supporter groups and new ways of generating income – from traditional marketing, fundraising and sales approaches to new models of co-funding and social investment – all alongside local authority-commissioned services.
There will be opportunities to extend the reach and impact of VSA services, learning from local communities, not only as professionals but as neighbours and friends; to broaden the network of financial and business support from commercial, philanthropic and community organisations, and from the people of Aberdeen – and ultimately help to transform the lives of those who most need the professional services and support of VSA.
As part of the senior team, you will work directly with the CEO and the Senior Management Team, supported by a committed Board of local trustees, in building a thriving community of investment in the care and wellbeing of the people of Aberdeen and the North-East – and contributing to more and better services to meet the care needs of all local communities.
Your role will include leading the marketing, communications and fundraising team, building a stronger connection with the VSA brand, increasing awareness and confidence in how the organisation delivers impact, increasing their fundraising and new income stream capacity, and nurturing a highly-motivated and effective team.
We are keen to speak to candidates with experience in the following areas: