Alzheimer Scotland is the leading dementia organisation in Scotland. We campaign for the rights of people with dementia and their families, whilst providing an extensive range of innovative, personalised, and therapeutic support services.
We are committed to improving the lives and opportunities of people living with dementia, their carers, partners, and families as their journey transitions from the first point of contact through to end of life. We believe nobody should face dementia alone.
We are looking for a confident, innovative and collaborative Community Activities Organiser for the Angus area. You will establish a range of community activities and opportunities across the locality that fill identified gaps and meet the needs of people living with dementia and their families.
The successful applicant will have a positive approach to dementia. You will be flexible, inclusive, creative, and organised in your approach. You will be sensitive and compassionate with the ability to support people in times of difficulty or distress. You will be an excellent communicator who can work effectively both with individuals and with groups. You will have a positive approach to your own continued professional development and a willingness to participate in relevant training. A relevant qualification and previous experience of working with people with dementia would be an advantage.
In return you will be in a role which offers the opportunity to meet great people, have great job satisfaction and be employed by an Organisation that offers a range of employee benefits and career progression opportunities.
Are you a creative and motivated individual with the passion and drive to support people with a recent diagnosis of dementia to live well in their community?
If so, you can be part of a National Team of Post Diagnostic Support Link Workers (PDS Link Workers) providing high-quality, person-centred support to people living with dementia and their families for a minimum of a year following diagnosis in line the Scottish Government’s minimum guarantee.
The aim of the PDS National Service is to enable people to live well with dementia and is centred around Alzheimer Scotland's 5 pillar model so that people move on to a period of supported self- management.
The model includes understanding the illness and coming to terms with the diagnosis, peer support, connecting and maintaining links with their community along with planning for future care and decision making to develop an outcome focused plan to support their future hopes, desires and aspirations.
Supporting our Wester Ross Highland locality, the post will be based within the Community Mental Health Team at The Health Centre, Ullapool. Alzheimer Scotland’s PDS Link Workers are required to be effective team workers and have the skills to build and maintain relationships with colleagues both within Alzheimer Scotland, the NHS and other stakeholders.
Skills in using digital platforms are essential as we use a blended approach to support people that involve some virtual meetings and on-line groups.
Applicants must hold a recognised relevant professional qualification, have a good understanding of dementia and how it affects people and their families along with excellent communication skills, a warm flexible approach, combined with skills in empathy and relationship building.
In addition, you should have skills and knowledge at the Enhanced Level of the Promoting Excellence Framework or be able to evidence you are working towards its completion.
This post requires a full driving license and access to a car.
GWT is looking for someone who is creative, energetic, friendly, has a good sense of humour and is passionate about building relationships between younger and older generations to reduce ageism, loneliness, isolation, improve skills and health and build hope in our communities.
Overview
GWT is the nationally recognised centre of excellence supporting the development and integration of intergenerational work across Scotland. GWT’s vision to live in an intergenerational Scotland where all generations are better connected, and everyone can build relationships to help realise a fairer more cohesive society.
By intergenerational practice we mean projects, activities, or events where people of different generations who might not otherwise know each other, meet each other on a regular basis to work together in positive and creative ways. Intergenerational work includes any activities which remove and break down barriers between the generations.
GWT provides a range of intergenerational training opportunities, a library of resources, organises events, facilitates 18 local and four thematic networks across Scotland and deliver pilot projects. This support encourages the involvement of volunteers and grass roots projects as well as the more strategic levels of management and government. Importantly we connect individuals and organisations who work across different generations building trust and respect which creates long lasting friendships. Together through intergenerational work the different generations can share their skills and learn new ones identifying solutions on how to address local problems and challenges in their communities.
Overview of Post
This role will focus on collaborating with people at local and national levels. The post holder will engage with communities, authorities and businesses across Scotland, providing support to develop intergenerational activities/projects/communities. The post holder will in addition, deliver a range of intergenerational training opportunities, grow our local and thematic networks as well as build a network of local volunteer Community Connectors to grow, develop and enhance the quality and longevity of intergenerational working across Scotland.
Full job description is available to download below.
Are you passionate about making a difference in communities across Glasgow? South West Community Transport is seeking a friendly, flexible and experienced driver to join our team and help us to deliver our mission and achieve our aims.
Mission Statement
We fundraise to provide safe, affordable and wheelchair-accessible transport, with skilled and friendly drivers, to remove barriers and help people attend groups and healthcare services that support them on the road to better health and wellbeing
Our Vision
To unite communities by providing safe, affordable and wheelchair-accessible transport to groups, healthcare services and organisations vital to people's health and wellbeing.
South West Community Transport is a Scottish charity that supports organisations and charities in Glasgow and surrounding areas. The groups are highly varied, including specialist schools, parent and toddler groups, youth groups, elderly support organisations, sports groups and charities helping those with physical and/or mental health challenges and those fighting addictions.
We also provide a Patient Transport service which allows hundreds of individuals, with no access to a car and unable to use public transport (but not eligible for NHS ambulance support) to reach their vital healthcare appointments safely to, e.g. the Beatson Cancer Centre, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, New Victoria Hospital, health centres and clinics. We support a diverse range of people (including older, disabled, neurodiverse people from different communities which include ethnic communities; some of which are facing Dementia or Alzheimer challenges).
Role Overview
Why Join Us?
• Are you a confident communicator who enjoys working with people?
• Do you see the potential in ideas as well as the challenges?
• Are you passionate about the power of communities to change things for the better?
We have six Funding Officer opportunities in our Scotland Directorate.
One permanent and five fixed term contract opportunities. Please state what is of interest in your statement, this can be all.
You’ll be part of a team of Funding Officers, led by a Funding Manager, responsible for our grant-making activity in a geographical area. There are eight Funding teams in Scotland each covering a different geographical region with between 4 and 8 Funding Officers in each team.
Funding Officers usually work on grant-making activity within one local authority area and are the main point of contact for all grant-holders and applicants in that area.
Role Responsibilities include:
• You will provide advice to prospective applicants, assess applications and will be in regular contact with grant-holders as they progress with their projects. Your recommendations will guide decisions on awarding grants and how we support grant-holders.
• You will contribute to learning and evaluation of our work, outreach and stakeholder engagement in your area. You will ensure that our funding responds to the local context and our commitment to equity and inclusion. You will be expected to challenge yourself and colleagues to continually improve the way we work.
• You will be responsible for understanding how an organisation’s ideas align with our funding priorities and making good judgements about when to take an application further or when to signpost to alternative opportunities. You will be able to communicate clearly and concisely your recommendations about who and what we fund. Your natural curiosity combined with a genuine interest in people and projects in your area will enable you to try new approaches and develop your understanding of what works.
During your first few weeks with the Fund, in person training will be delivered in Glasgow, you can expect to be office based on most working days. After the initial training period work patterns are more flexible. In a typical week most full-time Funding Officers would be likely to spend one day in our Glasgow office, one or two days out for meetings and project visits in their assigned area, and will work from home on other days. There can be occasional weekend and evening working, but most of our work takes place on week days in normal working hours.
About You
We are looking for talented people from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences who share our values and are passionate about making a difference through our funding. Whether through lived or gained experience you will really understand the communities we work with.
We are very open to flexible working both full time and part time applications, minimum 2 days a week.
Join Food Train as a Trustee and Make a Difference!
Food Train provides practical support services that help older people live more independently at home. Established in Dumfries 30 years ago by older people to address food access challenges, Food Train has grown into a thriving charity supporting 3,000 older adults across Scotland with the help of 1,500 amazing volunteers.
We’re committed to promoting wellbeing, independent living, and positive ageing through our range of home support services.
We are looking for four new Trustees to join our passionate team on this incredible journey. If you’re seeking a friendly, inclusive, and productive Trustee opportunity, we’d love to hear from you!
About the Role:
What We’re Looking For:
For more information about Food Train, visit: thefoodtrain.co.uk
For an informal chat about becoming a Trustee, please contact: Rosie McLuskie, Chief Executive
Alzheimer Scotland, Scotland's national dementia charity, is seeking a passionate and dedicated Centre Activities Co-ordinator to join our team on a part time basis. As a Centre Activities Co-ordinator, you will play a vital role in developing and delivering our brain health and dementia support programs at our centre in Inverness
This unique approach is inspired by the pioneer, Alois Alzheimer, who first identified the brain disease we now recognise as the leading cause of dementia. By building a range of engaging and supportive services in the heart of their community, the Centre Activities Co-ordinator will support people to access:
Advice - our expert advisors can offer one-to-one help with anything from building cognitive resilience, to managing money matters and legal issues.
Listening - we offer places to be heard, whatever the question or concern, whenever help is needed.
Opportunities - to connect, learn and share with others in a similar situation.
Information - on all stages of the brain health journey, whether someone is worried about their brain health or living and caring well with dementia.
Support - everyone is welcome in our Centres, where those affected by dementia can feel safe with trusted staff who understand what they’re going through.
As a Centre Activities Co-Ordinator, you'll collaborate closely with the Centre Manager to create a comprehensive program of activities that align with our ALOIS principles. You'll play a key role in liaising with stakeholders from Health and Social Care, NHS, and the wider community to enhance service delivery and raise awareness about brain health.
Greet and welcome visitors to the centre, ensuring they sign in the visitor’s book and informing the relevant member of staff of their arrival, receive and transfer telephone calls and take brief messages, when necessary, dependent on the needs of the centre, as directed by the Centre Manager.
The Centre Activity Coordinator will support the daily running of the Centre, being a local point of contact for Centre visitors, and carrying out the associated administrative tasks. Produce a monthly programme detailing the services available, as outlined by the Centre Manager, and promote this widely across the networks.
Collate salary information (if applicable) and ensure that details are properly authorised and with the Payroll Administrator by the due date each month. Receive and bank donations and fundraised monies whilst following the correct policies and procedures for these and any other business banking required.
Your exceptional organisational skills will be put to use as you plan, review, and evaluate the activities within the Centres. With a focus on continuous improvement, you'll ensure that individuals accessing our services have a welcoming and inclusive experience, where their concerns are heard and understood.
To excel in this role, you'll bring excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Your passion for supporting individuals affected by dementia will drive you to create a safe and supportive environment. Familiarity with health and safety regulations, along with proficiency in standard office software and IT systems, will enable you to coordinate activities seamlessly.
If you're ready to contribute to our vision of ensuring nobody faces dementia alone, apply now for the Centre Activities Co-ordinator position at Alzheimer Scotland. Relevant experience of working with people with dementia would be an advantage, as well as a willingness to learn and participate in training.
General Role: Generations Working Together (GWT) is seeking enthusiastic, committed, dependable and proactive volunteer trustees with a background in human resources/marketing or environment.
Our volunteers will have experience of working in the voluntary, public or private sector who would like to become actively involved in progressing the field of intergenerational work across Scotland and the UK. This person will have a strong background, expert skills and experience in any one of the following areas:
Trustees are appointed for a term of two times three years and are eligible to serve a further three-year term or three one-year terms, after which they must retire from the board. Our Trustees are responsible and accountable for the overall strategic leadership and direction of the organisation and share our vision and passion about promoting strong, generationally connected communities.
We ask for a commitment which involves attending:
As a small charity it is expected that Board members will take on additional responsibilities between meetings consistent with the aims and outcomes of GWT. This may include membership of task and finish groups, standing committees or specific tasks consistent with their areas of expertise. Much of the subgroup work is done via email and video conferencing.
Organisation profile:
Generations Working Together is the nationally recognised centre of excellence supporting the development and integration of intergenerational work across Scotland. Our mission is to develop, expand and improve IG practice nationwide. Our vision is to live in a Scotland where different generations are more connected, where everyone has opportunities to build relationships that help to create a more inclusive society.
Intergenerational work means relationship-based projects, activities and events where people of different generations, who might not otherwise meet, do things together in positive and creative ways. It includes any activities which purposefully ignore, remove or break down social, environmental, cultural or institutional barriers between generations e.g. ageism, making spaces for older & younger people to meet naturally, get to know each other, share ideas, pass on &/or learn new skills, work together to identify solutions to problems, addressing challenges in their communities, all the while forging relationships and friendships.
An intergenerational lens can also be applied to the workplace which can now have up to five generational cohorts within. Organisations are considering the impact of this and are questioning whether they have the right policies, processes and ethos in place to support their diverse expectations. Applying an intergenerational lens to the workplace provides an opportunity to consider the benefits that come from diverse generational groups.
As a membership and capacity-building organisation, GWT operate locally and nationally raising awareness, sharing and expanding knowledge and understanding of intergenerational practice and its impact. We provide training and wide-ranging resources and organise learning events and facilitate local and thematic networking opportunities, to enable high quality intergenerational activity to take root on the ground & flourish. GWT lead and deliver pilot projects to support and encourage the development and delivery of intergenerational practice in new settings. We also participate in research projects and scan relevant research taking place across the world for distilling and sharing with our members and others.
A short film narrated by our retired chair Alan Hatton-Yeo MBE can be viewed here on our YouTube channel detailing our history and the background of intergenerational work and its growth in the UK.
The next three years look very exciting with GWT developing new programmes of work including support to the workplace, a new corporate plan, manifesto and on top of our normal networks and training programme an events calendar which includes the following:
Hear from our volunteer Trustees below:
Q. What is it like to be a volunteer Trustee?
A. “Volunteering with GWT this past few years has let me see the value of intergenerational practice in many arenas of life. It has given me greater insight into the passionate practice out there and also the resource and specialism required to support it to be done in ever more meaningful and measurable ways. I have loved the opportunity so far of being part of a Board with such great diversity of age and experience.” (Trustee)
A. “My experience volunteering as a Trustee for GWT over the past six years has been both rewarding personally and beneficial professionally. Exposure to the Governance and Compliance aspects of Trusteeship has been useful supporting my role as a senior manager within a private sector business, while the opportunity to present to workshops and conferences has been invaluable experience of public speaking. Additionally, working alongside the other Trustees and GWT staff who have a wealth of diverse and in-depth experience has been extremely useful from a professional development perspective. From a personal perspective, being able to give my time to support a cause which is increasingly important to society overall and impacts on the lives of everyone I know is rewarding and well worth the investment in time.” (Trustee)
Who we are
Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information to people with dementia, their carers and families, we campaign for the rights of people with dementia and fund vital dementia research.
What you’ll do
As Day Services Manager you will be responsible for leading and managing high quality, therapeutic registered day services and commissioned and non-commissioned community supports for people with dementia, those at greater risk of dementia, and their families, and carers within the area.
You will be responsible for ensuring that services are of the highest quality, meet Alzheimer Scotland’s vision for unique therapeutic, highly person-centred support. There is also the responsibility for ensuring that our commissioned services meet all service level agreement, contract specifications and Alzheimer Scotland’s quality guarantees.
You will have overall day-to-day responsibility for the services within the area and will be responsible for promoting the services with key local stakeholders within Health and Social Care as well as relevant other organisations. As Day Services Manager you will manage the referral and assessment process.You will work collaboratively with the Head of Services to ensure safe practice and delivery of high-quality, person-centred therapeutic day services, ensuring practice complies with Alzheimer Scotland’s policies. You will be responsible for evidencing, reviewing and continually improving the quality of the services and will proactively participate in internal audit and Care Inspectorate inspections. This will include evidencing that services meet Alzheimer Scotland’s Quality Guarantees, Scotland’s Health and Social Care standards and other quality frameworks including those of the Care Inspectorate where relevant. This includes ensuring that the activities and supports offered meet the identified personal outcomes of those attending the services.
You will provide strong line management and leadership to your team, through setting clear objectives and outcomes, regular review within Support & Development processes and undertaking appraisals.
What you’ll have
The successful candidate will have experience of managing a team in a social care, health or other similar setting or be able to demonstrate a clear knowledge and understanding of the key principles and good practice of effectively managing and leading a team.
You will have knowledge and understanding of the Health and Social Care Standards and SSSC codes of practice and the Care Inspectorate and their role in registered services.
Understanding and knowledge of dementia, mild cognitive impairment and Brain Health and experience of working with or supporting people living with dementia and their families.
The successful candidate will have a recognised professional qualification in health, social work or related field, to SCQF Level 7 (SVQ 3)
For a full job description and person specification please see the attachments section of this advert.
The successful candidate for this post will be required to provide proof of right to work in the UK and will also be subject to a PVG check through Disclosure Scotland.
About CrossReach
At CrossReach, we are proud to support people across Scotland, delivering essential services in care, education, and social support. Our mission is rooted in compassion, dignity, and faith, ensuring we positively impact the lives of those we serve. With a strong commitment to excellence, we are looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our team until the end of 2025 and play a vital role in helping us deliver our vision.
The Role
As a Finance Business Partner at CrossReach, you will be at the heart of our mission, providing financial expertise to ensure the sustainability and effectiveness of our services. This is a project based role and you will work closely with the Director of Finance & Resources and operational teams, to deliver insights and strategies that enhance financial performance and drive meaningful outcomes for the people and communities we support.
The role is based in the East of Edinburgh, near Joppa, however some travel to services and regional offices across Scotland will be required. We also offer flexible and hybrid working.
About You
You will be a skilled and motivated finance professional with a strong commercial and strategic mindset. Your ability to build relationships and communicate effectively will be key to your success in this role. A successful candidate will hold a professional accounting qualification, such as ACA, ACCA, or CIMA or possess equivalent experience. They will have proven experience in a finance business partner role or a similar position, ideally within a not-for-profit or care environment. Strong analytical skills are essential, enabling the interpretation of complex financial data and the ability to translate it into actionable insights.
The role requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence and advise stakeholders at all levels. Advanced proficiency in financial systems and tools, such as Excel, Sage, or similar software, is crucial. Additionally, the candidate should demonstrate a commitment to CrossReach’s values and a passion for delivering impactful services.
Experience in the third sector or social care as well as knowledge of Scottish financial and regulatory requirements for care services would be advantageous.
What We Offer
At CrossReach, we value our team and the vital role they play in delivering our mission. We offer: