Bipolar Scotland has an exciting opportunity for an exceptional candidate to play a key part in the expansion of the organisation and the delivery of our five-year strategy, “A Time to Move Forward”.
We are seeking a driven and adaptable Fundraising Officer to join our small, friendly team. You’ll support the Fundraising Manager to achieve maximum income potential from the full breadth of income streams. You’ll bring the ideas and experience required to build on our portfolio and grow our capacity to deliver transformative support to people living with bipolar across Scotland. The successful candidate will be proactive and able to speak passionately about our cause, quickly establishing new relationships with people from a wide range of backgrounds. You’ll have the drive and determination to go the extra mile to ensure we reach our fundraising target, by engaging new corporate partners or re-energising established community fundraising relationships.
You will have significant experience of working as part of a successful and busy fundraising team in the third sector and be highly productive, with excellent communication and time management skills. Knowledge or experience of working with people who have a mental health condition is not essential but will be helpful in appreciating the context of our work.
We offer a generous annual leave and public holiday entitlement of 37 days in total, plus up to 2 wellbeing days per year, along with flexible working arrangements. The role will be based at our new office in central Paisley, with the opportunity for hybrid working. We welcome applications from candidates who wish to work part-time.
Organisation Profile
Bipolar Scotland is Scotland’s charity for people living with bipolar. Our vision is for a good life for everyone in Scotland who lives with bipolar. We are member led, collaborative, advocates of peer support, focused on equality and rights based. See our website bipolarscotland.org.uk for further information.
We have an exciting opportunity to join Alzheimer Scotland as a Press Officer. Based within our Communications and Campaigns team, you will be the main point of contact for all our press and media enquiries.
You will be responsible for writing press releases, as well as creating other content for a variety of audiences - at all times maintaining the Alzheimer Scotland brand and tone-of-voice. You will work with our colleagues, particularly those in our Active Voice, Stakeholder Engagement and locality teams to build and maintain a story bank that represents the voices of personal experience.
You will build relationships with both local and national media and develop Alzheimer Scotland’s press and media strategy.
You will work closely with Charity colleagues, providing them with any support needed to take part in press and media interviews.
The successful candidate must excel in autonomously managing tasks within tight deadlines, without compromising on quality, thriving in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
You First Advocacy provide an independent professional advocacy service to a wide range of vulnerable adults in Renfrewshire, who require short-term advocacy to address specific issues arising from health, community care or legal interventions. The service is provided by paid staff and trained volunteers.
“Our vision is to provide independent professional advocacy support to individuals who reside in a community, residential or hospital setting, giving them a voice and supporting their rights and wishes”
This fixed-term post (12 months) will contribute effectively to the You First Advocacy Service and will do so, by providing dedicated advocacy support for people affected by drug or alcohol use, as part of YFA’s operational team.
This is an exciting and challenging post for a person who supports social justice and the rights of vulnerable individuals. It is essential that you have knowledge and experience of Addictions, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and other generic client groups. A knowledge of advocacy is also essential. You should have excellent interpersonal skills and self-motivated.
To support the evening and overnight running of the Recovery House. This involves supporting residents of the Recovery House to maintain a safe and secure environment as they become and maintain abstinent lifestyles. The position is a strictly waking position. There will be additional support available through the night by way of management on call team.
PVG Scheme Membership is required for this post.
Alternatives operates an Equal Opportunities Policy.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone seeking to develop their current skills in communications and engagement to join the multidisciplinary Communications and Engagement team working at the heart of CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection.
Our team works together to use communication and engagement techniques to tell the story of what support, services, work, and investment is needed for children and young people in need of care and protection, their families, carers, and for the workforces who support them, and what it takes to change practice.
Supporting the team, you’ll work across our channels and outputs and maintain processes to help us share information, learning and knowledge that are all contributing to what we understand can improve the lives of children and young people.
As the first point of contact for our communications enquiries from colleagues and external stakeholders, you’ll require enthusiasm, and an ability to grow and maintain positive working relationships within and out with CELCIS.
While the role would suit someone with in interest in understanding the policy landscape in Scotland, and developments concerning the needs and rights of children, this role provides the opportunity to build this knowledge.
You’ll be enthusiastic, creative, and a highly organised and motivated member of our team with the ability to work across a number of tasks and projects at any one time. Attention to detail is essential in this role and the postholder will need to have the ability to understand and use design packages, and technological platforms and tools such as website Content Management Systems (CMS) systems to collate, analyse and present information and to create some content.
As with all posts in the team, the post is initially funded to March 2025, with indicative funding for a further two years.
About CELCIS
As a leading improvement and innovation centre in Scotland, at CELCIS we work to improve the lives of children and young people in need of care and protection, and their families and carers. We do this by supporting people and organisations responsible for their care to make changes in services and in the practices and skills they use, all based on the needs and experiences of children and young people.
Change is happening. Be part of it. Together we can make things better for children, young people and their families.
Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Lesley Sneddon, Communications Manager (lesley.sneddon@strath.ac.uk).
GCA deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire
Role:
The Diploma in Integrative Counselling is 2-year course, credit rated at SCQF level 10 by the University of the West of Scotland, and validation from COSCA. GCA is one of the founding COSCA members and adheres to the COSCA ethical framework for good practice in counselling, psychotherapy and counselling skills. The course requires lead tutors who are accredited by COSCA to Diploma level or committed to work towards accreditation. Tutors should be experienced Counsellors who are accredited with an appropriate professional body, or working towards accreditation (e.g., COSCA/BACP/UKCP).
The Lead Course Tutor will have responsibility for two Diploma Courses, leading on one weekly class and one weekend class.
The Lead Course Tutor will be expected to contribute to a GCA CPD calendar, writing and delivering on content agreed with the Course Director.
The Lead Course Tutor will support the development, implementation, delivery and evaluation of the Diploma in Integrative Counselling.
In return for choosing to work for GCA, the benefits you will receive are:
Organisation Profile:
Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA) was founded in 1965 and is the oldest established Council on Alcohol in Scotland. GCA is a voluntary organisation working to reduce the harm caused by alcohol misuse through the provision of a range of high quality advice, information, counselling, support, prevention and education and training services.
We are currently recruiting for a Development Lead to join our team and provide capacity support for the Third Sector Chief Officer's Group (TSCOG) to deliver upon their main strategic objectives.
Third Sector Chief Officers Group
The Third Sector Chief Officers Group (TSCOG) was formed in 2016 when a number of CEO’s of Third Sector organisations in South Lanarkshire came together under the auspices of VASLan to support each other during a period of significant strategic and financial challenge and change.The group met fortnightly to play a significant role in providing peer support and sharing information to ensure joined up services during the COVID pandemic.
The TSCOG are now ready to move onto the next stage of their development, with this role providing additional capacity to deliver upon their strategic objectives.
Job Purpose:
This role is a shared resource for the TSCOG, hosted within VASLan with the workplan directed by a TSCOG Steering Group.
Priorities:
• Strategic Engagement
o Improve engagement between TSCOG members, locality and thematic networks, and the wider third sector
• Being Collaborative
o Develop consortia documentation and process which can be applied to opportunities where appropriate, and share with the wider sector
• Income & Strategic Commissioning
o Support collaboration to attract external or local funding to localities and mechanisms for distribution and governance.
In summary its enhancing the funding support offer to the sector with TSCOG orgs showing some leadership to leverage more resources into SL.
We are looking for a family worker to deliver sessions, clubs and activities for our children, and families. The delivery will be varied and will always be driven by the needs of the community.
You will also be responsible for working on trips and holiday programs.
There will also be the remit of devising and implementing new projects and clubs as guided by funding requirements and service user’s needs.
You will work in partnership with local organisations and schools and build up strong positive community links.
The Base is a place based project your will be expected to work alongside and supporting local volunteers.
You will work to enhance the lives of local children by ensuring activities are provided to develop their mental, emotional, physical and social well-being needs.
You will also be committed to ongoing personal development and undertake training or other professional development activities as required.
All other reasonable duties will be required to be undertaken as and when required and agreed with the Project Manager.
We are looking for a Care Service Manager to work in our existing service in Govan, Glasgow. You must have a proven track record of supporting adults with learning disabilities and physical disabilities, to manage our service where we support 4 adults.
Person Specification
Company Overview
Share Scotland is the Care Sector’s best kept secret. This is your opportunity to join an innovative, family-led organisation. Working as part of a dynamic and supportive team, you will be an enthusiastic person who can bring their own unique skills, interests and ideas to the role of Service Manager.
For almost 33 years, Share Scotland has worked with adults with complex disabilities to provide individually tailored care, supporting our service users to actively pursue their chosen lifestyle within their own home and local community.
Employee Benefits
*Subject to gaining qualifications and length of service
Share is actively working to promote equal opportunities for all
About the project
The 'Young Start Progressions' programme at 'The Pavilion' will be a dynamic initiative led entirely by young people, supported by staff and volunteers and by existing and new partnership opportunities. Our three-pronged approach aims to empower young individuals across various stages of their development:
Primary/Secondary Transitions Programme: We will provide support for P7, S1, and S2 young people as they transition from primary to secondary school, fostering empowerment, confidence, and improved self-esteem in a non-school environment.
Volunteer Mentoring Programme: Expanding on our successful volunteering mentoring initiative, we offer diverse opportunities for young volunteers, connecting them with roles both within Pavilion and through our network of school partnerships and community collaborations.
Attainment Programme: Focused on enhancing pathways for Junior and Senior Club participants, we integrate life skills development seamlessly into existing activities. From goal-setting exercises, certificated activity programmes to accredited learning and further training opportunities.
Aim of the Attainment Programme:
The overall aim of the Attainment Programme is to deliver a programme of services to target and support young people in the Easterhouse area of Glasgow by helping them to attain a recognised qualification and gain recognition for the learning and development they have achieved by taking part in our programmes.
The aim is:
The Outcomes are:
Job Role:
We are seeking to appoint an Attainment Worker to help each participant is matched to an award and has a personal development plan and tracked learner journey.
Working across our range of programmes the Attainment Worker will work with young people identifying the best fit for the specific awards and the individual activities. The successful candidate will work alongside staff to collate evidence and ensure that electronic portfolios are kept up to date with all evidence captured.
The Attainment Worker will assist staff, volunteers and young people to help ensure targets are achieved and progression pathways created for young people, supporting them to overcome barriers to participation and learning.