Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people. Our mission is to secure a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people in Scotland and we currently have over 3000 Care Experienced members.

At the heart of Who Cares? Scotland’s work are the rights of Care Experienced children and young people, and the power of their voices to bring about positive change. We provide individual relationship-based independent advocacy and a broad range of imaginative participatory opportunity for Care Experienced young people across Scotland.

Nationally we work alongside Corporate Parents and communities to broaden understanding and create change. We work with policy makers, leaders and elected representatives locally and nationally to shape law, policy and practice, working together to build on the aspirations of The Promise to secure positive change.

The remit of the Bairns Hoose Advocacy and Participation Worker is to provide independent advocacy supports to Highland children and young people involved in the Bairns Hoose.

This unique role requires you to listen to what children and young people with experience of care say and support them to ensure their rights are upheld and their voices are heard in the processes of making decisions about their lives. You will also help facilitate a broad range of participatory and engagement opportunities and create the conditions for collective advocacy.

The right candidate for this post will be brilliant at forming positive relationships with children and young people. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, adaptable to a wide range of contexts. You will enjoy working collaboratively with partners. You will be committed to children’s rights, inclusive working, equal opportunities, and believe that all young people can make transformative change happen in their lives if given the opportunity.

The successful candidate will be joining Who Cares? Scotland and working within the North team at an exciting time, when the voices of those who are in or have experienced care are growing in power, individually and collectively – bringing with them insight, challenge, hope and change. Flexibility will be required given the remit of the role. Some evening and weekend work will be necessary, as will a full driving licence and access to transport.

If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you. For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Leanne Murdoch, our Advocacy and Participation Manager for the North at lmurdoch@whocaresscotland.org.

We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of care who meet the criteria for the post.

Why?

Scotland’s health and social care systems impact on everyone’s lives at one time or another, and this could be your chance to get involved in improving the ways in which the public engages with these important services.

How?

The Scottish Health Council oversees the governance of the community engagement-related activities of the Healthcare Improvement Scotland, which has the responsibility for ensuring health boards and partnerships involve people and communities in planning their services. We are looking for a new Member to join the Scottish Health Council. This is a challenging, rewarding and worthwhile role that will give you the unique opportunity to help ensure future health and care services are informed and improved by meaningful engagement with the Scottish public, while also broadening your own skills and experience.

Can I apply?

Previous experience of non-executive positions is not required, nor is experience gained within health or social care. We really want to hear from people with practical experience of community engagement, who can demonstrate their understanding of the importance of engaging with people and communities in order to bring about positive developments at individual, local, regional or national levels. You also need to have a commitment to helping us improve the health and wellbeing of the Scottish people. If this is you, we would very much like to hear from you. If you are appointed, you will receive training and support to develop your skills and to learn any new skills you may require.

We particularly welcome applications from groups currently under-represented on the Scottish Health Council, such as those with a disability, those from minority ethnic communities, people aged under 50 years, and people from LGBT+ communities.

Carer Liaison Advisors work in close collaboration with key stakeholders to shape positive outcomes for people living with dementia, their families, and carers across the locality.

This Carer Liaison Advisor role will include addressing the needs of carers who are supporting a person with dementia who is either in a transition to residential care, is in residential care, or for carers who have recently been bereaved.

You will act as the first point of contact, for the families, and carers of people living with a diagnosis of dementia, to find their way through the health and social care system throughout their journey and have meaningful conversations with decision makers in the local community. You will work with a range of external partners to promote and develop broader understanding of and positive attitudes to dementia across the locality.

To be successful in the role the candidate will be required to adopt and demonstrate a proactive leadership approach that will influence a positive culture of engagement. You will enable carers, of people who are living with dementia, to access information, know their legal rights, provide them with advice, practical support, activities, and resources that enhances the carer’s sense of wellbeing. You will encourage carers to have an active voice for themselves and those they are caring for, who are living with a diagnosis of dementia.

This is a very flexible role aimed at meeting the needs of carers in a given geographical area, of Dumfries and surrounding areas. The focus and location of the post holder’s activity will vary from time to time depending on the needs of the people we support, although they will have a fixed office base in Dumfries Dementia Resource Centre 8 Gordon Street Dumfries

Successful applicants will have a positive approach to dementia. You will also have good communication skills and a caring attitude. A willingness to learn and participate in training is essential. Relevant qualifications and/or experience of working with people with dementia would be an advantage.

Full driving licence and access to a vehicle during working time is essential for this post.

For a full job description and person specification, please see the attachments section of this advert.

The successful candidate for this post will be subject to a criminal check through Disclosure Scotland.

Join us as a Service Manager in South Ayrshire.

Our team in South Ayrshire is recruiting for a Service Manager, to join them in providing high quality recovery care to a diverse service user group. If you are a dynamic leader, who can inspire others to make a difference for their clients using a compassionate and collaborative approach, we want to hear from you.

As a leading charity supporting people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges, we operate over 80 services across England and Scotland, providing free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year. Find out more about us.

Job Description

You will be based in our South Ayrshire service, which provides emotional and practical support to individuals and families affected by alcohol and drug use. Our teams work with people at every stage of their recovery journey — providing evidence-based psychosocial interventions, helping clients build resilience, exploring the root causes of substance misuse and achieving meaningful change.

These services include:

Our Recovery Service

Family Support Service

Connect4Change (in partnership with NHS Ayrshire & Arran and Ayrshire Council on Alcohol)

Recovery Out of Alcohol and Drugs Support Service (ROADS) (in partnership with RecoveryAyr and Barnardo’s)

As Service Manager, you will be responsible for collaboratively leading the service to ensure a high level of performance by meeting targets and KPIs set, whilst creating a supportive and inclusive environment. This post requires excellent leadership skills to work innovatively and confidently, supporting staff in high performing recovery work, overseeing quality assurance and safeguarding and with the capacity to work within competing demands and tight timescales. You will work closely with the Head and Director of Service Delivery to ensure clear communication and a mutually agreed delivery of service.

Safeguarding those we provide our services to, sharing your concerns and putting the right interventions in place is key to the success of this role. You will work with a dedicated team of people, building strong relationships with other agencies to deliver the comprehensive support needed by those using our services. You will lead your team, providing development and clear direction aligned with the organisational aims and be a strong advocate for WithYou externally, maintaining and building our profile as you go.

This is a permanent, full-time role working 37.5 hours per week between Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm, with some evening and weekend flexibility as required. The salary for this position is £38,000 - £44,000 per annum.

Company Benefits

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
• Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
• Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
• Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
• We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period

Essential Skills

The most important thing you can bring to this role is clear and inspirational leadership. We’re open to discussions with candidates working in leadership roles outside of the drug and alcohol arena - for example, in mental health or housing. We’re most interested in your ability to demonstrate motivational leadership skills, with the drive to promote staff development and retention. You’ll have the support of a Head of Service Delivery and a wider team of experienced and dedicated stakeholders across the organisation.

If you have experience managing comparable services, as either an established manager or in a team leader or similar capacity and you are looking for the next step up in your career, we would welcome your application and a further discussion.

You should have:

• SSSC Registered Managers qualification or equivalent (or be willing to complete this)
• A proven track record of managing and supervising others
• Experience in drug and alcohol support services, or in an equivalent social care setting
• Experience of partnership working and within multidisciplinary teams
• Experience of working within community based services
• Ability to develop and lead a cohesive team
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to quickly establish credibility and/or make a positive impact
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

About Us

WithYou provides free and confidential support, without judgement, to more than 100,000 people every year experiencing challenges with drugs, alcohol and mental health across England and Scotland.

Our name reflects who we are – a positive place where people can progress, connect with others and get friendly, expert help in a way that’s right for them.

Our staff team changes lives. If you’re passionate about helping people get the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol and mental health, we’d love to hear from you.

Creating an Inclusive Environment

As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our vision of a future where everyone lives a life free from the harm associated with drugs and alcohol. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people, people of all ages and armed forces veterans.

As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. With You is also a Disability Confident Employer and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (“the College”) seeks to appoint a Membership Governance Officer to co-ordinate matters in relation to the governance of Fellowship and Membership, working with the Membership Manager to ensure that changes can be managed and implemented. The post holder will implement College decisions relating to Council elections and Fellowship and Membership issues and determine how they can be applied within the College calendar and Laws.

The College is a professional membership organisation and registered charity, which supports the medical profession to deliver the gold standard in healthcare provision. We have a network of over 14,500 members worldwide and help hospital doctors throughout their careers through leading an effective and supportive physicians’ community as well as providing our world-renowned education and training programme which helps qualified doctors pursue their careers in specialist medicine.

The Role

This role falls within the department of Global Engagement. Please refer to the Job Description for full details.

Key responsibilities include:

• Organising the election of multiple Office Bearer roles within the College including the co-ordination of all relevant processes, correspondence and advertising to the wider Fellowship.

• Designing processes, interpreting changes to policies and the Laws, navigating changes to the College calendar in order to facilitate elections in a timely manner.

• Assisting with drafting policy papers for Council on behalf of the Honorary Secretary as required.

• Collating paperwork on Regional Advisers appointments/elections to seek Council approval and tracking appointments by Regional Advisers of their Link Fellows.

• Maintaining the ‘master’ set of the Laws of the College and Royal Charter.

• Helping to support wider team activities such as events, New Fellows Day, administration and meetings on an ad hoc basis during busy periods.

Person Specification

• Experience of supporting committees/project teams to deliver operational goals.

• Demonstrable experience of working with the governance or legal documents of an organisation, such as charters, laws, terms of reference, memoranda of understanding, articles and deeds.

• Ability to deal with highly sensitive matters and enquiries with tact.

• Experience of maintaining contact with a wide variety of stakeholders through regular communication.

• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.

• Strong numeric, administrative and communication skills.

• Exceptional levels of attention to detail, and an ability to respond immediately to changing demands.

• Competent computer skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, and member databases.

• Experience of organising significant governance related activities, such as elections and office bearer appointments.

• A general understanding of the structure, role and importance of Royal Colleges.

Remuneration Package

The salary for this role will be £ 27,002 per annum plus benefits. Additional benefits include:

• Pension: with employer contributions of 9%.

• Holidays: 23 days’ annual leave (with incremental increase over five years to 28 days) and 11 days’ public holiday/College close downs.

• Life assurance scheme.

• Long-term income protection scheme for those unable to work due to illness.

• Cycle to Work scheme.

• Discounted rates for use of the venue for personal events.

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join our Edinburgh Outreach services as an Area Manager.

Autism Initiatives Scotland provides a range of person centred services throughout Scotland. The charity provides services to autistic people who are 16 years old and over and encompasses supported living and outreach services.

Our Edinburgh Outreach services are delivered across the city, with some individuals using our dedicated bases. These services are designed to be flexible and person-centred, often involving lone working and dispersed support arrangements.

The Area Manager will play a key role in recognising and supporting the unique nature of outreach work. This includes understanding the challenges of managing remote teams, ensuring robust communication and supervision, and maintaining high standards of autism-specific support across varied settings.

A key responsibility of the role is ensuring safe staffing across all services. This includes effective rota planning, maintaining appropriate staffing levels, and responding to changing needs to ensure the safety and wellbeing of both staff and the people we support. In addition to operational leadership, the Area Manager will oversee financial management across the services. This includes managing budgets, monitoring expenditure, and ensuring resources are used effectively to support service delivery and development

The Area Manager is responsible for the design of the support programme to the people we support and to ensure, through the management team, the delivery and maintenance of high level autism specific services. The Area Manager’s responsibilities also include service development and liaison with external agencies. To provide leadership to the group of services, the Area Manager must ensure all staff are managed and supervised effectively.

You will have excellent leadership and supervision skills, knowledge of current legislation and regulations relating to the social care sector and management of an operational budget. A Social Work / health care qualification or equivalent as noted within the Scottish Social Service Council (SSSC) guidelines for the qualifications for managers is essential for this role.

The successful candidate will be required to register with the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme, the SSSC and be registered manager with the care inspectorate.

This role involves facilitating community-based women and family support within locations across Aberdeen, with a specific focus on Torry. We are looking for a candidate who will ensure good practice, robust monitoring, evaluation and increased partnership working with churches and other organisations around Aberdeen.

It is essential that you have experience in facilitating, planning and working with vulnerable people in a community setting. If the successful candidate has a qualification in Social Work, Social Care, Community Education or a related discipline at the equivalent of SCQF Level 7, their starting salary would be £11,585 per annum.

As Bethany is a Christian organisation this post carries an Occupational Requirement in line with Equality Act 2010. Please note that one reference must be from your church minister or leader to endorse your live and active Christian faith and commitment. Successful applicants for this post will require membership of the PVG scheme.

This post is restricted to female applicants in order to reduce barriers of access for the all-female referrals.

We are committed to helping our employees flourish personally and professionally. Below are a few examples of the ways we support our employees.

• Bethany provides 30 days of annual leave to all contracted staff initially, rising to a maximum of 40 days depending on length of service.
• Bethany provides enhanced payments for maternity, paternity, and adoption.
• Bethany operates a company pension scheme to which all staff are auto-enrolled, with the option to opt out. We will match any staff member’s pension contribution up to 5%.
• Bethany provides a death-in-service benefit scheme.
• (Depending on the role) Optional clinical supervision will be offered in line with best practice and fully funded by Bethany.

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (“the College”) seeks to appoint a Membership and Data Officer to provide data administration and membership services to the Colleges’ growing membership and fellowship community and maintain and update the membership database to ensure data accuracy, relevance and quality. The post holder will operate in partnership with colleagues in the department and across-College, managing, recording, reporting and analysing large volumes of data.

The College is a professional membership organisation and registered charity, which supports the medical profession to deliver the gold standard in healthcare provision. We have a network of over 14,500 members worldwide and help hospital doctors throughout their careers through leading an effective and supportive physicians’ community as well as providing our world-renowned education and training programme which helps qualified doctors pursue their careers in specialist medicine.

The Role

This is a role in the department of Global Engagement. Please refer to the Job Description for full details.

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintaining and updating the College’s membership database and managing database information from stakeholders (including the GMC and JRCPTB).

• Generating reports and searches, for a range of College-wide business and analytical purposes (including analysing membership trends) and generating data and commentary for senior management reports, Council papers, etc.

• Playing a key role in Membership Enrolment and administration, creating data records and ensuring all new subscription information is uploaded on the College database timeously and accurately each year.

• Developing standard operation procedures to improve system efficiency, team productivity and performance.

• Finding and improving formats for entering data in the database to present information in a standardised way, to make searches easier and improve accuracy.

Person Specification

• Advanced IT skills including Word, Excel, and Outlook.

• Experience of using member databases.

• Knowledge of using survey and e-communication tools to create online surveys and mass emails.

• Ability to identify and clarify user requirements and present often complex data in a clearly understood format.

• An understanding and working knowledge of GDPR and appropriate data protection legislation.

• Knowledge of SQL to store, query, and manipulate relational data; experience of SQL clients (e.g. Enterprise Manager, Sybase Central) and data analysis tools such as Power BI.

• Experience in a membership or hospitality organisation, or an appropriate work environment that requires a high level of quality customer service delivered in an administrative capacity.

• Experience of handling large volumes of customer data and financial transactions.

• Exceptional levels of attention to detail, and an ability to respond immediately to changing demands.

• Strong team player that can operate with a friendly and inclusive approach.

• A general understanding of the UK Medical Training system, the related organisations, the various Royal Colleges and the roles they play and the qualifications which they confer.

Remuneration Package

The salary for this role will be £33,221 per annum plus benefits. Additional benefits include:

• Pension: with employer contributions of 9%.

• Holidays: 23 days’ annual leave (with incremental increase over five years to 28 days) and 11 days’ public holiday/College close downs.

• Life assurance scheme.

• Long-term income protection scheme for those unable to work due to illness.

• Cycle to Work scheme.

• Discounted rates for use of the venue for personal events.

Main Purpose of Job

Winning Leishman are seeking an experienced Fundraiser to join our team. This post will involve research into grant makers, developing funding proposals and following up with reports and communications to maximise long-term income generation on behalf of Winning Leishman’s clients.

Position in Organisation

Report to the Winning Leishman Directors.

Responsibilities

• Support the identification of trust and foundation funding opportunities through research

• Create tailored applications to a wide range of funders

• Create reports and other communications to funders

• Maintain a schedule of applications and reports

Person Specification

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in preparing funding applications to trusts and foundations (essential)

• Experience of working in the charity sector (essential)

• Reliable and well organised with good time management skills and ability to meet deadlines

• Excellent IT skills, Excel and MS Office, with a working knowledge of database systems

• Strong written skills

• A creative and lateral thinker

• Professional, courteous, respectful and confident

• Proactive and self -motivated with a positive and enthusiastic approach to teamwork

Qualifications

• Degree (in any subject), studying towards a degree or equivalent (desirable)

Shared Care Scotland is an innovative national charity, based in Dunfermline, working to support Scotland’s unpaid carers to access short breaks.

We are delighted to be recruiting a Policy Officer who will play a key role in taking our mission forward. The postholder will identify, document, and share evidence-based practices, influence policy, and support stakeholder engagement across Scotland.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Policy Officer to join our organisation. If you are experienced in influencing policy, creating and sharing learning content, self-motivated and keen to develop your knowledge of the health and social care sector then we’d love to hear from you.

For the right candidate, this is an exciting opportunity to work with our dedicated team and network of partners to deliver on a range of activities that can improve the lives of unpaid carers in Scotland.

In return we offer a supportive, collaborative team environment with excellent terms and conditions.