Based at the community owned Douglas Support Estate, this role involves the leadership and organisation of our delivered activities and our volunteer team and their duties to ensure the smooth running and development of the Estate.
Overseeing the conservation interest of this estate, whilst balancing its development and recreational usage will be key, as will be the provision of a positive experience for our community users through engagement, educational activities, volunteer activities and regular site maintenance.
Interested in greenspace and what they offer to people, places and our planet? Enjoy working with other professionals and can deliver collaborative projects? Then you might be who we are looking for.
We have a new role to help us deliver a National Lottery Heritage Fund project Urban Green Links. Building on current work of greenspace scotland and our Park Managers Forum this project will innovate, develop, celebrate and advance peer-to-peer collaboration, knowledge and profile.
At greenspace scotland we believe greenspaces are at the heart of healthy, happy, thriving and sustainable communities and places. This project aims to ensure that people and organisations build the knowledge and capability to create, improve and maintain high quality, nature-rich, climate-friendly urban greenspaces in Scotland.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference for greenspace professionals and others across Scotland.
Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime.
We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference.
Who We Are
Victim Support Scotland provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim and witness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free, confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs.
Our vision is that people affected by crime – victims, witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice in Scotland. Our mission is to ensure that all those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them to recover from their experiences. All our work is guided and underpinned by our six core principles of being engaging and compassionate; inclusive and accessible; person-centred; adaptive, flexible, and responsive; collaborative; and knowledgeable and skilled. Now is the time to join Victim Support Scotland, helping us work towards the ambitions of our 5-year plan: Empowering people affected by crime: VSS Strategy 2021-2026.
What is The Role
You will be reporting to Head of Service Delivery - National Programmes, you will lead the management, development and delivery of Victim Support Scotland’s National Support Centre operating 365 days a year. The National Support Centre provides a vital first point of contact for individuals affected by crime across Scotland. It is based in Glasgow and open 7 days per week 365 days per year. The service offers information, initial needs assessments, and trauma-informed support via telephone and webchat. It also manages all national referrals and is supported by a dedicated team of staff and volunteers. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the consistent delivery of a high-quality, trauma-sensitive service to victims and witnesses. You will oversee workforce planning for your area, ensuring that both staff and volunteers are well-supported, knowledgeable, and equipped to meet the needs of service users.
What You’ll Need to be Successful
We are looking for an experienced and transformational leader. Someone who will relish the opportunity to shape the delivery of the VSS vision and strategic priorities. An innovative thinker with strong communication skills and experience of partnership working. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development is essential. Someone who has a management qualification and has the ability to develop effective internal and external relationships and networks that enable the understanding and delivery of broad organisational goals.
If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, then this may be the role for you.
Salary band: £34,974 - £46,187 + on call allowance. Salary on appointment will normally be at the lower salary point, with progression subject to review - in line with VSS progression arrangements. A higher salary placing will only be considered in exceptional circumstances subject to experience demonstrated.
Further details of this role are available in the job description - National Support Centre Manager - Job Description
What we offer
When you work for Victim Support Scotland, your wellbeing is important to us. Not only do we offer an enhanced annual leave package of 39 days (pro-rata), but you will also have access to our free health cash plan which includes cover for you and your family across a range of benefits. This includes dental cover, access to a virtual GP, counselling, legal support and discounts on gym memberships, cinema tickets, retail and much more. In addition, we offer a generous pension, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to a credit union. Supporting employee development is important to us and we offer comprehensive learning and development opportunities.
Please note - This post will be subject to a PVG check.
The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting a Senior Development Officer.
The Senior Development Officer role will identify and develop opportunities for innovation and improvement within health and social care integration. You will build capacity and facilitate stronger connections between the statutory sector, third sector and people with lived and living experience by meaningfully engaging and enabling more collaborative working and shared learning. You will promote health and social care policy, peer learning, knowledge sharing, idea generation and networking with a focus on outcomes-based activity, ensuring that people with lived and living experience are central to shaping the future of integrated health and social care in Scotland.
The successful candidate for this role should have:
Reporting to: Programme Manager – Integration, Engagement and Lived Experience
Terms and conditions
This post is a fixed-term contract. This is a full-time role, 35 hours per week, based in Glasgow. The post holder will be required to adopt a flexible approach to working hours as travel throughout Scotland and occasional additional hours may be required. However, this will be reimbursed through the organisation’s Time off in Lieu scheme.
As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:
The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.
The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
Do you want to join an organisation that has been named recently as a Top 100 company to work with by The Sunday Times?
I lost my kids a few times they went to foster care and I would have gone to a place like this if I had the chance. This is badly needed. I hid my drug use and people only found out about it when I had my baby and she was in withdrawal. I loved my daughter and would have welcomed something like this. A mother who has been supported by Aberlour
About Our Mother and Child Recovery House
Aberlour is proud to be working in partnership with the Scottish Government and we are excited to have opened a new dedicated Mother and Child Recovery House based in central Falkirk. Building on the success of our house in Dundee, also funded by the Scottish Government, which opened just over 2 years ago, our service is designed to enable children of women with problem alcohol or other drug use to stay with their mothers during recovery. Our approach to rehabilitation aims to deliver positive outcomes for women and their children. The house will accommodate up to 4 women with their children under 5.
We will be using the Parents Under Pressure (PuP) programme which combines psychological principles relating to parenting, child behaviour and parental emotion regulation within a case management model. The programme is highly individualised to suit each family. Mothers are given their own Workbook and for many of them this becomes a personal journal of their treatment experience. The overarching aim of the PuP programme is to help parents facing adversity to develop positive and secure relationships with their children. Within this strength-based approach, the family environment becomes more nurturing and less conflictual. Full training on the PuP Programme will be provided to the whole team.
Too many women with problem drug and alcohol issues are having their young children taken into care and many other women won't engage with support agencies for fear of their children being removed. The new houses will improve outcomes for these women and children; reduce deaths of mothers with problem drug use; avoid family breakdown and
increase the likelihood of children being cared for by their parents. Aberlour Chief Executive SallyAnn Kelly
What we are looking for....
We are looking to recruit a Family Support Worker to be part of a trauma responsive team delivering and implementing residential recovery support for women and their children (0-5 years) to help them reach their aspirations. If you share our vision and values and have the passion and ability to work as part of this new therapeutic team, we would love to hear from you.
You will work 37.5 hours on a 2-week rolling rota, covering 10-12 hour shifts, including weekends, occasional night shift when required and public holidays. One sleepover shift is required per week. We also operate a weekend on and weekend off rota.
Ideally, you will have experience of direct work with mothers/parents in recovery, enhancing their skills and capacity for them and their babies. Experience working with complex needs and vulnerabilities including domestic abuse and mental health, as well as having experience of working collaboratively with other professional agencies and a working knowledge of drug/alcohol use and its effects on women and children.
Applicants should hold a relevant professional qualification at least SCQF level 7 or equivalent knowledge acquired by other means with a willingness to obtain the required qualifications for SSSC Registration.
We strongly encourage people to apply who have lived experience of alcohol or drug use, with a minimum of 2 years living in recovery, free from all drug use and problem drinking. People with lived experience will provide crucial insight into the issues being faced by these small, new families.
At Aberlour we want to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. At Aberlour we have strong values -
Respect, Integrity, Innovation and Challenging - which influence our everyday work. If you choose to apply for this role please tell us about your values in your supporting statement.
To have a look at our values to understand more about what we are looking for from our employees click here.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers. Find out more about our Employee Benefits and our commitment to Equality and Diversity.
We also follow Data Protection Guidelines - Here is our privacy policy.
Quarriers is seeking a Strategic Finance Leader in Social Care
Are you a qualified accountant and skilled in leading financial strategies in the social care sector? If so, we invite you to consider a unique opportunity to reach your full potential as Head of Finance.
About Quarriers
Quarriers is a Scottish social care charity with a rich history of over 150 years of providing care and support for people with disabilities, children and families, young people, young homeless individuals, people with epilepsy, and carers. Our services span the entire country, and we are committed to challenging poverty and inequality to bring about positive changes in people's lives.
Your New Opportunity
We are seeking a dynamic Head of Finance who is a strategic leader to join our well-established finance team. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for overseeing all financial aspects of the charity, this will include managing financial systems, processes, and controls, ensuring Quarriers meets its financial obligations, complies with regulations and standards. You will be a play a key part in financial system improvements, addressing any challenges and implementing risk management strategies.
Key Objectives and Accountabilities
This is a full-time permanent role working 35 hours per week in line with our agile working policy, which blends home-working with office time and service visits.
What you will need to be considered
What’s in it for you?
Quarriers have Investors in People Platinum accreditation and are a Scottish Living Wage Employer.
SYP has a proud history of championing youth-led projects and campaigns that drive meaningful policy change. Our programmes and participation activities use a youth work ethos to support young people across Scotland to develop skills and experiences, discuss the issues that are important to them, and influence change.
Working within SYP’s youth-led structure, our Participation and Programmes Officer will work with young people and the Participation and Programmes team to plan, deliver, amplify, and evaluate our activities, in line with the organisation’s strategic objectives.
If you are passionate about amplifying young people’s voices and have the skills to support young people’s meaningful participation in decision-making, we would love to hear from you.
To contribute to the delivery of a successful Supported Employment Service focussed on supporting people aged 16 years to retirement with learning disabilities and/or autism, sourcing employment of 16 hours per week or more.
The successful candidate will work with the Triple E-supported employment team and local employers to assist individuals in developing their desires to find meaningful and sustainable employment. This post is funded through Renfrewshire Council.
To contribute to the delivery of a successful Supported Employment Service focussed on supporting people aged 16 years to retirement with learning disabilities and/or autism, sourcing employment of 16 hours per week or more.
The successful candidate will work with the Triple E-supported employment team and local employers to assist individuals in developing their desires to find meaningful and sustainable employment. This post is funded through East Renfrewshire Council
Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as a Communications & Media Manager you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.
You will be part of Scotland’s leading health charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service provides access to a range of supported self management and community recovery services to support people across Scotland to manage their health as well as possible and adjust to life after a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or after a stroke.
About the role:
Are you a passionate and strategic media professional ready to contribute to shaping public awareness and influencing health policy across Scotland?
Join Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as our Communications & Media Manager and play a pivotal role in amplifying our voice, strengthening our brand visibility, and helping us reach 175,000 people each year by 2028.
In this management role, you’ll drive the delivery of our media strategy - creating impactful campaigns and securing proactive and reactive press coverage. Working closely with teams across CHSS, you’ll position us as a trusted authority on stroke, chest, heart and Long Covid conditions, all in alignment with our bold No Life Half Lived strategy.
CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.
In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.