Are you passionate about working with children and young people? Can you work with families to make a positive change to their lives? Can you provide ongoing, tailored support through one-to-one sessions, group work, residentials and camp?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Scottish Huntington’s Association Youth Service as a Specialist Youth Advisor providing support for vulnerable children and families throughout South/West Scotland through bespoke, individual sessions. If you are someone with dedication, talent and expertise, we want to hear from you.

Scottish Huntington’s Association Youth Service works with children and families aged 8-25 impacted by familial Huntington’s disease. To affect positive change for our families, we focus on a person-centred approach to managing Huntington’s disease including psychoeducation, information and advice, peer support and respite opportunities. The Specialist Youth Advisor role is pivotal within the South/West team and will provide a vital link in supporting young people in this region in line with the strategic aims of Scottish Huntington’s Association.

You will be responsible for your own caseload and will help plan and co-ordinate group work sessions, activity days, residentials and our summer camp.

Highly organised with a proven ability to build trusting relationships, you will help to empower children and young people to manage the complexities of living with Huntington’s disease and their own genetic risk. Experience of child and adolescent mental health difficulties, young carers’ issues and child protection is advantageous.

Previous experience or knowledge of Huntington’s disease is preferred, but not required as full training and ongoing mentorship will be provided.

You will work from home with regular travel throughout Ayrshire and Arran, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway. There will also be travel required for organisation-wide meetings.

This post will include out of hours and periodic weekend working. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer benefits including flexible working practices, a generous leave allowance totalling 37 days (25 days Annual leave and 12 days public holidays) and a competitive pension.

This is an exciting time for the charity with the launch of Standing Tall: A Strategy For Growth 2023 - 2028 to transform the care and support of Huntington’s families, expand specialist services and deepen involvement in research and clinical trials.

It follows two years of significant expansion in our specialist teams, growth in funding, a rise in media engagement and parliamentary support for the work we do, and the success of our ground-breaking Dance 100 event in Glasgow.

About Scottish Huntington’s Association

People impacted by Huntington’s disease need specialist services to cope with a severe and complex disease, the impact on families and a lack of awareness amongst health and social care providers and the wider public.

Scottish Huntington’s Association is the only charity in the country exclusively dedicated to providing expert and personalised support for those impacted by Huntington’s disease.

Our personalised support reduces unnecessary hospital admissions, supports carers and other family members; lowers household poverty; and alleviates wellbeing risks to children and young people living in Huntington’s families.

We are commissioned by NHS Boards and Health and Social Care Partnerships throughout the country to share our expertise with front line staff and build support for improved services and higher standards of care for every family impacted by this devastating disease. Scottish Huntington’s Association plays a full and active role in attracting the global research community to Scotland to work in partnership with us to improve the lives of families impacted by Huntington’s disease. At Scottish Huntington’s Association you will find a values-driven organisation, founded by families for families and recognised at national and international levels for its expertise and support. Our services are delivered through a nationwide network of Huntington’s Disease Specialists, Specialist Youth Advisors and Financial Wellbeing Officers. We offer a flexible working environment, contributory pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement, contributory pension, and annual incremental pay increases to top of designated salary scale.

About Us The Ayrshire Hospice provides quality specialist palliative care for adults with life-limiting illness within Ayrshire and Arran. We provide a wide range of services and care in people’s homes, care homes and hospitals, as well as in the hospice itself. This is provided at no cost to our patients or their families. Our vision is to reach and improve the lives of everyone in Ayrshire affected by life-limiting illness.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for a motivated and talented Fundraising Manager who will help us grow our community and events fundraising income.

Working closely with the Head of Fundraising and other departmental managers, the post holder will help grow our highly successful community and events portfolio. The Fundraising Manager will be required to support the fundraising team as well as lead on researching and identifying potential new income streams within community and events, building strong relationships with donors.

The post-holder will cover a whole spectrum of fundraising duties and needs to think strategically and work operationally. They will need to be confident in representing the organisation externally and coordinate and maintain strong working relationships.

Is this the job you have been looking for?

Informal enquiries to Tracey Corrigan, Head of Fundraising on 01292 288488

We are excited to be recruiting an HR Officer to work within our Corporate Services team. This is a key post in supporting the management and staff to be effective in their roles. The successful candidate will have responsibility and accountability for the full employee life cycle, and will be involved in all areas of the human resources function.

We are looking for someone with:

• previous experience of working in a similar sized organisation
• excellent communication and organisational skills
• able to multi-task and deal with a range of incoming enquiries
• proficient in IT packages such as MS Office 365, Breathe HR and understand their importance in providing accurate management information
• able to form and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, third parties and others
• enthusiastic and self motivated with a can do attitude
• able to streamline and improve operational processes.
• Experience of full resourcing life cycle including onboarding and induction process

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.

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days)
• 13 days public holiday that can be taken flexibly
• additional leave between Christmas and New Year
• contributory pension scheme
• open to flexible working (formal and informal)
• hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
• enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• enhanced sick pay
• employee Assistance Programme
• learning and development opportunities
• corporate rates for gym membership
• time off in lieu
• cycle Scheme
• Carer Positive Employer

The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.