Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £50,000 – £54,000
- Edinburgh
- Closing 30th July 2023
- Advertised from 26th June 2023
Role
Garvald Edinburgh is a well-established and respected local charity, which provides high quality, personalised support to people with a learning disability.
We work across 4 premises that support multi-activity workshops as well as a crafts shop/gallery. We are based in Edinburgh and the Lothians where our members (service users) and talented staff, work together within a supportive, creative environment, which enables members to develop friendships, forge new skills, explore their creativity and produce a range of high-quality arts and products.
Some of the extensive range of opportunities available to our members include artwork, pottery, jewellery, textiles, woodworking, catering and baking, puppetry and performance, and land work.
Following the retirement of our long-standing CEO, we are seeking a new Chief Executive to provide dynamic and forward-thinking leadership; to help us navigate our way through the ever-evolving social care environment and, with the support of our well-established senior management team, nurture and build upon our unique service delivery model, which places our members at the heart of everything that we do.
We will expect you to have senior level experience within a social care setting or similar and to be able to demonstrate the skills, knowledge and abilities expected of a Chief Executive; including leading a diverse senior management team, operational planning, financial management, policy development and delivery of strategic priorities set by the Board of Directors.
Our members would like someone who is visible, approachable and who listens to what they have to say.
We would welcome applications from candidates who share our values, philosophy and way of working.
Application notes
An application pack can be e-mailed out by contacting admin@garvaldedinburgh.org.uk or as download from our website garvaldedinburgh.org.uk
Applications close on Sunday 30th July Midnight
Interviews will take place in the week commencing 21st August.
To arrange a call back to have an informal discussion about this role please contact admin@garvaldedinburgh.org.uk
or contact on 0131 228 3712
Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- Circa £75,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 23rd January 2026
Garvald Edinburgh is a long-established Scottish charity supporting adults with learning disabilities through creative day opportunities, workshops, community participation, and public-facing social enterprise activities. Rooted in the principles of social therapy inspired by Rudolf Steiner, Garvald places creativity, respect, rhythm, individuality, and community at the centre of personal development.
The organisation exists to offer adults with learning disabilities meaningful opportunities to develop skills, confidence, and a sense of belonging, achieved through purposeful creative work, strong community integration, and innovative social enterprise.
Operating across multiple sites in Edinburgh, Garvald employs approximately 180 staff and has an annual turnover of over £4.5 million. The organisation is entering a period of important development, guided by a multi-year strategic plan that includes organisational review, enhancing financial stability, facilities planning, digital transformation, and the continued growth of social enterprise activity. This is a pivotal moment in Garvalds history, offering the opportunity to shape the organisation’s future while strengthening its values-driven culture.
The Board of Trustees is seeking a Chief Executive Officer to lead Garvald through this next phase. The CEO will provide strategic, operational, cultural, and organisational leadership, ensuring that Garvald continues to deliver high-quality, ethical, and person-centred services across all sites.
Reporting to the Chair and supported by a strong Senior Management Team, the CEO will shape and implement long-term strategy, embed a distributed leadership model, oversee financial sustainability, and strengthen governance, compliance, and risk management. They will also act as the organisation’s principal ambassador, building and nurturing relationships with commissioners, funders, partners, staff, members, and families.
The successful candidate will be someone who can hold complexity without losing clarity, lead change without compromising care, and inspire confidence and trust through their presence, integrity, and values-led approach. You will be confident in leading a large, multi-site organisation, with a strong understanding of regulation, finance, workforce dynamics, and governance. You will have experience of strategic leadership, organisational change, and financial sustainability, alongside the ability to engage effectively with all stakeholders—from trustees and commissioners to staff, members, and families.
Above all, the next CEO will be someone who combines strategic rigour with emotional intelligence, humility, and steadiness. You will be capable of setting direction, making difficult decisions, and developing innovation, while remaining grounded in Garvald’s values and the principles of social therapy.
This is a rare opportunity to lead a respected, innovative, and values-driven organisation at a transformative moment, ensuring that Garvald Edinburgh continues to be a place where adults with learning disabilities can reach their fullest potential and make a lasting contribution to the wider community.
Chair of Finance and Personnel Committee
- Management Board
- Unpaid
- Hybrid: Edinburgh (In person and online. 6 meetings a year)
- Closing 2nd February 2026
Background
Ecas is seeking to recruit a new chair for its Finance and Personnel Committee (F&PC). This role is a unique opportunity to contribute your financial expertise to a charity that has been supporting adults with physical disabilities for over 100 years.
Ecas is an Edinburgh-based charity and works to improve the quality of life of physically disabled people across Edinburgh and Lothian: promoting equality, choice and participation through our activities, befriending service, and grants fund.
As the charity is largely self-financed from income from its own investment portfolio (worth circa £4.5m), it provides Ecas the freedom to deliver its services in a way that works best for our service users. Latest impact stats here.
Role
The purpose of the F&PC is to advise the Board on the investment of Ecas’ assets and oversee implementation of the Board’s strategic policies relating to finance, personnel and health & safety. The focus of the F&PC and Board is to continue the policy of maximising benefit to disabled people whilst keeping expenditure under control.
As Chair of the committee, you will play a key role in overseeing the charity’s finances, including the management accounts, annual audit, budget, and investments. You will be responsible for reviewing the draft F&PC meeting papers prepared by the Chief Executive. The Chair of the F&PC will also be a Director (trustee) appointed by the Board.
This is a voluntary role that requires attendance at three F&PC meetings and three Board meetings a year. Occasional ad hoc meetings may be required. In-person attendance preferred for F&PC meetings.
Person Specification
Ecas is looking for someone who:
- Has experience in finance, accounting, auditing procedures, and investments.
- Has good communication skills and an ability to think strategically.
- Is passionate about using their expertise to support people with physical disabilities across Edinburgh and Lothian.
- Is committed to Ecas’ mission statement.
We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
Support Workers & Relief Support Workers
- Part time
- Sessional
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 3rd October 2026
We are currently looking to recruit support workers to join our small team within Inclusion Alliance. The role involves supporting people with learning disabilities to be included in the community and lead an ordinary life. Your work would involve helping people to access educational, social, leisure and work or volunteering opportunities in the community.
No experience or formal qualifications are necessary for the role although a caring nature, positive attitude and a sense of fun are important characteristics to have. New staff will receive paid training and undertake shadow shifts with experienced staff members during induction. We want new staff to feel ready and able to work prior to working on their own for the first time.
We have various vacancies available including part time and relief/casual positions in various locations throughout Edinburgh.
Working hours are based between the hours of 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday
We have various permanent and casual vacancies available.
Relief/ Casual pay rate- £12.65 per hour
Candidates must be caring, motivated and have excellent communication skills whilst being committed to working in a person-centred way ensuring that support is built around the supported person’s wishes and needs.
Benefits include
- Employer contributory pension scheme
- Funded SVQ 3 qualification and learning opportunity
- Paid annual leave entitlement
- Regular paid supervision sessions
- Regular paid training and development opportunities
- Daytime Monday to Friday working
- Working for a well-established small organisation where person centred values are at the core.Free 24/7 access to employee support app
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Communications and marketing manager
- Part time
- £32,000 pro-rata
- Remote: Remote within Scotland (with occasional in-person catch ups, accessible by public transport)
- Closing 15th January 2026
About Housing Options Scotland
We are a small charity, established in 1997 to provide housing information, advice and support to disabled people, older adults and members of the Armed Forces community. In 2024-25, we helped 1100 clients in all kinds of tenures across all local authorities in Scotland. You can read more about the people we help here, and our Annual Report for 2024-2025 can be accessed here.
About the role
We are in an exciting period of growth as a charity and are looking to expand the team. The Communications and Marketing manager will be responsible for raising the charity’s profile across a range of audiences, primarily in order to support fundraising and income generation efforts. The role holder will refresh the organisation’s communications strategy and produce content which helps to tell our story and highlight our impact. A key focus for the role will be to support the Fundraising and Development manager to deliver the organisation’s fundraising strategy which includes developing individual giving and social enterprise models. This is a new area of work for us and, as such, we are keen to hear from a wide variety of people who may have insights or ideas about how to take this forward.
A full job description and person specification is available for download below.
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