Top job! Senior manager, secondary breast cancer services
- Full time
- £42,000 – £47,000
- Cardiff, Glasgow, London or Sheffield (home and office based)
- Closing 7th August 2023
- Advertised from 26th July 2023
- £42,000 to £44,000 (Sheffield, Cardiff or Glasgow) and £44,000 to £47,000 per annum (London). 35 hours per week.
Role
Would you like to make a real impact on the lives of people with secondary breast cancer? Are you passionate about ensuring that people with breast cancer receive the emotional, social and practical support and information that they need? If so, you could be one of the senior managers we’re looking for to join our ambitious and growing services team to help us reach more people through our award-winning services. This is a fast-paced and growing department that’s really committed to making a difference. Being a part of our team is being part of a thriving, positive, dynamic, successful, and welcoming community making a difference to the lives of thousands of people.
If you’d like to be a part of this, we would like to hear from you!
The role
You’ll be leading a UK-wide team of permanent and contract staff to deliver our services for people with secondary breast cancer. You’ll manage the implementation of our strategy for growth, building on our achievements so far and embedding a culture of continuous improvement. You’ll be responsible for ensuring our services are delivered effectively, safely and efficiently and will lead on increasing awareness of and referrals to our face-to-face and online services.
About you
You’ll be a confident, determined and capable leader with a strategic mindset and have experience of leading a UK wide hybrid team. You’ll have exceptional organisational skills and the ability to work across a number of conflicting deadlines and priorities. You’ll also be determined to ensure agreed activities are delivered to the highest standards, against agreed budgets, timelines and objectives.
Resilient, flexible, proactive, and enthusiastic, you’ll be comfortable in adapting your communication style to a wide variety of stakeholders and situations.
About us
We’re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We’re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However you’re experiencing breast cancer, we’re here.
The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here. Making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland.
Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information and specialist nurses are here. Ready to support you, whenever you need it.
Dedicated campaigners are here. Fighting for the best possible treatment, services and care, for anyone affected by breast cancer.
Why? Because we believe that by 2050, everyone diagnosed with breast cancer will live – and be supported to live well. But to create that future, we need to act now.
Benefits
We fully recognise that our people are our greatest asset and play a role as active ambassadors for our charity. In recognition of that commitment and in support of the work that staff do, we have a portfolio of health, wellbeing and staff benefits that are available. These include (subject to eligibility):
- Flexibility to work from home up to 3 days a week
- A variety of paid leave options including annual leave which starts at 25 days paid leave per year; increasing each year up to 30 days, in addition to bank holidays. Let’s not forget that we are also closed between Christmas and New Year.
- Option to buy and sell annual leave
- Enhanced family friendly options (e.g. maternity, adoption, paternity)
- Enhanced sick pay, including income protection
- Employee Assistance Programme and support with the cost of treatments such as dentist appointments, glasses and physiotherapy through Simplyhealth
- Financial assistance towards a travel season ticket or bike
- Pension plan and life assurance
- Social activities including a book club, netball team and networks for parents and carers
Job description and benefits
The job description and further information on our attractive benefits package are available for you to download.
Primary location of role and hybrid working
This role can be based in our Cardiff, Glasgow, London or Sheffield office. However, our hybrid working model allows full-time staff members to work up to 3 days per week at home.
Application notes
When applying
We hope you choose to apply for this role. When applying please ensure you refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as possible with examples to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. If you’ve any questions regarding this role please email Recruitment@breastcancernow.org in the first instance.
Breast Cancer Now is an inclusive employer committed to developing a diverse workforce.
Closing date Monday 7 August 2023 at 09:00am
1st stage interview date Wednesday 23 August 2023 (via Microsoft Teams)
2nd stage interview date To be confirmed
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About the role
As the Registered Manager, you will be an experienced leader leading a team working with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.
As the Registered Manager you will:
- Maintain the continuing relevance of services to individuals’ needs and purchaser requirements by ongoing planning, monitoring and evaluation.
- Oversee the financial aspects of the service, managing significant budgets, ensuring efficient use of resources and making financial decisions.
- Where a need or an opportunity is identified, lead on the development of new services, support business growth and maintain reputational excellence.
- Comply with governance, law and legislation including local authority compliance, Care Inspectorate (at level 5 and above), SSSC and safeguarding procedures.
- Support the senior management team in the streamlining, promotion and monitoring of quality assurance systems which meets the needs of individual services as well as the overall service delivery in the region.
- Develop, monitor and implement supervision and appraisal systems for staff.
About You
You will have passion and drive to take forward a well-established Service and Team. Be passionate; and committed to the overall aims and objectives of the service and have the belief that people can live fulfilling lives with the right support in place.
You should also have:
- Experience of working with vulnerable people and leading a service delivery team, including managing the provision of a safe operating environment in a relevant context.
- The ability to negotiate with a wide range of internal and external partners and build positive relationships including local authorities and housing associations.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to effectively prioritise your own time and workload to meet a number of different and competing tasks in sometimes pressurised environment.
- Social Service and Health Care at level 9 (SCQF) or other speciality/qualification recognised by the SSSC for registration purposes as well as a relevant management qualification.
Are you looking for a meaningful role with a public sector organisation which has a clear purpose, vision and values and which makes a tangible difference to people’s lives in Scotland?
Would you like to contribute to society by supporting the good conduct of people in public life in Scotland?
Do you have highly developed team-working and communications skills alongside a background in supporting a team handling complaints and investigations?
Are you empathetic, respectful, committed to fairness, diversity, equality and inclusion and honest and transparent in your dealings with others? Would you like to join a team of like-minded people and work with an organisation that genuinely cares about the people that come into contact with it and about your welfare and wellbeing? If this is you, we’d love you to apply.
We are ambitious about the future and we are committed to being a great employer and really effective at what we do. We value people and we know that our work matters.
If you’re interested, please read on.
The Investigations Support Officer (ISO) provides integral administrative support to the Standards team. The Standards team consists of Investigating Officers (IOs) who report to the Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) and/or Hearings and Investigations Officer (HIO).
The Commissioner receives complaints about possible breaches of the Code of Conduct for Councillors, the Code of Conduct for MSPs and of Codes of Conduct based on the Model Code for members of public bodies. The Commissioner also deals with complaints covering regulated lobbying.
The IOs are responsible for investigating complaints to a conclusion including carriage of the related administrative duties and all contact with the complainer, respondent, local authority staff, and others involved in a given case. The ISO provides administrative support to the IOs in accomplishing these tasks.
The successful applicant will be experienced and effective case administrators, with relevant professional or regulatory backgrounds, and strong analytical skills. They will also share our values. We act ethically and with empathy; we value people.
It is desirable that the successful candidates will have a track record of working in or with the public sector, particularly with local authorities and/or other public bodies subject to ethical standards regulation.
Our work makes a significant contribution to the good conduct of people in public life in Scotland. Our standards team plays a key role in this so if you are motivated to contribute to society in this way, we’d love to hear from you.
The post is full time, pensionable and based at our offices in Edinburgh, which is currently operating flexibly to accommodate remote, hybrid or office-based working. The flexible working options are set out in our Remote Working Policy.
Please note that the ISO role requires at least 1 day of in office work per week in addition to some travel in connection with investigations-related work, attending external training or networking events, or public hearings.
Starting salary: £31,514 per annum rising to £34,066 per annum after 1 year in post (please note: the starting salary is non-negotiable)
Working hours: Full-time, Monday to Friday (35 hours effective from 01 March 2026)
Leave allowance: 25 days increasing to 30 days with 11.5 public holidays
Other benefits include membership of the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
Green Action Trust is Scotland’s leading environmental regeneration charity and a trusted delivery partner for the Scottish Government and a wide range of public, private, and non-profit stakeholders. We work at the forefront of climate action, biodiversity recovery and environmental regeneration, delivering projects that create socially centred and climate-resilient places across Scotland.
We are now seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our motivated and multi-disciplinary team. In this role, you will lead the delivery of complex environmental improvement projects, with a particular focus on our Water Environment Fund (WEF) portfolio. Working from feasibility mapping, through delivery to completion, you will ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
You’ll oversee procurement and contract management, collaborate with consultants and contractors, manage risk, project evaluation and reporting, and nurture positive relationships with diverse external partners, including SEPA, local authorities, funders, and community stakeholders. You will also provide guidance and support to Project and Development Officers involved in delivery, contributing to a culture of good practice, inclusion, learning, and continuous improvement.
This is an excellent opportunity for a confident, pragmatic project manager with experience in environmental or civil engineering project delivery and familiarity with public sector procurement.
In return, you will join a friendly, supportive organisation committed to sustainability, professional development, flexible working, and the wellbeing and inclusion of all colleagues.
Community Fundraising and Events Officer
- Part time
- £30,450 pro-rata
- On site: Perth
- Closing 19th January 2026
The Community Fundraising and Events Officer will be responsible for driving income generation to support the growth and sustainability of Trauma Healing Together via community fundraising initiatives. The post-holder will lead on planning, delivering, and evaluating a programme of community events, working creatively to engage individuals, volunteers, groups, and local businesses. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and organised fundraiser to make a tangible difference by generating the vital funds needed to expand our trauma-informed services.
Full job description is available to download below.
ABOUT TRAUMA HEALING TOGETHER
As a charity we work closely with people who have experienced psychological trauma and are living with the symptoms of this. We work in partnership with trauma survivors to improve their quality of life through therapy, training and personal development, shaping future services and the understanding of trauma through research projects. We promote a holistic and multi-faceted approach to treating all types of psychological trauma, prioritising mutual understanding and respect of clients, staff and volunteers. As an organisation we thrive to be transparent, consistent and autonomous. We are looking for a person who shares our values and has skills that can contribute to shape a small growing charity.
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