GAMH are commissioned by Glasgow Carers Partnership to deliver support to unpaid Carers living within the North East of the city. Our service offers inclusive and holistic support to Carers to help maintain their quality of life and improve their health and wellbeing.

This is an exciting opportunity for a compassionate, organised person to administer. Time to Live and Short Break funding aimed at providing microgrants to unpaid carers. The primary objective of this role is to facilitate the distribution of microgrants to unpaid carers, enabling them to take short breaks from their caring responsibilities. This role will also attract general administration duties related to the smooth running of the Carers service. In return GAMH offers an attractive salary, excellent terms and conditions and a fantastic package of additional benefits. The successful candidate will also benefit from a full supportive induction programme as well as a comprehensive and effective learning and development programme.

GAMH services support people with mental health problems to recover and lead self-determined and purposeful lives. We currently have vacancies for reliable and enthusiastic people who can commit to our core values of equality, inclusion, and recovery.

Assistant Project Workers are required to work across our community support services located throughout the city of Glasgow and will provide personalised support to adults with mental health problems on an individual and group work basis.

Assistant Project Workers will have the ability to establish supportive relationships with individuals who are living with or recovering from mental health problems and who may have complex needs and will have excellent communication and organisational skills to enable them to comply with personal planning guidelines and work in conjunction with our key referrers

Knowledge of the role and purpose of a social care worker is desirable for the above posts. However full induction and training will be provided including on the SSSC Codes of Practice and the National Care Standards and how this framework applies to your role.

A qualification at SVQ2/SVQ 3 or equivalent, or a willingness to work towards achieving this qualification is essential due to the requirements to register with the SSSC for this post.

For more details about the key responsibilities of the role and knowledge, skills and experience required, please refer to the job description and person specification.

Employee benefits

GAMH offers an attractive salary, excellent terms and conditions and a fantastic package of additional benefits. See attached GAMH additional benefits. GAMH is a Scottish Living Wage accredited organisation and is committed to Fair Work First principles for all employment terms and conditions. Our Learning and Development Programme guarantees that you have a supportive and comprehensive induction to the organisation and continuous training opportunities which ensure that you have all the skills you need for the job as well as meeting the requirements for SSSC registration.

These posts are regulated work with children and protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. An offer of work with Glasgow Association for Mental Health will be subject to the outcome of this check being satisfactory.

Are you an experienced HR professional, who's on the lookout for a fresh new challenge? We've got just the opportunity for you!

We're now on the lookout for an HR Advisor to join our friendly, fast paced HR Team on a full-time, permanent basis. It's a very exciting time to join our team as we start the journey of implementing our brand new HR and Payroll system.

This role can be based in our Glasgow office, or part of our hybrid working model where some of your days will be spent in our Glasgow office and some at home. There will be occasions that we'll need you to travel to other Cornerstone branch locations (travel expenses would be reimbursed as set out in Cornerstone’s expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation).

The Role

As an HR Advisor, your main aim will be to provide HR support and guidance to colleagues across Scotland. Your primary focus will be Employee Relations and supporting and coaching our managers to navigate complex HR cases.

You'll work closely with our colleagues to ensure high level quality and compliance in relation to Cornerstone's policies and procedures, values, employment law, HR best practice and regulatory compliance.

What we'll need you to bring:-

• Experience of supporting HR in a similar sized organisation
• Demonstrable experience of working with HR legislation and Employment Law in the UK
• A proven track record of delivering on difficult business challenges by applying good HR practices
• A track record of producing high quality and accurate work within tight deadlines
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to respond quickly and flexibly to emerging and changing circumstances
• Experience of building and maintaining strong working relationships with colleagues, trade unions and external customers
• Proven experience of using office related computer packages (word processing, presentation software, spreadsheets, email etc.) and HR systems.

It would be great if you also have:-

• Your CIPD qualification
• Experience of Care Standards and SSSC requirements regarding people matters
• Experience of working in the social care or the third sector
• Line management experience

About us

Cornerstone is one of Scotland's largest charities with 45 years' experience providing great care and support for adults and children with various support needs across Scotland.

We operate over 18 local authorities in Scotland and provide a wide range of services to over 2,000 individuals each year. Our focus is to encourage social inclusion, reduce loneliness, and improve health, independence and wellbeing by working closely with the people we support and their families, setting personal goals with them, and ensuring they receive the care and support they need to live the best life possible.

We are always flexible and responsive in meeting the ever changing needs of the people we support and work closely with individuals and families to agree what sort of support will work best for them.

Our strategic aims

• To become an expert provider of services to people with learning disabilities, autism and complex care needs
• To be the best employer in social care in Scotland
• To achieve stability and sustainability which supports future developments.

We want our colleagues to feel and be truly valued and recognised for the highly skilled, life-changing work that they do every day. By joining our team, you'll not only help us achieve our purpose of delivering high quality care and support; you’ll also help us with our commitment to develop and maintain an empowered, high performing workforce.

What makes Cornerstone a great place to work

• You'll have a meaningful job doing things that you enjoy - it often doesn't feel like work
• Your job actually changes and improves lives - you'll make a difference in your local communities
• We have a culture of empowering our colleagues and teamwork
• No uniform - we wear our own clothes
• We fund up to £500 towards driving lessons
• We operate a flexi-time model for business support colleagues
• Access to funded qualifications through our SQA approved, award winning Training Academy
• Ongoing continued professional development and career progression opportunities
• Recommend a colleague bonus scheme
• Long service awards
• Access to a 24/7 independent employee assistance helpline
• 26 days annual leave (rising by 5 days after 5 years) plus 4 paid bank holidays
• Family friendly leave options, including family, parental, bereavement and special leave
• Access to lots of discounts, including the cinema, gym memberships, holidays and shopping to name a few

Do you have what it takes? What are you waiting for? Apply today! We'd love to hear from you.