- Advertised from 11th November 2022
- Maternity Cover – ends September 2023, 35 hours per week
Role
Are you a highly motivated individual, with excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and creative ideas for sharing content? Do you thrive working in busy environment in small team? The ALLIANCE are currently recruiting for the role of Policy and Information Officer.
We are looking for someone who can:
- Produce high quality information including: briefings, consultation responses, articles and presentations.
- Monitor policy and Parliamentary activity and provide updates to staff and members.
- Lead on production of the ALLIANCE’s weekly bulletin.
Develop opportunities for the ALLIANCE members to influence policy, for example through events, consultation sessions and surveys.
Support the delivery of the Health and Social Care Academy work programme, with a particular emphasis on policy and research related to transformational change.
If you have experience of policy work, are confident working with teams across organisations, have excellent administration skills and are passionate putting people at the centre, then the ALLIANCE would like to hear from you.
As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:
- Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days annual leave, 13 public holidays);
- Pension arrangements with employer/employee contributions;
- Flexible working and work patterns;
- Hybrid working;
- Sick pay;
- Enhanced maternity pay;
- Time off in lieu;
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance programme; staff support and counselling;
- Learning and development opportunities;
- Positive and supportive working environment.
Application notes
For an application pack please see our website at alliance-scotland.org.uk, or contact HR at hr@alliance-scotland.org.uk.
Application forms must be returned in Word or similar format.
Closing date for applications is 9:00 am on Tuesday 29 November 2022.
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 7 December 2022.
About the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland
The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) is an independent Scottish Charity funded by a grant from the Scottish Government. Our vision is for a Scotland where people of all ages who are disabled or living with long term conditions, and unpaid carers, have a strong voice and enjoy their right to live well, as equal and active citizens, free from discrimination, with support and services that put them at the centre.
The ALLIANCE has three core aims; we seek to:
- Ensure people are at the centre, that their voices, expertise, and rights drive policy and sit at the heart of design, delivery and improvement of support and services.
- Support transformational change, towards approaches that work with individual and community assets, helping people to stay well, supporting human rights, self-management, co-production, and independent living.
- Champion and support the third sector as a vital strategic and delivery partner and foster better cross-sector understanding and partnership.
For details on how your applications will be dealt with in line with GDPR please see ourprivacy notice.
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Are you an experienced bereavement co-ordinator with a passion for ensuring families receive the best possible bereavement care? Do you have experience of leading a team of staff and volunteers?
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly skilled practitioner who has significant experience of leading and delivering bereavement support interventions, working with volunteers and with external partners. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced bereavement co-ordinator to take their development to the next level – leading on the development and delivery of a new bereavement team, transforming the delivery of bereavement care to families across Scotland.
You will be an innovative and tenacious individual with a real team-working ethic who identifies with CHAS’s core values, vision and purpose.
Benefits
- Continuation of NHS pension scheme if you are an existing member
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Superb training, clinical and professional development
- Regular externally facilitated supervision sessions
- Employee assistance programme
- Opportunity to join Lothian Pension fund
The CHAS service:
- Two children’s hospices, Rachel House, Kinross and Robin House, Balloch.
- An Outreach Service providing support to children and families in their own homes, hospitals and communities across Scotland
- Co-partnership working with Scotland’s three children’s hospitals.
The job:
To co-ordinate the operational and strategic delivery of the CHAS bereavement service. The post holder will also develop a counselling and emotional support service for families, ensuring that all counselling services are delivered in line with the BACP code of ethical and professional conduct. This will be done through;
- Counselling
- Service Development
- Staff Leadership and Management
- Volunteer Engagement
Do you have experience of supporting bereaved children and adults? Do you have the ability to engage and work alongside families, volunteers and other professionals?
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic person who has previous experience of delivering bereavement support to children, young people, adults and families to join our new bereavement team.
This is a unique opportunity for an experienced bereavement worker to take their development to the next level - supporting our bereavement co-ordinator to develop and deliver our bereavement service to meet the individual needs of family members across Scotland.
You will be an innovative and tenacious individual with a real team-working ethic who identifies with CHAS’s core values, vision and purpose.
Benefits
- Continuation of NHS pension scheme if you are an existing member
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Superb training, clinical and professional development
- Regular externally facilitated supervision sessions
- Employee assistance programme
- Opportunity to join Lothian Pension fund
The CHAS service:
- Two children’s hospices, Rachel House, Kinross and Robin House, Balloch.
- An Outreach Service providing support to children and families in their own homes, hospitals and communities across Scotland
- Co-partnership working with Scotland’s three children’s hospitals.
The job:
To work alongside colleagues in the bereavement team and family support team to deliver a range of evidence based, high quality supportive interventions, and bereavement programmes, to meet the individual needs of family members, through:
- Service delivery
- Service Development
- Leadership
- Volunteer Engagement
Resource Administration Coordinator
- Part time
- £21,709 pro-rata
- 1 Springkerse Road, Stirling, FK7 7SN with regular travel throughout Forth Valley.
- Closing 3rd March 2023
About Town Break:
Town Break is a local charity that provides support to people with lived experience of dementia and their carers throughout Forth Valley.
We provide an array of services and activities that meet the needs and interests of the communities we support, providing opportunities for people to get out, have fun, socialise and build friendships. Our vision is to inspire and enable people across Forth Valley to live well with dementia.
The Role:
• To support the work of the Town Break team, providing high-quality information and administration.
• To be a central source of information and support to Town Break, developing good professional relationships and ensuring that they are at the heart of Town Break’s work.
• To support the administration of Town Break’s events.
• To develop, monitor and review systems and procedures to ensure maximum organisational effectiveness.
If you wish to make a significant, positive difference to older people’s lives and you are ready for a new challenge, we look forward to hearing from you!
A driving license is desirable for the role as it may involve some travel throughout Forth Valley.
Volunteering Development Manager (Rachel House and Outreach)
- Full time
- £35,353 – £37,809
- Kinross (Rachel House & Outreach)
- Closing 22nd February 2023
Creating a positive experience for all our volunteers is important to us at CHAS and with our ambition to reach more families across Scotland, we are passionate about inspiring more people to join our growing volunteer movement.
To help us grow and diversify our volunteering programme, we are recruiting a Volunteering Development Manager to lead the development of volunteering strategy within Rachel House in Kinross and with the CHAS Outreach Teams. As a senior member of the Volunteering team, you will champion a quality volunteer experience and lead innovation by inspiring, educating and motivating staff in all aspects of volunteering development.
As the Volunteering Development Manager, you will work closely with teams in Rachel House and Outreach to deliver the very best volunteer offer and experience, introducing new ideas and approaches to volunteering to ensure our volunteers continue to play a major role in the success of CHAS reaching more families across Scotland.
You will partner staff to manage volunteers effectively, promoting the volunteer voice and the delivery of a positive volunteer experience. Working with senior leaders, you will support them to involve volunteers in their teams in order to provide CHAS services for children and families.
You will have experience of developing a positive culture of volunteer involvement, innovation, and continuous improvement as well as experience of shaping volunteering within third or public sector organisations. You can also comfortably demonstrate experience of working across teams and have the ability to forge productive collaborative relationships.
This role will be based at Rachel House with the opportunity to work from other CHAS sites or remotely as needed.
About CHAS
At CHAS, staff and volunteers work together as one team, focused on the common goal of reaching every family in Scotland who needs our support. We have a 3:1 ratio of volunteers to staff members in CHAS. All CHAS staff will at some point work with or alongside volunteers and will be expected to support volunteers.
Our ambition is to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying, and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. As a Volunteering Development Manager, you will be instrumental in achieving this vision.
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