Post 1:
Hours: 22 hours per week
Monday – Friday evenings 4pm – 8pm and Wednesday 9am - 11am
Salary: £21,000 FTE; £13,200 pro rata
Base: Home Based
Post 2:
Hours: 10 hours per week
Saturday 10am – 2pm, Sunday 10am – 2pm and Wednesdays 9am – 11am
Salary: £21,000; £6,000 pro rata
Base: Home Based
Salaries and Holidays are calculated based on a pro-rata basis. A full-time post in Cruse Scotland is 35 hours per week with 4 weeks annual leave and 10 public holidays. All postholders within Cruse Scotland are offered 6% employer pension contributions with a requirement of 2% employee pension contribution.
Our Organisation:
We are a Scotland’s Bereavement Charity. We support anyone who has been affected by bereavement in Scotland, regardless of who has died, when they died or how they died. The service is open to all ages and to clients living anywhere in Scotland.
Our bereavement counselling and listening support services are delivered wholly by volunteers, who are supported by a small but mighty staff team across Scotland of 18. We have 250 volunteers across the organisation, this includes our Board, Helpline, and counselling team.
Our Helpline:
Our helpline team are simply amazing! They are all volunteers and provide an outstanding service. They are home based, located across Scotland, but regularly meet as a team virtually. These regular online meetings and training events provide a great sense of community, and the helpline co-ordinator roles will play a key part in these going forward. The Helpline, and its related services, are managed by our Helpline Development Manager. The role of our helpline service not only provides the key referral route into the organisation but is also a support which is available to anyone who needs to talk about their grief at that moment.
Helpline Co-ordinator Role:
We are looking to recruit motivated and empathetic individuals to support and guide our helpline team at evenings and weekends. Clients who contact our helpline can sometimes be distressed, or angry and, occasionally, suicidal. You must therefore be able to remain calm to deal with such situations and take responsibility for ensuring procedures are implemented for the safety of our clients and volunteer team. This role will also involve taking helpline calls from clients during busier periods.
Excellent keyboard skills are a must, as the role not only requires regular data input, but will also involve responding to clients who access our support via email. Experience in corresponding with vulnerable people would be advantageous.
Our helpline has undergone significant re-development this past year and continues to grow and develop, with the support of the Helpline Development Manager, you will be asked to support our exciting new plans, enabling us to tailor our services as best we can to our vast range of clients.
To find out more, you can request an application pack by contacting our Office Manager: Michaela Thomson at Email: info@crusescotland.org.uk or T: 01738 444178
The closing date for applications is: noon on Monday 22nd November 2021. Interviews will be held online on Friday 3rd December and Wednesday 8th December 2021.