Sensory Hub Officer (Hearing Loss)
- Full time or Part time
- £25,408 – £31,570
- Glasgow – hybrid working
- Closing 24th October 2022
- Advertised from 3rd October 2022
- Permanent, 35 hours per week (part-time will be considered)
Role
The Sensory Hub Officer (Hearing Loss) forms an integral role within a dynamic team at The ALLIANCE – The Sensory Hub.
The post holder will have the ability to develop and strengthen relationships across the Scottish deaf and hearing loss sector and engage with the wider sensory sector. The role requires skill in working to your own initiative, as part of a wider team and the ability to manage competing priorities across a range of strategic policies and outcomes. The post holder will be a skilled coordinator and experienced networker. The ability to produce information, produce high quality reports, engage with research-led practice and to promote a rights-based approach across the sensory field is essential.
As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from generous annual leave entitlement, enhanced maternity and sick pay, time off in lieu, learning and development opportunities and a bike to work scheme. The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk about flexible working.
Application notes
For an application pack please see our website at alliance-scotland.org.uk/blog/jobs/sensory-hub-officer-hearing-loss-2 or contact HR at hr@alliance-scotland.org.uk.
The successful applicant must be able to travel throughout Scotland at times as the need arises. A flexible approach to working hours is therefore essential, as occasional additional hours and overnight stays may be required.
Closing date for applications is 9:00 am on Monday 24 October 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.
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Listen Up - Community Development Worker
- Part time
- £27,220 pro-rata
- Based in central Perth for at least one day of three
- Closing 17th February 2023
VisionPK is a small charity offering support and services to people in Perth & Kinross who have sight or hearing loss.
We want to recruit an experienced Worker to develop, implement, facilitate and evaluate our new ‘Listen Up’ project, an ongoing programme of group activities, learning and support for people with hearing loss.
With at least 2 years community development experience, your experience will include working with older people, setting up and facilitating groups, recruiting and managing volunteers and using a strengths-based approach to your work. You will be enthusiastic, self-motivated, with excellent people and communication skills. You will also need to be flexible, open to change and fit well with our values.
This post is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, the Gannochy Trust and the Hugh Fraser Foundation
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
Digital and Print Designer
- Full time
- £25,311 – £27,582
- Edinburgh based preferred (flexibly working from home with hub-based office days)
- Closing 20th February 2023
About you
Are you a creative designer with a keen eye for detail? Do you want to use your skills to make a real difference to the lives of myeloma patients?
We’re looking for a creative graphic designer to join our small inhouse design team to help support the design needs of the charity. Ideally, you’ll have experience in both digital and print production, or experience in one area and an appetite to develop your skills in the other. You’ll be an excellent communicator and enjoy working with a variety of different teams and people to help them achieve their goals. You’ll also be comfortable working on multiple projects at once and prioritising your workload.
About the role
You’ll be working alongside our Senior Digital and Print Designer and one other Digital and Print Designer to produce design and media requirements for the charity.
You’ll get to work on a wide range of projects; from producing patient information booklets and creating visual identities for fundraising projects, to supporting on some exciting big projects we have this year including our RHS Chelsea Garden and our website refreshes.
About us
Myeloma UK is the only organisation in the UK dealing exclusively with the blood cancer myeloma and related conditions. We are committed to bringing together the best and brightest people to help us ensure that every patient has an empowered present and a hopeful future.
Our ultimate goal is to find a cure and make myeloma history. Until then, our mission is to help every patient live well with myeloma for as long as possible. We are committed to diagnosing myeloma earlier, discovering and sharing knowledge, transforming the patient experience and influencing positive change in care.
Our culture
Wellbeing and staff engagement are at the heart of our culture.
We offer flexible working and flexi-time to allow you to find the right working pattern for you. We have a Staff Engagement Group who work with us to ensure staff are happy and who help us review and update our benefits. We offer an employee assistance program and our Wellbeing Leads are there always here to support our staff.
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