- Advertised from 9th March 2023
- £11,946 - 15 hours per week. Fixed Term until March 2024.
Role
Voluntary Action Orkney (VAO) provides responsive and innovative support and representation for the Third Sector in Orkney. We work in collaboration with Orkney Health and Care (OHAC) to run the Community Link Practitioner service through GP Practices in Orkney, to ensure patients are referred to services that suit their wider requirements. We are recruiting for an additional Community Link Practitioner to join our team.
The post holder will be required to become a PVG Scheme Member in relation to regulated work with vulnerable adults and children.
Do you have a passion for helping people enjoy as much fulfilment as they can and feel included in their community? If compassion, care and inclusiveness are an important part of who you are, this opportunity to work away from the routine in a demanding, challenging but emotionally rewarding role could be for you.
The Community Link Practitioner will work with the Stromness GP Practice to ensure people and communities identify what matters to them and work out how to connect them with the activities that might make a difference.
The post holder will work with the GP Practice, primary care team and current Link Practitioners in Orkney, to adopt community-orientated approaches, identify community resources, and facilitate relationships between these resources and the Practice for the benefit of the service user. They will promote awareness of local activities and build relationships and establish referral processes with statutory and voluntary organisations.
We welcome applications from people with highly effective interpersonal and communication skills, and excellent influencing, negotiation and motivational skills. Knowledge of local third sector and statutory services for referrals would be useful.
Application notes
If you have experience of working with people facing complex social and emotional circumstances and are interested in applying please download an application pack from our website vaorkney.org.uk/about-us/vacancies/community-link-practitioner-4.
Closing date for applications is Friday 24th March
For further information please contact Rosalind Aitken on 01856872897 or email Rosalind.aitken@vaorkney.org.uk
Voluntary Action Orkney (VAO) is a charitable company limited by guarantee. Registered in Scotland No 143208. Registered Office: Anchor Buildings, 6 Bridge Street, Kirkwall, KW15 1HR. Registered Scottish Charity No SCO10691
Autism Peer Support Group Administrator
- Part time
- £23,000 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Alloa/ Stirling
- Closing 16th August 2024
We are looking for a new team member with a positive attitude towards autistic people: a good communicator with strong organisational skills who can support the development of a new peer support group and wider network in Clackmannanshire and Stirling. The peer support administrator will work with volunteers and group users to provide support with all aspects of setting up and promoting a new group, including venue hire, meeting arrangements, liaising with speakers with consultation with group users, promoting the group and its activities and linking in with local organisations and public sector.
The new role will be based in Alloa with travel to the Stirling area.
Locality Development Officer (Annandale and Eskdale)
- Part time
- £26,400 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Dumfries
- Closing 11th August 2024
Building community relationships
Supporting local organisations to be their best
Bringing local voice to the heart of decision making
Being part of a development team, passionate about communities
If this sounds like you, we think you might be our next Locality Development Officer.
We are looking for a passionate community advocate who can get to know the third sector across their area, provide the necessary advice and support and can connect with communities and encourage involvement. The successful candidate will enjoy building new connections and relationships, be resourceful and apply problem solving skills and make links across the sector and with partners for improved collaboration. There will also be lots of working across different teams and with other Locality Development Officers to maximise our effectiveness across Dumfries & Galloway.
With a new prospectus and increased investment, we are now looking to our future and delivery on our big ambitions; A strong third sector; Maximising impact through great partnership working; Securing equity, dignity, belonging and justice.
Community Connectors Programme: Client Liaison Officer
- Part time
- £24,822 – £25,605 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 29th July 2024
Community Connectors project provides older people better access to information and, if they so wish, supports them to access what they need to live healthier and happier lives as independently as possible. The Community Connectors programme is delivered in partnership with the Glasgow & West of Scotland Housing Forum, working alongside local and citywide organisations to strengthen information links between the Third Sector, older people, carers and statutory services. The model has been rolled out in the three locality sectors within Glasgow and staff will operate from a partner Housing Association based in the community.
Reporting to the senior Client Liaison Officer, and working closely with the Community Connectors Practitioners, the Client Liaison Officers will play a key role in the efficient running of the Community Connectors Programme.
This post extends beyond the run of the mill administrative tasks. You will be the first point of contact for the programme so the ability to liaise and communicate in a friendly, effective and informative manner with older people, their carers, colleagues, partners and stakeholders is essential for this post.
This role is an excellent first step for someone looking to develop their career in this field as you’ll have first-hand exposure to person-centred and asset-based approaches as well as the principles and methods that underpin them. The post holder would be offered a tailored development plan and shadowing opportunities to explore any areas of interest. Past candidates have progressed to become practitioners themselves.
Applicants should demonstrate the ability to maintain and manipulate databases, effectively disseminate information, provide accurate and up-to-date financial records and assist with meetings, events and activities that are organised by the Community Connectors Programme team.
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- Part time
- £28,000 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Alloa
- Closing 16th August 2024
To support CTSI’s work relating to health and social care development in the sector that helps people in Clackmannanshire to live full and positive lives.
PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES
- To work within communities to maintain and build relationships with the wide range of third sector organisations/groups thriving and developing in Clackmannanshire, with particular emphasis on supporting the Clackmannanshire and Stirling Health and Social Care Strategic Commissioning Plan 2023-2033, to enable people in both areas to live full, healthy and positive lives.
- Support the work to build relationships between key stakeholders such as statutory partners and community organisations, to support collaboration and partnership in health and social care initiatives and achieve improved outcomes for the people of Clackmannanshire.
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