Top job! Operations Director
- Full time
- £45,000 – £55,000
- Glasgow
- Closing 14th November 2023
- Advertised from 20th October 2023
- Salary depending on experience. Permanent.
Role
MCR Pathways is a national award-winning charity dedicated to addressing the long-standing inequality in education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances for young people in care and those on the edge of care and in need. Our in-school mentoring has proven to have profound impacts on young people; boosting their confidence, improving wellbeing and encouraging achievement and post-school progression. At present MCR mentors make and experience a life changing difference to over 5,000 young people from across the country.
We are recruiting an Operations Director to lead and support the delivery of the MCR programme in schools across the country. Someone who has worked in a leadership role supporting teams across multiple locations who is both strategic and hands-on. A dynamic self-confident leader who understands education and its power.
Role summary
To provide leadership in the planning, management and development of effective operations across MCR Pathways. The Operations Director will form part of the Executive Team, reporting directly into the CEO.
This is a very exciting time for MCR Pathways as we continue to grow our programme. As such, we are looking for an inspiring leader; passionate about exceptional quality and impact, and highly motivated by developing others.
If this sounds like you and you want to find out more, please click on the Person Specification button below for a full job description.
Application notes
Closing date: 14 November at 9am
Interviews: 23 November 2023
To apply, please visit our website and complete the application form, attaching your CV, and explain, referring to the job description and person specification in under 1000 words why you'd be a great fit for the role.
Please note, the role will be subject to a PVG check and two satisfactory references, one of which must be from your current or most recent employer.
MCR Pathways subscribes to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) regarding disclosure & barring.
MCR Pathways is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role is subject to a PVG check. Applications to process PVGs will only be submitted once the successful candidate has accepted the offer of a position.
MCR Pathways is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.
We are committed to being an Equal Opportunities Employer. If you have a disability as defined in the Equality Act 2010, please let us know if there are any arrangements that would assist you in attending an interview
Are you motivated by the power of strong financial systems to support meaningful social change? Do you take pride in accuracy, clarity and well-organised processes that help an organisation thrive? MCR Pathways is looking for a diligent and proactive Finance Assistant to join our friendly and dedicated Finance team in Glasgow.
About the Role:
This role sits at the heart of our financial operations, ensuring we can continue delivering life-changing mentoring support to young people across the UK. As Finance Assistant, you will play a key part in maintaining accurate financial records, supporting smooth transactional processes, and ensuring the integrity of the data we rely on to make informed decisions.
Working closely with our Finance Director and Finance Manager, you will help keep our systems running efficiently, supporting both day-to-day activity and the wider mission of the organisation.
Key responsibilities:
- Ensure all invoices and expenses submitted through Dext are accurate before publishing to Xero, resolving any discrepancies and confirming correct coding and tax treatment.
- Complete regular bank reconciliations in Xero, matching transactions and promptly investigating variances.
- Keep supplier and customer contact records in Xero accurate and up to date.
- Prepare and set up payment batches for approval, ensuring invoices are correctly coded, authorised and processed in line with internal procedures.
About you:
- Experience working with Dext and Xero and online expense management systems.
- Confident handling day-to-day financial processes.
- Organised, with an eye for detail and accuracy, you take pride in keeping data clean, reliable and easy to navigate.
- Comfortable following established processes but also able to improve or update them when needed.
- You enjoy solving problems and can work independently, managing your workload efficiently and proactively.
- You communicate clearly and professionally, and you work well with others across different teams.
About MCR Pathways:
MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity established in Glasgow in 2007. Our mentoring programme is now delivered in schools across the whole of Scotland as well as South East and North East England. We are committed to helping young people gain self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our mentoring programme has profound impacts on school pupils in their confidence, wellbeing and post-school progression. MCR Mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference.
You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. MCR Pathways’ values are Respect, Communication, Trust and Growth and they inform everything we do.
Benefits of working for MCR Pathways include: 33 days annual leave in first year rising to 38 days from 2nd year of employment, additional day off for your birthday, Living Pensions Employer, Life Assurance - 4 x salary.
Top job! Clinical Psychologist
- Full time
- £49,120 – £60,543
- Hybrid: Locations in the West of Scotland
- Closing 2nd January 2026
About Simon Community Scotland
People are at the heart of who we are and what we do. Day-by-day, person-to-person, we tailor what we offer to what people need. We’re here to provide consistent, friendly and informed support so that people can explore options and take ‘the next step’ towards their future. We welcome people with a wide range of skills and experiences to our team – including those who have lived through homelessness. To make a difference we need to work flexibly, with everyday-leadership, humour and a ‘can do’ spirit. We want to make it easy, make it right, and make it happen – not only for the people we support, but also for each other. We care for and support each other regardless of our role, service or location. We want people who share these values to join us and become a part of the Simon Community Scotland team.
Job Summary
Within Simon Community, we pride ourselves in taking a psychological and trauma informed approach to our work. We understand the people we work with have likely experienced and continue to experience adverse life events which lead to trauma responses, impacting both physical and mental health. The role of psychology within Simon Community ensures psychological theories and principles are embedded within the organisation in a creative and flexible way. Providing psychological safety and the best wellbeing possible for everyone accessing or working for Simon Community Scotland.
Our psychology team within the organisation is continuing to grow, demonstrating their value and importance to our ever evolving services and support. We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist to lead on this work in our West of Scotland teams and take an active leadership role within the organisation. The key focus of this role will be to support the organisation to continue to implement psychologically informed environment principles and trauma informed care, creating and maintaining psychological safety for all. This work will be carried out under the supervision of a Prinicipal Clinical Psychologist external to Simon Community Scotland. The job plan will be agreed with the Director of Services, working independently within the framework, policies and procedures of the organisation. The job plan will cover both direct and indirect work, with more focus on indirect, it is an opportunity to use the range of skills of a Clinical Psychologist; leadership, formulation, consultation, supervision, research and service development. The job will include working across different services in the West of Scotland, including supported accommodation, community support hubs and outreach. This job description will be subject to review as the psychology team, as well as the organisational need
develops and the postholder will be a key stakeholder in that review. This is an exciting opportunity to really explore what Clinical Psychology can offer those facing severe and multiple disadvantage and implement needed change, thinking creatively, in an organisation that puts ‘being human’ and relationships at the heart of the work.
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Community Development Manager (Scotland)
- Part time
- £40,787 pro-rata
- On site: Coalburn
- Closing 31st December 2025
Are you looking for a role to develop your background in partnership working, identifying and developing funding opportunities and working with others to help them reach their potential?
CISWO is a national charity whose mission is to improve the lives of individuals and communities facing disadvantage due to the impact of the coal mining industry.
We are looking for a Development Manager with a range of skills and experience to support other mining charities develop a sustainable future. You will have a background in partnership working and developing funding opportunities, as well as a good understanding of charity governance.
This is a great opportunity for someone with experience in community development with a good knowledge of the charity sector.
Key Responsibilities:
- To provide support for mining charities across the Scotland Region with regards to development opportunities, sustainability, funding and governance issues.
- To support mining charities to develop business plans and budgeting.
- To contribute to the development of CISWO’s support offer for other mining charities, seeking new methods of supporting local trustees.
- To promote CISWO’s support offer, undertaking site visits to miners’ welfare charities and meeting with local charity officers.
- To support mining charities to identify funding opportunities and develop funding proposals.
- To develop local partnership working with other voluntary sector organisations, tiers of local government and local communities.
- To ensure that CISWO’s interests and responsibilities in partner charities are retained and fulfilled.
- To represent the organisation with external parties, including, welfare charities, councils and local authorities as required
- To promote the organisation’s work with welfare charities through a range of marketing activities.
- To provide training for local charity trustees and officers, encouraging and building good governance.
- Support the recruitment of local trustees for local mining charities.
- To produce high quality reports with regards to funding, activity monitoring and evaluation.
- To undertake monitoring and reporting regarding the work undertaken with welfare charities
- To participate in personal development opportunities and develop such opportunities for team members to facilitate a learning and development culture in the region
- To work within a flexible framework in order to meet the demands of the service which may include outside the usual 9-5 hours and considerable travel.
- To undertake any other duties as requested and reasonable to the post.
Skills/Qualifications/Experience:
Essential:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Experience of community development and / or business development.
- Experience of building positive relationships with a range of stakeholders including at a community level.
- Experience of identifying and applying for funding on a national, regional, or local level.
- Understanding of business planning and budgets.
- Proven experience of working in the charity sector with a good understanding of governance requirements and the challenges facing the sector.
- Proven experience in building confidence and a positive reputation with stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral with the ability to influence and engage with a wide range of partners.
- Excellent IT skills using a range IT packages including databases.
- Evidence of ongoing personal development and participation in learning opportunities.
- Ability to be self-motivated, with good personal organisational and time management skills.
- Good judgement and logical decision-making ability
- Ability to resolve problems in a proactive, practical and positive manner
- Ability to take initiative with a practical, ‘hands on’ approach to work
- A valid driving licence and access to a vehicle.
- Flexibility to travel across a wide geographic area with occasional overnight stays
Desirable:
- Experience of designing and delivering training
- Knowledge and understanding of the issues facing former mineworkers and mining communities
This job description is not exhaustive but reflects the major tasks to be carried out by the jobholder and identifies the level of responsibility at which the jobholder will be required to work. This job description may be subject to review and/or amendment at any time to reflect the requirements of the job.
Programme Lead Scotland
- Full time
- £43,000 – £46,000
- Hybrid: Anchored to the Glasgow office. Minimum expectation of being present at least one day a week in the office.
- Closing 15th January 2026
The Programme Lead for Scotland will be an entrepreneurial, driven and creative leader responsible for the development and delivery of key national programmes, ensuring that lived experience is at the heart. Working with the Director for Scotland and colleagues across Carers Trust, they will lead and line manage a small staff team to deliver ambitiously against programme objectives, creating a supportive team culture that promotes creativity, innovation and autonomy.
Experience
Leading the development of an ambitious and impact focused programme pipeline
Working within UK-wide or multi stakeholder structures maximising the benefit of a cross functional approach to programme development and delivery
Programme monitoring and evaluation with a strong focus on demonstrating impact and creating opportunities for learning and growth
Stewarding high-level relationships and the creation of new partnerships
Leading and managing high performing teams
If this sounds like you, download the recruitment pack below to find out more.
Equal Opportunities
As an equal opportunities' employer, Carers Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Carers Trust.
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