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- Advertised from 28th February 2024
- 36 hrs per week. Fixed Term for 5 Years.
Role
The Park Authority is working with the National Lottery Heritage Fund and over 70 partners on its Cairngorms 2030 (C2030) programme. Inspired by the Gaelic word Dùthchas – meaning the deep-rooted connection between people and nature – Cairngorms 2030 will put the power to tackle the climate and nature crisis in the hands of people who live, visit and work in the UK’s largest national park.
Through 20 long-term projects, the Cairngorms will become the first national park in the UK to reach – and go beyond – net zero carbon emissions. We will do this by:
- Transforming the way land is managed and used to benefit people and nature.
- Empowering communities to shape the future of their local area.
- Making getting around the Cairngorms easier, safer and greener.
- Fostering healthier, happier communities with wellbeing at their heart.
In the Cairngorms National Park, people and nature will thrive together.
We are opening recruitment for the post of Knowledge Exchange Coordinator which one of several posts to deliver this programme.
About Us:
The Cairngorms National Park is the largest national park in the UK, covering 4500km2. It is also a place of sheer abundance, having more high mountain ground than anywhere else in the UK, the largest Caledonian forest, some of Scotland’s purest rivers and finest livestock rearing farmland. It is home to 25 percent of the UK’s rare and endangered species. It is a truly unique place to work, with our dedicated and passionate Visitor Services team who are committed to people and nature thriving together.. Furthermore, there is access to some of the most beautiful countryside straight from our Headquarters office door.
The Cairngorms National Park Authority is a fantastic place to work and offers great opportunities to grow your career. The Park Authority is listed in the UK’s top 100 best not- for-profit companies to work for. We’re dedicated to both this fantastic place and our employees.
The Role:
We now have an exciting opportunity for a Sustainable Transport Officer to join the Park Authority.
Reporting to the Sustainable Transport Manager, you will provide coordination and support for the development and implementation of the Place and People theme projects focusing on Active Travel.
The postholder will contribute to the delivery of the Active Travel and Sustainable Transport projects included in the Cairngorms 2030 programme.
For more information about what this role involves, please refer to the job description.
Equalities:
The Park Authority is an inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religion and belief, pregnancy and maternity, relationship status, disability, age and social class. We particularly welcome applications from individuals from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, disabled and LGBTQ+ communities, as they are under-represented in the environment sector.
We are also a Disability Confident committed employer: if you are an applicant with disabilities who meets the essential requirements of the post, we will interview you. In all circumstances, the Park Authority appoints on merit-based evidence that the applicant supplies in meeting the essential criteria for the post.
Park Authority Benefits:
- Civil service pension scheme – some of the benefits include:
- member contribution rates among the lowest in the public sector
- tax relief on your contributions
- generous employer contributions
- a secure, inflation-proof pension for life, with no investment uncertainty
- the option of tax-free lump sum on retirement
- potential access to ill health and injury benefits if you become too ill to work
- life assurance cover
- benefits for loved ones and dependants
- options to increase your pension
- keeping all your pensions in one place by transferring in a pension you have built up elsewhere
- support from our trusted charity partners
- 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days with service, plus Public Holidays
- Professional development
- Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme
- Use of pool cars
About You:
To be considered as our Sustainable Transport Officer, you will have:
- Experience and knowledge of Active Travel infrastructure design, development and construction, preferably in the rural context.
- Experience and knowledge of delivering sustainable travel initiatives and solutions including undertaking STAG studies, public transport, community transport or multi modal journey initiatives.
- Project management experience, including managing short-term contracts with specific experience of contracting and managing active travel and path design specialists.
- Experience of working in partnership with a range of stakeholders in the public and private sector.
- Experience of undertaking consultation with partners, interest groups and coordinating community engagement events
- Excellent communication skills – verbal, written and presentational
- IT skills – word processing, spread-sheets, databases
- Full UK driving licence or access to driver if disability prevents driving.
- Permission to work in the UK
If you are keen to be the Sustainable Transport Officer and can display the skills and experience listed here, this is the role you’ve been waiting for.
Application notes
Closing Date: 23:59pm, Monday 18th March 2024
Interview Date: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
To apply, please visit our website.
Please note, we do not accept Curriculum Vitae (CV).
If you require more information, or if you require any adjustments to be made to the application process due to disability please email: recruitment@cairngorms.co.uk
To see how the Park Authority collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants, please view the Privacy Notice available on our website.
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Top job! Lead Stroke Nurse- Borders
- Full time
- £41,000
- Hybrid: Borders General Hospital
- Closing 19th December 2025
Join Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland and help ensure no life is half lived.
Every day, people with chest, heart, and stroke conditions leave hospital feeling scared and alone. At Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS), we’re on a mission to change that—and you can be part of it.
As Lead Stroke Nurse – Borders, you’ll play a vital role in helping people move from simply surviving to truly living. You’ll join Scotland’s leading charity supporting people with chest, heart, and stroke conditions to live life to the full.
Our Stroke Nurse service is part of CHSS’s Community Healthcare Support services, offering person-centred care underpinned by self-management principles for individuals and families affected by stroke. The Stroke Nurse will work in close partnership with the NHS Borders Stroke Service, ensuring seamless support across hospital and community settings.
In this role, you will manage a caseload of stroke patients, delivering high-quality, person-centred care. You will lead and support a team of Stroke Nurses and Health Care Assistants, ensuring that service delivery meets organisational standards and performance targets. Additionally, you will champion continuous improvement in line with our No Life Half Lived strategy.
We’re looking for a clinically qualified professional who is registered the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of stroke care and patient support, along with proven experience in a management role. A management or leadership qualification is desirable but not essential.
CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organizational benefits including Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.
The Hospital is situated on the outskirts of Melrose in the Scottish Borders. The Borders covers a large and scenically beautiful area of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Predominately rural, it is historically a unique part of the country, the home of the Border Revivers, where annually each town maintains its links with the past during the season of Common Ridings. Seven-a-side rugby originated in Melrose, and the Melrose event in particular draws large crowds each
year. The Borders has tremendous facilities for sport and leisure. Glentress and Innerleithen mountain bike parks are world renowned for both cross-country and downhill biking. The beautiful Berwickshire coast provides options for sea kayaking, surfing, diving and sea fishing. In addition, there are facilities for fishing, golf, swimming, horse riding, cricket, football, hiking and many other activities. Excellent cultural opportunities in terms of music and art societies, drama, and small theatres in Melrose and Selkirk as well as amateur opera. There are excellent restaurants, cinemas and shops. Excellent Fitness Centre in Galashiels and other Borders towns. There is a purpose-built nursery in the grounds of the hospital.
The Scottish Borders offers all the benefits of rural life with very easy access to major cities such as Edinburgh (37 miles) Glasgow (75 miles) Newcastle (75 miles). Edinburgh is renowned for its cultural activities in music, including opera and ballet, theatre, cinemas (including a film theatre) and visual arts, and of course every year there is the world-famous Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe Festival. Local transport links have improved greatly in the last year or so.
The Borders Railway has train services to central Edinburgh running every thirty minutes (journey time 50 minutes approx.). Tweedbank Station is a few minutes’ walk from the Borders General Hospital. There are rail links to the rest of the country at Berwick Upon Tweed, and Carlisle and there is easy access to Edinburgh Airport (approximately 1 hour 15 minutes) and Newcastle Airport (approximately 1 hour 30 minutes).
CHSS alsosupports flexible recruitment through Working Families, and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.
In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a PVG check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.
About Sunny Cycles
Sunny Cycles is a community-focused cycling organisation which enables people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to enjoy the mental and physical benefits of cycling and cycling activities. Founded in 2022, we support mental health, social inclusion, and accessibility by providing led rides, cycling lessons, adaptive cycling for disabled people, and creating welcoming spaces for refugees and New Scots. We operate a community hub at Glasgow Green, and Victoria Park offering free or low-cost cycling sessions for individuals facing financial hardship, social isolation, or discrimination. We provide adapted bikes for those who cannot ride standard 2 wheelers and work with individuals and groups within the community to enable people to experience the mental and physical benefits of cycling.
Sunny Cycles operates as a registered charity and a social enterprise. As we grow, we are looking for a Development & Enterprise Officer who can strengthen our income generation pathways and support the long-term sustainability of our work, including our expanding work with disability and care-home cycling programmes.
Role Purpose
The Development & Enterprise Officer will lead on developing and delivering income-generating opportunities that support Sunny Cycles’ mission. This includes building partnerships, developing commercial activities, strengthening our social enterprise offer, managing budgets and ensuring financial sustainability so we can move away from grant funding.
The role is ideal for someone who is proactive, entrepreneurial, and passionate about inclusive cycling and community wellbeing.
Lead for Community Transport
- Part time
- £33,063 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Dumfries or Stranraer
- Closing 4th January 2026
Where the role fits in our organisation
You are responsible for oversight of the TSDG community transport programme, the priorities of which are identified by the Community Transport Strategic Development Group (CTSDG). The role requires work across many of TSDG’s thematic areas including; Communities and Sector Support, Employability, Skills and Learning and Local Economies and Enterprise.
What You'll Do
We are looking for a colleague who is passionate about connecting communities to each other, for work, learning, leisure and social needs through a high quality, integrated transport model. One key purpose is enabling our communities to live fulfilling lives. Community transport is more than just moving people from A to B. It can be a mechanism for social inclusion, poverty reduction and improved wellbeing. The community transport programme is built on partnership working, so you will ned to be someone who thrives on; building relationships, supporting collaboration, and helping organisations grow their capacity to make a real difference in people’s lives. As part of the Lead Officer Group, you will also actively participate in shaping our ways of working at TSDG.
What You’ll Do
- Continue development and delivery of a multi-year plan for the design of a regional community transport model for Dumfries and Galloway.
- Build a business case for structures and a choice of viable operating models, including the development of a region-wide social enterprise for community transport.
- Actively partner with the local authority, regional transport partnership, NHS, enterprise agency, transport partners, the third sector and communities, to facilitate integration of community transport.
- Incorporate partnership outcomes and regional transport strategies in to planning, programme design and outcomes.
- Manage project reporting, including for the CTSDG, Community Planning Partnership, SLT and Board.
- Remain up to date with national and regional policy relevant to third sector organisations working in, or aligned to, transport and community transport, community connections, health and wellbeing and the social/local economy.
- Manage the Connecting Communities Development Officer.
More about you
- You have experience in related subject matter, such as economic development, social enterprise, community infrastructure and/or transport.
- You have strong relationship-building skills and experience of working collaboratively with partners from different sectors.
- You are able to analyse information, capture learning, and communicate it clearly through reports, presentations, or other formats.
- You are able to facilitate group discussions, workshops, or events that bring together different perspectives.
- You are skilled at organising, planning, and problem solving, and you can adapt to varied and changing priorities.
- You are self-motivated, a team player, and committed to continuous improvement.
Connecting Communities Development Officer
- Part time
- £27,192 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Dumfries or Stranraer
- Closing 4th January 2026
Where the role fits in our organisation
This role will develop volunteering and employability as part of our Community Transport programme. As such the role requires work across many of TSDG’s thematic areas including; Communities and Sector Support, Employability, Skills and Learning and Communications and Impact.
What You'll Do
We are looking for a colleague who is passionate about supporting third sector organisations meet the needs of their communities. Community transport is more than just moving people from A to B. It can be a mechanism for social inclusion, poverty reduction and improved wellbeing. You do not need to have knowledge of the region’s community transport sector, but you will need to be someone who thrives on; building relationships, supporting collaboration, and helping organisations grow their capacity to make a real difference in people’s lives. You will support and connect organisations working across all sectors, not just transport, including in health and wellbeing, children and families, local economies and employability.
What You’ll Do
- Build strong, positive relationships with third sector organisations and partners across Dumfries and Galloway to support improved connectivity and community-led opportunities.
- Work with partners to develop community volunteering and employability opportunities alongside our community transport sector and Strategic Development Group.
- Coordinate, facilitate, and develop collaboration between the third sector, statutory, and community voices to share learning and influence planning.
- Capture and share insights, case studies, and good practice to inform local priorities and improve access to support, including funding.
- Demonstrate and communicate the impact of community transport to a range of audiences, including raising public awareness.
- Represent TSDG and the third sector at relevant partnership and community meetings.
More about you
- You have strong relationship-building skills and experience of working collaboratively with partners from different sectors and/or directly with communities.
- You will be confident to capture ideas and input from communities and partners, and working with colleagues across portfolios to develop proposals to work in a better way for people and communities
- You are able to analyse information, capture learning, and communicate it clearly through reports, presentations, or other formats.
- You are able to facilitate group discussions, workshops, or events that bring together different perspectives.
- You are skilled at organising, planning, and problem solving, and you can adapt to varied and changing priorities.
- You are self-motivated, a team player, and committed to continuous improvement.
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