Policy and External Affairs Officer (Education)
- Full time
- £30,000 – £34,000
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 8th September 2024
- Advertised from 15th August 2024
- Three years fixed term contract, with possibility of extension. 35 hours per week, flexible work options available.
Role
Do you enjoy working both proactively and reactively in order to make best use of opportunities for influencing work?
Do you have experience in a policy, external affairs, research or influencing role?
This role is key to continuing to raise the external profile of our education work in Scotland and amplify awareness of the lived experience of unpaid carers in education to make positive change.
The successful candidate will support us to speak truth to power, ensuring unpaid carers' voices are heard through public policy development and influencing work. And will become an expert in the key issues facing unpaid carers in education.
The post holder will work closely with the Programme Officer (Education) in Scotland to deliver successful results for Carers Trust Scotland's Supporting Student Carers to Excel and Caring is Learning initiatives.
We are looking for someone who will put unpaid carer voice at the heart of our policy and external affairs education work in Scotland.
Application notes
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Communications and Campaigns Officer
- Full time
- £30,000 – £34,000
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 10th November 2024
The Communications and Campaigns Officer will play a key role in delivering effective communications and campaigns around Carers Trust’s work in Scotland. This role is central to continuing to raise the external profile of the charity and ensuring our communications amplify awareness of the lived experience of unpaid carers, and the good work happening across our network of local carer organisations.
This is a broad role, supporting the development and delivery of communications to generate support and awareness of unpaid carers and our work in Scotland.
We are looking for someone who will put carer voice at the heart of our communications and in campaigns in Scotland.
Development Worker (Young Carers Statements & Schools)
- Full time
- £28,722
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 11th November 2024
Edinburgh Young Carers (EYC) is seeking a suitably experienced applicant to join its lively, passionate team in developing the service and providing high quality support to young carers in Edinburgh between the ages of 5 and 25 years.
The post-holder will work alongside colleagues to:
- Ensure that young carers and young adult carers are identified and provided with the supportand services that they require to achieve their identified personal outcomes.
- Promote the development of a range of support services and diverse activity programmes to meet the varied needs of young carers, especially through school and community venues.
- Promote and undertake the delivery and review of Young Carer Statements and Adult Carer Support Plans to young carers and young adult carers themselves and the professionals working with them across Edinburgh.
- Ensure young carers are aware of their rights and promote and raise awareness of these rights with other organisations.
- Enable young carers to be heard, to be listened to and to contribute to the development of the Edinburgh Young Carers service.
The candidate will need to be suitably qualified and experienced in working with children and young people, with at least three years’ proven experience in a role including individual and group work.
Organisation Profile
EYC is a voluntary organisation working with and on behalf of young carers throughout Edinburgh. We are one of the largest and most well established independent young carers organisations in Scotland. We have a strong commitment to the rights of children and young people.
Benefits
We take good care of our staff and offer a benefit package including: 27 days’ annual leave plus all public holidays, 6% pension, free healthcare through Benenden Health, hybrid working, flexible hours, Cycle to Work scheme and extensive training opportunities. We are also a Carer Positive employer.
Top job! Head of Policy and Communications
- Full time
- £42,282
- Hybrid: Shared Care Scotland offices, Dunfermline. Hybrid working applies and a copy of our Hybrid (Remote) Working Policy is available on request.
- Closing 8th November 2024
Shared Care Scotland is recruiting a new Head of Policy and Communications following the promotion of the current postholder. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic communicator to join the team at a pivotal time with short breaks and respite care policy high on the political agenda.
Shared Care Scotland is an innovative national charity, based in Dunfermline, working to support Scotland’s unpaid carers to access short breaks and respite. We aim to be an influential, leading voice advocating for carers’ rights and helping shape the future of short breaks provision in Scotland; a trusted partner that can be relied on for consistent high-quality information and guidance; and an organisation that connects good practice, ideas, and people to support learning and improvement.
The Head of Policy & Communications role will help us achieve this ambition by ensuring we have effective links between our policy, communications and evidence-related activities to optimise our impact, strengthen our reputation and increase our visibility. The successful candidate will lead on the development and implementation of our influencing and communication activities across all workstreams of the organisation and oversee policy-related work of the organisation. This will involve building relationships and engaging with government, policymakers, sector leads and influencers and developing joint working with strategic partners.
For the right candidate this offers huge potential to develop and deliver innovative and creative ideas and be part of a team that can have real impact of the lives of unpaid carers.
In return we offer a supportive, collaborative team environment with excellent terms and conditions. Staff benefits include a pension scheme with 15.5% employer contribution, employee health plan, flexible working and opportunities for professional development.
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Young Carers Field Worker
- Part time
- £24,733 – £26,335 pro-rata
- On site: Golspie
- Closing 7th November 2024
TYKES are recruiting for a field worker to join our team in Golspie. This is a varied role which involves working with young carers aged 5-25 across Sutherland providing opportunities for respite from their caring responsibilities.
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