BTA is thrilled to work with Cornerstone in recruiting their new Lead Fundraiser. As one of Scotland’s largest charities, Cornerstone is a leading provider of care and support services for adults, children, and young people with disabilities and other support needs. Their mission is to enable everyone to live a valued life—'the life they choose.' Every day, Cornerstone supports individuals to become more independent and to live fulfilling lives in their communities.

This is a senior role within the organisation, reporting directly to the Director of Finance. The Lead Fundraiser will be responsible for developing and driving forward the fundraising strategy and increasing income across all streams, including individual giving, corporate partnerships, and grants. You will lead and inspire a dedicated team, ensuring that fundraising efforts are innovative, effective, and aligned with the strategic goals.

The key competencies for this role are:

• Strategic Thinking and Planning: The ability to develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising strategy aligned with the organisation's goals. This involves setting clear objectives, prioritising initiatives, and anticipating future trends in the fundraising landscape.
• Relationship Building and Stakeholder Management: Strong interpersonal skills to cultivate and maintain relationships with donors, corporate partners, and other key stakeholders. This competency is crucial for sustaining long-term support and increasing donor engagement.
• Leadership and Team Management: Proven ability to lead, inspire, and manage a fundraising team effectively. This includes fostering a collaborative environment, providing clear direction, and empowering team members to achieve their potential.
• Fundraising Expertise: Extensive knowledge and experience across various fundraising streams, including individual giving, corporate partnerships, grants, and digital fundraising. This also involves staying updated with current fundraising legislation and best practices.
• Communication and Persuasion: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling cases for support and present them effectively to different audiences. This includes preparing persuasive reports and presentations that resonate with donors and stakeholders.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced, passionate individual to join Cornerstone and help shape the future of their fundraising efforts, ensuring that they can continue to support people across Scotland to live their best possible lives.

Be Here, Be You, Create Change

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of autistic people? Do you have leadership skills and a desire to mentor and develop others? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Our Clannalba Service is on the lookout for a Senior Autism Practitioner to join our fun, supportive, and friendly team. Located in the beautiful village of Lamington, we provide essential care and support to nine autistic adults. This is a hands-on role that combines leadership with direct support, ensuring high-quality care aligned with Social Care Standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead & Mentor: Provide guidance, coaching, and reflective sessions to support staff, sharing your autism expertise to enhance the quality of care.
• Direct Support: Be actively involved in the day-to-day support of individuals, ensuring that their needs and wishes are at the heart of everything we do.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with multi-disciplinary teams, families, and external agencies to implement personalized support plans.
• Quality Assurance: Maintain high standards of care through regular assessments and ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements.
• Recruitment & Development: Play a key role in the recruitment process, identifying and nurturing talent to strengthen our team.
• On-Call Rotation: Take part in an on-call rota, ensuring the service operates smoothly and efficiently.

Requirements:

• Previous experience working in autism support, with demonstrated leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• A strong understanding of Social Care Standards.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Flexibility to participate in the on-call rota.

Join us and take the next step in your career, leading a dedicated team and making a lasting impact on the lives of individuals with autism.

Scottish Autism offers you:

Staff wellbeing is priority, and we strive to ensure all colleagues feel valued and supported at work. We provide an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive salary and a personalised learning pathway for all. We keep it simple with 3 pay points. You progress at your pace as you develop. We benchmark regularly to ensure the rates are competitive.

• Exceptional training and career development opportunities
• The chance to lead a values-driven team committed to the highest standards of care
• 32 days holiday pro rata (which increases with your length of service)
• Sector leading training from day one, including fully funded support to complete your necessary SVQ and LMC
• A supportive work environment where your input is valued
• Non-contributory life assurance scheme
• Workplace Pension (Employer matched up to 9%)
• Discount platform
• Employee Assistance Programme.

This post is subject to a PVG Disclosure check. All new employees must have applied to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 3 months of starting in post and be registered within 6 months. Scottish Autism cover all the costs of PVG membership and SSSC Registration for employees.

Valuing diversity and promoting equal opportunities is at the heart of our vision, mission, and values. We encourage and welcome applications from people with lived experience of autism.

Do you have a passion for helping people?

Do you have excellent communication?

Do you have the ability to drive high performing teams whilst ensuring a high-quality service, delivering excellent customer service to our clients?

Do you want to work for one of the best employability providers in Scotland?

Would you like to contribute to helping people with barriers to work find their dream job?

Then come and work for Enable Works.

Your role as Occupational Therapist will focus on vocational rehabilitation, helping individuals with physical, mental or developmental conditions to regain or enhance their ability to achieve well paid, sustainable employment aligned to their vocational goals.

ENABLE Works are the leading specialist provider of employability services for people who have barriers to work. We believe that every person in Scotland has the right to work in a job that is high quality and well paid.

Enable Works supports over 5500 people every year across 28 Local Authorities to learn skills for work.

We partner with thousands of employers to create inclusive cultures and improve the diversity of Scotland's workforce.

We are incredibly proud of our smart, capable, and motivated colleagues across Scotland and following a period of significant growth we are looking to grow our team.

We offer a generous salary, excellent benefits, and opportunities to develop and grow in your role.

We offer flexible working practices that promote a strong work/life balance so that when you are at work you can be the best version of you.

Values are more important to us than qualifications or experience, so if you don’t think you meet every requirement that’s ok, we still want to hear from you. Please tell us in your supporting statement how your values match with our organisation.

About You

We really need you to have these:

• Batchelor’s or master’s degree in occupational therapy from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 1 year post qualification experience of working with participants with complex Bio-Psychosocial conditions.
• Experience of working with people in a social work, community, primary are or hospital context.
• A working understanding of vocational rehabilitation.
• Knowledge of practical and forward-thinking recommendations that explore adjustments and support for individuals with health conditions and disabilities looking to enter and/or return to the workplace.
• Excellent communication and motivating skills.
• Computer literacy including excellent keyboard skills and excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Advanced problem-solving skills for interactions with participants and service providers.
• Proven and well-developed interpersonal skills in working with individuals on a one to one and group setting.
• The drive, energy and commitment to support people to obtain high-quality, well-paid jobs.Comfortable working towards targets.
• A natural, professional relationship builder.
• A full driving licence.

Why?

Our vision is that every person in Scotland is able to access the support they need to find a high-quality job that pays them well and your drive and commitment to this job will help them get there. You will recognise each client’s individual skills and aspirations and will support them to overcome barriers to employment, helping them move closer to finding a job that they love.

As a qualified health professional, your role will be integral to the success of our participants moving forward into employment. You will possess the skills and abilities to engage our participants, offering them an understanding of how they can adapt and develop strategies to manage physical, cognitive, emotional, behavioural and social difficulties associated with their health condition, delivering improved health and wellbeing.

Engaging with referral partners, colleagues, employers and stakeholders to promote the work that we do, you will be a confident communicator, with excellent presentation skills. You will be representing Enable Works and our clients in everything you do so you will need a professional, can-do attitude. Our reputation is important to us.

We have high expectations for our clients and you will be given a workplan with targets. We support you throughout, but you need to be comfortable working towards them.

We would love it if you had these:

• Experience in supported employment services or vocational training programmes including collaboration with job coaches or employment advisors.
• Current registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Documented evidence of CPD.
• Experience of service development.
• Knowledge of establishing, implementing and evaluating intervention programmes.
• Understanding of relevant policy and legislation.

About Us

At Enable we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities.

We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:

Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loans

Starting a career with Enable is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.

Enable is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.

Working in Care and Support Services

Would you like to make a difference to a person’s quality of life? Would you like to learn BSL while being paid? We are looking for caring and motivated staff to support deaf BSL users to join our team. Could that be you?

Who are we?

Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. We were established in 1835 and work with deaf people across Scotland and the South of England. Our work is geared towards empowering all deaf people to achieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access, and opportunity.

You can find out more about us at deafaction.org.

About you

We are looking for people who are caring, fun, motivated, willing to learn and show initiative. The people we support want our team to be friendly, reliable and practical.

If you have experience in supporting people in their own homes, tenancies, or a care home setting, that is beneficial. If you do not, we can provide training. We always provide on the job and formal training, and our workers often go on to complete formal qualifications in social care. If you already have knowledge of BSL that is a bonus, however we can provide training if you do not.

The ideal candidates will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website.

The role

We have varied roles within our Care and Support Services such as Care at Home support worker, Outreach Support worker in our services in Edinburgh, the Lothians and Glasgow; as well as Care and ancillary positions at our Care Home at Isle of Wight.

You will be delivering a person-centred service supporting deaf people within our services. This will enable them to fully participate in the decisions affecting their lives, ensuring that wherever possible, service users benefit from informed choice, control, and independence. This will include both activities in the care home, in their own home and within the community which will promote independence and social inclusion.

What do we offer?

• Living Wage Employer - £12 per hour
• Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured. Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme
• Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process
• Training to learn British Sign Language at Level 1 and 2
• Death in service benefit.