- Advertised from 9th September 2024
- 37.5 hours per week. Permanent.
Role
Are you an experienced social care leader looking for a rewarding role in a values-driven community? Join L'Arche Highland. Lead a dedicated team supporting adults with learning disabilities in our well-regarded daytime workshops for adults with learning disabilities within our diverse, inclusive community. With a unique spiritual ethos and commitment to high-quality, person-centred care, L'Arche Highland offers an enriching career path where you can make a real difference.
Main purpose of the role:
L’Arche Highland has a rare opportunity for someone to join us as the Workshop Manager of our well-regarded daytime workshops for adults with learning disabilities in Inverness. Working within the joyful and beautiful environment of our workshops, you will be the operational lead of our dynamic workshop provision and part of the senior leader team within L’Arche Highland. The Workshop Manager also acts as Registered Manager for our workshop day opportunities.
The workshops offer a structured employment and learning experience via candle making, woodwork, garden and life skills workshops, enabling 50 people per week to experience meaningful work that is not merely occupational. They promote independence, social integration, healthy living and lifelong learning and seek to reduce isolation by working to individual outcomes as part of a team.
To be successful in this role you will be well organised, creative and fun, a great communicator, adaptive and flexible. The post holder manages five Workshop Leaders, volunteers and Workshop Assistants. This role involves management and leadership duties, co-produced service development, and delivery of group workshop sessions, when required. Knowledge of learning disability is essential and alternative communication methods, such as Makaton, Talking Mats and PECS is desirable.
As Registered Manager you will ensure that our support and care is not only consistent with Care Inspectorate, NHS Highland and SSSC requirements but also with the values and mission of L’Arche. The post requires a minimum of SVQ3 Health & Social Care qualification or relevant social care experience.
Application notes
Visit our website to find out more about the role and how to apply.
The closing date is 9:30am on Monday 23 September 2024.
Interviews will take place on 3 October 2024.
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About Sycamore Inverness
Our residential service in Inverness is one of two houses that Aberlour runs in the Highlands. Our experienced teams of staff seek to create a comfortable home for the young people where they can grow and flourish, participating in educational and community activities to achieve their goals. The children we support are presently not able to live safely with their own families and many of them have suffered from trauma and loss in their young lives. Working therapeutically with the young people, using a Dyadic Developmental approach, our aim is to help the young people to develop their confidence and self-worth and therefore to maximise their potential and opportunities for living fulfilled and happy lives.
What we are looking for....
We are looking for an exceptional group of relief workers to provide ad hoc cover when staff are on holiday or are off sick. Relief Workers are a vital part of our team, helping to ensure that full cover is available throughout the year and ensuring that our Residential Workers get the essential breaks they need to recharge their batteries and come back to work refreshed and ready to provide the best possible support to the young people.
Work is offered on a casual basis: Relief Workers are not obliged to accept shifts offered and Aberlour is not obliged to offer shifts. In return for taking on this essential role, you will work alongside a dedicated, supportive staff team and be offered valuable training and development opportunities. Of course, if you are a good match for the role there will be the opportunity for you to apply for a substantive role when available.
At Aberlour we want to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.
If you have any queries please e-mail: jobs@aberlour.org.uk. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the job, please do not hesitate to contact Tracey Chalmers (House Manager) on 07766107453
Do you want to join an organisation that has been named recently as a Top 100 company to work with by The Sunday Times?
Do you want to work in the beautiful town of Fort William - a relocation allowance of £8,000 is available.
If you would like to have an informal chat before applying please call Rhonda Wilson, Head of Admissions and Programmes in the Highlands, on 07715238337.
About Aberlour Sycamore Fort William
Aberlour provides a number of warm, loving homes for children where everyone learns, laughs, grows into their future and is treasured always. We have a strong ethos of values and a culture that enables us to Be Brave and to Keep the Promise of involving the children and young people as fully as possible in taking decisions that affect their lives.
Our home in Fort William is a Hybrid Model, we have a residential service for children and young people as well as a service we call Sustain Plus, which supports whole families by providing both emotional and practical support. We work with families and parents to secure a nurturing environment for children up to 18 years old. We also help parents/caregivers develop their ability to care for their children, provide practical parenting skills, and engage with their community. Our service provides flexible support of varying intensity and aims to encourage the development of family routines, resilience, and improved parental confidence.
We are looking to appoint a House Manager who will join our strong and thriving Residential/Sustain Plus community in Aberlour.
What we are looking for
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with a passion for supporting vulnerable children and whole families to achieve the best possible outcomes in their lives. The successful candidate will have the drive, determination and cultural values to be able to lead their team to empower the children and young people to make the changes which will ultimately transform their lives.
We want someone who believes that all children and families are deserving of love and someone who will support the team to ensure that our children and families are able to live fulfilling lives.
You should have experience of working in and leading practice, preferably in a children’s house and with families. You must be visible to the team and children which will include working some evenings and weekends.
Ideally you will have knowledge about developmental trauma, how this impacts children’s early life experiences.
A comprehensive support package focussed on achieving excellence in practice is provided to all of our teams and the successful candidate will also receive clinical supervision, provided externally to support their professional practice development and well-being.
If you share our vision of Being Brave for every child, young person and families, and Keeping the Promise, and you have the skills and passion required to meet the challenges of this role we look forward to hearing from you.
You will be required to have or be willing to work towards the qualifications for being a manager in a residential childcare facility: a relevant professional qualification at SCQF level 9 or above plus a management qualification at SCQF level 8 or above.
What we offer
As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.
Top job! Head of Information and Support Services
- Full time
- £54,237 – £60,263
- Hybrid: Glasgow, Edinburgh or Inverness, with the option to work from home for some of the working week.
- Closing 18th November 2024
Looking for an opportunity to work for a flexible and family friendly organisation doing amazing work to support Scotland’s voluntary sector?
SCVO is seeking a Head of Information and Support Services to lead the charge in building skills, confidence and capability across the sector. In this role you’ll manage our information, events and training services, focused around our core areas of expertise on governance, management, funding, digital and growing climate confidence.
We’re looking for a strategic thinker with strong leadership and people management skills who is driven to make a difference. If you have a deep understanding of the voluntary sector and extensive experience in managing information or capacity building services, we want to hear from you.
Join SCVO in supporting Scotland’s thriving voluntary sector and be part of a team committed to building a fairer, more inclusive society.
We offer a hybrid working environment, flexible hours, and an inclusive culture that values diversity and innovation. We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet most of the criteria in the person specification. We share our interview questions in advance. If you want to have a chat about the job or our flexible working approach, get in touch with us at recruitment@scvo.scot
SCVO is the membership organisation for the voluntary sector in Scotland and our mission is to champion the role of voluntary sector organisations in building a flourishing society and support them to do work that has a positive impact.
fulfil their potential and work towards employment opportunities?
If so, this new Wellbeing Keyworker role is for you!
About the service
Our Wellbeing Works service is a new offering that aims to provide support for people with mild to moderate mental health conditions to empower them to develop a pathway to employment.
About the role
This role will be pivotal in creating trusted relationships with both clients and partner organisations to ensure that each pathway to employment is unique to individual clients and designed to reach the best possible outcome. Your main duties will include:
- Meeting clients to identify a support action plan; and regular follow-up sessions to review their progress
- Facilitate workshops and intervention sessions that provide participants with skills and mechanisms to better manage their mental health and improve wellbeing
- Working alongside various partner organisations to access additional support and opportunities
- Monitoring and evaluating the uptake and impact of the service
It is a role that provides the opportunity to work with people who have complex problems and to make a real difference to their lives.
About you
You will have experience supporting people with mental health conditions and be motivated to empower people on their employability journey. You should also have:
- Excellent relationship building skills
- Proven experience of building and maintaining strong partnerships with relevant services
- A commitment to reducing the stigma faced by people with mental health conditions
How we’ll support you
You will have a supportive manager who will provide the space of regular supervision sessions and development conversations to ensure that your wellbeing is protected, and you are set up for success.
You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.
About Cyrenians
At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering our services. You can find out more about our organisation and our impact online.
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