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Operations Support Officer – Office and Events

  • Full time
  • Circa £24,000 – £25,000
  • Hybrid: Home and office in Edinburgh (2-3 days/week from the office)
  • Closing 23rd October 2024


  • Advertised from 9th October 2024
  • 32.5 hours per week. Permanent.

Role

Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.

Join Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as Operations Support Officer – Office and Events and become part Scotland’s leading charity that provides support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service forms a nationwide network of local support groups, nurses, volunteers and one-to-one support teams helping families adjust to life with a heart or lung condition or after a stroke.

You will support the delivery of our No Life Half Lived 2 Strategy by ensuring efficient and inclusive customer service to internal stakeholders.

This will include line management of our Operations Support Administrators, ensuring their continued professional development and providing training on event support and H&S.

You will oversee and develop team processes and procedures, and continuously review the current arrangements for improvement opportunities.

This role will play a key role in delivering the Operational Support Team’s operational plan.

As the Officer for Office and Events, you will focus on ensuring HSE compliance within the office space as well as overseeing logistics support to various events and admin support to training opportunities in the charity.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including learning and development support, company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.

CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.

Application notes

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure 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.

If you are interested in this post, please see our website at: chss.org.uk/workforus where you will be able to apply online or contact the HR Department via email to recruitment@chss.org.uk

Please note CVs will not be accepted.

Closing date: end of day 23/10/2024

Interviews: w/c 4/11/2024