Patient Information Officer
- Full time
- £29,744 – £32,419
- Hybrid: Edinburgh/flexible
- Closing 27th October 2024
- Advertised from 11th October 2024
Role
About you
Do you want to use your skills to make a real difference to the myeloma community?
We’re looking for an experienced writer with an eye for detail who can research topics and simplify complex scientific and medical information into accessible and patient-friendly language. Excellent writing, copy editing and proofing skills are essential for this role.
You will require to have experience of writing information materials for a range of audiences and producing information for different channels as well as knowledge of the stages involved in producing information. You will be able to manage your own workload and have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, as well as good IT skills. Previous experience in writing information materials for patients, working directly with patients, carers and family members, content development for information events and a general health and cancer knowledge would be an advantage for this role.
About the role
This is an exciting time to join Myeloma UK as we launch our new five year strategy. As a Patient Information Officer you will maintain, develop and deliver accurate printed and online information (written and audio/visual) on myeloma and its related conditions for patients, their family and carers, as well as ensuring complex medical and scientific language is translated into clear and concise information for a patient audience.
The post holder will work with colleagues to ensure close communication and sharing of information across the organisation and report progress regularly to their line manager.
About us
Myeloma UK is the only UK charity focused on myeloma and its related conditions. We provide support and influence access to treatments, while researching a cure. Thanks to life-extending treatments and support, today many people affected by myeloma are able to live longer and to live well. Together, we support, so no one faces myeloma alone.
We are committed to bringing together the best and brightest people to help us ensure that every patient has an empowered present and a hopeful future.
Our ultimate goal is to find a cure and make myeloma history. Until then, our mission is to help every patient live well with myeloma for as long as possible. We are committed to diagnosing myeloma earlier, discovering and sharing knowledge, transforming the patient experience and influencing positive change in care.
Our culture
Wellbeing and staff engagement are at the heart of our culture. We offer our employees a range of benefits including a pension salary exchange scheme, flexitime, flexible working from home with hub-based office working, health plan, employee assistance plan and holiday purchase scheme and we are committed to providing learning and development opportunities for all our employees.
Application notes
If you think you would be a great fit for this role, get in touch and tell us more about yourself by sending the following to jobs@myeloma.org.uk:
1. A cover letter telling us more about you and what you think makes you the ideal person for the post
2. A CV that sets out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements
Applications close on 27 October 2024 and interviews will be held on 5 November 2024. You will be asked to prepare a task prior to your interview.
Myeloma UK is an equal opportunities employer and always welcomes applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of:
- sex,
- race,
- disability,
- age,
- sexual orientation,
- gender reassignment,
- religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Please note, you will be asked to provide evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK prior to interview selection.
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Individual Giving Manager
- Full time
- £34,000 – £38,000
- Hybrid: Perth Airport, Scone OR Aberdeen Airport, Dyce
- Closing 16th October 2024
Benefits:
- Pension: 12% employer’s & 5% employee’s contribution (after 3 months’ service)
- Annual Leave: 36 days (incl. public holidays) + an extra day for your birthday
- Death in Service benefit: 3 times annual salary
- Optional Private Medical Insurance plan
- Access to Blue Light Card
- Learning and Development opportunities
Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) exists so nobody in Scotland suffers or dies because medical help cannot get there in time.
People can get sick or have accidents anywhere and anytime. But in Scotland there are places where urgent medical help cannot reach people. Or help gets there too late. And when lives are at risk every minute matters.
As a charity we rely on donations from the Scottish public, companies and communities to ensure that urgent medical help gets to the patient when it is needed, wherever they are and at speed.
As part of an ongoing strategy of development SCAA is looking for a motivated, focussed and committed individual to help raise the profile of the service and raise the funding required to continue to provide support across Scotland.
This role will be based either in Perth, at Scone Airport, or at our Aberdeen base, at Aberdeen Airport, where our SCAA emergency response helicopters and crew are located. SCAA supports a flexible working pattern and hybrid working. As well as working alongside the fundraising and communications team you will be working with the SCAA pilots and paramedics. You will be part of a dynamic team responsible for maximising engagement and income from individual and regular donors.
The Individual Giving Manager is a new role for SCAA, demonstrating our commitment to growth in the coming years. As this is a new role, the successful candidate will be able to make the role their own, determining success alongside the Head of Individual Giving and Engagement. You will help SCAA to achieve their ambitious goals and continue to provide a life-saving essential service across Scotland into the future through a programme of sustainable funding.
Travel Clinic Administrator
- Part time
- Circa from £24,000 pro-rata
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 4th November 2024
Are you interested in travel health? Are you looking for an opportunity to use your administration and customer service skills in a friendly small team environment?
If so, this may be an ideal opportunity for you!
About HealthLink360
Founded in 1983, HealthLink360 is a Scottish charity and Scotland’s leading provider of medical, psychological and travel health support to mission and aid agency workers and volunteers who undertake overseas work in challenging and often hostile environments; as well as those who work within the UK. Delivered with care and empathy, we provide health and resilience support at every stage of an individual’s mission, journey or assignment and our vision is for a flourishing and effective global caring community who are making a positive difference in the world.
Our travel clinic is based at Carberry near Edinburgh and is open 3 days per week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday). Regulated by Healthcare Improvement Scotland, we provide individual tailored travel health consultations, travel health advice and vaccinations to clients travelling for both work and leisure. Our clients consist of mission and humanitarian agencies and their personnel, GAP year organisations, those in church leadership, families, young people as well as members of the general public.
You can read more about us on our website at healthlink360.org
About the role
We’re looking for a new Travel Clinic Administrator to join our team. The role The role is part time (22.5 hours per week to be worked over Tuesday, Wednesday and Fridays from 08:30am – 4.30pm) and based in our Carberry travel clinic. A varied and interesting opportunity, the role will see you handling all stages of a client’s booking – from responding to an initial enquiry, arranging clinic appointments through to invoicing and taking payments. Additional responsibilities include liaison with agency and corporate clients, ordering of clinic supplies and ensuring client records on our clinical software. A strong candidate will have opportunity to take on additional responsibilities and to develop within the role.
Bringing demonstrable previous relevant experience, you’ll have excellent communication skills and will be excited to contribute to HealthLink360’s vision and mission. Computer literacy is essential and you’ll be able to work on your own initiative without close supervision, as part of a small team. You’ll be self-motivated and innovative, will have attention to detail and good organisational and time-management skills. And of course, you’ll be willing to work under our Christian ethos and values of care, compassion, stewardship, service and respect.
A job description and person specification are available via: healthlink360.org/vacancies
Why work at HealthLink360?
- We offer a friendly working environment, aan interesting and varied role and fair level of pay:
- 22.5 hours per week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Fridays. Opening Hours 8.30am – 4.30pm
- Salary (for 22.5 hours per week) from circa £14,078.
- You’ll join the small but dedicated team of this not for profit organisation with a clear ethos and over 40 years’ experience.
- We are situated in the beautiful grounds of Carberry Tower just outside Musselburgh, Edinburgh (so own transport is helpful).
Fundraising Manager
- Part time
- £30,229 – £37,664 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Kirkcaldy
- Closing 16th October 2024
We are looking for an experienced Community & Corporate Fundraiser who has substantial charity experience and is passionate about the Kingdom of Fife and those who live in it. Fife Health Charity, now over 70 years along our journey, is committed to ensuring those living here are supported on their health journey.
If you are self-motivated, confident and driven to make a difference then Fife Health Charity wants you to join our team! This is an essential post within our small team and you will be responsible for implementing and delivering our charity’s approach to fundraising and increasing our unrestricted income. We know that our grants make a huge difference to the people we are here to support, and we want to increase the volume and value of our grants. Increasing our income is key to enabling this.
This is a fantastic time to be joining our charity as we have this year launched our first ever strategy to focus our grant-making on making a positive impact for people across Fife. To support our strategy we want to grow our resources and income to be able to increase the volume and value of our grants over the next five years.
Successful fundraising will be essential to achieving this goal. We are looking for a confident fundraiser who has experience in community and corporate fundraising and who can work to establish a strong supporter journey that will encourage those living in Fife to be part of their health charity. If this is you then don’t miss the opportunity to join our team.
Please note the salary for this post is pro rata to part time hours.
Find out more about this permanent role (22.5 hours per week) in our job pack and if you would like to discuss the role further, please contact the Charity Director, Mark McGeachie at mark.mcgeachie@nhs.scot
Top job! Senior Management Accountant
- Full time
- £38,500 – £44,500
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 28th October 2024
We are delighted to share news of a Senior Management Accountant vacancy in the Finance team.
Reporting to the Finance Manager, this newly created post will provide a unique opportunity to work with a leading Scottish charity. You will be responsible for the preparation, analysis and reporting of financial information to a variety of internal and external stakeholders, while maintaining and developing a robust accounting structure and systems. You will act as trusted and valued business partner across the organisation, providing financial insight to budget holders to support them in delivering their financial objectives and to inform strategic planning and decision-making.
This is a pivotal role within the Finance team and will significantly contribute to the development and implementation of an improvement programme for financial processes and systems.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will have skills and experience in the following areas:
- Significant experience of delivering high quality monthly reporting and analysis of financial performance
- Key contributor to the annual budget process from planning through to completion, ensuring robust systems in place supporting budgetary control
- Proven delivery of effective business partnering providing support and collaboration on financial matters to budget holders and other colleagues
- Strong team player with excellent communication skills, developing trusted working relationships with stakeholders at all levels
- Display excellent verbal, interpersonal and written skills with great attention to detail, and an ability to clearly explain complex issues to non-financial colleagues
- Well versed in organising and prioritising tasks, effectively managing a diverse workload often with conflicting timelines
Why CHAS?
At CHAS, we support families during the toughest of times. We have ambitions to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. The skill, dedication and efficiency of our Finance team helps makes this possible.
We offer
- Flexible Working: our teams work flexibly and in a hybrid manner with time split between at home and onsite in Edinburgh. CHAS offers flexible and family friendly working. and are happy to discuss working arrangements that work for you!
- Development Opportunities: play a lead role in the Finance Improvement Programme, collaborating to create efficient and effective ways of working
- Professional Growth: Exposure to excellent Learning and Development opportunities suited to your needs and interests and to enhance your skills
- Comprehensive Benefits: Including generous annual leave and pension, incremental salary progression, life assurance, employee assistance programme, access to Blue Light discounts, and health and wellbeing support.
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