Community Involvement Coordinator
- Part time
- £25,861 – £27,141 pro-rata
- On site: Sensory Hub, George Street Perth (with travel across Perth and Kinross
- Closing 15th November 2024
- Advertised from 25th October 2024
- 26 hours per week over 4 days. Fixed-term contract for 2 years.
Role
We are currently recruiting a Community Involvement Coordinator, which is a newly created role to join our dedicated team at Vision PK, a growing charity who have recently opened our new sensory hub in the heart of Perth.
About Us:
VisionPK is an exciting and growing charity, recently opening our new Sensory Hub in the heart of Perth. We provide specialist services for people with sight loss, hearing loss, or who are deaf, living within the Perth and Kinross local authority area. Our specialist rehabilitation service is commissioned by Perth and Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership, allowing us to offer essential support to individuals facing sensory challenges.
The Role:
This role will strengthen VisionPK’s presence in the community by overseeing volunteer recruitment and governance, building stakeholder relationships and managing our telephone befriending project.
Key responsibilities include:
- Volunteer Recruitment and Governance
- Community Engagement and Relationship Building
- Telephone Befriending Project Leadership
- Raising Awareness and Promoting VisionPK
About You:
- Experience in volunteer management, community engagement, or project coordination.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with diverse groups.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- A proactive, collaborative, and compassionate individual who is passionate about making a positive difference.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of an exciting time as we grow and develop our newly opened Sensory Hub in Perth.
- Make a real difference in the lives of people with sensory loss.
- Join a supportive and fun team that values hard work and collaboration.
- A supportive and collaborative working environment.
Application notes
If you’re passionate about making a positive impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Please read the candidate pack and complete the application form, closing date Friday 15th November, interviews to be held on Monday 2nd December.
If you would like an informal conversation prior to applying for the post please contact us and ask to speak to Kate Charles CEO.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic charity making a real difference in people’s lives. Join us at VisionPK and help create a more inclusive community!
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We are seeking a Sensory Support Coordinator to join our dedicated team at Vision PK, a growing charity who have recently opened our new sensory hub in the heart of Perth.
About Us:
VisionPK is an exciting and growing charity, recently opening our new Sensory Hub in the heart of Perth. We provide specialist services for people with sight loss, hearing loss, or who are deaf, living within the Perth and Kinross local authority area. Our specialist rehabilitation service is commissioned by Perth and Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership, allowing us to offer essential support to individuals facing sensory challenges.
The Role:
We are seeking a Sensory Support Coordinator to join our dedicated team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of supporting individuals with sensory loss, providing direct assistance, coordinating services, and advocating for their needs. You will work closely with clients, their families, and other service providers to ensure holistic support and access to vital resources.
About You:
- Experience of working with people with disabilities, sensory loss, older people, or in community support roles.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
- A positive, problem-solving attitude and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- An empathetic approach, with excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with clients of all backgrounds.
- Understanding of holistic care and how to deliver support in a way that meets the broad needs of the people we support.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of an exciting time as we grow and develop our newly opened Sensory Hub in Perth.
- Make a real difference in the lives of people with sensory loss.
- Join a supportive and fun team that values hard work and collaboration.
Health and Wellbeing Coordinator
- Part time
- £25,861 – £27,141 pro-rata
- On site: Sensory Hub, George Street Perth (with travel across Perth and Kinross)
- Closing 15th November 2024
We are currently recruiting a Health and Wellbeing Coordinator, which is a newly created role to join our dedicated team at Vision PK, a growing charity who have recently opened our new sensory hub in the heart of Perth
About Us:
VisionPK is an exciting and growing charity, recently opening our new Sensory Hub in the heart of Perth. We provide specialist services for people with sight loss, hearing loss, or who are deaf, living within the Perth and Kinross local authority area.
The Role:
The Health and Wellbeing Coordinator is a newly created role, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. This role is central to promoting the physical and emotional wellbeing of individuals with sensory impairments, both within the community and at our Sensory Hub.
Key responsibilities include:
- Health and Wellbeing Programme Development and Delivery
- Partnership Building and Collaboration
About You:
- Experience in delivering health and wellbeing programmes, particularly for individuals with disabilities or sensory impairments.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage diverse audiences.
- Ability to build effective partnerships with external organisations.
- A proactive, compassionate, and organised individual who can work independently and as part of a team.
- A commitment to promoting inclusivity and accessibility.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of an exciting time as we grow and develop our newly opened Sensory Hub in Perth.
- Make a real difference in the lives of people with sensory loss.
- Join a supportive and fun team that values hard work and collaboration.
- A supportive and collaborative working environment.
Top job! Media and Digital Communications Manager
- Full time or Part time
- £38,261 – £41,272
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 6th November 2024
The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting a Media and Digital Communications Manager.
The Media and Digital Communications Manager will deliver communications, public relations, content strategy and digital communications to increase the profile and reach of the organisation.
The successful candidate for this role should have:
- Degree level qualification in journalism, public relations, communications or related field or at least 5 years proven experience in communications/public affairs
- Compelling copywriter, with attention to detail and confident in writing high quality content in a variety of styles for different audiences
- Good proof reading and copy editing skills
- Ability to interpret news, policy and business reports and translate to compelling content
- Ability to draft documents to reflect the requirements of members, staff and others
- Ability to manage multimedia channels
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with media professionals and stakeholders
- Understanding of health and social care and media landscape
- High quality time management and work scheduling to manage a variety of jobs with different deadlines
- A commitment to the ethos of membership organisations
- Proficiency in video production and editing software (e.g., Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro), podcast editing tools (e.g., Audacity, GarageBand)
- Good understanding of data protection legislation
- IT literate – office 365
As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:
- 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days)
- 91 hours of public holidays (equivalent of 13 days) that can be taken flexibly
- Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
- Contributory pension scheme
- Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
- Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Enhanced sick pay
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Learning and development opportunities
- Time off in lieu
- Cycle Scheme
- Carer Positive Employer
The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.
The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
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).
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