Clinical Practice Manager (Maternity Cover)
- Part time
- £38,625 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Working from home and some time spent with colleagues in the Locality Teams and at our Head Office in Stirling.
- Closing 24th November 2024
- Advertised from 11th November 2024
- 22.5 - 30 hours a week
Role
This is an exciting time to join Venture Trust as we continue to develop, embed and grow our new multidisciplinary locality teams and apply our developmental approach in communities, in greenspaces and across Scotland’s wilder places.
Venture Trust supports people facing challenging life circumstances to overcome barriers and realise their potential. We work alongside people who have been impacted by trauma, and together we build the programme they need to move forwards in their journey, utilising in communities, greenspaces and wild places across Scotland.
The Venture Trust Outdoor Therapy Service is an important service aimed at reaching clients who can sometimes have difficulty accessing traditional clinical settings. Our service is highly committed to maintaining an ethical therapeutic practice in which safety and risk are given careful consideration.
Our accredited counsellors and therapists meet with clients in their local outdoor spaces; and for our clients, who have often experienced severe adversity and trauma, meeting them in their own community may be what allows them to take the step to engage in therapy. Furthermore, working outdoors allows them to access the varied benefits of working therapeutically in nature, with the metaphors, embodied experiences and regulating effects that can occur.
About this role
The Clinical Practice Manager role is a pivotal role in the Operational Leadership team at Venture Trust. It contributes to maintaining and fostering physical and psychological safety within the organisation, its staff and in work with participants. The Clinical Practice Manager holds an integral role within the organisation, through holding a therapeutic stance and reflective thinking with Operational Leads and the Senior Leadership Team.
They will hold a knowledge and understanding of organisational dynamics, as well as group and unconscious processes. They will bring this on behalf of the organisation to support and develop staff and practice with participants. They will facilitate Reflective Practice Groups alongside the Outdoor Practice and Development Manager for inter-disciplinary Locality Teams and undertake periodic reviews.
The Clinical Practice Manager provides a framework of clinical governance throughout service areas in line with best practice. This includes creating and reviewing relevant processes and policies. The Clinical Practice Manager holds joint responsibility for overseeing and maintaining practice standards across operational staff. This includes considering the practice of clinical staff, such as Outdoor Therapists, as well as operational staff, such as, Outreach Support Workers or Senior Outdoor Practitioners.
We are recruiting for fixed-term maternity cover, and during this period we would like the Clinical Practice Manager to prioritise leading on:
• Working closely with the Outdoor Practice and Development Manager to maintain a therapeutic stance within Leadership Teams within the organisation
• Supporting and maintaining safe ethical practice across operations
• Maintaining robust clinical governance and oversight of processes and policies
• Facilitating Reflective Practice Groups for inter-disciplinary Locality Teams
• Overseeing the Outdoor Therapy Service and its staff, including periodic 1:1 meetings with staff
• Organising and Leading Outdoor Therapy Service Meetings and Supervision
• Arranging quarterly Development Days for Outdoor Therapy staff
• Working alongside the Senior Outdoor Therapist to manage the delivery of the Outdoor Therapy Service for Younger People (10-24 year olds)
• Maintaining and building relationships with key stakeholders
Key relationships:
• Reporting to Director of Operations.
• Part of Operational Leadership team, alongside Outdoor Practice and Development Manager and Head of Operations
• Senior Outdoor Therapist / Outdoor Therapists / Senior Field Therapist
• Senior Outdoor Practitioners
• Senior Leadership Team
• External Clinical Supervisors, who provide 1:1 or group supervision for colleagues
About you
Essential
During this maternity cover, we need someone who can bring a robust and deep understanding of providing therapy and therapeutic services to our client group and is able to support multidisciplinary staff across the organisation.
You will have:
• Significant experience overseeing practice of staff and managing services
• Significant experience of working therapeutically in an organisational context.
• Experience of working with Venture Trust’s client group and, preferably, young people
• Experience supervising staff, preferably qualified to offer clinical supervision.
• Ability to articulate a rationale for integrating therapy work into natural environments, and its theoretical foundations.
• Experience of participating in and an understanding of reflective practice groups
• Personal competence in outdoor environments
Desirable:
You will have:
• Experience of facilitating reflective practice groups
• Experience of facilitating trainings to professionals
• An ability to understand outdoor safety management systems when working in dynamic outdoor environments with support from Head of Operations and Outdoor Practice and Development Manager
• An understanding of and willingness to operate in the 3rd sector
• Experience of building and fostering relationships with key stakeholders
• Professional experience of working in outdoor environments
Working at Venture Trust
We are looking for someone who can work 22.5 – 30 hours a week, including Mondays. The role will be hybrid working, with some time spent working from home and some time spent with colleagues in the Locality Teams and at our Head Office in Stirling.
We offer a range of generous benefits including:
• a generous annual leave entitlement (28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays and 3 Christmas holidays)
• an employee benefits package
• flexible and hybrid working
• a joint contributory pension scheme
Application notes
To apply, please submit your CV and a supporting statement of no more than 2 pages stating your motivation for applying for the role and sharing your relevant experience to our job board.
Closing date for all applications: 24th November 2024
Interviews will be held: Thursday 5th December
If you have any queries relating to this vacancy or about how to apply, please email us at hrteam@venturetrust.org.uk.
Venture Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity in employment and follows an equal opportunities policy.
Working under the direction of our Team leader, Youth Workers are key to ensuring the successful delivery of our provision for young people. The role will include the development and delivery of specific youth work projects and programmes delivered in accordance with the policies and procedures of the organisation, helping young people to develop personally, socially, and educationally. The role will include providing support to vulnerable and at-risk service users. Also responding to their needs, encouraging, and enabling achievement, self-expression, positivity, confidence, and the development of self-esteem based on equality and respect for each other
Outreach and Support Worker
- Full time
- £26,471
- Hybrid: Glasgow and Inverclyde
- Closing 20th December 2024
Do you have a passion for enabling individuals to make a positive change in their lives? We’d love to hear from you. Venture Trust works with people experiencing complex life circumstances. Through our work, we provide the opportunity for people to recognise their confidence, motivation and core life skills that they need to make positive changes in their lives.
We have an exciting opportunity for a new Outreach and Support Worker to join our Glasgow and Inverclyde locality team. This role will be working across Greater Glasgow and you will be the first person our participants meet.
You’ll be a caring, dynamic and driven person, dedicated to levelling the playing field and equipping people with the tools they need to thrive. You’ll be comfortable and confident working autonomously, working alongside people with complex lives. Working across Greater Glasgow, and wilderness places across Scotland, you’ll provide bespoke and holistic 1:1 support for participants, spending time to get to know them, their strengths and where they want to go.
You’ll help to shape their journeys, navigating 1:1, community and wilderness journey support, always harnessing the benefits of the outdoors and nature spaces to provide therapeutic benefit. You’ll accompany them on wilderness journeys and support them to develop employability skills. Across Greater Glasgow, we need you to work closely with referrers and partners to provide joined up support for participants, managing the differing needs of your case load, including working with young people and adults.
As a Outreach and Support Worker, you will:
- Deliver group activities outdoors in community greenspaces
- Provide one-to-one support for participants, identifying and removing barriers to participation and supporting towards their individual goals
- Maintain positive relationships with stakeholders, generating referrals for all programmes
- Promote Venture Trust within local communities
- Support the delivery of wilderness journey opportunities in Scotland’s wilder places
- Work closely with referral partners and any other stakeholders to provide joined up support for participants
- Work within a team structure with hybrid working arrangements
View the full Job Description.
If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, and want to play an important role in enabling people to achieve lasting change in their lives, we want to hear from you.
In return, we offer a range of generous benefits including a generous annual leave entitlement, flexible and hybrid working, an employee benefits package and a joint contributory pension scheme. We also offer a great working culture that embraces our core values of courage, care, curiosity and collaboration in all we do.
About ACOSVO
Established in 2000, ACOSVO is a growing membership organisation of 750+ voluntary sector Chief Executives, Senior Leaders and Chairs across Scotland. Our vision is that voluntary sector leadership in Scotland is influential, resilient, and trusted.
ACOSVO holds a unique position being the only organisation of its kind in Scotland with its members comprising of the key decision and change makers in the sector.
By offering a wide range of services, networks, personal and professional development opportunities, and relevant member benefits we’re here for voluntary sector leaders at every stage of their leadership journey.
Through engagement with members and partners ACOSVO has created a new Strategy for 2024-2029 with a new vision, aims, objectives and importantly a new suite of values that will underpin delivery. It is ambitious and we have created a new Head of Operations position to play a critical role in supporting the organisation to achieve the outcomes identified in the Strategy.
We are dynamic and committed to strive every day to do better for our membership. We do this by supporting and challenging each other, engaging with our members, and prioritising learning. We have a culture that enables us to deliver at our best and our values are very important to us.
Further information about ACOSVO and our new Strategy can be found at acosvo.org.uk
About the Role
ACOSVO is a small team with big aspirations and it is a very exciting time to join as a member of our Senior Leadership team. As Head of Operations you will be responsible for the overall success of our operations including planning and processes, finance and resource management, and organisational reporting. You will be responsible for HR, digital, driving membership growth and delivering high levels of efficiency and member satisfaction. As part of the Senior Leadership team you will act as an ambassador for ACOSVO, explore new ways to develop our activities, generate income, and provide line management that maximises peoples potential.
This is a permanent position, working 35 hours per week.
Additional benefits include 25 days annual leave plus 11 public holidays, pension scheme (employer contribution of up to 6%), and death in service at 1 x salary.
The working location for this role is hybrid working from home or our workspace at Greyfriars Charteris Centre, 138 – 140 Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR. There will be a requirement to work at other locations in Scotland and these times will be arranged in advance.
We are happy to talk about flexible working such as location and when the hours are worked within our core hours of 8am-6pm Monday to Friday.
Please note that this role is not suitable as a job share.
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Position within Structure: Senior Leadership Team
Travel Requirements: Throughout Scotland with occasional UK Travel
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- Part time
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- Remote: Home working
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The trees may be growing but we aren’t sleeping. We need your help to grow the Royal Scottish Forestry Society - an educational charity focused on practical forestry.
Background
The Royal Scottish Forestry Society, formed in 1854, is an educational charity focussing on promoting the understanding of trees, woods and forestry.
Every year RSFS puts on what we believe to be the most extensive programme of practical forestry events across Scotland. The Society has published a semi-academic journal, Scottish Forestry, since 1858 promoting all aspects of good practice in forestry.
Having agreed a refreshed strategy in 2023, RSFS is now looking to increase its delivery resource. We are looking for someone who shares our passion for Scotland’s trees and forests to develop closer links with members, partners and stakeholders. Your experience in operational delivery will allow us to improve our practices and professionalise our delivery to secure a sustainable future for the RSFS.
Who we are looking for
You will be a personable, dynamic self-starter, used to being the first point of contact within the organisation. As RSFS is a virtual organisation, you must be highly-organised and able to work independently contributing to the overall team outcomes.
The principal functions of the role will be to support the Board in advancing its mission and representing RSFS to members and the community:
• Support the Regions planning and delivery of Regional Field Days and the Annual Study Tour;
• Manage the definition, planning and delivery of paid training events;
• Maintain links with members, partners, stakeholders and sector organisations;
• Develop and promote membership of the Society to a broad and relevant constituency;
• Evaluate and implement procedures for RSFS, and as appropriate for Cashel Forest Trust;
• Ensure, in conjunction with our Secretariat, that RSFS remains in compliance with prevailing laws and regulations; and
• Other duties as required by the role.
Outline terms and conditions
• The role is for 21 hours per week;
• A full-time equivalent salary of £45,000 to £55,000, pro rated for the contracted hours, to be agreed depending on experience;
• 28 days paid holiday;
• Access to our employee well-being assistance programme.
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