Join our team as a Finance Officer/Bookkeeper! We’re seeking a dedicated professional to enhance efficiency, improve processes, and provide immediate access to financial information.
The finance officer bookkeeper is/are key team members who will have the opportunity to become involved in all aspects of the charity. Although your key focus will be finance, we seek someone with strong administration and organisational skills.
DEADLINE: Sunday, 2 March 5pm - We will interview applicants as they come in, and we may close early as required.
Part-time Finance Officer/Bookkeeper
Postcode: G3 8TX
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We are recruiting for a Programme Health and Safety Lead to join us on a part time basis. The post holder will provide strategic and hands on health and safety assistance to our programmes and support services, ensuring all functions of the organisation comply with current health and safety legislation, acts, regulations, official guidance and standards.
Main duties and responsibilities will include:
Compliance and Information Management
Communication and Engagement
Full details can be found in the job & person specification with can be downloaded on our website.
What we expect from you..
Our values make us who we are and define our actions and behaviours every day. We’d expect the post-holder to uphold and represent our organisation in a way that reflects our values and person-centred way of working.
We’re looking for someone that has gained experience in a similar role with IOSH registration and NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety. You will have excellent knowledge of health and safety regulations and risk management practices, coupled with experience of investigating, reporting and analysing risk, accidents, incidents and dangerous occurrences.
A First Aid trainer qualification and certification is desirable as is ISO 45001 H&S Auditor certification.
What you can expect from us..
Due to career progression, we have opportunities for colleagues to join our team. As a Supervising Social Worker, you are the key link for our foster carers with local authorities, and will ensure quality of care for children and young people; identifying positive matches providing support, supervision and development opportunities for foster carers as appropriate. Your role is not only working with our foster carers as you will also link in with children and young people – checking in with them regularly to ensure their view and wishes are being heard and they are supported to achieve positive outcomes and are happy, safe and feel loved.
As a service we continue to grow, and your role will also allow for supporting potential foster carer applicants; building relationships with them as they progress from pre-approval training through their assessment as foster carers.
A typical week
Our team are located across Scotland. Our full-time roles will typically support a caseload of 12 of our amazing fostering families (reduced accordingly dependent on hours). Most of your time will be spent working remotely, however at times there will be travel to our office base in Falkirk for team and other meetings including our fostering panels – all with advance notice and planning. There are also opportunities to support learning, support groups and assessments.
Our carers consistently share that they value the relationships they have with the staff team, particularly their supervising social worker. The flexibility of working with Care Visions Fostering ensures that our team can provide excellent support to our fostering families, while managing their own diary. Our full-time team members generally work their hours Monday to Friday during core office hours. We hold our fostering panels on a Monday, and part-time colleagues ensure they can support this. We provide out of hours on call telephone support (incl. weekends) and our SSWs support this on an 8-weekly rota basis (supported by a manager) with an additional daily payment in respect of this.
Who we are looking for
We would love to work with someone who is a proactive team player with excellent communication skills and the ability to work flexibly, and independently. You must have a good working knowledge of child protection procedures, legislation, and regulations in relation to looked after children and fostering. A good working knowledge and understanding of the challenges facing children, their birth parents and foster carers is key, as well as excellent report writing and assessment skills. Experience of assessing prospective foster carers would be advantageous.
Our benefits include
*Pro-rata for part-time posts
About Us
Since 2006, Care Visions Fostering has been supporting young people across Scotland to improve their daily lives, development and opportunities after care. We work close to home, operating as a close-knit team. With therapeutic, trauma informed approaches integral, we provide a range of therapeutic supports for all our fostering families, along with our education support to link positively with schools and empower staff and carers to advocate positively in respect of each child or young person.
This is an extremely rewarding role, where you could make a real and significant difference to the lives of children and young people when they need it while working as part of an amazing and committed team of staff and carers.
Keen to hear more?
Listen to one of our team talking about the role youtube.com/watch?v=j2dnfMe4i1U
You can also visit our website for more general information on Care Visions and our values at carevisionsfostering.co.uk
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Sarah McEnhill, Head of Fostering, for an informal chat about the role on 01324 464 200 or sarah.mcenhill@carevisions.co.uk
GCA deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire
The role of Head of Diploma and Training is to be responsible for the development, co-ordination and management of COSCA counselling training and the delivery of the Diploma in Integrative Counselling.
GCA offer a number of COSCA validated trainings each year. These include the very successful COSCA Counselling Skills courses, with two options of study including in person and online. COSCA Counselling skills course is a requirement for many courses offering advanced studies towards qualifying as a counselling professional. In addition, we offer a Certificate in Counselling Supervision, and the course Further Steps in Counselling and Group Counselling Skills as well as COSCA SACC Behaviour Change Course.
The Diploma in Integrative Counselling is a part time 2-year course validated by COSCA. It is delivered in the evening and during the weekend in person in the GCA offices. The course is 400 hours of taught study with additional requirements for students of 40 hours personal therapy to be undertaken and a 100-hour clinical placement with supervision at a ratio of 1:6.
The Diploma has four cohorts of students (two First Year and two Second Year) and approximately 90 students with the majority attending classes and the rest completing clinical placement. Many of our students are supported to undertake their clinical placement at GCA. In addition to undertaking the Diploma, students are offered the opportunity to undertake a period of further study to complete a certificate in Counselling People Towards Behaviour Change. Many of our Graduate students go on to work in the counselling professions and we are pleased that several former students have found roles within GCA.
The Head of Diploma and Training will support the CEO and Senior Management Team with strategic and commercial strategy to help GCA be sustainable and grow, prioritising achieving our mission and goals. This will be undertaken in conjunction with other GCA Senior Management Team duties.
In return for choosing to work for GCA, the benefits you will receive are:
Organisation Profile:
Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA) aims to reduce alcohol and drug related harm, and risk of harm, at an individual and community wide level, through a long-term, asset-based approach to changing the culture of alcohol and drug use. It does this by delivering a range of interventions and services such as alcohol counselling, alcohol brief interventions (ABIs), employability support and groupwork as well as delivering a comprehensive training portfolio, including Addiction Awareness, COSCA Counselling Skills and a Diploma in Integrative Counselling.
GCA has been delivering specialised trauma informed alcohol counselling since 1965 to support those drinking at harmful and hazardous levels and who wish to make a positive change. The counselling approach is integrative and aims to address the presenting alcohol problem but also work with the inevitable accompanying life problems related to it. In our experience around 65% of individuals who access GCA will not have engaged with statutory services or recovery communities. GCA services have expanded to include a range of holistic services to support individuals in recovery from drugs and/or alcohol. Services we provide include; counselling, wellbeing support, a women’s only service for survivors of gender-based violence, and an LGBT health and wellbeing service. Currently GCA delivers services in Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.
Charity Information
Family Mediation West provides support to families affected by separation, divorce, and conflict. We have premises in Glasgow and Kilmarnock allowing us to offer services across the West of Scotland. We are affiliated to Relationship Scotland, who support a national network of 22 national service providers for individuals, couples, children, and families experiencing relationship breakdown. The values and the standards of the organisation help to ensure effective support can be provided to help families through very challenging times.
Job Information
This post is part of the Senior Management Team with a clear focus on Child Protection within all FMW services. However, the role will mostly be aligned to our Child Contact Centres as this is where most of our child centred service delivery is met. We are seeking an enthusiastic individual with good experience in this field to help support our child protection strategy and ensure that all compliance is met, and shape improvements to our current process.
It could be that you have great experience within a similar role, or vast experience within this environment and are looking to take a management step. This role may suit a candidate that has been working within childcare; alongside community / charities, education, social work, health, and any other child related environment.
The role is well supported internally with peer support and long-standing experience within the team. Additionally, support on all aspects of this role is found within our national network of charities.
Staff Benefits
Life Insurance (salary x 2), retail discount scheme, independent wellbeing and counselling support services, summer and Xmas vouchers, flexitime, 30 days annual leave and competitive pension rate.