- Advertised from 7th March 2025
- 37.5 hours per week
Role
To develop and lead the implementation of a strategic communications plan delivering high-quality coverage and resources to capitalise on high awareness of the power of personal music to help dementia and increase it further. You will support our work to empower people in communities to create and use playlists, encourage people to support our work through donations, undertaking training or sharing our message. To line manage and develop the Communications Officer, and collaborate with the wider team to deliver the strategy. To protect and enhance the reputation of the charity through proactive and reactive media relations management, stakeholder engagement and campaign management.
Help take the UK's leading music and dementia charity to the next level.
Playlist for Life is the UK’s leading music and dementia charity. We are seeking a Communications and Campaigns Lead to join our small but highly skilled team to improve the lives of people living with dementia, their families and carers through personalised playlists.
Playlist for Life has a simple vision: we want everyone with dementia to have a unique personal playlist and for everyone who loves or cares for them to know how to use it.
The Communications and Campaigns Lead will play a key role in our team to develop and lead the implementation of a strategic communications plan to elevate our brand and help us increase our reach and impact. We are looking for a dynamic, creative and skilled individual that has empathy with our aims, a strong understanding of the sector we operate in and is driven to make a difference
You must have empathy with Playlist for Life’s aims, values and objectives and strong understanding of the sector Playlist for Life operates in. Understanding the third sector and best practice in communications and marketing is essential. You will ensure a consistent ‘tone of voice’ for the charity and ensure its messages are delivered uniformly across platforms to maximise impact.
Reporting to: Executive Director
Managing: 1 x Communications Officer.
Application notes
Please visit playlistforlife.org.uk/vacancies to download an application pack.
Please submit your application by 5pm on Thursday 27th of March 2025.
Handwritten applications will not be accepted.
Interviews are scheduled to take place in person in Glasgow week commencing 7th April.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Full time
- £40,000 – £45,000
- On site: Cumbernauld, with work across Kilsyth and the Northern Corridor areas
- Closing 4th April 2025
About Us
We are a well-established charity with almost 35 years of experience providing essential services and activities for individuals over the age of 60. As the primary third-sector provider in Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and the Northern Corridor areas, our services include Daycare, activity groups, befriending, volunteering opportunities, and a Community Transport fleet offering door-to-door transport. We continue to consult with the community and strive to develop our services to support the evolving needs of our community to maximise flexibility and accessibility.
The Role
We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead our organisation towards achieving its strategic goals and objectives. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional leadership qualities and a proven track record in managing diverse teams while driving financial performance. As the CEO, you will be responsible for overseeing operational management, staff leadership, service development, and strategic planning. This role requires an individual with a passion for community work, the ability to develop strong partnerships and build relationships with external partners as well as the ability to adapt services to meet emerging needs.
Key Responsibilities
• Service Management: Oversee the delivery of existing services, ensuring they are effective, person-centred, and aligned with our mission.
• Team Leadership: Provide management and support to staff and volunteers, ensuring a positive and productive working environment.
• Strategic Development: Lead on the development and implementation of service improvements, including digital support initiatives and flexible service models.
• Partnership Working: Build and maintain relationships with local organisations, funders, and stakeholders to enhance service provision and partnership opportunities.
• Community Transport: Oversee the management of the Community Transport fleet, ensuring compliance and efficient operation for service users and community groups.
• Funding and Reporting: Support funding applications, reporting, and evaluations to sustain and grow services.
• Safeguarding & Compliance: Ensure that all services operate within regulatory requirements and best practices in safeguarding and data protection.
Person Specification
Essential
• Proven experience in running the full operation of an organisation, with sound knowledge of governance requirements, within the charity, health, or social care sector.
• Proven experience in service management within the charity, health, or social care sector.
• SCQF Level 9 or SCQF Level 10 (relevant experience instead of qualification may be considered).
• Strong and demonstrable leadership and team management skills.
• Experience in service development, including digital and flexible service models.
• Excellent communication and partnership-building skills.
• Experience in funding applications and financial oversight.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, health & safety, and regulatory compliance.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach to service delivery.
• Ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing circumstances.
Desirable
• Experience managing community transport services.
• Understanding of the challenges facing older and vulnerable adults in North Lanarkshire.
• Experience in managing grant funding distribution.
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.
The role is working 17.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Hours of work can be split flexibly throughout the week in agreement with the line manager. The role will be office based for the first 2-3 months, home working will then be in agreement with the line manager, based on the needs of the service.
We are Right There, a charity celebrating our 200th anniversary. We provide tailored support for people, at home and in the community. We are here for people who are living with the effects of homelessness, poverty, substance use or family breakdowns.
Last year we supported almost 4000 individuals, helping to prevent them from becoming homeless or separated from the people they love. Every person's story is unique, and everyone's route home is different - it doesn't matter what the situation is - we're not here to judge, only to help.
Main duties and responsibilities will include:
Compliance and Information Management
- Develop, implement, monitor and maintain H&S procedures and registers
- Provide training and support to managers on the completion of risk assessments
- Maintain a centralised COSHH risk assessment process
- Maintain the organisation’s incident management reporting system
- Deliver H&S training to staff as and when required
- Continually assess the status of H&S within the organisation and identify improvement opportunities
- Assist Risk and QA Lead in auditing compliance with H&S procedures
- Lead of the development and delivery of in-house H&S training courses
Communication and Engagement
- Coach managers on fulfilling their H&S responsibilities
- Coordinate with Property H&S Manager
- Develop partnerships with relevant H&S agencies
Full details can be found in the job & person specification 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..
- The post holder will report to the Head of Strategic Initiatives and Governance
- Working 17.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, flexibly between the hours of 8am and 6pm depending on the needs of the service, with 1-hour unpaid break
- Your usual place of work will be 15 Dava Street, Glasgow, G51 2JA. Working arrangements are in agreement with the line manager based on the needs of the service
- Annual leave entitlement of 210 hours (equivalent to 6 weeks) pro rata in your first year, rising to 280 hours (equivalent to 8 weeks) pro rata in your second year. This includes public holidays
- You will automatically be enrolled into the People’s Pension in the month that you will complete 3-months of employment, providing you meet the auto-enrolment criteria
- Life insurance 4 x salary
- Option to purchase and sell annual leave
- Comprehensive induction and ongoing learning and development
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellness programmes
With Kids
Our lives are so often shaped by our childhoods.
When problems are bottled up in those important early years, they can grow into mental health issues later in life.
But young children don’t have the language skills to properly express what they’re going through. And often when their emotions do come out they can be loud, or scary or get them into trouble.
That’s where With Kids comes in - a unique children’s mental health charity operating across the central belt at the forefront of the provision of Play Therapy in Scotland
Our trained specialists give children the freedom to express their difficulties on their own terms. Using the one form of communication that comes naturally to them – play.
Play Therapy empowers children to understand themselves better, to process life events, and to build confidence and self-esteem. So they can better regulate their emotions, build stronger relationships with their families and peers, and learn to cope with life’s many challenges.
We work alongside the children from an early age, along with their parents, carers, schools and communities – aiming to build long term, self-supporting networks.
Our priorities are to contribute to addressing cycles of poverty by improving the mental health of children, their families and the wider community.
Because difficulties in childhood don’t have to direct our whole lives.
Together we can take a new path.
“I have to give a five-star rating to With Kids. They support me and my family as individuals and as a group. This is the best way of working”
“I love working here and feeling part of a team, an organisation with such as positive approach, shared values, strengths and connections, care and focus on child welfare. With Kids do things properly and are always looking to improve”.
The role
This new role brings an exciting opportunity for a highly organised and motivated individual with extensive fundraising experience to shape the future of With Kids.
You can expect a supportive management team, who take joint responsibility, while you take on the management of all strands of income generation and fundraising. Through this work
you will be helping to shape the future of With Kids and enabling our staff to provide children and families with a high-quality service.
Are you able to hit the ground running with applications to trusts and foundations, while developing other income generation activities and relationships to build income from corporate bodies, individuals, and communities?
The post-holder has the scope to build our relationships with corporate bodies and increase income from individual and community fundraising activities. The role may also lead on, and provide support to, the Business Development Manager and CEO in tendering opportunities.
Ideally you will be a skilled communicator and have the ability to use digital tools and lead on managing online campaigns for income generation.
It’s not expected that the post holder will necessarily have experience in all of these areas, so there is scope to influence the content of our fundraising strategy and develop new skills.
Do you have a wealth of experience of working in health & social care and are you looking for a fresh new challenge in a Leadership role? Then we have the perfect role for you!
We've got a great opportunity for a motivated and experienced social care manager to join us as Branch Leader covering Glasgow & East Dunbartonshire on a full-time, permanent basis.
The Role
Working closely with the branch team of Service Leads, Lead Practitioners and frontline colleagues along with support from the Senior Leadership Team and Business Support Leads you will play a key role in supporting with the delivery and implementation of Cornerstone’s Strategic plan.
The main purpose of your role will be to provide effective leadership to your branch, ensuring it meets organisational Key Performance and quality Indicators. You'll be focused and passionate about the delivery of excellent care in line with us ensuring that we are the expert provider to the people we support. You will always look to maximise local business development opportunities, with key collaborative working partnerships with HSCP’s, housing association and all other MDT’s. In additional you will be first point of contact for referrals and oversee tenancy related matters where appropriate.
What we'll need you to bring:
- Experience of working in health & social care.
- Experience of running a local health & social care business, branch or division.
- An understanding of empowerment and coaching versus management and supervision.
- An understanding of developing an empowered workforce.
- Sound business skills such as planning, tender writing, analysis and reporting, networking and income generation.
- Experience of attracting new customers, securing new contracts and successful bid-writing and presentation.
- Knowledge of the political and strategic environment as it relates to social care.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Demonstrable experience of good financial management.
- An understanding of relevant statutory regulations and good practice.
It would be great if you also have;
- SVQ Level 8/9 in a relevant discipline or equivalent management qualification.
About Us
With 45 years' experience delivering great care and support, Cornerstone provides tailored, individual packages of care which focus on enabling people with a variety of needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, autism and complex care needs, to live the best possible life.
We are always flexible and responsive in meeting the ever changing needs of the people we support and work closely with individuals and families to agree what sort of support will work best for them.
Do you have what it takes? What are you waiting for? Apply today! We'd love to hear from you.
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