- Advertised from 29th August 2025
Role
Enable Works is the largest provider of specialist employability support in Scotland, Every year we support over 7000 people across 30 Local Authorities in Scotland, to progress towards high quality, well paid, sustainable careers.
We partner with thousands of employers to create inclusive cultures and improve the diversity of Scotland's workforce. We are incredibly proud of our smart, capable, and motivated colleagues across Scotland and we are looking to recruit an experienced Operations Manager to lead our teams in Central and South East Scotland.
As a leader at Enable Works, you'll be at the forefront of our mission to deliver exceptional employability services for disabled people across Scotland. You will be responsible for leading partnerships and programmes across central Scotland and will play a pivotal role in driving our organisation forward.
You will have overall accountability for strategic development of your programmes and region, leading on performance management; financial and contract management and developing opportunities for new business, allowing us to grow our impact.
You'll have significant oversight of operations and staffing for the region, as well as managing and leading key external stakeholder relationships, ensuring smooth and efficient functioning of the services in your remit.
Your Responsibilities:
- Setting and upholding high standards: you will be accountable for a team of Performance Managers, Team Leaders and Employment Coordinators, ensuring that our services meet and exceed expectations. You will set and maintain rigorous standards of performance and quality across all of your services, ensuring clients needs are at the heart of every decision you make.
- Ensuring Compliance and Performance Excellence: You will be accountable for all quality and compliance for services in your region, ensuring robust processes are in place that align with contractual expectations. Working with the compliance and quality team, you will ensure that quality is embedded in all services you are responsible for, ensuring excellence in execution.
- Guiding a High-Performing Team: As a senior leader, you will mentor and lead a team of Performance Managers and Team Leaders, fostering their growth as leaders to provide effective mentoring and management for your team, ensuring that our Employment Coordinators consistently deliver outstanding services.
- Strategic Engagement: Building robust relationships with both local and national funders and commissioners will be second nature to you, ensuring seamless contract delivery and long-lasting partnerships. It will be your responsibility to ensure that contracts meet key aims and objectives, aligning our services with our mission and vision. You will be the main point of contact for funders and partners regarding contract delivery, ensuring that contracts are upheld, and relationships are maintained.
- Pioneering Opportunities: You will be responsible for proactively identifying and cultivating new business opportunities, staying up to date with emerging trends and policy changes in the landscape to ensure that your services can respond to local need and national priorities.
- Driving Business Growth: Accountable for business development in your region, you will identify opportunities for growth and take the lead on local grant applications and tenders for new services, driving our growth and reach. Strategic vision is key to the role of an Operations Manager so you will collaborate closely with our Senior Leadership Team to spearhead initiatives that widen our organisational impact.
- Influencing for Impact: You will hold a central role in shaping Enable Works' influence on policies and support systems for disabled people in Scotland, making a tangible difference in their lives. You will build relationships with key stakeholders to help shape strategy and direction in your region to ensure that people with disabilities have access to high quality support across Scotland.
- Managing Regional Finances: You will be responsible for creating budgets and managing regional income and expenditure, maintaining financial stability and efficiency in your region.
About You
We really need you to have these:
- An understanding of employability and skills structures and systems in Scotland
- An understanding of national employability policies such as No One Left Behind
- Experience of leading a performance focused team
- Ability to effectively coach and motivate developing leaders to deliver high performance within your team
- Experience of successfully managing and forecasting performance profiles
- Experience of writing impact reports
- Ability to work autonomously, fully accountable for managing and driving the services in your area to achieve excellence
- Self-management skills and the ability to prioritise competing deadlines effectively
- Effective project management skills and ability to think strategically to achieve long-term goals.
- A natural, professional relationship builder with the ability to partner and negotiate with stakeholders.
- Experience of creating and managing budgets, delivering on financial expectations and forecasting change.
- Strong attention to detail with professional presentation and personality.
- Confident communicator with experience of public speaking
- Role model who will demonstrate our values, leading by example
- IT proficient with experience of competently using Microsoft packages and CRM systems
- A full driving licence and access to a car, as travel is required in this role
We would love you to have these:
- Experience of working in employability out with Scotland
- Experience of business development including bid writing
- Experience working in rural areas
- Experience of working with people who have multiple/complex barriers
- Experience of leading managers and working with geographically dispersed teams
Please make sure you include a detailed personal statement in the 'More about you' section of the application form to tell us how you are suited to the post.
About Us
At Enable we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities.
We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:
- Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme*
- Season Ticket Loans*
Starting a career with Enable is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.
Enable is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.
*Terms and Conditions Apply
Application notes
For further information and to apply, please visit our website.
Closing date: 14 Sep 2025
Join Our Board and Help Shape the Future of North Lanarkshire Disability Forum
Are you passionate about making a difference in your community?
Do you want to use your skills and experience to help a Scottish charity grow and thrive?
North Lanarkshire Disability Forum is seeking new volunteer Board Members to join our governing body. We are a community led organisation supporting and raising the voices of people living with a long term condition, disability and those affected by cancer including carers.
As a trustee, you’ll play a vital role in guiding our strategy, ensuring strong governance, and supporting the Management and staff team to deliver real and lasting impact.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences — especially those who can bring diverse perspectives or lived experience relevant to our work. We’re particularly interested in candidates with skills in finance, law, fundraising, communications, or HR, but enthusiasm and commitment are just as important.
This is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to a respected Scottish charity while gaining valuable experience in governance, leadership, and strategic decision-making.
About Us
Clyde Shopmobility is a user-led charity supporting people with disabilities, age-related conditions, and mobility challenges. We provide powered wheelchairs, mobility scooters, and daily living aids to help people maintain independence and access their community.
Job Purpose
We are seeking a reliable and organised Shop Manager to oversee the day-to-day running of our Shopmobility service. You will lead a small team of staff and volunteers, ensuring the shop operates smoothly, safely, and professionally. This role is ideal for someone with strong people skills, a hands-on approach, and a passion for customer service.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the daily operations of the Shopmobility service, ensuring it is open and staffed appropriately across the week
- Supervise, support, and schedule staff and volunteers, including maintaining rotas and hosting regular team meetings
- Act as a keyholder and ensure the security of the premises
- Ensure the shop is clean, welcoming, and well-presented, with equipment and stock in good working order
- Manage stock levels, ordering, merchandising, and basic inventory control
- Handle customer enquiries, bookings, and payments, ensuring accurate records are kept using MS Office and booking systems
- Maintain compliance with health and safety, fire regulations, and data protection policies
- Carry out basic administrative tasks including cash handling, banking, and reporting
- Support the induction and training of new staff and volunteers
- Undertake any other reasonable duties in line with the role
Person Specification
- Experience in a retail, customer service, or supervisory role
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Confident using Microsoft Office and basic IT systems
- Friendly, approachable, and professional manner
- Commitment to equality, inclusion, and excellent customer service
- Ability to work flexibly, including some weekends
- PVG membership required
Are you looking to use your HR skills in a rewarding, thriving social care charity?
Capability Scotland delivers exemplary care, support, and education for disabled children and adults across Scotland. We were founded in 1946 and have always strived to be a major ally in supporting disabled people to have full equality of opportunity and participation as citizens of Scotland. Our vision is of an inclusive Scotland where everyone has the opportunity to have their voice heard, contribute to society and fulfil their potential.
As an experienced HR Business Partner, you’ll be joining an established HR team; reporting directly to the Head of People and working closely with two other Business Partners.
We encourage a work/life balance, so we’re open to discussing start and finish times that work around your life. You need to be within commutable distance of our Edinburgh office (EH12) as we work 50% of our time in the office and 50% from home. You should also be able to regularly travel to visit the managers you are partnered with across Scotland.
This is a challenging and fast paced role, with heavy involvement in case management. On top of a great salary, excellent pension, and market-leading annual leave, we can offer you a real sense of job satisfaction. You will be using your knowledge and experience to support the people who support our customers to live their best lives. You will gain invaluable experience and work in a supportive team environment.
Job Purpose
To provide operational and project HR advice and support to managers and staff ensuring employment issues are handled in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements and meets or exceeds good practice.
Required Skills/Experience
- 5+ years’ experience in a similar role.
- CIPD Level 5 or equivalent.
- Experience in a range of employee relations issues, including high-volume complex case management such as attendance, conduct, capability, and grievance. You will be juggling multiple cases at any given time, so you need to thrive while working under pressure.
- The ability to champion best practise, deliver change and continuously improve our processes.
- Up to date knowledge of employment law.
- An ability to demonstrate a commitment to our five values: being "Kind, Inclusive, Open & Honest, Aspirational & Creative"
- High level of self-motivation, able to meet several deadlines.
- Excellent organisational & communication skills with great attention to detail.
- Skilled in the use of all Microsoft Office products and able to learn new systems quickly.
- Ability to work flexibly on your own initiative and as part of a team.
- High levels of customer service and attention to detail.
Desired Skills/Experience
- Knowledge of the social care sector.
- Understanding of HR systems, ideally iTrent.
- Able to start with us quickly.
Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:
- £36,925.00 per year and a 37-hour working week.
- 37 days’ annual leave.
- Up to 13% pension (8% employer contribution)
- Up to 3x annual salary Death in Service benefit.
- Enhanced sickness and family leave payments.
- Free disclosure checks throughout your career.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Shopping discounts through the Perks At Work scheme.
- Free 24/7 employee assistance programme.
Support Workers & Relief Support Workers
- Part time
- Sessional
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 3rd October 2026
We are currently looking to recruit support workers to join our small team within Inclusion Alliance. The role involves supporting people with learning disabilities to be included in the community and lead an ordinary life. Your work would involve helping people to access educational, social, leisure and work or volunteering opportunities in the community.
No experience or formal qualifications are necessary for the role although a caring nature, positive attitude and a sense of fun are important characteristics to have. New staff will receive paid training and undertake shadow shifts with experienced staff members during induction. We want new staff to feel ready and able to work prior to working on their own for the first time.
We have various vacancies available including part time and relief/casual positions in various locations throughout Edinburgh.
Working hours are based between the hours of 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday
We have various permanent and casual vacancies available.
Relief/ Casual pay rate- £12.65 per hour
Candidates must be caring, motivated and have excellent communication skills whilst being committed to working in a person-centred way ensuring that support is built around the supported person’s wishes and needs.
Benefits include
- Employer contributory pension scheme
- Funded SVQ 3 qualification and learning opportunity
- Paid annual leave entitlement
- Regular paid supervision sessions
- Regular paid training and development opportunities
- Daytime Monday to Friday working
- Working for a well-established small organisation where person centred values are at the core.Free 24/7 access to employee support app
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