Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.

By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as a Shop Manager in Strathaven, you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.

You will be part of Scotland’s leading health charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service provides access to a range

of supported self management and community recovery services to support people across Scotland to manage their health as well as possible and adjust to life after a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or after a stroke.

Be the Spark Behind Real Change

Our Shop Managers don’t just run a shop—they help transform lives! Can you?

• Lead and inspire a passionate retail team of volunteers in our vibrant Strathaven store
• Drive community engagement and deliver key performance targets
• Bring creativity and innovation to the shop floor—your ideas matter here
• Be a vital part of a charity that’s changing lives every single day

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.

CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination.

We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.

Fortune Works is one of Scotland’s largest social enterprises for people with learning disability. The Operations Manager post will provide an exciting and rare opportunity to help lead the service in providing meaningful social and economic activity to adults with learning disability in north west Glasgow. Fortune Works is part of Enable Glasgow, a long-established member-led organisation which works with people with learning disability and their carers in the city.

Fortune Works supports around 120 people with learning disability to play a full role in the life of the community through providing in-house economic activity and social support, and also in partnership with local community organisations in Drumchapel and north-west Glasgow. Our Operations Managers play a lead role in maintaining and developing these partnerships, and in ensuring the smooth running of a very busy service.

We are looking for people who have management or supervisory experience, drive, initiative, and experience to help us move on to the next stage of our development, and who have a demonstrable commitment to the human rights and inclusion of people who have a learning disability.

Benefits

Employee benefits include:

• 33 days leave (including public holidays) rising to 38 days after five years’ service.

• An enhanced pension scheme.

• Free life cover.

• Free access to counselling and wellbeing services.

• Support for training and professional development.

About Aberlour Youthpoint Moray

Our Youthpoint Moray service provides help to children and young people in Moray who may be struggling with their emotions and behaviour, prompting concerns about their well-being.

Our service provides one-to-one and group work support for children, young people and their families in a safe and relaxed setting. They help them to understand the issues that are affecting them, that can sometimes be the cause of their behaviour. They help them take steps to overcoming their difficulties at home, school and in the community. Aberlour Youthpoint Moray provides three services to young people in Moray; Intensive Community Support (ICS), Early Help and Mentoring and YP Zone.

What we are looking for....

As Service Administrator you will work with the Management team to provide financial administration for the service. You will also be responsible for recording and inputting information into our case management system. You must be able to work with high levels of accuracy and recording and inputting data and in providing regular management information in agreed format and responding to ad hoc requests as required. You will play a key role in supporting the smooth operation of our service ensuring administrative processes run efficiently and effectively.

Your job is also about supporting and working with people. For many of our families, our Service Administrators are their first point of contact - as they are usually there to welcome them into our offices! Our young people look forward to meeting our Service Administrators as they are always greeted with a smile. Our administrators are at times a point of contact for families/partners who are looking for urgent help and must respond in an appropriate, friendly and helpful manner.

The hours of work for this post are 25 hours per week, to be worked Monday – Friday during normal office hours. This role will be office based, in our service in Elgin.

Ideally you will have administrative experience gained through working within a busy office or social care environment. You will be comfortable working with all Microsoft Office packages, including Excel, and be able to create spreadsheets and deal with numerical information. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills. You will have a relevant professional qualification at SCQF level 7 or equivalent experience of working in a busy office.

At Aberlour we want to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. To have a look at our values to understand more about what we are looking for from our employees click here.

What we offer...

As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers. Find out more about our Employee Benefits and our commitment to Equality and Diversity here.

If you have any queries please e-mail: jobs@aberlour.org.uk

We also follow Data Protection Guidelines - Here is our privacy policy.

Aberlour is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our service users and uses a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG Scheme checks to ensure this commitment is not compromised. Applications are welcome from diverse ethnic minority and cultural communities, and under-represented faith and religious groups.

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is the leading voice of 5.5 million small businesses and the self-employed across the UK. Since 1974, we've supported people to start, run and grow their own business. With market-leading benefits, local support, financial expertise, networking events and more, we provide our members with all the tools they need to succeed in business. We’re also the UK’s leading business campaigner, focused on delivering change on issues that matter most. With teams across the UK, we work with governments and decision-makers to make real change happen.

We are currently seeking an Events and Campaigns Co-Ordinator to support our Scotland Team who are either based in our Glasgow office or home based across Scotland (Field team). You will provide a consistently high level of support to the Scotland Office and Field team and professional front line support to FSB members, external stakeholders and the wider small business community.

What will you do?

The role is varied across four main workstreams: Frontline external support, internal support, events and communication.

The successful candidate will (but not limited to):

• Be the first point of contact / face of FSB to members and external stakeholders contacting the Scotland Team.
• Be responsible for the management of the Scotland Office, including meeting room and diary management.
• Provide general administrative support for the Scotland team (office and field), and secretarial support to the Scotland Volunteer Council of Members.
• Support the planning and delivery of events liaising with venues, speakers, suppliers and internal stakeholders to manage bookings and logistics.
• Support the growth of FSB Scotland’s social media presence by creating and scheduling engaging content, interacting with followers, and responding to messages and comments.
• Support the Communications and External Affairs Manager and Development Managers in delivering communications strategies and campaigns.

Who are we looking for?

• Experience of managing and delivering administration support and working in a customer supporting role.
• Good telephone manner with the ability to carry out customer service calls to a high standard.
• Confident in working in a role without close supervision and able in using own initiative as appropriate.
• Good all-round knowledge of managing and delivering administration support.
• Good knowledge of IT applications including Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook, databases and social media platforms.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and strong relationship building and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload to meet deadlines and the ability to enable the smooth coordination of activities.

Essential Qualifications

• GCSE Grade 4 or equivalent in English Language and Maths.

FSB is dedicated to helping small businesses survive through these difficult times, and we value our staff enough to provide highly competitive rates of pay, benefits, and internationally recognised qualifications. We believe your work life balance is important, so our working hours don’t include weekend or evening work. We provide you with all the tools, skills and support to help our members every day, and help you develop your skills through teamwork and relationship building. We believe diversity is the key to success, and we encourage people from all walks of life and backgrounds to come and join us. Our inclusive environment allows all our employees to bring their whole selves to work.

In addition to a fulfilling career with FSB, you’ll also benefit from:

• 26 days holidays per year plus bank holidays with the option to buy 3 days with your Annual Flex Pot*
• Annual Flex Pot* to spend on benefits including additional pension, additional holidays, additional critical illness cover, additional life cover, cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership
• Health cash plan* (Access to claim back numerous benefits, including towards dental treatment, optical, chiropody, physiotherapy, counselling, health and wellbeing)
• Critical illness and income protection insurance*
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
• Access to an employee assistance programme and mental health first aiders
• Group Personal Pension (GPP)

*Applicable on completion of probationary period and subject to terms.