The Volunteer & Programmes Co-ordinator will help with the day-to-day coordination of those who generously share their time and talent with Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity, helping ensure their experience is well-organised and supported.

You’ll work closely with the Volunteer Manager and Charity Impact Team to keep our volunteer programme running smoothly - supporting fundraising events, hospital-based roles and more.

About Sustain Borders

Working in partnership with the Scottish Borders Council, Aberlour Sustain Borders supports families that are on the ‘edge of care’ to stay together by offering the help and tools they need to prevent a child from being taken into care. This service is tailored to suit the needs of each family that we support and is offered exactly when they need it - every day of the year.

What we are looking for...

As the Service Administrator you will providing comprehensive day to day administrative support for the service. The hours of work for this post are 20 hours per week to be worked during normal office hours of 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday. Your working hours can be discussed at interview.

You should be organised, used to working in a busy office environment and possess the skills to deliver a full administration service including reception duties, co-ordinating meetings, mail and maintaining manual and electronic storage and retrieval systems. You will also coordinate building and equipment needs as required in consultation with your manager.

An important part of the role is to provide financial administration for the service, supported by the Service Manager. You must be able to work with high levels of accuracy in recording and inputting data and in providing regular management information, in an agreed format and also responding to ad hoc requests as required.

You will be proficient in using Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, Outlook etc to enable you to support the production of a range of reports. As you will often be the first point of contact within the service for a range of social care, education and other professionals you will need to have strong verbal communication skills.

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.

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.

As a leading Scottish children’s healthcare charity, we are seeking to recruit an experienced Trusts & Foundations Lead to join our team.

The post holder is responsible for developing, implementing and evaluating a fundraising strategy to retain and increase income from charitable trusts and foundations against agreed targets.

The best thing about working for Aberlour is making a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families.

About Options Ayrshire

Our Service is a busy respite service for children and young people with complex health needs, including severe learning and physical disabilities. As well as providing short residential breaks, the service offers outreach to families and is also involved in the managing and running of an after-school club as well as a busy Easter and summer playscheme.

What we are looking for....

We are looking to recruit to our Easter playscheme programme. Our playscheme runs 5 days per week, Monday to Friday, during the school holidays. You will work flexible hours as part of a team providing a programme of fun-filled activities and outings as well as supporting young people with aspects of personal care. Some previous experience in this area is preferred. Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn and work hard are essential. To allow us to provide a consistent, quality service it is desirable that applicants commit to working up to 5 days per week during the Easter school holidays for a minimum of 12 hours per week. There will be an opportunity to work additional hours up to full time hours. Days will be given in advance. Our playschemes run in both Ayr and Girvan and staff may be expected to work at both sites. Mandatory training dates for staff will be arranged during February and March before commencement of the playscheme.

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. Aberlour’s values are critical and drive everything we do. We will be looking for someone who can demonstrate how Aberlour’s values of Respect, Innovation, Integrity and Challenge will be visible in their practice. You must be comfortable working in an environment where Aberlour’s values are lived in practice. To have a look at our values to understand more about what we are looking for from our employees please go to our website.

What we offer...

You will receive a planned and supported induction consisting of a varied training programme. You will be working alongside a highly motivated and skilled team. Find out more about our Employee Benefits and our commitment to Equality and Diversity on our website.

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.