Join GCIL and Make a Difference!

At GCIL (The Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living), we empower disabled people with the information, skills, and support they need to lead independent lives and participate fully in society.

As a disabled-people-led organisation, we centre lived experience and pride ourselves on delivering high-quality services that make a real impact in our communities.

Why Work With Us?

• Meaningful Impact: Your work will make a tangible difference, helping disabled people of all ages to lead independent, fulfilling lives.
• Personal Connections: You’ll work one-to-one with people, building strong and rewarding relationships.
• Autonomy and Responsibility: Supporting people to make choices that work best for them.
• Professional Growth: We’ll support your development and give you opportunities to grow your skills and experience in a values-led environment.

This is an exciting opportunity to help ensure disabled people’s voices shape real change.

As our Inclusion and Participation Officer, you will coordinate and deliver inclusive and accessible engagement across our local areas, with support from the Policy & Participation Lead and wider team.

This will support disabled people to share their experiences and ensuring those insights influence services, policy, and decision-making.

You will design and deliver lived experience engagement activity that enables disabled people to participate meaningfully and ensures their voices inform GCIL’s work and wider systems.

Additionally, as our Inclusion and Participation Officer you will be responsible for:

• Engaging effectively with disabled people, particularly within a monthly disability group
• Supporting the development and growth of disabled s groups, with potential expansion across all four GCIL services
• Producing and publishing a monthly e‑bulletin covering disability‑related issues, legislative changes, and relevant updates
• Researching, preparing, and presenting information for monthly group workshops
• Managing and updating social media content, including posts and project updates

In order to be successful in this role, you must have:

• Lived experience of disability and/or professional experience supporting disabled people (including family / friend experience)
• Excellent communication and people‑engagement skills
• Strong social media experience, with the ability to create engaging and accessible content
• Strong research and information‑preparation skills
• Ability to work independently, plan monthly outputs, and meet deadlines

This post will require PVG scheme membership.

We Actively Welcome Disabled Applicants

As a disabled people-led organisation, we are especially keen to hear from disabled people, including those with lived experience of navigating support systems or barriers in society.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. If you have lived experience of disability, we strongly encourage you to apply.

If you need adjustments during the application or interview process, just let us know we're happy to support you.

We guarantee interviews for all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria outlined in the job description.

Are you an experienced Health and Social Care SVQ Assessor? Do you want to join an award winning, friendly and experienced team? If so, then we have the perfect role for you!

We've got a great opportunity for a motivated and experienced SVQ Assessor to join us covering SVQ assessment across Scotland on a part-time, permanent basis. (3 days per week)

Our Assessor role is based in one of our West of Scotland offices (Irvine, Dumbarton, Glasgow or Airdrie) as part of our hybrid flexible working model. We will also need you to have flexibility to travel across Scotland when required.

The Role

As part of our Training Academy, you’ll play a key role in qualifying our social care workforce and supporting our team of SVQ Assessors in our Qualifications Scotland (formally SQA) Approved Centre which has been in operation since 1998. You will assess portfolios for the Social Services and Healthcare qualifications at SCQF levels 6, 7 and also ideally Core Skills, Business & Administration and PDA in Supervision awards.

You’ll be responsible for prioritising your own workload and planning your week to enable you to assess candidates through technology (eportfolio, MS teams) as well as providing some face to face support. You will work with candidates from induction to award completion, using your initiative to support them to meet Qualifications Scotland standards, agreed deadlines and organisational KPI’s.

You’ll be a key part of our experienced Assessor team helping ensure our excellent reputation of Cornerstone as an Qualifications Scotland provider is maintained for both our internal and external stakeholders.

To be an amazing Assessor we'll need you to bring;

• Experience of assessing candidates across different SCQF levels working in health & social care
• Extensive health and social care experience
• Confident use of technology (eportfolios, MS teams, Microsoft suite)
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills
• Ability to work flexibly to meet the individual needs of candidates and assessors
• Strong interpersonal, networking and facilitation skills
• An in-depth knowledge of Health and Social Care Standards, SSSC Codes of Practice, SSSC Registration requirements.
• An SVQ qualification in assessment i.e.L&D9DI A1 or D33
• An SVQ (or equivalent) qualification in social care at SCQF 7 or above

About Us

With 46 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 aim to be the best employer in social care in Scotland and would love for you to come and join us. We thrive on teamwork and are passionate about the care and support we provide. If you're looking for a rewarding career where you know you can make a difference, then look no further.

Have any questions? If you'd like to find out more, please contact Pam Douglas on 0141 378 0675 or drop her an email on Pam.Douglas@cornerstone.org.uk

Shortlisted candidates will be invited along to a face to face/ MS Teams Interview depending on location.

The successful candidate will be required to go through a standard Disclosure check through Disclosure Scotland. This is a rewarding role which will allow you to draw on your experience of the Social Care sector to provide professional assessment and support to candidates, enabling them to realise their potential.

Please note - If you have spent more than 12 months out with the UK (excluding France, Germany. Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania or Spain) within the last 10 years while over the age of 18, you will be asked to provide a criminal record certificate from the relevant government/police authority as part of our pre-employment checks.

Are you already imagining yourself as part of our team? Apply today; we would love to hear from you.

You will be helping deliver our mission to give everyone with spina bifida and hydrocephalus the chance to feel unstoppable.

The Assistant Finance and Operations Officer will play an essential role in helping to ensure the smooth, accurate, and efficient running of core organisational processes.

The postholder will assist with day‑to‑day finance, HR, and operations tasks and will contribute to the overall effectiveness, compliance, and coordination of the charity’s internal systems.

This role supports the delivery of robust financial processes, the maintenance of compliant and consistent HR practices, and the implementation of key Health and Safety requirements. By providing reliable operational support across these areas, the Assistant Finance and Operations Officer will play a key role in strengthening organisational resilience and ensuring that staff and managers receive high‑quality, timely administrative support.

What Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland can offer you

Flexibility – We offer flexible working, including the opportunity to work from home or around caring responsibilities.

Supportive colleagues, helping you to express yourself- Our team values teamwork, learning and continuous improvement. Staff scored SBH Scotland 8 out of 10 for being supportive in taking risks with new ideas.

We also offer: Workplace pension scheme; salary sacrifice scheme; death in service benefit; paid Carers Leave; 30 days annual leave entitlement and 4 days Public Holidays; an additional day off for your birthday and wellbeing days.

Role reports to: Head of Finance and Operations

Place of Work: The Dan Young Building, 6 Craighalbert Way, Dullatur, G68 0LS with hybrid home-working model

Working Hours: 20 hours per week, worked Monday to Friday, 10am–2pm. Some flexibility may be required occasionally to meet operational needs. Lone working in the office will be required for a minimum of two days per week. The role may necessitate working some hours outside normal office hours, including evenings and some weekends.

We strongly encourage applications from disabled people and those with lived experience of disability or caring responsibilities.

SBH Scotland is a Real Living Wage and Disability Confident employer.

Key duties and responsibilities

To be as unstoppable as the people we support.

• Process purchase ledger invoices, staff expenses, and credit card transactions.

• Support sales ledger tasks including preparing invoices and monitoring outstanding income.

• Maintain accurate digital financial records and customer contracts.

• Assist with monthly income reporting and financial analysis.

• Provide consistent administrative support across HR processes.

• Assist with facilities coordination, building safety requirements, and contractor liaison.

• Support allocation and tracking of IT equipment and user access requests.

To be a team player who unifies people.

• Work collaboratively with colleagues across departments to ensure efficient internal processes.

• Support recruitment activities, interview scheduling, and onboarding tasks.

• Manage shared inboxes and act as a professional first point of contact for internal and external enquiries.

• Maintain digital filing systems and support document preparation.

A commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

• Work with curiosity and initiative, seeking better, smarter ways of doing things.

• Support the coordination of learning opportunities for staff.

Main Purpose of Post:

To work within our Teenage/Adult social wellbeing programmes team to develop, plan, promote and run online sessions using Zoom for TeenZ/FriendZ Space, our online programme of activities for teenager/adult with Down’s syndrome. This will occasionally include supporting people with Down’s syndrome who are co-delivering sessions. The TeenZ/FriendZ Space Worker will also be required to complete associated administration tasks including digitally updating and maintaining bookings and attendance records, preparing, and posting mailouts. We initially introduced an online social wellbeing programme in October 2020 in response to Covid lockdowns with the aim of facilitating friendships, having fun together and reducing social isolation in adults and teenagers with Down’s syndrome. Participants come together to enjoy activities such as craft, music, quiz, health and wellbeing and sessions based around shared interests. This programme was further developed to run as 2 separate programmes, one for teenagers aged 13-19 (TeenZ Space) and one for adults 18+ (FriendZ Space). The post holder must be available to work weekday evenings and occasional weekend work. The post is homebased online with some occasional in-person work involving travel across Scotland.

Demands of the post:

This post is home-based online with occasional face to face work which may involve some travel across Scotland. Evening and, on occasion, weekend work will be required. This is included in your working hours and scheduled in accordingly. Appointment to this position is subject to membership of the PVG (Scotland) Scheme.