- Advertised from 16th July 2026
- 45 hours per week
Role
Camphill School Aberdeen is seeking an experienced and compassionate House Co-ordinator to lead one of our residential houses and support children and young people with additional support needs to live, learn and flourish within a caring community.
Reporting to the Head of Care, you will provide leadership and oversight of a residential house, ensuring high standards of care, safeguarding, wellbeing and staff performance. You will create a warm, supportive environment where children and young people can develop independence, achieve their potential and enjoy meaningful relationships and experiences.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and supporting a multidisciplinary residential team.
- Managing staff rotas, supervision, appraisals and training.
- Ensuring compliance with Care Inspectorate, SSSC and safeguarding requirements.
- Overseeing care planning, record keeping, medication management and house administration.
- Working closely with families, social workers, therapists, education staff and other professionals.
- Promoting social pedagogical practice and person-centred care
You will have:
- 3-5 years' experience in a supervisory or management role supporting children and/or adults with additional support needs.
- A degree-level qualification in Social Pedagogy, Education, Social Care or equivalent. Full SSSC registration and PVG membership.
- Strong leadership, communication and organisational skills.
- Knowledge of safeguarding, Care Inspectorate standards and relevant legislation.
- A full driving licence and good IT skills
We offer the opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of children and young people while working within a supportive and values-led organisation committed to professional development and outstanding care.
If you are an inspiring leader who shares our commitment to helping children and young people reach their full potential, we would love to hear from you.
Application notes
For job description and/or application form please visit our website camphillschools.org.uk
At Camphill School Aberdeen we currently have an exciting opportunity for a Head Teacher to join our school.
We are looking for someone who can provide strategic leadership and direction to the education staff team, fostering a culture of high professional standards, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Support and guide teachers in understanding and fulfilling their responsibilities in curriculum planning, ensuring high-quality learning experiences for all pupils. Someone who can Promote a strength-based approach to supporting students with behaviours that can challenge, creating an inclusive and nurturing environment.
Apply if you have A strong knowledge and experience of a range of specialist teaching and learning approaches, experience of teaching children and young people with additional support needs, sound knowledge of special education, particularly in relation to learning disabilities and autism.
We offer - comprehensive support packages. Relevant training. Learn, work and share with a great team of people. Exciting opportunities to help grow our provision Security, here for over 80 years.
Project Manager (Payroll Implementation)
- Full time
- £50,700 – £53,357
- Hybrid: Elgin, Peterhead, Aberdeen, Dundee, Airdrie, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Irvine or Galashiels
- Closing 19th July 2026
Calling Project Managers!Are you a skilled communicator with a natural ability to influence, motivate and lead others and ready for a new challenge? Then look no further!
We have an exciting opportunity for a professional, hands-on Project Manager to join us on a full-time, fixed term basis (6-12 months) to deliver some key systems and business process change projects, and to develop our programme management capability for ongoing technology and business process transformation.
This role can be based in any of our offices across Scotland (Elgin, Peterhead, Aberdeen, Dundee, Airdrie, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Irvine or Galashiels) or as part of our hybrid working model.
The Role
We have an ongoing project which we need you to lead: -
- Our new HR and Payroll System is already underway. We've selected our new system and plan to implement the HR module this year, followed by the Payroll and Expenses modules in 2027. We're looking for a hands-on Project Manager to take ownership of the implementation, ensuring the project stays on track and is successfully delivered through to completion in 2027.
- Our HR and payroll processes are complex, with data flowing across multiple systems and integrations. We're looking for someone who can quickly understand and improve end-to-end processes, confidently manage stakeholders across HR, Finance and IT, and solve problems as they arise.
This is a rewarding time to join Cornerstone as we deliver our new strategic plan, Improving Lives Together, built around the following organisational priorities:
- The Foundation – Digital innovation: empowering everything we do
- Pillar 1 – Voices of the people we support at the heart of all decisions
- Pillar 2 – People: leadership, workforce and culture
- Pillar 3 – Financial sustainability: building for the future
- The Roof – Quality: evidence based improvement
To be successful in this role, you'll be: -
- Experienced in implementing HR and Payroll software and managing the business processes and wider change implications
- An experienced project manager, able to create and maintain cohesive project plans using a project management tool such as MS project or similar to manage tasks, resources, schedules and create reports.
- A skilled communicator, able to assertively negotiate, and influence with diplomacy and tact to progress the project objectives.
- Able to motivate people with your management and leadership abilities, ensuring teams work collaboratively to meet deadlines.
- Knowledgeable about change management practices, and techniques for effective management of change.
- Excellent at planning and organisation, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Committed to professionalism and quality, with a practical, solution-focussed approach.
It would be a benefit if you also have: -
- A project management qualification such as Prince2 Practitioner, PMQ, PMP
- Knowledge and experience of the health and social care or third sector
About us
Cornerstone is one of Scotland's largest charities with 45 years' experience providing great care and support for adults and children with various support needs across Scotland.
We operate over 18 local authorities in Scotland and provide a wide range of services to over 2,000 individuals each year. Our focus is to encourage social inclusion, reduce loneliness, and improve health, independence and wellbeing by working closely with the people we support and their families, setting personal goals with them, and ensuring they receive the care and support they need to live the best life possible.
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.
There will be occasional travel across our branches (travel expenses would be reimbursed as set out in Cornerstone's expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation).
Have any questions?Please contact Lesley DeJager, our Director of People & Culture at lesley.dejager@cornerstone.org.uk.
The successful candidate will be subject to a Level 2 Disclosure check through Disclosure Scotland.
Our Communities are places where people with and without learning disabilities live, share and grow together. Our Edinburgh Community is made up of over 80 members - including people we support, employees, volunteers, long-term friends and members.
We are looking for someone with the leadership gifts, values and ambition to enable us to achieve our
2030 Strategy aims of:
- brilliant, person-centred support and housing for adults with learning disabilities, and
- beautiful community where people with and without learning disabilities share lives, homes, friendships and spiritual journeys together.
- effective organisation
This is a very varied role which includes both operational management and visible leadership. The Community Leader brings people together, leading Celebrations, spiritual spaces, role modelling the values of L’Arche and building a culture which empowers teams to flourish, as well as co-producing plans to develop the Community and the services which we provide. The Community Leader is also responsible for managing compliance, budgets, embedding systems, organisational processes and policies in the Edinburgh Community.
Alongside other Community Leaders across the UK and members of the National Team, you will also contribute to the development and delivery of projects focusing on: Finances, People, Care and Housing, to meet our ambitious 2030 Strategy.
But being Community Leader is more than just a job and we are looking for someone who wants to be part of a movement of hope and joy. In L'Arche, you will be part of changing the world, and you could be profoundly changed too.
SVQ Assessor
- Full time
- £32,042
- Hybrid: Irvine, Dumbarton, Glasgow, Airdrie, Dundee, Aberdeen, Peterhead, Galashiels or Elgin
- Closing 23rd July 2026
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 assessments across Scotland on a full-time, permanent basis.
Our Assessor role can be based in one of our offices across Scotland (Irvine, Dumbarton, Glasgow, Airdrie, Dundee, Aberdeen, Peterhead, Galashiels or Elgin) 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;
- 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
- 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.
For a full list of key responsibilities and person specification, please see our role profile on our website.
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.
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