Braeburn Home is looking to appoint a Chair to its Board of Trustees.

This is a Self-Employed Role.

It is a key role, providing leadership and oversight to ensure the Home delivers its Strategic Aims & Ambitions, remains financially sustainable and in collaboration with the Home Manager, continues to meet the needs of the residents. The Chair leads the Board and provides challenge, support and clear strategic direction.

Job Description

Strategy, Vision & Purpose

• Shape how Braeburn Home develops and implements its vision and objectives in a way that meets the diverse needs of its residents, staff, community, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain a well-informed view of Braeburn Home and the wider landscape to support forward-looking decision-making.

Relationship with the Home Manager

• Develop a strong, constructive partnership with the Home Manager, providing challenge and support while maintaining governance and operational boundaries.
• Support the Home Manager in delivering the Operational Plan and leading the organisation effectively.
• Lead Board involvement in the appointment, appraisal, and where necessary, succession planning of the Home Manager.

Leading the Board

• Chair Board meetings effectively, ensuring focused, well-informed and timely decision-making.
• Ensure the Board has the right balance of skills, experience and independence.
• Lead Board development, evaluation and succession planning to maintain high standards of governance and performance.

Good Governance and Financial Management

• Ensure Braeburn Home meets all statutory, regulatory and reporting requirements and operations in line with best practice of OSCR, Care Inspectorate, SSSC and Company Limited by Guarantee.
• Oversee robust financial management, ensuring the organisation remains financially sustainable and resilient.
• Lead the Board’s approach to risk management, ensuring risks to the delivery of the Aims and Objectives are identified, monitored and mitigated.

Relationship Building and Advocacy

• Act as an ambassador or Braeburn Home, promoting its mission, vision, aims and objectives.
• Lead relationships at board level with key partners.
• Enhance the Home’s profile and influence across the sector and local community.

Role Specification

Knowledge & Experience

• Has held a senior or influential position, such as Chairperson or Chief Executive
• Deep Understanding of Charity Governance and Trustee Responsibilities
• Experience in overseeing risk, audit, finance, and performance frameworks
• A sound understanding of Care Homes & Adult Care Services
• Experienced in maintaining productive relationships

Skills

• Can confidently lead and manage meetings, building consensus and taking key and difficult decisions when required.
• A willingness to challenge constructively.
• Ability to set and monitor long-term direction and strategy.
• Comfortable with interpreting budgets, risk registers, and performance reports to make sound judgments.
• Strong communication, influencing and diplomacy skills
• Capacity to represent the Home publicly.

Remuneration

£25 per hour. Approx 5 hours per week. For a 12-month period from September 2026.

Board meetings are currently held at Braeburn Home on a monthly basis, of around 3 hours per meeting. With the remaining hours worked either at your own base or at the Home, depending on business needs.

You will be required to enter into a Service Agreement and provide a breakdown of the services and work delivered on your invoice.

This is not an employment contract, and you are responsible for your tax.

Help our work to end domestic abuse in Scotland

Scottish Women's Aid is the lead organisation in Scotland working to end domestic abuse. We are a feminist organisation working to improve responses to domestic abuse through campaigning, training, public awareness, Scotland's 24-Hour Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline, and support for a network of specialist local Women's Aid services across Scotland.

We are looking for a Finance and Payroll Officer to join our Infrastructure Team.

This role offers an opportunity to use your finance and payroll skills in a flexible, purpose-driven organisation working to create lasting change for women and children across Scotland.

What you'll do

Your work will help ensure Scottish Women's Aid can continue delivering vital services, influencing policy and supporting women, children and young people affected by domestic abuse.

Working closely with the Senior Finance Officer, you'll manage a varied workload including payroll and pension administration, purchase and sales ledgers, reconciliations, payments, grant claims, restricted funds and project budgets. You'll also support financial reporting, audit preparation and the continuous improvement of finance systems and processes.

We're looking for someone who:

• Has experience of payroll administration and finance processes.

• Has experience of ledgers, reconciliations and financial record-keeping.

• Is confident using Sage or similar accounting software and Microsoft Excel.

• Can identify discrepancies, solve problems and maintain accurate records.

• Builds positive working relationships and communicates effectively with a range of staff and stakeholders.

• Can manage competing priorities whilst maintaining confidentiality and attention to detail.

• Shares our commitment to equality and ending violence against women and girls.

• Enjoys working as part of a supportive, mostly remote team.

• is committed to learning, reflection, and ongoing development.

Why Work With Us?

There are many reasons to work for Scottish Women’s Aid. We have a great working culture and our mission and vision attract a brilliant staff team. Your hard work is rewarded with a package of support and benefits including:

• Support for flexible working

• Living wage employer

• 10% pension contributions

• Ongoing learning and development opportunities

• Employee assistance programme

• Bike 2 Work

• Edinburgh Leisure gym subsidies

More Information

Applications will be accepted from women only under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the people we serve. We value different backgrounds and perspectives, as they enrich our organisation and improve our work.

We welcome applications from all women, with particular encouragement for those from racially minoritised, disabled, or marginalised groups. We offer a guaranteed interview for disabled women who meet the essential criteria for the role.

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to a supportive and accessible recruitment process. If you have any questions or require any adjustments, please contact us at recruitment@womensaid.scot or 0131 226 6606.

About HSTAR Scotland SCIO

You will be joining a small, but very dynamic team!

At HSTAR Scotland we are deeply rooted in lived experience, which shapes everything we do. Since August 2020, we have proudly followed our mission to create a welcoming and inclusive healing environment for women in Scotland, primarily focusing on the Forth Valley. We help all women rebuild their lives after experiencing trauma and abuse. We take pride in placing the individual at the centre of their own therapeutic journey, offering a person-centred and trauma-informed approach to care.

Our holistic approach provides a wide range of trauma-informed services, including 1-2-1 therapy sessions, coaching, group sessions, advocacy services, befriending, mental health and wellbeing sessions, safety planning, and meaningful activities.

The Role

We are seeking an exceptional leader to join us as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This is a unique hybrid executive position designed for an accomplished professional who thrives on combining strategic vision with robust operational governance.

Working 28 hours per week, you will serve as the central anchor of integration for the charity. While day-to-day task execution is successfully delegated to our specialized team leads, you will hold ultimate organizational accountability for safeguarding, regulatory compliance, financial sustainability, and strategic stakeholder relations.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Alignment: Maintain continuous oversight of the charity’s functions, coordinating the workflows of the Service Manager and Financial Consultant to ensure absolute alignment with board-approved goals.
• Governance & Regulatory Compliance: Act as the primary champion for statutory frameworks, ensuring full, audit-ready compliance with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR), data protection (GDPR), and internal policy frameworks.
• Ultimate Safeguarding Ownership:Hold accountability for safeguarding systems, crisis protocols, and service quality benchmarks across all clinical and support operations.
• Financial Oversight & Funding Strategy:Oversee the organization’s complete financial health, budget validation, and risk mitigation. Optimize the deployment of restricted funds (e.g., Fairer Lives, Corra Foundation) and unrestricted revenue streams.
• Board Partnership:Author and present structured, evidence-based monthly performance reports, financial matrices, and risk registries to the Board of Trustees.
• External Relations:Act as the primary ambassador for HSTAR Scotland, building robust relationships with cross-sector partners, public commissioners, and grant funders to secure long-term funding pipelines.

What We Are Looking For

Essential Criteria:

• Proven leadership experience working directly with or reporting to a Board of Trustees within a regulated charity governance model.
• Strong financial oversight capabilities, including budget tracking, resource optimization, and multi-stream funding management.
• A clear track record in risk management, with the ability to identify, mitigate, and escalate operational and compliance risks.
• Exceptional cross-functional leadership skills, capable of driving synergy between operational delivery and financial administration.
• An understanding of, and deep commitment to, trauma-informed practices and ethical service environments.

Desirable Criteria:

• A successful track record in third-sector funding development, grant writing, or public sector commissioning in Scotland.
• Knowledge of the mental health, trauma provision, or violence against women sectors.
• Experience navigating organizations through structural changes.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Education: An advanced qualification or degree in Business Administration, Economics, Non-Profit Leadership, Education, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Competence in Safeguarding protocols and GDPR/data protection compliance.
• Full compliance with safeguarding standards, including Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH), safeguarding, confidentiality, and data protection requirements.

What we offer

• Statutory annual leave entitlement, plus additional discretionary leave during the Christmas period
• NEST Pension scheme
• Family-friendly policies
• Access to trauma-informed professional supervision
• Professional development opportunities in trauma-informed practice, safeguarding, governance and other areas
• Unlimited access to internal training resources and an external learning platform
• Opportunity to work alongside and support from an experienced and skilled Board of Trustees

Why Join Us

• This is an opportunity to lead a respected and mission-driven charity entering its next stage of organisational
• development and sustainability
• You will work alongside a dedicated Board, skilled therapists and committed staff team while helping shape the future of trauma-informed support for women across Scotland

Ark is a major provider of Housing, Care and Support to people with long term and enduring conditions such as learning disabilities, mental health issues, dementia and autism.

Ark supports people to live independently in their own homes providing everything from a few hours a week social and life admin support to 24/7 care supporting with personal care, medication, household tasks, attending appointments and leisure activities.

We have lots of opportunities across Scotland for our Support Worker roles. As we provide full training no previous is experience is required.

If you are enthusiastic about supporting people to live their best lives, then apply now to join our team!

Your main duties will include but not be limited to:

• Working with colleagues as part of an effective and efficient team to support vulnerable people.
• Communicate and work well with our supported people to provide individual care and maintain appropriate relationships.
• Being responsible in supporting individuals throughout the activities, giving positive feedback and encouragement.
• Updating and maintaining accurate records using a tablet on Arks Information Management system.

Previous experience of the following is an advantage but not essential as Ark will provide full training: Care Worker, Social worker, Home Carer, Case Worker, Care Assistant, Autism Support Worker, Personal Care Assistant , Social Care Worker.

View our job outline, find out what you working week could look like and hear from our current Support Workers on Arks website arkha.org.uk/work-with-us

Why Ark?

• No Previous Experience Required - Ark provide full training so no previous experience is required making our Support Worker roles the perfect place to start your career in Adult Social Care.
• Get a qualification while you work - Ark fully fund your SVQ2 in Health & Social Care which you complete with the support of our in house SVQ team.
• Employee Discounts - Employee Discounts Portal with 1000s of discounts on your favourite brands including Supermarkets, Cinema Tickets, Gym Membership and Holidays.
• Career Progression -Over 75% of all Managers within Care & Support have been promoted internally.
• Employee Assistance Program - Arks Employee Assistance program (EAP) gives all employees access to counselling sessions. There is also support available through weekly webinars and the EAP Website & App.
• Contracted hours to suit you-We have Full-time, Part-time and Relief Support Worker roles available at our services throughout Scotland.

In return for your valuable contribution, Ark will also offer you:

• Up to 36 days paid holiday per year pro rata
• 4% Contributory pension scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Fully funded PVG & 1st year SSSC registration paid by Ark

Our employees told us in a recent survey that they stay with Ark because they believe in our values, we have supportive managers who continually appreciate their staff and they love making a positive difference in our supported peoples lives, helping them to achieve their dreams.

Ark would love to hear from you whether you are an experienced Support Worker or new to Social Care.