Top job! Head of Business Development
- Full time
- £55,000 – £60,000
- Hybrid: Linlithgow, West Lothian and home working
- Closing 26th October 2026
- Advertised from 6th October 2026
- 35 hours per week
Role
Help shape the future of neurodiversity support in Scotland
We're looking for an ambitious and entrepreneurial Head of Business Development to establish and lead Donaldson's first dedicated business development function.
This is a rare opportunity to build something new. Working closely with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team, you'll identify, develop and secure opportunities that increase our impact, diversify income and support long-term sustainability.
The Role
You'll lead Donaldson's growth agenda by:
- Developing and delivering our business development strategy.
- Building a pipeline of strategic growth opportunities.
- Securing partnerships, commissioning opportunities and sustainable income streams.
- Turning ideas into successful bids, partnerships, services and commercial opportunities.
- Expanding our training and consultancy offer.
- Establishing the foundations for long-term organisational growth.
About You
You may come from the charity, public, education, health, social enterprise, consultancy or commercial sectors, but you'll bring:
- A successful track record in business development, growth or income generation.
- Experience developing partnerships, bids, tenders, contracts or commissioned services.
- Strong commercial awareness and strategic thinking.
- Excellent networking, influencing and relationship-building skills.
- A proven ability to turn opportunities into tangible results.
Most importantly, you'll be energised by opportunity and motivated by impact. You'll be naturally curious, commercially astute and skilled at spotting potential where others see challenges. Comfortable working in ambiguity, you'll thrive in an environment where there is freedom to create, shape and influence, bringing entrepreneurial thinking and the drive to turn ideas into meaningful results.
Why Join Us?
As the National Body for Neurodiversity, Donaldson works to improve outcomes for neurodivergent children, young people and families across Scotland.
This is an opportunity to shape a brand-new function, influence organisational strategy and play a key role in our next phase of growth and impact.
If you're excited by growth, partnerships, innovation and creating lasting social impact, we'd love to hear from you.
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Kate, Director of People and Engagement, at kclement@donaldsons.org.uk
Application notes
Closing date: Monday 26 October, 12noon
Interviews: Thursday 5 November 2026
Please review the full job description available below.
This post is considered as Regulated Work with Children and Adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2020 and as such membership with the PVG scheme is essential to undertake this role.
To apply, please fill in our application form available here.
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Join GCIL and Make a Difference!
Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living, GCIL, is a disabled people’s organisation. We work to promote independent living, equality and inclusion for disabled people.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled people and people with lived experience of the issues our work focuses on.
Why Work With Us?
- Meaningful Impact: Your work will make a tangible difference, helping disabled people of all ages to lead independent, fulfilling lives.
- People-Focused: You’ll spend a significant amount of your time communicating — one-to-one, in groups, in the community, and online. If you love engaging with people, this is the role for you.
- Varied Outreach: From delivering training sessions to hosting workshops, events, and drop-ins, you'll be out in the community building understanding and trust.
- Autonomy and Responsibility: Manage your own caseload and represent GCIL confidently through regular verbal and digital communication.
- Professional Growth: We’ll support your development, including your communication, training delivery, and community engagement skills.
About the Role
The role will provide administrative support to the Project Manager and wider project activity, helping to keep the project organised and running smoothly.
This will include arranging meetings, workshops and project activities, keeping accurate records, preparing and sharing project materials, supporting communication with participants and partners, and helping to make sure project information and activities are accessible and inclusive.
The project will involve disabled people, NHS Scotland Learning Partners and other stakeholders in the development and testing of practical toolkit resources.
The Administrator will play an important role in supporting participation, gathering feedback, maintaining project information and helping the team keep track of actions, timelines and evidence.
Additionally, as our Administrator you will:
- Provide administrative support to the Voices at Work NHS Scotland project
- Help coordinate meetings, workshops, stakeholder sessions, site visits and project events
- Maintain accurate project records, including participant information, action logs, feedback, monitoring information and toolkit testing evidence
- Prepare, format and share agendas, workshop materials, feedback forms, toolkit documents and other project resources
- Support clear and inclusive communication with participants, NHS Scotland Learning Partners, stakeholders and GCIL colleagues
- Help coordinate access requirements and accessible formats, such as Braille, large print and audio
- Use Microsoft 365, including Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, Forms and SharePoint, to support project administration
- Support monitoring, feedback and reporting processes
- Help manage project resources responsibly and follow GCIL procedures
In order to be successful in this role, you must have:
- Has experience providing administrative support in a busy working environment.
- Is organised, reliable and accurate, with the ability to maintain records, manage information and help keep work on track.
- Has good communication skills and can communicate clearly and respectfully with disabled participants, NHS Scotland Learning Partners, stakeholders and colleagues.
- Is confident using Microsoft 365, including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.
- Can work independently, carrying out agreed tasks with confidence, while also contributing effectively as part of a team.
- Understands the importance of accessibility, inclusion and the meaningful involvement of disabled people.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience working with disabled people, supported lived-experience involvement or co-production, coordinating access arrangements, producing information in accessible formats.
- Using Canva or similar design software.
About GCIL
Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living, GCIL, is a disabled people’s organisation. We work to promote independent living, equality and inclusion for disabled people.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled people and people with lived experience of the issues our work focuses on.
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.
Ready to Join Us?
If you're passionate about inclusion, empowerment, and social justice and ready to grow your leadership in a values-led environment we'd love to hear from you!
The posts will be primarily based in our Hamilton Office with regular travel to our Glasgow head office, and within the North and South Lanarkshire areas.
Apply now and help shape a more inclusive, equitable society.
The successful candidate will lead a distinctive 24/7 supported living service and help shape its next stage of development. We are seeking an experienced, values-led manager who can inspire a multidisciplinary team, strengthen partnerships and ensure that 22 adults with learning disabilities receive consistently high-quality, person-centred support.
About us
Established in 2015, Esmond Street provides high-quality, 24/7 supported living for 22 older adults with learning disabilities and people with additional complex needs. One of the few services of its kind in Glasgow, it was developed to meet growing demand for specialised, person-centred support that can adapt as people’s needs change.
Esmond Street is part of Enable Glasgow, a membership organisation that provides services for people with learning disabilities across the city. Our work includes supported living, social opportunities, social enterprise activity, advocacy and campaigning. Founded in 1957, Enable Glasgow now supports around 200 people directly and has almost 400 members.
About the Role
Reporting to the Head of Supported Living, the Service Manager will lead Esmond Street through its next stage of development. You will lead and develop the staff team, build strong relationships with family members, external professionals, commissioning authorities and regulatory agencies, and ensure that Enable Glasgow’s values are evident in day-to-day practice and future service development.
We are looking for a manager who shares Enable Glasgow’s commitment to the right of people with learning disabilities to live fulfilling and meaningful lives. You will bring empathy, sound judgement and a genuine commitment to helping each person live the life they choose.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leadership & Management: this role involves managing and supporting a dynamic staff team, including support workers, housekeepers, catering staff and our senior support workers. It also involves conducting regular support and supervision, appraisals, and supporting continuous professional development.
- Service Delivery & Quality Assurance: to coordinate the operational management of the service, ensuring compliance with Care Inspectorate standards, legislative frameworks, and internal policies.
- Safeguarding & Risk Management: to lead on protection inquiries and implement robust risk assessments to safeguard vulnerable individuals.
- Resource Management: to effectively manage allocated budgets, play a role in commissioning appropriate care packages, and allocate resources efficiently to meet local population needs.
- Partnership Working: to collaborate closely with health and social care partners, other third-sector organisations, and family networks, promoting integrated, holistic support.
What We Are Looking For:
You will need to demonstrate the following experience, qualifications and professional requirements. Where a management qualification is not already held, we will support the successful candidate to work towards one.
- Experience: Significant experience in a health or social care setting, including a proven track record in a leadership or supervisory capacity.
- Qualifications: SVQ Level 4 in Health and Social Care (or equivalent professional qualification) alongside a recognised management qualification, or a willingness to work towards one.
- Professional Registration: Active registration (or immediate eligibility to register) with the Scottish Social Services Council.
- Key Skills: Excellent written and oral communication, sound budget handling abilities, and the resilience to manage challenging situations under pressure.
- Background Check: To join the PVG Scheme or to have your membership updated.
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.
Enable Glasgow strives to apply equal opportunities and diversities principles to all aspects of its work.
All successful candidates are required to join the PVG Scheme (or to have their membership updated).
Top job! Health & Safety Lead
- Full time
- £50,700 – £53,357
- Hybrid: Dundee, Glasgow or Aberdeen
- Closing 11th October 2026
A national role with the opportunity to shape health and safety across Cornerstone.
We have a great opportunity for an experienced health and safety professional to influence practice at a national level.
Working with colleagues across our organisation you'll strengthen governance, improve consistency and develop practical approaches to managing risk.
Based at our Glasgow, Dundee or Aberdeen office, this role offers hybrid working alongside regular travel across our services and locations. You'll work closely with teams across Cornerstone, building relationships and providing visible, practical health and safety leadership.
About the role
At Cornerstone, our purpose is to enable the people we support to live valued lives in their communities.
As our Health and Safety Lead, you'll play a key role in ensuring our approach to health and safety supports this purpose while meeting our legal and regulatory responsibilities.
You'll be Cornerstone’s competent person for health and safety, helping colleagues understand legal requirements, manage risk effectively and embed a positive, proportionate safety culture.
This is a broad and influential role, combining strategic oversight with practical support. You'll help shape and continuously improve Cornerstone’s health and safety framework, providing assurance that our policies, systems and practices are effective, proportionate and compliant.
You'll help translate legislation and good practice into approaches that work in the context of our services and play an important role in using data, audit findings and incident learning to identify risks and drive meaningful improvement.
Key responsibilities
- Act as Cornerstone’s competent person for health and safety, providing expert advice and guidance across the organisation.
- Maintain and continuously improve health and safety policies, systems, procedures and guidance.
- Develop and deliver audit, inspection and assurance programmes, identifying areas for improvement.
- Provide practical advice on risk assessments, safe systems of work and legal compliance.
- Analyse health and safety performance data and produce clear reports, trends and recommendations.
- Support incident investigations, root cause analysis and organisational learning.
- Work with managers to implement effective, proportionate and sustainable health and safety practices.
- Support engagement with regulators, inspectors, insurers and professional advisers.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of health and safety training and capability-building programmes.
What we're looking for
You'llbe an experienced health and safety professional with the knowledge and confidence to balance legal compliance, effective risk management and operational requirements.
We'll need you to be comfortable working at both a strategic and practical level, providing clear advice and building effective relationships with colleagues across a large, multi-site organisation.
Essential qualifications and experience
- Relevant occupational health and safety qualification, such as a NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent (SCQF Level 10).
- Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and regulatory requirements.
- Experience in a health and safety advisory, assurance, compliance or risk management role.
- Experience of audits, inspections, investigations and risk assessments.
- Ability to interpret legislation and translate complex requirements into clear, practical guidance.
- Strong communication, influencing and relationship-building skills.
- Strong analytical skills, with experience using data to identify trends, risks and areas for improvement.
- Experience working across a dispersed, multi-site organisation.
- Experience within social care, health, housing, the third sector or another regulated environment.
Desirable
- Certified or Chartered membership of IOSH or an equivalent professional body.
- Experience working with regulators, inspectors, auditors, insurers or external advisers.
Why Cornerstone
Our values, Caring, Person-Centred, Professional and Pioneering underpin how we work and the services we provide.
This role provides you with an opportunity to influence health and safety practice across a national organisation, strengthen our approach to risk and assurance, and support the delivery of safe, high-quality services across Scotland.
So, if you are an experienced health and safety professional looking for a role where you can use your expertise to influence practice across a large organisation, we would like to hear from you. Apply now!
Employment Coordinator (Perth & Kinross)
- Full time
- £30,379
- On site: Perth & Kinross
- Closing 26th October 2026
Do you have a passion for helping people?
Do you have excellent communication and customer service skills?
Do you want to work for one of the best employability providers in Scotland?
Would you like to help someone with barriers to work find their dream job?
Then come and work for Enable Works.
Your role, as an Employment Coordinator is to provide support to people who have barriers to work to make progress towards and achieve well paid, sustainable employment.
Enable Works are the leading specialist provider of employability services for people who have barriers to work. We believe that every person in Scotland has the right to work in a job that is high quality and well paid.
Enable Works supports over 7000 people every year across 30 Local Authorities to learn skills for work.
We partner with thousands of employers to create inclusive cultures and improve the diversity of Scotland's workforce.
We are incredibly proud of our smart, capable, and motivated colleagues across Scotland and following a period of significant growth we are looking to grow our team.
We offer a generous salary, excellent benefits, and opportunities to develop and grow in your role.
We offer flexible working practices that promote a strong work/life balance so that when you are at work you can be the best version of you.
Values are more important to us than qualifications or experience, so if you don’t think you meet every requirement that’s ok, we still want to hear from you.
Please make sure you include a detailed personal statement in the ‘More about you’ section of the application to tell us how you are suited to the post.
About You
We really need you to have these
- The drive, energy and commitment to support people to obtain high quality, well paid jobs
- Ability to manage your own workload and prioritise as needed
- Confident communicator
- Strong attention to detail
- Professional presentation and personality
- Some knowledge of the local community
- Ability to work with people at any age who have challenging barriers to employment
- IT literacy
- Comfortable working towards targets
- A natural, professional relationship builder
- A full driving licence
Why?
Our vision is that every person in Scotland is able to access the support they need to find a high quality job that pays them well and your drive and commitment to this job will help them get there. You will recognise each clients individual skills and aspirations and work with them to find a job that they love.
Our culture is autonomous so that means we trust you to make the right decisions for your clients, therefore you need to manage your work load well and be accountable for your time. Attention to detail is important as it means you can work accurately and follow instructions.
About Us
At Enable we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities.
We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:
- Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loans
- Blue Light Card
Starting a career with Enable is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.
Enable is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.
The cost of PVG is paid upfront by the organisation and deducted from your wage if successfully appointed.
Enable reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Please submit your application as early as possible if this vacancy is of interest.
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