- Advertised from 1st February 2024
Role
About us
The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) is a small charity making a big difference. QNIS supports, develops and inspires Scotland’s community nurses and midwives. We help them to develop their expertise so they can drive positive action to build a healthier, kinder, fairer, greener Scotland.
About the role
We are looking for a great communicator, experienced in website management and digital media, to support the work of the charity. This will be a wide-ranging role that will see you involved in a variety of activities, including managing our website, maintaining our social media presence and developing our communications. Being a small team, we need someone who is also happy to roll their sleeves up and pitch in, scanning documents, packing boxes, or running to the shops when required.
The post is 37.5 hours a week, 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday with a 30-minute lunch. QNIS currently works in a hybrid way, which means you will be able to work from home for some of the time, however, there will be an expectation for some collaborative face-to-face working in the office. There may also be occasions when you will be asked to support an event somewhere other than the office or outwith the usual working hours. We are offering a starting salary of £27,645.
About you
With an aptitude for website management and digital media, you will have excellent writing skills, and will be highly organised. You will be able to demonstrate highly proficient IT skills and an ability to cope with several tasks at once. Crucial to success in the role is a high level of self-awareness, and the ability to communicate patiently, cheerfully and tactfully with everyone. We work on Microsoft365 using the full suite of MSOffice programmes, and the website is on WordPress. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud applications, social media management tools and of working with CRM would also be an advantage.
For more information about the role and the organisation, please download the Excellence Profile or visit the QNIS website qnis.org.uk
Benefits
- The opportunity to work with a passionate and friendly team focused on making a difference for community nurses and midwives, and the people they support, across Scotland.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- A competitive salary starting at £27,645 FTE.
- Hybrid working between home and our office in Castle Terrace.
- Contributory pension scheme, and salary sacrifice.
- Non-contributory death in service benefit scheme.
- 38 days of annual leave and a day off on your birthday.
Application notes
To apply, please send a CV and Covering Letter explaining how your experience matches the Excellence Profile to Dawn.Cruse@qnis.org.uk.
For an informal discussion about the role, please email office@qnis.org.uk, and we will arrange a time to call you.
Closing date for completed applications: Friday 1st March 2024
Date for interview: Monday 18th March
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CRM Database Coordinator
- Full time
- £25,305 – £29,102
- Hybrid: Glasgow or Edinburgh
- Closing 31st July 2024
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Income Generation and Engagement Team as a CRM Database Coordinator!
As a CRM Database Coordinator, you will support the promotion of all CHAS supporter activities and products by developing cost effective marketing across all channels and maximising value from existing and potential supporters.
You will be part of a small team providing specialist technical expertise in the day-to-day running and management of the CRM and the relevant processes and procedures which allow the smooth management of data and financial information.
About you
- You will have demonstrable knowledge of CRM Databases, Excel and Microsoft Office Software Applications.
- An enthusiasm for data, with significant experience in the coordination and administration of databases and working knowledge of GDPR
- Relevant industry qualifications, with demonstrable commitment to continuous professional development.
- Highly effective team working skills, with an ability to collaborate with others and develop strong and effective working relationships across the organisation.
- Meticulous approach to planning, strong problem solving skills and excellent attention to detail
- Accountable for self, actions and decisions
- An innovative and tenacious individual with a real team-working ethic that identifies with CHAS’s core values, vision and purpose.
Communications Officer Devolved Nations
- Part time
- Circa £34,400 pro-rata
- Remote: Home-based, Scotland, however occasional travel will be required as part of this role (may include team meetings or other work-related travel).
- Closing 9th August 2024
Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.
When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That’s because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. It happens every five minutes in the UK and changes lives instantly. Recovery is tough, but with the right specialist support and a ton of courage and determination, the brain can adapt.
We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there.
We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives.
We’re working to improve the diversity of our team. Because we know that individuality leads to a richer experience for our people and better support for those affected by stroke.
We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. And we’re particularly looking to increase the number of applications from those with lived experience of stroke and those from under-represented communities.
Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.
We developed a bold new corporate strategy so that we can rebuild more lives after stroke and make a bigger difference to people’s lives.
To help us deliver our strategy and make a real difference, we are looking to recruit talented people to a number of roles.
If you would like to support stroke survivors to rebuild their lives, we want to hear from you!
We are looking for a Communications Officer to support our team in Scotland to respond to Scottish media enquiries, delivering campaigns to influence health policy and support our fundraising and engagement comms activity.
Reporting to the PR Manager, the role will help deliver key media campaigns that call for change to support people to rebuild their lives after stroke.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Working as a team to deliver a proactive, effective and 24/7 press office, building relationships with identified media and opinion formers, and ensure timely media responses based on organisational and reputational priorities.
- Working with the Campaigns and Public Affairs team to deliver influencing activity to key health board stakeholders, Stroke Association campaigners and the general public.
- Working with the Stories team to identify and deploy the real stories of the stroke survivors we work for.
You will have experience of:
- Generating media coverage in Scotland, ideally in the charity sector.
- Using media to deliver calls to action to the public (eg donating, fundraising, campaigning) and/or decision makers (eg policy change).
- Planning, executing and monitoring media plans against identified briefs and overarching objectives.
- Working alongside Policy and Public Affairs colleagues.
- Creating, posting, and managing social media content.
- Reputation management and working with crisis communications teams.
- Working with colleagues from across an organisation to identify media volunteers (case studies) and developing stories to deliver media coverage.
This role requires occasional travel across the UK to attend team days, conferences and researcher events. Candidates must be able to meet this requirement of the role.
To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.
Top job! Chief Executive and Nurse Director
- Full time
- £84,000 – £90,000
- Hybrid: Based in our office in central Edinburgh, with scope for flexible working from home
- Closing 12th August 2024
About us
The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) is a small charity making a big difference. QNIS supports, develops and inspires Scotland’s community nurses and midwives to be agents for health improvement and catalysts for social change. We help them develop their wellbeing and commitment to self-care so they can drive positive action to build a healthier, kinder, fairer, greener Scotland.
About the role
The current post holder has been leading QNIS for 10 years and is moving on to take up a new role. For the right person this is a great opportunity to shape the evolution of the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland as it enters a new chapter. As Chief Executive and Nurse Director, you will have the chance to lead the strategic direction of the charity. Working with a group of expert and committed trustees, the postholder will be responsible for the development of a small charitable organisation with a large reputation.
As Chief Executive, the postholder is accountable for the running of the charity, providing leadership and management to the team of 10 staff (6.5 WTE) and the delivery of programmes. They will lead on strategy, vision and values creating a compelling narrative to support income generation. They will nurture and manage relationships with funders and potential funders to enable a sustainable future.
As Nurse Director, the role requires representing the Institute and community nursing/midwifery in strategic forums, bringing professional expertise, good evidence and wisdom to high level discussion.
The post holder is accountable to the Board of Trustees (QNIS Council). They have regular meetings with the Chair and an annual appraisal. The post is full time (37.5 hours), based in our office in central Edinburgh, with scope for flexible working from home. We are offering a salary of £84-90k depending on experience. There is 10% employers’ contribution to a group pension scheme, life cover and 28 days annual leave plus 10 bank holidays and an additional birthday leave day.
About you
A nurse, or midwife, you will be an experienced leader and manager. You will be highly numerate, able to set, monitor and manage financial plans including fundraising. You will be experienced in and knowledgeable about governance, particularly managing risk.
To support and supervise the team, you will be an experienced programme manager; familiar with designing and managing processes, budgets, evaluation and reporting on impact. You will be a highly skilled facilitator of learning and improvement, experienced in creating safe spaces for development. You will bring a range of creative, methodologies for improvement and change.
With a broad and deep knowledge of the health and social care policy landscape of Scotland, you will have a nuanced understanding of the range of issues affecting community nurses and midwives and Scotland’s public health challenges.
You will be highly self-aware and committed to wellbeing and self-care of yourself and others, bringing your own compassionate and creative leadership to setting a healthful workplace culture for the team at QNIS.
For more information about the role and the organisation, please download the Excellence Profile and visit the QNIS website.
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Our Trustees are essential to the running of our service and we are looking for passionate individuals to join us. Ideal applicants will have specific knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Finance –support of voluntary agencies in establishing good practice in line with legislation, and of developing self-sustaining business practices.
- Strategic Planning
- IT- technical support and/or client database systems
- Voluntary sector – as practitioner or board member
- Children’s mental health - as practitioner or policy maker
- Fundraising
The Board meets for around 2 hours, every 8-10 weeks. Meetings are held at our premises in Eskbank, Dalkeith, with remote access during instances when a Trustee is unable to attend in person.
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