An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Operations Manager to join our fantastic team here at Cosgrove Care. We are looking for an energetic, values driven operational manager who can take responsibility for leading and developing our Supported Living services and leading on all aspects of quality, innovation, impact and efficiency.

You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to inspire, motivate and engage your team, families and public and local partners.

Reporting to the Registered Manager, and as part of the Supported Living Leadership team, you will lead and manage our registered services for people with learning disabilities, autism and complex needs.

You will provide dynamic, confident and positive leadership and management that results in the achievement of high-quality services, growth and diversification of our work in line with our Strategy. You will ensure high standards of care and support, staff wellbeing, and will add value to peoples’ lives and contribute to our community.

If you are values led and passionate about person centred care provision, then we want to hear from you.

Are you an experienced Health & Social care professional looking for an exciting new role? We've got a great opportunity for you!

We have a rare and exciting opportunity for an organised and dedicated individual to join our fantastic #TeamDundee as a Lead Practitioner on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Role

As a Lead Practitioner, you'll demonstrate great communication, organisational and interpersonal skills and will lead and inspire your teams of Support Practitioners in Dundee.

You'll provide support, guidance and mentor your teams to ensure that they are professional, accountable, engaged and motivated resulting in them delivering first class, high quality care and support. Alongside our Service Lead, you’ll also contribute to ensuring that our service(s) are running within agreed budgets and in conjunction with our contractual requirements.

About you

What we'll need you to bring:-

• Experience of managing people
• Knowledge of what it takes to run an effective service within the Health & Social Care sector
• A passion for and experience of delivering high quality, person-centred care and support
• Sound knowledge of SSSC Codes of Practice and Health & Social Care Standards
• Proven record of building and maintaining positive and professional relationships with supported individuals, their families and other stakeholders
• The ability to lead others and work collaboratively
• Great communication skills; both verbal and written
• A sound understanding of professional boundaries, accountabilities and responsibilities and how they relate to supporting vulnerable individuals
• A commitment to undertake and achieve a SVQ Social Services & Healthcare SCQF Level 7 qualification and PDA in Health & Social Care Supervision (if not already attained)

Shift patterns

As a Lead Practitioner, you will work 5 out of 7 days. There may be occasions where we will need you to be flexible to work evenings, sleepovers, waking nights and weekends due to the needs of our services. On call duties will also form part of your role on a rotational basis.

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join our Scottish Borders services as a Team Leader.

Autism Initiatives Scotland provides a range of person centered services throughout Scotland to people who are 16 years old and over.

Based between our supported living services in Longnewton and our Scottish Borders Outreach service in Galashiels, the Team Leader will support the Area Manager in ensuring that all staff are managed and supervised effectively and that the highest level of autism specific practice and standards are maintained. You will also manage the staff to deliver support plans to our service users and work with healthcare professionals to ensure support plans are to the highest quality.

The Team Leader will have responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service, therefore, you will be able to demonstrate excellent social care project management skills and have a working knowledge of current legislation relating to the social care sector.

Benefits of working with us include:

• Competitive Salary

• 31 days Annual Leave Entitlement, including bank holidays

• Your birthday off every year, to treat yourself!

• Ongoing Learning & Development throughout your employment

• Career Progression Opportunities

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Auto-enrolment pension scheme

• Medicash Healthcare Plan

• Eligibility to become a Blue Light Card Member for online & high street discounts

The successful applicant will be required to register with the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).

This is a truly rewarding role, with the opportunity for you to develop your skills and knowledge and fulfil your career aspirations.

Are you an experienced in Payroll and on the lookout for the next step in your career or a fresh new challenge? We could have just the role you are looking for!

We have an exciting opportunity to join Cornerstone as our new Payroll Officer on a part-time (23.5 hours per week), permanent basis. It's a very exciting time to join our team as we implement our brand new HR & Payroll system.

This role can be based in either our Dundee, Glasgow or Aberdeen office, or part of our hybrid working model. If opting for hybrid, we would need you to live within a reasonable commute of Dundee, Glasgow or Aberdeen. There will be occasions that we'll need you to travel to other Cornerstone branch locations for meetings and training (travel expenses would be reimbursed as set out in Cornerstone’s expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation).

The Role

Reporting to our Depute Payroll Lead and working alongside your fellow Payroll Officers, you’ll be involved in the day-to-day activities of our payroll department, ensuring that payments to our colleagues are compliant, accurate and made in a timely manner.

As a main point of contact for our colleague queries, you will use your Payroll expertise to ensure that we deliver a supportive, exceptional service to around 1,800 colleagues across our organisation.

You'll assist in the running of the monthly payroll process to ensure that colleagues are paid on the specified pay date of each month, ensuring that all salary payments are made in line with employment legislation and that deductions are made in line with employment legislation and are recorded and submitted to statutory bodies within timescale.

About You

What we'll need you to bring: -

• A minimum of 2 years' experience of delivering a comprehensive and compliant payroll and pension service (including pension auto-enrolement and RTI)
• Degree or CIPP/IPPM equivalent qualification or extensive experience in a comparable role
• Excellent customer service skills
• Great communication skills (written and verbal)
• The ability to independantly problem solve to a successful conclusion
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and organise your workload to meet tight deadlines
• A proven track record of using Microsoft Office packages, including Excel, Word and Powerpoint
• The ability to manage data, create reports and present information clearly and effectively

About Us

With 45 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 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.