- Advertised from 22nd May 2025
- 30 hours per week.
Role
About Angus Carers Centre
Angus Carers Association (trading as Angus Carers Centre) is an organisation established by carers, for carers. The Association was established in October 1996 and became part of the Royal Princess Trust for Carers network in November 1997, then becoming known as “Angus Carers Centre”.
Angus Carers Centre is a well-regarded and successful charity/organisation providing tailored information, advice, emotional and practical support to young people and adults who care for a relative or friend who, due to illness, disability, mental health conditions or addiction, could not manage without their care and support.
Today Angus Carers Centre has 20 staff, 50 volunteers, 1,500 registered adult carers and 90 young carers.
Job Summary
As part of the Angus Carers Centre Senior Management Team, you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day finance function - including the management accounts, financial reports to funders, statutory returns, cash flow management and budgetary control.
Full details are available in the documents below.
Application notes
To apply, please provide the following:
- A covering letter explaining why you are interested in this position, highlighting your relevant experience, and explaining how you meet the ‘Person Specification’ (detailed below). The letter should be between 800 and 1000 words.
- A CV, limited to two pages.
- Contact details for two work or education related references. (Please state clearly if you do not want us to contact references prior to interview.)
Completed applications should be sent to lorna.barenburg@anguscarers.org.uk and margaret.watt@anguscarers.org.uk
Interviews will be held face to face in Angus Carer Centre
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for a 45 – 60 min interview (involving a mix of experience and competency-based questions).
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Are you a values-driven leader ready to take on a meaningful and deeply rewarding role?
Do you thrive when combining strategy, service, and compassion? If so, this is your moment.
We are Crossroads Caring for Carers; a supportive, professional and autonomous small business in Perth with the goal of providing quality respite care to unpaid carers in Perth and Kinross!
Our main objective is to provide respite care to the community by providing that essential relief to the usual caregiver, to enable them to live a full and independent life.
Our service users include older people, children, people with physical disabilities and people in their final stages of life, and people with additional support needs.
We are now seeking a visionary Chief Executive Officer to guide our next chapter, someone who combines sharp commercial instinct, strategic thinking, and a passion for people.
This is more than a CEO role. It’s a chance to lead change that truly matters.
Your Mission:
- Inspire & Lead: Deliver our strategic plan, lead with vision, and uphold our values in everything we do.
- Drive Sustainability: Oversee financial planning, reporting, and budgeting — ensuring long-term stability and growth.
- Champion Quality: Ensure high standards in care delivery, compliance, and service development.
- Build Partnerships: Strengthen ties with funders, local authorities, and health & social care partners.
- Nurture Culture: Create a workplace where people feel heard, respected, and empowered.
As our CEO, you will be specifically responsible for:
- Leading and supporting three Care Co-ordinators and have overall responsibility for our brilliant staff team.
- Monitoring and improving services, ensure compliance, and maintain rigorous quality standards.
- Representing Crossroads externally, building awareness and ensuring our continued relevance in a fast-changing world.
- Meeting with Local Authority, discussing and negotiation budgets and funding of up to £1 million.
In order to be successful in this role you must have:
- Proven leadership experience, ideally in the health, social care or third sector.
- A strategic mindset with hands-on experience in operational and financial management.
- A genuine passion for community-based care.
- A strong understanding of governance, legislation, and service delivery.
- A collaborative, compassionate, and confident leadership style.
- Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.
It would be great if you have:
- A relevant degree (SCQF Level 9 or equivalent)
- Experience negotiating service agreements or leading funding initiatives
- A good understanding of Self-Directed Support (SDS) and the evolving care landscape in Scotland
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to step into a respected organisation at the heart of the Perth & Kinross community and shape its future.
If you're motivated by purpose and energised by challenge, we want to hear from you.
Top job! Director of Devolved Nations
- Full time
- £66,472 – £71,359
- Hybrid: with regular travel to Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast and London, involving occasional overnight stays and weekend work
- Closing 7th July 2025
As Director of Devolved Nations, you will:
- Lead Carers UK’s work in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, driving strategic impact and ensuring alignment with the UK-wide mission.
- Shape and deliver national strategies that bring about real improvements in carers' lives.
- Collaborate with government, public bodies, the voluntary sector, and other stakeholders to influence policy and secure statutory funding.
- Provide inspirational leadership to the Carers Scotland, Carers Wales, and Carers NI teams.
- Contribute to UK-wide senior leadership and organisational development.
You’ll need to be flexible, with travel across the UK, including overnight stays and occasional weekend work.
About You
We're looking for someone who brings:
• Significant senior leadership experience in policy, public affairs, or charity leadership.
- A deep understanding of the political and policy landscapes in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
- Strong governance knowledge and experience working with Boards or Committees.
- A track record of building influential relationships across sectors, including with senior government officials and funders.
- Excellent people management skills and the ability to lead dispersed teams.
- Commitment to Carers UK’s values of being Attentive, Ambitious, and Achievers.
Experience working with or understanding the needs of unpaid carers is highly desirable.
What We Offer
- 25 days annual leave (rising to 28 days with long service) + bank holidays
- An additional 3 paid days leave over Christmas and New Year
- Up to 10 days paid care leave
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Life assurance cover (2x salary)
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Free Health Cash Plan with a free, unlimited and confidential 24 hour advice, support and information line; free, unlimited and confidential GP line access; a wellbeing portal and app plus cash back to set limits for dental, optical and therapy treatments, plus kids cover and retail and restaurant discounts
- Paid Special Leave
- Organisational sick pay scheme
- Paid volunteer leave
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion staff network groups
- A recognition scheme including a values winner of the month
- Season ticket, cycle, and technology loans
- A learning and development culture with access to a Learning Management System
We are proud to be a Living Wage Employer, a Carer Confident Employer, a Carer Positive employer, and part of the Happy to Talk Flexible Working scheme. We have signed the Menopause Workplace Pledge and have achieved the Disability Confident Employer (level 2).
Diversity and Inclusion
Carers UK is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects our community. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly from those with lived experience of caring. We are happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Angus Citizens Advice Bureau (SCIO) was formed in 1985 to provide a holistic advice service to the residents of Angus. We provide free, independent, impartial, confidential advice and information to ensure people understand their rights and responsibilities. We are a member of Citizens Advice Scotland. The bureau supports clients with a wide range of general enquiries whilst project staff provide specialist support around benefits, debt, energy and NHS concerns and complaints.
We’re looking to appoint a Finance Director to join our Board of Trustees. The Finance Director ensures that financial control systems, reports and decisions are robust, accurate and comply with legal and regulatory requirements. The Finance Director is an officer of the Board and cannot be a paid employee of the CAB. Responsibility for day-to-day financial management is delegated to the Chief Officer with designated responsibility for financial duties.
The duties and responsibilities of the Finance Director include:
- Ensuring Board members are aware of their financial responsibilities with sufficient understanding of the CAB’s financial systems, policies and reports to enable effective Board decision-making
- Presenting financial information and reports to Board meetings, General Meetings, strategic review and planning exercises or other meetings as needed
- Guiding and advising the Board in their consideration of budgets, accounts, financial statements, financial procedures and other financial issues, including the financial implications of the strategic and project plans.
- Chairing meetings of the financial subgroup and participating in finance-related meetings (e.g. with funders, financial institutions, auditors, etc.)
- Having a good understanding of bureau financial systems, policies and controls, ensuring these are robust and appropriate for safeguarding CAB resources.
- Liaising with the Chief Officer and Chair on tasks including drafting budgets, monitoring income and expenditure, reporting to the Board and other stakeholders and updating financial systems and policies.
- Ensuring that accounts are prepared at year-end and participating actively in the annual audit or external examination of accounts process.
- Ensuring adherence to SORP 2015 and other legal and regulatory requirements.
- Making sure annual accounts are submitted to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR), Companies House and funders within required deadlines.
- Recommending to the Board when external financial advice is required.
We ask our Trustees to commit to around 50 hours per year as a minimum, broken up into attending quarterly Board meetings, attending our AGM, participating in training/development and involvement in sub-committees and working groups. We are keen to continue a hybrid model of governance, combining face-to-face meetings with use of e-mail and Teams for collaboration and discussion. In return, you will be helping shape and govern a service that is committed to supporting the local community.
Do you have an interest in the supply and provision of new homes, supporting communities, charity finance or charity governance? Do you want the opportunity to set strategy, improve your leadership skills, and make a difference to local communities? If you do, we would be very interested in hearing from you.
The Association owns and rents over 2,000 social rented homes in the Angus and Dundee area. We are a registered Charity regulated by both OSCR and the Scottish Housing Regulator and have a staff team of around 50.
Our Board of Management members are all volunteers and we value their time and commitment to deliver our aims. You will be reimbursed for out of pocket expenses.
Who we're looking for:
We welcome applications from those with a diverse range of backgrounds and experience and we are particularly interested in people with the following skills. There is no requirement to have had any previous Board experience. What is important is that you have the drive and passion to make a difference and that you are prepared to contribute to discussions that enable positive and collective decision making. We would be interested applicants with experience or an interest in:
- construction, design and the built environment/asset management
- renewable technologies/net zero
- human resources and people management
Successful applicants will receive effective induction and will be supported to learn new skills. The Board meetings are usually held on Wednesday mornings. Our full Board of Management meets 6 times a year. We have 4 sub committees that meet quarterly for Finance, Audit & Risk, Service Delivery, Development and Remuneration. Typically, Board
members are on one of the sub committees making the commitment 10 meetings a year. Meetings are normally held in person in Arbroath however we can offer participation using Teams for members who cannot attend in person.
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