The Carrick Centre is located in Maybole at the heart of North Carrick. The Board of Directors is recruiting two new posts to support the work of this thriving, local community hub which serves to benefit everyone across North Carrick.
Based in the Carrick Centre this is an exciting opportunity to lead and shape an innovative youth work programme for young people across North Carrick. We are looking for a dynamic youth practitioner with a passion to support young people to develop in life and thrive.
The purpose of the role is to promote the personal and social development of young people and work with local partners, services and volunteers. This role is about caring, engaging, and empowering young people across North Carrick.
You will be joining an inspiring team of staff and volunteers, Board and partners. This role will suit someone who enjoys a flexible dynamic and fulfilling work life and wants to build better opportunities for young people in and around where they live.
The Carrick Centre is located in Maybole at the heart of North Carrick. The Board of Directors is recruiting two new posts to support the work of this thriving, local community hub which serves to benefit everyone across North Carrick.
A busy thriving local community hub which works in partnership with key organisations and groups to provide a wide range of services to people across North Carrick. The Carrick Centre has provided a vital role in the COVID social response providing services, including community meals, to those who need it most.
This is an exciting new post created to manage and develop new and existing community projects and activities in the Centre, including a training kitchen, and activities for people of all ages to become engaged with their community. The post will play a dynamic role in the highly motivated teams of staff, volunteers, Board and partners.
The post holder will need to be passionate about working with local people to create improved opportunities and activities, and supporting volunteers and trainees. You will need to be able to work on your own initiative as well as within team, and be resilient and confident to break through barriers, and make things happen.
RNIB, are pleased to announce this exciting opportunity to join the Eye Clinic Liaison Officer (ECLO) team as part of the RNIB Eye Clinic Support Service.
In this role, you will be a vital member of the team working directly with people diagnosed with conditions causing sight loss. You will be working in Eye Clinic’s across the NHS Ayrshire area offering a person-centred support service to blind and partially sighted people, family members and carers at the point of diagnosis.
You will provide critical emotional support, information and guidance, face to face, in clinical settings, by telephone and via digital platforms as required. Each day you will support people affected by sight loss to identify their needs, access information and make informed choices which enable and empower them to maintain their independence.
You will have significant experience of delivering health or social care support services. Key to this role will be your excellent communication and relationship building skills with patients, clinicians and a wide range of cross sector partners.
You must be able to work on your own initiative, have excellent organisational skills and be a confident user of multiple IT systems. In addition, you will have excellent communication skills, enabling you to communicate effectively with patients, carers, clinicians and partners, both verbally, in the delivery of presentations and in writing.