Jobs in West Dunbartonshire

Do you want to work in an organisation that supports people in the local communities?

Are you looking for an employer with a person-centred approach?

If the answer is yes, look no further because we have the right role for you.

Your Role:

We are looking for a highly organised and professional administrator who can help our team with the provision of essential administrative/reception support to the Nursing and Medical, Family Support, Outreach, Assurance and Support Services Teams within Robin House.

You will be a confident communicator with great attention to detail and excellent organisational, creative problem solving and prioritisation skills. You will have a positive, welcoming and can-do attitude. Maintaining confidentiality is a key attribute for this role in addition to ensuring that work is carried out efficiently, effectively and to a high standard. You must be able to cope with routine and challenging situations, using your initiative and working with discretion and diplomacy.

A good working knowledge of Microsoft applications in particular Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams is essential along with data input experience.

At CHAS, staff and volunteers work together as one team, focused on the common goal of reaching every family in Scotland who needs our support. All CHAS staff will at some point work with or alongside volunteers and will be expected to support volunteers.

A commitment to CHAS core values, vision and purpose is essential.

What you can expect:

• All working patterns considered.
• 35 days annual leave increasing to 40 days after five years’ service.
• Competitive salaries with incremental progression.
• Continuation of NHS pension scheme for existing members.
• Lothian Pension Fund membership available.
• Occupational sick pay scheme.
• Organisational maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities.
• Employee Assistance Programme (which includes free access to counselling & financial advice).
• Employee Retail and Discount Benefits.
• Flexible working options.
• Secondment opportunities.
• Free on-site parking.

Working with CHAS is inspiring and stimulating. For more information about us and our benefits, please see below

chas.org.uk/get-involved/join-our-team/a-new-career-at-chas

If you are still not sure whether this is the right role for you, please feel free to get in touch with us for an informal chat about this post.

You can contact Grace Deighton, Administration Manager, on 01389 722055 or Kirsten Keegan Hotel Services Manager on 01577 869370.

This role is subject to a Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check.

Catering Assistant (Part time)

Location: Robin House, Balloch or Rachel House, Kinross

Location: Rachel House, Kinross

Contract: Permanent, Part-time, 7 hours per week on Saturdays between 8am and 6pm (£10.90 per hour) + 6% shift allowance

OR

Permanent, Part-time, 30 hours per week, Monday to Friday between 8am and 6pm (£10.90 per hour)

Location: Robin House, Balloch

Contract: Permanent, Part-time, 14 hours per week on Saturdays and Sundays between 8am and 6pm (£10.90 per hour) + 6% shift allowance

OR

Permanent, Part-time, 30 hours per week, Monday to Friday between 8am and 6pm (£10.90 per hour) - job share would be considered

Do you have a passion for catering? Do you want to work in an organisation that supports people in the local communities? Are you looking for an employer with a person-centred approach? If the answer is yes, look no further because we have the right role for you!

Your role

Our catering team take enormous pride in providing a high standard of catering within the hospice. We are looking to recruit a Catering Assistant to work alongside our team to ensure we meet the needs of the families, children and young people that we cater for.

We are looking for someone who is a motivated team player, is interested in and takes pride in ensuring that a high standard of kitchen cleanliness, food preparation and good customer service is maintained. Duties will include the preparation of food, basic cooking, food service, kitchen hygiene. You will also play a key role in ensuring that the kitchen and service areas are clean and tidy.

Holding an Elementary Certificate in Food Hygiene would be desirable but not essential as training will be given.

About us

When you join CHAS, you join an organisation that aims to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying. We offer families our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together.

As an employer, we believe that everyone has their part to play in keeping the joy alive for the children and families we support and this is why people are at the heart of what we do. We also work hard to ensure that CHAS is one of the best places to work. That’s why we create a working environment which lets our employees thrive through positive and fulfilling experiences.

What you can expect:

• All working patterns will be considered.
• 35 days annual leave increasing to 40 days after five years’ service.
• Continuation of NHS pension scheme for existing members.
• Lothian Pension Fund membership available.
• Occupational sick pay scheme.
• Organisational maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities.
• Employee Assistance Programme (which includes free access to counselling & financial advice).
• Employee Retail and Discount Benefits.
• Flexible working options.
• Secondment opportunities.
• Free on-site parking.

Working with CHAS is inspiring and stimulating. For more information about us and our benefits, please see below

chas.org.uk/get-involved/join-our-team/a-new-career-at-chas

If you are still not sure whether this is the right role for you, please feel free to get in touch with us for an informal chat about this post. You can contact David Ross, Catering Team Lead 01577 869368 or Kirsten Keegan, Hotel Services Manager on 01577 869370.

For any queries regarding the recruitment process, please contact our HR Team on 0131 444 3293 or by emailing careers@chas.org.uk

This role is subject to a Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check.

Do you want to work in an organisation that supports people in the local communities? Are you looking for an employer with a person-centred approach? If the answer is yes, look no further because we have the right role for you!

Key duties include:

• Helping to ensure a safe, welcoming, and clean environment for families, visitors, staff, and volunteers

• Preparing our children and parents bedrooms for their stay with us

• Laundry

About You

• You will be kind, reliable, and friendly with good communication skills.

• Previous housekeeping or cleaning experience within a healthcare or commercial environment would beneficial but not essential as full training will be given.

• A good understanding of Health and Safety and Infection Control Practices is beneficial but not essential as full training with be given.

• Looking to work somewhere that genuinely makes a difference

About CHAS

At CHAS, our ambition is to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together.

As a Housekeeper you will play an important part in achieving this vision

Do you want to work in an organisation that supports people in the local communities? Are you looking for an employer with a person-centred approach? If the answer is yes, look no further because we have the right role for you!

Key duties include:

• Helping to ensure a safe, welcoming, and clean environment for families, visitors, staff, and volunteers
• Preparing our children and parents bedrooms for their stay with us
• Laundry

About You

• You will be kind, reliable, and friendly with good communication skills.

• Previous housekeeping or cleaning experience within a healthcare or commercial environment would beneficial but not essential as full training will be given.

• A good understanding of Health and Safety and Infection Control Practices is beneficial but not essential as full training with be given.

• Looking to work somewhere that genuinely makes a difference

What you can expect

• All working patterns will be considered.

• 35 days annual leave increasing to 40 days after five years’ service.

• Competitive salaries with incremental progression.

• Continuation of NHS pension scheme for existing members.

• Lothian Pension Fund membership available.

• Occupational sick pay scheme.

• Organisational maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave.

• Excellent learning and development opportunities.

• Employee Assistance Programme (which includes free access to counselling & financial advice).

• Employee Retail and Discount Benefits.

• Flexible working options.

• Secondment opportunities.

• Free on-site parking.

Rachel House, Kinross - 35hrs per week

Robin House, Balloch - 30 hours per week

Introduction

Do you believe in the power of play? Are you passionate about creating a variety of exciting play experiences for babies, children and young people and their families? Are you a person with the ability to engage and motivate people?

If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen within our organisation for Play Assistants. We are looking for dynamic and energetic people to join our Activities Teams, in both Robin and Rachel House. The candidates will be offered the chance to work with babies, children and young people and their families.

Key Responsibilities

As a Play Assistant, you will be part of a small team that will design and deliver a variety of play experiences and activities for children of all ages and abilities. You will be working in collaboration with other team members, services and agencies ensuring that life enhancing activities will enrich the leisure, play and educational needs for all the babies, children, young people and their families.

About You

You will have excellent communication skills and a friendly approachable manner. You should ideally have relevant post-qualification experience of working with children or young people with complex care needs and a variety of play experience. You should be confident in working autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

About CHAS

At CHAS, staff and volunteers work together as one team, focused on the common goal of reaching every family in Scotland who needs our support. We have a 3:1 ratio of volunteers to staff members in CHAS. All CHAS staff will at some point work with or alongside volunteers and will be expected to support volunteers.

Our ambition is to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying, and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. As a Play Assistant, you will be instrumental in achieving this vision.

Benefits of a Career at CHAS

• 35 days annual leave and progressively to 40 days after 5 years’ service. For applicants coming to CHAS from an existing NHS post, your accrued annual leave entitlement will be honoured.

• Free parking at all sites.

• Employee Referral Scheme.

• Essential Car User Allowance for certain job roles.

• Enhanced sick pay and progression to 26 weeks full pay. Twenty six and a half weeks, after 6 years.

Carers of West Dunbartonshire is an innovative and value-based charity, which supports those over 18 years who look after a family member or friend due to illness, disability, frailty or addiction. Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, the organisation is seeking to recruit a Project Lead for the RISE Project (Resilient, Inspired, Supported & Empowered Carers).

As the Project Lead, you will support the development and implementation of our new RISE Project within identified areas across West Dunbartonshire. This three-year project will build resilience, embrace inspiration, provide support and encourage empowerment by identifying hidden and seldom heard from carers, to ensure that they are aware of their rights and provide them with support which will build resilience and skills.

As Project Lead, you will be a highly motivated individual who, ideally has experience in Community Care and a good understanding of the issues relating to unpaid adult carers.

We are looking for enthusiastic people who share our values (Kind, Passionate and Creative) to join our services accommodating and supporting people experiencing homelessness and empowering them to thrive.

The support we provide is always person-centred, trauma-informed and wellbeing focused. As a Support Worker, you’ll work as part of a team in providing safe, secure, supported accommodation for the people who use our services. You’ll do this by providing practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning, which we will support you to achieve.

The Bonhill service supports 8 people within separate rooms in a repurposed row of local authority homes and offers people support to prepare for their own tenancies; the service accepts referrals only from West Dunbartonshire homelessness teams and our age range is from 16 upwards. Pauline, Service Manager, will be more than happy to hear from you, if you have any questions about the role. You can contact Pauline at:

E: pmcewan@bluetriangle.org.uk

T: 01389 729789

Join an award-winning charity and passionate team dedicated to ensuring the country’s most vulnerable young people are defined by their talent and never their circumstances. Our in-school mentoring has profound impacts on mentees in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. MCR Mentors make and experience a life changing difference.

We have had a transformational impact in schools and local authorities across Scotland and are looking for a Pathways Coordinator to join our regional team in West Dunbartonshire, based at Our Lady & St. Patrick's High School. In this role, you will be an integral part of the school community, liaising with education colleagues and external stakeholders, and delivering the programme to young people. The role is part-time for half of each week as this is a job share with an experienced Pathways Coordinator. Click the Read the Person Specification button below to find out more but here are the key tasks of the role:

School Pathways Coordinator 4 part remit:

Helping build exceptional individual relationships with young people across S1 to S6 and delivering S1 & S2 group work sessions

Consistently supporting, actively engaging and motivating volunteer mentors from training through the length of their engagement with the MCR programme

Actively support MCR young people to set, experience then follow their education and employment pathways.

Report on progression, impact and best practice with input from the MCR young people, quantitative feedback and qualitative case studies.

Read the Person Specification

Independent Advocacy Workers play a key role within the Advocacy Service, undertaking a range of advocacy roles which may include empowering, informing, enabling and representing people in a variety of settings. Advocacy Workers assist the C.E.O., Operations Manager and Advocacy Coordinator, and other team members in the achievement of the objectives of the Service.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To undertake advocacy work as directed by the Operations Manager. Visiting adults in their own homes, hospitals at agreed venues and travelling independently

• To assist in the processing, prioritisation of and response to referrals received by the Service.

• To maintain client and operational records as required and to maintain a high standard in all elements of reporting and communication.

• To undertake individual casework (and on occasions group casework), working alongside service users to promote self-determination and support their rights and to have their voice heard.

• To establish a supportive relationship with individual clients and provide an ‘independent voice’ on their behalf.

• To represent the views and wishes of the individual at a variety of formal and statutory meetings (e.g. Mental Health Tribunals, Adults with Incapacity Case Conferences) or in other contexts

Lomond and Argyll Advocacy service are looking for a person who may have had experience of problematic alcohol or substance use, either;

• Personally and in recovery

• Worked in Recovery and substance use support services.

• or someone close to you.

The post will focus on improving access to independent advocacy and other local supports for people impacted by problematic alcohol or substance use. The post will also provide rights based advocacy approach in line with the Scottish Government’s Strategy: Rights, Respect and Recovery.

This post requires the successful candidate to apply for membership of the PVG Scheme.

This will be achieved by:

• undertaking relevant training on a Rights Based Approach in Independent Advocacy

• working with individuals in line with the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance

• working within the aims of LAAS

• managing your workload efficiently in accordance with the policies and procedures of LAAS

• working as an individual and being self motivated, but also ability to work as part of a team

• developing your skills by identifying opportunities for learning

• promoting and raising awareness of LAAS and its work across Cowal area

• monitoring progress towards specific project targets and outcomes

• using networking techniques to create links with appropriate individuals and groups (statutory and voluntary) to raise awareness of Independent Advocacy

• supporting LAAS to develop and deliver learning opportunities

We are looking for a dedicated and motivated individual to join our team. Y sort it Young Carers Service supports young carers/ young adult carers aged between 8-18 years across West Dunbartonshire.

This exciting post offers a unique opportunity to work with Young Carers within school, home & community based settings. The role of the Young Carer Support Workers will be to support young carers in making informed choices around issues that are important to them, through one to one, group work sessions & respite.

You will be offering and completing assessments, developing support plans, providing advice and information, training, and peer support to help young carers with their caring role.

Young carers are supported through a range of measures to alleviate the caring role and your role will be to work closely with schools, partner agencies and family members to ensure they are able to be a young person first and foremost.

The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work will involve working, evenings, school holidays and weekends. The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work may change to respond to the demands of the work of the Young Carers Service including overnight stays for respite.

Ben View Resource Centre is a well-established charity offering vital services to the local community.

This new post will be responsible for overseeing our Youth Programme, Volunteer Programme & Befriending services. The role will also be responsible for smaller community initiatives such as our community garden.

Ben View aims to help people stay connected with their communities, giving them a sense of belonging, easing loneliness and improving health and wellbeing.

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated individual who can inspire others and will bring new ideas and lots of energy to this great service. You will be fun, compassionate and able to work on your on whilst fitting in with a small but very busy team of committed individuals.

We are looking for someone who can build strong relationships, is understanding and patient and who looks to bring fun and laughter into their role.

Ben View is not just a service, it’s an “Experience”, our aim is for staff, volunteers, members and visitors to experience the sense of community and belonging we aim to achieve throughout all our services.

Responsible to: Manager