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Are you highly motivated and want to join our dynamic team?

Would you like to help change the lives of people with cerebral palsy throughout Scotland?

Can you offer a proven track record of successful fundraising to a thriving Scottish charity?

An opportunity has arisen to play a major part in shaping the future of Cerebral Palsy Scotland as one of the Senior Management Team. The post will suit an experienced fundraising professional with at least 7 years’ experience. A successful track record of managing large, multi-year grants, report writing and confidence in setting and managing budgets is essential. Experience of working with communications colleagues is desirable together with knowledge of website management, social media, brand development and working with external partners.

Cerebral Palsy Scotland is committed to successful flexible working and we are happy to discuss any questions regarding making this work for you.

Applications are now invited.

Ark is a major provider of Care and Support to people with long term and enduring conditions such as learning disability, mental health issues, dementia and autism. As a housing association we are one of the smaller providers. Our aim is to ensure that those who use our services get the very best out of Ark to enable them to live a good life and to provide the best quality of housing to our tenants, some of whom we provide support to.

An exciting opportunity has arisen working as a HR Business Partner based in Ark’s Edinburgh Office.

The post holder will report to the Head of People and Organisational Development and will be responsible for providing a comprehensive and professional service within the HR team. You will work as part of a team in a business partnering model to deliver a high quality bespoke HR Service to the business in line with Ark’s Policies & Procedures.

In this role you will be responsible for the forward planning, transformation, engagement and performance of the workforce, whilst embedding best HR practice and raising the management capability of Ark’s management teams. You will be a role model by demonstrating an engaging HR leadership style and be the HR expert providing, workforce planning and employment law advice to all internal stakeholders.

This is an exciting role and comes at a time where Ark have undertaken a major piece of work where we have reviewed and developed our Business Plan for the next 5 years and beyond. This business plan will see Ark reshape as a modern, future-focused organisation that builds on our technological and digital capability that aims to positively impact on the lives of its tenants, supported people and staff.

The aim of the revised business plans is to:

• Have a reputation for excellence and be recognised as a high quality provider of housing and care
• Be known as an excellent employer where employees will enjoy rewarding careers
• Build our technological and digital capability to support a successful business
• Have in place leadership to create a culture of excellence throughout the business

You will also lead on designated HR initiatives and contribute towards Ark’s 'People Strategy'.

You will have previous experience of working within a demanding HR department, and have excellent IT Skills particularly, Word, Excel, Access & Outlook.

In return we offer a range of benefits.

A unique opportunity to lead evidence-based change

CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection, is an internationally recognised leading improvement and innovation centre based in Scotland at the University of Strathclyde. Dedicated to applying evidence-based practice change and knowledge exchange to services, we embody the University’s motto of ‘the place of useful learning’.

Focused on improving the lives of children and young people in need of care and protection and their families and carers, we support people and organisations responsible for their care to make long-lasting changes in services and in the practices and skills they use. An organisation committed to the use of evidence including lived experience, we lead international research on alternative care; work with policy-makers, decision-makers and advocacy organisations throughout Scotland, the UK and the world; generate, analyse and interrogate data; and we work with organisations and people across Scotland at local and national to level to realise The Promise of the Independent Care Review (2020).

Our Head of Evidence and Innovation leads on how we assist central and local governments, organisations, interest groups and communities of practice to develop purposeful and evidence-based ways to drive change and improvement in services and practices. The team covers research and data, policy and stakeholder engagement, participation, and international partnerships. This post will work with University colleagues in establishing opportunities for joint research projects.

You will have an appropriate Phd, with significant experience of directly relevant roles and considerable experience of leadership and management contributing to and realising an organisation’s strategic and business objectives. You will also have extensive experience of leading projects and funding bids for research, research translation and knowledge exchange work.

A member of our Strategic Management Team, you will share responsibility for the planning and delivery of CELCIS’s strategy which prioritises supporting improvements in early help, effective decision making, and quality care, all underpinned by valuing the voice of lived experience. We are seeking a motivated individual with strategic management and leadership experience who can contribute to how we deliver our strategy and meet and exceed key stakeholder expectations.

You will be working remotely at home until CELCIS and the University has ensured it is safe and essential to work in the office (we are based in the Curran Building at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow).

Funding for the post: Like all the team, the post is funded for 12 months, with a further 2 years of funding indicated by Scottish Government. CELCIS has received funding in this way from Scottish Government since 2010 where we agree our funding level every year, as well as agreeing the indicative level for the next two years.

Change is happening. Be part of it. Together we can make things better for children, young people and their families and carers.

Apply now.

So why are we looking for a Service Manager?

Children 1st has worked in close partnership with colleagues in East Renfrewshire HSCP, Education, Health and GP practices over the past 4 years to develop and implement the Family Wellbeing Service. Together, we co-designed a service which adopts a new approach to help children affected by emotional distress, stress and anxiety and relational disconnection, and their families. Our Service Manager has been pivotal in the on-going development of the service, ensuring high quality support for children and families, supporting and developing staff, and in working with partners to evidence impact. We are delighted for her that she will be adding to her family later this year, so will be taking some time away from the service. In order to continue the development of the service, ensure high quality supports, and maintain excellent partnership relationships, we are looking for an experienced Manager to work with the team and partners.

Children 1st along with partners share a determination to act upon the recommendations from The Independent Care Review and deliver The Promise to children and young people. We are also determined that the full incorporation of the UNCRC means that children will have their rights respected in all areas of their lives and will have a real say in the way they are supported. If you share this determination, we would love to hear from you.

What kind of person will make a great Family Wellbeing Service Manager for Children 1st?

• has experience of keeping children safe in their own families
• has experience of leading and developing services
• is fiercely passionate about children’s rights
• thinks it’s a privilege to work with and on behalf of children and families and,
• is kind and will bring their whole selves to the job: heart and mind

What kind of Family Wellbeing Service Manager will you be?

Knowing our ambition for children, you will be someone who is:

• resilient, skilled and knowledgeable who wants to transform children’s lives
• determined to support children to stay safely with their own family
• big hearted and courageous
• able to build strong relationships and to manage the tricky conversations
• is compassionate and understanding of trauma
• a cool head and clear minded at times of pressure
• inspiring colleagues and teams to be even better
• an amazing ambassador for children and Children 1st

Above all else, the most important thing to us is that you are someone who will do the right thing for children and their families at every turn.

Base

You will be based in our Children 1st premises in Giffnock and will travel to connect with other parts of the organisation once Scottish Guidelines permit this and it is safe for you and colleagues.

Salary, Conditions, Pension

We will offer you a competitive salary, generous annual leave entitlement (40 days inclusive of 9 public holidays), flexible working opportunities and a contributory pension scheme.

Further Information

This is fixed term, full time role of 35 hours per week, to cover a period of maternity leave, initially until 31 May 2022.

Giving children and young people the foundations they need to thrive.

Our Glasgow Secondary Schools Counselling Service is looking for a Practice Manager to oversee the operational delivery of our new, exciting high-quality, school based professional counselling service in Glasgow. The service will, through delivery of evidence based programmes and counselling provide effective intervention, management of cases and assessment of needs, ensure safe care and agreed positive outcomes with secondary school children aged 12-18yrs. Our service will cover all secondary schools in Glasgow City Council (30+).

The Practice Manager will oversee, deliver, and manage the service through a team of professional Counsellors and Support Workers providing professional practice and operational/management supervision utilising Action for Children's and other recognised professional standards and procedures to enable the achievement of positive outcomes for children, young people and their families. Ideally your background will include new service delivery at an operational level alongside experience of staff management.

You will make a difference by:

• Taking responsibility for the delivery of a high-quality services, in accordance with service requirements applying relevant legislation, regulations and Action for Children policies and procedures.
• Leading and managing a team (including case management supervision) of professional Counsellors and Support Workers also applying advice and guidance and utilising Action for Children's policies and procedures, to provide a responsive, high-quality, customer and outcome-focused service to children, young people, their families and partner agencies.
• Take responsibility for work auditing, ensuring systems are in place and regularly applied to support service compliance, employee and contract development and the production of regular reports and service developments and improvements based on feedback.
• Attend meetings with external agencies, representing Action for Children, demonstrating professionalism and our core values, in terms of approach, advice and positioning.

You will need:

• A recognised qualification in a related field (e.g. Mental Health, Children and Young People, Education, Counselling) and registration with BACP or equivalent body.
• Experience of working within a multi-agency social care, schools, early years or health environment and applying safeguarding procedures.
• Experiencing of co-ordinating service delivery.
• Experience of chairing/attending multi agency and strategic management meetings.
• Proven ability to manage and supervise professional and support staff.
• Proven experience of managing HR issues.
• Demonstrable experience of leading a team to achieve the best outcomes for children, young people, parents, and carers.
• Knowledge of the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences, attachment, child development and safeguarding.

The way we work

We work to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. Have a look at our behaviours and values to understand more about the way we work on our careers site.

Rewards

We want our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, a comprehensive employer-matched pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts on our dedicated benefits portal. Find out more about our exclusive Action for Children benefits on our careers site.

For safe and happy childhoods

At Action for Children, we protect and support children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives. Last year, we helped more than 387,000 children and families across the UK.

Lifelink is a well-established social enterprise delivering counselling and mental health and wellbeing services, with an excellent reputation and brand; it has gone from strength to strength over the almost 30 years it has been in existence. We are now at the next stage of our exciting journey, as we extend our reach of work across public sector contracts and clients into the corporate and private sector.

Lifelink is looking for new team members to help us achieve our business growth and expansion plans of supporting more people to be healthier and happier wherever they live, work or learn. Come and join the healthier and happier revolution!

Exciting opportunity for a senior individual with professional clinical quality expertise and outstanding leadership skills to support the development of quality standards, guidelines, clinical pathways, and clinical audits.

As Clinical Director, you will provide strategic, operational and corporate leadership and provide advice and guidance on clinical quality matters. You will be adept at working collaboratively across the organisation to develop and implement clearly defined strategies with tangible processes and measurable outcomes. A key member of the Leadership team, you will be both partner and coach to your peers.

An effective communicator, negotiator and influencer, you will be comfortable enabling change management with stakeholders at all levels as well as building effective relationships with external organisations such as BACP and other academic and voluntary sector organisations. You will be instrumental in the delivery of externally commissioned clinical quality projects and programmes and manage the totality of the department and programme budgets. You will have a valid driving licence and access to own vehicle.

Additional benefits package

Additional benefits include generous holiday allowance, contributory pension scheme (6% from employer), cash back health plan and life cover. Our services operate daytime, evenings and weekends and we have flexible and agile working arrangements so we are very happy to consider forms of flexible working that would enable you to thrive both professionally and personally with us.

This is a busy and demanding role with a broad remit. As such we are looking for energetic, highly motivated, solution focused individuals who have experience in the areas outlined above who will drive forward clinical excellence. We expect you to take our local services to the next level by providing excellent leadership and ensuring our services remain at the leading edge, whilst meeting the needs of our service users, our business partners and our business.

We have flexible and agile working arrangements so we are very happy to consider forms of flexible working that would enable you to thrive both professionally and personally with us.

SCVO is on the hunt for a driven comms professional to come on board for the final year of a ground-breaking health project.

Mpower is a European-funded project that champions a preventative approach to care by engaging with and empowering more people to self-manage their health and care issues in the community.

We need a self-starter with experience of delivering communications in a multi-stakeholder environment. You’ll be based in SCVO, working with the Mpower project team from across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

It’s a great opportunity to help drive a high impact project over the finish line, whilst creatively capturing its successes and learnings to influence future projects.

· Are you a great leader?

· Experienced in strategy and business development?

· Successfully led teams to achieve business growth?

· Ready to develop your career within the care sector?

You will be responsible for the leadership, strategic development and financial management of Crossroads and will oversee the co-ordination of services, which will be managed on a day-to-day basis by the Care Manager. As well as overseeing the daily operations of the organisation and the team you will lead and motivate the team by example.

You will play a key role in the design, planning and implementation of the organisations business strategy, plans and procedures setting comprehensive goals for the organisations ongoing growth and business success.

You will contribute to strategic partnerships, build effective relationships, and develop innovative partnership-working opportunities at a local level.

You will be able to demonstrate a passion for change assist in establishing policies, procedures and processes that promote our company culture and vision.

If this sounds like you and you possess the energy and drive to be part of a successful charitable organisation like Crossroads, then we are keen to hear from you.

Change-makers sought!

Do you want to help Scotland to Keep The Promise?

We’re looking for an experienced professional to help us to improve the lives of children and young people by supporting the stability and security children and young people in need of care and protection have a right to.

As a leading improvement and innovation centre in Scotland, CELCIS works to improve the lives of children and young people in need of care and protection, and their families and carers, by supporting people and organisations responsible for their care to make changes in services and in the practices and skills they use.

We’re looking for someone to join our Permanence team who’ll bring passion, insight and understanding to our work focussed on ensuring children in need of care and protection are settled and well cared for in their permanent home as quickly and effectively as possible. Home could be with parents, with kinship carers within extended family or friends, with long term permanent foster carers, within residential care or with adoptive parents.

Do you have experience of working within the children’s care and protection sector? Can you demonstrate a deep understanding of and commitment to trauma-informed assessment and care planning, and respecting lived experience of care? Are you passionate about using improvement approaches to limit the disruption in the lives of infants, children and young people? If so, this could be the role for you.

Central to the role is the ability to use experience, understanding and practical skills to lead improvement and support implementation of new innovative and evidence-based care planning processes and practice. Working closely with local authorities and partners, you will build on this work to develop and deliver service change through improvement, and by sharing practice, evidence and experiences to support the changes we all want to see.

The role would suit candidate with compassion, sensitivity and the strong relationship-building skills required to lead, support and encourage systemic and strategic change in practices.

You will have an appropriate professional qualification / relevant degree, with substantial practical experience and evidence of successful collaborative working, including experience of using an improvement approach.

We are truly ambitious for the young people of Scotland – are you?

If you share our ambition, working for Aberlour could be the most rewarding experience of your life

Aberlour is one of the largest Children’s Charities in Scotland. Over the last year we have continued to grow in size and strength opening four new services and expanded the reach of a further five. We have two new services opening in May and a further eight in discussion. We have never been busier and need the support of professionals who share our ambitions to develop quality services to reach even more children and families.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. We have just developed our latest strategy ‘Being Brave for children, young people and families’ setting our ambitions and targets over the next five years. We are continuing to embracing new possibilities around digitalisation which we believe can enhance and support service development and advance our plans to develop the organisation.

The opportunities

We have a vacant post supporting our disability services across Fife and Lothian - residential, respite, outreach and our new housing support service.

Due to growth, we are looking for an additional Assistant Director to support services across Tayside. These cover a wide range of sectors including disability home support, residential child care and community based family support.

We may also have a further opportunity for an additional Assistant Director within Central Scotland.

The person

If you are a progressive, motivated professional who knows what it takes to develop new innovative solutions that support young people and the commissioners of services, alongside ensuring sustainability and safeguarding as priorities for all your services, we’d love to hear from you.

You will provide leadership and external management, identify opportunities for growth and work with our business development team to secure income streams to meet the changing needs of vulnerable children, young people and their families.

Applicants should have management level experience within the public, private or voluntary sector with direct experience of both management of services and liaison with local government, NHS or alternative funding commissioners. You will also be driven to influence local and national strategy, policy and practice to the benefit of vulnerable people.

The successful post holder will hold a relevant professional social care or social work qualification at SCQF level 9 or above plus a management qualification at SCQF level 8 or above. They will also have a broad current knowledge of Scottish social policy and child care legislation.