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Are you a disabled graduate looking for a rewarding opportunity in NHSScotland?

GCIL Equality Academy is seeking expressions of interest from disabled graduates from across Scotland for this exciting opportunity.

To be eligible to apply for this, you must:

• ­be a self-identifying disabled person;
• ­hold a degree level qualification; and
• ­be unemployed or under-employed.

GCIL Equality Academy

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer. As an organisation OF disabled people, we positively value personal experience as a disabled person. We operate a flexible working system. We welcome applications from previous applicants.

GCIL Equality Academy, Scottish Government and NHSScotland are working in partnership to offer a range of employment opportunities for disabled graduates that will provide a rewarding and challenging experience within NHSScotland.

Graduate traineeship opportunities will be tailored to the career aspirations of the successful candidates and will offer opportunities within one or a variety of departments across NHSScotland, including, communications, finance, human resources, IT, marketing, project management, and so on.

What is important for this role?

Successful candidates require to be self-motivated, enthusiastic and committed to working towards a professional career in NHSScotland.

Support provided

We offer:

• a comprehensive induction;
• on-going coaching, support; and
• ­professional and personal development.

Success to date

NHS Professional Careers has been hugely successful in supporting disabled graduates achieve their career aims. Over 90% of participants have been supported into professional level employment beyond the programme.

For further information please visit our website. Alternatively you can telephone or e-mail on 0141 550 4455 or equalityacademy@gcil.org.uk. All information can be provided in alternative formats on request.

A wonderful opportunity to join the ground-breaking charity Playlist for Life at an exciting time is available for an experienced Training Sales Executive. Playlist for Life is the personal music and dementia charity founded in 2013 by writer and broadcaster Sally Magnusson. We have ambitious plans for the next two years and thanks to funding from The National Lottery Community Lottery Fund we are recruiting for this new post to help support and roll out our large-scale expansion programme.

By 2022 we want to establish a vibrant UK network of Help Points, volunteers, and trained healthcare and social care professionals, all creating and using playlists in their communities to help manage dementia systems, alleviate distress and reconnect relationships. We have a committed team based in Govanhill, Glasgow. Our Marketing and Communication Team is central to delivering our bold new plans and this new Training Sales Executive post will take a lead role in increasing our training sales pipeline prospects and expanding our training offering. We are looking for a people person who asks great questions and listens intently.

The Training Sales Executive will play a key part in developing and promoting our new training courses to healthcare and social care professionals and organisations. You will work with the Marketing and Communications Team to create in-depth business and marketing plans to promote our training, increase pipeline prospects and build relationships with clients. You will work with our Head of Communications and Campaigns, and the Communities Team to identify and develop strategic partnerships and B2B relationships, and you will work closely with individuals to increase the number of healthcare and social care professionals we train each year. This role will require attendance at external conferences, trade exhibitions and partnership meetings to generate and convert business opportunities. Experience working within the healthcare and/or social care industries, especially the NHS, is highly desired.

About Stirling Carers Centre

Stirling Carers Centre (SCC) is the go-to charity that helps and supports unpaid carers in the heart of Scotland. It is no accident that SCC enjoys a leading and unrivalled reputation in its field, not only with its wide variety of stakeholders and partners locally and nationally across sectors, but most importantly with Unpaid Carers throughout the region.

During the 2018-19 financial year SCC supported: 7,421 one-to-one enquiries with Unpaid Carers; achieved financial gains in excess of £2.9 million; registered 534 new Carers; provided in excess of over 70 training sessions for Carers; facilitated 2,702 short breaks (see attached Annual Report 2019).

At SCC our excellent team of staff and volunteers continue to provide the following core services:

•Adult Support Service

•Young Adult Carers Service

•Young Carers Service

•A bespoke welfare rights and benefits advice and information

•Access to respite and short breaks, as well as a range of other local respite opportunities

•Complementary Therapies and other ‘soft’ services

•Facilitator of the Stirling Carers Voice Forum, which offers carers throughout the region avoice locally and nationally, as well as peer-support and access to local external partners toshare knowledge, experiences and best practice.

About the role

The SCC Board are seeking three new Directors to work alongside the Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer and other Board Members to oversee and support our new CEO, Sarah Erskine, to develop and deliver on our new Business Plan 2020-25 with our dynamic team of committed staff.

The SCC Board currently comprises seven Directors, all of whom bring a wealth of diverse knowledge, skills and experience to the charity. The Board has recently recruited a new CEO and together this marks a new phase in SCC’s development with the crafting of a new Business Plan 2020-25, which will be launched at our AGM in September 2020.

It is both an exciting and challenging time to join us as a Director!

So, if you want to truly make a difference in shaping the strategic direction of this highly regarded charity supporting Unpaid Carers in the heart of Scotland, then this is a great opportunity to become a vital part of a highly skilled, dedicated Board and to work with our new CEO, staff and volunteers to help take SCC to the next stage in its development.

If you can spare a few hours each month to put your excellent skills to great use, then we would be delighted to receive your interest!

SCC seeks three new Directors who can bring their skills and expertise in the following areas:

• Governance & Charity Law

• Fundraising & Income Generation

• Finance & Risk

• Service Design and Development

• PR & Marketing

Experience and understanding of the Statutory, Third and Health Sectors in general is preferable, though not essential as full training will be provided to all new Directors during their induction. The Stirling Carers Centre staff team and wider community of Carers have a diverse range of backgrounds, and widening access and inclusion is central to our current business planning and development. We therefore welcome applications to the Board from protected characteristic individuals who have lived experience of barriers to access or discrimination. In addition to supporting the statutory governance requirements as set out in the Companies Act 2006 and Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, Directors will be invited to contribute their unique skills through contributions to short life working groups, sub-groups, and ad-hoc development work as they arise

Crossroads Fife is looking to recruit innovative, enthusiastic people to expand on skills and expertise of our Management Committee.

Crossroads Fife is one of the leading providers of home based respite care for Carers. We offer this short breaks service to people who care for someone of any age and any disability. The service is provided by trained, paid staff in the service user’s home or we take service users out throughout the Fife area on a day and time which suits them. We are also a registered provider of Self Directed Support and Purchased Care.

Crossroads Fife has charitable status and is led by an experienced Board who have overall responsibility for the governance and strategic direction of the organisation’s work.

We are looking for individuals who possess knowledge, skills and experience of human resources, business, charity work with entrepreneurial skills or have an understanding of the caring role. The Board meet every 2 months in the evening.

As a Personal Assistant, your role is to enable the employer, a young disabled man and powerchair-user to pursue his interests and live independently. You will be working as part of a team in a variety of settings and shift times (including evenings and weekends) being flexible where possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the employer with a wide range of activities, including, but not limited to, attending courses, volunteering, meeting friends, going to the cinema, the pub or for a walk.
• Assist the employer with postgraduate study, including notetaking and navigating the university campus.
• Assist the employer with transport, including driving the employer’s adapted van.
• Assist the employer with cleaning, laundry, shopping and other domestic tasks.
• Assist the employer with eating, drinking, preparing and cooking food.
• Assist the employer with dressing, personal care, showering and toileting, including use of a ceiling hoist for transfers.

Skills & Personal Qualities

• Understanding, positive, easy-going and able to assume a background role to allow the employer privacy and autonomy, remaining professional at all times.
• Punctual, reliable and well-organised, with excellent communication skills.
• Previous experience supporting a disabled person is essential.
• Good physical health and fitness is essential, as personal care duties are challenging.
• Driving licence valid in the UK is essential.
• Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership is essential.
• Awareness of the social model of disability and interest in disability rights.

Additional Information

• Opportunity is open to both male and female applicants.
• Employment is dependent upon the successful completion of two (paid) trial shifts.
• Training is provided through two (paid) shadow shifts and guidance of the employer.

The Robertson Trust is the largest independent grant-making trust in Scotland with the vision of a fair and compassionate Scotland where everyone is valued and able to flourish. It has donated more than £263 million to charitable causes in Scotland since 1961. It is currently finalising a new exciting strategy to address some of the most intractable social issues in Scotland which will see it adopt new ways of working and building new partnerships to deliver greater impact in Scotland.

The Robertson Trust remains the controlling shareholder of the global company Edrington Group Limited, one of Scotland’s largest private companies which owns the well-known whisky brands, The Macallan, Highland Park, The Famous Grouse, and the premium dark rum brand Brugal. The bulk of the Trust’ income is derived from its investment in Edrington Group Limited.

Opportunity

The summer of 2020 will see the launch of a new strategy for the Trust. After extensive review and stakeholder engagement, the Trust has sought to develop a strategy which will best fit the current challenges facing communities in Scotland. Its new mission is to work with others, using all of its assets and resources, to improve the wellbeing of people affected by poverty and trauma.

The Trust needs outstanding Trustees who will contribute to delivery of its new mission, through constructive challenge, support in specific areas of expertise and championing the Trust’s work far and wide. They are looking for diversity, fresh thinking and a hunger to make a difference. If you have these qualities, they would love you to join their cause.

Key Skills

Candidates should fit to one or more of the following categories.

1. Experience as a Chief Executive operating in an international business with strong connections to Scotland. This should be someone attuned to the challenges of running a complex, large-scale, devolved operation with the ability to bring commercial and financial rigour.

2. Skills and experience in investment management and in particular institutional investment; the ability to provide sound guidance on how the Robertson Trust can maximise its considerable and diverse assets to advance its mission.

3. A candidate with a background or key experience and understanding of poverty and/or trauma informed services. They will bring ideas and an understanding of new approaches to tackling poverty.

Robertson Trust are also seeking to appoint new members to the Audit Committee and Investment Committee. For the Audit Committee, candidates will be chartered accountants with an understanding of charity accounts but will also bring experience of working with organisations undergoing significant change and those that are used to working with organisations to help them manage risk as they change and adapt. For the Investment Committee, candidates should have institutional investment experience.

At People First (Scotland) the team support members in their work for change in three main areas:

1. The way people with learning disabilities see themselves
2. The way the world sees and thinks about people with learning disabilities
3. The law and policy as it affects people with learning disabilities

We have a new and exciting opportunity for a Development Worker for the Fife area. The main purpose of the role is to support local collective advocacy where groups of people with learning disabilities meet together, discuss issues from their own lives and the lives of other people who have learning disabilities. Workers also promote the organisation within the area to strengthen relationships and increase membership.

Applicants must have a good understanding of self-advocacy and collective advocacy, good knowledge of recent policy and legislation as it affects people with learning disabilities, experience of group work and a proven commitment to social inclusion. A qualification in social work or community education is desirable but not essential. Car and valid driving license essential.

Home-Start West Lothian is a local community network of trained volunteers and expert support helping families with young children through their challenging times.

We are there for parents when they need us the most because childhood can’t wait.

At the heart of Home-Start West Lothian’s work is home visiting volunteer support.

Families struggling with post-natal depression, isolation, physical health problems, bereavement and many other issues, receive the support of a volunteer who will spend around two hours a week in a family’s home supporting them in the ways they need.

You will be responsible for ensuring that our services are delivered to high standards, providing leadership and management to a team of staff and volunteers and for the day to day management of the scheme.

Experience of working with children and families is essential, together with a good standard of education, SVQ 4 or equivalent.

The role requires sensitivity and excellent communication skills. Use of your own car (expenses paid) is necessary. An enhanced disclosure check will be required. You should understand and be committed to the role of the voluntary sector and be able to work on your own initiative and in a challenging environment.

We are at an exciting point as a charity, with big challenges, big ambitions, and the passion and energy to make big change happen. We need trustees to help us to realise our potential and we want Board membership to reflect the diverse society of the UK and its differing healthcare systems. We would like our trustees to include young people and underrepresented communities. You may already have experience at Board level, but this is not essential and to help us achieve our ambitions we are very keen to talk those who may have knowledge of the health care/cancer sector in Scotland.

You will also share our passion and determination to transform the future for everyone affected by pancreatic cancer.

We need to stop pancreatic cancer taking too many lives, too soon. We hope you will join us.

FEAT is seeking two Employment Specialists to use the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach, working in partnership with Fife Health & Social Care and with clients with complex and enduring mental health conditions across Fife. IPS is a proven way of helping people, who have had mental ill health, back to work.

The successful candidates will proactively manage a caseload of individuals who are unemployed and/or currently off work. You will deliver the IPS evidence-based model of vocational rehabilitation for people with complex and enduring mental health problems. Working directly with all relevant stakeholders: the individual, NHS Fife, Fife Council, GPs, employers, colleges, Job Centre Plus and Occupational Health to enable individuals to gain and retain employment.

The roles will be based in our offices in Glenrothes, though you are also expected to carry out a proportion of work in NHS inpatient/outpatient settings and in the community around Fife, with patients with complex mental health conditions, on a one-to-one basis. This innovative project has secured substantial further funding from Opportunities Fife and the European Social Investment Fund and we expect to continue beyond March 2021. You will be part of an enthusiastic dynamic team offering an inclusive, non-judgmental approach to support and empower people to flourish by managing their mental health for life.

FEAT are an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident employer and encourage applications from all members of the community including disabled applicants. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of gender and ethnic group, but, as members of ethnic minority groups are currently under-represented in our organisation we would encourage applications from members of these groups. Appointment will be based on merit alone. FEAT's vision is to enable and support individuals to reach their full positive mental well-being in a culture where there is no stigma.