With a focus on the emerging National Care Service Programme in Scotland.

The Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) are looking for a motivated, committed, enthusiastic and knowledgeable individual to join a dedicated, hardworking team on a part time, one year contract.

Based at home you will join the SASW professional team to work with staff and active members to support SASW in its work around adults services and, in particular, the emerging National Care Service Programme. To contribute to other ongoing SASW work and engagement with members for the benefit of members, the profession, people who use social work services and other stakeholders. To support develop and co-ordinate BASW’s activities in Scotland.

You must be committed to the highest standards of practice, have enthusiasm, drive and determination.

This role would suit either a qualified social worker with national social work policy knowledge or a policy professional with sound knowledge of social work. You could join us either as an employed member of the Association or as a self-employed contractor.

The post holder will need direct experience or a good understanding of current policy and practice in adult social work in Scotland and a sound understanding of the political landscape/policy in social work in Scotland.

Who are we looking for and why work at Children’s Hearings Scotland (CHS)?

We’re looking for an experienced management accountant who can support, monitor, and drive our financial processes and procedures. You will be strategically minded and an excellent communicator who can provide professional accountancy support to enable Children’s hearings Scotland to make the most effective use of our resources. You will be an outstanding and engaging team player who can prioritise workload and deliver on the technical detail across multiple fronts.

At CHS we recruit, train and support empathetic and committed volunteers across Scotland. Our volunteer roles are Panel Members and Area Support Team (AST) members.

Our 2,500 volunteer Panel Members take part in children’s hearings in their local areas, making decisions with and for infants, children and young people. Our organisation also supports a network of 22 Area Support Teams made up of 400 volunteers who support Panel Members in their local communities.

CHS has signed-up to deliver The Promise and in that we will work with young people and our partners to redesign Children’s Hearings over the next 5-years. This is possibly the most exciting time to work at CHS as you will play a key role in supporting us to deliver this change.

Our Finance team

We now have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with relevant experience of public sector accountancy to join us as a Management Accountant. Applying your expert professional knowledge and experience, you will play an integral part in the successful management of the of our financial processes. We are looking for someone who can provide excellent advice, guidance, and oversight on all aspects of our Finance and Budget management.

As our Management Accountant, you will develop and maintain effective and proactive working relationships between the Finance Team and our operational teams, working with support services colleagues to source and deliver appropriate solutions to meet our business requirements. You will ensure the implementation of our Finance policies and procedures brings consistency of practice, fairness and equality in relation to budget management.

You will review the effectiveness of our administrative financial policies, systems and procedures to ensure continuous improvement and enable our growth as we move forward.

You will be a key player working with our internal and external auditors to provide relevant information and access and brining their recommendations forward.

Day to day, you will manage our capital/asset accounting including appraisal, post appraisal and asset register maintenance, verification, depreciation and disposal of fixed assets. You will support the payroll function and liaise with our pension providers and HM Revenue and Customs as required.

Life at CHS

As an organisation that works within the children’s hearings system, we are passionate about making a positive contribution to improving outcomes for Scotland’s infants, children and young people. Our values are at the very heart of what we do every day. By working with us, you’ll be joining a diverse community of colleagues and volunteers.

At CHS we are proud to celebrate difference. We all have different skills, experience and backgrounds and we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture where you can be yourself.

We offer an excellent benefits package, from health and wellness to finances and family. including: generous annual leave, flexible working and other leave policies, fantastic pension, Employee Assistance Programme, development opportunities and wider employee wellbeing initiatives.

Diversity and Inclusion

CHS is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during application and assessment process, and upon joining CHS.

At the Royal College of Nursing we’re an optimistic organisation. And we’ve got good reason to be. We all share the same voice when it comes to changing the shape of the health policies of the future. And as the largest trade union of nursing staff and students in the UK – with over 450,000 members across the UK and around 40,000 of these in Scotland – all we can see are the infinite possibilities for a brighter future. Join us and you will too.

Could you help the RCN transform Scottish health and social care policy to improve care?

You will have plenty of opportunities to make a difference. One day you might be working with national partners to explore the role of nursing in care homes. The next you could be working with members to understand how the pandemic has impacted on their roles. This job will appeal to any policy professional with an interest in health and care who enjoys building a robust case for improvement through debate and analysis, and who is committed to working collaboratively.

With the whole Scottish health and social care system facing unprecedented change, there has never been a more dynamic or important time to make a difference to nursing staff and to people using health services. At the RCN in Scotland you will join a small, highly-regarded team committed to producing robust and influential policy.

What we offer you

We expect you to look after our members. And we expect you to be rewarded for it. As well as a whole range of learning and development opportunities we also offer you an impressive range of benefits. We have a highly competitive pay structure, as well as flexible working, and annual leave of up to 32 days.

Balancing work and life commitments is important to us as an organisation. We are a diverse organisation and understand everyone has different needs. All employees can ask for flexible working and when personal circumstances change we will work with you to find a smarter working solution that suits everyone. In fact, many of our employees enjoy home working, flexible working or compressed hours, enabling them to deliver results with minimum impact to their professional and personal commitments. We also offer generous Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave packages.

You’ll have experience of working collaboratively to influence policy makers and you’ll be able to demonstrate that you can research, write and present persuasive policy and will have a good understanding of the key Scottish issues in health and social care and how the Scottish Government works.

You’ll be passionate about engaging with experts to develop your understanding and working creatively to engage people in shaping policy. You’ll also enjoy focusing on complex analysis of research, statistics and other intelligence.

You’ll be comfortable in a fast-paced, changing environment in a team that actively reflects on ways to improve our impact.

To succeed at the Royal College of Nursing all you need to do is think bigger, better and brighter. With an attitude like that, anything’s possible.

Who are we looking for and why work at Children’s Hearings Scotland (CHS)?

We’re looking for an energetic and dynamic leader who can drive our legislative and practice reforms as we deliver The Promise. You will be open minded, a key influencer and a strategic thinker who can lead us through our complex legislative environment. You will be a true relationship builder with an impressive track record of collaboration and networking. You will add real value to our Senior Leadership Team with your insight and be prepared to lead from the front.

At CHS we recruit, train and support empathetic and committed volunteers across Scotland. Our volunteer roles are Panel Members and Area Support Team (AST) members.

Our 2,500 volunteer Panel Members take part in children’s hearings in their local areas, making decisions with and for infants, children and young people. Our organisation also supports a network of 22 Area Support Teams made up of 400 volunteers who support Panel Members in their local communities.

CHS has signed-up to deliver The Promise and in that we will work with young people and our partners to redesign Children’s Hearings over the next 5-years. This is possibly the most exciting time to work at CHS as you will play a key role in these reforms.

Our Practice & Policy team

We now have a fantastic opportunity for a strategic and forward thinking leader to head up our Practice and Policy team. You will have relevant experience and connections to the Children’s hearing System and will be responsible for leading, directing and developing practice and policies across CHS. Your focus will be on ensuring that practice and policy support organisational objectives, and the effectiveness of Panel Members to achieve the best interventions and outcomes for infants, children, young people and their families.

You will have a sound understanding of our missions, vision and values and be able to use your extensive experience to develop corporate strategies and meaningful objectives which promote national policy, drive and maintain quality standards, and lead to positive demonstrative outcomes.

You will facilitate and nurture best practice across the service; actively encourage and promote the contribution to practice and policy from all staff; and maximise efficiency and effectiveness through integration and inclusion.

Educated to degree level or equivalent you must be able to evidence your recent commitment to continuing your professional development in your area of work. You must also possess a leadership/management qualification and have significant demonstrable experience in leadership, problem solving, planning and decision making.

If you think that you can help to shape and improve practice and policy to achieve better hearings then this could be just the position for you.

Life at CHS

As an organisation that works within the children’s hearings system, we are passionate about making a positive contribution to improving outcomes for Scotland’s infants, children and young people. Our values are at the very heart of what we do every day. By working with us, you’ll be joining a diverse community of colleagues and volunteers.

At CHS we are proud to celebrate difference. We all have different skills, experience and backgrounds and we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture where you can be yourself.

We offer an excellent benefits package, from health and wellness to finances and family. including: generous annual leave, flexible working and other leave policies, fantastic pension, Employee Assistance Programme, development opportunities and wider employee wellbeing initiatives.

Diversity and Inclusion

CHS is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during application and assessment process, and upon joining CHS.

We are looking for a Head of Research, Evidence and Insight to join our team! Could this be you?

About the Role

The role is central to helping us to develop and lead a range of research and insights projects on flexible working - focusing on employers and people in work - in order to inform and support both our commercial employer work and our social justice priorities.

You can find out more about the role by downloading the Job Description.

Please note that we are currently working remotely and will be moving to a hybrid working offer as COVID-19 restrictions ease.

The Health Foundation is an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK.

We are currently recruiting for an Assistant Director of Improvement Programmes to lead the strategic development and delivery of our improvement portfolio. You will have responsibility for leading the Design and Delivery Team within the Improvement Directorate. The team scopes and delivers innovative programmes of work to identify and test ideas to improve health and social care, build leadership and improvement capability, and enable sharing and learning on how to make improvement happen in practice.

You will be an experienced leader with a track record of working to improve quality, and work well in partnership. Comfortable with engaging at senior levels in policy and practice, you will have a significant track record of programme delivery, and a deep interest in how to create the conditions where new ideas, approaches and technologies can be effectively deployed in ways that deliver better health, better experience of care and better value.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with a passion for improving outcomes and a commitment to our core behaviours – Diversity and Inclusion, Working Together, Discovering and Learning and Achieving Impact. If the role excites you, we would love to hear from you!

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh is seeking to appoint an experienced and dynamic individual to lead the Global Engagement function.

The role will encompass leadership of a number of teams:

• Communication, Marketing & Design
• Policy & Public Affairs
• Quality Research & Standards
• Membership
• Quality Governance
• Library & Heritage
• Journal teams.

Global Engagement is a newly created department resulting from the merger of a number of smaller departments. The Head of Global Engagement will be responsible for ~ 20 people.

This is a unique opportunity to lead colleagues across a number of important areas of the College’s work and the successful candidate will drive forward two of the College’s strategic aims: to be the voice of physicians; and to build an inclusive and collaborative global community that supports physicians across all stages of their careers, furthering our network of Fellows and Members (F&Ms).

The Head of Global Engagement will provide strategic and operational leadership of the Department and will report directly to the Chief Executive.

The Role

The main responsibilities of the role:

Overall responsibility and leadership of the College’s communications strategy and plan, promoting the College and actively contributing to the broader business objectives.

• Hold budgetary responsibility for all Library & Heritage activities, including staffing and volunteers.
• Work with Officer Bearers to develop suitable strategies and implementation plans, including exhibitions, conservation and collection development projects.
• Hold budgetary responsibility for production of the College Journal, including staffing and out-sourced publishing activities and contracts
• Lead and develop the strategy for the Quality Governance Collaborative.
• Oversee the current Quality Governance fellowships and develop future fellowships, including WHO and other collaborations.
• Engagement with stakeholders in Scotland, UK and internationally on governance issues.
• Lead / contribute to invited service reviews (including audit and quality reviews) along with the Clinical Lead.
• Lead the development of appropriate strategy and implementation plans with office bearers.
• To advise the President, CEO and Honorary Secretary on continuing compliance with the provisions of the College Royal Charter and College Laws (requiring regular liaison with the College lawyers).
• To increase recruitment of all categories of Fellows and Members.

The Person

The post holder will require the following:

• Educated to degree level, ideally in a communications, marketing or business related discipline, together with extensive post qualification experience (or equivalent).
• Experience and expertise in the strategic development and delivery of competitive marketing and communication strategies for an organisation with multiple stakeholders and audiences and a global reach.
• Knowledge of UK wide health policy preferable but not essential.
• Demonstrable success in achieving targets, including financial targets.
• Decision making skills, with evidence of taking difficult decisions and evidencing reasoning.
• Good written and verbal communication and presentational skills with the proven ability to influence and persuade senior professional staff.
• Understanding of the medical – political dimensions facing Royal Colleges generally.
• Effective people management skills.
• Motivational skills to encourage performance and productivity from their teams.
• A track record of delivering successful internal and external communications, ideally for a membership organisation.
• The post holder must be a positive advocate for the College as a professional association and promote the wider role of the College for professionals and the public.

Remuneration Package

The salary for this role will be £63,880 per annum plus benefits. Additional benefits include:

• Pension: with employer contributions of 9%.
• Holidays: 28 days annual leave and 11 days public holiday/College close downs.
• Life assurance scheme.
• Long-term income protection scheme for those unable to work due to illness.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Discounted rates for use of the venue for personal events.

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? A new opportunity has arisen to play a major part in shaping the future of Cerebral Palsy Scotland as one of the Senior Management Team.

This is a new post that has been designed to support the Trustees and CEO and ensure the smooth running of services to our beneficiaries from our centre in Glasgow. The post will suit an experienced administrator and manager who enjoys the challenge and variety of working with a small and committed multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate will have HR, data protection and accounting experience.

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.