Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of families and children? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional professional to lead COVEY.
The Board is seeking to appoint a new CEO to lead the organisation and to provide strategic direction to its staff, volunteers and supporters. You will have effective and comprehensive leadership, management and communication skills, with experience of leading high performing teams. You will be a confident communicator and ambassador for COVEY.
If you have a strong empathy with this area of work; if you value integrity, compassion and teamwork; if you want to work in an inclusive and nurturing environment; if you have an understanding of the challenges some families face and knowledge of the causes and impact of poverty, then this could be the next career challenge for you.
The Dundee Carers Centre is an independent organisation with charitable status and has been working with carers, young carers and disabled people for over twenty-five years. The Centre is proud of its reputation for demonstrating innovation and in supporting people to achieve their aspirations for the future. While it looks back on its record with pride, there are challenges ahead. The number of adults in need of care is expected to increase 30% by 2026 as our population ages. The financial strain on local authorities to be able to support carers and their families is going to become even more challenging meaning that the expectation on families to do more could present a limited quality of life for carers and the people they are caring for.
Research has found that 32% of carers state that caring has a negative effect on their health, and carers providing more hours of care are less likely to state that they have good or very good health. Carers Scotland found that many carers start experiencing health problems when they begin caring, and that pre-existing health problems amongst carers can become worse. Commonly carers suffer from lack of sleep, poor diet and physical injuries, particularly back injuries as well as mental health issues.
In short, the need for Dundee Carers Centre’s services can only increase and their mission become even more important. The very long-standing CEO, Lucinda Godfrey, is leaving shortly to take up a new post and the Board of Trustees is looking for an exceptional individual to take her place.
You will need to have many personal qualities as well as the right skills, knowledge and experience to be a success in this role. The Board is not necessarily looking for an experienced CEO as they have the willingness and ability to support and develop someone who is ready to step up into the Lead Officer position. However, you would need a minimum 3 years’ experience in a senior management position in a similar organisation with significant strategic and financial management acumen. You should have a deep understanding of the national policy landscape, especially self-directed support, and experience of securing income for your organisation. In terms of your personal attributes, the Centre prides itself on the caring and nurturing environment for staff as well as carers and their families. The next CEO will need to be collaborative rather than directive and be very interested in staff welfare and development.
This is a special organisation that is looking for that someone special to lead it. In return, you will get support from a high calibre and very committed Board of Trustees and staff team.
Connect Community Trust is a Development Trust and Social Enterprise based within the Greater Easterhouse and East End of Glasgow. Our organisation is first and foremost community-led, with the community at the heart of everything we do and is one of our main strengths. Connect is a forward thinking, creative and diverse organisation that has an ambitious and exciting future ahead with a dedicated and committed team of staff, volunteers and Board.
We are looking for a CEO that can take forward and build upon the achievements over the past 19 years and support the community to overcome challenges, embrace and lead positive change and create and develop social enterprise activities to sustain the organisation.
Key skills/experience:
- Proven track record at managerial level
- Ability to motivate, empower and support a staff team
- Creative, innovative and strategic thinker
- Respect, experience and knowledge of the third sector
- Knowledge and experience of reporting to and working a Board of Directors
- Financial management, budgeting and reporting
- Applying for and managing funding
Carers Support Worker, Dumfries and Galloway
- Part time
- £21,336 pro-rata
- Working across Stewartry, Nithsdale and Annandale and Eskdale in Dumfries & Galloway. Work base can be flexible within these localities.
- Closing 7th November 2022
Are you interested in joining an award-winning Scottish charity, which supports people whose lives are affected by mental health issues?
Support in Mind Scotland provides support throughout Scotland and offers a range of services to people directly affected by a mental health issue and to those who care for them, whether family, friend or supporter.
We are committed to delivering services shaped by the lived experienced of people affected by mental health. We believe in a holistic approach to providing support and aim to empower our service user to make the best use of what help, and support is available to them.
Our Carers’ Support Service in Stewartry, Nithsdale and Annandale & Eskdale, is looking for someone with a passion for supporting carers and family members of people living with mental illness. We are looking for someone to use their skills and experience in Health and Social care to make a positive impact on Carers and their caring role.
In this Carers Support role, you will be responsible for empowering carers by encouraging and enabling them to focus on their own health and wellbeing. You will do this by working with them on plans and strategies to manage their lives and cope with their caring role.
The expected outcomes for Carers include:
- Carers can access the services they need to continue in their caring role
- Carers can access planned short breaks when they need them
- Carers have maintained or improved their level of health and well-being
- Carers receive the information and advice they need when they need it
- Carers feel supported in their caring role
- Carers are actively involved in the planning and delivery of the service they receive
You will provide emotional and practical support, help to raise carers awareness of their rights and of support packages available to them, signpost and refer them to various agencies, charities and services that they need.
You will facilitate a safe and appropriate space for peer support and empower carers by giving them access to information relevant to them. This can be through online groups as well as building-based spaces.
Who are we looking for?
You will be empathic, a good listener and possess a clear understanding of the issues faced by carers. Knowledge of specific legal issues faced by carers of people living with mental illness is highly desirable.
You will be comfortable working in a team or lone working with carers to meet their needs, and be confident using Microsoft packages, such as Teams, Spreadsheets and online communication platforms such as Zoom.
A good working knowledge of mental ill-health is essential, as well as the ability to provide one-to-one support and facilitate group support.
Why join us?
This is a great opportunity to join a thriving charity and help shape its future. In return for your work, passion and dedication, we offer scope for development, a benefit package including 37 days’ holiday, enhanced sick pay, regular support & supervision and access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
Find out more about ‘Who We Are and What We Do’ on our Website at supportinmindscotland.org.uk and on Social Media.
We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities that benefit the individual and the charity and are a “Happy to Talk Flexible” employer: The post is for 21 hours per week; we would consider flexible ways of spreading these hours across the week for the suitable candidate.
For an informal discussion, please contact Euan Maclean at emclean@supportinmindscotland.org.uk
If you are passionate about enabling Support in Mind Scotland to deliver a valuable service to the Scottish community and feel your profile matches this role’s criteria, then we want to hear from you!
Communications & Engagement Officer
- Full time
- £25,000
- Hybrid Working – Community Working and Homebased
- Closing 28th October 2022
This is a new and exciting role in a fresh dynamic organisation that is looking to maximise the capability of the vital third sector and all the voluntary organisations across the Scottish Borders. You will be a conduit for sharing information and making sure that Third Sector Organisation’s needs are heard and represented at local and national levels whilst also ensuring that necessary resources flow into the sector.
This is an exciting time to join the Borders TSI as we look to recruit a highly motivated Communications and Engagement Officer who has a passion for promoting the interests and values of Borders TSI and the Third Sector Organisations we represent. You will have a track-record of being a high-achiever; driving excellence; and making things happen. You have experience working across a variety of social media platforms and social media scheduling tools. You are keen to bring your ideas and enthusiasm in supporting this new enterprise and our new vision and strategy. You will have a track record of events, influencing and engaging people locally and nationally.
This is a full-time and fixed-term post, funded till the end of September 2023. The post may develop and be extended, subject to securing continued funding and satisfactory delivery of the key result areas.
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Administrator – Business Support Officer
- Part time
- £18,800 – £19,364 pro-rata
- Office Based, Duns, Berwickshire.
- Closing 20th October 2022
To provide efficient, flexible and proactive support to the Chief Executive and to assist and provide support to Bavs key departments: Community Development, Shops and Berwickshire Wheels by providing administrative and clerical support while helping to ensure that the charity meets its goals and objectives.
The Business Support Officer will be tasked with handling a wide range of duties, from managing emails, answering phones and scheduling appointments to filing paperwork and managing our membership and engagement databases.
Southwest Community Transport was founded in 2009. Following the pandemic our board needs to expand to ensure that the organisation continues to grow and meet demand for our services.
We currently have vacancies for Volunteer Trustees to join our board.
We are a registered charity working with local communities to provide free transport to and from healthcare settings and also a range of minibus transport tailored to meet the needs of local people.
The board normally meet on a quarterly basis with additional sub-committee meetings throughout the year.
Knowledge of the voluntary sector is desirable but not essential. We are particularly looking for individuals with financial/ accounting acumen as our Honorary Treasurer is currently stepping down. We would also would like to attract a number of other people, who might have a range of life skills and experiences and who also want to support our aims including:
- Accountancy
- Digital Marketing
- Human Resources
- Governance in the voluntary sector Commitment to the organisation and a willingness to devote the necessary time and effort
- Good, independent judgement and strategic vision
- An ability to work effectively as a member of a team
- An understanding of the respective roles of the Chair, Directors and Senior Staff
We aim to be an inclusive organisation and would like to have a diverse Board so we particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups.
Reports to:General Manager
Purpose of the Job: The Administrator will assist staff members in an administrative capacity to support the delivery of the project as a whole.
Key Tasks, Responsibilities and Activities
Administrative and Financial Duties
- Managing filing systems, assisting in developing and implementing new administrative systems.
- Work alongside Bookkeeper ensuring timely return of office finance, petty cash, and income streams from café and bike hub.
- Staff meeting minutes and timetabling meetings.
- Update social media posts.
- Update web content.
- Respond to enquiries via website and email.
- Control incoming correspondence and liaise with other agencies, organisations, and local groups.
- Assist with office budgets, recording office expenditure and individual project expenditure.
- Assist with the preparation of progress reports, final reports, applications, and other reporting.
Personnel and recruitment
- Ensure personnel files are up to date.
- Update organisational membership.
- Sourcing and promoting staff development and training.
- Assist with the recruitment of new staff, sometimes including training and induction.
- Drafting contracts.
Marketing, Events and Community Engagement
- Maintain accurate email and contact database.
- Manage internal room bookings, market events, arranging catering etc.
- Update social media
Skills and Abilities and Other Duties
- Experience of project administrative, reporting & monitoring procedures
- Ability to work with a wide range of users and local people.
- Ability to work unsupervised.
- Excellent IT skills in Outlook, Word, Excel & PowerPoint.
- Accurate record keeping.
- Experience of planning, organising, and delivering community projects, activities/events.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Excellent written, presentational, and verbal communication skills.
- Flexible, confident, self-motivated and of cheerful disposition.
- Ability to work under pressure; to meet targets and deal with a wide range of complex tasks simultaneously.
- Team player, open, friendly, positive, and participative.
- High level of energy and commitment.
Would you like to be part of the leadership team in a forward-looking Church of Scotland congregation?
This is an exciting opportunity for a creative and committed individual with a strong and lively Christian faith (*) to work alongside us as we meet the challenge of delivering our Mission Plan going forward
We are looking to develop our ministerial team, working along with our elders and congregation to further the aims of Palmerston Place Church, specifically to:
- Share in leading worship services as required.
- Support ministry to our children, young people and their families.
- Share in the pastoral and outreach & discipleship work at Palmerston Place Church.
This is intended to be a full-time position based in the Church Office.
(*) This is a genuine occupational requirement in terms of the Equality Act (Religion or Belief) regulations 2010.
Thanks to a generous award from the Foyle Foundation we are excited to be able to create this new post that will enable the Beacon to develop our existing focus on community engagement.
This post will enable us to work with local communities to ensure our participatory work reflects the lives, interests and hope of local people. We aim to reach new and diverse groups to enable participation in the arts as we work to bring about positive change for communities.
If you’re a highly motivated individual with the skills, commitment and passion to be part of the next stage of the Beacon’s exciting journey, this could be your dream job.
JOB PURPOSE:
To plan and deliver work in the community that will change perceptions on how participating with the Beacon’s creative engagement programme can give communities a voice, improve lives and the social cohesion of a community. To deliver key learning from the work that can be taken forward by the Beacon.