Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of children and young people with a life shortening condition? Do you have leadership experience in health or social care, a desire to develop people and experience of service improvement in an ever changing environment?

We are looking for an extremely motivated and dynamic nurse seeking a new challenge, which will stretch them in a way that few other roles can? If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

This is a really exciting time to join Children’s Hospices Across Scotland, better known as CHAS, as we develop innovative approaches to allow teams across CHAS to work more closely to offer seamless care to children and families.

“When Louise took my hand, I knew I would never be alone. The care my son received and the support we had as a family at the toughest time imaginable in our lives was truly a life-line", CHAS parent

Would you like to work with remarkable colleagues and meet extraordinary children and families? Would you like to be part of a team providing a flexible and responsive service, whilst delivering holistic person centred palliative care to babies, children and young people, across the East of Scotland?

You will work alongside the Service Manager and bring valuable leadership and people management experience to a team providing specialist palliative care, end of life care and respite care for the child and their whole family in the hospice setting. You will have the opportunity to use your nursing skills and knowledge, complemented by the education and support we provide to develop both yourself and your team. You will promote partnership working with the family, and other CHAS colleagues, as well as our colleagues in the NHS, local authority, other third sector organisations, and volunteers, to put the best interests of the child at the forefront of care.

Benefits

· Full time colleagues work 4 shifts per week

· All working patterns considered: full time, part time and flexible

· Generous holiday and sick pay

· Continuation of NHS pension scheme for existing members

· Lothian Pension Fund membership available

· Employee assistance programme (which includes free access to counselling, financial advice

· Occupational sick pay and maternity pay

· Regular clinical supervision

· Comprehensive induction programme

· Access to ongoing education and development opportunities

· Free parking

Are you passionate about children’s health and wellbeing services in Scotland? Do you have experience of leadership, training, and service delivery? Then Children’s Health Scotland would love to hear from you.

Every child has the right to the best possible health. We are seeking to appoint a Head of Children’s Health and Wellbeing Services who will help us to ensure this right whilst leading the development and delivery of our highly respected Children’s Health and Wellbeing Services in Scotland.

The main purpose of this role is to develop the quality, effectiveness and credibility of our Children’s Health and Wellbeing Services in Scotland whilst providing strategic oversight of the management, delivery, and evaluation of the services. You will also be responsible for contributing to the organisation’s overall policy development and strategic planning. Key areas of responsibility include: Leadership, Service Delivery, Learn with Children’s Health Scotland, and National Funding and Contracts. To find out more please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.

The Promise Scotland is seeking to appoint a Chief Executive. This is a unique opportunity to lead one of the most challenging and important change programmes underway in Scotland.

You will have a deep respect for the principles which underpinned the Independent Care Review and how the legacy of learning and acting on the experiences of life in / on the edges of Scotland’s ‘care system’, must be honoured.

As an experienced leader, you will understand how to support the Promise Scotland team as they navigate the challenges of complex, wholescale change across legislation, policy, investment, data, practice and culture.

You will have an appreciation of the need for collaborative, multi-agency, cross-sector, sequenced implementation to sustain Scotland’s shared purpose to #KeepThePromise. With skills in developing and maintaining partnerships, you will be able to get alongside a diverse range of individuals and organisations, including children, young people and families. You will be alert to the risks, able to identify and manage issues which may impact on pace and progress towards sustainable change and able to deliver challenging messages when required.

You will be committed to Scotland’s promise being kept by 2030 and determined to use all your skills, knowledge and experience to support this. You will recognise the value of influence and the importance of story-telling. You will be thoughtful, determined, brave and committed with a leadership style characterised by honesty and integrity, and an approach that is flexible and empathetic

We are creating a new post of Business Development Manager for Creative Homecare. This is an exciting opportunity to take forward and develop our Creative Homecare Service which currently operates in Forth Valley, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and surrounding areas.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a company which has established a good reputation for quality and a service model that allows time to meet the needs and wishes of our customers. You will help us achieve the full potential of a well-regarded service and help us accelerate the growth of the company.

We are looking for an experienced Sales, Marketing and Business professional whose role is to ensure we meet our revenue targets, through a strong strategy of staff recruitment and retention and a strategy to successfully build a strong customer base.

Creative Homecare is a social enterprise and its purpose is to provide an income stream to Strathcarron Hospice.

Whether or not your sales and marketing background is in social care, our expectations, standards and pace will stretch and develop you. We are a friendly team that works together and shares the pressures, but don’t under-estimate the challenges. We need you to turn Creative Homecare into a fast growing business where you will become an integral member of the senior team as the company grows.

We are looking for a Business Development Manager with:

• A confident composed approach.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence and persuade
• A passion for quality, building relationships and driving our reputation
• Proven experience of business development and identifying new business opportunities
• High level attention to detail and excellent writing skills
• Ability to use our company computer systems including outlook, excel and word.
• A driving licence with access to a car

In return you will enjoy these fantastic benefits:

• Excellent rate of pay
• Exciting, flexible and rewarding work environment
• A structured induction
• Personal Development Plan
• A dynamic and motivated inter-professional team
• Free parking
• Career Average pension scheme – 23.1% employer contribution
• 35 holiday days increasing to 41 days with length of service
• Occupational Sick Pay
• Access to NHS Benefits

This post is subject to a check by Disclosure Scotland.

This key leadership role will support the CEO to implement strategy, ensuring that regulatory standards are met, and policies and procedures are implemented. The primary function of this role is the effective management and delivery of the organisation’s business operations. Part of a small,. ambitious and highly collaborative team, the Assistant Director – Corporate Services works closely with the CEO, Assistant Directors, Finance and People's Teams.

This key leadership role will support the CEO to implement strategy, ensuring that regulatory standards are met, and policies and procedures are implemented. The primary function of this role is the effective management and delivery of the organisation’s income generation activities. Developing and leading the implementation of Rock Trusts Property, Fundraising and Communications Strategies . Part of a small, ambitious and highly collaborative team, the Assistant Director – Income Generation, will work closely with the CEO, Assistant Directors and the Property and Fundraising and Communications teams., to support Rock Trust to achieve its strategic goals.

We are a Registered Charity and SCIO SC046936. Established in 1985, the Charity has been delivering vital services for women and children across the Inverclyde area for over 37 years. Inverclyde Women’s Aid’s vision is of a society, in which women, children and young people are full and equal participants, free from the threat of abuse, violence or oppression.

Our posts are open to women only applicants as we are a woman only service, covered by the occupational requirement exemption under the Equality Act 2010.

Role

The IWA Manager will lead the Charity and continue to build and future proof the Organisation. We are a specialist provider of support for women, children & young people who have experienced domestic abuse. Our service is free, confidential and independent, and we are affiliated to Scottish Women’s Aid.

The successful Manager will be an experienced leader with a proven track record in ensuring the delivery of high-quality services. The Manager will have excellent organisational, motivational and governance skills at a service level. They will have experience of working in a fast-paced environment and will have the ability to prioritise and delegate tasks effectively. They will have experience of developing and delivering strategic and service plans, applying for funding and budget management. The Manager will need to have knowledge of change management and leading teams through a change process.

Successful candidates will have a passion for improving the lives of women, children and young people who have experienced domestic abuse. Applicants should be qualified appropriately in order to register at the appropriate level for a Housing Support Service with SSSC or be committed to achieving this qualification.

Do you have an interest in improving the quality of care, can you COLLABORATE, INNOVATE AND COMMUNICATE, and would you like to join a successful, committed and highly motivated team? This could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

We are seeking to engage an Independent Sector Lead to support the Integration of Health and Social Care in West Lothian. Hosted by Scottish Care and working closely with care providers and partners, the post involves ensuring sector involvement in the delivery of the integrating of health and social care in Scotland’s HSCPs.

The post holder must be highly motivated, be able to use initiative, possess excellent communication and networking skills, demonstrate success and experience working at strategic level with policy makers, providers, regulators, people supported by services and carers. Qualifications and experience at a senior management level would be a significant advantage.

The post holder will be expected to create and support significant collaborations across the independent care sector while contributing to the development of new care pathways which will result in the delivery of improved outcomes for people who access care and support. The post holder will ensure the Independent Sector’s contribution is fundamental to integrated services and transformational change and be able to evidence their impact. The role requires considerable and skilful collaboration with our key partners in the NHS, Local Authority, Carers, third sector organisations and other forums.

West Lothian is a progressive partnership and invests heavily in this post and the Independent Sector.

The post is home based with travel, where necessary, and is hosted by Scottish Care.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our charity who care and educate children and young people with a range of complex support needs. You will join our leadership team with a responsibility for our care campus, located in a beautiful rural location near Rumbling Bridge, Kinross-shire. We want all our young people to feel loved and respected, they enjoy their childhood and young adulthood and to achieve their full potential. As an experienced and registered manager, you will lead on an exciting new initiative to create a new environment for older age young people, and you will lead on Seamab's care service contributing to the promise initiative.

We are looking to appoint a new Assistant Director to lead our work in Glasgow. Please read on to find out if this sounds like you.

What kind of person will make a great Assistant Director for Children 1st?

We are looking for someone who:

• has experience of keeping children safe in their own families

• is fiercely passionate about children’s rights

• thinks it’s a privilege to work with and on behalf of children and families

• is kind and will bring their whole selves to the job: heart and mind

What kind of leader will you be?

You will be someone who is:

• resilient, skilled and knowledgeable who wants to transform systems as well as children’s lives

• big hearted and courageous

• able to build great partnerships and to manage the tricky conversations

• able to understand, predict and adapt to the landscape • bringing deep level operational service experience

• a cool head and clear minded at times of pressure

• strategic in decisions and planning and can manage complexity

• inspiring colleagues and teams to be even better

• an amazing ambassador for children and Children 1st Above all else, you are someone who will do the right thing for children and their families at every turn.

Further information:

This is a permanent, full time post of 35 hours per week. You will find more information about this exciting opportunity below.