- Advertised from 18th March 2022
- 28 hours per week, 4 days per week
Role
We are recruiting for a Grants Officer to join Shared Care Scotland’s Short Breaks Fund team. This is a key role within the team with responsibility for overseeing the delivery and effective administration of our Better Breaks funding programme. Better Breaks provides grants to third sector organisations that provide a range of fun activities and holidays to disabled children, young people and their families.
Our ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic, self-motivated team player with proven project management experience, excellent interpersonal skills, and with a strong focus on quality and attention to detail. The ideal candidate will also share our passion for developing new and creative short break opportunities.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to apply their skills, knowledge and experience to the ongoing development of the Better Breaks programme, ensuring it continues to operate to the highest standards, achieves its strategic goals, and delivers the best possible outcomes for carers and cared-for people.
About Shared Care Scotland
Shared Care Scotland (SCS) is a dynamic and ambitious charity dedicated to improving the quality and provision of short breaks in Scotland for adult and young carers and the people they help care for. It is estimated there are 700,000 to 800,000 unpaid carers in Scotland, forgoing their own free time and recreation to ensure a loved one has personal and attentive support regardless of when its required.
SCS manages the Shorts Breaks Fund on behalf of Scottish Government by providing grants to third sector organisations that support breaks from caring. For carers, and for the people they care for, regular access to flexible, personalised short breaks, as part of a wider package of assistance, is essential to good health and wellbeing, and enables carers to have a life alongside their caring responsibilities.
*We are working towards introducing a hybrid model, and it is anticipated that the successful candidate will have flexibility to work remotely, with the anticipation that they will attend our office location as necessary.
Application notes
Closing date for applications: 5.00pm, 10th April 2022
Interviews will be held on 20th April 2022
If you would like to discuss the job before applying, please contact don.williamson@sharedcarescotland.com
For further information about this position and details on how to apply, please visit our website: sharedcarescotland.org.uk/about-us/short-breaks-fund-grants-officer
Respitality Coordinator
- Part time
- £31,122.42 pro-rata
- Dunfermline - hybrid working
- Closing 1st April 2024
Are you passionate about the short breaks needs of unpaid carers in Scotland? Do you want to be part of an enthusiastic and hardworking team that champions inclusive tourism?
Shared Care Scotland is an innovative national charity, based in Dunfermline, working to support Scotland’s unpaid carers to access short breaks and respite.
We are delighted to be recruiting a Coordinator for our Respitality initiative. The postholder will be responsible for working with our network of local carer support services in developing and delivering Respitality in their regions and will work closely with the Respitality Manager to recruit new regions. They will also be responsible for developing and delivering a support and training plan for this network. The successful applicant will help us raise the profile of the initiative across Scotland through various media/promotional activities. Assisting in monitoring and reporting on the progress of Respitality is also an important aspect of this role.
Our ideal candidate will be passionate, enthusiastic, and able to work both in a team and independently and have a proven track record of managing and reporting on project work to deadlines. An understanding of the needs of unpaid carers and the importance of short breaks is desirable, as is experience of media content creation.
In return we offer a supportive, collaborative team environment with excellent terms and conditions. Staff benefits include a pension scheme with 15.5% employer contribution, employee health plan, flexible working, and opportunities for professional development.
Admin & Finance Manager
- Part time
- £29,167 – £30,949 pro-rata
- Haddington / hybrid
- Closing 5th April 2024
Carers of East Lothian is the local organisation supporting adults who care for family and friends. We have an excellent reputation, recently gaining recognition through the Carers Trust ‘Excellence for Carers’ Award, and currently have the contract to deliver adult carer services across East Lothian until June 2025, as well as additional one-year funding to employ a Hospital Link Carer Support Worker as a test of change. We are a Carer Positive Exemplary employer, as well as being Disability Confident Committed and a Living Wage employer.
Job Purpose:To provide administrative, operational and financial support, to the core work of the organisation. To effectively manage the Admin Team to achieve this.
Hospital Link Carer Support Worker
- Part time
- £31,842 – £32,821 pro-rata
- Haddington / hybrid
- Closing 5th April 2024
Carers of East Lothian is the local organisation supporting adults who care for family and friends. We have an excellent reputation, recently gaining recognition through the Carers Trust ‘Excellence for Carers’ Award, and currently have the contract to deliver adult carer services across East Lothian until June 2025, as well as additional one-year funding to employ a Hospital Link Carer Support Worker as a test of change. We are a Carer Positive Exemplary employer, as well as being Disability Confident Committed and a Living Wage employer.
The purpose of this post is to identify, support and signpost unpaid carers in a ward setting at East Lothian Community Hospital in Haddington, ensuring carers are well placed to act as equal partners in care. In particular, the post holder will be expected to support carers to become more involved in planning for the future for people they care for, and to ensure the carers are aware how to access support once patients are discharged into the community. This post would work closely with ward staff and the multidisciplinary team to help ensure an effective, efficient and timely discharge of a patient with ongoing care needs to return to their place of home or place of rehabilitation with the necessary support in place, informed by the patient, their health care professionals, and their carer.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £45,000 – £50,000
- Glasgow (On site)
- Closing 12th April 2024
Geeza Break is a successful voluntary organisation whose main aim is to achieve improved health and well-being of individuals, families and their children by providing family support and flexible respite services to parents with children aged 0-16 years, predominantly within the East/North East in Glasgow. We are run by a voluntary Management Board.
The services we offer are intended to be short-term flexible support to families experiencing addiction, stress, crisis or isolation. These services set out to achieve a set of aims for both the family and children.
Due to the retirement of the current post holder, the opportunity has arisen for our voluntary Board of Directors to appoint a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who shares our ethos and will above all be committed to Geeza Break’s values and achieving our aims.
Our CEO supports and provides strategic and operational leadership to our staff management team and will have overall responsibility for managing and developing Geeza Break, in response to the wishes of our voluntary Board of Directors. We would welcome applications from candidates who believe they have the necessary skills and experience to take on this challenging but very rewarding role and who believe they can fit well into our existing culture.
A care or charity background is not necessary to be successful in our CEO’s role but the selected candidate must have excellent strategic and operational leadership skills gained in a comparable organisation.
The post holder will ensure that Geeza Break meets and maintains the highest standards of governance. Our CEO is also the dedicated Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer with ultimate responsibility for safeguarding.
The key competencies our CEO needs to have are:
Minimum of at least 5 years’ senior management experience is essential including working and having responsibility for developing, influencing, and managing organisational policy decisions within a comparable organisation.
Experience of working effectively with and reporting to a voluntary Board of Directors. You should also be able to demonstrate your ability to produce, interpret and present relevant statistical information.
Experience of working directly with the community and involvement in community projects, of a substantial permanent nature as well as of implementing organisational change programmes/projects and in making improvements to enhance performance.
Educated to SVQ level 4 in management or equivalent and be a skilled leader with financial, budgetary development and management experience, including dealing with HR.
An ability to work on your own initiative, problem solve and plan your time effectively to meet deadlines. You will need excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to develop and maintain positive relationships at all levels of the organisation.
Experience in negotiating with funding and regulatory bodies and public speaking would be considered desirable.
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