Fortune Works is one of Scotland’s largest social enterprises for people with learning disability. The Operations Manager post will provide an exciting and rare opportunity to help lead the service in providing meaningful social and economic activity to adults with learning disability in north west Glasgow. Fortune Works is part of Enable Glasgow, a long-established member-led organisation which works with people with learning disability and their carers in the city.

Fortune Works supports around 120 people with learning disability to play a full role in the life of the community through providing in-house economic activity and social support, and also in partnership with local community organisations in Drumchapel and north-west Glasgow. Our Operations Managers play a lead role in maintaining and developing these partnerships, and in ensuring the smooth running of a very busy service.

We are looking for people who have management or supervisory experience, drive, initiative, and experience to help us move on to the next stage of our development, and who have a demonstrable commitment to the human rights and inclusion of people who have a learning disability.

Benefits

Employee benefits include:

• 33 days leave (including public holidays) rising to 38 days after five years’ service.

• An enhanced pension scheme.

• Free life cover.

• Free access to counselling and wellbeing services.

• Support for training and professional development.

The ALLIANCE is excited to recruit a Service Designer for the ALISS programme. ALISS – A Local Information System for Scotland is a web-based system for finding and sharing information about community services, groups, activities and resources that support health and wellbeing. The Service Designer plays a key role, using human-centred design principles to implement changes to the ALISS system.

The successful candidate for this role should have:

• Relevant qualification or experience in service design.
• Strong passion for user-centred design principles and methodologies.
• Knowledge and experience of prototyping tools and techniques.
• Eagerness to engage in user research activities, with a basic understanding of research methodologies.
• Understanding of service design within digital and physical environments.
• A creative mindset with a focus on problem-solving.
• Strong analytical skills and a keen eye for detail.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively articulate design concepts and decisions to those implementing solutions (e.g. ALISS developers) and people with low digital skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a small team, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability.

Terms and conditions

This is a full time role, 35 hours per week, and based in Glasgow. The post holder will be required to adopt a flexible approach to working hours as travel throughout Scotland and occasional additional hours may be required. However, this will be reimbursed through the organisation’s Time off in Lieu scheme.

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days) pro rata
• 91 hours of public holidays (equivalent of 13 days) pro rata that can be taken flexibly
• 24.5 hours additional leave between Christmas and New Year pro rata (equivalent to 3.5 days)
• Annual incremental increase in salary (until top of grade)
• Contributory pension scheme
• Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
• Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
• Enhanced maternity, paternity pay, shared parental and adoption leave
• Enhanced sick pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Time off in lieu
• Cycle Scheme
• Bike storage
• Carer Positive Employer
• Disability Confident Employer
• Up to 35 hours (pro rata) paid carers leave per annum
• Up to 35 hours (pro rata) paid special leave per annum
• Up to 70 hours (pro rata) paid compassionate leave per annum
• Paid day off to move house
• Employee forum

The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.

We recognise everyone is different and provide an environment where differences are valued and everyone is encouraged to be the best version of themselves. We recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

About the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland

The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) is an independent Scottish Charity funded by a grant from the Scottish Government. Our vision is for a Scotland where people of all ages who are disabled or living with long term conditions, and unpaid carers, have a strong voice and enjoy their right to live well, as equal and active citizens, free from discrimination, with support and services that put them at the centre.

The ALLIANCE has three core aims; we seek to:

• Ensure people are at the centre, that their voices, expertise, and rights drive policy and sit at the heart of design, delivery and improvement of support and services.
• Support transformational change, towards approaches that work with individual and community assets, helping people to stay well, supporting human rights, self-management, co-production, and independent living.
• Champion and support the third sector as a vital strategic and delivery partner and foster better cross-sector understanding and partnership.

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We are hiring a Glasgow Community Organiser

Living Rent is continuing to build membership and power across Scotland. And just now, we are hiring a community organiser in Glasgow. This post aims to support members to build power in their community and win real changes locally and nationally. You will be working with the organisers across Scotland to build and support branches of Living Rent in Glasgow.

This post will specifically focus on targeting areas that are vulnerable to flooding, supporting people in those areas to organise around issues that they care about and learn about climate change and how to ensure that our homes and neighbourhoods are more prepared for its impacts. THis post is funded by the National Lottery Climate Action Fund.

Living Rent has gone from strength to strength in recent years and we continue to build power in communities up and down our country. We hope you will consider joining our growing team!

Living Rent is hiring a full-time community organiser to support members organise in their neighbourhoods to challenge the issues they face and to fight for better housing and a system that works for the common good. The role entails outreach (stalls, door knocking), recruiting members, and supporting members to organise meetings, take responsibilities locally, build democratic neighbourhood branches and take part in city-wide and national structures.

In neighbourhoods, the organiser will support members to research their issues, select relevant campaigns, define achievable wins , organise direct actions and support members in negotiations with relevant targets including private/ social landlords, private companies, the local municipality. You will aim to involve more people in Living Rent at the local and national level, in order to build power in our communities and tenants’ power across Scotland.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about building real people power and excited about the chance to work for a young, diverse and member-run organisation. Experience in recruitment, training delivery, community education or campaigns is welcome; however enthusiasm, willingness to learn and commitment to social justice are more important than previous experience as training will be provided. This role may suit someone with experience in sales, street fundraising or other customer/public facing work, who wishes to move into organising.

This post is accountable to Living Rent’s democratic structures and line managed by Living Rent’s Glasgow Head Organiser. Living Rent staff members primarily work Monday - Friday between 11am and 7pm, though the work will sometimes need to be done at other times of day, along with some weekends. Some unsocial hours are inevitable and flexibility is vital.

We are a Living Wage employer. Support for the professional development and training of our staff members is a priority for Living Rent and we invest considerable time and resources to achieve this. We are committed to supporting all of our staff members to grow and learn through their role and to implement reasonable adjustments.

Living Rent is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Mission Statement

Our long-term vision is to end youth homelessness, our more immediate mission is to ensure that every young

person in Scotland has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, resolve and move on from homelessness.

Context

The Project Worker will work directly with young people to coordinate and provide emotional and practical support on a 1:1 and group basis. Working with young people in their supported tenancy and in their local community to ensure that a young person’s experience of homelessness is rare, brief, and nonrecurring.

The Project Worker will offer line management, guidance, and support to Support Assistants and volunteers, working together to support young people to improve their practical independent living skills, access other services and to reach their full potential. Project Workers are responsible for completing support plans and risk assessments and are the main contact for any key people involved in the care and support of young people.

The Project Worker will support young people to improve their practical independent living skills, access other services and to reach their full potential. Project Workers are responsible for completing support plans and risk assessments and are the main contact for any key people involved in the care and support of young people.