- Advertised from 12th May 2022
- Permanent, 35 hours per week
Role
Are you a highly motivated individual, with excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and creative ideas for sharing content? Do you thrive working in busy environment in small team? Do you have a passion for accessible communication? The ALLIANCE are currently recruiting for the role of Events and Communications Officer.
We are looking for someone who can:
- Promote the work of the ALLIANCE, its programmes and members effectively using a range of communications tools
- Proactively lead on content creation including social media campaigns, newsletter, press releases and website content
- Help amplify the voice of lived experience using communication channels
- Embed communications and events best practice across the organisation
- Support ALLIANCE in-person, hybrid and online events
If you have experience of supporting communications and events, are confident working with teams across the organisations, have excellent administration skills and are passionate putting people at the centre, then the ALLIANCE would like to hear from you.
As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from generous annual leave entitlement, enhanced maternity and sick pay, time off in lieu and learning and development opportunities. The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.
Application notes
For an application pack please see our website at alliance-scotland.org.uk/blog/jobs/events-and-communications-officer or contact HR at hr@alliance-scotland.org.uk.
The successful applicant must be able to travel throughout Scotland at times as the need arises. A flexible approach to working hours is therefore essential, as occasional additional hours and overnight stays may be required.
Closing date for applications is 9:00 am Monday 30 May 2022.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 23 June 2022. They will consist of a 5 minute presentation followed by competency-based questions.
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.
For details on how your applications will be dealt with in line with GDPR please see our privacy notice.
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Community Fundraiser
- Full time
- £23,440 – £28,000
- Homebased covering Grampian & Tayside - Travel throughout the region required
- Closing 3rd June 2022
Want a job that makes a real difference?
As a Community Fundraiser, you’ll be the face of Marie Curie in the community. Your role will be to support, develop and inspire volunteers, fundraising groups and supporters to ensure our local fundraising activity is as effective as possible.
This will involve engagement with community groups, corporates, fundraising groups and through in-memory giving, and working with those groups and individuals to help Marie Curie grow its fundraising income and local profile.
The nature of fundraising activity requires flexibility and in return for your commitment to evening and weekend work, we will strive to help you enjoy a strong work life balance
The role will involve lots of travel therefore you should have a full UK driver’s license and access to a vehicle (business insurance will be required).
What we are looking for:
- A talent for building and nurturing great working relationships
- An understanding of fundraising principles, methods and procedures
- Adaptability and resilience
- Great customer service skills with the ability to provide excellent stewardship
- A creative problem solver with a can-do attitude
- Organisation and prioritisation skills
- An engaging and inspiring individual with a passion for making a difference
What’s in it for you:
- Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
- Continuous development
- Leading training programmes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible Working
Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.
We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
About Us
Every day of your life matters – from the first to the last. When you work for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We’re a passionate, committed and diverse team of more than 4,400 staff and 12,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left.
Everyone knows our daffodil, but it’s our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.
Patient Information Officer
- Full time
- £25,750 – £28,066
- Currently flexible working from home with hub-based office days (The post holder is preferred to be within reasonable travelling distance of the Edinburgh office.)
- Closing 18th May 2022
Myeloma UK is the only organisation in the UK dealing exclusively with the blood cancer myeloma and related conditions. We are committed to bringing together the best and brightest people to help us ensure that every patient has an empowered present and a hopeful future. We are now looking to appoint a Patient Information Officer to join our Healthcare Advocacy Services Team.
To realise our long-term ambition to make myeloma history, we relentlessly pursue better outcomes for myeloma patients and patients with related conditions through a comprehensive early diagnosis programme, a unique research portfolio, our treatment access strategy, information and support services, and healthcare improvement services.
About the role
We believe that information is key for people to be able to understand their diagnosis and make decisions to play an active role in their treatment and care. This vital service is provided by the Patient Information team at Myeloma UK, who ensure complex medical and scientific language is translated into clear and concise information for a patient audience.
The role of the Patient Information Officer is to maintain and develop reliable and trustworthy printed and online information (written and audio/visual) on myeloma and its related conditions for patients, their family, and carers.
About you
This role is ideally suited to someone who wants to use their medical or life sciences background to develop clear information to help those affected by myeloma.
We’re looking for someone with an eye for detail who can research topics and simplify complex scientific and medical information into accessible and patient-friendly language.
If you understand the power of good information, have excellent research, writing, editing and proofing skills, and the desire to support and inform people living with cancer, we’re keen to hear from you.
Experience in writing healthcare information materials, developing content for information events and general health and cancer knowledge would be an advantage for this role.
However, we are happy to consider candidates with different experiences of writing and producing content, which may include university, voluntary or personal experiences, and graduates earlier in their career are welcome to apply
Support Workers
- Full time or Part time
- Sessional
- Various locations across Scotland - please see below
- Closing 6th July 2022
Support Workers:£11.00/hour F/T, P/T and Bank/Casual.
Advanced Support Workers:£12.80/hour - F/T, P/T and Bank/Casual
Locations:Aberchirder, Aberdeen, Alloa, Alva, Banff, Bridge of Earn, Buckie, Denny, Dumfries, Duns, Edinburgh, Fairlie, Falkirk, Fochabers, Fraserburgh, Fraserburgh, Glasgow, Huntly, Inverness, Invergordon, Jedburgh, Langholm, New Deer, Perth, Peterhead, Pitlochry,Portlethen, Portsoy, Thurso, Tullibody, Westhill, West Lothian and Wick.
As a Support Worker with Community Integrated Care you will experience an incredibly rewarding and fulfilling role.
Our Support Workers empower people with support needs to live the lives they want to lead.
We’re looking for candidates who are kind, dedicated and have a passion for people.
As a Support Worker, you will support people who have learning disabilities, autism, mental health concerns or dementia with their daily routines.
Prior experience of working in care isn’t always necessary. If you have other skills and experiences that you can bring to this role, we will give you all the support that you need.
You will use the best of your personality and skills every day. From supporting people to enjoy their favourite activities to enabling people to live independently, you will make a real difference.
Are you a Support Worker that is looking to progress in your career? Would you like to gain qualifications, enjoy specialist training, have more responsibility and earn more money? We also recruit for Advanced Support Workers within some complex care services.
You will be joining an award-winning charity. This is an exciting role, where you can change lives for the better and enjoy brilliant experiences.
We’re passionate about developing our own people and this role can lead to other exciting opportunities.
We also offer:
- 28 days holiday (inclusive of bank holiday)
- Pension
- Discount and reward scheme
- Employee assistance programmes
- Flexible working opportunities
- Your PVG will be paid for
Would you like to make a real difference to the lives of families with critically ill children in hospital?
Our small hardworking team of staff at Ronald McDonald House Glasgow are dedicated to helping those families who need us at the most stressful and vulnerable time of their lives.
We have been providing support to thousands of families with seriously ill children in hospital for over twenty-six years and we provide a cost free home away from home for families with children receiving care and undergoing treatment at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow and other hospitals in the west of Scotland. We are totally funded by donations and are open and staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
For families with an ill child the House is a fantastic haven at a stressful time when their child’s stay in hospital requires them to be close by.
We want you to join our team!
We are looking for a full-time Events Fundraiser to join us to maximise the charity’s fundraising ability, help raise our profile and play a key role in our success.
What’s involved?
With solid experience in, leading, developing and delivering a calendar of successful income generating events you will lead on Ronald McDonald House Glasgow aspirations to maximise success in financially profitable event opportunities.
You will have demonstrable experience of creating and updating website, social media content and press releases. You will be conversant with liaising with the media and able to actively seek out opportunities for positive press coverage for events, and other charity activities.
Who we are looking for
You will be a highly organised person skilled in running events. You will have the ability to deal calmly with the unexpected. An effective communicator who is confident reaching out to familiar and new audiences to raise the profile of the charity and source new supporters.
Your employer/colleagues will already describe you as a supportive colleague, bubbling with initiative, with a great can-do attitude, easy to get along with and great at their job – if this is you then we are really keen to hear from you.
Benefits:
20 days annual leave + 12 days Public Holiday days’ leave per year
TOIL system in place
Pension Auto Enrolment
No-cost benefit ‘Death in Service’ 3.5 x salary
Institute of Fundraising Membership paid
“Being offered a place at Ronald McDonald House Glasgow meant absolutely everything. This way we could be right there if he needed us through the night – the nurses or doctors could phone and we could be there in a second. Staying in the House with the other parents also gave us a sense of comfort. Being surrounded by people going through the same kind of emotions as you can really help during such an emotionally difficult time”.
“I am so grateful to everyone who helped us through that period of time, especially the Ronald McDonald House staff who really helped ease the stress in such a worrying time. We will be forever grateful.” Ex-Ronald McDonald House Family
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