Top job! Domestic Abuse Court Advocacy Accreditation Lead
- Full time
- £35,000 – £38,000
- Home based in Scotland (with regular travel across Scotland and occasionally the rest of the UK)
- Closing 20th July 2022
- Advertised from 20th June 2022
- 37.5 Hours per week. Fixed Term March 2025.
- A generous package including 26 days holiday a year and public holidays, employee pension scheme with 4% employer contribution, Cycle2Work scheme, 365 days a year Employee Assistance Programme
Role
Who are we?
We are SafeLives, the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good.
Last year alone, nearly 13,500 professionals received our training. Over 70,000 adults at risk of serious harm or murder and more than 85,000 children received support through dedicated multi-agency support designed by us and delivered with partners. In the last four years, over 2,000 perpetrators have been challenged and supported to change by interventions we created with partners, and that’s just the start.
Together we can end domestic abuse. Forever. For everyone.
Key purpose of role
This role has been created to lead a brand new programme, funded by the Scottish Government, to build consistency in how domestic abuse court advocacy provision is delivered across Scotland. Working collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders including an expert practitioner based within ASSIST, you will shape and guide work to develop the evidence base and an accreditation process that will support the creation of national standards for domestic abuse court advocacy services. You will also be involved in creating a new training module on domestic abuse court advocacy to enhance the existing Independent Domestic Abuse Advocacy (Idaa) training course.
You will scope, plan and lead the activity we have been funded for, to build a robust accreditation framework that includes service standards and training for DA court advocacy providers. This will include establishing and working with a steering group to oversee the programme, and an accreditation panel to support implementation. You will also manage extensive engagement activities with multiple stakeholders from within and beyond the VAWG sector and the criminal justice system. This includes creative engagement with survivors to ensure that lived experience is embedded throughout the process in line with SafeLives’ Authentic Voice strategy. Likewise, in following SafeLives’ Equity Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EEDI) strategy, you will reach out widely to reflect a variety of perspectives, experiences and expertise in your work.
Application notes
To apply please visit our website
No agencies please.
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Top job! Head of Children’s Health and Wellbeing Services
- Full time
- £31,709
- Blended work approach with a minimum of one day per week at our Head Office based in Edinburgh.
- Closing 11th July 2022
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.
EAUC Scotland Senior Sustainability Project Officer
- Part time
- £27,924 – £33,309 pro-rata
- Home based (with home-based allowance), with regular travel across central Scotland
- Closing 6th July 2022
The UK's sustainability alliance of universities and colleges, the EAUC, has a unique opportunity to join their Scotland Team. Are you that person?
You will be a vital senior member of the small and dynamic EAUC-Scotland Team, within a new role to support the EAUC to realise its ambitious plans in Scotland.
With a high level of demonstrable knowledge and understanding of sustainable development issues and project management experience, you will lead on strategic projects, resource production, EAUC-Scotland network meetings & events, and policy engagement work to enhance engagement with sustainability topics by staff working in different roles in Scotland’s universities and colleges. You will also have line management responsibility for 2 members of the team.
With strong written and verbal communication skills and a personable manner, as well as experience communicating with others with varying priorities and perspectives about sustainability topics, you will be capable of engaging with a wide range of stakeholders both one-to-one and through group meetings, training delivery, workshops and presentations to advance the sustainability of Scotland’s further and higher education sector.
Finally, you will be flexible and happy to work with colleagues to support wider organisation activities and targets as outlined in the EAUC’s Strategic Plan and EAUC-Scotland’s Outcome Agreement with the Scottish Funding Council.
You will be rewarded with involvement in a dynamic charity, generous holidays and a 12.5% employer pension contribution.
A full Job Description is available for download below.
Would you like to come and work at the number one Union in Scotland (as voted in the recent Whatuni Student Choice awards)?
Strath Union is looking for a talented Sport Manager to join our growing team at Strathclyde Students' Union and take student Sport to the next level.
We are seeking a dynamic manager to lead the operational delivery of the Sports Union and implement a sector-leading club development programme.
The post-holder will line manage the Sports Union staff team and implement a comprehensive training programme for student volunteers who lead on the delivery of sports club activities.
The individual will have good influencing and negotiating skills and be able to develop a strong working relationship with a range of partners and stakeholders, most notably Strathclyde Sport and the Sports Executive Committee. Furthermore, they will have an in-depth knowledge of the higher education sport landscape and possess excellent communication skills in a team environment. We are looking for applicants who have a positive approach, are pro-active, and thrive in a busy workplace.
If this sounds like the role for you, we look forward to receiving your application.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer *(female)
- Full time or Part time
- £49,500
- Saheliya Offices, Edinburgh/Glasgow
- Closing 1st August 2022
We are looking to appoint a new CEO who can take this unique organisation to the next level.
Saheliya is a specialist mental health and well-being support organisation for women and girls (12+) living with and/or surviving from experiences of racial inequality compounded by gender-based abuse, living in Scotland. We promote mental well-being by combating the effects of discrimination and abuse, reducing the stigma of mental health, improving access to mainstream services and dismantling the structural inequality that exists for minority ethnic women.
This is an exceptional opportunity to have a lead role in a unique and innovative organisation helping to change the lives of some of Scotland’s most marginalised and at risk women and children and gendered abuse, reducing the stigma of mental illness, and improving access to mainstream services while enabling women to also move on into opportunities for self-development and employment.
Saheliya’s services and partnership work extends through healthcare, housing, education, employment, immigration and access to justice- delivered across Edinburgh, the Lothians, and Greater Glasgow, as well as wider Scotland.
Our current CEO, who has enabled the organisation to flourish, grow and succeed over the past 13 years, will be stepping down from her position this year. We are therefore now seeking an individual who has passion to grasp and act upon our full potential, taking an exceptional organisation to an even higher level.
See attached CEO brief for further information.
*Please note that due to the nature of our work the post is open to women only. (exempt under the Equality Act 2010 (part 1, Schedule 9).
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