Digital Designer
- Full time
- £35,064
- Based in Stirling/Glasgow/Home with some travel across Scotland
- Closing 25th October 2020
- Advertised from 9th October 2020
- 2 year fixed term contract (with possible extension)
- Generous holidays and other benefits package
Role
Are you interested in joining Scotland’s leading children’s charity to support our Transformation Programme? If so, we are looking for an ambitious Digital Designer to play a central role in the redesign of our services and development of new innovative solutions, products and resources. We are looking for someone with real passion for digital design and UX/UI for improving the lives of some of Scotland’s most vulnerable children and families.
This is an exciting position where you can make a real difference to the charity and people’s lives.
ABOUT ABERLOUR
Aberlour supports children, young people and families to give them the best chance to flourish, and we’ve been doing it for over 140 years. We work with families, listening to them, to make sure they get the help they need and want, so we don’t take a ‘one size fits all’ approach.
We are progressive in our approach to work and we encourage and support our staff to be innovative and proactive in improving what we do to get better outcomes for children.
We have an exciting few years ahead at Aberlour as we undertake our Transformation Programme which will transform both the way we work and how we deliver services to the children, young people and families that we support. We’ve won a significant grant from the National Lottery Community Fund Digital Fund that’s going to help us do this.
Our service users are already at the heart of everything we do, and we want them to actively participate in designing our services. Using digital innovation as an enabler we want to ensure that they can access the support they need how and when they want it. We want to find new, more responsive and more effective ways of reaching children and families that need help early, before they are at crisis point. We’re also going to streamline our internal process and make sure that our staff have the right tools to be able to do their job in as efficient a way as possible.
THE ROLE
Aberlour is looking for a user-centred, creative and driven Digital Designer to join us and play a central role in projects with a focus on creating intuitive, inclusive and accessible solutions and resources. These could be anything from storyboards that illustrate design ideas to web-based sites or resources to mobile/tablet apps.
You should have a demonstrable portfolio of user-centred, responsive and well-researched design work.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
Aberlour is a diverse organisation with many different types of service. It is likely that every day will be different, and you’ll get to interact with a lot of different people. However, a typical week for our Digital Designer might include:
- Collaborating with staff or services users to create intuitive and impactful user experiences.
- Spending time analysing end user insights and creating storyboards, process flows or wireframes to illustrate design ideas.
- Planning and facilitating workshops and design sprints that will help you collaborate with staff and/or service users to create solutions together.
- Communicating digital design concepts to a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Creating live websites and apps with off-the-shelf tools such as WordPress, Appery.io and Mobile Roadie.
- Prototyping digital solutions or resources and testing them with end users.
- Iterating digital solutions or resources based on feedback and insight gathered.
ABOUT YOU
We’re looking for an experienced digital designer who is committed to using user-centred design to deliver a better experience and better outcomes for users. You must have:
- a demonstrable portfolio of user-centred, responsive and well-researched design work,
- experience of collaborating with others to create intuitive and impactful user experiences,
- experience of effectively communicating design ideas using a variety of techniques e.g. product concepts, user journeys, system maps or wireframes,
- experience of participating in and facilitating design workshops with different stakeholders,
- experience of interpreting user research into user stories and design solutions,
- the ability to create contextually appropriate prototypes e.g. paper, product design platform (e.g. InVision or HTML),
- the ability to create live website and apps with off-the-shelf tools,
- experience of conducting and analysing usability tests.
- excellent written, visual and verbal communication and presentations skills,
- excellent interpersonal skills,
- the ability to work with a complex and challenging set of stakeholders,
- a creative, proactive approach to your work and able to work on your own initiative,
- a ‘can do’ attitude.
Application notes
If you think you are the right fit for this role please apply by submit a CV and covering letter to jobs@aberlour.org.uk by 25th Oct 2020.
Interviews are expected to be held 2nd November 2020
No recruitment agencies please.
For further information please go to our website aberlour.org.uk/workwithus where you can apply on-line. If you have any queries please e-mail: jobs@aberlour.org.uk. Applications are welcome from minority groups.
Aberlour is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our service users and uses a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG Scheme checks to ensure this commitment is not compromised.
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Recording Practice Development Role
- Full time
- £35,064 – £37,774
- Base - negotiable
- Closing 9th March 2021
Good quality records are vital in showing individual progress against care plans and personal goals; building a meaningful description of important events in a child’s life; and ultimately providing them with a link to their past whenever they want to find out more about their childhood.
Following rigorous consultation, development and training Aberlour has been using Microsoft Dynamics as our case management system for the last couple of years. Ongoing analysis has identified a need to develop further awareness of quality recording and ensure consistent best practice across the organisation. We are looking for someone to lead a 9-month project to focus on these areas and help the organisation ensure that current and future staff can feel confident in this key area of responsibility within their role as a social care worker.
You will use your extensive experience of recording and producing reports related to assessments and care planning to work alongside Assistant Directors, Service Managers and our Dynamics Champions to embed recording best practice across our services enabling meaningful reports to be generated at individual, service and organisational level.
You will also take responsibility for supporting the training of new services just starting to use Dynamics.
The post is offered full time (although part time hours may be considered), fixed term for 9 months. Internal secondment requests will be considered, please speak to your line manager if you are interested in such an opportunity.
Aberlour is an organisation with strong values, delivering exceptional care to Scotland’s most vulnerable children, young people and their families, and who believes in the well-being, development and happiness of their staff.
As a result of expansion of Aberlour’s services we are seeking a part-time HR Assistant to join our team. Working alongside your fellow HR Assistants and HR Business Partner you will support a portfolio of services with their HR administrative requirements. These will include areas such as drafting and publishing recruitment adverts and issuing candidate invites; undertaking rigorous safer recruitment checks; sickness recording and issuing contracts. As part of this busy team, you will contribute to the delivery of an excellent service and will have daily contact with managers and staff throughout the organisation.
You will have experience of working in a busy role juggling conflicting priorities. You will have proficient IT skills with experience of using applications such as Word and Excel. You will thrive on working with detail and have a passion for learning new processes. You will ideally hold a relevant qualification at SCQF level 7 or above or have equivalent knowledge ideally gained within a similar HR role.
This post provides an excellent opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge of HR within a fast-paced environment, including using a specialised computerised HR system.
The post is part-time working 22.5 hours per week. There is some flexibility regarding how hours can be worked although one of the working days must be a Friday. This post will be able to take advantage of our flexi-time system. To enable the support of the team it is preferable if you can spend some of your working week in Stirling but otherwise home working can be accommodated.
If you would like further information about the post call Valerie Hogg on 07772226639.
Aberlour’s Guardianship Service supports unaccompanied asylum seeking or trafficked children and young people to understand their progress through the asylum system, feel supported through the process, access the help they need and make informed decisions based on the available options. We help refugee children and young people, and victims of trafficking who arrive in Scotland without their parents.
“This project is part funded by the EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund.
Making management of migration flows more efficient across the European Union”
Are you an experienced administrator, comfortable with financial information, petty cash and developing spreadsheets? If so we want to hear from you. We need someone to help develop this vital service and ensure its success for these vulnerable children.
We are looking to recruit to an 18.75 hours per week post. Hours will be worked flexibly in line with service demand (availability can be discussed at interview). This post is offered on a fixed term basis with an expected end date of 31st December 2022.
You will support the service with general and financial administrative tasks including the co-ordination of recruitment paperwork for volunteers joining the service. You will have administrative experience gained through working within a busy office or social care environment. You will be comfortable working with Microsoft Office packages including Excel and be able to create spreadsheets and deal with numerical information. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills.
You will have a relevant professional qualification at SCQF level 7 or equivalent experience.
Interviews are expected to be held on: 25th March 2021
Independent Domestic Abuse Advocate/Drop In Worker
- Full time
- £24,896
- Stirling
- Closing 26th February 2021
Main Purpose: To provide a high-quality frontline service to victims of domestic abuse, delivering a service to those at highest risk. To work within a multi-agency framework consisting of the MARAC and local partnership responses to domestic abuse.
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