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Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living is run by disabled people and aims to empower disabled people in Glasgow by providing a variety of housing, employment, training and inclusive living support services.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our existing support team in South Lanarkshire developing and promoting Self Directed Support.

You will be responsible for providing information, advice, training and guidance to people with a focus on their options for self-directed support and update and maintain a comprehensive community asset map.

With previous experience in an advice and support role along with experience of providing support and / or training using a community development approach.

This post is funded until March 2022.

Please note that initially you will be required to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

All posts will require PVG scheme membership.

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) increasing to 30 days after 5 years

• 12½ public holidays

• 6% Pension contribution

• Employee discount scheme

• Death in Service Benefit

Equal Futures promotes social inclusion for people with a Learning Disability or Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Scotland. We were established in 2002 by a group of parents who have a family member with disabilities, with the aim of helping families plan for the future to ensure that their relative can live their best life.

Since then, Equal Futures has been on a journey to support individuals and their families through our Circles of Support model and more informally through volunteer befriending and social opportunities. We currently support 24 individuals and families across 10 Local Authorities and have big ambitions to reach more people who would benefit from our unique support model.

We take pride in being a member organisation to ensure that people with learning disabilities or ASD are at the heart of everything we do and have a say in how we function. We operate as a registered Scottish charity within the Thera Group of companies.

Our Vision

Everyone has friendships which are based on kindness, compassion and respect.

Our Mission

To work alongside people with learning disabilities or autism to reduce loneliness and social isolation

Our Values

• We are committed to positive relationships.

• Making a sustainable difference.

• Social inclusion for everyone

Equal Futures has a well-established Board of Trustees with a range of skills and backgrounds. We are seeking to appoint three Trustees, one of whom we hope will become our new Chairperson.

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

We also welcome applications from people with experience in any of the following:

• Financial acumen

• Business growth and scale up

• Public profile development

• Fundraising

• Governance and Risk Management

• Legal Compliance

• Voluntary Sector Leadership

We also welcome applications from people with lived experience of learning disability or ASD, either personally or as a carer, who have an understanding of Scotland’s voluntary sector.

ATTRIBUTES

• Passionate about equality

• Established networks in the field of social care; social inclusion; statutory or voluntary sectors; or fundraising

• Comfortable communicating with a range of audiences

• Willingness and drive to work with others to make a lasting difference

• Able to commit appropriate time to bi-monthly Board meetings, including preparation and following up on agreed actions, of approximately 9 days per year for Trustees and 12 days per year for our Chairperson

• Developed awareness and interest in the needs & rights of families and individuals with learning disabilities or ASD

The Best in You Brings Out the Best in Me

ENABLE Scotland is a dynamic and vibrant organisation dedicated to improving the lives of people with learning disabilities and we are looking for a dynamic and motivated National Self Directed Support Project Coordinator to join us in ensuring every person who has a learning disability can access their right to choose and direct their own social care support.

ENABLE Scotland believes in the power of human rights driven, person-centred social care, and we want every person who has a learning disability and their family carer who needs it, to access it – and for their support to be designed by them to live the life they choose. This exciting, brand new role builds on the success of our established Self Directed Support (SDS) project in Fife which has supported hundreds of individuals with learning disabilities and their families in that area to access information about their rights to self-directed support, and to navigate their way through the system to access and direct their own social care support to live the life they choose. This innovative national post will take the learning from that project and make it available to individuals and families everywhere in Scotland - the first national advice line for individuals who have a learning disability and families who want to access SDS support

The National SDS Service will work alongside ENABLE Scotland’s Family Connect helpline, which will be the route for families and individuals who have a learning disability themselves to access the service. We are looking for someone who is values driven, passionate about change and able to support individuals and families to visualise how this should happen through values driven social care practice.

The National SDS Service will provide people with learning disabilities and their family carers across Scotland with accurate and up to date information and impartial advice about self directed support. It will link them to local community resources, support and organisations to enable them to achieve the outcomes that are important to them. These referrals will come through Family Connect either through the advice line, email service or through Family Connect seminars.

Your role would involve advocating for individuals with a learning disability and their family carers across Scotland. You will offer up to date advice and guidance on SDS and related challenges across Scotland. You will get to know individuals and families and work to understand their personal situation which will allow you to support them to plan how to meet their outcomes and achieve their goals. You will achieve this through person-centred planning and applying the principles and values that SDS is more than a budget. You will engage with these individuals and their family carers digitally, and in time face-to-face.

You will follow the recording processes of the organisation to document the progress of each individual case you support and will be responsible for keeping case files up to date. You will also support with reporting on the outcomes of the service.

You will build connections across Scotland with partner organisations to offer localised support to individuals and families where required. Through building these connections you will also promote the service and the increase the number of individuals and families we support.

You will engage digitally with individuals, family carers and partner organisations through social media. This will include having an ENABLE Scotland specific Twitter and Facebook profile and engaging through the Family Connect social media.

You will also build a knowledge base of SDS guidance and policy across different local authorities and pull together themes of SDS challenges across different areas to allow impact on policy-making and funders.

You will host and arrange regular online seminars and workshops for family carers of someone with a learning disability.

You will collect evidence that will help ENABLE Scotland to campaign for better access to self directed human rights driven social care for all.

Following a restructure, we are seeking a Senior Fundraising Officer to develop and lead on a range of activities including third-party, community and virtual events, and corporate fundraising. This is an exciting opportunity to join a values-led team and utilise your broad experience and enthusiasm for what we do, to make this role your own.

We are looking for an independent, adaptable, confident, and proactive individual who is people-focused and who possesses exceptional organisational skills. Above all you will be happy to share your ideas with the senior team and support the organisation to try new ways of fundraising, whilst providing a sound business case for doing so.

Reporting to: Head of Finance.

Key responsibilities:

• Cultivate strong relationships with corporate, third party, and individual donors
• Lead and manage fundraising events
• Nurture and recognise DSUK’s individual givers
• Research potential corporate partners
• Recording and reporting of fundraising activities with Head of Finance

Personal qualities:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• Flexible and proactive with a ‘can-do’ attitude
• Passionate about equality and opportunity for all and committed to changing attitudes towards disability.
• Accountable attitude and happy to work as part of a remote team

Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK) is the UK’s leading snowsport charity. We have been teaching disabled people to ski and snowboard for over forty years and although like all charities we anticipate a challenging year ahead, we also have exciting plans.

At DSUK, we believe that teaching disabled people to master the slopes can transform the way they experience their disability. For our customers, it’s about enjoying achievement and independence. From picking their line to controlling their speed, they can experience something that’s often missing from their everyday lives – freedom.