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Are you a service co-ordinator looking for a new and exciting challenge? Would you like to support people with a visible difference across Scotland.

We are recruiting for a Skin Camouflage Co-ordinator that will take the lead in delivering the Skin Camouflage Service across Scotland working with colleagues across the organisation .

You will have experience of supporting volunteers accompanied with excellent organisational and communication skills. The service is in an exciting phase and about to embark on a transformational year and your experience of developing strong and productive relationships with partners including the NHS, local authorities and third sector organisations will be invaluable.

Key objectives of the role:

1. Day-to-day co-ordination of the Skin Camouflage Service (SCS) in Scotland, liaising closely with the Head of Skin Camouflage Service on service innovation and continual improvement.

2. Volunteer recruitment, training and co-ordination of Practitioners (SCPs),

3. Clinic administration of all SCS appointments in Scotland, from enquiry/referral, appointment to completion, ensuring that all quality and operational KPIs, data management and evaluation requirements are met.

4. To support the Head of Scotland in engaging and developing a range of stakeholders to ensure excellent referral relationships with healthcare professionals, third sector and local authorities.

We are looking for someone with:

· Demonstrable experience of engaging and developing relationships with healthcare professionals, local authorities and local providers.

· Previous volunteer management or co-ordination experience or equivalent.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills

· Excellent organisational skills and a systematic approach to work with the ability to prioritise between competing demands.

· Strong commitment to Changing Faces values, vision and purpose and to keeping the voices of people with visible differences at the heart of all work.

If this sounds like you – we would love to hear from you.

We are always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us and help improve the lives of people with visible differences. In line with our commitments to race equity, we are particularly seeking applications from People of Colour/ BAME people. We are always open to conversations about flexible working.

About Changing Faces:

Changing Faces is the UK’s leading charity for everyone who has a mark, scar or condition that makes them look different (a visible difference). Being different in a society where there is such pressure to look a certain way is extremely difficult.

People with visible differences are vulnerable to isolation, loneliness, social anxiety and low self-esteem. They face staring, unwanted attention and even bullying and hate crime. They experience lowered expectations in education, problems getting work and stereotyping in the media. This can have a devastating, and lasting, impact on their wellbeing. Adults often come to us, having never spoken to anyone about the psychological impact of their visible difference before.

Changing Faces provides unique practical, social and emotional support for people affected by visible difference; we challenge discrimination and campaign for a world that respects difference.

Our services build confidence and resilience – giving people the tools to manage their feelings, cope in different social settings, handle other people’s reactions or deal with life, education, work and relationships. We are going through an exciting period of change and development across the organisation.

Changing Faces wants a future where everyone with a visible difference on their face or body has the confidence, support and opportunity to lead the lives they want.

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.

We are currently seeking applications for a Communications Manager within Disclosure Scotland based in Glasgow. This is a permanent and pensionable appointment and new entrants will normally start on the minimum of the pay range. Candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria below will be invited to the assessments.

Communications Pay Supplement

This post attracts a Communications Pay Supplement of £2,000 per annum pro rata, rising to £3,750 on completion of 12 months' successful service.

Disclosure Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government and operates on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. We play an important safeguarding role. Our mission is to drive safeguarding outcomes by preventing and removing harmful people from working and volunteering with vulnerable groups, and helping employers making better informed decisions.

Our Corporate Plan sets our vision in context and details the key facts which influence the way we will deliver our outcomes. To achieve this we have set four strategic goals:

• to deliver a fair, rigorous and supporting safeguarding service;

• to have a fast, accessible and accurate digital service;

• to provide excellent customer experience;

• to make Disclosure Scotland a great place to work;

This is an exciting time to join the Communications Team who will play a key role in achieving Disclosure Scotland's strategic goals. For example, supporting the implementation of the new Disclosure (Scotland) Act and the delivery of a digital infrastructure for the disclosure service in Scotland.

The Communications Team sits alongside the Policy team within Policy and Communications. The department is headed by the Director of Strategic Policy and Communications.

This is a critical post for Disclosure Scotland in a time of significant change. We are looking for a skilled communication professional to fill this key role in our organisation. It would be beneficial if the successful candidate held a relevant professional qualification in communications, such as the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Diploma and/or with the aim of working towards a professional qualification.

Qualifications Required

For jobs in Band B and C you must hold a minimum of three Highers or equivalent.

Other qualifications equivalent to these may also be acceptable, if you are in any doubt please contact the Recruitment Team to discuss.

Please note: If you fail to demonstrate how you meet the minimum qualifications as stated above, your application will be automatically sifted out.

Essential Criteria

1. Experience of using insight to identify target audiences and partners to inform communications objectives, messages and solutions.

2. Ability to generate communications ideas including content and messages for target audiences while considering the best channels to use.

3. Ability to deliver an effective communication strategy and associated products for example news release, tweets, marketing materials, infographics.

4. Experience of using evidence to assess the effectiveness of communication and reviewing results against objectives.

Important Information Regarding Interviews

In recognition of the Scottish Government's ongoing measures and guidance in its response to Covid-19 (Coronavirus), we would like to advise applicants that a decision has been taken that all interviews must be conducted in a virtual/remote setting.

In order to facilitate this new way of working, we are asking all applicants to ensure that they have a suitable space to complete the virtual interview. In addition, a personal device of choice, which has the interview application downloaded. This could be MS Teams or Webex for example. This will allow candidates to undertake the interview/assessment if selected. We are also asking you to ensure that your personal Wi-Fi/Broadband capacity will be sufficient to carry both audio and video feeds. This will then ensure that there are no issues incurred during the interview.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

•UK nationals

•nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UKs

•nationals of the Republic of Ireland

•nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with (or eligible for) status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

•relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service

•relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service

•certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals.

We strongly urge that EU nationals who may not have Settled or Pre-Settled Status make an application before 30 June 2021, to ensure their continued eligibility to employment.