- Advertised from 1st July 2021
- Trustees are elected for a fixed term of three years and can serve a maximum of two consecutive terms
Role
Carers of East Lothian is the local organisation supporting adults to continue to care for family and friends. We have an excellent reputation and have now successfully secured the contract to deliver adult carer services across East Lothian until June 2023. We are therefore now looking to expand our Board of Trustees.
We are particularly keen to hear from people with experience in Campaigning / Influencing, Digital, and / or Business Development.
Carers of East Lothian is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we will ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, providing reasonable adjustments as required, and as a Carer Positive Engaged employer, we have the policies and processes in place to ensure good support to carers in our workforce.
Application notes
Closing date is Friday 16th July at midday and we expect interviews to be held the week beginning 2nd August, via Zoom.
For further information please contact centre@coel.org.uk
Admin & Finance Manager
- Part time
- £29,167 – £30,949 pro-rata
- Haddington / hybrid
- Closing 5th April 2024
Carers of East Lothian is the local organisation supporting adults who care for family and friends. We have an excellent reputation, recently gaining recognition through the Carers Trust ‘Excellence for Carers’ Award, and currently have the contract to deliver adult carer services across East Lothian until June 2025, as well as additional one-year funding to employ a Hospital Link Carer Support Worker as a test of change. We are a Carer Positive Exemplary employer, as well as being Disability Confident Committed and a Living Wage employer.
Job Purpose:To provide administrative, operational and financial support, to the core work of the organisation. To effectively manage the Admin Team to achieve this.
Hospital Link Carer Support Worker
- Part time
- £31,842 – £32,821 pro-rata
- Haddington / hybrid
- Closing 5th April 2024
Carers of East Lothian is the local organisation supporting adults who care for family and friends. We have an excellent reputation, recently gaining recognition through the Carers Trust ‘Excellence for Carers’ Award, and currently have the contract to deliver adult carer services across East Lothian until June 2025, as well as additional one-year funding to employ a Hospital Link Carer Support Worker as a test of change. We are a Carer Positive Exemplary employer, as well as being Disability Confident Committed and a Living Wage employer.
The purpose of this post is to identify, support and signpost unpaid carers in a ward setting at East Lothian Community Hospital in Haddington, ensuring carers are well placed to act as equal partners in care. In particular, the post holder will be expected to support carers to become more involved in planning for the future for people they care for, and to ensure the carers are aware how to access support once patients are discharged into the community. This post would work closely with ward staff and the multidisciplinary team to help ensure an effective, efficient and timely discharge of a patient with ongoing care needs to return to their place of home or place of rehabilitation with the necessary support in place, informed by the patient, their health care professionals, and their carer.
Carer Support Practitioner (South East Edinburgh)
- Full time
- £33,399
- The postholder will based in the South East of the City and at VOCAL Carers’ Hub, 60 Leith Walk (On site)
- Closing 11th April 2024
VOCAL - Voice of Carers Across Lothian - seeks an enthusiastic and experienced Carer Support Practitioner to join its busy team to provide casework support to carers, with a specific focus on South East Edinburgh. The post holder will support unpaid carers to access person-centred support for their caring situation, health and wellbeing and personal development.
VOCAL is a carer-led organisation and provides a wide range of services to support unpaid carers in their caring role. The post-holder will be expected to work as part of a team, improve outcomes for carers and maximise uptake of VOCAL services.
Applicants will evidence excellent people, and communication skills, casework and person-centred support work. Applicants will also demonstrate awareness of the diverse range of caring situations, the impact of caring on peoples’ lives and barriers carers face at different points of the caring journey. Good working knowledge of health and social care will be expected.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £45,000 – £50,000
- Glasgow (On site)
- Closing 12th April 2024
Geeza Break is a successful voluntary organisation whose main aim is to achieve improved health and well-being of individuals, families and their children by providing family support and flexible respite services to parents with children aged 0-16 years, predominantly within the East/North East in Glasgow. We are run by a voluntary Management Board.
The services we offer are intended to be short-term flexible support to families experiencing addiction, stress, crisis or isolation. These services set out to achieve a set of aims for both the family and children.
Due to the retirement of the current post holder, the opportunity has arisen for our voluntary Board of Directors to appoint a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who shares our ethos and will above all be committed to Geeza Break’s values and achieving our aims.
Our CEO supports and provides strategic and operational leadership to our staff management team and will have overall responsibility for managing and developing Geeza Break, in response to the wishes of our voluntary Board of Directors. We would welcome applications from candidates who believe they have the necessary skills and experience to take on this challenging but very rewarding role and who believe they can fit well into our existing culture.
A care or charity background is not necessary to be successful in our CEO’s role but the selected candidate must have excellent strategic and operational leadership skills gained in a comparable organisation.
The post holder will ensure that Geeza Break meets and maintains the highest standards of governance. Our CEO is also the dedicated Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer with ultimate responsibility for safeguarding.
The key competencies our CEO needs to have are:
Minimum of at least 5 years’ senior management experience is essential including working and having responsibility for developing, influencing, and managing organisational policy decisions within a comparable organisation.
Experience of working effectively with and reporting to a voluntary Board of Directors. You should also be able to demonstrate your ability to produce, interpret and present relevant statistical information.
Experience of working directly with the community and involvement in community projects, of a substantial permanent nature as well as of implementing organisational change programmes/projects and in making improvements to enhance performance.
Educated to SVQ level 4 in management or equivalent and be a skilled leader with financial, budgetary development and management experience, including dealing with HR.
An ability to work on your own initiative, problem solve and plan your time effectively to meet deadlines. You will need excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to develop and maintain positive relationships at all levels of the organisation.
Experience in negotiating with funding and regulatory bodies and public speaking would be considered desirable.
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