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* Hybrid: Glasgow office based with flexible working options
* Closing 8th May 2025
* Advertised from 10th April 2025
* 35 hours per week. Permanent.
Role
MND Scotland is the only charity in Scotland dedicated to supporting people with MND, their families, and friends.
Since being founded over forty years ago, MND Scotland has provided practical, financial and emotional support to anyone affected by MND whilst also funding essential research into finding effective treatments and a cure.
MND Scotland is funded entirely by donations and grants. The charity’s patron is Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal.
Everything we do and the way that we do it puts the MND community at its core.
We are looking for an experienced, passionate and dynamic Finance & Operations Lead to join our Operations function.
Reporting to the Director of Operations as Finance & Operations Lead you will be an experienced financial professional able to provide guidance and support, building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with the Executive Leadership & Senior Management Teams (ELT & SMT). Engaging with colleagues across the organisation, you will support budget holders to help develop their annual budgets as well as analyse and interpret financial performance to guarantee good governance is maintained.
The successful candidate will ensure that the financial management is done in adherence with all statutory and regulatory requirements, whilst providing financial clarity to inform decision making and action.
Candidates must have the right to work in the UK and show how they demonstrate this e.g., British citizen/EU Settled Status.
Finance and Operations Lead
Postcode: G1 1LG
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead the implementation of an organisation-wide approach to evaluating ALLIANCE activity and its impact.
* Work collaboratively with ALLIANCE colleagues and external consultants to develop and refine outcome maps and suitable evidence data-gathering tools.
* Support ALLIANCE colleagues to gather accurate and meaningful data linked to our activities, programmes and strategic priorities.
* Work with colleagues and partners to develop and embed a consistent approach to evaluation.
* Ensure evaluation processes are used effectively to ensure that they provide accurate data and regular, meaningful reports.
* Analyse, interpret and communicate monitoring and evaluation information to colleagues, external partners and funders.
* Work with ALLIANCE colleagues to create a range of robust and accessible evaluation reports and other outputs from data gathered including the Annual Report and a mid-term review of our strategic priorities.
* Support to teams to gather data and develop impact case studies for reporting and communications activities.
* Any other duties as dictated by the evolving nature of the ALLIANCE’s monitoring and evaluation work.
* Any other reasonable duty as required by senior management.
As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:
* 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days) (pro rata)
* 13 days public holiday that can be taken flexibly (pro rata)
* Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
* Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
* Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Learning and development opportunities
* Time off in lieu
We are a healthy working lives employer and encourage a healthy work life balance and we’re happy to talk flexible working.
The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
Are you interested in travel health? Are you looking for an opportunity to use your skills in a friendly small team environment? Do you wish you could get more time to spend with patients?
Would you like to join Scotland’s leading provider of medical, psychological and travel health support, helping care for people committed to making a positive difference in the world or those who are travelling overseas for work and leisure?
If so, this may be an ideal opportunity for you!
About HealthLink360
Founded in 1983, HealthLink360 is a Scottish charity and Scotland’s leading provider of medical, psychological and travel health support to mission and aid agency workers and volunteers who undertake overseas work in challenging and often hostile environments; as well as those who work within the UK. Delivered with care and empathy, we provide health and resilience support at every stage of an individual’s mission, journey or assignment and our vision is for a flourishing and effective global caring community who are making a positive difference in the world.
Complementing our medical and psychological services, our travel clinic is based at Carberry near Edinburgh and is open 3 days per week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday). Regulated by Healthcare Improvement Scotland, we provide individual tailored travel health consultations, travel health advice and vaccinations to clients travelling for both work and leisure. Our clients consist of mission and humanitarian agencies and their personnel, GAP year organisations, those in church leadership, families, young people as well as members of the general public.
The role, which is based in our Carberry travel clinic will see you meeting with clients to provide comprehensive travel health consultations contextualised to their needs and travel plans. You will provide them with the necessary information to enable them to make an informed decision regarding travel health treatments and preventative measures. You’ll deliver risk assessment information, and will issue vaccinations and appropriate medications following agreed protocols, patient group or patient specific directions. You will maintain clear and accurate clinical records according to written protocols. You will report to the Medical Co-ordinator overseeing the travel clinic. You will have the opportunity to participate in regular team training and other learning activities. You will contribute to HealthLink360’s continued good practice in areas such as infection control, pharmacy compliance and vaccines management, through the use of audit and service development.
Authorised to practise in the UK, as either a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration, you will bring relevant experience to support your interest in travel health medicine. With demonstrable experience of a ‘Band 6’ NHS role or equivalent, you’ll ideally have experience in travel or tropical health nursing, including vaccination experience and venepuncture. If you bring demonstrable experience in community or school nursing, practice nursing or occupational health, you are also welcome to apply. A job description and person specification are available via: healthlink360.org/vacancies
We are ideally looking to appoint 2 part time roles (to work over Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday) as follows:
* 1 day per week (7.5 hours per week).
Exact working hours/days will be agreed with the successful candidate(s).
Why work at HealthLink360?
* We offer a friendly working environment, a fair level of pay (from £20.69/hr according to skills and experience) and an interesting and varied role.
* If a knowledge refresher is required we will provide funding for you to complete Travel Health Education training via TREC prior to starting the role.
* You’ll join a small but dedicated team and a not for profit organisation with a clear ethos and over 40 years’ experience.
* We are situated in the beautiful grounds of Carberry Tower just outside Musselburgh, Edinburgh (so own transport is necessary).
Are you a strong communicator comfortable interacting with individuals at all levels and capable of writing compelling fundraising proposals and reports? Are you committed to building and maintaining strong relationships with funders, providing excellent stewardship? Are you skilled at creating and executing plans to secure funds from trusts and foundations? Are you adept at identifying potential funding sources and researching requirements to tailor applications accordingly?
If so, we would love to hear from you as we are currently recruiting a Trusts and Foundations Fundraising Manager within our Partnerships & Philanthropy Team. Working closely with the existing Trust Fundraising Executive, your primary focus will be to sustain and grow income from existing and potential funders through compelling proposals, timely reporting and effective stewardship.
You will work collaboratively across CHAS to craft innovative and persuasive proposals, provide outstanding account management and stewardship to current donors, and identify, research, and engage new prospects.
You'll also develop strategies to cultivate relationships with both current and potential donors from trusts and foundations, and manage the stewardship program to attract, cultivate and retain strategic philanthropic income.
About You:
* Personal values align to CHAS’ values and motivated to help us to reach our ambition.
* Familiarity with trusts fundraising and expertise in creating strategic plans.
* An excellent verbal communicator, confident in dealing with people at all levels, externally and internally, with a view to building relationships and increasing income.
* An exceptional written communicator with the ability to write compelling and detailed fundraising proposals and reports.
* Experience of managing income and expenditure budgets effectively.
* Organised with the ability to plan and prioritise a diverse workload, manage your own time and meet multiple deadlines under pressure.
Why CHAS?
At CHAS, we support families during the toughest of times. We have ambitions to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is expected to die young and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. The skill, determination and creative flair of our Fundraising Teams makes this possible and your contribution will be valued.
We offer:
* Flexible Working: our teams work flexibly and in a hybrid manner with time mostly split between working from home and our Edinburgh and Glasgow offices, as well as occasional visits to our children’s hospices in Kinross and Balloch. We are happy to discuss working arrangements.
* Development Opportunities: exposure to a variety of fundraising activities as well as access to internal and external training opportunities.
* Professional Growth: Work with industry leaders in a high-performing team where you will be encouraged and supported to excel and develop your skills.
* Comprehensive Benefits: Including generous annual leave policy (35 days inclusive of public holidays, rising to 40 days after 5 years service) as well as pension, incremental annual salary progression, access to Blue Light discounts, and health and wellbeing support.
* Hybrid: Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Airdrie, Irvine, Dumbarton, Peterhead or Elgin
* Closing 27th April 2025
Are you an experienced Health and Social Care SVQ Assessor/Verifier?
Do you want to join an award-winning, friendly and experienced team? If so, then we have the perfect role for you!
We've got a rare opportunity for a motivated and experienced SVQ Assessor/Verifier to join us covering SVQ assessment and verification on a full-time, permanent basis. This role can be based in any of our branches across Scotland (Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Dumbarton, Irvine, Airdrie, Peterhead or Elgin) or as part of our hybrid flexible working model. If opting for hybrid, you will need to live within a reasonable commute of one of the above mentioned locations.
The Role
As part of our Training Academy, you’ll play a key role in qualifying our social care workforce and supporting our team of SVQ Assessors in our SQA Approved Centre which has been in operation since 1998.
You'll assess and verify portfolios for the Social Services and Healthcare qualifications at SCQF levels 6, 7 & 9 and also ideally our CSLM, Management, Core Skills, Business & Administration and PDA in Supervision awards.
Holding responsibility for prioritising your own workload and planning your week, you'll assess and verify candidates through technology (eportfolio, MS teams) as well as providing some face to face support across our branch areas. Working with candidates from induction to award completion, you'll support them to meet SQA standards, agreed deadlines and organisational KPI’s.
As part of our Assessor/Verifier team, you will take a lead role in quality assuring our Qualifications delivery to ensure the excellent reputation of Cornerstone as an SQA qualifications provider is maintained for both our internal and external stakeholders.
There will be occasions that we'll need you to travel to other Cornerstone branch locations (travel expenses would be reimbursed as set out in Cornerstone’s expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation).
About you
What we'll need you to bring:
* An SVQ qualification in assessment i.e. L&D9DI A1 or D33
* An SVQ qualification in verification i.e. L&D11, V1 or D34
* An SVQ (or equivalent) qualification in social care at SCQF 7 or above
* An SVQ (or equivalent) qualification in management at SCQF 7 or above
* Experience of assessing and verifying candidates across different SCQF levels working in health & social care
* A strong background in health and social care
* Confidence in the use of technology (eportfolios, MS teams, Microsoft suite)
* Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
* Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills
* The ability to work flexibly to meet the individual needs of candidates and assessors
* Strong interpersonal, networking and facilitation skills
* An in-depth knowledge of Health and Social Care Standards, SSSC Codes of Practice, SSSC Registration requirements.
About Us
With 45 years' experience delivering great care and support, Cornerstone provides tailored, individual packages of care which focus on enabling people with a variety of needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, autism and complex care needs, to live the best possible life.
We aim to be the best employer in social care in Scotland and would love for you to come and join us. We thrive on teamwork and are passionate about the care and support we provide. If you're looking for a rewarding career where you know you can make a difference, then look no further.
This is a rewarding role which will allow you to draw on your experience of the Social Care sector to provide professional assessment/verification and support to candidates, enabling them to realise their potential.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited along to a face to face or MS Teams Interview (depending on location) week commencing 5th May 2025.
The successful candidate will be required to go through a Level 2 Disclosure check through Disclosure Scotland.
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