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* Closing: 2nd March 2025
* Advertised from: 14th February 2025
Role
Are you a strategic and innovative leader passionate about driving income growth for a meaningful cause?
St Vincent’s Hospice is seeking a Head of Business Development to play a pivotal role in our financial sustainability and long-term growth. Reporting to the CEO, this exciting new position will focus on:
* Developing and delivering a three-year business development strategy to ensure sustainable income growth.
* Managing and expanding Trusts & Grants funding, major donor relationships, and strategic partnerships.
* Overseeing the hospice’s lottery and exploring innovative income-generation opportunities.
* Engaging with high-value donors to maximise fundraising impact.
What We’re Looking For:
* Proven experience in business development, income generation, or fundraising at a senior level.
* Strong track record of securing significant funding from trusts, foundations, or other income streams.
* Excellent relationship-building and networking skills with funders and donors. Strategic thinker with the ability to balance long-term vision with achieving ambitious financial targets.
* Passion for the hospice sector and a commitment to our values of care, compassion, and dignity.
Why Join St Vincent’s Hospice?
* Make a real impact – your work will directly support people affected by life-limiting illness.
* Lead transformational growth in a role with high autonomy and strategic importance.
* Work with a dedicated team in a respected, community-driven organisation.
Head of Business Development
Postcode: PA9 1AF
About the Role
In this pivotal position, you will support our Senior Leadership and drive high standards of quality and practice across our organisation. Your expertise will be crucial in shaping and sustaining excellence as we continue to evolve and expand our services.
What We Offer
* Impact & Influence: Play a key role in steering quality improvements and operational excellence.
* Innovative Environment: Be part of a passionate, values-driven organisation, committed to delivering outstanding care, in a truly embedded Trauma Informed Way.
* Celebrating Milestones: Join us during an exciting phase as we mark our 35th year of service excellence.
Who We’re Looking For
* A seasoned leader and innovator with a proven track record in health and social care.
* Someone who prides themselves on achieving high levels of quality and performance.
* A professional eager to contribute to a forward-thinking and supportive team culture.
If you’re ready to lead, inspire, and make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you. Take the next step in your career and help shape the future of care with ELCAP!
Apply today and be a part of our exciting journey!
* Hybrid: Based within the GCA office in North Claremont Street, Glasgow
* Closing: 3rd March 2025
GCA deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.
Head of Diploma and Training
The role is to be responsible for the development, coordination, and management of COSCA counselling training and the delivery of the Diploma in Integrative Counselling.
GCA offers a number of COSCA validated trainings each year. These include the very successful COSCA Counselling Skills courses, with two options of study including in person and online. COSCA Counselling Skills course is a requirement for many courses offering advanced studies towards qualifying as a counselling professional. In addition, we offer a Certificate in Counselling Supervision, and the course Further Steps in Counselling and Group Counselling Skills as well as COSCA SACC Behaviour Change Course.
The Diploma in Integrative Counselling is a part-time 2-year course validated by COSCA. It is delivered in the evening and during the weekend in person in the GCA offices. The course is 400 hours of taught study with additional requirements for students of 40 hours personal therapy to be undertaken and a 100-hour clinical placement with supervision at a ratio of 1:6.
The Diploma has four cohorts of students (two First Year and two Second Year) and approximately 90 students with the majority attending classes and the rest completing clinical placement. Many of our students are supported to undertake their clinical placement at GCA. In addition to undertaking the Diploma, students are offered the opportunity to undertake a period of further study to complete a certificate in Counselling People Towards Behaviour Change. Many of our Graduate students go on to work in the counselling professions and we are pleased that several former students have found roles within GCA.
The Head of Diploma and Training will support the CEO and Senior Management Team with strategic and commercial strategy to help GCA be sustainable and grow, prioritising achieving our mission and goals. This will be undertaken in conjunction with other GCA Senior Management Team duties.
In return for choosing to work for GCA, the benefits you will receive are:
* Very generous annual leave entitlement: full-time employees start with an annual leave entitlement of 37 days (inclusive of bank holidays) which increases to 38 days after 2 years, 40 days after 5 years, and 42 days after 10 years length of service.
* 5 duvet days where employees may take time off at short notice.
* Death in service policy of 2 times salary.
* Cycle to work scheme where employees can save money on a new bike and spread the cost.
* Training and development commitment to help employees perform to the best of their abilities.
Organisation Profile:
Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA) aims to reduce alcohol and drug-related harm, and risk of harm, at an individual and community-wide level, through a long-term, asset-based approach to changing the culture of alcohol and drug use. It does this by delivering a range of interventions and services such as alcohol counselling, alcohol brief interventions (ABIs), employability support and group work as well as delivering a comprehensive training portfolio, including Addiction Awareness, COSCA Counselling Skills and a Diploma in Integrative Counselling.
GCA has been delivering specialised trauma-informed alcohol counselling since 1965 to support those drinking at harmful and hazardous levels and who wish to make a positive change. The counselling approach is integrative and aims to address the presenting alcohol problem but also work with the inevitable accompanying life problems related to it. In our experience, around 65% of individuals who access GCA will not have engaged with statutory services or recovery communities. GCA services have expanded to include a range of holistic services to support individuals in recovery from drugs and/or alcohol. Services we provide include: counselling, wellbeing support, a women’s only service for survivors of gender-based violence, and an LGBT health and wellbeing service.
* Hybrid: Base in Edinburgh, Stepps, Rachel House in Kinross, or Robin House in Balloch.
* Closing: 9th March 2025
CHAS
CHAS is seeking a forward-thinking Head of Finance to join our leadership team. In this pivotal role, you will play a key part in advancing CHAS’ strategic objectives during a period of significant transformation by shaping and delivering efficient and effective financial services.
As Head of Finance, you will oversee all aspects of financial management, ensuring robust controls, insightful analysis, and optimisation of our financial strategy to support long-term sustainability.
You will act as a trusted and valued advisor, delivering expert financial guidance to the Executive Team, Board, and CHAS Committees.
Key responsibilities include:
* Partnering with senior leadership to influence and shape business strategies.
* Driving the development and execution of the Finance Strategic Improvement Programme.
* Leading, mentoring, and inspiring our finance team to achieve excellence.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have skill and experience in the following areas:
* A breadth of experience as a finance leader with a track record of driving transformational change across financial management in a complex organisation.
* Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and enjoy working collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Significant experience in long-term financial planning and in supporting improved organisational efficiency and productivity.
* Passionate about strong financial governance and best value and will be highly skilled at providing advice and support to Leadership and Board Committees.
* This role may be ideal for someone currently in, or approaching, a Head of Finance position within the NHS, a Health and Social Care Partnership, or the Third Sector. However, we also encourage applications from individuals with diverse professional backgrounds.
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 dying and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. The skill, dedication and efficiency of our Finance team helps make this possible.
We offer:
* Flexible Working: our team works flexibly and in a hybrid manner. CHAS offers flexible and family-friendly working and are happy to discuss working arrangements that work for you! This role can be based in Edinburgh, Stepps, Rachel House in Kinross or Robin House in Balloch.
* Development Opportunities: Visibility at SLT and board level, opportunity to implement change that will develop and deliver an efficient and effective Finance Department.
* Professional Growth: Exposure to excellent Learning and Development opportunities suited to your needs and interests and to enhance your skills.
* Supportive peers with opportunities to collaborate with the wider executive leadership team through an annual programme of learning and networking events.
* Comprehensive Benefits: Including generous annual leave and pension, incremental salary progression, life assurance, employee assistance programme, access to Blue Light discounts, and health and wellbeing support.
Alzheimer Scotland
Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information to people with dementia, their carers and families, we campaign for the rights of people with dementia and fund vital dementia research.
What you’ll do
As Day Services Manager you will be responsible for leading and managing high-quality, therapeutic registered day services and commissioned and non-commissioned community supports for people with dementia, those at greater risk of dementia, and their families, and carers within the area.
You will be responsible for ensuring that services are of the highest quality, meet Alzheimer Scotland’s vision for unique therapeutic, highly person-centred support. There is also the responsibility for ensuring that our commissioned services meet all service level agreement, contract specifications and Alzheimer Scotland’s quality guarantees.
You will have overall day-to-day responsibility for the services within the area and will be responsible for promoting the services with key local stakeholders within Health and Social Care as well as relevant other organisations. As Day Services Manager you will manage the referral and assessment process.
You will work collaboratively with the Head of Services to ensure safe practice and delivery of high-quality, person-centred therapeutic day services, ensuring practice complies with Alzheimer Scotland’s policies. You will be responsible for evidencing, reviewing and continually improving the quality of the services and will proactively participate in internal audit and Care Inspectorate inspections. This will include evidencing that services meet Alzheimer Scotland’s Quality Guarantees, Scotland’s Health and Social Care standards and other quality frameworks including those of the Care Inspectorate where relevant. This includes ensuring that the activities and supports offered meet the identified personal outcomes of those attending the services.
You will provide strong line management and leadership to your team, through setting clear objectives and outcomes, regular review within Support & Development processes and undertaking appraisals.
What you’ll have
The successful candidate will have experience of managing a team in a social care, health or other similar setting or be able to demonstrate a clear knowledge and understanding of the key principles and good practice of effectively managing and leading a team.
You will have knowledge and understanding of the Health and Social Care Standards and SSSC codes of practice and the Care Inspectorate and their role in registered services.
Understanding and knowledge of dementia, mild cognitive impairment and Brain Health and experience of working with or supporting people living with dementia and their families.
The successful candidate will have a recognised professional qualification in health, social work or related field, to SCQF Level 7 (SVQ 3).
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