* 35 hours/week including weekend and evenings.
Role
We are excited to invite applications from dynamic and forward-thinking individuals to join our new Distress Brief Intervention service (DBI). With funding secured, we are seeking to appoint a highly skilled and motivated manager to join our team.
The Service Manager will be a skilled, knowledgeable, and experienced individual. You must have substantive previous high-quality service management experience and effectively manage teams. Along with a sound knowledge of mental health, you should have excellent communication skills.
If you are an experienced manager who can demonstrate your knowledge and skills, and use your excellent communication skills and mature attitude to manage a service that supports people to achieve their identified outcomes, we would love to hear from you.
The deadline for applications is Sunday 19th January 2025.
We have an exciting opportunity to join Alzheimer Scotland as a Transactional Finance Manager. This is a new role due to growth in Alzheimer Scotland’s finance team and income.
Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to ensure 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, support vital dementia research, and promote positive brain health.
This role will lead our day-to-day financial transactions across all areas. The transactions are varied and high volume, and the successful candidate will ensure these are coordinated, planned, and developed alongside the finance team.
The role will have line management and supervisory responsibility for the support, development, and management of a team of finance assistants.
We are seeking applications from individuals with at least 4 years of experience working in a transactional finance role within a complex organization, alongside management and supervisory experience, and who possess the skills to take on the tasks outlined in the job description.
You will have had significant exposure to the full finance function and will be a strong communicator, able to balance competing priorities ensuring routine workload alongside ad-hoc tasks, analysis, and reporting is completed to a high standard within deadlines.
If you’re interested in this role and have the necessary skills, experience, and ability to succeed, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Join us to make sure nobody faces dementia alone
Our charity
Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s leading charity for dementia and brain health. Our aims are to prevent, care, and cure dementia, and to ensure nobody faces dementia alone.
We are a member-led charity with more than 8,000 members. We are supported by over 500 volunteers and employ around 400 full and part-time staff, mainly in our direct service provision across Scotland. We are fully committed to Fair Work First and the support and development of our people.
The role
We are at an exciting stage in reshaping our services as we build sustainable, resilient, therapeutic, and inclusive registered day care and commissioned community supports of the highest quality that can maximize our resources and potential growth opportunities.
Based in either Edinburgh or Glasgow, the Head of Quality will work closely with the Executive Lead for Operations to ensure that our registered and commissioned services deliver high-quality, safe, and compassionate care. The role will be responsible for assuring and improving the quality of our registered and commissioned services by determining and undertaking appropriate scrutiny, assurance, and improvement activities aligned with the Care Inspectorate Core Assurances and Alzheimer Scotland’s Quality Guarantees and Continuous Quality Improvement Framework.
The role has the lead responsibility for continuous improvement in the quality of our services, the processes that underpin high-quality, evidence-based, person-centred therapeutic support, and ensuring better outcomes for the people we support.
The person
You will have the right level of personal qualities, experience, knowledge, and qualifications, demonstrate excellent leadership qualities and high levels of emotional intelligence, with experience in managing people, supporting staff development, and promoting a positive culture. You will be an excellent communicator, highly organized, with a collaborative approach to working with others to deliver shared objectives and drive continuous improvement in our practice. You will have a high-level knowledge and understanding of dementia and substantial experience in the management and delivery of services and hold a relevant practice qualification to meet the Scottish Social Services Council registered management requirements. Further details are provided in the person specification.
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