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Café Cook and Kitchen Co-ordinator

The post holder will be an excellent cook, good home cooking skills and the ability to bake. They will however, be someone who has experience of working in a commercial setting, or, they can learn fast as they will need to complete training around food hygiene and ensure the kitchen, stock and produce management is to a high standard.

More than this, they need to believe in the core principles of the café’s work and be able to work with volunteers, service users and be willing to chip in to support the overall café team.

The post holder will be specifically responsible for most of the cooking, food preparation and menu planning. They will also be responsible for ensuring the kitchen meets all appropriate hygiene and environmental health requirements. Due to the unique aspects of what we do, they will also have to support the donations of food stuffs from supermarkets, training volunteers and people in placements in basic food prep and kitchen etiquette; and occasionally supporting ‘front of house’ activities.

To apply for this role, we ask that you send your CV and a supporting statement to not exceed one side of A4 that outlines your suitability for the role, previous experience and whether you have previously been PVG checked to [email protected]

Salary: £22,408

Deadline to apply: Tuesday 31st May

Information Management Volunteer

Ensuring that we keep accurate information on services, events and projects throughout the Third Sector (charities, community groups, social enterprises etc.) helps ensure that we can support the signposting and referral processes across various services in Highland.

The role will form a key part of supporting the maintenance of information by regularly contacting groups and checking information is accurate, compiling that and supporting the distribution of accurate information to organisations for use when supporting people.

To learn more about the opportunities listed visit the vacancy page of our website

Caithness and Sutherland Women's Aid

Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to join CASWA (Caithness and Sutherland Women’s Aid) as Manager responsible for the day to day management of the organisation. CASWA is an organisation for women, children and young people in Caithness and Sutherland. It is the only agency in this vast rural geographical area providing specialist support services to meet the needs of all women, children and young people (boys and girls) who experience domestic abuse/ violence against women. Working with an experienced team and Board of Directors, you will manage all aspects of CASWA to a high standard of operational delivery; to ensure that the strategic goals of the organisation meet the needs of all stakeholders including service users, staff and funders and that CASWA values are met.

Salary: £35,000 pro rata

Deadline: Friday 20th May

For an application pack please contact [email protected] or call 0345 4080151

Caberfeidh Horizons

Training and Activities Officer

Our Training and Activities Officers work with our trainees who live with learning disabilities, mental health problems and other issues. We offer a range of activities, five days per week including gardening at our allotment, helping out at the Highland Wildlife Park and working in our social enterprise in Kingussie (which includes a Bookshop, Charity Shop and a thriving Community Hub)

Contact

[email protected]

Salary: £22,000 - £25,000 depending on experience

Deadline: Friday 20th May

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Highland Hospice

Clinical Fellow / Specialty Doctor in Palliative Medicine

Highland Hospice is looking to recruit a new doctor to join an established team of two Consultants, a Specialty Doctor and a rotational GP Trainee in providing a specialist resource for the delivery of palliative care in the Scottish Highlands. This six-month post is based in Inverness at the Highland Hospice, which houses a 12- bedded inpatient unit, community support and other outpatient services. The Hospice clinical staff provide advice and ongoing clinical support to the acute and community hospitals run by NHS Highland and work closely with primary care teams to support individuals, their carers and health professionals in what is largely a remote and rural setting. At present, although under review as the pandemic advice changes, provision of services, particularly those which are community based and outpatient focussed are being offered in alternative ways to limit in-person contact.

Salary: Reflective of previous experience on Clinical Fellow or Specialty Doctor Pay Scale

Deadline: Friday 20th May

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Connecting Carers

Carer Link Worker

(1x Covering Inverness, 1x Highland)

We are looking for a Carer Link Worker to join our team. The successful candidate will promote the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 and Carers’ rights including the benefits of an Adult Carer Support Plan (ACSP) in supporting Carers to maintain their own well-being and day to day life.

Directly supporting Carers through preparing ACSPs to manage their caring role and to prevent where possible the escalation of their situation into critical or substantial need. You will use the National Framework of Eligibility to determine whether the local authority is required to provide support to Carers to meet Carers identified needs. In addition, gather evidence in support of Carers’ short breaks applications and share this with Social Work partners, who will present the case at District Care Planning.



Salary: 26,500.84 

Deadline: Sunday 29th May

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Inverness Women's Aid

Women's Support Workers

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic individual to join the IWA team as a Women’s Support Worker. This post focuses on providing support to adult female clients who have experienced domestic abuse. Our service takes a person-centred approach to supporting clients and the post-holder will use a wide range of skills, expertise and resources to provide holistic support, advice and advocacy to their clients.

Please note applications to this position are restricted to women, as permitted by Schedule 9 Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

Salary: £22,433 pro rata

Deadline: Monday 30th May

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Support in Mind

Community Link Worker

Are you interested in joining an award-winning Scottish charity whose aim is to provide support to people whose lives are affected by mental health or mental welfare issues? Support in Mind Scotland have an exciting opportunity in NHS Highland’s new Highland Community Link Worker service, for which we are proud to be the lead agency and delivery partner.

We are looking for Community Link Workers with a passion for supporting people to improve their mental and physical health outcomes.

Salary: £19,085

Deadline: Monday 30th May

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Waverly Care

Health Improvement Coordinator (Young People

We are recruiting a Health Improvement Coordinator to help us deliver a range of activities to Care Experienced Young People across Highland. This includes, but is not limited to, delivering sexual health and relationships education to young people, sexual health training packages for professionals and facilitating health promotion events.

Salary: £26,932.88

Deadline: Monday 30th May

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Highland Hospice

Shop Manager (Grantown)

Highland Hospice is looking to recruit a Shop Manager for our Grantown Boutique. We are looking for someone with artistic flair, drive and personality to lead the volunteer team and the day-to-day operation of our busy shop. Experience of team leadership is preferred, ideally with volunteer teams and in a retail environment. A contract of between 30 - 37.5 hours per week is on offer to suit the needs of the best candidate. These hours are expected to be worked flexibly to meet shop requirements.

This post is not subject to a Standard Disclosure/PVG check.

Salary: £21,615 pro rata

Deadline: Tuesday 31th May

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Mikeysline

Fundraising Manager

This is a senior and key role for Mikeysline, helping us to raise vital funds for our charity to support our ongoing development and expansion of services in Highland and Moray. An excellent opportunity for someone who has a commitment to Mikeysline’s cause. You will excel in communications, leadership and networking skills. You will have previous media and events management experience as well as the ability to build and maintain relationships. You will have creativity, imagination and an entrepreneurial attitude towards fundraising. You will have previous experience of working with or within the third sector.

Salary: £30,000 per annum

Deadline: Tuesday 31st May 2022

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Alzheimer Scotland

Sessional Support Worker

The Sessional Support Worker will assist people living with dementia to achieve good outcomes using a range of therapeutic interventions, resources and activities as appropriate. Support is provided in a variety of settings and may also involve assisting access to resources in the wider community.

Salary: £17.50 per hour

Deadline: Friday 10th June

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OSCR

Board Chair

Ranging from Local Village Halls to Colleges and Universities, the Scottish charity sector is as diverse as the country itself. If you would like to play a key part in this exciting area of Scottish life, and to help build a trusted and respected Scottish charity sector which positively contributes to society and the National outcomes, then come and join our Board. Scottish Ministers wish to appoint a new Board Chair for OSCR for an initial 4 year period. In this role, you will help us to hold charities registered in Scotland to account, and the sector to improve so that the public have trust and confidence in charities.

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Addictions Counselling Inverness

Volunteers

We are looking to recruit a team of volunteers for admin/telephone duties here in our office.

We currently have only 2 employees, a Develop Manager, a Business Support Officer.

And 20 volunteer counsellors.

Open Mon- Fri 9.30 – 4.30pm, with late opening Monday and Wed evenings until 8pm.

We are not a crisis service but our phone traffic has increased considerably during COVID.

Many family members desperate for help for their loved ones.

Contact

[email protected]

for more information

Velocity

Board Members

Velocity are looking for Volunteers to join their Board!

Would you like to assist a great membership of Board members with your skills to take the organisation to the next level?

We are looking specifically for someone with skills in either running small businesses or charities, or has an excellent understanding of Human Resources and/ or Governance to help a growing team.

If you are interested please get in touch with [email protected]

Highland Council

Citizens' Panel

The purpose of the our Citizens' Panel is to regularly consult with local people on a wide range of issues. We aim to ensure that membership of the Panel is broadly representative of a cross section of the population of the highlands.

We will ask Panel members for their views on a variety of issues such as their satisfaction with Council services. These include education, housing, social care, the environment, roads and transport, customer services and planning. We will send the Panel up to four surveys each year to complete and these can be completed online or on request, by paper. Each survey will remain open for around three weeks.

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Highland Senior Citizens Network

Trustee

Have you ever thought about becoming a voluntary trustee on the board of HSCN?

We are hoping to widen the range of experience of our board.

The only qualifications are:

• an interest in the wellbeing of older people

• supporting our organisation's aims to promote this

• a commitment to good governance of HSCN

Following our experience of holding our board meetings via Zoom for the last 2 years, we have interest in making this option available to join our Inshes meetings - so distance is no barrier. 

[email protected]

or

07716884989

Birchwood Highland

Board of Trustees Member

Birchwood Highland are currently seeking Trustees to join our dynamic board as the organisation enters an exciting new phase of growth.

We are looking for people to help set the policy and strategic direction of Birchwood Highland, and evaluate the performance of the organisation.

Some of the areas where the board would like to increase its expertise include legal and general management experience as well as people with lived experience of mental- ill health. We are particularly looking for people with experience or knowledge of the health care sector particularly in the field of mental ill-health.

Join our Board of Trustees to help shape the future of mental health support and care in Highland.

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