Salary: £54,855 per annum Location: Hybrid Hours: 32.5 hours per week Department: External Engagement and Service Development Vacancy Type: Permanent Closing date: 10/07/2025 Interviews: 23/07/2025 Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) is on an exciting journey to extend its influence and support across Scotland, aiming to reach over 175,000 people per year living with chest, heart, and stroke conditions. With a bold and ambitious strategy, CHSS is dedicated to ensuring that no life is half lived, advocating for, and providing support to those in need. To spearhead this mission, CHSS seeks to appoint a Head of External Engagement and Peer & Participation. This critical role is at the heart of CHSS's strategic plan to enhance its community health care support services, amplifying our relationships, reach and income. The role will be responsible for: External Stakeholder Engagement The role will be responsible for delivery of our external engagement strategy, implementing comprehensive engagement strategies with stakeholders and embedding an external engagement culture across the organisation. To deliver our No Life Half Lived Strategy we need to increase our relationships, reach and income through identifying new and amplifying our existing external stakeholders. The role will lead on mapping, building and maintaining an extensive network of NHS, Health & Social Care, Primary and Secondary Care and Third Sector partners to promote our CHSS No Life Half Lived and Community Health Care offer. Evidencing the value, we can contribute to their strategic and operational ambitions to help us reach everyone who lives with our conditions who needs us. Our ambition is to be fully recognised as the leading provider of supported self management through our Community Health Care Support Model in Scotland by 2028. Peer & Participation The role will also lead our participation and engagement function and ambition to expand our peer reach from 3,000 to 10,000 over the next 3 years. Leading on our Participation and Involvement Framework, ensuring that all of our activities are informed by those affected by our conditions and embedding the lived experience across the organisation and services. The role functions at both strategic and operational levels to ensure that there is early engagement, connection and long-lasting buy-in from both internal and external stakeholders, as new and creative solutions are developed, proposed, implemented and evaluated. If you are interested in this post, please see our website, by selecting the s1jobs apply button. CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”. In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.