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Improving care experiences consultant

Glasgow (Glasgow City)
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
Consultant
€40,000 a year
Posted: 3 November
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#### RoleChange-makers sought!We’re looking for an experienced, innovative, and values-driven Improving Care Experiences Consultant to help usimprove the lives of children, young people and adults. This is an exciting opportunity to assist the leadershipof our work to support improvements in continuing care, aftercare, and young people moving into adulthood, aswell as our work supporting improvements in kinship care and foster care.As a leading improvement and innovation centre in Scotland, CELCIS works to improve the lives of children and youngpeople in need of care and protection, their families and carers, care leavers, and young people moving intoadulthood. We achieve this by supporting people and organisations responsible for their care to make changes insystems, services, practice and skills. We’re looking for a new consultant to join our Improving CareExperiences team to drive forward our ambitious plan for change. You’ll bring the passion and motivation tolisten to those with experience of care and build on what we know matters to children, young people, families,workforces, and carers, through our exciting partnership work with local and national partners.You will contribute to developing ways of working that enable workforces and carers to build strong relationships,care deeply and prioritise the needs of young people moving into adulthood, as well as those cared for inkinship care and foster care. You will work closely with the Scottish Government and colleagues in the sector tosupport improvement and realise the ambitions of The Promise. You will support the development of partnershipgroups, and networks such as Communities of Practice to share evidence, best practice, and grapple with and findsolutions to complex problems to support the changes we all want to see. You will be fundamental to ourengagement with key partners in these policy areas, including working alongside colleagues in local authorities,independent care providers, the Scottish Government and other partner organisations. You will be crucial to thedevelopment of system and practice change initiatives relating to improving the experiences of children, theirfamilies, and their carers, as well as in relation to the wellbeing of colleagues in the workforce.The role would suit candidates who have a strong knowledge of current social work/social care, the needs of youngpeople moving into adulthood, kinship care, foster care, child development, and childcare practice. It wouldalso befit candidates who understand and have experience of working with complexity, supporting and leadingchange projects and programmes, and genuine co-production.#### Application notesTo apply, .Initial interviews have been scheduled for 02/07/2025.For informal enquiries, please contact Joanne McMeeking, Head of Improving Care Experiences atjoanne.mcmeeking@strath.ac.uk.### University Of StrathclydeImproving Care Experiences Consultant Postcode: G1 1XQWe’re looking for an experienced, innovative, and values-driven Improving Care Experiences Consultant to help us toimprove the lives of children, young people and adults. This is an exciting opportunity to assist the leadershipof our work to support improvements in continuing care, aftercare, and young people moving into adulthood, aswell as our work supporting improvements in kinship care and foster care.As a leading improvement and innovation centre in Scotland, CELCIS works to improve the lives of children and youngpeople in need of care and protection, their families and carers, care leavers, and young people moving intoadulthood. We achieve this by supporting people and organisations responsible for their care to make changes insystems, services, practice and skills. We’re looking for a new consultant to join our Improving CareExperiences team to drive forward our ambitious plan for change. You’ll bring the passion and motivation tolisten to those with experience of care, and build on what we know matters to children, young people, families,workforces, and carers, through our exciting partnership work with local and national partners.You will contribute to developing ways of working that enable workforces and carers to build strong relationships,care deeply and prioritise the needs of young people moving into adulthood, as well as those cared for inkinship care and in foster care. You will work closely with Scottish Government and colleagues in the sector tosupport improvement and realise the ambitions of The Promise. You will support the development of partnershipgroups, and networks such as Communities of Practice, to share evidence, best practice, and grapple with andfind solutions to complex problems to support the changes we all want to see. You will be fundamental to ourengagement with key partners in these policy areas, including working alongside colleagues in local authorities,independent care providers, the Scottish Government and other partner organisations. You will be crucial to thedevelopment of system and practice change initiatives relating to improving the experiences of children, theirfamilies, and their carers, as well as in relation to the wellbeing of colleagues in the workforce.The role would suit candidates who have strong knowledge of current social work/social care, the needs of youngpeople moving into adulthood, kinship care, foster care, child development, and childcare practice. It wouldalso befit candidates who understand and have experience of working with complexity, supporting and leadingchange projects and programmes, and genuine co-production.For informal enquiries, please contact Kirsty Doull, Care and Transitions Lead at kirsty.doull@strath.ac.ukSCVO recently undertook an independent review of our training programme and we’re looking for an innovative,pragmatic and ambitious learning professional to work with our teams and drive this forward.You’ll have the opportunity to:* Develop a new SCVO learning approach* Create accessible, innovative learning programmes, content and pathways* Build and manage strategic and operational learning partnerships* Grow our income and impact* Support our internal teams in their own learning activitiesYou’ll be supported by an experienced manager, and will be part of the sector-leading learning and events team whichalso delivers the Gathering, Charity Awards and existing SCVO training programme.Part time hours and other flexible working options, including working from home for part of the week, will be fullyconsidered. We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet most of the criteria in the person specification.We share our interview questions in advance. If you want to have a chat about the job or our flexible workingapproach, get in touch with us at recruitment@scvo.scotSCVO is the membership organisation for the voluntary sector in Scotland and our mission is to champion the role ofvoluntary sector organisations in building a flourishing society and support them to do work that has a positiveimpact.Established in 2004, Break the Silence is a registered charity which makes a profound and positive difference in thelives of those affected by childhood sexual trauma. We deliver professional counselling, supporting people ofall genders, age 13+ resident in East and North Ayrshire.At Break the Silence we have built our culture and ethos around equality through equity, diversity, inclusion andrespect for people. We are trauma-informed and are committed to providing a harmonious working environment whereeveryone treats each other with dignity and respect.We have an exciting opportunity to join our Team with the introduction of a new part-time Development Officer role ona fixed term contract for 12m having secured funding through the National Lottery Strengthening Organisationsfund.We seek a dynamic, motivated Development Officer to support and lead on the organisation’s
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