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* SCP scale 38-41, Placing dependent on qualifications and experience. Fixed Term 1 year Contract (extension pending funding). 35 hours per week
Role
Learning Network West is a unique organisation, supporting Social Work Education and developing practice learningopportunities across the West of Scotland. We work closely with HEI and Local Authority funding partners acrossthe West of Scotland to fulfil three core functions: the Mental Health Officer Award Programme, The ProfessionalDevelopment Award in Practice Learning, and social work student placement matching and development. As part ofthis existing work, the Network is working closely with stakeholders, including Scottish Government, SSSC andour partners, to ensure continued contribution and commitment to the on-going development of social workeducation in Scotland.
Due to the ending of a secondment, we are excited to be seeking appointment for a Practice Learning DevelopmentOfficer (PDAPL Co-ordinator). The post holder will be responsible for working in partnership, to plan, deliverand evaluate the PDAPL programme. The successful candidate will be responsible for the practice elements of theprogramme, including the strategic developments and operational oversight. The post holder will representLearning Network West as a conduit in Social Work Education across Scotland.
Learning Network West is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, andeliminating unlawful discrimination. Secondments welcome.
Purpose of post: The post holder will be responsible for working in partnership, to plan, deliver and evaluate thePDAPL programme. The successful candidate will be responsible for the practice elements of the programme,including the strategic developments and operational oversight. The post holder will represent Learning NetworkWest as a conduit in Social Work Education across Scotland.
Main responsibilities:
* Co-ordination of candidate selection, including standardisation between SQA centres, cohort adverts, facilitating information session, reading all applications and chairing selection panel, writing decision letters and providing one to one feedback for unsuccessful candidates.
* Undertake assessment and internal verification of candidates.
* Co-ordinate assessment and verification activities, including assessor and verifier induction and registration, annual CPD records, chairing portfolio and standardisation meetings (approx. 18 meetings a year), ensuring assessment and verification adheres to both award standards (SSSC) and validation requirements (SQA).
* Development and review of course materials, including assessment instruments, methodologies and portfolio, handbook, selection materials, teaching materials, policies and strategy documents. To be cognisant of legislative, policy and practice developments and ensure programme continues to meet the broad needs or partners, regulatory and validating bodies.
* Co-ordinating ongoing CPL activities for assessors and verifiers.
* Co-ordinating and tutoring on a taught programme (covering topics including assessment, supervision, adult learning, reflection, emotional intelligence, evidence based practice, leadership, evaluation and change processes).
* Evaluation of all programme activities.
* Maintaining accurate, up to date candidate and assessment records, including candidate progress and deferrals.
* Producing annual quality assurance monitoring, external verification and systems verification reports.
* Collating, analysing and producing a range of monitoring information for stakeholders, including the West Learning partnership (12 local authorities and 5 HEI’s).
* The design, facilitation and evaluation of assessor and verifier induction programmes.
* Chair Practice Learning Award Management Group and undertake any tasks allocated – over the next year this will likely include the implementation of revised Group Award Specification (following recent SQA review) and subsequent amendments to portfolio handbook and taught materials.
* Co-ordination and investigation of complaints and misconduct procedures.
* E-portfolio induction programme, monthly e-portfolio surgeries and ongoing/ as and when support for candidates, assessors and verifiers.
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The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) Partnership is the independent organisation responsible forScotland’s National Framework for Qualifications. The SCQF brings together quality assured assessed learningthroughout life whether gained in school, workplace, college, university or online into one system forrecognising achievement.
We are a Living Wage Employer and are accredited to Investors in People Gold level, working in ways that realise ourvalues of Respect, Integrity, Collaboration and Enabling. As a small staff team of thirteen with nationalcoverage, we also operate a Flexible Working Policy and offer hybrid working.
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team in the key role of Lead for Transnational opportunities within ourQuality Enhancement and Recognition team. Your role will be critical to the relaunch of our transnationalconsultancy services offer promoting the SCQF globally, whilst also maintaining high standards of qualityassurance for our credit rating bodies and contributing to capacity building and RPL activities.
About you
This role would suit a person with SCQF Level 9 equivalent skills or experience.
To be successful in this role you will need to be familiar with at least one aspect of the lifelonglearning sector, have some knowledge and understanding of qualifications frameworks and/or quality assuranceprinciples and ideally have a proven track record in business development and/or project management.
We are looking for someone who has excellent communication skills, including the ability to produce high qualityreports and documents and present to external audiences. You need to be equally comfortable working on your owninitiative or in a team setting, possess strong IT skills and show a commitment to our values of Collaboration,Integrity, Enabling and Respect. Travel, including overseas, may be required as part of the role.
Working at the SCQF Partnership
As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
* Pension scheme with an employer contribution of 12%
* Westfield Health benefits, including costsreimbursed for dental, physiotherapy and counselling services, optical fees and health clubconcession
* Death in Service Benefit worth 1 x annual salary
* 25 days’ annual leave rising to 28days after 3 years’ service + 13 public holidays
* Flexible and hybrid working policy and a range offamily-friendly policies to support work-life balance.
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience,and career.
The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) Partnership is the independent organisation responsible forScotland’s National Framework for Qualifications. The SCQF brings together assessed learning throughout lifewhether gained in school, workplace, college, university or online into one system for recognisingachievement.
We are a Living Wage Employer and are accredited to Investors in People Gold level, working in ways that realise ourvalues of Respect, Integrity, Collaboration and Enabling. As a small staff team of thirteen with nationalcoverage, we also operate a Flexible Working Policy.
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team in the key role of Executive Assistant. You will support workclosely with the CEO, providing crucial and confidential executive support to the CEO and Chair whilstdelivering key administrative functions necessary for the smooth operation of the organisation, the office andits services. You will also supervise a part time (term time) Administrator.
About you
This role would suit a person with SCQF Level 7 equivalent skills or experience.
To be successful in this role you will be highly organised with experience of working in an administrative orexecutive support role and enjoy managing projects that maximise operational efficiency. You will also becommitted to the principles of lifelong learning.
You will have excellent interpersonal skills and IT skills, and be equally comfortable working on your own or as partof a wider team. As you will often be the first point of contact for people visiting the office, you need to befriendly, enjoy helping and be willing to learn about SCQF Partnership and its activities
Working at the SCQF Partnership
As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
* Pension scheme with an employer contribution of 12%
* Westfield Health benefits, including costsreimbursed for dental, physiotherapy and counselling services, optical fees and health clubconcession
* Death in Service Benefit worth 1 x annual salary
* 25 days’ annual leave rising to 28days after 3 years’ service + 13 public holidays
* Flexible and hybrid working policy and a range offamily-friendly policies to support worklife balance.
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience,and career.
Would you like to make a difference to a person’s quality of life? Would you like to learn BSL while being paid? Weare looking for caring and motivated Support Workers to support deaf BSL users to join our team. Could that beyou?
Who are we?
Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. We were established in 1835 and work withdeaf people across Scotland and the South of England. Our work is geared towards empowering all deaf people toachieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access, and opportunity.
As well as our outreach service in Edinburgh, we are expanding our service provision in Glasgow and are looking forpeople who can make a major contribution to our plans for innovation and growth and who have the commitment andenthusiasm to contribute to the work of our support services to Deaf people throughout Edinburgh andGlasgow.
We are looking for people who are caring, fun, motivated, willing to learn and show initiative. However, you wouldneed some experience of working in a support service and managing /overseeing a team.
We will provide on the job training with the opportunity to complete formal qualifications in social care. If youhave knowledge of BSL, or are a BSL user that is a bonus, however we will provide training if not.
The ideal candidates will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website .
The role
You will be leading a team to support *deaf people living in the community. As well as leading a team you will belone working in the community, delivering a person-centred service supporting deaf people within their ownliving environment, to enable them to fully participate in the decisions affecting their lives, ensuring thatwherever possible, service users benefit from informed choice, control, and independence. This will include bothactivities at home and within the community which will promote independence and social inclusion.
You will be accountable to the Support Services Area Manager. By working together, you will ensure that a consistent,high quality support service is provided to deaf service users in their own homes, and that staff are supportedto develop and maintain such a service.
Due to the nature of this role, its essential that you can drive and have access to a car.
*deaf: this to includes Deaf Sign Language users, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people.
You will be asked:
• To actively monitor and develop individual and team performance by ensuring effective supervision and PerformanceDevelopment Reviews/Reports (PDRs).
• Be responsible for any risk assessments at the service users home as part of your Health and Safetyresponsibilities.
• To provide clear direction, co-ordination, feedback, and day to day line management for the work of a delegatedgroup of staff. Thus, ensuring their motivation to provide outcome focused, person centred services.
• To assess any new service users for the service and match them with staffs.
• To be involved in recruitment for new staff for the service.
• To take an active role in assessments / recordings and to work with service users to develop their skills andabilities to achieve identified outcomes.
• To assist service users with personal care tasks where appropriate.
• To be involved, as appropriate, with all household tasks, maximising service users’ participation.
• To record the day-to-day finances (where relevant) and household budgets of service users.
• To enable service users to access information to be fully informed of their rights and valid expectations from theservice provided.
• To ensure the health, safety and security of individuals and their environment.
What is on offer? What do we offer?
• Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions of 6%.
• 32 days leave pro rata (including bank holidays) pro rata for part time.
• 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured.
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme.
• Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process
Interested in joining the Links Worker Programme at the ALLIANCE? We are looking for someone dynamic, organised andwith great people skills to join our well-established Links Worker Programme.
The post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering our Energy and Efficiency outreach project toGlasgow and West Dunbartonshire and will provide a specialist service to people who often experience complexsocial circumstances, using agreed, person-centred principles for monitoring, auditing and evaluating programmedelivery
You will have:
* Experience at delivering advice to a wide range of citizens and be familiar with benefit entitlements as well asshowing empathy and understanding of the issues faced by our citizens.
* Knowledge and understanding ofthe environmental, social and economic problems of deprived areas and the roles of the public, private andvoluntary sectors in tackling them.
* Demonstrable experience and knowledge of the provision of advice tolow-income households in energy efficiency or related fields.
* Self-motivation and the ability to workwith limited supervision.
* The ability to work with a wide range of people and proven experience ofworking with vulnerable householders, low income and/or other disadvantaged groups, including a strongunderstanding of the challenges faced by people living in areas of deprivation in relation to livingwell.
* Tact and diplomacy when liaising with a wide range of organisations.
* A solution-focusedapproach.
* Non-discriminatory values.
* Proven and highly effective interpersonal and communicationskills in working with people on a 1:1 basis and with organisations.
* Excellent influencing, negotiationand motivational skills in order to engage people and to enable them to take up a wide range of communityservices and activities.
* Excellent networking, recording and information managementskills.
* Knowledge of facilitating service improvement and appreciation of different organisationalcultures and workforce development.
* Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on owninitiative.
* IT skills in word processing, spreadsheets, email and the internet.
* An ability andwillingness to travel extensively within the local community and wider area.
It would be desirable for you to have experience of:
* Experience of project-based work in the fields of energy efficiency, community development and regeneration,housing, health, social policy or consumer issues.
* Education to a degree level, equivalentqualifications, or relevant experience.
* Experience of the preparation and delivery ofpresentations
* Experience of speaking to groups
As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:
* 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days)
* 91 days public holiday (equivalent of 13 days) that canbe taken flexibly
* Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
* Contributory pensionscheme
* Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
* Hybrid working – opportunity to work fromhome for part of the week
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Learning and development opportunities
* Corporate ratesfor gym membership
* Time of in lieu
* Cycle Scheme
The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talkflexible working.
The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meetevery point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we stillwant to hear from you.
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