Hr Coordinator

HR Coordinator Scotland based: hybrid blend of office (Edinburgh) and home working (Hybrid)Closing9th May 2024Advertised from 22nd April 202419 hours per week. Permanent.RoleAge Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 sothat they can love later life.
We support and enable hundreds of communities and older people's groups across Scotland. We provide information,friendship and advice through our free helpline and publications. We tackle loneliness and isolation with ourFriendship Line and much more.
We work in Scotland with older people's groups who provide vital activities and services for older people in theirlocal community. We campaign on the issues that older people tell us are important to them.
Our people are central to our success in delivering services for older people in Scotland. We pride ourselves onhaving a positive working environment and culture.
As the HR Coordinator, you will play a key role in ensuring that we recruit and retain high quality staff, developour people, and support effective people management. You will contribute to the continued development of apositive organisational culture and support the team and wider Charity to bring our values to life in the way wemanage people.
Living our values, you will approach the role with integrity, while involving, inspiring and empowering our teams, sothat together we can create better outcomes for older people in Scotland.
The role will be a hybrid blend of office-based (in Edinburgh) and home-based work. The working pattern must includeFridays to ensure there is adequate cover within the team.
In return for your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment to our values you'll receive a generous benefitspackage:
• Generous holiday allowance of 37 days (FTE) plus 2 fixed public holidays
• Flexible working opportunities from day one
• A range of learning and development opportunities
• Healthcare benefit through Westfield Health
• Cashback scheme from major retailers
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of 9%
• A comprehensive package of support though our Employee Assistance Programme
• Group life cover up to three times your annual salary
• Cycle to work scheme
• The option to buy more holidays or sell them
• Enhanced maternity and paternity policies.
Closing date: 12 noon on Thursday 9th May 2024.
Interviews will take place in Edinburgh on Wednesday 22nd May 2024.
Age Scotland, part of the Age Network, is an independent charity dedicated to improving the later lives of olderpeople on the ageing journey, within a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in Scotland. RegNo: 153343 Charity No: SC010100. Registered Office: Causewayside House, 160 Causewayside, Edinburgh EH91PR.
Home Based, with travel across Aberdeen and North Aberdeenshire (Remote)Closing8th May 2024Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part ofour mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as a Community Support Co-ordinator you can be the differencebetween people just surviving and really living.
You will be part of Scotland's leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions tolive life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Services form a nationwide network of localsupport groups, nurses, volunteers and one-to-one support teams helping families adjust to life with a heart orlung condition or after a stroke.
We are looking for a Community Support Coordinator to join our amazing team in the North area. This role is focusedon making sure that people affected by chest, heart and stroke conditions get the help they need and get back todoing the things that matter to them.
Through our Community Support Services, you will support people to have the confidence and tools to self-manage theirhealth condition and live as independently as possible. You'll also help people get back to doing the thingsthat are important to them – from simple things like walking to their local shop following a stroke, toreturning to a sky-high hobby of gliding!
You'll be directly involved in supporting people with chest, heart and stroke conditions through both one-to-one andgroup services in both community and hospital settings. You'll work with the rest of the Community SupportServices team in Grampian, and manage a team of incredible volunteers, to make a real difference to the lives ofpeople with our conditions.
Candidates don't need to have medical knowledge as training is provided on our health conditions. We are looking forsomeone with a positive attitude towards people with disabilities and long-term conditions; an understanding ofthe challenges faced by people with chest, heart and stroke conditions including Long Covid; an understanding ofcommunity service provision; the ability to recruit, manage and motivate a team of volunteers; and excellentcommunication and interpersonal skills.
At Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, our mission is to ensure there's No Life Half Lived in Scotland – and you canbe a vital part of that. We are Scotland's leading organisation for person-centred, user-led community supportfor people with our health conditions.
Applicants must have a car and a current valid driving licence (expenses are paid at mileage rate).
Applications will be considered from candidates living outside Aberdeen and North Aberdeenshire, but within acommutable distance.
CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holidayallowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.
At Worldwide Cancer Research, we start new cures. Cancer is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide, butcutting-edge science can give us hope. Discovery research seeks to uncover new knowledge that could change theway we think about cancer. It reveals new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer that can save lives.
We actively seek unconventional and imaginative ideas from scientists at all stages of their career, across theglobe. In some cases, we are the only organisation that will fund a scientist's idea. We take an unbiasedapproach to research funding by focusing on supporting only the best ideas for new cures. By having a diverseresearch portfolio, we increase our chances of finding breakthroughs.
Our vision is of a day when no life is cut short by cancer, and we believe we can achieve this by starting thelife-saving advances of the future by sowing the seeds of discoveries. Anyone that helps bring forwardbreakthroughs – including our staff, our supporters, and the researchers we fund – is a Curestarter.
As a charity, we are committed to opportunity without barriers, and we are striving to seek, value and learn fromdifferent perspectives and experiences. We want Worldwide Cancer Research to be an inclusive organisation –where everyone can be themselves and feel valued – as diverse as the scientific community we fund and thefamilies whose lives we impact.
We are committed to ensuring that we provide equal opportunities to every applicant regardless of age, disability,gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex orsexual orientation. We aim to ensure that our recruitment process is unbiased and that everyone is treatedequitably. In support of this, we have pledged to 'Show the Salary' for our roles and we are a registeredDisability Confident Committed Employer, because our team members are at the heart of everything we do.
To help start new cancer cures around the world and fund discovery cancer research, we are looking for a SupporterCare Executive to join our busy Marketing and Supporter Experience team.
About the Supporter Care Executive role and why we need you We are looking for a Supporter Care Executive to join a team delivering a sector-leading service to our supporters,who are known as Curestarters. The Supporter Care Team builds lasting relationships through honest andrespectful conversation; you will drive supporter loyalty through excellent stewardship and fundraisingassistance, whether by phone, email or mail. You will also carry out administrative tasks to assist in thesmooth running of the Supporter Care Team.
As the first point of contact for all Worldwide Cancer Research Curestarters, you can make an impact every day withour team by maximising fundraising income and supporter engagement. Everyone in the charity plays their part incurestarting and demonstrates our values in their day-to-day work.
The charity's values are Curious, United, Real, Entrepreneurial and Spirited, which you can readily demonstrate dayto day. You will be an advocate for our vision and act as a role model for the charity when in touch withprospects. We consistently offer opportunities for employee voice, our cross-team diversity and inclusion groupis open to all, we have recently introduced a nine-day fortnight and we review our benefits annually.
We're looking for a Customer Care Executive to join our team, this role will be known internally as Supporter CareExecutive.
Hours: Full time and permanent. 35 hours a week over core working hours of 10am - 3pm, Monday toFriday, with a one-hour lunch break. The office is open 8am – 6pm daily and our hybrid working policy requiresall full-time employees to work at least two days a week in the Edinburgh office.
Benefits:10% employer pension contribution; employee assistance programme and counselling service;enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay; enhanced sick pay; 31 days' paid holiday/year plus four paid winterpublic holidays; 2-weeks fully remote working/year; three paid carer days/year; death in service benefit; cycleto work and travel season ticket schemes.
To support the Team's work-life balance, we work a nine-day fortnight where the charity is closed every secondFriday.
VOCAL - Voice of Carers Across Lothian - seeks two enthusiastic and experienced Carer Brokerage Practitioners to joinits busy and expanding team to provide brokerage support to carers across Edinburgh and Midlothian.
VOCAL is a carer-led organisation and provides a wide range of services to support unpaid carers in their caringrole. Postholders will be expected to work as part of a team, improve outcomes for carers and maximise uptake ofVOCAL and community services.
Postholders will be part of a SDS focused project, VOCAL about Independent Living funded by Support in the RightDirection, Inspiring Scotland. They will liaise with staff, relevant organisations and the funder whilst runningthe project, including Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living (LCiL) who will also have a funded post as part ofthis project . SDS carer support is already well established at VOCAL, and postholders will be able to benefitfrom the expertise of the practitioners who have been involved with SDS support to date.
Applicants will evidence excellent people, and communication skills, brokerage and person-centred support work.Applicants will also demonstrate awareness of the diverse range of caring situations, the impact of caring onpeoples' lives and barriers carers face at different points of the caring journey. Good working knowledge ofhealth and social care will be expected, with preference given to candidates with applied knowledge ofself-directed support. Applicants will be digitally competent and effective communicators with individuals,carer groups and partner agencies.
Our aim is to find routes out of homelessness and into independent living for the people we support every day.Alongside our services, we have two social enterprises, that provide vital income for our charity as well asvolunteering and training opportunities for people using our services and the wider community.
About The Job Our people are at the heart of the organisation and this role supports our team through all aspects of their timewith Four Square. The postholder will oversee recruitment, deliver organisation inductions, support managers,monitor and arrange skills training and help deliver our payroll function. The role will have leadresponsibility in delivering our organisational development programme Impactful People.
This is varied role working across our services and social enterprise which comprises of over 100 staff, volunteers,and students on placement. The postholder will gain exposure to a wide range of HR aspects and will play a keyrole in supporting the team.
All Four Square employees must complete a Basic Disclosure and provide evidence of the outcome when received fromDisclosure Scotland.
Main Responsibilities Oversee recruitment, onboarding and deliver organisational inductions to new staff;Oversight andmaintenance of the HR database, including producing regular reports to provide KPIs as well as ad-hoc reportswhen requested;Responsible for the administration of the employee assistance programme;Producepayroll reports for monthly payroll;Work with managers in handling employee relations mattersincluding, investigations disciplinary or grievance issues, providing appropriate and timely support andmaintaining appropriate records;Provide support to Director of HR and Corporate Services on relevant HRmatters and support the delivery of Impactful People, our Organisational Development programmeProduce amonthly staff newsletter, supporting the culture and providing information to all our staff;Able tostep in to support business critical functions in the central team when required (full trainingprovided);Conduct exit interviews and collate data on reasons for leaving;Any other taskswhich support the HR and payroll functions within Four Square.Employee Benefits 35 days holiday including public holidays.Pension with People's Pension (employees 3%; employers5%).Casual dress code.On-site parking.Access to Organisational DevelopmentProgramme.Access to advice and support through our Employee Assistance Programme.15% staffdiscount plus free delivery for items purchased in Edinburgh Furniture Initiative.20% staff discount atFour Square Park Cafe *excluding alcohol.Access to exclusive deals and discounts through our HRplatform.Access to a staff support fund to help with unexpected one-off costs.Required Qualifications and Skills At least three years' experience of working in HR and ideally a qualification in HR, working towards aqualification.Ideally a Chartered member of CIPD or working towards membership.Proven abilityto multi-task and prioritise an everchanging workload.Ability to take responsibility to proactivelyresolve issues and provide support in challenging situations.Strong communication skills, both writtenand verbal. Ability to build relationships at all levels across the organisation and with externalstakeholders.Detailed focus, highly organised and able to plan and organise work with strong attentionto detail.Advanced skills in MS Office Packages; and remote meeting technology.Office based toensure collaboration with stakeholders and a consistent presence in the organisation.Reports to: Director of HR and Corporate Services
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