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Rocket Science is a specialist research and consultancy organisation focusing on poverty and welfare, health and social care, and employability and skills. We work across the UK from our three offices in Edinburgh, Newcastle and London. We work closely with our clients including central and local government, charities and community organisations to review and evaluate services, conduct social research including understanding needs, exploring lived experience, setting strategies and governance structures and conducting quantitative impact analysis such as cost benefit analysis and SROI.
We have two opportunities for people to join our Edinburgh and Newcastle Team:
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We are looking for a consultant to join our Edinburgh and Newcastle Team to support contracts across the UK. We are looking for an enthusiastic team member with experience in research, social research, or in one of our specialist areas. This post will be based in either our Edinburgh or Newcastle office depending on the preference of the successful candidate.
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We are looking for a health and social care research expert to join our growing team to support and help drive our health and social care social research across Scotland and the North East of England as well as provide support for projects across the UK. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced team member who is interested in progressing into senior management of the company in the medium term.
We offer a highly supportive work environment centred around an intent-based leadership approach that empowers Rocket Scientists to be leaders in everything they do. In 2019 we were accredited at Gold level as both Investors in People and Investors in Young People. We were one of the first companies to sign up to the Scottish Business Pledge and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.
Full details on our website.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
ABOUT US
The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. We want to see a UK rich in native woods and trees, for people and wildlife. The Trust aims to engage and inspire people about woods and trees to help us meet our vision of creating, restoring and protecting woodland. We own and care for over 1,000 woodland sites across the United Kingdom and support the creation and management of woodland on land outside the Trust’s own estate.
Ben Shieldaig Estate is a property of 1,539 hectares set in a unique and dramatic landscape perched on the very fringes of Scotland’s west coast in the Wester Ross National Scenic Area. The mountain is home to a very special and extensive area of designated native woodland which includes a significant remnant of ancient Caledonian pinewood. Taking on the estate in 2019 has given us a rare opportunity to conserve an entire mountain and all its diverse ecosystems in one of the best-known upland landscapes in the UK.
THE ROLE
This is a unique opportunity to help drive forward one of the most ambitious conservation projects in the Highlands. The Estate Ranger will be responsible for overseeing maintenance programmes, ensuring that Ben Shieldaig is presented to the highest possible standards. You will assist with the development and supervision of management contracts, ensuring our contractors work to the highest standards, and recruit and manage volunteers on practical tasks.
Engaging with and involving surrounding communities in our work at the Ben Shieldaig will be an important part of the role. You will contribute to and implement engagement activities supporting the development of on and off-site interpretation and delivering a quality visitor experience. There will also be a strong focus on ecological monitoring to ensure the mosaic of habitats at Ben Shieldaig, especially existing native woodlands, are being protected and enhanced.
THE CANDIDATE
Ideally you will be qualified to HND/Degree level in land-based management in the conservation or forestry sector and be proficient in wildlife and habitat conservation activities. In addition, you’ll have experience of supervising contractors and managing contracts, supervising volunteers, organising public events and community engagement activities and carrying out ecological monitoring. You will be proficient in use of IT, preferably including GIS. You will need to be positive and results-focussed; determined to seek positive outcomes from challenging situations. You’ll be able to work and communicate with others effectively, be commercially astute and flexible to changing demands. A full driving licence is required.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
There’s no other organisation like the Woodland Trust. Whatever you do here you will be supporting our work to protect and enhance woods and trees. In return we recognise and value our people. You'll have our full support, training and opportunities for professional
development, along with a contributory pension, life assurance and good holiday entitlement.
As the UK's largest woodland conservation charity, we are the leading voice for woods and trees. We campaign to protect precious ancie... Read more
Gambling Treatment Practitioners x2 (Glasgow and Edinburgh)
Full time at 35 hours
Office based, Central Belt (Edinburgh/Glasgow), travelling required, UK (temporary home working due to COVID-19)
Salary: £25,000 - £28,000 Dependent on experience
Permanent
GamCare is the UK’s leading provider of information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling-related harms. Our expert services are confidential and non-judgemental.
GamCare is now looking to recruit two Treatment Practitioners to work within our new problem gambling treatment services within the Central Belt area and Glasgow. This services will work closely with The RCA Trust, our partner which provides gambling treatment in other areas of Scotland.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Providing face to face and telephone advice, assessment, brief or structured interventions and groups work to help people achieve their goals
- Ensuring safeguarding issues are managed effectively
- Work in partnership with other local services
You should have significant experience in individual client work in the field of addictions, mental health or a social care setting with adults or young people. You should be flexible in using a range of low and high-intensity interventions and modalities including Cognitive Behavioural (CBT) tools.
You will form part of an enthusiastic team working from several locations. Our service will be based in the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
We are looking for individuals to work full time which will include some evenings and possible Saturdays.
This post is subject to a PVG check
To apply, please complete go onto the GamCare website.
If you would like acknowledgement that your application has been received, please ensure the application is attached and put the following subject in your email:
Job application: <NAME OF VACANCY>
Please note that if the subject is not correct, you may not receive a confirmation.
For further information, please contact Fern Hensley, Senior Services Manager.
Please note we do not accept CVs.
GamCare is committed to processing your personal data fairly, lawfully and transparently in line with GDPR. For further information on GamCare’s recruitment privacy notice please refer to our website.
Closing date for applications: Friday 26 February – close of play
Interviews will be held via video conference
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Cancer Awareness Nurse - Scotland
Location: Greater Glasgow and surrounding area (within 35 mile radius). Nurses will be based regionally but will be required to travel to other areas in the UK for short periods.
Salary: £27,000 - £30,000 per annum (full time equivalent) plus car allowance
Hours: Part-time, 28 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Application deadline: We will be reviewing applications as they come in so early application is strongly encouraged to avoid disappointment. This role will close once the position is filled.
Interviews: Interviews will begin week commencing 25th January 2021 and will be held virtually.
Training dates: The successful post-holder will need to attend staff training on 8th-11th March, and campaign training at 15th-18th March. Training will be held virtually.
Apply your nursing experience to a new challenge for 2021 and help us beat cancer!
Our Cancer Awareness Roadshow plays a vital role in achieving our vision of beating cancer. We travel to the heart of communities talking to over 60,000 people every year about cancer. Our nurses directly reach people most in need, helping people to take steps to reduce their risk of cancer through lifestyle changes and supporting them to maintain those changes lifelong. If you’ve got an interest in health promotion and you are an excellent and confident communicator then this could be the perfect opportunity for you!
About the role
We’re looking for a motivated Nurse to be part of our team in Scotland to work on our regular indoor Roadshows. In this influential role, you’ll…
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Work as a core part of our cancer awareness team to engage people face-to-face, providing information on cancer prevention, screening and early detection
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Organise and deliver cancer awareness presentations and training to community groups and support other public health initiatives
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Manage team Twitter account – posting regular updates on the team’s activity and growing the team’s social media contacts as appropriate.
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Collect and input data to evaluate local engagement activities
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Get involved with other cancer awareness outreach activity in the local community
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Manage a team of Health Awareness Volunteers and support them to be involved with cancer awareness activity where appropriate
To see a full job description please click here: https://adobe.ly/2Yd7bbV
You’ll be mainly based in Glasgow and surrounding areas within a 35 mile radius, visiting communities who are at higher risk of cancer.
About us
Our Cancer Awareness Roadshow was founded in 2006 in partnership with Ronan Keating and the Marie Keating Foundation. It plays a vital role in achieving our vision of beating cancer sooner by directly reaching people most in need with tailored health messages, encouraging them to make positive changes to their health and signposting to local health services. The Roadshow currently consists of three mobile units that visit some of the UK’s most deprived and diverse communities where cancer incidence and mortality rates are significantly above average. For more information on the Roadshow please see the Cancer Research UK Roadshow Website. Our regular Cancer Awareness Roadshow was developed off the back of the Roadshow in 2015, to enable us to have more in-depth ongoing conversations with people, to help them to sustain change in a supportive environment. The Glasgow activity is a regular indoor Roadshow only model, with a usual pattern of three days a week of Roadshow sites and one admin day.
About you
To join us we’re looking for…
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A registered Nurse with an NMC registration
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Excellent verbal communication skills, including an ability to engage people in conversation and to use motivational interviewing techniques
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Strong writing skills
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Excellent organisational skills with a strong administrative background
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A good understanding of the challenges associated with targeting hard to reach groups and addressing health inequalities
Cancer Research UK will provide introductory training and orientation. As part of your application we’d like you to upload a CV and you will be asked to answer a few short application questions relating to your experience and skills.
Cancer Research UK – we are dedicated to working collectively to save more lives, create more tomorrows and dispel the fear of cancer. We... Read more
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