Role: Training Administrator
Location: Hybrid remote & in-person at 95 McDonald Road, Edinburgh with occasional travel within Edinburgh & surrounds
Contract: Part-time
Hours: 16 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Salary: £21,840 full-time equivalent
Deadline for applications: 9am, Friday 10th January 2025
Interviews: Tuesday 21st January 2025
Would you like to join a busy team providing administrative support organising highly successful and sought-after sleep training courses, both online and in-person across the UK and Ireland?
Purpose of role
Sleep Action are looking to expand our training team to meet increased demand for our training events.
You will have excellent organisational skills, good attention to detail and be able to communicate effectively. You will use your initiative to manage your own workload as well as be able to work effectively as part of a team. You will have experience using IT in an administrative and supportive context, in particular Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Interest in the voluntary sector and in sleep-related information would be an advantage.
This position will be hybrid working with the majority working from home, with some work on occasion in our office in McDonald Road, Edinburgh. Occasional travel within Edinburgh and the surrounding areas will be required but planned in advance.
Our Values
For us, it’s not so much about what you know, but your attitude and values that are most important. We will provide full training on what you need to know, but you must be able to live our values:
Tailored – We always put people at the centre of our work.
Humour – Great things can be achieved when we are happy and have fun.
Resilient – Flexibility, confidence and creativity turn challenges into opportunities.
Integrity – Passion and professionalism are vital for all involved in our organisation.
Value – Everybody deserves respect and we are enriched through our differences.
Empathy – Compassion and care are in everything we do.
About Sleep Action
Sleep Action – Be the best you.
Sleep Action is a charitable service provided by the non-profit, Capella. Established in 1998, Sleep Action is the UK’s oldest sleep charity and leading provider of sleep support, training, and resources in the UK, having supported thousands of people to have healthy sleep. We aim to ensure everyone can thrive through healthy sleep by working with professionals, families, and employers to promote healthy sleep because there is no health and wellbeing without sleep.
In 2023, Sleep Action celebrated its 25th anniversary.
About Capella
At Capella, we believe in lasting change through lifelong learning, because everybody deserves to thrive.
Capella is a registered charity that runs a number of charitable services, including Teens+, a transitional education project for young adults with complex and severe communication needs and Sleep Action, the UK’s oldest sleep charity and leading provider of sleep support, training, and resources in the UK. In 2024, we have launched our ambitious Strategy 24-29.
Capella is a great place to work with fantastic people, strong values and a clear sense of the difference we make. 94% of our team are proud to work for our organisation and 98% think we take positive action on health and wellbeing. We invest in our staff and offer extensive training and mentoring opportunities. As a growing organisation, we want to attract ambitious staff with a desire to achieve great things. If this sounds like a journey you’d like to join us on, we would love to hear from you.
Capella was awarded Employer of the Year at the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce Awards 2023 and is nominated for the Outstanding Leadership Award at this year’s Scottish Living Wage Awards.
What we offer:
- A full and robust training and induction programme, including access to additional training during the course of employment
- Holiday entitlement of 36 days from the start of employment
- Free Confidential Employee Counselling Service
- Flexible and agile working
- Family-friendly policies, including family-friendly working hours (8.30 am – 4.30 pm Mondays to Thursdays and 2pm finish on Fridays)
More info
For more information about this role, please see the job description and person specification below:
How to apply
- To apply for this role, please complete our application form
You can submit completed forms to us by e-mail.
Note: we do not accept CVs and we do not use recruitment agencies.