Jobs in Dundee

We are looking to recruit a support worker for our Vice Versa project. Vice Versa provides support to adult women who have been involved, are currently involved or are at risk of being involved in Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE). The women we support generally experience multiple disadvantage which may include substance use, homelessness, physical and mental health issues, welfare issues and extensive historical and ongoing trauma.

Therefore, the ideal candidate will have significant experience in providing support to people using trauma informed support skills and have a sound knowledge of the impact of rape, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation.

Support can include 1:1 sessions in the centre or on outreach, supporting to attend appointments and groups, advocacy support and signposting to other organisations or support. Support is led entirely by the women and their needs and priorities.

We are looking to recruit a Sexual Violence Support & Trauma Worker – Initial Referral team (25 hours per week) The ideal candidate will have significant experience in providing support to people using trauma informed support skills and have a sound knowledge of the impact of rape, sexual abuse and exploitation on survivors.

Salary: £19,552 moving to £21,034 after successful completion of a probationary period.

Hours; 25 hours per week fixed term until 31st March 2025 with the possibility of extension should funding be secured.

Probation: This post is subject to 6-month probationary period if offer of permanent position is made.

Holidays: 33 Days plus 5 Public Holidays days for Festive Period. Please note this is pro rata for the 25 hour role.

Pension: Employer contribution at 6% to CIS pension fund.

We offer a competitive salary, excellent terms and conditions and the opportunity to gain invaluable skills and experience.

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic individual to join our team.

The overall aim of this post is to deliver interventions to young people around healthy sexual relationships using the Rape Crisis Scotland sexual violence prevention pack, and to develop local strategic approaches to sexual violence prevention.

The successful applicant will be involved in the delivery of sexual violence prevention workshops with young people addressing issues around sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, sexualisation, consent and healthy relationships.

Experience in project development within a youth work model would be advantageous.

A commitment to preventing sexual violence and an understanding of a gendered analysis of violence against women and girls is essential. Candidates need to be skilled in engaging pro-actively with all young people, including hard to reach groups.

We are looking for someone to identify suitable Trusts, Foundations and other grant-making bodies, writing timely, factual and compelling funding applications, and co-ordinating the writing of reports to funders.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain a good relationship with our current funders.

• Identify potential new funders and sources of income.

• Manage current funds and ensure projects remain on course to meet their outcomes.

• Write reports for current funds.

• Work alongside relevant teams to ensure relevant information is gathered to measure outcomes for reporting.

• Be responsible for keeping accurate records of all funding outcomes, outputs, and targets agreed with funders, and work with staff across the charity to ensure that data is gathered to measure these.

• Compile and provide reports and data for the Senior Leadership Team as required.

A full Job Description is available for download below.

Working in Charity Retail takes all of your skills and challenges you to turn a bag of donations into income, along with ideally some Retail and Management experience, having a creative side is a benefit, being great with people is essential to work with our amazing volunteer teams and most of all we value a positive can-do attitude!

We’re looking for a Store Manager for the Dundee store, you’d be working with a great team of volunteers and your local community to drive donations over the door and then turn that into income, by delivering our standards and procedures but adding your own ideas and enthusiasm to raise as much as you can.

CHSS is an organization that makes the health & wellbeing of its colleagues a priority, with our full day being only 10am - 5pm to support the work/life balance, generous annual leave, sick pay & pension scheme and access to UNUM welfare support and life assurance from day one.

As well as being a vital part of your local community, you’d be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions to live life to the full again.

CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.

“I lost my kids a few times they went to foster care and I would have gone to a place like this if I had the chance. This is badly needed. I hid my drug use and people only found out about it when I had my baby and she was in withdrawal. I loved my daughter and would have welcomed something like this.” A mother who has been supported by Aberlour

About Aberlour’s Mother and Child Recovery House

Aberlour is proud to be working with the Scottish Government to establish a new dedicated Mother and Child Residential Recovery House based in Dundee. Our service will be designed to enable children of women with problematic substance use to stay with mothers during their recovery. Aberlour’s approach to rehabilitation aims to deliver positive outcomes for women and their children.

We will be supporting families using the Parents Under Pressure (PuP) program which combines psychological principles relating to parenting, child behaviour and parental emotion regulation within a case management model. The program is highly individualized to suit each family. Parents are given their own Parent Workbook. For many parents, this becomes a personal journal of their treatment experience. The overarching aim of the PuP program is to help parents facing adversity develop positive and secure relationships with their children. Within this strength-based approach, the family environment becomes more nurturing and less conflictual.

“Too many women with problem drug and alcohol issues are having their young children taken into care and many other women won’t engage with support agencies for fear of their children being removed. The new houses will improve outcomes for these women and children; reduce deaths of mothers with problem drug use; avoid family breakdown and increase the likelihood of children being cared for by their parents.” Aberlour Chief Executive SallyAnn Kelly

What we are looking for....

Our relief workers play a crucial role in supporting our team. This work is offered on a casual, hourly paid basis to provide cover during staff absence and/or particularly busy periods. Availability should be specified on your application form.

Ideally you will have experience of direct work with vulnerable families to support improved capacity for women and children and of working collaboratively with other professional agencies and a working knowledge of drug/alcohol use and its effects on women and children.

Applicants should hold a relevant professional qualification at least SCQF level 7 or equivalent knowledge acquired by other means with a willingness to obtain the required qualifications for SSSC Registration.

Individuals with Lived Experience of alcohol or drug use are strongly encouraged to apply for these positions where they will gain experience and training to enhance their knowledge and skills. People with lived experience are vital members of the team delivering this service to the women and children.

At Aberlour we want to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team.

What we offer...

As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.

Do you find yourself wanting more from your role? Wanting to do work that truly makes a difference in people’s lives? If so, maybe it’s time for a change. Maybe it’s time to consider a role where you’ll be helping people at the most difficult time in their lives, truly making a difference to them.

Asbestos Action is a Dundee based charity, which aims to provide support and guidance to people suffering from asbestos-related lung diseases by offering, and delivering, personalised, tailored practical support. We are a small, but unique charity, that has now been well established for over 20 years and provides a vital service to people – with only three asbestos charities in all of Scotland, the importance of the work that we do cannot be overstated.

Owing to our continued growth, we are seeking to employ two permanent, part-time (21 hours per week) Support and Benefits Advisors, to ensure that people affected by asbestos-related disease receive relevant help and assistance to secure welfare benefits and appropriate support. In this role, you will provide end to end practical and emotional support, as well as helping complete benefit applications, ensuring all appropriate benefits are applied for, assisting with mandatory reconsiderations, and appeals, where necessary.

Asbestos Action is committed to delivering services that support the management of our clients’ health and wellbeing, ensuring access to high quality services across Scotland. As well as helping clients to access crucial welfare benefits services, you will be responsible for guiding them through one of the most traumatic times in their lives – providing support, empathy and forging close, fulfilling relationships in the process.

In joining the team, you will also have the opportunity to make your mark on the role, as well as the flexibility to get involved in other areas of the charity’s work, providing exciting opportunities for development. Training will be made available for the successful candidate, to enable them to specialise as an advisor for people with asbestos-related disease. If appointed, an enhanced DBS check will be required prior to employment commencing.

We want you to ask yourself…

• Am I an enthusiastic individual with, patience and empathy for others; someone who can take a holistic approach to a client’s circumstances, and signpost or refer to other relevant organisations and agencies for matters when necessary?

• Can I work independently, and as part of a team at a fast pace, whilst remaining calm, professional, and dedicated to helping clients?

• Do I have experience working with individuals, to maximise their income through welfare benefits, possibly by delivering advice within the voluntary sector?

• Am I keen to travel throughout the East of Scotland, visiting new places and getting to meet new people?

Do you have a good understanding of how the housing emergency is affecting people in Scotland and experience of working with people who are experts through their lived experience of homelessness or bad housing? Then join Shelter Scotland as a Lived Experience Coordinator and you could soon be playing a vital role in helping us to deliver our strategic plan.

About Shelter Scotland

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet over a million people in Scotland struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter Scotland we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter Scotland and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the role

As a Lived Experience Coordinator, you’ll be key in providing the lived experience evidence needed to deliver the objectives in our strategic plan. Building on the learning from our recent Time for Change work, we’ll rely on you to ensure that lived experience is at the heart of all our work. You’ll also be responsible for seeing that our approach is consistent and underpins and supports the strategy and that our Lived Experience work better represents the diverse range of people affected by the housing crisis in Scotland. In short, you’ll make sure that every interaction, every real story, every breach and every event counts in our fight for people’s right to a home.

About you

To succeed, you’ll need relevant experience that includes having developed a plan for service activity or experience of service design. You’ll also need to be used to working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and the communication skills to present information and arguments in a clear and compelling way. The ability to listen to, engage and empower individuals is essential too, as is a flair for solving problems creatively and enthusiasm for delivering workshops and presentations. Comfortable collaborating with people from other teams, you have a flexible approach, plus great time management skills when tackling a range of tasks with varied responsibilities. Last but not least, you’re proficient using Microsoft Word, Excel, e-mail and internet.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter Scotland please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Do you have strong administrative and office IT skills, plus proven experience of experience of planning and coordinating events logistics across a whole event’s lifecycle, including providing on-the-ground event support? Then join Shelter as a Corporate Volunteering Administrator and you could soon be playing a vital support role within our Corporate Volunteering team.

About Shelter

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team

Part of our Equity, Inclusion & Culture Directorate, the Volunteering team is passionate about the positive impacts of volunteering for both individuals and organisations. Collaborative and supportive, we believe that volunteers are a vital part of our growing movement for change. Corporate Volunteering is key to helping us win and maintain high value partnerships. We have successfully developed and extended long-term, sector-leading partnerships with companies including HSBC UK, B&Q, M&S and Network Rail across England and Scotland. And, in 2022, around 300 corporate volunteers contributed 1,000 hours as part of our fight against the housing emergency.

About the role

We are delighted to introduce this brand-new role, which will be integral in supporting the growth of corporate volunteering due to significant new partnerships, by providing general administrative support across the Corporate Volunteering Team. Among your challenges will be the need to co-ordinate the operational elements of corporate volunteering, including supporting the delivery of a range of corporate volunteering opportunities such as shop challenges, pop-up shops, mentoring, home makeovers and skill-sharing workshops. This will also involve coordinating the end-to-end delivery of volunteering activities, working with colleagues to plan and organise volunteering opportunities, setting up the volunteering database to manage volunteering activities, liaising with corporate volunteers to sign them up to opportunities and creating and delivering briefings to volunteers. In short you won’t be short of interest and variety.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About you

Strong administration skills, excellent attention to detail and great people skills are essential to this role. We welcome applications from people who have not worked in the world of volunteering previously, as we’re happy to support your learning in this area. Comfortable taking ownership of processes and confident in your ability to introduce new ideas, methods or processes, you have great project coordination skills and work well in a fast-paced environment where handling multiple demands, planning ahead and prioritising your workload is key. A proactive approach, lots of initiative and a flair for applying logic and creativity to problem solving are all important too. So are excellent customer service and relationship building skills and the ability to drive communication to ensure timely delivery. Proficiency using Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel, SharePoint, Outlook is also required, together as is experience of using a database.

We understand that job security is a top concern for many people when considering their next career move. That's why we want to make sure that you know the full extent of the benefits that come with this fixed-term contract.

Although the contract offered currently has a set end date, we are committed to providing our employees with the same level of support and benefits that we offer our permanent staff. This includes access to training and development opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits package, and a supportive and inclusive work environment. Furthermore, you would be eligible for internal redeployment opportunities should the contract not be extended beyond its end date.

In fact, we are proud to say that our fixed-term employees often take advantage of the opportunity to gain valuable experience and build their skills in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. We are committed to helping our team members succeed and grow, and we believe that this commitment extends to all of our employees, regardless of their length of tenure.

So, if you're looking for a role that offers the benefits and support of a permanent position, along with the excitement and opportunity of a fixed-term contract, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Are you passionate about creating excellent volunteer experiences? Are you looking to use your skills in volunteer communication, training and engagement to make a difference? Then join Shelter as a Corporate Volunteering Experience Officer and you could soon be playing a vital role within our Corporate Volunteering team.

About Shelter

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team

Part of our Equity, Inclusion & Culture Directorate, the Volunteering team is passionate about the positive impacts of volunteering for both individuals and organisations. Collaborative and supportive, we believe that volunteers are a vital part of our growing movement for change. Right now, we’re busy building a new Corporate Volunteering Team that sits within the wider Volunteering Team. We work closely with our High Value Partnerships team, which is responsible for generating income through partnerships with corporate organisations. Successes to date include developing and extending long-term, sector-leading partnerships with companies including HSBC UK, B&Q, M&S and Network Rail across England and Scotland. This is your opportunity to be part of our future success.

About the role

As a Corporate Volunteering Experience Officer, you’ll be instrumental in ensuring a quality corporate volunteering experience that equips volunteers and connects them with our cause. Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for cohesively managing corporate volunteering journeys so that each volunteer is enabled to deliver. Indeed, we’ll rely on you to manage all resources and communications that directly support the corporate volunteer experience, including training delivery. That will involve managing a planned approach to updating and improving resources, as well as developing new resources and methods of engaging with volunteers. And, with an exciting expansion of our partnership with HSBC accompanied by ambitious volunteer engagement plans, you’ll be key to putting a training programme in place for HSBC volunteers too. Supporting an innovative volunteer mentoring offer, managing the recruitment, onboarding and ongoing support of volunteer mentors and developing and expanding mentoring opportunities – all are part of this exciting new role.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About you

To succeed, you’ll need a background in supporting the implementation of best practice approaches to volunteering, particularly in volunteer induction, engagement, communication and learning and development. You’ll also need experience of designing and developing learning content, planning and delivering presentations and facilitating training and workshops. Confident and creative using a range of communication methods, you’re used to using the written word to engage audiences across different comms platforms too. What’s more, you have a proven ability to plan and coordinate projects and prioritise your workload, plus an innovative, solutions-focussed approach. You’re also comfortable working both on your own initiative and collaboratively and have the proficiency using Microsoft Office applications it takes to create engaging resources.

We understand that job security is a top concern for many people when considering their next career move. That's why we want to make sure that you know the full extent of the benefits that come with this fixed-term contract.

Although the contract offered currently has a set end date, we are committed to providing our employees with the same level of support and benefits that we offer our permanent staff. This includes access to training and development opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits package, and a supportive and inclusive work environment. Furthermore, you would be eligible for internal redeployment opportunities should the contract not be extended beyond its end date.

In fact, we are proud to say that our fixed-term employees often take advantage of the opportunity to gain valuable experience and build their skills in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. We are committed to helping our team members succeed and grow, and we believe that this commitment extends to all of our employees, regardless of their length of tenure.

So, if you're looking for a role that offers the benefits and support of a permanent position, along with the excitement and opportunity of a fixed-term contract, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Are you confident, outgoing and passionate about developing young people to find work, apprenticeships or college in a sector of their choice?

Helm’s long-term vision is a Scotland where all young people dare to dream and can make those dreams a reality. Our more immediate mission is to ensure that young people in Scotland have access to the education and training that supports them to learn. Our strategy for achieving this focuses on three key activities, which we believe, will make education, training and employment accessible and achievable for all:

• Give Young People a Voice
• Remove to Learning and Employment
• Develop Education, Training and Employment Services

Benefits

As a Helm employee you will enjoy job satisfaction with a real opportunity to make a difference every day, plus a fantastic range of benefits including:

• A competitive salary
• Ongoing investment in your personal development with access to internal and external training
• Annual leave entitlement of 35 days per year
• Promotion of work-life balance and a flexi-time system
• Pension plan
• Being part of a health plan which includes wellbeing services offering support and confidential advice when you most need it including counselling
• Cheaper rates for car repairs at our training garage
• Free use of onsite gym
• Subsidised lunches
• Cycle to Work Scheme

About the role

Helm are currently looking for a dynamic individual who can engage with students in creative and innovative ways. The successful candidate will work in a team with young people who are not in education, employment or training to enable them to make a great transition into adult life.

We welcome applications from a wide range of backgrounds. Experience of working with young people would be an advantage along with a background in training, recruitment or business.

Key responsibilities in the role include:

• Develop relationships with young people, identify their interests and support them in exploring the next steps
• Matching young people with work experience placement employers
• Support businesses and the young people during placement to maximise success for both
• Develop new relationships with businesses in our community to extend work placement opportunities
• Maintain overall awareness of students’ progress and monthly targets and work to ensure targets are met
• Accurately and in a timely manner carry out all required administration to ensure compliance with our contractors is fulfilled.

We are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all young people and use a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG Scheme checks to ensure this commitment is not compromised.

Our DAYS Service supports all young people of any gender aged between 8 and 18 who live in Dundee or Angus and have experienced any type of sexual abuse.

We take a flexible approach to planning support to best meet the needs of the young person, this can be school, home, community or at our office. We offer a variety of support for young people and are led by the individual.

1:1 Support - We offer emotional support to survivors. Each session is a safe and confidential space for survivors to process the trauma they have experienced at their own pace. We do this by using a range of therapeutic interventions and tools which are survivor centred.

Group work support - We various creative groups and peer support groups all of which aims to reduce isolation and extend social circles. The aim of these are to build survivors support networks and build survivors confidence, reducing isolation and feelings of blame and shame.

Family and Friends -We can also provide support to family, friends, partners and agency workers to help them understand the impact of sexual violence and cope with their feelings whilst supporting a survivor.

We are looking to recruit a Women's Hub Support and Trauma Worker (25 hours per week) The ideal candidate will have significant experience in providing support to people using trauma informed support skills and have a sound knowledge of the impact of rape, sexual abuse and exploitation on survivors.

We offer a competitive salary, excellent terms and conditions and the opportunity to gain invaluable skills and experience.

Dundee Women’s Hub is a newly developed multi-agency support hub for women impacted by substance use, as well as multiple disadvantages that women face alongside this such as gender-based violence, housing issues, benefits and debt, health and wellbeing, relationships with children and family, and extensive experiences of historical and ongoing trauma. The Hub will improve access to substance use and related services for women with the overall goal of improving physical and emotional wellbeing for women and supporting to empower women to make informed choices.

Ritual Abuse Network Scotland (R.A.N.S.) are recruiting a Part-time Volunteer Development Worker. You will develop volunteering within the organisation and recruit, train and support volunteers. Flexible hours and some evening and weekend work.

R.A.N.S. is a charity based in Dundee (SC033706) but working across Scotland and the UK which provides confidential support and information to survivors of ritual and organised abuse. This charity is survivor led, works to raise awareness about ritual and organised abuse and its effects on survivors, provides research, training and consultancy and works in close partnerships with other survivor organisations.