The Dundee Services Manager role holds overall responsibility for the delivery of OPFS Services in the Dundee area. The role will contribute to the organisation’s vision of a Scotland in which single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly by leading, managing and coordinating the various components of our Dundee provision.

The role holder will be responsible for management of the Dundee Support for Families staff to enable them to offer a consistent level of effective support to single parents and their children and to meeting funding obligations. This role holds responsibility for the relevant staff and budgets; for representing the work of OPFS to external agencies, and for developing new areas of work, and funding for these, in conjunction with the OPFS Senior Team.

All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support services that enable them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children.

OPFS Dundee Support for Families Service

Our Dundee based service provides a range of support for single parents and their families, which currently includes:

• Family Support: assisting families with everyday situations and through more complex and difficult times
• Mental Health & Wellbeing: advice and practical support around looking after yourself and your family and therapeutic support, including the provision of counselling
• Employability: specialised and comprehensive support for single parents to support progression and wrap around support for additional barriers

The role holder will be responsible for management of the Dundee Support for Families staff to enable them to offer a consistent level of effective support to single parents and their children and to meeting funding obligations. This role holds responsibility for the relevant staff and budgets; for representing the work of OPFS to external agencies, and for developing new areas of work, and funding for these, in conjunction with the OPFS Senior Team.

All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support services that enable them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children.

OPFS Dundee Support for Families Service

Our Dundee based service provides a range of support for single parents and their families, which currently includes:

• Family Support: assisting families with everyday situations and through more complex and difficult times
• Mental Health & Wellbeing: advice and practical support around looking after yourself and your family and therapeutic support, including the provision of counselling
• Employability: specialised and comprehensive support for single parents to support progression and wrap around support for additional barriers

Main duties include:

Responsible for the management, day-to-day running, and adequate resourcing of OPFS Dundee service. This includes:

• Working as a member of the Leadership team to support the development and implementation of the strategic and annual operational plans.
• Leading, directing and managing our well-established Dundee Support for Families Service to ensure that single parents have the opportunity and support to make choices that enable them to lead a full life and promote wellbeing and that their rights are at the heart of all service developments and improvements.
• Responsibilities for the performance and development of the Dundee Support for Families service.
• Working with service users, external partners and providers and be responsible for all aspects of the specialist services provided, ensuring positive outcomes for single parent families.
• Contributing to development of service provision regionally and nationally, including leading on a specific thematic issue for single parents.
• Leading on funding applications for the service, working with, and supported by, OPFS Business Development team, managing budgets and reporting back to funders.
• Managing the Dundee service income and expenditure in line with annual budgets and liaising with the OPFS Finance Manager on preparation of budgets.
• Working closely with OPFS Comms team, developing digital channels and the marketing and promotion strategy for the service.
• Establishing and maintaining effective liaison with relevant statutory and voluntary agencies, including developing partnership initiatives.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues in Support for Families to ensure OPFS provision nationally is cohesive, high quality and effective.
• Representing the work of OPFS to external agencies and developing new areas of work.

Any other relevant duties as requested by the Directorate or the Board.

About the Role

Blackwood are on the lookout for a full-time Digital Skills Coach to join our Innovation Team in the North of Scotland on a fixed-term basis. This role will be working from Dundee to Aberdeen, Inverness & beyond. Our Digital Skills Coaches:

• Support our customers on their digital inclusion journey
• Support the embedding of CleverCogs™ across the organisation
• Develop and deliver our digital learning programme to our customers

This role will work closely with the Innovation Delivery Manager, the Learning & Development team and the Blackwood Neighbourhoods for Independent Living team to engage with Blackwood customers to champion the benefits of digital technology. Our Digital Skills Coaches create a legacy for digital inclusion by upskilling our customers to allow them to become more socially connected and less isolated. Our customers will have broadened their personal capacity through learning and with the use of CleverCogs™, you will help us to advance our “digital by default” agenda. The successful candidate will possess excellent customer service skills and will be able to deliver training both remotely and face-to-face either on a one to one basis or in groups. You will undertake training needs analysis will help to co-design training delivery plans. We are looking for someone who will be able to help develop and design training materials and digital content and will support our customers to become comfortable with technology and equipment.

Blackwood Neighbourhoods for Independent Living

As part of a ground-breaking £12.5 million Government funded project, Blackwood is seeking to create neighbourhoods that support people as they age so they can live five more healthy, active years.

Working with partners and co-designing with the local community, these neighbourhoods will combine technology, design, products and services in a physical and digital environment.

About you

You will be able to create a positive, supportive and accessible environment that fosters a desire to learn. You will have confidence in engaging with people at different levels and if invited to interview, you will be able to demonstrate your passion for providing first-class digital skills training to help us to drive high customer satisfaction and digital inclusion.

Experience in installing equipment such as PC’s, tablets, alarms and mobile devices is essential as well as being a proficient user of IT packages, software and applications.

Our employee benefits

• Company sick pay scheme on completion of probationary period
• 34 days’ holiday per annum, pro rata for part-time hours
• Access to Health and Wellbeing resources such as 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and in-house Mental Health First Aiders
• Opportunity to participate in internal support networks such as employee engagement, wellbeing and digital forums
• Company pension scheme and other benefits such as Death in Service
• EE Perks package – 20% off selected EE products for Blackwood employees and family & friends

Covid-19 measures

The wellbeing of our teams is paramount to us and we continue to support our teams by following all government guidelines and advice from health and regulatory bodies. We have designed specialised training to ensure our teams feel safe and confident which includes Covid-19 e-Learning module for all employees, PPE & Infection Control resources and Infection Control eLearning for all our people who work within our care services.

We ask that all applicants read the Job Pack available on the careers page of our website. Blackwood are committed to diversity and inclusion and as an accredited Disability Confident Employer, we will interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the post.

Interviews are likely to take place online due to current social distancing guidelines; arrangements will be confirmed with shortlisted candidates.

Note to interested applicants

In accordance with the new immigration rules, employers must hold a licence of sponsorship to recruit all overseas candidates who do not have the right to work in the UK. It is with regret that this role does not meet the current suitability requirements set by the UKVI to enable sponsorship of migrant workers. Therefore, we cannot progress applications from candidates who require sponsorship to work in the UK.

Blackwood Neighbourhoods for Independent Living

We have a new, exciting opportunity for a Workstream Lead -Design for Age Friendly Homes to join our Blackwood Neighbourhoods for Independent Living team. This newly created, key role supports the successful delivery of a new ground-breaking and unique project.

As part of a ground-breaking £12.5 million government funded project, Blackwood is seeking to create neighbourhoods that support people as they age so they can live five more healthy, active years.

Working with partners and co-designing with the local community, these neighbourhoods will combine technology, designing, products and services in a physical and digital environment.

The overall programme will operate across three demonstrator neighbourhoods in Scotland, with industry and academic partners. It addresses five themes:

• Sustaining Physical Activity
• Designing Age-Friendly Homes
• Managing the Common Complaints of Ageing
• Creating Healthy and Active Places
• Supporting Social Connections

The successful applicant will take a leading role in building on the existing Blackwood Design Guide which will create a new design standard for accessible new-build homes maximising independent living in Phase 1 of the project and create a new standard for the adaptations, retrofit, and improvement of existing homes maximising independent living in phase 2.

More specifically this role leads in the co-design (working closely with an expert team along with people in the neighbourhoods) of creating homes that are affordable, accessible, beautiful and connected and place-based healthy ageing solutions including parks, outside gyms, urban health and wellbeing courses and facilities that will help deliver 5 more healthy productive years for the people in the demonstrator neighbourhoods. This role has 2 direct reports, and reports into our Programme Lead. Regular travel between neighbourhoods and occasionally our head office (Edinburgh) will be expected.

Can you bring this to Blackwood…?

• Experience of delivering on a theme within a project at lead level?
• Experience of designing homes and living spaces to meet a range of needs?
• Experience of managing an expert team?
• A passion for person-centred co-design and co-creation?
• Strong collaboration skills?
• An ability to create an inclusive environment that encourages participation and creativity, which is suitable for people of all ages and abilities including people with disabilities and reduced mobility?
• A flexible approach to ever changing needs as the project evolves?

If you are saying yes, then you might be the candidate we are looking for!

Educated to HND level or above, you are a confident, proficient and forward-thinking professional who builds networks, works collaboratively with partners, and embraces change and innovation.

Also, you can demonstrate competency, experience and success in the areas of Programme Design & Development, Programme Delivery and Budget Management required for this role.

Our Employee Benefits package

Our people are our greatest assets and we have been in awe of the fantastic work all our teams have continued to provide to our customers during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, we provide:

• Fully paid induction and personal development opportunities
• Company sick pay scheme on completion of probationary period
• 34 days’ holiday per annum, pro rata for part-time hours
• Company pension scheme and Death in Service Benefit
• Flexible and family-friendly policy and procedures
• Access to employee wellbeing support networks such as a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program, Mental Health First Aiders, Wellbeing Hub and employee engagement forum

Covid-19 measures

The wellbeing of our teams is paramount to us and we continue to support our teams by following all government guidelines and advice from health and regulatory bodies. We have designed specialised training to ensure our teams feel safe and confident which includes Covid-19 e-Learning module for all employees.

Guidance for applicants

In accordance with the new immigration rules, employers must hold a licence of sponsorship to recruit all overseas candidates who do not have the right to work in the UK. It is with regret that this role does not meet the current suitability requirements set by the UKVI to enable Created: April 2021

sponsorship of migrant workers. Therefore, we cannot progress applications from candidates who require sponsorship to work in the UK.

We ask that all applicants read the Job Pack before completing the application form, available on the Careers section of our website. Successful candidates will be required to obtain a Basic Disclosure Certificate.

Blackwood is committed to diversity and inclusion and as an accredited Disability Confident Employer, we will interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for the post.

Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people. Our mission is to secure a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people in Scotland and we currently have over 3000 Care Experienced members.

At the heart of Who Cares? Scotland’s work are the rights of Care Experienced children and young people, and the power of their voices to bring about positive change. We provide individual relationship-based independent advocacy and a broad range of imaginative participatory opportunity for Care Experienced young people across Scotland; we work alongside corporate parents and communities of all sorts to broaden understanding; we work with policy makers, leaders and elected representatives locally and nationally to shape law, policy and practice on the basis of all that can be learnt from the voices of those with experience of care - working together to build on the aspirations of The Promise and secure positive change.

Advocacy and Participation Workers work directly with children and young people with experience of care primarily in an individual advocacy role. This means we listen to what they say and support them to ensure their voices are truly heard regarding the decisions which are being made about their lives. We also facilitate a very broad range of participatory and engagement opportunities, and create the conditions for collective advocacy.

The right candidate therefor will be brilliant at forming positive relationships with children and young people. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, adaptable to a wide range of contexts. You will enjoy working collaboratively with partners, and will be committed to children’s rights, inclusive working, equal opportunities, and believe that all young people can make transformative change happen in their lives if given the opportunity.

The successful candidate will be joining Who Cares? Scotland and working within the North East team at an exciting time, when the voices of those who are in or have experienced care are growing in power, individually and collectively – bringing with them insight, challenge, hope and change.

Flexibility will be required given the remit of the role. Some evening and weekend work will be necessary, as will a full driving licence and access to transport.

If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you. For an informal conversation about this opportunity please call Nicki Matthew, our Advocacy and Participation Manager for the North East on 07764 145126.

Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity.

SAMH has represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for more than 90 years.

Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others. These services together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.

SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.

Chrysalis is a mental health service based in an award winning community garden in Dundee. In a beautiful outdoor setting we promote recovery from mental ill health through therapeutic horticulture including organic gardening, conservation and team working. There is a strong group work emphasis, staff work with the people attending our service to develop and maintain the garden, which is open to the public. Duties also include supporting our service users with their personal development plans.

We are seeking a creative, enthusiastic and practical individual to join our small team. Applicants should :

• Have experience in horticulture and of supporting people in an outdoor setting.
• be able to demonstrate good communication skills and a mature attitude together with adaptability, creativity and enthusiasm.
• have experience and a good understanding of working with mental health issues.

You will be required to work flexibly to suit the needs of the service including some occasional evening and weekend working.

Posts: 4 x Outreach Support Workers (2xResilience, 1xHearing Voices, 1xCUThru)

Reporting to:Service Manager

Support in Mind Scotland has a number of new exciting opportunities in its Tayside service for people who wish to support those with Mental Health needs. We are looking for caring empathic people who will be ready to help with compassion and understanding as well as humour and respect.

In these new roles, you will provide information, guidance and support to people in both one to one contact and groups. Personal Action Plansreflect individuals own goals and ambitions and take a recovery approach. Individual plans maximise income and consider other practical needs such as housing, employment, education and inclusion. We take a rights based approach to help empower and inform people, networking and advocating for them as necessary. Once a personal action plan is identified, the plan is delivered and reviewed within 6 months.

Together we want people to feel better about their mental as well as physical health, and as such feel connected and part of a local community where their voice matters.

Effective networking is at the heart of our service. You will work with colleagues and partners across the Tayside community to ensure people using our services needs are assessed and met.

Hearing Voices: Hearing Voices is an outreach service delivering one to one support, group sessions and remote support to people experiencing psychosis. Underpinned by a behavioural approach to the management of sensory disturbances and delivered within a model of peer support, this service enables individuals to shape their personal recovery. We place people we support at the centre of their own assessments and support packages where they identify their own goals to improve their circumstances and wellbeing and we support them to get the assistance they require within their community.

Resilience: Our proposed new Resilience Service will provide early information and support to people across Tayside who require assistance with their mental health needs. This early intervention and prevention model enabling access to joined-up services is a tested approach we currently deliver across Fife. The service will link people to a range of supports and providers across Tayside to identify needs early and together prevent unnecessary degeneration in someone’s mental health through promoting resilience and recovery.

CUThru: This post will engage with young people referred to Tayside’s Child and Mental Health Services (CAMHS) focussing on the Perth & Kinross area at this preliminary stage. SiMS wishes to promote its support to 16- to 24-year-olds and has been funded by the Perth & Kinross Mental Health Partnership to engage with young people to identify support and information they would like that would contribute to the following outcomes:

1. Young people have better physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
2. Young people have better connections with the wider community.
3. Young people get access to new skills and training opportunities that will help them to manage further education or get a job.

The service will build relations with CAMHS colleagues as well as supports and providers to enable young people to integrate into their local community and minimise the need for statutory or hospital-based services.

All services will benefit from use of Support in Mind Scotland’s National Information Service and Money Advice Service provided in conjunction with Mental Health UK.

Who are we looking for

The ideal candidates should be interested in people, have excellent social skills and a good sense of humour!

Support in Mind Scotland values lived experience and would welcome applications from people with this experience and experience supporting people with their mental health.

The successful candidate will work as part of an experienced supportive team and will receive induction and regular support and supervision to help them in their role.

The successful candidates may be educated to SVQ 3 level or have lived and work experience in mental health. They may have experience of personal planning, have some experience of assessments and some insight in the law with relation to Mental Health. Training and support will be available to successful applicants.

The successful candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme. A full driving license and access to a vehicle is highly beneficial to these roles.

We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and the charity and are a “Happy to Talk Flexible” employer. These posts are for 21 hours a week each, working days will be discussed and agreed with the Area Manager and can be adjusted for suitable candidates.

For an informal discussion, please contact:

• Sandra Young Service Manager Mob: 07342038181 (All posts including CUThru)
• Debbie Wickens, Outreach Support Worker, Tayside Hearing Voices. Mob: 07597 576 000
• Moira Duncan, Outreach Support Worker, Resilience. Mob: 01592 268388
• Or email Steve Urquhart, Area Manager Tayside and Fife at SUquhart@supportinmindscotland.org.uk

If you are passionate about enabling Support in Mind Scotland to deliver a valuable service to the Scottish community, and feel your profile matches these role’s criteria, then we want to hear from you!

Why join us

This is a great opportunity to join a thriving charity and help shape its future. In return for your work, passion and dedication, we offer scope for development, a benefit package including 37 days’ holiday, enhanced sick pay, season ticket loan, regular support & supervision and access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

Support in Mind Scotland provides support throughout Scotland and offers a range of services to people directly affected by a mental health issue and to those who care for them, whether family, friend or supporter.

We are committed to delivering services shaped by the lived experienced of people affected by mental health. We believe in a holistic approach to providing support and aim to empower our service user to make the best use of what help and support is available to them.

Social Security Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government. In Scotland we have a number of devolved benefits, and it’s our responsibility to ensure that they are managed correctly and fairly, delivering those benefits to the 1.4 million people who rely on them.

Dignity, fairness and respect are at the core of everything we do. We demonstrate these values by making our work as transparent and accountable as possible.

We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the clients we serve. Our benefits will help people from all walks of life in Scotland and it is crucial our workforce reflects this diversity.

We aim to develop within Social Security Scotland, a positive and inclusive culture, which supports our people to flourish, by embedding a working environment where we all treat each other with dignity and respect, and recognise each other’s contributions.

Colleagues of Social Security Scotland work in a diverse, supportive environment. In certain roles staff use flexible working. We are happy to accept your application if you wish to work part-time. You will have a minimum 5 weeks of annual leave (pro rata) in addition to all public and privilege holidays. Roles within Scottish Government allow for a number of other benefits including great support from managers through monthly conversations and a strong mentoring scheme. All staff are given a workstation assessment so that we can make you as comfortable as possible in your new role by putting in place any reasonable adjustments you may require.

Main Duties

The Place Services branch has the responsibility to lead the accommodation, travel, and smarter working arrangements for the Agency. There are two operational teams one located at our headquarters in Dundee and other in Glasgow. A new business management unit is currently being developed to support these operational teams, and to provide leadership in the areas under the responsibility of the Service.

The post holder will report to the Senior Place Manager of the Management Unit of Place Services, and will directly manage a number of key business activities for the Service to support the Agency achieve it’s corporate objectives.

This management role focusses on the areas of finance, risk, and policy. The post holder will be heavily involved in help shape and deliver the short, medium, and long term accommodation, travel, and smarter working arrangements for the Agency.

The role will involve significant collaboration with colleagues in Place Services, and will also link with colleagues across the Agency. The post holder will be guided and supported in the role by Place Services management team.

Specific Duties

• Manage the overall budget for the Service, including liaising with Finance and Workforce Planning colleagues, overseeing the PECOS system, headcount control, and the monthly reporting process; this will involve working closely with colleagues in Place Services to ensure that they administrate their financial transactions properly, and in doing so, achieving best value.
• Manage the overall risk and audit processes for the Service, including liaising with divisional risk and audit colleagues, managing the local risk register, and coordinating risk control activity across the Service.
• Manage, develop, coordinate, and record policy and processes for the Service and Agency as it relates to accommodation, travel, and smarter working; this will involve working closely with Place Service Leads in Dundee and Glasgow.
• Manage and develop a process to record and manage Agency assets under the responsibility of Place Services; this will involve working closely with the Place Service Leads in Dundee and Glasgow.
• Monitor business activity across the Service and Agency, highlight any deviation from planned activity as it relates to accommodation, travel, and smarter working and make proactive recommendations.
• Support the Senior Place Manager complete annual, monthly, and emergent corporate task for the Service; this will involve working closely with Place Service Leads in Dundee and Glasgow.

Essential Criteria

1. Developed leadership skills with the ability to engage internal and external stakeholders to deliver consistent positive results.
2. Developed organisational skills with the ability to demonstrate initiative and prioritise a varying workload to meet targets and deadlines.
3. Developed verbal and written communication skills with the ability to produce complex strategic material that is concise, well-structured, and accurate; with both written and numerical content.
4. Ability to analyse and interpret project and financial information to be able to problem solve, develop solutions, and make recommendations.

This role will ensure the delivery of The Trussell Trust’s vision to end the need for food banks in the UK by developing an in depth understanding of Trussell Trust food banks in their area and using coaching to assist to build and hold productive relationships to:

• Develop and execute a strategic plan for reducing the need for food banks’ services locally.
• Work alongside local partners to increase public will for long-term solutions to end the need for food banks.
• Develop and manage strategic relationships with key stakeholders to assist evidenced-based policy change at a local level and feed into activity to drive policy and practice at UK wide and national levels.

This is a full-time, home-based role with frequent travel around the area of responsibility.