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The Prince's Trust is a youth charity whose mission is to help young people transform their lives by developing the confidence and skills, to live, learn and earn. This year we will support more than 70,000 young people through a range of proven programmes, with three in four achieving a positive outcome.

We have a bold ambition to extend the reach and impact of our work and help one million more young people transform their lives over the next ten years. Our job is to inspire them, support them and release their potential, so that they can thrive and society can prosper. We will focus on innovation, to ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly changing world. We owe it to ourselves and the young people we serve, to do the best work of our lives and to help give them an increasing stake in our economy and society. They are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.

To help us realise our vision, we are changing our approach and looking at innovative ways to develop and enhance our ways of working. This has led to the creation of exciting new opportunities across The Prince’s Trust at all levels based throughout the United Kingdom.

We are looking for three Prince’s Trust Executives based in our Dundee office. As a Prince’s Trust Executive you will work directly with young people, volunteers and partners to deliver programmes and activities to support and encourage young people to live, learn and earn. We are looking for individuals who engage in challenges with optimism and resilience, who are adaptive and flexible, ready to embrace change and innovation.

You will be a natural and effective communicator, passionate about delivering excellent customer service and making the right decision for young people. Working as part of a team within a defined geographical area, you will work with clear objectives to 'connect', 'progress' and help 'transform' the lives of young people who need us most.

This role will be multi-disciplined and will involve you working across many of our programmes and we would welcome applicants with a diverse skill set which could include Education, Youth Work, Outdoor Education, Business and Enterprise.

As a charity that truly values its employees, we offer an excellent package of staff benefits. These range from generous leave entitlements, to contributory pension and health benefits. We also offer great learning and development opportunities.

This is an exciting time to join Caledonia Housing Association.

As one of Scotland’s leading providers of high quality affordable homes for people in housing need and an award winning registered charity, we have launched our ambitious programme of business transformation called Customer 1st.

Our vision, ethos and purpose will ensure that Caledonia puts the needs and requirements of our customers first whilst providing homes and services that make life better, by delivering flexible customer focussed services from a skilled, engaged and continuously developing workforce.

The HR team has been transformed and restructured to create a new People Directorate, which reflects our recognition that the employee experience is key to a continuously improving customer experience.

This new and exciting role provides the opportunity to develop our workforce and help shape a new organisational culture.

As part of a multi-disciplined People and HR team, you will be involved in learning and development, supporting and coaching managers, employee engagement, change management, behavioural change and performance management.

As we continue to develop an agile and collaborative working environment, you will also support our HR Officers in providing generalist HR advice, information and support.

Do you embrace change?

Are you committed to excellence and continued improvement?

Do you see challenge as an opportunity to grow?

Do you deliver results?

Have you experience in organisational development and cultural change?

If so, we’d like to hear from you!

FareShare is the UK’s largest charity fighting hunger and food waste. Through their redistribution centres in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh they redistribute surplus food to frontline charities and community groups.

Transform Community Development runs the Dundee FareShare operation from our depot which covers Tayside & Fife.

FareShare has received funding from Scottish Government to enable the redistribution of sanitary products to vulnerable women and girls and low-income households across the country. By using FareShare’s network of community food members (CFMs) it is expected that this will go some way to reducing the anxiety experienced by those who struggle to find the money to buy these essential items.

We know that to effectively increase access to sanitary products for women experiencing poverty and exclusion, the availability needs to be accompanied by community development work. This will help break down barriers, address stigma and embarrassment, and reach out to community groups giving them the tools to address period poverty as well as the training to increase their confidence and awareness of the issues.

Our experience is that simply making sanitary products available is not enough to convince all organisations and community workers to get involved in being part of the solution.

This new post will take the lead on: developing the redistribution model, working with existing CFMs, engaging other community groups, and providing training.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Main duties:

• Work with FareShare staff to manage the ordering and distribution of sanitary products to local charities (FareShare will manage the procurement and supply).
• Engage with target communities (CFMs and other groups), to encourage their involvement in the project and identify the needs of the women they work with.
• Reach out to target women and girls, and work with partners in the community to make the products available in easy, dignified, and reliable ways.
• Work alongside FareShare’s national education officer to provide a coordinated approach to providing education and training to CFMs, other community groups, and outreach workers.
• Deliver training and education sessions - including the promotion of reusable/recyclable products to encourage more sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions.

Dundee Voluntary Action is a leading, trusted and flourishing organisation, working to make a difference to lives of people and communities in the city. Our expanding Mental Health Engagement and Involvement Team has the following vacancy for highly motivated and talented individual who is passionate about involving people in shaping the issues that impact their lives. The team works to ensure that people with lived experience of mental health challenges and third sector organisations working with them are actively involved in making Dundee a City of Recovery.

You will provide leadership, support, and line-management to staff, overseeing development, delivery, and monitoring of the team plan. In partnership with voluntary and statutory sector partners, and with communities, you will develop and maintain strategic connections with local communities and with crosscutting areas of work including suicide prevention and substance misuse.

DVA is an admitted body to the Tayside Pension Fund and we enrol staff automatically.

Dundee Voluntary Action is a leading, trusted and flourishing organisation, working to make a difference to lives of people and communities in the city. Our expanding Mental Health Engagement and Involvement Team has the following vacancy for highly motivated and talented individual who is passionate about involving people in shaping the issues that impact their lives. The team works to ensure that people with lived experience of mental health challenges and third sector organisations working with them are actively involved in making Dundee a City of Recovery.

Building on our successful partnership work in Making Recovery Real in Dundee, you will build capacity for increasing peer recovery practice in mental health and wellbeing. This will include developing and supporting Dundee Peer Recovery Network, responsibilities for training and development, and collaborating with others to create and sustain informal, volunteering, and paid peer recovery roles in mental health and wellbeing.

DVA is an admitted body to the Tayside Pension Fund and we enrol staff automatically.

Dundee Women’s Aid aims to provide the best possible service to the women, children and young people we work with. We believe that service users have the right to live a life free from abuse or harm and are committed to providing services that empower service users. Our Protecting Vulnerable Adults Policy defines Dundee Women’s Aid’s commitment to safeguarding vulnerable adults who use Dundee Women’s Aid’s service.

Purpose of the post

• To work as part of the Women’s Support (WS) team to support and empower women who have experience of domestic abuse. In doing so, providing a quality service that meets legal requirements and DWA standards, policies and guidelines.
• To promote the work of DWA in the local and wider community and work in partnership with others to develop services and provide support within the community.
• To work with a wide range of women who may have complex needs
• To participate as part of the team in the on-going development of services to abused women whether in refuge, re-housed from refuge or through the outreach service.

Key Responsibilities

1. Direct Services to Women

• Provide emotional, practical support and information to women as required. This could be on a one-to one basis, and/or in group setting.
• Support and empower women as appropriate and as determined by a person centred assessments and support plan, with a particular focus on domestic abuse. To support women in managing their safety through development of safety plans and liaising with police and other relevant agencies.
• Admit women and children (if any) to refuge OR support them to access alternative accommodation as required
• Ensure women accessing the services receive appropriate and accurate information including advice about their rights, in particular their various housing options.
• Liaise and advocate on behalf of service users with external agencies. This may involve accompanying women to appointments and referral to onto other appropriate agencies
• To deliver and support the delivery of our group work programmes, including the Freedom programme
• Encourage good relationships between mother and child(ren) and be aware of child protection issues
• To keep up to date with changes in legislation and working practices and ensure Health & Social Care Standards and SSSC requirements are met at all times
• Ensure, in conjunction with the Facilities Manager, that refuges are maintained to a high standard
• Attend multi agency meetings, as appropriate, for the purposes of protecting and advocating on behalf of service users.

2. Promoting the Work of DWA

• Help raise awareness of domestic abuse within the local and wider community
• Help develop positive working relationships with key partner agencies and stakeholders in pursuance of WS objectives
• Support the promotion of DWA’s public and media profile
• Attend appropriate meetings and events on behalf of DWA
• Liaise and work in partnership with education, health, housing professionals, other voluntary and statutory agencies who could share knowledge and resources
• Work in partnership with Scottish Women’s Aid and the wider Women’s Aid to share and develop good practice

3. Internal

• Work in accordance with: Dundee Women’s Aid standards, policies, procedures and guidelines; requirements of funders; Health & Social Care Standards, Child Protection and other relevant legislation.
• To encourage and support service users in participating in events and opportunities to help the shaping of our service, including through monitoring and evaluation and service user focus groups.
• Assist with the development, monitoring and evaluation of the services to women in refuge, follow on and outreach
• Perform administrative tasks timeously to ensure a seamless service
• Ensure quantitative and qualitative information on support and related issues is completed regularly.

4. Working Approach

• Work collaboratively and assist , as appropriate, other DWA workers this includes regularly attending team/other relevant meetings and keeping colleagues up-to-date on relevant work issues
• Support the CEO and Directors in creating a positive, supportive and participatory working environment which fulfils the aims and objectives of DWA
• Reflect on practice to ensure delivery of a professional service and positive learning experience
• Support the CEO and Directors in creating a continuously improving organisation focussed on service users and service user involvement
• Take a proactive role in promoting equality and anti-discriminatory practice throughout all aspects of the work.
• It is a requirement of the post holder to hold a full driving licence and have access to a vehicle with insurance cover for business use. Please note, applicants who do not meet this criteria will not be shortlisted.

This post requires a PVG scheme record check for both types of regulated work – work with children and work with protected adults.

This job description cannot cover every issue or task that may arise within the scope of the post. The post-holder will be expected to carry out other duties from time to time which are broadly consistent with the duties as detailed above.

Women only need apply under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010. The successful candidate will be required to join the PVG scheme. Dundee Women’s Aid positively welcomes applications from women within all sections of the community.

We have live vacancies across various locations in Scotland. And they’ll be a steady flow of new vacancies released over the coming months. Please search for a job in your postcode by clicking apply, and if there’s not a job near you right now then remember to sign up for alerts and we’ll notify you when we have one in your community.

We’re looking for member pioneers to join Co-op, in communities across the country. In this unique role you’ll be focused on bringing people together to make a difference in your community. That means talking to Co-op members, colleagues in stores and funeral homes, and representatives of the many local causes we support. By building relationships with and connecting these people you’ll be the catalyst for new ideas, initiatives and projects that will make our communities better places to live.

We plan to have a member pioneer dedicated to each of our communities and you’ll be a part of this ambitious plan for a better future. Everything you do will contribute to our community plan, making sure we make the biggest impact possible across the UK by increasing community co-operation. It’s an opportunity to make a visible difference where you live, supported by an organisation with nearly 70,000 colleagues.

What you’ll do:

• develop an action plan to improve community wellbeing, aligned to key themes
• establish and run a local community forum, or make connections with one that already exists
• build a strong group of contacts locally, making use of social media platforms to help with listening to and getting involved in community conversation
• get activities off the ground and encourage lots of involvement from members in your community
• prioritise your time, making your hours count and focusing on opportunities to make the biggest difference

This role would suit someone who:

• has lots of enthusiasm with the ability to get things moving
• is interested in all things community focussed
• can inspire and motivate people through their communication style
• loves working with and connecting people
• can prioritise their time and remain focussed on a long term goal
• is confident using social media
• has good basic IT skills (ideally with experience using collaborative tools like the Google suite or Skype)
• is both committed and dedicated
• lives within or very close to the community you’ll support, detailed above

Why Co-op?

As a member pioneer you’ll have the chance to support local communities, making a visible difference by encouraging people to work together. As a Co-op colleague you’ll also receive a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits including:

• 24 days holiday (rising to 30 with service)
• discounts on all kinds of Co-op products and services
• a pension with up to 10% employer contributions

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We want to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make adjustments to the interview process according to your needs. And we offer a flexible working environment so you can adjust your hours to suit your personal circumstances. You can find out more about Co-op people policies at coop.co.uk/peoplepolicies.

As part of your application you’ll need to complete an online assessment. It will take you around 12 minutes to complete this test.

Dundee Voluntary Action is a leading, trusted and flourishing organisation, working to make a difference to lives of people and communities in the city. Our expanding Mental Health Engagement and Involvement Team has the following vacancy for highly motivated and talented individual who is passionate about involving people in shaping the issues that impact their lives. The team works to ensure that people with lived experience of mental health challenges and third sector organisations working with them are actively involved in making Dundee a City of Recovery.

You will promote the active involvement of people who have experience of mental health conditions in the planning, development and evaluation of services by developing reference groups/panels and undertaking outreach work in local communities. You will involve network members to play an active role in the delivery of drop in sessions.

DVA is an admitted body to the Tayside Pension Fund and we enrol staff automatically.

Join my team of 5 staff helping me access my course at Dundee University. I'm studying English with creative writing starting in September this year and my interests include cooking and listening to and performing music.

I need assistance with all physical tasks, including personal care, and offer a fixed term contract from September 2019 till June 2020 with a potential extension into the following academic year.

I offer competitive pay rates and 5.6 weeks holiday pro rata plus full training in moving and handling and all aspects of my care. This position would suit a young woman with an open outlook on life.

The Association leads the field in the delivery of self-management training for people who are burdened with chronic pain.

We are seeking a self-starter with outstanding group work facilitation and people skills, to deliver our service on either a full or part-time basis to cover groups throughout Scotland in accordance with Health Board Service Level Agreements. A car owner is therefore essential for travel anywhere in the country.