We’re looking for a passionate, organised, and forward-thinking individual to join our team in a brand-new role focused on growing Serendipities, our inclusive and climate-conscious catering enterprise. This is a dynamic role blending community engagement with social enterprise development.

In this role, you’ll help coordinate catering orders, run and attend pop-up markets, develop and deliver cooking courses for diverse groups, engage with local businesses, support our volunteers (individuals with additional support needs) to build kitchen and life skills, and market our unique services to new audiences including local businesses.

You’ll bring energy and vision, helping us take our Serendipities Enterprise to the next level by:

• Exploring new services, products, and events
• Supporting meaningful skill-building for our members
• Developing marketing strategies and engaging new customers
• Strengthening the link between our values and our enterprise

While food preparation (cooking/baking) and workshop delivery are part of the role, the focus is on people and enterprise development. You’ll need both empathy and entrepreneurial energy.

This role links to the launch of our upcoming wellbeing and recipe book (June 2025) and supports our longer-term vision to develop a Bakery and Cookery School. You’ll help lay the foundations for a more financially sustainable future that celebrates inclusion, creativity, and opportunity.

About Uppertunity & Serendipities

Uppertunity is a Dundee-based charity that empowers adults with additional support needs, learning disabilities, and who are neurodiverse to lead fuller, more meaningful lives. We create inclusive, supportive spaces that foster growth, wellbeing, and community connection.

Serendipities is our social enterprise catering service where individuals with additional support needs gain skills, confidence, and purpose through meaningful roles in cooking, baking, delivering, and serving.

Current and planned activities include:

• Mini Café: Based at Dudhope Castle, open Tuesday to Friday for tenants of the building and Uppertunity members.
• Catering Service: Providing hot and cold food, cakes, platters, all plant-based and climate-conscious.o
• Pop-Up Events: Including markets (e.g., The Yard Dundee, twice monthly) and supplying a local café.
• Mix It Upp: Our recipe and wellbeing book, launching June 2025, to be sold and used alongside workshops.
• Volunteering & Kitchen Skills: Daily (Tuesday–Friday) baking/cooking sessions where individuals gain hands-on skills and confidence. Volunteers also support pop-ups and occasional weekend catering (e.g., weddings).

Expansion Plans

We aim to launch a Bakery and Cookery School with a dedicated kitchen, offering more structured classes and inclusive enterprise opportunities. Next steps include:

• Running community-based pop-up cooking courses (4–12 week blocks)
• Topics may include: cooking basics, mood & food, cooking on a budget, reducing food waste, etc.
• Offering corporate packages such as "Work from Office Picnics"
• Increasing partnerships and building awareness of inclusive catering in local businesses

Accountability of post:Circle Project Manager – for day-to-day line management Supported by Regional Pod Manager for service delivery (this may be a manager from another organisation in the Partnership).

Purpose of post:Providing relational support to people throughout their journey from prison to the community.

MAIN TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To work with individual’s pre and post release from prison, working with the whole family to promote positive change and a safer lifestyle.
• To support parents/carers to develop their parenting capacity and relationships with their children.
• Work collaboratively with prison workers to support pre-release planning alongside individuals.
• Utilise appropriate tools for pre-release engagement (face-to-face contact; email a prisoner (EMAP) correspondence, contribution to multi-agency release planning meetings)
• Supporting on the day of release (meet at prison) responding flexibly to individual and immediate needs e.g. housing, health, benefits.
• To record, monitor and evaluate our work, including PULSE recording and complete partnership risk assessments.
• Promote multiagency working, with a wide-range of statutory and third-sector partners, through relevant and proportionate information sharing.
• Develop and promote partnership working with NVTP and key stakeholders.
• To attend supervision, team meetings, staff development days and in-house training sessions as appropriate
• To liaise with other agencies and work in partnership with them to meet the needs of the whole family.
• To contribute to the promotion and development of Circle’s work and services
• To work within Circle’s policies and procedures.
• To work to the key responsibilities outlined in the Partnership Role Descriptor

The above accountabilities and responsibilities are not exhaustive, and the job holder may be required to undertake additional duties that are consistent with the level and grading of the role. With consultation, amendments may be made to your job description from time to time in relation to our changing needs and your own ability.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• A professional qualification in social work, social care, education or health

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Experience of working with individuals and families who have experienced trauma
• Knowledge of a range of interventions for supporting individuals, children and families
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge of the GIRFEC approach and the related SHANARRI Indicators
• An understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities, anti-discriminatory practice and user participation

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively with children and adults
• Ability to support social work students on placement with Circle
• Ability to record, monitor and evaluate work
• Ability to plan and prioritise work
• Ability to effect change in families
• Ability to work within, and maintain, professional boundaries
• Good assessment skills

DON’T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description/person specification, we’d love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Circle team.

Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to support the ambitions of a rural community in Highland Perthshire?

Rannoch Community Trust supports the economic and social development of the area from Rannoch Station to Tummel Bridge. With a population of around 700, it is based in the spectacular, remote countryside of Highland Perthshire.

RCT’s voluntary Board of Trustees seeks to appoint a committed and capable individual to help make a step-change in their capacity to deliver great results for the Rannoch and Tummel community. Providing support to the Board, acting as the point of contact with funders and stakeholders and actively progressing a range of projects, this post has transformative potential.

In addition to supporting a range of volunteer-led services, the Trust is currently working on three significant projects

1. the establishment of a sustainable community social space – including The CornerStone - a restaurant/bar in a newly refurbished asset-transferred building in Kinloch Rannoch The Cornerstone
2. the establishment of a community-led care at home social enterprise to provide services to local people and
3. the development of affordable housing to meet local needs

Our Rannoch – Rannoch Community Trust

Candidates for the post of Business Development Manager are likely to have a background in charity and financial management or business development, have the ability to multi-task across a range of projects and have good experience of working in and for place-based communities. A track record in income generation, marketing and fundraising would be desirable.

The post holder will be required to explore and develop the potential for new initiatives both within and beyond existing projects. They will contribute significantly to strategic discussions and work closely with the Trustees. We are looking for a team player with great ideas, a practical hands on approach and strengths in communicating and building relationships.

This post is supported by funds from the Scottish Government’s Strengthening Communities Programme.

Job Title: Business Development Manager, Rannoch Community Trust

Hours & Salary: Terms and conditions, including hours and salary, will be determined in discussion with the successful candidate(s). The Full Time Equivalent salary will be in the range £32k to £35k pa for a working week of 37.5 hours. We would be pleased to consider applicants who wish to be considered for part of the role (ie. a part time job taking on agreed aspects of the role) and we have developed the job description accordingly to illustrate the different aspects of the role. We are realistic about the huge scope of the job description so if you think you meet some or most of the criteria, please get in touch or apply. Flexible hybrid working arrangements, including flexibility of work location, may be possible.

Contract: The post is currently Fixed Term for 3 years. This post is supported by funds from the Scottish Government’s Strengthening Communities Programme and funding will be reviewed annually.

The post holder will be an employee of RCT with annual leave and pension contributions. There is potential for the post to become permanent, subject to the success of the post holder in securing recuring core funding.

Start date: The successful candidate should ideally be able to start in the early summer of 2025.

Location:While aspects of the role may be deliverable remotely from any location, we are ideally seeking a candidate who is committed to and able to live in or near to Kinloch Rannoch. The establishment of strong community relationships will be important.

Launched in 1824, HMS Unicorn is the third oldest ship in the world still afloat and Scotland's only surviving wooden warship. Now an Accredited Museum in Dundee's City Quay, visitors can explore four decks that offer a unique glimpse into 19th century naval life.

Our mission is to deliver a world-class museum experience while safeguarding HMS Unicorn's future and making our collections accessible to all. We aim to inspire visitors and staff alike, providing lifelong learning and engagement opportunities for our local communities and beyond.

The Unicorn Preservation Society (UPS) has recently secured nearly £1 million from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to advance Project Safe Haven - our ambitious conservation initiative to relocate HMS Unicorn to Dundee's East Graving Dock. This critical move will ensure the long-term preservation of this irreplaceable maritime treasure while creating a purpose-built visitor centre that will transform Dundee's historic waterfront and enhance community engagement.

This role is made possible through National Lottery Heritage Fund support and represents an exciting opportunity to join our team at a pivotal moment in HMS Unicorn's 200-year history.

Main Purpose of Role

The Fundraising Administrator will provide comprehensive administrative support to the Fundraising & Communications team, ensuring the efficient operation of fundraising and communications activities. Reporting to the Fundraising & Communications Manager, this role will support the entire team, including the Senior Fundraising Officer, Fundraising & Events Officer, and Marketing & Communications Officer.

The postholder will maintain accurate donor records, assist with the administration of fundraising campaigns and events, support the production of fundraising materials, and help coordinate communications activities. They will be the first point of contact for many donor enquiries and will play a crucial role in ensuring excellent supporter stewardship through efficient administration and attention to detail.

As a key administrative support role within the team, the Fundraising Administrator will contribute significantly to HMS Unicorn's fundraising success during this transformative period in the organisation's history.

Launched in 1824, HMS Unicorn is the third oldest ship in the world still afloat and Scotland's only surviving wooden warship. Now an Accredited Museum in Dundee's City Quay, visitors can explore four decks that offer a unique glimpse into 19th century naval life.

Our mission is to deliver a world-class museum experience while safeguarding HMS Unicorn's future and making our collections accessible to all. We aim to inspire visitors and staff alike, providing lifelong learning and engagement opportunities for our local communities and beyond.

The Unicorn Preservation Society (UPS) has recently secured nearly £1 million from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to advance Project Safe Haven - our ambitious conservation initiative to relocate HMS Unicorn to Dundee's East Graving Dock. This critical move will ensure the long-term preservation of this irreplaceable maritime treasure while creating a purpose-built visitor centre that will transform Dundee's historic waterfront and enhance community engagement.

This role is made possible through National Lottery Heritage Fund support and represents an exciting opportunity to join our team at a pivotal moment in HMS Unicorn's 200-year history.

Main Purpose of Role

The Marketing & Communications Officer will play a vital role in raising the profile of HMS Unicorn and the Unicorn Preservation Society, with a primary focus on fundraising communications to secure HMS Unicorn's future. Sitting within the Fundraising & Communications team, this role will support the development and delivery of Project Safe Haven by enhancing our traditional media presence while growing our digital footprint across key platforms. The postholder will tell compelling stories about HMS Unicorn's heritage and future plans through press releases, articles, social media content, and promotional materials.

Working closely with the Senior Fundraising Officer and receiving support from the Chief Executive Officer, the Marketing & Communications Officer will chart the progress of Project Safe Haven and contribute significantly to the organisation's fundraising communications strategy. This role will help build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including media outlets, partners, and supporters, while ensuring consistent messaging across all communications channels to promote both UPS and Project Safe Haven effectively.

Are you an experienced in Payroll and on the lookout for the next step in your career or a fresh new challenge? We could have just the role you are looking for!

We have an exciting opportunity to join Cornerstone as our new Payroll Officer on a part-time (23.5 hours per week), permanent basis. It's a very exciting time to join our team as we implement our brand new HR & Payroll system.

This role can be based in either our Dundee, Glasgow or Aberdeen office, or part of our hybrid working model. If opting for hybrid, we would need you to live within a reasonable commute of Dundee, Glasgow or Aberdeen. There will be occasions that we'll need you to travel to other Cornerstone branch locations for meetings and training (travel expenses would be reimbursed as set out in Cornerstone’s expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation).

The Role

Reporting to our Depute Payroll Lead and working alongside your fellow Payroll Officers, you’ll be involved in the day-to-day activities of our payroll department, ensuring that payments to our colleagues are compliant, accurate and made in a timely manner.

As a main point of contact for our colleague queries, you will use your Payroll expertise to ensure that we deliver a supportive, exceptional service to around 1,800 colleagues across our organisation.

You'll assist in the running of the monthly payroll process to ensure that colleagues are paid on the specified pay date of each month, ensuring that all salary payments are made in line with employment legislation and that deductions are made in line with employment legislation and are recorded and submitted to statutory bodies within timescale.

About You

What we'll need you to bring: -

• A minimum of 2 years' experience of delivering a comprehensive and compliant payroll and pension service (including pension auto-enrolement and RTI)
• Degree or CIPP/IPPM equivalent qualification or extensive experience in a comparable role
• Excellent customer service skills
• Great communication skills (written and verbal)
• The ability to independantly problem solve to a successful conclusion
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and organise your workload to meet tight deadlines
• A proven track record of using Microsoft Office packages, including Excel, Word and Powerpoint
• The ability to manage data, create reports and present information clearly and effectively

About Us

With 45 years' experience delivering great care and support, Cornerstone provides tailored, individual packages of care which focus on enabling people with a variety of needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, autism and complex care needs, to live the best possible life.

We are always flexible and responsive in meeting the ever changing needs of the people we support and work closely with individuals and families to agree what sort of support will work best for them.

Are you an experienced Health & Social care professional looking for an exciting new role? We've got a great opportunity for you!

We have a rare and exciting opportunity for an organised and dedicated individual to join our fantastic #TeamDundee as a Lead Practitioner on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Role

As a Lead Practitioner, you'll demonstrate great communication, organisational and interpersonal skills and will lead and inspire your teams of Support Practitioners in Dundee.

You'll provide support, guidance and mentor your teams to ensure that they are professional, accountable, engaged and motivated resulting in them delivering first class, high quality care and support. Alongside our Service Lead, you’ll also contribute to ensuring that our service(s) are running within agreed budgets and in conjunction with our contractual requirements.

About you

What we'll need you to bring:-

• Experience of managing people
• Knowledge of what it takes to run an effective service within the Health & Social Care sector
• A passion for and experience of delivering high quality, person-centred care and support
• Sound knowledge of SSSC Codes of Practice and Health & Social Care Standards
• Proven record of building and maintaining positive and professional relationships with supported individuals, their families and other stakeholders
• The ability to lead others and work collaboratively
• Great communication skills; both verbal and written
• A sound understanding of professional boundaries, accountabilities and responsibilities and how they relate to supporting vulnerable individuals
• A commitment to undertake and achieve a SVQ Social Services & Healthcare SCQF Level 7 qualification and PDA in Health & Social Care Supervision (if not already attained)

Shift patterns

As a Lead Practitioner, you will work 5 out of 7 days. There may be occasions where we will need you to be flexible to work evenings, sleepovers, waking nights and weekends due to the needs of our services. On call duties will also form part of your role on a rotational basis.

Introduction

Law Centres are a relatively new concept, first appearing in Scotland approximately 30 years ago. An innovative generation of solicitors identified huge gaps in the provision of legal advice and representation (mainly in evictions which were regularly undefended and unquestioned, but which parliament had legislated for) and the fundamental impact that had on people’s lives. The Law Centre founders identified the need and strived to fill it.

This model of legal service was new at the time and the number of Law Centres across Scotland are still limited. However, we are a growing sector, responding to need. Broadly speaking, Law Centres are either defined by geographical area (e.g. Dundee Law Centre, Castlemilk Law Centre) or by subject matter (e.g. Clan Childlaw, Shelter’s Housing Law Service).

In terms of structure, Dundee Law Centre (DLC, formally registered as Dundee North Law Centre) is a company and charity incorporated under the Companies Acts in Scotland which is limited by guarantee. The charity is also registered with OSCR.

There is a separate legal liability partnership, DNLC LLP, also incorporated under the Companies Acts in Scotland, which is a legal practice unit regulated and licensed by the Law Society of Scotland. The LLP is a ‘firm’ of solicitors, and the Principal Solicitor is fully accountable to that professional body. The LLP provides legal services to the charity; the two are separate legal entities but are inextricably linked in practice.

The Board of Directors is essentially responsible for the governance of the charity, but the legal team is responsible for the delivery of legal advice and representation, subject to the policies and procedures set by the Board. There is a service level agreement between the Board, the LLP and the Principal Solicitor which sets out clearly the roles and responsibilities of the various parties.

Our work

The work carried out by our team can broadly be described as ‘social welfare law’; traditionally this includes homelessness, social housing, evictions, welfare benefits and debt. However, there are many complexities in these areas, and we are constantly triaging issues to see how clients will be best served. We work in partnership with other services across the city to achieve that.

Aside from the complexities in the law, it is important to understand the additional challenges in engaging with our particular client group; they are often marginalised and disadvantaged, often affected by health problems, addiction, literacy and poverty. This adds a layer of specialism and skill to the work we do in order to be effective, both in relation to individual cases and also as an organisation.

In addition to crude subject areas, DLC responds to gaps in legal services, address the complexities of our clients (which are numerous) and we are creative and innovative in our approach. We also strive to provide excellent service to our clients, encouraging them to engage with society as a whole and, in some cases, reintegrate with authority.

Our main focus is to address unmet legal need within the above areas of law, and it is fair to say that there are no other organisations operating within Dundee which provide the full range of legal services (free of charge) that are available from Dundee Law Centre.

Aims and Objectives

To relieve poverty by the provision in the after mentioned areas of free legal advice, assistance and representations to individuals living in community groups and voluntary organisations operating in areas of the City of Dundee currently known as Community Regeneration areas, all as designated from time to time by funders, the Scottish Government, Local Government or other indicators and such other areas as the company from time to time feels will benefit from receiving free legal advice; and

To advance the education of the public generally by undertaking seminars, classes and talks on relevant legal topics and issues to local schools, community groups and others in the aforementioned areas and by printing, publishing and distributing leaflets and booklets containing legal information and advice for the benefit of individuals, community groups, voluntary organisations and others living in/or operating in the said areas.

DLC Team

The staff team is a small number of dedicated, professional and very experienced individuals who work very hard to ensure that our service delivery is the best it can be.

We currently have one full time Principal Solicitor along with a part time Principal Solicitor who are the partners of the LLP. We also have a trainee solicitor and are hoping to grow our team subject to having additional funding in place. We also have a Finance and Operations Manager, a receptionist, 2 administrators (1 in the process of being recruited), 3 legal secretaries (one full time and 2 part time) and a part time cleaner.

All staff, including solicitors, are employees of the Charity, Dundee North Law Centre.

Our Changing World

Along with most organisations, the Law Centre was significantly affected by the pandemic, and we have responded creatively and effectively to the changes it has brought.

The Law Centre has always been a community-based organisation, reaching out to people in advice sessions in their local areas, community centres, etc. This changed during the pandemic and since 2020 we have developed new systems including virtual and telephone appointments and increased use of technology to communicate and actively participate in courts and tribunals remotely, using creative methods to ensure our clients are able to engage. The investment that the Board made to upgrade its IT and software during the pandemic has resulted in a much more flexible and responsive approach being available to staff and clients alike.

The first ever Dundee Law Centre website was launched in March 2020, and we are constantly improving our social media channels to meet the demands of this ever-changing environment.

The pandemic has emphasised the fact that there are some things people cannot control and that anyone can be affected by illness, financial hardship and the consequences of those. Gone are the days when people think that social welfare issues will not affect them. Society is finally realising that there is a gap in legal knowledge, services and provision and that these issues strike at the very heart of what legal system should be there for.

The pandemic was closely followed by the Cost-of-Living Crisis which has added to the demands of our service. It is clear that the need for advice, assistance and representation in our main areas of legal expertise (i.e., housing, debt, and social security) shows no sign of decline. The cost-of-living crisis, which affects our client demographic the most, means that there are many Dundee citizens who require such protection or entitlement as the law can give them. In Scotland, that is substantial, but it needs lawyers who can help vindicate these rights - in courts and tribunals, if necessary.

Dundee Law Centre is currently developing an exciting new strategy to guide our work in the next 3 years – it is ambitious and seeks to improve our profile and strengthen our partnerships so that we can reach more people and extend our reach. We also want to give some priority to improving how we tell our story, to be more attractive to funders, and to demonstrate our value to partners.

Our Finances

The Law Centre has budgeted expenditure budget of £425k for 2025-26 with the main expenditure item being staff costs of £300k. Our main source of funding is Scottish Legal Aid income of £150k and an annual grant of £150k from the Dundee Partnership. The balance is funded from grants from a variety of other charitable organisations. These grants require to be refreshed on a regular basis.

The Board

There are currently 5 directors due to recent resignations, but the Board is keen to increase our numbers and is currently seeking individuals with an interest in making a difference, to support the continued development and sustainability of the Law Centre.

In order to bring additional skills and expertise to the Board, we are seeking applications from dedicated individuals from wide ranging and diverse backgrounds including those with a background in law, finance, business, human resources, marketing, fundraising and the voluntary sector.

This is a voluntary unpaid position. The Board meets around 6 times a year. The meetings are in person, but hybrid meetings can be supported.

Trustees do not need to have worked within a legal setting, just have a genuine interest in supporting the valuable work our organisation does and the communities that we serve.

We have Support Worker opportunities for individuals to join our Perth Outreach Support Services.

At Autism Initiatives we provide specialist services tailored to each individual. Experience is not essential, but a genuine passion to making a difference to the lives of autistic people, as well as a positive attitude, is key to being successful in this role.

We currently provide support across the following locations: Perth, Crieff, Auchterarder, Kinross and Blairgowrie. Due to the nature of this post you are required to hold a driver’s license and access to your own vehicle to travel across these locations.

Benefits of working with us include:

• Competitive Salary - £13.02 to £13.49 per hour (Salaries Under Review)
• Sleepover rate paid at £12.00 per hour
• 31 days Annual Leave Entitlement, including bank holidays
• Your birthday off every year, to treat yourself!
• Ongoing Learning & Development throughout your Support Work role
• Opportunity to undertake SVQ Level 3 qualification
• Career Progression Opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Auto-enrolment pension scheme
• Medicash Healthcare Plan
• Eligibility to become a Blue Light Card Member for online & high street discounts

As a Support Worker you will promote the positive health and well-being of the people that you support, enabling them to have a meaningful life and encouraging them to live as independently as possible.

Given the nature of this role, successful applicants must register with the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme and Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) or equivalent regulatory body.

This is a truly rewarding role, with the opportunity for you to develop your skills and knowledge and fulfil your career aspirations.