Community Development Worker
- Part time
- £33,740 pro-rata
- Tealing, Angus with home working
- Closing 2nd June 2023
- Advertised from 2nd May 2023
- 14 hours weekly, one-year fixed term contract
Role
In partnership with Tealing Development Trust
Background
Tealing is a small, friendly Scottish village just north of Dundee in the county of Angus, nestling at the foot of the Sidlaw Hills. It's a fine place to live, work and play despite the lack of local amenities and services. Tealing is a rural area of 15 square miles situated halfway between the market town of Forfar and the city of Dundee. Residents are heavily reliant on their cars for transport and there is a slightly higher than average proportion of older and retired people. Tealing has a widely scattered population of just over 700, 9 working farms and a thriving small primary school of 36 pupils and 8 nursery children.
Award winning community development charity, Outside the Box, undertook in-depth community engagement and research in Tealing village last summer, which helped the community regeneration steering group to formulate a draft five-year plan for change and improvement. The consultation expressed the needs and suggestions from hundreds of residents and their thoughts on how best to use the Seagreen Wind Energy Community Benefit Fund set aside for the area. The results and recommendations are fully documented in different formats on the website at tealingvillage.org
As a result, Tealing Development Trust Ltd was formed as a community (not for private profit) company limited by guarantee early in 2023 and is now embarking on delivery of the community action plan. Together we are recruiting an experienced and energetic community development worker to actively help the enthusiastic volunteers make quick progress in the first year of operation.
If you would like to be part of a creative and enterprising community development organisation, working alongside communities and people who want to make a difference, this is role could be for you.
Our vision is inclusive and welcoming communities, where people’s contributions are valued, welcomed and supported. We recognise people’s experiences, the barriers and inequalities they face, and work alongside them to identify practical approaches for change that build on people’s skills.
We use a human rights-based approach in all our work to promote respect, dignity and equality. Find out more at otbds.org
Location
Outside the Box has an office base in Kinning Park Complex in Glasgow but this post will largely be based on site in the village of Tealing in Angus and working from home.
Application notes
A full Job Description including details on how to apply is available for download below.
The closing date for applications is Friday 2 June at 5 pm please email to louise@otbds.org
For more information or an informal chat contact Louise Willson louise@otbds.org or phone 07706 433938.
Interviews
We expect the interview arrangements to be in 2 parts and held in Tealing Village Hall
• Wednesday 14 June - There will be an informal session in Tealing where short-listed applicants meet people involved with Tealing Development Trust and Outside the Box. This is an opportunity for you to ask questions and find out more about the role.
• Thursday 15 June - Panel interview with members of Tealing Development Trust and Outside the Box.
Downloads
Are you an experienced Community Development worker with an interest in Social Justice?
If so, then please see details of the role below
Purpose of role
To support communities to organise, take action and engage on the needs and issues that matter to them.
Help local people to come together to form:
- Action / issue-based groups to identify and challenge the economic, gender and race inequalities that exist within communities.
- Groups of mutual support aimed at building confidence and self-esteem and developing a positive sense of purpose.
Crossroads Youth and Community Association’s work and values are built on the central belief that “everyone had the right to live gloriously: whatever in society prevents this, should be challenged and whatever in the individual helps should be nurtured”
This role will involve working across the community with young people, families and the wider community.
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- Full time
- £45,441 – £49,498
- On site: Glasgow or Aberdeen office with regular travel across the Area
- Closing 11th August 2024
PAPYRUS is the national UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people.
We are recruiting an Area Manager for Scotland to create and cultivate sustainable community services across your area to contribute to PAPYRUS creating suicide-safer communities for young people across the whole of the UK.
What you will do:
- You will lead the EQUIP strategy in your Area.
- You will ensure that PAPYRUS is represented at appropriate local and regional Suicide Prevention groups and bodies across your Area.
- Manage Service Delivery in your Area.
- Develop an operational plan to deliver the strategy.
- Drive the effective performance of the Area through strong leadership which sets high expectations of all staff.
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Proven experience of building, managing and enabling a successful team.
- Experience of identifying new approaches to underpin strategy, progressing new opportunities and translating these into sustainable, funded projects in the community.
- Previous experience of preparing a budget, securing funding for projects/ programmes and having financial accountability for successful implementation.
- Experience of managing complex projects with a positive impact on social change.
- Proven track record of successfully building, developing and managing effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in the community, voluntary, statutory and political settings.
- Proven experience of effective working as part of a management group.
- A bachelor’s degree level or equivalent professional qualification in Leadership, Management, Health, Social Care, Social Sciences, Education, Business Development, Community Work, or Public Health.
Benefits:
You will receive 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time workers), hybrid and flexible working arrangements, an attractive pension scheme, Simply Health membership and enhanced sick pay. Please visit our website for more details.
Community Development Worker (Freelance)
- Part time
- Sessional
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 29th July 2024
This is a new and exciting opportunity to support the growth of the Wester Hailes Community Trust (WHCT) and to oversee the delivery of the Wester Hailes Local Place Plan (WHLPP) - Scotland’s inaugural local place plan.
The responsibilities of this position are split between the administration and capacity building of the Trust, and the oversight of WHLPP projects. The post is responsible for the everyday operations of the Trust, such as managing correspondences, tracking finances, and arranging board meetings, as well as the development of the Trust through an increase in membership, networking, presence in the community, and working with the members of the WHCT to understand and respond to the emerging needs of the Wester Hailes community. The key deliverable over the period of this contract is to work collaboratively with the Trust to oversee the continued implementation and management of the eight WHLPP projects funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. This will require a combination of independent project management and consistent collaboration with key LPP Stakeholders, the wider Wester Hailes community, the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC), and the Scottish Government.
This role is a part time freelance post with the opportunity for discussion to agree a working pattern that is viable to both the successful candidate and the Trust. The successful candidate to the post will be line managed by WHCT trustees and will receive support from the Trust’s additional freelance community development worker.
This post is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Advice Worker – Early Years
- Full time
- £24,736 – £26,495
- Hybrid: Various locations within Edinburgh
- Closing 16th August 2024
Are you passionate and committed to making a meaningful difference for families with young children experiencing barriers to moving out of poverty.
Within the UK, there is an estimated £22.7 billion a year in unclaimed welfare benefits and in Edinburgh 1 in 5 children are living in poverty.
This is an exciting opportunity for an Advice Worker to join our ‘Advice For Families’ team and deliver a high quality advice service to families in Edinburgh with pre-school children. Taking an early intervention and trauma-informed approach, the adviser will provide benefits, housing and debt advice to parents, in order to promote improved financial and social wellbeing for families.
The role will involve developing strong professional partnerships with other early years practitioners including Early Years Centres; Nurseries; Midwifery and Family Nurse Partnerships and Health Visitor teams.
Extensive in-house training and support will be provided to the successful candidate who demonstrates the right qualities for this role.
Are you?:
- Passionate and committed to making a meaningful difference for families experiencing barriers to moving out of poverty
- Able to quickly learn complex rules and legislation on Welfare Benefits, Debt and Housing.
- Enthusiastic about contributing to the delivery and development of partnership services.
- Able to build trusting professional relationships.
- Understanding of people’s journeys and the challenges they have had in their lives, and how poverty and inequality can have an impact on them.
At CHAI we offer the following:
- Extensive training programme
- Flexible working
- Access to Simply Health benefit plan
- 32 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays)
- Enrolment to NOW Pension Scheme
- Supportive work environment
- Opportunities to improve services and make a difference.
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