Dundee Services Manager
- Full time
- £34,004 – £41,561
- Home-based until such time as we can safely return to office working. The role will then be based in OPFS Dundee.
- Closing 23rd August 2021
- Advertised from 2nd August 2021
- 35 hours per week
Role
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.
Application notes
To apply please visit our website
Closing Date: Friday 23rd August 2021 at 5pm
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The Yard is an award-winning charity that runs adventure play services for children with disabilities and/or additional support needs and their families across Scotland.
We are seeking an experienced HR Manager who is passionate about driving positive change at The Yard. You will bring the expertise and gravitas to influence and support senior leadership on HR and cultural initiatives.
About the role:
Some of your key responsibilities will include:
• Ensuring The Yard maintains the roles, skills and experience to deliver on its strategic priorities
• Measure employee engagement and agree action plans to develop and improve organisational culture
• Ensuring our recruitment policies and processes embody our values and enable us to recruit people with the skills and qualities to meet our goals
• Developing and managing our renumeration policy
About you:
This job is for you if you have:
• Proven experience of HR management
• Can lead by example, fostering a culture of trust and respect
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Ability to develop HR strategies aligning with our strategic plan
If our ethos inspires you and you are eager to bring your knowledge and experience to a team that is deeply committed to our purpose, we would love to have you on board.
If you would like to discuss the role with our Director of Resources, please let us know and we can arrange a call.
Company Overview
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Our flexible early learning and childcare model allows parents to book childcare by the hour, change their bookings each week and only pay for the time they book. This model is actively helping parents to reduce their childcare costs while helping them increase their income and further distancing their whole families from poverty.
Summary
We are seeking a Finance Manager to join our team, in this role, you will play a vital part in managing our financial operations, ensuring the sustainability of our unique childcare model while supporting our vision to create a world where every child and family has access to the services they need to thrive.
This is a hybrid working post shared between home working and our Dundee head office.
This is a part time role, 28 hours per week, with FTE salary of £40,000 = pro rata £32,000.
Other benefits include:
- 32 days annual leave
- Generous employer contribution pension
- Employee life assurance scheme
- Flexible Working
- Employee Benefit Platform giving discounts on many retail brands
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- £87,178
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 23rd December 2025
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About Quarriers
Quarriers is a self-confident and ambitious charity which provides health and social care services to the people of Scotland. We have a vision about the type of society we want to bring into being, and a mission that will help us achieve that.
Vision
A Scotland in which people can access support, find kindness and thrive.
Mission
To nurture supportive relationships, provide high-quality care, and promote inclusive communities.
Reach and Income
We operate more than a hundred services across Scotland, employ 1,600 members of staff and have around 100 volunteers. As of April 2025, we have an annual income of around £60m, most of which comes from contracts from statutory bodies for the delivery of health and social care services
Your new opportunity
We are currently recruiting a Director of Finance & Corporate Services to join our well-established Executive Team. As a key member of the Executive Team, you will direct Quarriers’ finance, IT and property services. You will be responsible for overseeing all financial aspects of our £60m budget, including financial reporting and planning, while liaising with internal and external stakeholders.
A key part of the role will include reporting to the Board of Trustees and Chief Executive, offering strategic advice and solutions on all finance and corporate services matters, and to support the Board in the preparation of budgets and financial reports.
This is a full-time permanent role working 35 hours per week in line with our agile working policy, which blends home-working with office time and service visits.
What you will need to bring to the role
- CCAB Qualified Accountant
- Extensive knowledge and experience at a senior level in a complex organisation
- Proven experience of contract negotiation and commercial focus
- Excellent problem solver who is driven by positive outcomes
- Chartered Accountant status or post-graduate management qualification is desirable
- Excellent IT and analytical skills
- Driving licence is essential
What you will get in return
- Substantial holiday entitlement
- Generous workplace pension
- Family-friendly working policies and procedures
- Life Assurance
- Wider benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme, free physiotherapy & occupational health support
About Us
Quarriers is one of Scotland’s leading social care charities. We provide practical care and support for vulnerable children, adults and families who face extremely challenging circumstances. We challenge poverty and inequality of opportunity to bring about positive changes in people’s lives.
Benefits
- Free physiotherapy and occupational health
- 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Non-contributory life assurance scheme
- Workplace pension
- Christmas savings scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Long service rewards
- Significant discount opportunities
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- Part time
- £30,002 – £35,076 pro-rata
- On site: Selkirk, Scottish Borders
- Closing 5th January 2026
A fantastic opportunity to come and join the Children First team
Children First’s ambition is for every child in Scotland to be safe, loved and well with their family. As a charity we offer emotional, practical, and financial support to help families to put children first and campaign to uphold the rights of every child.
Family Group Decision Making is working with family groups in a strengths-based way to support them to create Family Plans, keeping children safe and at home within their family networks.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Family Group Decision Making coordinator. We have funding for a 12-month fixed term post to work alongside the Whole Family Wellbeing Team within Scottish Borders Council supporting families at an earlier stage of intervention.
We’d love to hear from anyone interested in Family Group Decision Making, or strengths-based approaches to working with families, and would like to extend their skill set.
What kind of people are we looking for?
- have experience of keeping children safe in their own families
- are fiercely passionate about children’s rights
- thinks it’s a privilege to work with and on behalf of children and families and,
- are kind and will bring their whole selves to the job: heart and mind
What kind of team member will you be?
Knowing our ambition for children, you will be someone who is:
- resilient, skilled and knowledgeable who wants to transform children’s lives
- determined to support children to stay safely with their own family
- big hearted and courageous
- able to build strong relationships and to manage the tricky conversations
- is compassionate and understanding of trauma
- a cool head and clear minded at times of pressure
- inspiring colleagues and teams to be even better
- an amazing ambassador for children and Children First
- Above all else, the most important thing to us is that you are someone who will do the right thing for children and their families at every turn.
At Children First, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects communities across Scotland. Guided by our values, With Love, With Purpose, With Strength, we strive to create a culture where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported to thrive. We actively work to remove barriers to inclusion and promote equity in all aspects of our work. We warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, especially those from marginalised communities, and are dedicated to ensuring a fair and supportive recruitment process.
Base
You will be based in Selkirk with travel across the Scottish Borders.
Salary, Conditions, Pension
We will offer you a competitive salary, generous annual leave entitlement (40 days inclusive of 9 public holidays). Additional benefits include cash back health plan, cycle to work scheme, and option to join a Credit Union.
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