Locality Development Worker for Brechin/Montrose
- Full time
- £22,000
- On site: Brechin/Montrose
- Closing 21st October 2024
- Advertised from 30th September 2024
Role
Purpose: to take forward community and volunteering development as the VAA locality worker within a specific geography. As a locality development worker you will be expected to work at strategic and operational level and take forward the strategic decision making of VAA within locality partnership settings. More specifically post holders are expected to develop a competence in the following areas of work
- Young people and volunteering- working with schools, communities and voluntary orgs to develop further the saltire awards and accredited qualification outcomes.
- To build a capacity of voluntary organisations, volunteering groups and aspiring social enterprises.
- To work in partnership with Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) and Community Planning Partnership (CPP) developments at an operational level.
- To develop local empowerment opportunities through meaningful community engagement approaches with local communities, organisations and volunteer movements.
- To promote and develop local volunteering including my street volunteering, and build buoyant volunteering cultures where all people are inspired to volunteer.
- To facilitate and co-facilitate volunteer management and volunteer skills training.
- To facilitate and support local Third Sector forums.
- Support Social prescribers within the area by making links and feeding back.
- Build Community assets and opportunities.
- Help support the start-up of organisations by helping with constitutions and organisations support.
- Work in partnership with our HSCP and CPP colleagues.
- Support volunteering by promotion, identify opportunities and matching individuals.
- Small community group support PVG, Governance etc.
- Make links with local health workers in order to identify other opportunities through VAA online directory system and other means to prevent people being placed on care packages. ]
- Working with communities and voluntary organisations to promote Saltire and accredited qualification outcomes.
- Build capacity of volunteering groups and aspiring Social Enterprises first point of contact.
- Facilitate and co -facilitate volunteer management and skills training.
- Engage with communities and groups to establish needs and wants in order to promote preventive work around mental health and wellbeing.
This list is not exhausted you may be required to carry out other duties, and also you may be required to work in the evenings and at weekends.
Application notes
For an application pack, please contact Katrina Taylor katrina@voluntaryactionangus.org.uk.
Closing Date for this post is Monday 21st October 2024
We are looking for a community-minded individual with a passion for engaging with people and communities. The Volunteering Development Worker will work within a small team to engage widely with organisations, families and volunteers; this is to gather views on how children and families services can be enhanced through volunteering. To this purpose, the Team is currently exploring and discussing volunteer passport models and co-designing a Children and Families Services Volunteer Strategy.
Senior Development Officer – Policy & Membership
- Full time
- £29,973
- On site: Dingwall
- Closing 13th January 2025
Purpose:
The post will provide leadership and management to our membership team of two, taking care to ensure communication and members services work well, while directly undertaking delivery across a number of policy and knowledge portfolios.
The post holder will be expected to provide a link between our groups, representatives, staff and the wider policy environment. Summarising policy and supporting members input to consultations, locally and nationally, they will lead on aspects of our responsibility for supporting the voice of the sector across Highland, including forums, representatives and the collation of information for each.
Peer Engagement Officer (Agriculture)
- Part time
- £26,500 pro-rata
- Remote: Remote with travel, primarily in North-East Scotland with the main work areas being in and around Fife, Angus, Perth, and Dundee.
- Closing 20th January 2025
About the Worker Support Centre
The Worker Support Centre (WSC) is a Scotland based charity that promotes decent work and prevents exploitation. We support marginalised and isolated workers in labour sectors where there is a high risk of abuse and exploitation. We work in partnership with workers to build power to secure and advance workplace rights. We prevent human trafficking for forced labour by acting to reduce the risks of worker exploitation. WSC values include: respect for human rights, representation, transparency, equality and innovation.
WSC support includes advice, mediation, advocacy and assisted reporting to enforcement agencies. Our worker engagement informs policy change activity to address harms faced by those in high-risk work. In 2023 and 2024 WSC activities were targeted at workers in seasonal agriculture on the UK Seasonal Worker visa (SWV). During this time, we provided advice, support, and information to 1031 people in relation to the SWV. To learn more about work, visit workersupportcentre.org.uk
About the role
This role is focussed on advancing seasonal agricultural workers’ rights by supporting WSC’s peer engagement work including actively conducting outreach to workers and facilitating worker education and power sessions. In this role you will support WSC meet two of its four core objectives to work together with workers to claim spaces for power and representation in decision making; and to build the field of knowledge about workers and their experiences to influence policy. This role will work closely together with our Peer Engagement team and Outreach Caseworkers.
WSC strives to achieve representation of individuals with lived experience of the issues on which we work at all levels of our organisation and actively promote applications from individuals with experience of the issues on which we work. For this role we would especially welcome applications from individuals with experience of working in seasonal agriculture.
Peer Engagement Caseworker (Care)
- Part time
- £28,000 pro-rata
- Remote: Remote with travel, primarily in North-East Scotland with the main work areas being in and around Fife, Angus, Perth, and Dundee.
- Closing 3rd January 2025
About the Worker Support Centre
The Worker Support Centre (WSC) is a Scotland based charity that promotes decent work and prevents exploitation. We support marginalised and isolated workers in labour sectors where there is a high risk of abuse and exploitation. We work in partnership with workers to build power to secure and advance workplace rights. We prevent human trafficking for forced labour by acting to reduce the risks of worker exploitation. WSC values include: respect for human rights, representation, transparency, equality and innovation.
WSC support includes advice, mediation, advocacy and assisted reporting to enforcement agencies. Our worker engagement informs policy change activity to address harms faced by those in high-risk work. In 2023 and 2024 WSC activities were targeted at workers in seasonal agriculture on the UK Seasonal Worker visa (SWV). During this time, we provided advice, support, and information to 1031 people in relation to the SWV. WSC is now embarking on a new project to engage workers in health and social care to advance care workers’ rights through worker education and power sessions. To learn more about work, visit workersupportcentre.org.uk
About the role
This role is focussed on advancing care workers’ rights by supporting WSC’s peer engagement work including actively conducting outreach to workers and facilitating worker education and power sessions. In this role you will support WSC meet two of its four core objectives to work together with workers to claim spaces for power and representation in decision making; and to build the field of knowledge about workers and their experiences to influence policy. This role also includes handling a small caseload, providing health and social care workers with information, support and impartial advice with any issues that may arise during outreach or sessions. This role will work closely together with our Peer Engagement team and Outreach Caseworker.
WSC strives to achieve representation of individuals with lived experience of the issues on which we work at all levels of our organisation and actively promotes applications from individuals with experience of the issues on which we work. For this role we would especially welcome applications from individuals with experience of working in the health and social care sector.
NB A Basic Disclosure Check is required for this role.
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