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We have two new vacancies: 

• Head of operations (Maternity cover, 8 months)

Part-time post 21 hours per week.
£28,000 FTE or £16,800 per annum for 0.6 FTE

• Fundraising and Marketing Officer

Full-time post 35 hours per week.
Salary £19,830
 
More details and how to apply can be found here.

We are currently seeking undergraduate and/or postgraduate Psychology students to offer up to 7 hours per week for a minimum of 12 months to support us in delivering a range of evidence based cognitive behavioural therapy self-help programmes across Scotland to people affected by anxiety and depression. This will include offering telephone support to a caseload of clients and delivering short programmes to groups in the community, some of which is done in the evenings and weekends.

We were really pleased to announce that we’d been awarded funding from the Edinburgh Change Innovation Fund for support towards our work with older people aged 65 plus and their carers in Edinburgh from April 2011. We’re really excited about benefiting from this new fund which will enable us to have a greater focus in providing support to this important group.

Help raise funds for Scotland's national depression charity

Taking place on Thursday 9^th February, The Voodoo rooms, Edinburgh, starting at 7.30pm. Buy tickets online.

Beat the winter blues and come along to a unique one-off fundraising event that celebrates good music and up and up and coming talent on the Scottish music scene.

Headliner: North Atlantic Oscillation

(Guys in the photos are Mark (from Action on Depression), Paul Brennan who writes for Celtic Quick News, and John McTaggart, who was one of the charity day organisers.)

Coming back from the New Year is always a busy time; trying to catch up with emails having arrived during the holidays and phone messages.  Imagine our surprise to read such a lovely email from someone who not only wants to volunteer with us, but felt that our website had provided much needed help and information.  She goes on to say..

The main aim of the study is to understand employees' experiences of psychological well-being at work and broader attitudes to mental health and employment. It is a study sponsored by the Scottish Mental Health Association and being conducted by Abigail Marks (HWU) and Wendy Loretto at Edinburgh University.

It is open to anyone in Scotland in paid employment.

Click HERE to take the survey

Action on Depression is looking to recruite some Board Members and Trustees to come onto the Board of Directors which is the governing body of our charity who have ultimate responsbility, both collectively and personally, for all of the activities undertaken by Action on Depression.

We   are  currently  looking   for   a   range   of   skills   and   experience.   In   particular   we   are seeking:

I can’t believe that it has been so long since I last blogged. I was just reading back over my last piece which brought back the hard time that I’d been having at work. That is mostly sorted now and the last few weeks at work have been better and I’m receiving more support.

Action on Depression will be closed from Friday 23rd Dec at 12 noon and will be open again on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.  

We would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to providing valuable support to all those experiencing depression, carers, family and friends well into the new year.