Falkirk & District Association For Mental Health
Falkirk & District Association For Mental Health

Charity registered in Scotland SC011889

We are a well established local mental health charity based in Falkirk. We offer a variety of services supporting service users and carers and are committed to involving them in all aspects of what we do.


Current vacancies

Mental Health Services Delivery Manager

  • Full time
  • £36,000 – £42,000
  • Falkirk
  • Closing 8th January 2024

FDAMH is a progressive and highly-respected community-based mental health charity serving over 2000 individuals each year.

We are seeking to employ an exceptional Mental Health Services Delivery Manager who can embrace our ethos and values and be dedicated to ensuring the delivery of quality services.

The principal purpose of this post is to lead, manage, support and co-ordinate the day-to-day operation of the service delivery areas and line management to the respective managers. Working with the Senior Leadership Team there will also be a requirement to support and collaboratively deputise for the CEO in their absence.

Joining a lively, supportive and professional team at our premises in Falkirk you should be a flexible, dynamic, self-starter who enjoys a challenging role. You must have significant mental health experience, working at management level within health or social care and managing teams of staff.

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Children’s & Family Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

  • Full time or Part time
  • £22,500 – £28,500
  • Falkirk
  • Closing 23rd November 2023

This is an exciting time to join FDAMH! We are recruiting 2 new practitioners to join the Young Person, Family and Carer Mental Health and Wellbeing Service. This service was launched in February 2022 and has experienced strong demand and acclaim from the community.

We are seeking applications from appropriately qualified people who have considerable and demonstrable experience of providing a holistic, therapeutic model of support to young people and their families who are experiencing reduced psychological wellbeing.

The Service takes a ‘whole person, whole family’ approach and the role might include delivering interventions, supports and groupwork/courses for parents, guardians as well as supporting the young person on a one-to-one basis or alongside the family unit. This service is flexible, personalised and adaptive, enabling our clients to improve their mental health and wellbeing, by using a range of validated and evidence-based recovery focused tools and techniques.

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This vacancy has now closed

This is an exciting time to join FDAMH! As part of our continuing growth, we are recruiting a new practitioner to join the Young Person, Family and Carer Mental Health and Wellbeing Service. This service was launched in February 2022 and has experienced strong demand and acclaim from the community.

We are seeking applications from appropriately qualified people who have considerable and demonstrable experience of providing a holistic, therapeutic model of support to young people, families and carers who are experiencing reduced psychological wellbeing.

The Service takes a ‘whole person, whole family’ approach and the role might include delivering interventions, supports and groupwork/courses for parents, guardians and carers as well as supporting the young person on a one-to-one basis or alongside the family unit. This service is flexible, personalised and adaptive enabling our clients to improve their mental health and wellbeing, by using a range of validated and evidence-based recovery focused tools and techniques.

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Counsellor/Therapist for Carers

  • Full time
  • £25,000 – £29,000
  • Falkirk
  • Closing 17th February 2023

FDAMH’s Counselling Service are recruiting a qualified counsellor or therapist to join our well established Counselling Service. The main case load for the successful candidate will be Carers, however there may be some other client work from our ’core’ counselling waiting list to be supported as and when required. This post will be a delivered via a hybrid working model, delivering face to face counselling from FDAMH’s building with remote working (Zoom) to suit the needs of individual clients as required. We are seeking applications from people who are qualified to Diploma level in a Counselling therapeutic discipline, with membership of a professional body (COSCA, BACP, BABCP etc). The individual must have experience of counselling people ages 16 plus years old and over, we will accept applications from all counselling modalities, e.g., humanistic, psychodynamic, CBT or integrative approach.

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Social Spark Project Worker

  • Part time
  • £20,000 – £22,000 pro-rata
  • Falkirk
  • Closing 30th September 2022

Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund we are seeking to recruit a Project Worker within our Social Spark service. With demonstrable skills in working with people with reduced mental wellbeing, along with excellent communication skills, the successful applicant will assume the day-to-day responsibility for the activity based group programmes, have experience and the ability to lead outdoor pursuits and review and develop our existing indoor and outdoor activity groups. The ideal candidate will be resourceful, flexible and have creative skills to work with clients and volunteers.

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School based Counsellor

  • Part time
  • £25,000 – £28,000 pro-rata
  • Falkirk
  • Closing 2nd September 2022

We are seeking applications from people who are qualified to Diploma level in a Counselling therapeutic discipline, with membership with a professional body (COSCA, BACP, BABCP etc). We will accept applicants who are trained in any therapeutic modality, e.g., humanistic, psychodynamic, CBT or integrative approach. The successful applicant dividual should have demonstrable experience in working with young people, aged 12 – 18 years. This post will be based in a local high school and requires a person with considerable experience, resilience, empathy and a clear understanding of how social, environmental and health and wellbeing factors impact on an individual’s whole life.

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Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioners

  • Full time or Part time
  • £25,000 – £28,000
  • Falkirk
  • Closing 17th December 2021

Role 1: Children’s and Family Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

Role 2: Young Person’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

There’s never been a more exciting time to join FDAMH! As part of our continuing growth, we are thrilled to be launching a new Young Person’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Service, which is the first of its kind in the area. Therefore, we are recruiting to fill a number of vacancies to join our team and help us create a new, high-quality service for the young people in the area. We are seeking applications from people who have considerable and demonstrable experience of providing a holistic, therapeutic model of support to young people, aged 13—24 who are experiencing reduced psychological wellbeing, and their families.

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Counselling Service Manager

  • Full time
  • £27,000 – £29,500
  • Central Falkirk
  • Closing 10th September 2021

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Counselling Service Manager to join our established service. The post holder will lead the delivery of efficient and high-quality services to our clients through:

• Ensuring best practice standards are met and performance is regularly monitored and evidenced to stakeholders and funders.

• Operational management of the counselling services including support, development to the counselling team.

• Reviewing and developing services, including the management of face-to-face and online counselling.

With a qualification and skills pertinent to the role, applicants should have demonstrable experience of recruiting and managing staff/volunteers and rotas as well as the ability to provide counselling/therapeutic practices and assessments to a wide age group.

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Immediate Help Service Initial Assessment Officer

  • Part time
  • £25,000 – £28,000 pro-rata
  • Central Falkirk
  • Closing 13th August 2021

We are looking for an Immediate Help Service Initial Assessment Officer to join our successful team.

The position of Initial Assessment Officer within FDAMH is a key post. We are seeking applications from people with a formal qualification in mental health, social work, counselling or equivalent, with demonstrable experience in conducting person centred, holistic mental health and wellbeing assessments. The primary function of the Initial Assessment Officer is to meet with clients, discuss their reasons for attending and from there, to agree with the client the best course of action to meet their needs. This post requires a person with considerable experience, resilience, empathy and a clear understanding of how social, environmental and health and wellbeing factors impact on an individual’s whole life and that of their family and social contacts.

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Mental Health Services Delivery Manager

  • Full time
  • £32,000 – £38,000
  • Falkirk
  • Closing 7th May 2021

FDAMH is a multi-award winning, dynamic, and highly-respected community-based mental health charity serving over 2000 individuals each year.

As a result of an operational review we are seeking to employ an exceptional Mental Health Services Delivery Manager who can embrace our ethos and values and be dedicated to ensuring the delivery of quality services.

The principal purpose of this new post is to lead, manage, support and co-ordinate the day-to-day operation of the service delivery areas and line management to the respective managers. You will work closely with the CEO and Senior Management Team to ensure the continued success of FDAMH.

Joining a lively, supportive and professional team at our premises in Falkirk you should be a flexible, dynamic, self starter who enjoys a challenging role. You must have substantive previous operational and mental health experience, working at management level within health or social care and managing teams of staff.

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