Help people feel heard, understood and more confident in managing their mental health

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Practitioner to join our Hearing Voices Early Intervention and Self-Management Service in Fife.

You’ll support people who experience psychosis, voices, intrusive thoughts or sensory disturbances, helping them build confidence, develop practical coping strategies and work towards goals that matter to them.

Alongside direct 1:1, outreach and group support, you’ll be an experienced point of contact for colleagues, providing day-to-day guidance, supervision and support when situations are more complex.

This is a hands-on senior role rather than overall service management, so you’ll remain closely involved in supporting people while helping the wider team deliver high-quality, person-centred support.

What you’ll bring

• Experience supporting people within mental health, community or recovery-focused services.

• Experience delivering structured 1:1 support and contributing to personal support plans.

• Strong communication, relationship-building and professional judgement.

• An understanding of risk, safeguarding and safe decision-making.

• A trauma-informed, person-centred and strengths-based approach.

• An SVQ Level 3 in Social Services and Healthcare (Adults), equivalent qualification, or willingness to work towards one if required.

• SSSC registration, or willingness to register within six months.

Experience supporting or supervising colleagues, facilitating groups, or working within a registered service would be particularly welcome.

About us

Change Mental Health is a national mental health charity supporting people across Scotland.

Our Fife services provide practical, non-clinical support that helps people improve their wellbeing, build resilience and feel more connected to their communities.

If you’re an experienced practitioner looking to take on more responsibility while staying close to frontline support, we’d love to hear from you.

Are you ready to make the next positive move in your career, are you looking for a new challenge? We have been on a journey of positive change in the past three years and have very ambitious plans for the future. We are recruiting an experienced Mental Health & Wellbeing Team Lead to provide both mental health and line management support across our services who will play a vital role in the delivery and development of our services.

The principal purpose of this post is to assist the Head of Services with the day-to-day operation of the service delivery areas and line management of designated staff. With the skills and evidence of mental health and line managing staff, you should have the ability to take on the role to allow us to support our teams and continue to deliver and develop our services.

If you are able to demonstrate your ability to deliver high quality services with a sound knowledge and understanding of Child Protection and Adult Support and Protection, are positive, supportive, able to work in a collaborative way, and have excellent interpersonal skills then this could be the role for you.

In Scotland two people die by suicide every day. That’s two too many. At SAMH (Scottish Action for Mental Health) we support the national ambition of the Scottish Government and COSLA that any child, young person or adult who has thoughts of taking their own life, or is affected by suicide, should be able to get the help they need and feel a sense of hope.

Around since 1923, we are Scotland’s national mental health charity. We are a committed member of the Suicide Prevention Scotland delivery collective, ensuring that lived and living experience is at the forefront of delivering Scotland’s national suicide prevention strategy, Creating Hope Together.

For Scotland’s Mental Health

About the Role

The Lived and Living Experience Panel (LLEP) is a group of people from across Scotland who have lived experience of suicide. Some are people who have been bereaved by suicide. Others are people who have been suicidal in the past, or have been or are currently carers for family members or friends living with suicidal thoughts and behaviours.

The purpose of the LLEP is to ensure that the voice of people with experience of suicide is at the heart of the Creating Hope Together strategy. The panel plays a central role in co-producing Suicide Prevention Scotland’s programme of work.

SAMH hosts the LLEP on behalf of Suicide Prevention Scotland. The work of the panel is supported by the Lived and Living Experience Panel Coordinator and this role, the Safeguarding Officer.

In this role you will manage safeguarding processes and activities that support people with lived experience to be directly involved and influence positive change in suicide prevention work. You will provide safeguarding guidance and support to LLEP members, and build and maintain relationships across the Suicide Prevention Scotland delivery collective.

What we are looking for:

To be successful in this post you will need a significant level of experience in safeguarding, alongside either a qualification in a related area, or experience of supporting people with lived or living experience.

You will have experience of supporting people in crisis, and providing emotional support, guidance and advice. You will also have solid interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build rapport with a wide range of people.

What we will provide for you

You will work in a supportive environment and will be provided with a full induction and training opportunities. You will be given the chance to develop your knowledge and skills, as well as develop professionally. Some of our benefits include;

• Reimbursement of PVG, Disclosure & SSSC annual fees and registration costs.
• Funded continuous learning and development opportunities, access to over 100 courses online in addition to classroom and virtual training sessions
• 30 days annual leave rising to 33 after 5 years’ service (pro rata)
• 4 public holidays (pro rata)
• 2 paid wellbeing days off per year to use on what matters to you (pro rata)
• Team wellbeing budgets
• Workplace pension scheme
• Life Assurance policy
• Employee Assistance Programme

Transition Edinburgh South (TES) works with local people and community organisations to regenerate greenspaces and community buildings in the South of Edinburgh, We do this in a number of ways -

• Growing food that is good for people and planet; blending growing with community health, learning, and volunteering programmes and events that reduce social isolation, mental ill health and poverty, improve health and community connections, increase bio-diversity and reduce carbon pollution.
• Increasing opportunities for volunteering and supporting local grassroots projects.
• Working with local residents and community organisations to develop the buildings and greenspaces where we are based and in surrounding communities.
• Working to improve the environments where we are based, by tackling the impacts of climate change, reducing carbon pollution, increasing bio-diversity, and promoting sustainable development and regenerative horticulture.

We are based at the Gracemount Community Garden where, since 2013, we use organic and ecological techniques that regenerate the soil while growing fruit and veg for the community. We are part of the Transition Movement which “is a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world”.

We are currently looking to appoint a Treasurer to join our small Board. The Treasurer will be responsible for managing all financial matters on behalf of our organisation and will be responsible for ensuring that the organisation has robust financial processes to meet its legal and constitutional requirements. It will also be the responsibility of the Treasurer to report the financial position at the board meetings. While we encourage and welcome applicants of all backgrounds, we are keen to hear from candidates that have experience of charity financial management or are chartered in a suitable accountancy field.

All Trustees are required to attend monthly board meetings, ideally in person in Edinburgh but occasional attendance by video call is ok. In addition, we ask Trustees to attend our organisational strategy day and our AGM. Please note that this is a voluntary role. The trustees of our organisation do not receive any remuneration.

Street Connect is a Christian organisation with a mission to offer hope and opportunity of recovery for people disadvantaged by addiction, homelessness, and poor mental health.

As the Housing & Aftercare Coordinator you can contribute to profound and lasting changes in the lives of highly vulnerable individuals. In 2025/26, we estimate we benefitted approximately 2,521 individuals across our projects, with 9,804 street outreach interventions and 5,139 footfalls in our cafés. 9 participants are currently resident in our supported accommodation. Our model continues to demonstrate consistent progression across key stages: 511 – around 25% of those reached through street outreach and drop-in cafés went on to receive more structured support; Of those, 395, or 77% engaged in community recovery groups (315 in 2024/25); 255, or 50% progressed into oneto-one Key Work support (201 in 2024/25); From this group, 35 individuals were supported to enter into residential rehabilitation (16 in 2024/25). Alongside this, we continue to see positive outcomes for 28 participants engaged in our Aftercare programme (25 in 2024/25) and 50% of Aftercare participants were engaged in internships or voluntary placements (14 individuals)

You will work as part of the Street Connect team seeking to develop and deliver community recovery support through a range of different routes to both male and female service participants who have a background of complex needs such as addiction, homelessness, and mental health issues, who are now at different stages in their recovery journey.

This will include both those in aftercare who are living independently and free from such issues and those at an earlier stage in their recovery.

For more information on this post please see the attached job description and person specification

About CHAI

CHAI is a leading community advice organisation dedicated to reducing poverty, preventing homelessness and improving the wellbeing of individuals and families across Edinburgh.

We believe that no one in our communities should endure hardship. Our Financial Wellbeing Team provides high-quality welfare rights, debt and housing advice to some of the city's most vulnerable people through a range of community-based services.

We are looking for an experienced, motivated and inspirational Service Manager to lead our Financial Wellbeing Team and help shape the future of our services.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join CHAI's Senior Management Team at a time of continued growth and development.

As Service Manager for our Financial Wellbeing Team, you will lead a dedicated team of advisers delivering life-changing welfare rights, debt and housing advice to individuals and families across Edinburgh. You will be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of service delivery, supporting and developing staff, maintaining strong relationships with commissioners and partners, and driving continuous improvement across the service.

This is a varied and rewarding leadership role that combines operational management with strategic development. You will play a key role in shaping and expanding our services, identifying new opportunities, supporting funding initiatives and helping to ensure CHAI continues to meet the changing needs of our communities.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about tackling poverty and inequality, who inspires others to achieve their best, and who is committed to delivering excellent advice services that empower people to improve their lives.

If you are an experienced manager with a collaborative leadership style, excellent organisational skills and a commitment to social justice, we would love to hear from you.

Job Purpose

As a member of CHAI's Senior Management Team, you will provide leadership and operational management to a team of advisers delivering welfare rights, debt and housing advice in accordance with the Scottish National Standards for Information and Advice Providers.

You will ensure services are delivered to the highest professional standards, contractual targets are achieved, and staff are supported to deliver outstanding outcomes for clients.

Our advisers work across a variety of locations including GP surgeries, Mental Health and Recovery Hubs, community venues and CHAI offices.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a genuine difference to the lives of individuals and families experiencing financial hardship.

Overview:

The Advice and Information Service is a national support service for single-parent families and professionals across Scotland. It provides multi-channel advice on a wide range of topics, ensuring accessibility and inclusivity. The service operates Monday to Friday, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, excluding Christmas and Easter holidays.

The Project Lead for Advice and Information Service will play a key role in supporting the A&I Service Manager with the day-to-day management, operations and delivery of the OPFS Advice and Information Service. They will help ensure the service is delivered effectively, supporting staff, maintaining high-quality service provision and contributing to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of the service.

Working within the OPFS "My Life and Me" framework, the postholder will provide operational leadership, support and supervision to staff, ensure high-quality service delivery and undertake quality assurance activities. The Project Lead will be expected to deputise for the A&I Service Manager when required.

The Advice & Information Service is part of OPFS Support for Families Services, which provides holistic support to single parents and their children.

Our work is guided by the six My Life and Me priority areas: Money, Health & Wellbeing, Home, Work, Education & Training, Children, and Relationships.

Through a person-centred, strengths-based approach and guided by our organisational values and our strategic pillars, we work alongside families to:

• Involve them in shaping the support they receive.
• Strengthen their skills, confidence and resilience.
• Support them to achieve their goals and aspirations.
• Influence positive change in their lives and communities.
• Challenge the barriers and inequalities that impact them.

The support we offer includes:

Money

• Support to maximise income, improve financial wellbeing, access benefits and grants, manage debt and respond to financial crises.

Health & Wellbeing

• Emotional and practical support to improve mental health and wellbeing, including counselling, therapeutic interventions, wellbeing programmes and support to reduce isolation and build resilience.

Home

• Support with housing-related issues, advocacy and access to specialist services to help families maintain safe and secure housing.

Work, Education & Training

• Pre-employability and progression support, including confidence building, skills development, volunteering opportunities, training pathways and tailored support to overcome barriers to employment and learning.

Children

• Family support and group programmes that promote positive outcomes for children, strengthen parenting capacity, support child development and provide opportunities for children to participate in activities that enhance wellbeing.

Relationships

• One-to-one and group support that helps parents build positive relationships, strengthen family connections, develop peer support networks and reduce social isolation.

Are you an enthusiastic, creative, dynamic individual who loves working with children and is committed to the realisation of children’s human rights. Children’s Parliament is excited to be recruiting for a Project Officer in our Child Human Rights Defenders Team.

“If we’re listened to and taken seriously it makes us feel like our rights are real.”

Member of Children’s Parliament

The Project Officer will primarily be working with our Child Human Rights Defenders, to empower them to influence national policy, practice and legislation on key issues important to children across Scotland. There will be opportunities to support the wider development, delivery and reporting on a range of child human rights’ projects across Scotland.

Passionate about children, an excellent communicator and highly organised, the post holder will contribute to our work to support the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and deliver human rights for children.

The role is offered on a full-time basis of 35 hours per week.

This is a Scotland wide post with an office base at the Children’s Parliament in Edinburgh. Regular working at our Children’s Parliament office is required. Our office moves to Norton Park in Leith in September 2026. We offer flexible working and we are happy to discuss working patterns.

Overview of the Role

Children’s Parliament demonstrates children’s rights in action, supporting children to influence policy, practice and legislation, and we build the capacity and win the hearts and minds of adults to realise children’s human rights. Following the incorporation of children’s rights into Scots law, Children’s Parliament has a critical role to play to support the implementation of children’s human rights in the everyday.

In this context the role of the Project Officer is to embed the views, experiences and ideas of children into decision making around policy, practice and legislation in Scotland. Supporting children to engage adult key decision makers on what needs to change.

The Child Human Rights Defenders project supports children who are experienced Members of Children’s Parliament, to participate in democratic processes at a local, national and international level. Our team is currently made up of 14 Members of Children’s Parliament from Aberdeen, Dumfries & Galloway, Dundee, Fife, Glasgow and Perth & Kinross.

Using a children’s rights approach, the project empowers children to drive change on key issues important to children across Scotland, in recent years the children have raised concerns on issues such as vaping, the climate crisis and mental health.

A key part of this project is a two-year cycle of influencing where children identify issues that need action now for children to grow up healthy, happy and safe in Scotland, they develop calls to action and drive change on these issues locally and nationally, including with the Scottish Cabinet and the Scottish Government Executive Team.

Common Wheel is a 25-year-old mental health charity based in Glasgow. We provide meaningful activity for people with mental illness and dementia. We work with over 400 participants per year providing group activities in music, art, bike building, gardening and climbing and a huge variety of Drop-in Sessions offering activities as diverse as Tai Chi and Introductory Gaelic. We also support volunteer opportunities across the organisation. Our aims are to improve mental wellbeing, reduce isolation, increase skills and challenge stigma.

Financial position

In 2025/26 Common Wheel’s turnover was almost £323k, with spend of £320k, giving a surplus of almost £3k. The bike workshops contributed a quarter of the income, grants 63% and donations 12%. There are currently 9 staff members, supplemented by freelancers to deliver many of the activities.

Role Purpose:

You will have overall responsibility for the day-to-day accounting of Common Wheel including the management and administration of financial systems and the processing of receipts and payments, including payroll. You will also work with the staff and trustees to ensure accuracy, transparency, and sound financial practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Process payments, invoices, POs, receipts and petty cash accurately entering data into your own accounting software.
• Prepare comprehensive monthly financial statements detailing business income and expenditure.
• Perform monthly reconciliations of all general ledger accounts and to bank accounts
• Manage vendor invoices, ensuring timely payments and tracking bank account balances.
• Process employee salaries and manage employee expense claims.
• Register Common Wheel for VAT at the appropriate time; thereafter complete and submit VAT returns in accordance with regulations.
• Develop monthly cash flow statements, with variance analyses compared with budget and prior year for Finance Trustee, Project Manager and board.
• Provide all accounting and financial reports and documents needed by Independent Examiner to prepare Annual Accounts.
• Filing corporate tax returns for the company to HMRC and submitting necessary information to OSCR.
• Responding to staff and external queries in relation to finance
• Support management in the accurate production of budgets
• Manage gift aid.
• Ad hoc cost analysis.

Note Common Wheel plans to change banks as soon as the new postholder is in place. Currently it is with CAF bank and plans to move to the Bank of Scotland. Unfortunately, the CAF bank does not facilitate automated transfer and hence all suppliers, staff, SO/DDs will need to be set up from scratch. This work will be additional to the above.

Skills and experience required:

• Proven experience in bookkeeping, demonstrating a strong understanding of accounting principles.
• Proficient in excel, word and ideally zero.
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy in data entry.
• Highly organised and attention to detail.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with staff and suppliers.
• Be familiar with HMRC requirements.
• Be able to work independently and without supervision.
• Able to adhere to reporting deadlines.