Help People Rebuild Their Lives

At Change Mental Health, we know everyone deserves the chance to live a full life regardless of the challenges they face with mental health.

For over 50 years, we've worked with people across the country affected by enduring mental ill health to rebuild confidence, build new connections, and achieve goals important to them.

We're looking for a compassionate and motivated Project Worker to join our team in Invergordon. In this role, you'll work directly with people experiencing mental health challenges and you'll provide practical and emotional support that helps them move forward in their recovery journey.

This is a permanent, 16-hour per week role.

Working as part of a supportive team, you'll build positive relationships, help people identify goals and work to them, facilitate activities and groups, and create a safe, supportive and welcoming environment where individuals feel valued and empowered.

What You'll Bring (Essential Criteria)

• Experience working in health, social care, community support or related fields
• Empathy, care, person-centred practice focused on recovery
• Excellent communication, IT, and workload priority skills

Great to Have (Desirable Criteria)

• Experience supporting people affected by mental ill health.
• Experience working within an SSSC registered service.
• Evidence of ongoing learning and professional development.
• SVQ Level 2 in a relevant discipline

Why Join Change Mental Health?

• Generous annual leave: up to 37 days holiday to rest, recharge and spend time doing what matters (from day one!)
• Mental wellbeing support: paid mental wellbeing days, access to award-winning employee assistance programmes.
• Flexible and blended working: we trust our people to work in a way that supports individual wellbeing and excellence in delivery, so where possible, we'll work to be flexible.
• Cycle to work, Blue Light Card, Season Ticket Loan all part of the package.

Most importantly, you'll join a supportive organisation working to improve mental health and wellbeing across Scotland, where your contribution will make a genuine difference to people's lives.

About Us:

Murray’s Initiative (formally known as Glasgow Council on Alcohol) is an independent Scottish charity that works to reduce alcohol and drug-related harm at both individual and community levels. Established in 1965, Murray’s Initiative adopts a long-term, trauma-informed and asset-based approach to changing the culture around substance use. Its services are built on a person-centred, harm-reduction model, supporting people whether their goal is to reduce consumption or achieve abstinence.

Murray’s Initiative offers free, confidential counselling services for people concerned about their own or someone else's drinking. Murray’s Initiative delivers a range of interventions including groupwork and employability support as well as a number of holistic and inclusive services, such as a women’s service for survivors of gender-based violence, young persons peer education service, LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing support and tailored wellbeing programmes.

Murray’s Initiative is also a recognised provider of professional development, oAering a comprehensive training portfolio including education aimed at increasing awareness of alcohol use and promoting healthier lifestyles, COSCA Counselling Skills and a Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Murray’s Initiative deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire, helping people make meaningful, positive change in their lives.

The foundation of Murray’s Initiative is our supportive and inclusive culture for all who engage and work with us.

About the Role: Based within the Men’s Health and Wellbeing Service at Murray’s Initiative, the role of Men’s Wellbeing Support Worker is to provide one-to-one health and wellbeing support to men who have experienced both trauma and addiction. The Wellbeing Support Worker will help individuals to achieve positive health and wellbeing outcomes and also facilitate groups as a key part of their role.

The Wellbeing Support Worker will report to the Service Manager – Wellbeing. This post requires membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme membership for children and protected adults.

Successful applicants will be required to join the PVG Scheme.

About Us:

Murray’s Initiative (formerly known as Glasgow Council on Alcohol) is an independent Scottish charity that works to reduce alcohol and drug-related harm at both individual and community levels. Established in 1965, Murray’s Initiative adopts a long-term, trauma-informed and asset-based approach to changing the culture around substance use. Its services are built on a person-centred, harm-reduction model, supporting people whether their goal is to reduce consumption or achieve abstinence.

Murray’s Initiative offers free, confidential counselling services for people concerned about their own or someone else's drinking. Murray’s Initiative delivers a range of interventions including groupwork and employability support as well as a number of holistic and inclusive services, such as a women’s service for survivors of gender-based violence, young persons peer education service, LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing support and tailored wellbeing programmes.

Murray’s Initiative is also a recognised provider of professional development, offering a comprehensive training portfolio including education aimed at increasing awareness of alcohol use and promoting healthier lifestyles, COSCA Counselling Skills and a Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Murray’s Initiative deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire, helping people make meaningful, positive change in their lives.

The foundation of Murray’s Initiative is our supportive and inclusive culture for all who engage and work with us.

About the Role:

The role of Peer Education Support Worker will support our peer-led Harm Reduction Service (U-Turn), benefiting young people aged 12 – 25 years old. This service is funded by Young Start from The National Lottery.

The main focus of this service is to provide Peer Education, with the added provision of one to one support for young Peer Educators. The service adopts an active citizenship approach when working with young people. There will be an expectation that the Peer Educators will work towards achieving qualifications through training and as a result of the work they undertake.

The service specifically targets some of the most vulnerable young people in areas where Murray’s Initiative currently delivers services, aiming to reduce the harm caused by alcohol and other drugs within their communities.

The Peer Educators will be supported to deliver peer-led inputs to other Young People on issued-based topics, with a focus to incorporate a harm reduction approach as well as a separate element of addressing stigma/language around drug and alcohol use.

The Peer Education Support Worker will report to the Service Manager – Education & Development.

This post requires a Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme membership for both Children and Adults -successful applicants will be required to join the PVG Scheme.

We’re hiring a dedicated Women’s Hub Support and Trauma Worker

WRASAC supported by partners across the Dundee were responsible for the setting up, development and facilitation of Dundee Women’s Hub (DWH).

The main aim of the DWH is to increase capacity and co-ordination of services to respond to the needs of the women experiencing substance use and multiple disadvantage. The hub has been working to improve access to substance use and related services for women in Dundee with the overall goal of improving physical and emotional wellbeing for women who experience substance use and multiple disadvantages.

The Childcare Connector 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 supporting the delivery of various components which contribute to the Dundee service, including proactively supporting single parents to find, secure and access flexible childcare that meets their needs, allowing single parents to progress within their current employment, enter employment or enrol in education or training.

The role will include direct work with single parents to understand their needs, their current childcare limitations, and their current barriers to work, education or training. Liaising with childcare providers within Dundee, helping single parents access flexible childcare options and know and understand flexible payment options at local and national level is a key element of this role. This role will include networking and events to promote the Childcare Connector service and will include outreach work with single parents, stakeholders, and partners in and around Dundee.

All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. Our core values of Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration and Compassion are at the heart of everything we do and underpin all aspects of our work.

Shakti is a feminist Black Minority Ethnic voluntary organisation which offers information, advocacy, emotional/practical support and refuge/temporary accommodation to all Black Minority Ethnic women and their children, who are experiencing or fleeing domestic abuse.

Shakti is seeking to recruit an experienced Assistant Finance Worker / SMV Fund Coordinator with relevant accounting qualifications. Your role will involve assisting and supporting the lead Finance Worker to ensure the day-to-day finance and accounts tasks are carried out effectively.

The post holder must have relevant accounting qualifications; have at least 1 year experience of general accounting and reconciliation work to audit level, a sound knowledge of Sage 50 Accounts, Excel, must be IT literate, have good keyboard skills with good planning, organisational and communication skills. The post holder must have knowledge and understanding of no recourse to public funds, domestic abuse and honour-based abuse within Black Minority Ethnic communities.

This is a full-time post compromising of two roles (21 hours per week Assistant Finance Worker and 14hrs per week Supporting Migrant Women (SMV) Fund Coordinator; based in Edinburgh.

We are seeking a Family Support Worker (0.6 FTE) to join our team. This post will support the delivery of the Forth Valley Family Support Service. This includes delivering community-based services that specifically address the needs of families affected by alcohol and drugs.

The post-holder will be responsible for delivering a range of family support services which address the specific needs of families and support groups, including evidence-based interventions, with the assistance and support of the Senior/Family Support Development Officer – Forth Valley. This includes facilitating family support groups and working with individuals on a one-to-one basis; providing advocacy to support groups and individual family members, and actively promoting family recovery and family inclusive practice.

The post has a Forth Valley wide remit and will involve significant travel throughout the region and some to our offices in Glasgow. It is expected that the post holder will be required to work some evenings and occasional weekends. This post will be part of Scottish Families’ staff team and be supervised by the Senior/Family Support Development Officer – Forth Valley.

We are seeking applicants who are educated to HNC level, vocational qualification (level 3) or relevant professional qualification; have experience of direct client work, group work, direct work with families and understanding of the voluntary sector; with knowledge of issues affecting families affected by substance use. Candidates should be able to effectively and sensitively advocate for others, with strong organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.

Renfrewshire Women’s Aid, founded in 1987, is a feminist organisation which chooses to operate a Collective Management Structure and had done so since its inception. working for women, children and young people who are or have experienced domestic abuse.

Purpose Of The Post

As a collective member of Renfrewshire Women’s Aid SCIO (RWA), you will provide a holistic and flexible service through one to one and group work support to a high standard to women, children and young people with experience of domestic abuse, and required to participate in all aspects of the children’s service. In addition, you will undertake and provide managerial duties as required by Renfrewshire Women’s Aid collective.

The Childcare Connector 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 supporting the delivery of various components which contribute to the Dundee service, including proactively supporting single parents to find, secure and access flexible childcare that meets their needs, allowing single parents to progress within their current employment, enter employment or enrol in education or training.

The role will include direct work with single parents to understand their needs, their current childcare limitations, and their current barriers to work, education or training. Liaising with childcare providers within Dundee, helping single parents access flexible childcare options and know and understand flexible payment options at local and national level is a key element of this role. This role will include networking and events to promote the Childcare Connector service and will include outreach work with single parents, stakeholders, and partners in and around Dundee.

All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. Our core values of Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration and Compassion are at the heart of everything we do and underpin all aspects of our work.

No child should face hospital alone

Are you passionate about supporting young people through life’s toughest moments?

We’re looking for a compassionate and creative Young People and family Support Officer to join our Children’s Wellbeing Service and help shape a new approach to wellbeing care in hospital.

If you thrive in emotionally complex environments, love building meaningful relationships, and want to make a real difference to children, young people and families, this could be the role for you.

Some of the things you’ll be doing:

In short, you’ll join a team of Family Support Officers and Youth workers working across the hospital, including oncology, mental health services and long term admissions, offering emotional support, practical help, and a calm, creative space for children, young people and families, bringing our mission to life and ensuring no child faces hospital alone.

More specifically, you’ll:

• Support children and young people experiencing distress and trauma, helping them feel safe, heard and empowered.
• Build strong relationships with families and hospital staff to identify those most in need of support.
• Deliver creative wellbeing activities using evidence-based approaches like the PACE model and ECHC’s bespoke Changemaker and Gamechanger programmes.
• Champion the rights of children and young people, ensuring they feel informed, included and in control throughout their hospital journey.
• Signpost and advocate connecting families with relevant services and speaking up on their behalf when needed.
• Evaluate impact gather data and feedback to help shape the future of our wellbeing services.

Let’s talk about you:

Must haves –

Proven experience supporting children, young people, and families, you're confident working directly with those who need it most.

Strong communicator with excellent listening skills.

Self-starter and team player, you can prioritise effectively, take initiative, and collaborate to meet shared goals.

Resilient and grounded, you stay calm and compassionate, even in emotionally challenging and traumatic situations.

Professional and approachable, you understand the importance of setting and maintaining healthy, respectful boundaries.

Nice to haves –

An understanding of trauma informed approaches, with a compassionate, sensitive response to children and families’ experiences.

Experienced in co-creation, you’ve designed and delivered services in genuine partnership with children, young people, and families, making sure their voices shape the support they receive.

Well connected and informed, you have knowledge of local and national services and know how to guide families toward the help they need.

Detail focused, you’re experienced in keeping accurate records, gathering data to show impact, and using it to inform and improve practice.

Why ECHC?

Working at ECHC is anything but ordinary. This isn’t just a youth work or family support role, it’s a unique opportunity to stand beside children and families during some of their toughest times, and to make a meaningful, lasting difference in their lives.

You’ll join a team of passionate, supportive colleagues who truly believe in our mission and in each other. We’ll trust you to lead with heart, think creatively, and yes, even have fun along the way.

We’ve got bold plans for the future, and we’re looking for someone just as driven and visionary to help grow our Children’s Wellbeing Services and take them to the next level.

Still reading? If you made it this far, we think there’s a strong chance you might be our kind of person. Even if you don’t tick every box, we want to encourage you to introduce yourself. Apply today.