- Advertised from 2nd June 2023
- Working hours are Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm, plus some evening and weekend work when required.
Role
If you are passionate about engaging with communities to support people during difficult times in their life and have experience of leading a team of people to do just that, then this might be the job you have been waiting for!
Our vibrant and busy service in North West Glasgow provides support to people concerned about their own or someone else's alcohol or drug use. We have a service base in Maryhill but much of our work is carried out in the local community. We work with people at all stages on their journey providing both one to one appointments and group work.
We are looking for a motivated, experienced and hard-working Community Engagement Coordinator to join our thriving and diverse team, ensuring recovery opportunities are available for individuals at any point in their recovery journey. You will strive to work collaboratively with partners and communities, ensuring that we are as accessible as possible and that the principles of a Recovery Oriented System of Care and true person centred practice are at the heart of all that we do. You will promote We Are With You Community Engagement Projects involving Project Volunteers, Recovery Champions, Peer Mentors and the wider community. You will recruit, train, supervise and support members of the team to ensure an excellent service is provided
About the job
You will have responsiblity for recruiting, training, managing and making the very best use of our volunteers including Recovery Champions, Students, Peer Mentors and Peer Supporters across the services you support.
To get the most from our volunteers you will understand where they can offer most value, whether that is working within our own services or supporting local partner agencies. You will represent your team's aims and objectives across our organisation, working with other specialist areas to secure funding for your work and promote your successes.
Researching, designing and delivering training to our volunteers is a really important part of this role too, ensuring they have the skills and knowledge needed to deliver what we ask of them.
REQUIRED SKILLS
To be able to carry out this job successfully you will:
- hold a Volunteer Management Qualification (or commitment to complete one within 18 months) or SQV Level 3 in Social Services & Healthcare or equivalent
- hold a training qualification and experience of designing and delivering training
- have experience of working in health or social care for a minimum of 2 years
- be a successful team manager, able to develop people to acheive their goals
- have experience of working in partnership with a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies
- have a knowledge and understanding of health and safety and managing high risk situations
- have an understanding of the issues facing those who misuse substances, the harm these can cause and the treatment available
- be able to work under pressure and prioritise, even when faced with conflicting demands
- be able to work effectively in a team and build successful working relationships, using the network you have built to support your work
- be able to travel to visit With You sites when required
- have good written and oral communication skills
- be comfortable using IT packages and digital media
This role requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS certificate.
DESIRABLE SKILLS
A full job description is available upon request
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.
At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that’s staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that’s right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online.
We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year.
We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.
We Are With You.
As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people and armed forces veterans.
As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. With You is also Disability Confident Committed and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.
If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.
BENEFITS
- Competitive salary
- 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (change holiday entitlement where required)
- 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
- Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
- Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
- Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
- We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period
Application notes
Lifelink are looking for a new member for their leadership team.
If you are an experienced, enthusiastic Assistant Manager (or have the required experience, skills & aptitude) with existing experience of managing people and service delivery to achieve performance targets and outcomes - then we want to hear from you ASAP!
Our new Assistant Manager will be responsible for ensuring smooth delivery of Lifelink’s day to day operations. This will include scheduling and managing people and facilities to ensure they are available and ready to meet the needs of our clients. They will support and performance manage a team of staff, develop and maintain local partnerships, deliver corporate training and community-based workshops and contribute to service delivery and development, amongst other activities.
This is a busy and demanding role with a lot of variety. As such we are looking for energetic, positive, solution focused individuals who have experience in these areas. We expect you to take our local services to the next level by providing excellent local leadership and ensuring our services remain at the leading edge, whilst meeting the needs of our service users, our business partners and our business.
You must have:
- Demonstrable experience of managing staff and service delivery
- A clear understanding of distress, anxiety, stress and mental health issues and the challenges these present to service users
- Educated to degree level/professional qualification in a supervisory or management field (or evidence of equivalent work experience and willingness to undertake ongoing CPD)
- Excellent IT skills and be comfortable with use of mobile technology
- A valid driving licence and access to own vehicle
Ideally you will have:
- Experience of overseeing confidential one to one client support services
- Experience of providing staff training / coaching to improve service outcomes and quality
- Experience of monitoring and reporting around resources and service delivery outputs
Additional benefits include generous holiday allowance, contributory pension scheme (6% from employer), cash back health plan, life cover, holiday purchase scheme, and 2 wellbeing days. Our services operate daytime, evenings and weekends and people friendly working arrangements and patterns are available.
We’re looking for a Projects Coordinator to join our team!
Are you passionate about bringing people, services and organisations together to create a mental health system powered by lived experience?
Together we can make Scotland a place where people expect mental health recovery. A place where support is easily accessible at all stages of the recovery journey.
With a team of 10, Scottish Recovery Network delivers a number of exciting and innovative programmes to support recovery approaches in Scotland. The voice of people with lived experience of mental health problems has always been central to the development of our work. We take a collaborative approach to bringing people with lived experience and other key stakeholders together to inform policy and shape the design and delivery of support and services.
We are looking for an experienced project manager with great organisational and people skills to join our team! You will be committed to values-based practice and mental health recovery and be excited by the opportunity to work with others to bring about much needed change in our mental health system.
Bipolar Scotland is at an exciting time in our story. We are part-way through our 5-year strategy “A Time to Move Forward” and are offering the opportunity for an exceptional candidate to play a key part in the expansion of the organisation.
Partly funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, we are seeking an experienced Volunteer Co-ordinator to recruit, train and support Volunteers across different functions. This will include support group facilitators, and lived-experience peer volunteers, as well as working alongside senior colleagues to recruit fundraising and social media volunteers. The successful candidate will be a proactive, passionate individual with the drive and initiative to be part of a forward-looking organisation. The ideal candidate will have direct experience of recruiting and supporting Volunteers, including excellent record keeping skills and a strong commitment to compliance with due process for the protection of vulnerable groups. Knowledge or experience of working with mental health conditions is not essential but will be helpful in appreciating the context of our work.
The successful candidate must have a current driving licence and access to a vehicle. The role covers the whole of Scotland and will be based at our new office in central Paisley, with the opportunity for hybrid working. Part-time applications will be considered.
Organisation Profile
Bipolar Scotland is Scotland’s charity for people living with bipolar. Our vision is for a good life for everyone in Scotland who lives with bipolar. We are member led, collaborative, advocates of peer support, focused on equality and rights based. See our website bipolarscotland.org.uk for further information.
Service Administrator Coordinator - Clydebank
- Part time
- £22,229 – £23,686 pro-rata
- West Dumbarton
- Closing 3rd October 2023
We are looking for an individual who can carry out a variety of duties within a locality office based in Clydebank that provides support for people with dementia and their carers, in a variety of environments, personalised to the individual’s needs across Dunbartonshire. You will act as the first point of contact for people phoning or calling at the service office and you should have a positive approach to dementia.
The role will consist of processing correspondence and other tasks such as photocopying, maintaining records, compiling statistics and databases for the Commissioned Service Lead and other staff as required. Strong IT skills essential. Ensure that all mail is collated, franked/ stamped and taken to the post office by the end of the working day.
Undertaking finance tasks in accordance with organisation guidelines. To assist in the preparation and issuing of invoices to carers, people with dementia and health and care partnership when applicable. To bank receipts, submit finance documents and records to the national office on a weekly basis, reconcile petty cash each month and to collate salary information and ensure that details are properly authorised with the Payroll Administrator by the due date each month.
You will also have good organisational and communication skills. Relevant qualifications and/or experience of working with people with dementia would be an advantage.
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