We have an exciting opportunity to join Alzheimer Scotland as a Finance Assistant.

Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information to people with dementia, their carers and families, we campaign for the rights of people with dementia, support vital dementia research and promote positive brain health.

We are seeking applications from individuals with strong administrative experience within a complex organisation and who possess the skills to take on the tasks outlined in the job description.

Prior exposure to a transactional finance function would be desirable.

We are recruiting for 2 Finance Assistants:

One role will have a primary focus on our accounts receivable function ensuring all accounts receivable documents are issued, recorded, and reported on our systems timely and accurately.

The other role will have a primary focus on our accounts payable function, mainly ensuring our staff expense claims and similar accounts payable documents are processed in line with deadlines and procedures. Both roles will support with the wider finance function and tasks when required.

You will be a strong communicator and able to balance competing priorities. You will have experience of working with a wide range of office systems including Microsoft 365 and databases or financial systems.

If you’re interested by what you’ve read, and have the necessary skills, experience, and ability to make a success of this role, we would be delighted to hear from you.

The successful candidate for this post will be subject to a criminal check through Disclosure Scotland.

What I do and what I achieve

• Oversee the safe and efficient operational delivery, practice, and development of services in the North of Scotland, including the Highlands and Aberdeenshire

• Lead, support and motivate the team in your specific areas to ensure high quality person-centred service delivery

• Provide strategic leadership for the services in my area and contribute to the strategic development of services nationally as a member of the National Management Team

• Be an active member of the National Management Team and contribute to the implementation of Change Mental Health’s vision, mission, values and strategy

Financial and supervisory responsibility

• Set, manage and oversee local budgets in consultation with the Deputy Director: National Services, Director of Services and the Head of Finance

• Ensure local value for money in the delivery of high-quality services

• Build relationships with key stakeholders to successfully facilitate budget conversations

• Line Manage staff, as required, to ensure the successful delivery of services in specific areas of Scotland

Other key details

• Includes some evening and weekend working where required, time off in lieu will be given in accordance with Change Mental Health’s TOIL policy

• A satisfactory PVG check will be required.

• Being part of an on-call rota to support staff, as and when required

Who I am

1. Hold the appropriate qualifications to be a Registered Manager with the Care Inspectorate, or a willingness to work towards obtaining the appropriate qualifications

2. Passionate about improving the outcomes for people affected by their mental health

3. Demonstratable experience of operationally leading, managing and developing services and line managing staff

4. Evidence of being able to use own initiative and make competent decisions using sound judgement

5. Evidence of problem solving effectively and supporting others to work through complex and difficult situations

6. Experience of successfully leading, managing and supporting a team, keeping them engaged and motivated

7. Ability to innovate, looking to constantly improve what we do and how we can clearly evidence our impact

8. Evidence of being a flexible and strong communicator who builds positive relationships, both internally and externally, and has advanced networking skills

9. Ability to work comfortably with the detail of strong operational service delivery and balancing this with working strategically

10. Evidence of being a reflective practitioner; being comfortable and open to receiving and acting on feedback to improve practice

11. Knowledge and experience of following safeguarding processes and procedures and guiding and supporting others with safeguarding and adult protection concerns

12. IT literate, able to maintain and develop effective administration and information management systems

13. Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to manage a high-volume workload with deadlines and manage conflicting priorities

14. Willingness to travel throughout different parts of Scotland, including national office

15. Commitment

Benefits

Professional development including funded opportunities

A generous 37 days’ holiday

A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan

A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment

24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges

Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements

Paid Mental Wellbeing Days

Cycle to Work Scheme

Blue Light Discount Card

Change Mental Health have an exciting opportunity at Edinburgh Stafford Centre, for someone with a passion for empowerment, who is looking to use their skills and experience in Group Work to support service users to develop new skills and enhance existing ones.

In this varied and exciting role, you will support service users to achieve their identified goals by facilitating structured group activities that allow those taking part to be involved in social groups and to improve existing skills, as well as develop new ones.

Who are we looking for?

The ideal candidate should be someone who can work as part of a team, be creative in their approach to working with people, have excellent communication skills and have a sense of humour. They should be educated to SVQ Level 2 or its equivalent and have experience of working with people in groups.

We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and the charity and are a “Happy to Talk Flexible” employer.

The part time post is for 12 hours per week, working days are: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and the full time post is 35 hours per week, working days are Monday to Friday.

If you are passionate about enabling Change Mental Health to deliver a valuable service to the community and feel your profile matches this role’s criteria, then we want to hear from you!

Why work with us?

Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique support to people with severe and enduring mental ill health.

With 50 years’ experience across Scotland, we believe people affected by poor mental health and illness deserve the highest quality of support in the community and that every person has the right to be valued and to share in the opportunities, challenges, and joys of everyday life.

Our person-centred approach puts the people we work with at the heart of what we do ensuring they have greater opportunity, can build confidence and social skills, and become more integrated into their communities. By building connections and support around individual needs, our team of nearly 200 staff and 800 members value the lived experience which informs the services we deliver. We look beyond illness by taking a holistic approach that ensures no one has to face mental ill health alone.

Benefits

• Professional development including funded opportunities.
• A generous 37 days’ holiday.
• A 35-hour working week & access to a season ticket loan.
• A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment.
• 24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges.
• Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements
• Paid Mental Wellbeing Days
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Blue Light discount card

We have an exciting and new opportunity to join the Engagement and Income Generation Team at Health in Mind.

People tell us what we do is special and unique – it’s the Health in Mind way. We’re looking for someone who can share hopeful stories showing how people can benefit from Health in Mind’s range of services and supports, while motivating and engaging people to come to us to receive support, encouraging them to give their support and to fundraise for us.

Within this role you’ll also be the first point of contact for all media enquiries, lead on campaigns, build our case studies and photography banks and oversee our printed publications. You’ll also be an active member of our Leadership and Management Team at Health in Mind.

We look for a range of experience, skills and knowledge. The most important aspect for us is values fit. You can find out more about us and the team in the role profile.

If you feel a connection with our approach and values, we'd love to hear from you even if you don't have all the required experience, skills and knowledge. We can help you develop those.