Senior Influencing and Partnerships Manager Scotland
- Full time
- £45,000
- Home working with requirement to travel around Scotland
- Closing 19th February 2023
- Advertised from 10th February 2023
- Permanent Hours: 35hrs p/w Days: Monday - Friday
Role
Place2Be is a leading children's mental health charity with over 20 years’ experience working with pupils, families and staff in Scottish schools. Place2Be’s vision is for all children and young people to have the support they need to build lifelong coping skills and thrive. We believe that children and young people should not have to face mental health problems alone.
Place2Be is seeking to recruit an outstanding individual to join Place2Be’s Scotland team as our Senior Influencing and Partnerships Manager. This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to join an impactful and dynamic charity focused on improving children’s mental health. We're looking for someone who is a great communicator, strategic, creative, flexible and above-all puts the children at the heart of everything they do. Day to day, you will be fostering relationships with a broad r, Trusts & Foundations, local authorities and Universities, as well as from the public, commercial and third sector.
You will also lead on the operational management and business development of our learning and development offer, so you will need to be highly organised. Previous experience of leading influencing and stakeholder engagement activity at a national level is highly desirable. However, if you are able to evidence significant policy and comms experience, a high level of organisation and a genuine passion for the work of Place2Be, we would also like to hear from you.
What will I be responsible for in my new role?
You will:
- play a lead role in devising a strategy for and managing Place2Be’s influencing activities across parliamentary, public policy, Scottish government and communication channels in order to secure funding, build partnerships and raise our profile as a leading provider of school-based mental health services in Scotland
- raise awareness of our work by engaging with key stakeholders, understand how it fits in the evolving policy landscape and the emergent opportunities to help us expand into more schools
- bring professional expertise and insight to shape Place2Be Scotland’s work
- lead on the operational management and business development of the learning and development offer within Scotland
- lead on the expansion of the learning programmes to new audiences
- manage existing multi-year contracts, working closely with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure delivery of an outstanding experience from enquiry through to programme completion
Diversity and Inclusion
Place2Be is committed to equal opportunities and anti-discrimination practices and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are particularly interested in attracting applications from applicants from diverse groups.
For our clinical roles we are particularly keen in attracting male candidates, and to reflect the diversity of the partner schools and communities we work in.
We are fully committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults.
About You
The successful candidate will have:
- Strong analytical and project management skills
- Previous experience of leading influencing and stakeholder engagement activity at a national level
- Previous skills and experience in working successfully across parliamentary, public policy and communications functions
- Expert knowledge of the workings of the Scottish Parliament, Scottish and Local Government
- Experience in translating policy context to development and delivery environment
- Knowledge of the policy context surrounding children’s mental health in Scotland
- Experience of contact management databases for recording contact with stakeholders
- The ability to initiate, build and maintain sustainable key stakeholder relationships internally and externally
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- The ability to find ways to overcome conflict and challenges
- Working knowledge in using Microsoft Office, emails, cloud-based technology and the internet
- Confident and persuasive networking and communications skills
A Project Management qualification or significant equivalent experience (4+ years)
Significant work experience (minimum 5 years) in a relevant field (charity, education and/or mental health)
1st Interview: 23rd February Zoom Video interview
Please feel free to contact our Recruitment team via jobs@place2be.org.uk if you have any questions about this role.
In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:
- Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
- Robust Learning and Development Programme
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance, 4x Annual Salary
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mobile Phone Discounts (EE Network)
- Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
- Extended Maternity/Paternity Pay
If you share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity and have the counselling skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people and families, we would love you to join us. It’s sensitive and demanding work – but hugely rewarding and fulfilling - you will be helping to give young people a brighter future.
About Us
Place2Be is the leading children's mental health charity providing in-school support and expert professional development to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and young people, families, teachers and school staff. The charity currently provides an embedded mental health service in almost 400 UK primary and secondary schools supporting a school community of around 225,000 children and young people.
Our teams provide a range of services in our partner schools to build resilience early in life through counselling, creative work and play and support a child’s ability to engage in school life.
Through our professional development programme, we are training c1200 Counsellors on Placement each year who build their mental health and counselling skills and experience through practice in our partner schools. We also provide a range of professional development programmes on mental health and wellbeing for school leaders, teachers and other professionals who work with children and young people, so we can help to build ‘mentally healthy’ schools and communities where all children can thrive and flourish.
We continue to pilot, trial and explore new ways in which we can develop our practice as well as share learning, expertise and findings from the robust evidence and evaluation we gather. HRH The Princess of Wales is our Royal Patron and Place2Be is one of the founding charity partners of Heads Together. We also work collaboratively with a range of charities and expert organisations to leverage best-in-class knowledge and expertise to inform, develop and improve outcomes for the children, families and schools we support.
Application notes
To find out more and apply please visit our website
Closing date: 19 February 2023
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About us
Express Group Fife is a well-established mental health charity operating in Fife for almost fifty years. We provide group activities for people over 18 experiencing poor mental health. The aim of the groups is to promote positive mental wellbeing by providing a safe place for sharing experiences and peer support.
There are currently 12 groups across Fife each week, supporting about 150 individuals during the year. Every person’s story is unique, and everyone’s route home is different - it doesn’t matter what the situation is – we’re not here to judge, only to help.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join experienced and dedicated team of staff and volunteers working together to make a difference to people’s lives and create real community impact.
As well as leading the team, the Service Manager will contribute to the ongoing development and growth of the charity, ensuring all services are delivered to a high standard.
Key responsibilities include:
- Operational management
- Staff and volunteer management
- Finance, fundraising and accountability
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Communication, marketing and promotion
- Proactive development of the service to meet the needs of service users in line with current mental health strategies in Fife
About you
Our values make us who we are and define our actions and behaviours every day. We’d expect the post-holder to represent our organisation in a way that reflects our values and person-centred way of working.
You will be a strong leader who has gained experience in third sector not for profit organisation. You will have knowledge and understanding of the key issues facing those experiencing poor mental health in Scotland today. You will also have a working knowledge of current legislation, policies and strategies relating to the role.
Some of the criteria and qualities for this post include:
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrable management experience
- Experience of, and success in, securing grant funding
- Ability to build relationships with a wide range of people
- Organised and proactive, creative, and solution-focused
Team Leader Midlothian Recovery & Justice Service
- Full time
- £31,690
- On site: Scottish Borders and Midlothian
- Closing 9th January 2026
We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our Midlothian Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Team. This post is funded by Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership.
We have an exciting leadership opportunity to join our South Services team as the Team Leader for the Scottish Borders Community Mental Health Team and the Midlothian Recovery and Justice Team. Within this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the day-to-day delivery of our community mental health and wellbeing services.
You should have experience in; leading and managing services, staff leadership and development, supporting people with their mental health and wellbeing, working as part of a team, meeting funding targets, data analysis and reporting.
If you have experience in these areas and are passionate about supporting people to fulfil their potential, we’d love to hear from you!
Counselling Lead
- Part time
- £36,050 pro-rata
- On site: Stafford Centre, Edinburgh
- Closing 19th January 2026
About Us
Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing non-clinical, person-centred support to people in communities across Scotland. With over 50 years’ experience, we are fighting for a future where no one faces mental illness alone. We are changing society by changing attitudes, fighting stigma and influencing government to ensure a better of quality of life for those affected by poor mental health and mental illness. As a charity supporting over 10,000 people year, we believe everyone should have access to the support they need, when they need it and in a way which works best for them.
About the Role
As a Counselling Lead, you will manage the Counselling Support team and the service alongside the Head of Services. You will oversee the day-to-day running of the services whilst being responsible for managing all stakeholders involved.
You will also report on outcomes achieved and help promote and develop the services in your region. A skilled practitioner, you will have a good understanding and knowledge of counselling services and an understanding of the health and social care landscape. An empathic and motivating manager, you will be able to bring out the best in others by developing, guiding and supporting your team and enabling them to provide high-quality, person-centred counselling and support services.
The Counselling Lead will be responsible for line-managing and supervising staff and consultants who deliver specialist counselling support people affected by mental health issues, as well as their own caseload. This role includes developing and implementing an induction programme for counsellor roles, carrying out safe recruitment and providing high quality therapeutic support. The post-holder will take a trauma-informed approach and build a supportive and reflective culture, in line with Change Mental Health values. The Counselling Lead will work alongside both the local and national management team to contribute to the operational and strategic leadership of the local service, and of the overarching counselling programme that Change Mental Health are committed to developing.
Reports To: Head of Edinburgh Services
Disclosure & Barring Check: This post will be subject to a PVG check for working with vulnerable adults.
Community Activities Organiser - Central Aberdeenshire
- Part time
- £24,643 – £25,974 pro-rata
- On site: Aberdeenshire
- Closing 5th January 2026
Who we are
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 and fund vital dementia research.
What you’ll do
Our Community Activities Organisers are vital in providing front line support. This includes:
- Supporting individuals to stay connected to their local communities, engage in their interests and hobbies, and access peer support.
- Developing ideas and leading the way towards exciting and new activities to promote brain health.
Our groups are community based and the Community Activities Organiser is responsible for the planning and delivery of all activities, ensuring reflective practice through our activity evaluations and feedback from the people we support.
What you’ll have
Successful applicants will have a positive approach to dementia and brain health, with a passion to make a difference. You will have good communication and computer skills, a caring attitude and most of all enthusiasm for the role. You will be confident in planning activities in advance and leading any volunteers supporting at your group.
Applicants must have a full and valid driving license and vehicle to be able to travel for this role (mileage and expenses are paid).
For a full job description and person specification please see the attachments section of this advert.
The successful candidate for this post will be required to provide proof of right to work in the UK and will also be subject to a PVG check through Disclosure Scotland.
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