If you’re looking for a rewarding career and to work within an inspirational team that really does make a difference, this is your opportunity to play a key role in our Midlothian Services.

We’re looking for a Service Manager to join our amazing Midlothian Service. As the Care Inspectorate Registered Manager, you will have a lead role and the overall responsibility for the day to day running of the services. This is an exciting new post which means the right person will have the opportunity to play a key role in leading our pioneering approach to support in Midlothian.

The Service Manager will work across two services - Mental Health & Resilience Service and Park Cottage Service in Midlothian.

Mental Health & Resilience Service (MHARS)

You and the team will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, alongside Midlothian's Community Mental Health Team, providing a distress/crisis line, a single point of access to MHARS for residents of Midlothian. The Penumbra team at MHARS will respond to calls in a manner guided by the service principles, being inclusive, sensitive, and respectful.

From the moment Penumbra answer the telephone, we will listen and ensure that we understand the issues that has led to the person’s crisis or distress and provide an immediate response along with the support of the Community Mental Health Team establishing which is the best and most appropriate support for that person. By understanding each person's unique situation, enables a fast, tailored support and assists them to identify ways to successfully resolve their crisis and or distress and assists everyone to plan for their future.

Once the initial period of crisis has been addressed, individuals accessing the service will be supported to make connections to additional statutory or community support and/or deliver a Distress Brief Intervention (DBI) response to those in distress. This will involve community-based problem-solving support, wellness, and distress management planning, supporting connections and signposting for a period of up to 14 days. The service will be flexible and responsive, offering the mode of support that the supported person feels most comfortable with. People accessing this service will be supported by the team to establish and maintain a meaningful and fulfilling life in their community.

Midlothian Park Cottage

Park Cottage is a community based mental health rehabilitation service for up to eight people with complex mental health needs. Penumbra offer 24 hour tailored person centred support, supported living and community rehabilitation. Support delivered at Park Cottage may be practical and emotional to help individuals lead an ordinary and fulfilling life in the community. The time, length and areas of activity covered are different for everyone, but structured support can include help with budgeting, life skills, confidence building and social inclusion for approximately 12-18 months. You will support and lead the team at Park Cottage to work alongside the Community Mental Health Team as part of the Wayfinder Model, to work collaboratively to support each individual and their needs. The team at Park Cottage are flexible and responsive, offering the mode of support that the supported person feels most comfortable with. Penumbra will assist people using this service, to establish and maintain a meaningful and fulfilling life in their community.

As a Service Manager you will manage, support, and supervise a diverse staff team of Mental Health Workers and Practitioners to ensure the needs of people accessing support are met and the service provided is run effectively. You will provide leadership and management that supports the Midlothian Team’s understanding and promotes the service delivery requirements and the quality of service provided.

We want you to grow and thrive! We can offer you a tonne of employee benefits, and we can promise you’ll be inspired by some pretty amazing humans every single day. We will support you on your own career path; developing new skills, accessing formal and informal learning experiences and providing opportunities to put your continual progress into practice.

If you want to inspire and be inspired every day. If you share our passion for exceptional support through creativity and collaboration. If you want to build your working life around meaningful connections with a pioneering charity who will value your contribution to our unique approach, then we want to hear from you.

Please see our Recruitment Pack for full job description and person specification.

An exciting new project where P2B will be working across Aberdeen City primaries with several position available.

As a Mental Health Practitioner/Counsellor, you will effectively manage all aspects of the Place2Be provision in partnership with the school ensuring that the children and young people are provided with therapeutic and emotional support, high quality clinical practice and delivery of a full and effective service in Place2Be schools. This includes undertaking clinical assessments and formulations.

Our teams provide a range of services in our partner schools to build resilience early in life through a range of universal and targeted interventions:

• therapeutic and psychoeducational group work
• brief structured one to one work
• digital platforms in partnership with external providers
• online and face to face parenting training and advice
• consultation with school staff

You will also undertake one to one or clinical or group work with children and/or young people and provide Place2Be services such as Place2Talk, Place2Think and Parent Partnership interventions as agreed with the Area Manager and school leadership team.

What difference will I make, working as a Mental Health Practitioner/Counsellor at Place2Be? - Watch our video to see how you can change the lives of primary and secondary school children all across the UK

You'll ensure high quality clinical practice and delivery of a full and effective service in Place2Be schools, by undertaking clinical assessments and formulations, identifying and delivering appropriate clinical interventions for children and young people, establishing positive, active and effective relationships with the school and Place2Be management team and actively participating in staff meetings to share best practice and develop clinical thinking, knowledge and learning.

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.

Additionally, for our clinical roles we are particularly keen in attracting male candidates to reflect the diversity of the partner schools and communities we work in.

All successful applicants to clinical roles will be asked to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure from the DBS/PVG.

We are an organisation that is fully committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and take this responsibility seriously.

About You

The successful candidate:

Will have a recognised counselling or therapy qualification with substantial post-qualifying experience, along with a good knowledge of the school environment. Most important of all is your approach; we are an exciting, dynamic organisation doing amazing work so we're looking for people with the enthusiasm and commitment to match our own.

You will:

• Hold a recognised clinical qualification (in counselling, psychotherapy, clinical psychology, Art/Dance/Drama/Music Therapy)
• Hold a recognised membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. BACP/UKCP/NCS/BPS/HCPC)
• Experience in a clinical role with experience and understanding of working with children, young people and schools
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the importance of embedding Assessment and Formulation in clinical practice
• Experience of safeguarding child protection procedures and policy and commitment to safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults
• Show an understanding of how to run an effective school based mental health project and managing and accounting for overall caseload
• Have previous experience in developing project plans into sensible, timely actions that meet the expectations of the school and more senior colleagues

We welcome applications from qualified counsellors who feel that although they may not meet all the requirements for this role, they have an energy and passion for working with young people in other settings. Demonstrating a willingness and enthusiasm to learn are key components and each application will be looked at individually.

Recruitment process

we have an ongoing requirement for Mental Health Practitioner/Counsellor's in Aberdeen, currently accepting applicants until June 2023 and interview will be arranged as application come through.

1st Interview date: to be arranged via Video call Teams or Zoom

Please feel free to contact the area manager Sophia.sives@place2be.org.uk if you have any questions about this role; or if you have any questions about the application process, please feel free to contact the recruitment team via jobs@place2be.org.uk

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.

Please view/download the full Job Description and Person Specification on our website for further details.

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 500 UK primary and secondary schools supporting a school community of around 243,000 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. Our work, focused on early intervention, is part of the comprehensive CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) system.

Through our professional development programme, we are training around 1,200 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. We ask our staff team to share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity, and to have the skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable children and families.

Our values:

We believe that how we approach our work is as important as the work itself. Our four key values shape everything we do:

Compassion– We bring empathy and kindness to all we do, to better understand and meet the needs of children and young people, colleagues and other stakeholders.

Integrity– We demonstrate sound ethical values in all our work, and we are honest, transparent, courageous and authentic.

Perseverance– We have the courage to continue in the face of adversity and do this with determination to find effective solutions.

Creativity – We bring an open-minded approach and flexibility to our thinking and actions and enable others to do the same.

We wish to appoint a new Treasurer following our Treasurer stepping down after many years of service.

In outline, the role is to:

• To be part of the BLT and provide support and advice in relation to financial matters

• To manage the branch’s finances

• To oversee and present budgets, accounts and financial statements

• To ensure that proper accounts and records are kept and financial resources are spent and invested in line with good governance, legal and regulatory requirements

• To be instrumental in the development and implementation of financial, reserves and investment policies

• To liaise with, guide and advise our part-time Administrative Secretary on the financial aspects of her role

• To attend meetings and report on the branch’s financial position as and when required

• To prepare an annual financial statement for Samaritans Central Charity

• To ensure income and expenditure is processed in line with branch policies and procedures

• To act as a signatory on cheques (including any electronic transactions) and any applications for funds

• To oversee the payment of volunteer expenses as agreed by the BLT

• To liaise with the branch’s bankers and payroll agency as/when required.

A full role description is attached below

Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity. We have represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for 100 years. Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others.

These services together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change. SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.

For Scotland’s Mental Health

About the Role

Are you an enthusiastic supporter-focused person looking to join an ambitious, motivated, and highly successful fundraising team?

Do you want to contribute to furthering and maximising SAMH’s fundraising potential?

As Fundraising Coordinator, you will be a champion for the supporter experience, acting as first line of contact for all fundraisers and donors for SAMH, and you will be crucial to ensuring we deliver first class supporter care at all times.

What we are looking for

You will be a driven, highly motivated individual with a great telephone manner and ability to connect with people from all backgrounds. A self-starter, you will put supporter needs and motivations at the heart of SAMH’s activity, enabling the Fundraising team to meet our ambitious goals and fundraising strategy.

As part of the Fundraising Operations team, you will work alongside the Fundraising Operations Manager to deliver administrative and logistical support to the wider Fundraising team, leading on stock management, thanking, and acting as the first point of contact for all supporters, whether by telephone, mail, digital, or in person.

At SAMH people are our biggest asset and, through their dedication, skills, compassion and resilience, we are proud to provide recovery focused support and help to a record number of people across Scotland

Our ideal candidate will be a confident communicator and talented coordinator with great attention to detail who wants to be part of a team committed to making a difference for Scotland’s mental health.

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;

• 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

• 4 public holidays

• 2 paid wellbeing days off per year to use on what matters to you.

• Team wellbeing budgets

• Workplace pension scheme

• Life Assurance policy

• Employee Assistance Programme