About the Role:

We are looking for a skilled and empathic individual to join our Sutherland team in Golspie as a Resource Centre Project Worker.

Our Resource Centre in Golspie offers a safe and welcoming environment for people affected by mental illness to meet, socialise and take part in supported activities and outings. This helps to encourage people to feel more involved, included and empowered in their lives. Effective support also promote increased self-confidence and independence in people who use the service.

With experience of support work, organising group activities, completing reports and a sound understanding of Mental Illness; the project worker will also be actively involved in promoting and developing the service in

Who are we looking for?

You will be responsible for compiling and reviewing development plans for people using the service, and ensure that the agreed outcomes are being achieved.

You are someone comfortable working in a team as well as autonomously, and are proactive in your own personal development and learning. The successful candidate will be required to be a member of, or willing to join the PVG scheme membership.

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

Why join 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, 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

We are pleased to be able to advertise the voluntary position of Chair/Trustee of Relationships Scotland - Counselling Highland.

This is a wonderful opportunity to join us, and support the organisation to fulfil its vision and assist with its mission to reach out to people across the Highlands who may be experiencing relationship challenges.

We believe strong and meaningful relationships build resilience in individuals and enhance communities.

• Our Vision is to build accessible, Highland-wide counselling services to enable couples and individuals to build healthy relationships.
• Our Mission is that our not-for-profit company will focus on sustainability and resilience through the development of income streams and partnerships, in order to build client-centred services across the Highlands.

Job Purpose: To further the work of Relationships Scotland Counselling Highland in line with its charitable objectives.

Main Tasks:

1. To lead the Board in ensuring that it fulfils its responsibilities for the governance of the organisation.
2. To line manage and work in partnership with the Management Team to achieve the mission of Relationships Scotland - Counselling Highland and the Relationships Scotland Network.
3. To optimise the relationship between the Board and the staff team.

Main Duties relating to:

1. Ensuring the Board fulfils its responsibilities:

• To chair meetings of the Board and ensure that it functions effectively and carries out its duties.
• To ensure that Board members set overall strategy and policy objectives.
• To ensure that the Board sets overall strategy and policy objectives
• To ensure that the organisation’s financial dealings are prudently and systematically accounted for, audited and publicly available.
• To monitor that decisions taken at meetings are implemented.
• With the Manager and Trustees, to develop appropriate and relevant agendas for meetings.
• In close consultation with Management make recommendations on the composition of the Board, and future chairs of the Board (with a view to succession).
• To work in consultation with Management to recruit board members and co-optees with specific/relevant expertise.
• To ensure that the Board annually reviews its structure, role, relationship to staff and implements agreed changes as necessary.
• To define and keep under review selection and performance criteria for board members.
• With Management to ensure that all board members receive appropriate advice, training and information relating to their role.
• To serve as an additional spokesperson for or promoter of the charity.

2. Helping Management to achieve the organisation’s mission

• To ensure that the board members develop a long-term strategy for the organisation together with the Management, with objectives that can be monitored.
• To monitor progress of the Relationships Scotland -Counselling Highland Strategic Development Plan
• To ensure that the appropriate resources (personnel, financial, material) are secured with which to achieve the outcomes of the strategy.
• To ensure that the Management Team delivers the annual plan and budget.
• To support, and monitor review the work of the Manager
• To lead the appraisal of all Board Members and the Manager
• To promote the organisation to a wider audience of potential donors and benefactors.

3. Optimising the relationship between board and staff, working with the Manager

• To ensure that the organisation has appropriate procedures
• To comply with the current employment and equal opportunities legislation and good practice
• To receive regular informal progress reports of the organisation’s work through the Manager
• To reflect to the board any concerns staff have in regard to the role of the board, it’s sub-committees or members; to relate the concerns of the board and other constituencies to the Manager
• In consultation with the Manager, to agree an annual calendar of meetings of the members of the board and major events for the organisation.

NOTE: Some of the duties listed above may be delegated to other board members.

For more information, please contact Anita Parker, Chair at chair@counsellinghighland.org.

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Additional benefits include:

• Generous holiday package
• Flexible working patterns
• Staff Wellbeing Scheme
• Learning and Development Policy to support staff training and development.

At U-evolve we believe in building resilient, confident, and thriving communities one young person at a time. We are trauma skilled mental health professionals, working 1:1 and in groups with young people. We focus on equipping our young people with our core values of confidence, resilience, and security as the foundations of healing, recovery, and personal growth.

Our therapeutic coaching team support the wellbeing of the young person to achieve the changes they want and need in their life by drawing on evidence-based theories and practices from Coaching Psychology, Counselling, Trauma Informed Practice and Therapy. We are driven by the belief that at all young people deserve support, opportunity and understanding to live their lives their way, regardless of where they are starting from, and that the young person is at centre leading the process, designing their healing journey.

We also work with the adults in young people’s network- building a trauma informed community-ensuring that they can effectively and compassionately support young people through the challenges they may be facing in a non-judgemental, accessible way.

We have recently moved into new premises giving us both a therapeutic and office space, creating the need for a new role within the organisation of a Finance and Administration Assistant. This is an office-based role which will provide crucial administration support to the CEO and delivery team. The Finance and Administration Assistant will:

• Provide effective financial processing to support the implementation of U-evolves finance policy and procedures.
• Provide administrative support to all parts of the organisation.
• Support the day-to-day operations of our office at Norton Park
• Requirements of the role

We are looking for an efficient and organised person with excellent communication skills to join our team. We look for people who share our vision, values, and drive to support young people to thrive. We are committed to the learning and development of our team, and we welcome applications from a wide range of experience and backgrounds.

Would you like to make a difference to the lives of People Living with Dementia in Midlothian?

We are looking for a unique individual who can provide person- centred support for those individuals living with dementia who attend our Day Care centre in Midlothian and Community Activity Groups.

Supporting individuals to keep connected to their communities, engage in their interests and hobbies and access peer support. Working during weekdays, the use of a car is essential (mileage and expenses are paid).

A flexible approach is essential, so you will have the ability and willingness to cover sessions in a planned way due to annual leave, training, or last minute cover.

Successful applicants will have a positive approach to dementia. You will also have good communication skills and a caring attitude. A willingness to learn and participate in training (including SVQ’s) and registration with the SSSC is essential. Relevant qualifications and/or experience of working with people with dementia would be an advantage.