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 almost 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

Redhall is a mental health service based in an award winning walled garden/six acre estate in Edinburgh. In a beautiful outdoor setting we promote recovery from mental ill health through therapeutic horticulture including organic gardening, conservation and team working. There is a strong group work emphasis, staff work with the people attending our service to develop and maintain the garden, plant nursery and estate which is open to the public on weekdays and occasional weekends. Duties also include key working responsibilities, supporting our service users with their personal development plans.

What we are looking for

We are seeking a creative, enthusiastic and practical individual to join our team of eight.

Applicants should have:

You will have experience in horticulture, ideally both garden and plant nursery work, and of supporting groups in an outdoor setting.

You will be able to demonstrate good communication skills and a mature attitude together with adaptability, creativity and enthusiasm. You will also have experience and a good understanding of working with mental health issues.

You will be required to work flexibly to suit the needs of the service including some evening and weekend working.

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;

• Reimbursement of PVG, Disclosure & SSSC annual fees and registration costs.
• 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

Do you have some experience of advice work, preferably with a focus on housing issues, the ability to lead and motivate others, and a real desire to make structural change for those facing homelessness and poor housing conditions? Then join Shelter Scotland as a Senior Housing Rights Worker and you could soon be playing a vital role in helping to identify and resolve the homelessness and bad housing issues facing local communities.

About Shelter Scotland

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet over a million people in Scotland struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter Scotland we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter Scotland and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the Team

Our three Communities Teams are responsible for identifying, investigating and intervening in housing and homelessness practice issues. We engage with our local communities to understand the issues people are facing and apply expert housing knowledge, insight and analysis to identify solutions to them. As well as providing advice and advocacy for individuals, we also use our insight, relationships and influence to drive systemic change, always ensuring that Lived Experience is at the heart of everything we do.

About the role

You’ll be responsible for delivering high quality housing advice, advocacy and casework to clients in community settings and remotely in line with local pressing issues, and managing others in this. You will develop relationships within the sector to gather evidence and insights into the impact of the housing emergency, and using those insights to drive systems change. You will lead on the development and delivery of a programme of capacity building, ensuring other organisations have the skills to act on housing rights. Influencing a range of stakeholders and decision makers across the housing sector will be important too.

You will act as a leader within the project and the wider Communities Team to help deliver and evidence our strategy at an operational level. We will count on you to line manage, supervise, coach and mentor a housing rights worker.

About you

To succeed, you’ll need to have experience of working with, and influencing, a range of internal and external stakeholders and enjoy collaborating with people from other teams and organisations. You’ll also need great time management skills, an enthusiasm for delivering workshops and presentations and a willingness to challenge practice and hold people to account. You’ll have a flair for leading and motivating others. Adept at engaging with individuals and communities, you enjoy gathering evidence and identifying insights, issues and trends. What’s more, you present information and arguments in a clear and compelling way and have excellent problem-solving skills. Proficiency using IT like Word, Excel, email, internet and in-house CRM systems is also required.

Due to funding from the Bank of Scotland Empower Fund we have the opportunity to restart our Young People’s Service and we are looking for a range of qualified and experienced counsellors in the field of trauma and childhood sexual abuse with experience of working with young people. In addition to Young People’s posts, we are looking for an Adult Counsellor to work in our Outreach service.

We are a small innovative charity working with people who have experienced trauma as a result of childhood sexual abuse and who want help to change their lives for the better. We offer long term counselling and therapeutic groupwork and we are looking to recruit the following staff on 3-year fixed contracts. All candidates will have to do our in-house trauma training Pandora’s Box which takes place over 4 days at weekends- the dates for this are between the 31st August/1st and the 14th/15th September

This new post forms part of the team at Safe Space, providing a counselling service to Young People (age 12-18 years old) at our base in Dunfermline and any other outreach buildings as identified. The coordinator is responsible for leading, supervising and coordinating a small team of a part time counsellor and 2 trainee counsellors to work with young people who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. The post holder will liaise with all relevant agencies associated with young people.

Within the 15 hours the post holder must include the team meetings once a month, group supervision and external supervision. Evening client appointments may be required, as may be occasional weekend work, for which time off in lieu will be granted as appropriate. The holiday entitlement will be 5.6 weeks plus 9 public holidays pro rata.

Safe Space supports survivors of childhood sexual abuse through one-to-one counselling, group-work, a young peoples’ service and an outreach service.

Due to funding from the Bank of Scotland Empower Fund we have the opportunity to restart our Young People’s Service and we are looking for a range of qualified and experienced counsellors in the field of trauma and childhood sexual abuse with experience of working with young people. In addition to Young People’s posts, we are looking for an Adult Counsellor to work in our Outreach service.

We are a small innovative charity working with people who have experienced trauma as a result of childhood sexual abuse and who want help to change their lives for the better. We offer long term counselling and therapeutic groupwork and we are looking to recruit the following staff on 3-year fixed contracts. All candidates will have to do our in-house trauma training Pandora’s Box which takes place over 4 days at weekends- the dates for this are between the 31st August/1st and the 14th/15th September

This post forms part of the team working with young people (age 12-18 years old) at Safe Space, based in Dunfermline. The post holder will deliver a minimum of 8 hours of one-to-one counselling per week, as well as liaise with professionals, school staff, and other relevant bodies.

While most of the 12-hour total will be fulfilled through counselling young people the post holder must attend the regular monthly team meetings at Safe Space. Evening client appointments will be required, as may be occasional weekend work, for which time off in lieu will be granted as appropriate. The holiday entitlement will be 5.6 weeks plus 9 public holidays pro rata. Staff attend weekly staff meetings, internal and external supervision, and a clinical supervision group at Safe Space.