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

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and dynamic Café Manager to lead Edinburgh’s first coffee shop where 100% of profits provide mental health support across Scotland, Hopetown Coffee.

This is an exciting role that will play a key role in establishing Hopetown Coffee as one of the go-to establishments within Edinburgh’s coffee scene along with bringing business acumen to inspire projects and initiatives that help boost income. This is a hands-on job, we are looking for someone who can operate a café machine like it is second nature as well as being a good team leader. The postholder will be tech-savvy, able to multi-task, has great management skills, and is able to inspire and motivate a small team of exceptional staff.

The Café Manager is a pivotal role within our Operations Team and is a unique opportunity to work within the Charity sector where you will create an uplifting, non-stigmatising café that will be known for great coffee, and awareness raising of mental health and mental illness, and is a dynamic space where everyone is welcome.

Café’ operational hours are: Monday – Saturday 08:00 – 17:00hrs and Sunday 08:00 – 16:00.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the café
• Enhance and achieve sales and guest review targets
• Quality control of food and drinks, ensuring that each item served to a customer is of the highest quality
• Ensure the business runs at net zero and where appropriate work with other social enterprise businesses within the community
• Bring fresh ideas to the business through revolving menus, deals, events
• Ensure the highest standards of Health & Safety are always maintained
• Ensure all aspects of Health and Security, fire, and emergency procedures are established and maintained
• Ordering and stock management and rotation
• Line manage and develop your team to their full potential, manage rotas, and lead on staff recruitment
• Contribute to the sales and marketing strategy for the business including the day-to-day management of social media platforms

Essential Criteria:

• Barista Experience (1 year)
• Hospitality Management Experience (1 year)
• Align with the values of Change Mental Health

Directorate: Operations

Reports To: Director of Operations

Benefits:

• 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
• A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan
• Flexible and Hybrid Working
• Blue Light Discount Card
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements
• Generous 37 days’ holiday
• Paid Mental Wellbeing Days
• Professional development including funded opportunities

We have an exciting opportunity to join Alzheimer Scotland as a Transactional Finance Manager. This is a new role due to growth in Alzheimer Scotland’s finance team and income.

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.

This role will lead on our day to day financial transactions across all areas. The transactions are varied and high volume and the successful candidate will ensure these are co-ordinated, planned and developed alongside the finance team.

The role will have line management and supervisory responsibility for the support, development and management of a team of finance assistants.

We are seeking applications from individuals with at least 4 years’ experience of working in a transactional finance role within a complex organisation alongside management and supervisory experience and who possess the skills to take on the tasks outlined in the job description.

You will have had significant exposure to the full finance function and will be a strong communicator and able to balance competing priorities ensuring routine workload along side ad-hoc tasks, analysis and reporting is completed to a high standard within deadlines.

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.

Midlothian and Scottish Borders Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Services

We are offering a leadership opportunity for a Senior Services Manager to lead and develop our team delivering community mental health and wellbeing services within Midlothian and the Scottish Borders.

This opportunity requires excellent leadership and management skills, where the successful candidate will be required to provide leadership and management for team leaders and their teams, establish new services and build networks with our partners across mental health services in Midlothian and the Scottish Borders.

You will be key to maintaining quality within service delivery. You should have experience of leading, managing and developing services, supporting and enabling teams, and of working with people with mental health problems. You should also have experience of developing systems and processes and be able to share your learning experiences across teams.

If you have experience in these areas and are passionate about enabling people to fulfil their potential, we’d love to hear from you!

We are excited to invite applications from dynamic and forward-thinking people to join our new Distress Brief Intervention service (DBI). With funding secured we are seeking applications to appoint a highly skilled and motivated manager to join our team.

To fulfil this post the Service Manager will be a skilled, knowledgeable and experienced individual. You must have substantive previous high quality service management, experience of effectively managing teams. Along with a sound knowledge of mental health you should have excellent communication skills.

If you are an experienced manager who can demonstrate your knowledge and skills, and using your excellent communication skills and mature attitude to manage a service which supports people to achieve their identified outcomes and will provide a first-class service to our clients then we would love to hear from you.