Café Manager
- Full time
- £27,500
- On site: Hopetown Coffee, Broughton Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3RZ
- Closing 17th November 2024
- Advertised from 28th October 2024
- 35 Hours per week. Permanent
Role
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
Application notes
Please apply via our website by attaching your CV and Cover Letter outlining your experience and suitability for the role.
Change Mental Health is a Registered Scottish Charity, No. SC013649
Transactional Finance Manager
- Full time
- £34,805 – £37,576
- On site: 160 Dundee Street, Edinburgh
- Closing 18th November 2024
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.
We are seeking a highly motivated and professional manager to join our team at Changes and help us develop and drive our therapeutic and support service offers for clients.
This is an exciting time of change for the organisation as we have new leadership and new ideas for moving our services forward in meeting the needs of our clients.
If you are interested and have any questions after reading the Job and person specifications below, please contact Jill our CEO at ceo@changeseastlothian.org
Counselling Practice Manager
- Part time
- £31,202 pro-rata
- On site: Musselburgh
- Closing 6th November 2024
We are seeking a highly motivated and professional manager to join our team at Changes and help us develop and drive our counselling service offer for clients.
This is an exciting time of change for the organisation as we have new leadership and new ideas for moving our services forward in meeting the needs of our clients.
If you are interested and have any questions after reading the Job and person specifications below, please contact Jill our CEO at ceo@changeseastlothian.org
Welfare Rights Advisor
- Full time
- £29,000
- On site: Stafford Centre, 103 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3RZ
- Closing 1st November 2024
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.
About the Service
The Stafford Centre is the central place where we support people with their mental health in Edinburgh. This drop-in enables you to relax in the company of others in a safe environment and begin to build supportive networks. We want to help you as soon as you walk through the door and ensure you are directed towards the best activity or support for your recovery. We have many welcoming and supportive groups where you can feel valued. We deliver change at The Stafford Centre by building resilience to improve your skills, confidence and enable you to take a step forward in your life. There are many creative and wellbeing activities, from art sessions to our outdoor walking group, and a main café area where you can chat and feel welcomed by building supportive networks.
About the Role:
The Welfare Rights Advisor is a specialist role, providing one to one support to clients, managing a case load and structured face to face appointments. This role is based at the Stafford Centre in Edinburgh, and in this Thrive funded post you will support people experiencing or impacted by mental illness, providing specialist advice, advocacy and representation. Assisting to maximise client’s disposable income by ensuring they receive all appropriate benefits and services, liaising with statutory bodies when required.
You will adhere to rigorous guidelines and regulations ensuring that people receive the highest quality service possible and are committed to working to Type 3 SNSIAP.
The Welfare Rights Advisor will work with a degree of autonomy and is a team player and will play a role in developing and promoting the service. The role supports the relevant Service Managers to meet national and funder criteria, contributing to analysis, reviews and consultations to gather evidence and highlight the issues that our client base face.
A full Job Description is available for download below.
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