We have an exciting leadership opportunity to join the Edinburgh Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Team as a Team Leader. Within this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the day-to-day delivery of our mental health and wellbeing support services. As well as supporting the team, you will be responsible for having initial conversations with people looking to access support, to identify outcomes and match them with the appropriate support.

You will be responsible for the oversight and delivery of our: Guided Self Help Service, Peer Connecting Service, Women’s Wellbeing Service, Thrive Welcome Team and the Peer Community of Practice.

You should have experience in; leading and managing services, supporting people with their mental health and wellbeing, managing volunteers, and working as part of a team. We are also seeking candidates who have a knowledge or understanding of peer work.

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

Responsible to: Senior Services Manager (North)

This is a great opportunity to join Health in Mind and be part of our growing future!

As Counselling Services Administrator within Health in Mind Counselling services, you will play a key role in welcoming people to our organisation, ensuring that people can access the right support at the right time.

This is a varied role, providing administrative support to a range of Health in Mind Counselling Services.

We are offering a post for a Development Worker – Engagement Pathways to lead and develop our pathways into services for people. This includes enquiries, initial conversations including risk assessment, baseline outcome measures, reviews and endings.

This is a development opportunity requiring excellent communication and organisational skills, where the successful candidate will be required to support the journey of people through our services within Edinburgh, including our Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Services, Counselling Services and Trauma Support Services.

You will be key to maintaining quality within this area of service delivery. You should have experience of working together with people experiencing mental health problems to support them to achieve their aims related to mental health and wellbeing. You should also have experience of developing systems and processes and sharing 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!

The Part-time Administrator contributes to the smooth running and administration of the support services required to offer an efficient and values-based professional counselling service.

Clear and effective telephone, face-to-face and written communications are essential, as is an excellent attention to detail and a proven ability to keep on top of a fast-moving workload. The role requires a working knowledge of Microsoft Office. This post is subject to Basic Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Disclosure checks.

Organisation profile:

The PF Counselling Service is a COSCA Recognised voluntary counselling agency which offers both short and long term therapy to people over the age of 18, irrespective of where they live or their ability to pay. It was established in 1986 and is now the largest independent charity providing voluntary counselling services in Edinburgh.

The PF offers over 12,000 sessions of counselling a year to over 750 clients, provided by around 100 professionally trained volunteer counsellors. The staff team of five is responsible for all aspects of delivering the service.

Website: pfcounselling.org.uk