“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling the heart of another”

Alfred Adler

| Compassion | Integrity | Respect | Realising Potential | Inclusion |

Health in Mind is one of Scotland’s best-known and trusted Mental Health Charities. Established in 1982 we have evolved in response to need which means we actively promote positive mental health in local communities across Scotland. Our vision is straight forward, we build hope and live life through our values because people are at the heart of what we do.

We have a great opportunity for a number of experienced practitioners to join our team. You will bring compassion, integrity, positivity and reflection, delivering effective and high-quality support to those individuals who access support from Future Pathways.

Future Pathways offers support to people who were abused or neglected a child when they were in the Scottish care system. The service was established alongside the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry and has expanded considerably since its start in 2016. Future Pathways’ aim is to help people live well. To change paths, enjoy life, succeed and grow.

Reaching our shortlist is straightforward providing you can say ‘yes’ to our list of ‘must haves’. You can start your journey now by simply directly asking for an information pack and application but before you start your travels, please kindly make sure the following ‘fits’ into your career and personal attributions rucksack because life is a journey.

• We’d like a degree in Health and Social Care, Social Work or similar field but, if you hold a recognised, relevant professional qualification at a minimum SVQ Level 4 with relevant workplace experience this works too.
• Up to date child and vulnerable adult protection knowledge together and ideally completion of suicide prevention training such as ASIST.
• You are an exceptional compassionate individual with experience of working with those in society who’ve faced personal challenges, childhood disturbance, abuse, separation, institutional care and trauma
• Curiosity, empathy and a focus on learning, empowerment, collaboration and self-awareness.
• Experience of personal outcomes focused approaches, working in partnership with people to set goals, agree plan and support people to achieve their potential.
• Able to hold hope and walk alongside someone on their journey, you are good at nurturing self-confidence and supporting people to make positive changes in their lives.
• Worked in accordance with the statutory framework and requirement including GDPR, BACP, the SSSC and the Care Inspectorate.

With a great range of benefits including 30 days annual leave plus 10 public holidays and 2 wellbeing days we work fulltime 36.25 hours per week. The salary scale for this post is Point 39 to 43 (£37,716 to £41,729).

Committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, we embrace and encourage people from all walks of life, including welcoming applications from Neurodiverse individuals. It is important to us that you feel comfortable and confident and, as such, we are willing to adjust or adapt our application, interview and selection process to suit your needs, including working patterns and hybrid working wherever and whenever we can. Simply contact us and we’ll come back to you.

This role does, however, require periodic but not continuous office presence.

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.

Bipolar Scotland is at an exciting time in our story. We are part-way through our 5-year strategy “A Time to Move Forward” and are offering the opportunity for an exceptional candidate to play a key part in the development of the organisation.

We are seeking an experienced and creative Trusts & Grants Fundraiser to join our dedicated and diverse team. The ideal candidate will have direct experience of success in a similar role and be familiar with the funding challenges across Scotland’s third sector. Knowledge or experience of working with mental health conditions is not essential but will be helpful in appreciating the context of our work.

We operate a hybrid working policy and the post holder is required to be based in our Paisley office 2 days each week. We offer a generous annual leave and public holiday entitlement along with additional wellbeing days. Our team is small and friendly with an inspiring ‘can do’ attitude and the drive and determination to succeed. The post holder will enjoy fantastic support from skilled and knowledgeable colleagues who bring a variety of expertise.

Organisation Profile

Bipolar Scotland is Scotland’s only national charity for people living with bipolar. Our vision is for a good life for everyone in Scotland who lives with bipolar. We are member led, collaborative, advocates of peer support and focused on equality and rights. See our website bipolarscotland.org.uk for further information.