Resilience Outreach Worker – Fife Housing Alliance Project
- Full time
- £25,235
- Hybrid: Fife (community‑based role with regular travel across Fife and some office‑based working at both Change Mental Health and The Fife Housing Association Alliance locations)
- Closing 26th February 2026
- Advertised from 12th February 2026
- 32 hours per week. Funding is secured for 1 year 1st April 2026 – 31st March 2027.
Role
Change Mental Health (CMH) 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.
The Fife Housing Association Alliance (FHAA) is a long-standing partnership between four housing associations based in Fife: Kingdom Housing Association, Fife Housing Group, Ore Valley and Glen Housing Associations. Working collaboratively, the Alliance enables the four organisations to share expertise, strengthen strategic planning, and deliver improved services for tenants and communities across Fife.
About the Service
As a Resilience Outreach Worker, you will play a key role in delivering support within a new, innovative partnership with FHAA.
The Fife Resilience Service is designed to support individuals affected by mental illness to build emotional, psychological, and social resilience. Through tailored one-to-one support and group interventions, the service helps people to identify personal goals, develop coping strategies, and access community resources that promote recovery and wellbeing. The service is rooted in trauma-informed, person-centred practice and aligns with the National Health and Wellbeing Outcomes.
This role also marks the first collaboration of its kind between CMH and FHAA, supporting FHAA tenants with targeted mental health and wellbeing support. You will help individuals manage tenancy related challenges, strengthen emotional resilience, and sustain independent living.
You will be part of a forward-thinking, collaborative team committed to innovation in mental health support. Working autonomously, you’ll have the opportunity to shape and develop the service, using sound judgment to manage your caseload and knowing when to escalate or refer to your manager. You’ll also contribute to identifying service gaps and co-creating solutions that respond to the evolving needs of the community.
This is primarily a community‑based role. You will work across a range of localities throughout Fife, delivering support within people’s homes, community spaces, and partner locations. The post will also require regular working from both the CMH office and FHAA offices, depending on service need. Travel across Fife is therefore an essential and routine part of this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide one-to-one support to individuals, managing a caseload and developing tailored support plans aligned with National Health and Wellbeing outcomes.
- Facilitate group sessions and workshops.
- Compile and review service user development plans, ensuring outcomes are being achieved.
- Deliver the majority of support within the community, including people’s homes, community venues, and other local settings. Work regularly from both the CMH office and FHAA offices, adapting to service requirements. Travel throughout Fife will be a routine part of the post.
- Work as part of the FHAA teams, offering targeted mental, emotional, and behavioural resilience support.
- Collaborate with the Team Lead and Head of Service to meet strategic goals and funder requirements.
- Identify community service gaps and collaborate with your manager to develop solutions, working independently with sound judgment and initiative.
- Build positive working relationships with local partners to better support service users and promote the work of CMH.
General Duties:
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records, ensuring confidentiality is upheld for all individuals using the service.
- Collate relevant information and prepare reports for line management as required.
- Ensure continuity of service delivery in line with CMH’s values and strategic outcomes.
- Oversee and support the fulfilment of Health and Safety responsibilities within practice settings, ensuring compliance with legal and organisational standards.
Essential Criteria:
- Educated to SVQ 3 level or have experience working in mental health
- Must have access to a vehicle and hold a valid driving licence, with the ability to travel independently throughout Fife as required for a predominantly community‑based role.
- Understand the need for a compassionate, non-judgemental approach to supporting people
- Ability to work well in a team setting whilst also working autonomously
- A sound theory base of social care interventions including risk assessments
- A value base consistent with the aims and objectives of CMH
- Ability to apply an analytical approach to problems in order to find solutions
- Competency in planning and reviewing development plans and the ability to take appropriate action if needed
- I.T skills are of a good standard
- A sound knowledge of Health and Social care policy in Scotland and ability to apply this to the role
- Keen to develop your knowledge and skills and attend training as required
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Desirable Criteria:
- Experienced in delivering a Registered Service and meeting Care Inspectorate requirements
This job profile and list of duties is not exhaustive and serves only to highlight the main requirements. The line manager may stipulate other reasonable requirements and projects commensurate with the general profile and grade of the post.
All successful candidates will require a PVG Membership. Please be aware that it is classed as an offence if you apply for this role and are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children or vulnerable adults.
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 32-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan.
- A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment.
- Access to purchase a 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
To apply please submit your CV and Cover Letter through our website at changemh.org
Peer Support Worker x 2
- Part time
- £26,026 pro-rata
- On site: Based in Dalkeith with travel throughout Midlothian
- Closing 25th February 2026
We have an exciting opportunity for two people to join our Midlothian Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Team. This post is fixed term and is funded by Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership.
The successful applicant will use their own lived experience to engage with people facing mental health difficulties and deliver time-managed, outcome focused one-to-one support. You will work in a person-centered, trauma informed and strength-based way, supporting people with a range of issues important to their mental health and well-being.
One-to-one support will be delivered in various community venues across Midlothian, occasionally also by phone or on video platforms such as Zoom, to ensure accessibility and flexibility.
You will have excellent communication, IT, administration, and organisational skills, and you will develop and maintain positive and effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders, key partners, and relevant professionals.
You will be office based, travel is required across Midlothian and flexibility in working hours will also be expected to meet the needs of people we support.
If you have experience in these areas and are passionate about supporting people and helping them to improve their mental health, we’d love to hear from you! If you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Krzysztof Nowak by email @ krzysztof.nowak@health-in-mind.org.uk
Support Worker
- Full time or Part time
- £26,026
- On site: Community based around the Scottish Borders, Galashiels (office)
- Closing 18th February 2026
We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate person to join our Borders team as a Support Worker. You will work alongside the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Service Manager and the Borders Team to deliver 1:1 support to people living across the Scottish Borders.
You will hold a caseload of people that you will support on a 1:1 basis to identify their strengths, work towards their goals and realize their potential. Support may include, confidence building, identifying self-management techniques, access and signposting to other support, goal setting and planning.
Regular administrative tasks are required for this role. This will include maintaining records in accordance with data protection and use of Microsoft and other IT programs.
You will maintain positive and effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders, key partners, and relevant professionals. Experience of developing and facilitating individual and group support services is preferred.
If you have experience of supporting people to improve their mental health and wellbeing, or personal experience of managing your own mental health, we’d love to hear from you!
Travel is required across the Scottish Borders is required as part of the role.
Flexibility in working hours will also be expected to meet the needs of people we work with.
This is a community outreach post and travel is required across the Scottish Borders as part of the role. A good understanding of the locality and community is desirable.
Changes East Lothian is looking for new Board members!
Are you interested in taking on a new challenge and helping those experiencing mental health issues in East Lothian?
In response to expanding the capacity of the Board and succession planning, Changes East Lothian is seeking up to five new trustees.
We anticipate that you can provide evidence of transferable skills, or experience of operating as a trustee or non-executive director.
Applications of those with experience of the following areas will be prioritised:
- Leadership in a relevant position
- Involvement in mental health, social care or the third sector
- People, HR, employment law and organisational culture;
- Business, finance or operations at an executive level.
- IT, digital, marketing, digital and comms
About Changes East Lothian
Changes was established in 1996 as a community health project and since then we have evolved and grown to the medium sized charity we are today. As we celebrate turning 30 this year, we have the opportunity to launch our new 5-year strategic plan 2026-2031and with it, reinvigorate our Board with new membership.
It has been an exciting time of change and progression for us over the last few years and we are ready to develop our systems and processes with further development opportunities and creative thinking in facing the challenges of succeeding in the third sector. Our Changes East Lothian mission is to provide everyone in East Lothian the opportunity to access a choice of activities, therapy, information, training and support that help enable positive mental health and wellbeing through individual autonomy, learning, reflection, empowerment, and connection.
We are a community at Changes, and our values include compassion, responsiveness, and life-long learning for all. As you can imagine, it is challenging working in this arena but also extremely rewarding.
Who we are looking for:
We would like applicants to:
- Empathise with our vision, mission and values;
- Demonstrate a willingness and ability to devote the necessary time and effort;
- Exercise sound and independent judgement;
- Think and apply knowledge creatively and strategically;
- Get to know our team of staff and volunteers;
- Keep themselves and the charity mission-focused;
- Analyse and evaluate information and other evidence in the execution of their duties.
Post Diagnostic Support Link Worker
- Full time
- £30,232 – £33,468
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 1st March 2026
Are you a creative and motivated individual with the passion and drive to support people with a recent diagnosis of dementia to live well in their community?
If so, you can be part of a National Team of Post Diagnostic Support Link Workers (PDS Link Workers) providing high quality, person centered support to people living with dementia and their families for a minimum of a year following diagnosis in line the Scottish Government’s minimum guarantee.
The aim of the PDS National Service is to enable people to live well with dementia and is centered around Alzheimer Scotland's 5 pillar model so that people move on to a period of supported self- management.
The model includes understanding the illness and coming to terms with the diagnosis, peer support, connecting and maintaining links with their community along with planning for future care and decision making to develop an outcome focused plan to support their future hopes, desires, and aspirations.
Supporting our Edinburgh locality, the post will be based within the Southwest of the city. Alzheimer Scotland’s PDS Link Workers are required to be effective team workers and have the skills to build and maintain relationships with colleagues both within Alzheimer Scotland, the NHS, and other stakeholders.
Skills in using digital platforms are essential as we use a blended approach to support people that involve some virtual meetings and on-line groups.
Applicants must hold a recognised relevant professional qualification, have a good understanding of dementia and how it affects people and their families along with excellent communication skills, a warm flexible approach, combined with skills in empathy and relationship building.
In addition, you should have skills and knowledge at the Enhanced Level of the Promoting Excellence Framework or be able to evidence you are working towards its completion.
This post requires a full driving licence and access to a car.
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