Mindspace is seeking motivated and experienced Young People’s Counsellors to join our established counselling service, delivering professional, supportive counselling within school settings across Perth City and Rural Perth & Kinross.

This role involves supporting children and young people aged 10–18, with some work also supporting P6 and P7 pupils within the wider community.

About Mindspace

Mindspace is a community based mental health charity that supports and promotes mental wellbeing across the Perth & Kinross area. We are funded by NHS Tayside, Perth & Kinross Council, the Scottish Government, and donations. We provide accessible, high quality support through counselling, peer support, and our Recovery College.

We are values driven, reflective in our practice, and committed to creating a supportive working environment for both service users and staff.

About the Role

As a Young People’s Counsellor, you will:

• Deliver a professional one to one counselling service within school settings
• Provide counselling to children and young people presenting with a range of emotional and mental health needs
• Undertake assessments, plan and deliver therapeutic interventions, and review progress
• Maintain accurate and confidential case records, statistics, and school reporting documentation using Salesforce CRM
• Practice in accordance with BACP ethical frameworks, safeguarding, and child protection procedures
• Work closely with the Senior Counsellor to ensure consistent standards and service quality
• Liaise appropriately with school staff, admin colleagues, and partner organisations
• Attend wellbeing meetings and engage fully in supervision and reflective practice
• Contribute to service development and ongoing improvement

Person Specification

Essential

• A recognised counselling diploma
• Specialist training in counselling children and young people
• Current membership of BACP or COSCA
• Experience providing therapeutic counselling to children and young people
• Ability to work within a recognised theoretical framework
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, and child protection in youth or school settings
• Good organisational skills and ability to manage a counselling caseload
• Willingness to travel between schools as required

Desirable

• Experience of working within school environments
• Experience liaising with partner agencies or multidisciplinary teams

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Paid supervision – 1.5 hours per month
• Company Pension & Cycle to Work scheme
• A supportive and experienced senior team
• A role within a respected local charity where your skills and judgement are valued
• The opportunity to make a meaningful difference to young people’s mental wellbeing

Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity. Today, we operate over 70 services in communities across Scotland, providing mental health social care support, addictions and employment services, among others. Together with national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention, and physical activity and sport, these services inform SAMH’s policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.

SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.

SAMH hosts ‘United to Prevent Suicide’; which is the social movement aspect of the national suicide prevention strategy, Creating Hope Together. We are a mass participation project open to anyone in Scotland who is passionate about preventing suicide, often due to lived experience of crisis and bereavement.

We support our members to take action in their own lives, their communities, and at a national level. In the past year, United to Prevent Suicide has undertaken a strategy to become a more member-led organisation, with new projects launched and more planned.

The post-holder will work alongside the Social Movement Development Manager to grow the movement, strengthen our participatory practice, and deliver key projects.

What we are looking for:

To be successful in this post you will need experience of working with sensitive subjects and with people who have had difficult life experiences, and be confident developing and sustaining excellent working relationships with volunteers and community members.

This role is ideal for anyone who believes in the power of collective movements to tackle entrenched social problems, and who believes that relationships of trust, solidarity and action can be part of a journey of recovery.

The role will require some travel and evening and weekend working as per the needs of the project.

What we will provide for you

You will work in a supportive environment and will be provided with a full induction and training opportunities. You will be given the chance to develop your knowledge and skills, as well as develop professionally. Some of our benefits include;

• Reimbursement of PVG & Disclosure costs.
• Funded continuous learning and development opportunities, access to over 100 courses online in addition to classroom and virtual training sessions
• 30 days annual leave rising to 33 after 5 years’ service (pro rata)
• 4 public holidays (pro rata)
• 2 paid wellbeing days off per year to use on what matters to you (pro rata)
• Team wellbeing budgets
• Workplace pension scheme
• Life Assurance policy
• Employee Assistance Programme

We have an exciting opportunity to join Alzheimer Scotland as a Finance assistant.

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.

We are seeking applications from individuals with demonstrable high volume finance administration work experience within a complex organisation and who possess the skills to take on the tasks outlined in the job description.

These are transactional roles working as a team supporting a range of finance tasks including purchase ledger, sales ledger, bank processing alongside customer service and supporting donors across a variety of methods including phone and face to face, therefore, strong customer service skills alongside finance administration experience are essential.

You will be a strong communicator both verbally and written and able to balance competing priorities and deadlines. You will have practical experience of working with a wide range of office systems including Microsoft 365 and databases or financial systems.

If you are interested by what you have read, and have the necessary skills and experience, or have experience in elements of the role and wish to develop these skills further, alongside the ability to make a success of this role, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Following completion of probationary period (6 months) there will be opportunities to undertake and progress further studies in relevant disciplines.

Who we are

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 and fund vital dementia research.

We are committed to improving the lives and opportunities of people living with dementia, their carers, partners, and families as their journey transitions from the first point of contact through to end of life. We believe nobody should face dementia alone.

What you'll do

We are looking for a Community Activities Organiser for the West Lothian area. You will establish a range of community activities and opportunities across the locality that fill identified gaps and meet the needs of people living with dementia and their families.

What you'll have

Are you a self-starter? Are you confident, innovative and collaborative?

If yes, then this may be the role for you.

The successful applicant will have a positive approach to dementia. You will be flexible, inclusive, creative, and organised in your approach. You will be sensitive and compassionate with the ability to support people in times of difficulty or distress. You will be an excellent communicator who can work effectively both with individuals and with groups. You will have a positive approach to your own continued professional development and a willingness to participate in relevant training. A relevant qualification and previous experience of working with people with dementia would be an advantage.

In return you will be in a role which offers the opportunity to meet great people, have great job satisfaction and be employed by an Organisation that offers a range of employee benefits and career progression opportunities.