We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our Services Teams, providing leadership to our support services.

We are delighted to offer an exciting new leadership opportunity for an experienced and motivated leader to join our Services Team as an Assistant Manager.

This is a unique role that will support services in Edinburgh, the Lothians and the Scottish Borders, supporting high-quality delivery while driving service development, improvement and collaboration across the organisation.

As a key member of the leadership team, you will work closely with the Services Management Team to ensure our services offer person-centred and trauma-informed support to people who are seeking support with their mental health and wellbeing.

You should have experience in; providing leadership and management within services, staff development and supervision, supporting people with their mental health and wellbeing, working as part of a team, meeting service KPI’s, data analysis and preparing data for reporting.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys building relationships, working across teams and contributing to service developments that improve experiences for supported people. If you are looking for a rewarding leadership role where collaboration, continuous improvement and development are valued, we’d love to hear from you!

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our South Services Teams, providing leadership to our Scottish Borders Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Team.

Assistant Service Manager - Scottish Borders CMHWT

• Salary- £32,165 - fixed point 32
• Hours- 36.25 hrs
• Location- Scottish Borders (Galashiels)
• Contract- Permanent
• Responsible to: Deputy Head of Services

We have an exciting leadership opportunity to join our South Services team as the Assistant Service Manager for the Scottish Borders Community Mental Health Team. Within this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the day-to-day delivery of our community mental health and wellbeing services.

You should have experience in; providing leadership and management within services, staff development and supervision, supporting people with their mental health and wellbeing, working as part of a team, meeting service KPI’s, data analysis and preparing data for reporting.

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

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.

Creating Hope Together

Creating Hope Together is Scotland's suicide prevention strategy and action plan (2022–2032), published by the Scottish Government and COSLA. Its vision is to reduce the number of suicide deaths in Scotland while tackling the inequalities that contribute to suicide, so that any child, young person or adult who has thoughts of taking their own life, or who is affected by suicide, gets the help they need and feels a sense of hope.

All of the work is delivered in line with the strategy's guiding principles: putting inequalities and diversity first; co-developing our work with people with lived and living experience; embedding Time, Space, Compassion; keeping the voices of children and young people central; connecting people across sectors to learn together; reducing the stigma of suicide; and ensuring our work is evidence-informed.

The role

This is a new role, hosted by Change Mental Health on behalf of Suicide Prevention Scotland, created to support delivery of Outcome 3 of Creating Hope Together: that everyone affected by suicide is able to access high quality, compassionate, appropriate and timely support.

The postholder will work alongside colleagues in the delivery collective - primarily the Time Space Compassion (TSC) Lead and the Children and Young People (CYP) Lead - to support delivery of a range of actions across the Delivery Plan. In practice this means helping partners in community, primary care, unscheduled care and mental health settings to put person-centred, compassionate approaches into everyday practice; growing the reach of Time, Space, Compassion across Scotland; and strengthening support for children and young people at higher risk of suicide.

The role focuses on enabling practical change in real-world settings through strong partnerships, effective communication, and the thoughtful use of learning and evidence to support continuous improvement. It sits within a small, collaborative team and works across a wide network of national and local partners, including NHS Boards, local authorities, third sector organisations, the Lived and Living Experience Panel (LLEP) and the Youth Advisory Group (YAG).

This is an amazing opportunity to join an innovative service covering the Tayside region.

Hospital to Home is our early intervention support service, designed to ensure that no family faces pregnancy, baby or infant loss alone. The service is offered on an opt-out basis, helping bridge the gap between hospital and community services at one of the most difficult times of their lives.

Families are offered 6 - 8 sessions of tailored support during the early weeks and months following their baby's death. This provides a safe, compassionate space to talk, make sense of what has happened and begin to navigate life after loss. As well as emotional support, the service offers practical guidance, including funeral planning, follow up hospital appointments and returning to work.

Working in partnership with NHS colleagues, we provide a seamless transition from hospital to home, ensuring families do not have to find support on their own. Early intervention enables us to recognise signs of complex grief, trauma or additional support needs at an early stage and respond appropriately, helping families access the right support at the right time.

Above all, Hospital to Home helps reduce the isolation and loneliness that so many bereaved parents experience. By surrounding families with compassionate, specialist support from the earliest days of their grief, we help them feel less alone, strengthen their emotional wellbeing and lay the foundations for healthier long-term bereavement outcomes.