Change Mental Health is looking for a Team Lead to support the delivery of our community mental health and Carers Services across Fife and Perth & Kinross.

This is a hands-on leadership role combining day-to-day team management with direct mental health practice. You’ll lead and support staff across our services, with particular operational responsibility for our Carers Services, helping unpaid carers of people experiencing mental ill health to maintain their own wellbeing and sustain their caring role.

About the Role

You’ll manage staff and service delivery, provide regular supervision and work reviews, oversee referrals and caseload allocation, and help your team develop their practice.

Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you’ll maintain a small caseload where appropriate and remain involved in 1:1 support, group activities and community-based mental health work. You’ll work closely with statutory and third-sector partners, strengthen local referral pathways and use outcome information to help demonstrate impact and improve services.

Our Carers Services provide early intervention, personalised support, peer connection, information and advice, and preventative support to unpaid carers across Fife and Perth & Kinross.

Essential

• Experience working in community-based, recovery-focused or non-clinical mental health services.
• Experience supporting, supervising and providing guidance to staff.
• Experience delivering structured 1:1 support and outcome-focused planning.
• Experience facilitating groups, peer-support activities or community-based mental health sessions.
• Strong understanding of risk assessment and safe decision-making.
• Strong communication, organisation and relationship-building skills.
• SVQ Level 4 Social Services and Healthcare (Adults) or equivalent, or willingness to work towards this if required.
• SSSC registration, or willingness to register if required.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car, with the ability to travel regularly across Fife and Perth & Kinross

Desirable

• Experience supporting unpaid carers, or a strong understanding of the impact of caring for someone experiencing mental ill health.
• Knowledge of local community services, referral pathways and support networks.
• Experience supporting people experiencing trauma, isolation or complex circumstances.
• Understanding of co-production, lived-experience approaches and relevant Scottish health and social care policy.

What we offer

• 37 days’ annual leave (pro rata)
• Two paid Mental Wellbeing Days
• Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements
• Professional development, including funded opportunities
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Blue Light Card eligibility
• Support for flexible working and work-life balance

The role is typically worked Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm, within the contracted 28 hours, although some evening or weekend working may occasionally be required. The role may also participate in an on-call rota.

If you’re an experienced mental health practitioner ready to lead and develop others while helping strengthen support for unpaid carers, we’d love to hear from you.

Change Mental Health is looking for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (Outreach) to join our Fife Services team. You will play a key role in delivering support as part of an innovative partnership between Change Mental Health and Kingdom Housing Association (KHA).

This is a community-based role supporting adults affected by mental illness to build confidence, resilience and greater independence. You’ll work primarily one-to-one with people in their own homes and communities, with opportunities to contribute to our Hub-based services where needed. Please note this role requires travel throughout the Fife region.

You will work closely with KHA staff as part of a collaborative, partnership-based approach, embedding mental health support within housing services. This includes responding to referrals, supporting early intervention and crisis prevention, and contributing to improved outcomes for tenants.

You will be part of a forward-thinking, collaborative team committed to innovation in mental health and housing support. Working autonomously, you will manage your own caseload, using sound judgment to determine when to escalate or refer to your manager. You will also contribute to identifying service gaps and co-developing solutions to meet the evolving needs of tenants and the wider community.

Key Responsibilities:

• Please note this role is open to females only due to the needs of our service users
• Driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Experience providing community-based, recovery-focused or non-clinical mental health support.
• Experience delivering structured 1:1 support and contributing to personal or outcome-focused plans.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage your workload effectively and contribute positively to a team.
• Understanding of risk assessment and safe decision-making.
• Commitment to person-centred, strengths-based and recovery-focused practice.
• Educated to SVQ 3 level or have experience working in mental health.
• SSSC registration, or willingness to register within six months.

We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and the charity and are a “Happy to Talk Flexible” employer: working days will be discussed and agreed with the Locality Manager and can be adjusted for the suitable candidate.

If you are passionate about enabling Change Mental Health to deliver a valuable service to the Scottish community and feel your profile matches this role’s criteria, then we want to hear from you!

Benefits

• Professional development including funded opportunities.
• A generous 37 days’ holiday.
• A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan.
• A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment.
• 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.
• Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements
• Paid Mental Wellbeing Days
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Blue Light discount card

With your mental health at heart

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our Services Team, leading the operations of our Trauma Support Team and Edinburgh Groups and Courses Team

Health in Mind has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated leader to join our Edinburgh Team as a Service Manager. Within this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the day-to-date delivery of services, and seven staff members, including:

Trauma Support Services

• Long term one-to-one support (up to 1 year) of support to men and women who have experiences of childhood sexual abuse.
• Short term one-to-one support (up to 10 weeks) of support to people who have experiences of childhood abuse.
• Psychoeducational courses for people who have experiences of childhood abuse.
• Support to people who have experienced abuse within the Scottish care system.

Groups and Courses Services

• Psychoeducational and self-management courses for people to support their mental health and wellbeing.
• Ethnic minority support, including psychoeducational and self-management courses, drop-ins and some limited one to one support (up to 10 weeks).
• Drop in anxiety and depression peer support groups.

You should have experience in; providing leadership and management within services, staff development and supervision, supporting people with trauma, mental health, working as part of a team, working with external stakeholders, meeting service KPI’s, data analysis and preparing data for reporting. Supporting our team members and volunteers who work closely with trauma and mental health is vital within this role.

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

About the Project/Service

As a Senior Practitioner, you will have delegated supervisory responsibilities, including providing day-to-day guidance and support to staff, but you will not hold overall management accountability for the service. You will contribute across multiple projects by helping to create safe, inclusive and person-centred environments where people feel believed, respected and heard, and where they can take part in meaningful activities that build confidence, resilience and sustainable self-management of their mental health.

Change Mental Health offers a community-based Hub at The Gatehouse in Golspie, providing non-clinical, person-centred support in a welcoming environment where people can take part in group activities, peer support and recovery-focused opportunities. The Hub supports people to build social connections, develop knowledge, skills, confidence and resilience, and improve their mental health and wellbeing. Activities include: art; mental health self-management programmes and workshops; walking groups; gardening; wellbeing sessions and confidence-building opportunities.

Change Mental Health also offers Outreach support, which is a Care Inspectorate Registered service. This service provides person-centred, outreach support to adults affected by mental illness in their own homes, in line with the Health and Social Care Standards and relevant policies, procedures and regulatory requirements. We serve the surrounding community of Sutherland with non-clinical emotional and practical support that helps people build the knowledge, skills, confidence and resilience to self-manage their mental health and wellbeing, using practical tools, coping strategies and signposting to the most appropriate next step in their journey. Our Outreach teams are required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) within the required timescales, maintain registration, and hold a relevant SSSC-recognised qualification for the post.

Purpose of the Role

The postholder will deliver high-quality, hub-based support that is person-centred, non-clinical and community-based, helping people to build the knowledge, confidence, skills and resilience to self-manage their mental health or mental illness and live well in their communities. Alongside line managing hub-based and outreach Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners, you will provide guidance, support and supervision that promotes reflective practice, excellent service delivery and positive staff development.

As a Change Mental Health Senior Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will be experienced in providing direct support to individuals experiencing poor mental health/ living with mental illness. You will work directly with individuals helping them achieve the best possible outcomes across their mental, physical, emotional and financial health. You will empower people to self- manage their mental health, build self‑confidence, reconnect with others, and become more integrated within their local community. You will be a trusted and experienced point of contact for the team, offering support and guidance to colleagues and peers around working with people who find themselves in complex situations.

The role includes facilitating group activities, offering structured 1:1 support, accompanying outreach Health and Wellbeing Practitioner staff on some of their outreach support visits, undertaking community engagement, and delivering recovery‑focused interventions. You will support people to develop and review personal plans ensuring goals are meaningful and achievable.

Working closely with colleagues, partners and communities, you will contribute to creating an environment where people feel safe and accepted, connected to others, and hopeful for the future. You will adhere to and role model the values of Change Mental Health.

You will support the local management team in their roles to meet national and funder criteria. You will offer ideas and feedback to your line manager to support service development.

Occasional travel will be required for external meetings, training, pop-up hubs and fundraising.

Reports To: Team Lead

Disclosure & Barring Check: This post will be subject to a PVG check for working with vulnerable adults.