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.

What you’ll do

As a Centre Activities Co-ordinator, you will play a vital role in developing and delivering our brain health and dementia support programmes at our centre in Aberdeen.

You'll collaborate closely with the Centre Manager to create a comprehensive programme of activities. You'll play a key role in liaising with stakeholders from Health and Social Care, NHS, and the wider community to enhance service delivery and raise awareness about brain health.

The Centre Activity Coordinator will support the daily running of the Centre, being a local point of contact for Centre visitors, and carry out the associated administrative tasks. The role also includes producing a monthly programme of events and following correct policies and procedures for any business banking tasks.

With a focus on continuous improvement, you'll ensure that individuals accessing our services have a welcoming and inclusive experience, where their concerns are heard and understood.

What you’ll have

To excel in this role, you'll bring excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Your passion for supporting individuals affected by dementia will drive you to create a safe and supportive environment. Familiarity with health and safety regulations, along with proficiency in standard office software and IT systems, will enable you to coordinate activities seamlessly.

If you're ready to contribute to our vision of ensuring nobody faces dementia alone, apply now for the Centre Activities Co-ordinator position at Alzheimer Scotland. Relevant experience of working with people with dementia would be an advantage, as well as a willingness to learn and participate in training.

Looking for flexible sessional counselling work within an established mental health organisation?

RAMH is recruiting Sessional Adult Counsellors to work across our counselling services in East Renfrewshire, East Ayrshire and Renfrewshire.

Whether you are looking to add sessional work alongside an existing role, build your therapeutic experience or develop your practice, we would be keen to hear from you.

Opportunities are available across our different local authority areas and you do not need to work across all three. We are happy to discuss the locality, days and availability that work best for you alongside the needs of our services.

The Role

You will provide confidential, person-centred counselling to adults experiencing difficulties with their mental health and wellbeing. Counselling is delivered predominantly face-to-face within local communities, alongside telephone and online counselling where appropriate.

You will join experienced counselling and mental health teams, with opportunities for professional support, reflective practice, training and development.

About You

You will:

• Hold a recognised Diploma in Counselling.
• Be registered with BACP, COSCA or NCPS.
• Be accredited or actively working towards individual accreditation.
• Have experience of working therapeutically with adults experiencing difficulties with their mental health and wellbeing.
• Be a reflective practitioner with strong communication and therapeutic relationship skills.
• Maintain confidential records and contribute to outcome monitoring and service evaluation.

Why Join RAMH?

We offer flexible sessional opportunities, the chance to work within established community mental health services and access to RAMH's extensive training and development programme.

Our wider benefits include a 24-hour online GP service, occupational sick pay, staff counselling service, day-one death in service insurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Blue Light Card eligibility, our £200 Join the Team referral scheme, and a competitive annual leave allowance that increases with length of service.

Benefits may change over time but are accurate at the time of this advert.

Interested?

We would be happy to have an informal conversation about the opportunities available, locations and what sessional counselling with RAMH could look like for you.

For an informal discussion, please contact Fiona McCrae, Service Manager – Grant Funded Projects & Development or Lee Millar – Service Manager at enquiries@ramh.org

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 an experienced practitioner 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 as 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’ below. Please kindly make sure they fit into your career and personal attributes. You can then ask for an information pack and application.

• 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 (£39,047 to £43,202).

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.

Background

Common Wheel is a 25 year old Registered Charity, based in Glasgow, providing meaningful activity for people recovering from or experiencing mental illness. Our Programmes of activity include; Arts, Music, Climbing, Gardening, Bike Building and our own highly varied Drop In Programme delivered from our own premises at the Gartnavel Hospital, The Nook in Glasgow and other community facilities. Our Bike Building Programme (BYOB) is delivered from our well respected and long-established Bike Workshops in Maryhill and Bridgeton.

Our Bike Workshops are staffed by our existing Bike Engineers and are supported by our team of volunteer Bike Engineers. In addition to being commercial Bike Workshops offering bike sales and repairs, our workshops are also highly supportive, training workspaces where we deliver the Build Your Own Bike Programme.

Due to volume of work, we are currently seeking to recruit a new Bike Engineer who will work across both Bike Workshops ensuring we can have longer opening hours.

Who are we looking for?

We want to find someone who has a passion for bikes and the skills and patience to match. We need someone who can do more than fix bikes. The role is also about passing on your knowledge and passion to improve the lives of people with mental illness.

Our bike repair side is more creative than in other bike workshops. We do many custom builds and seldom sell a bike the way it left the factory.

As with any job there will be training in how we do things. We do expect you to be able to re-cable a ‘90s bike in less than an hour, build wheels, fit mudguards and all the usual bike repair skills.

We are also seeking someone with customer service skills, preferably in a bike environment and someone with IT skills as we have admin responsibilities to our Funders. Specific bike retail experience would be advantageous.

Ideally, we are seeking someone with a non-judgemental, nurturing, motivational approach who will be able to support our participants as fully as possible, someone who understands the challenges presented by mental illness.

The Bike Engineer will have a full Common Wheel induction and will have access to mental health training including; working with forensic patients, suicide prevention, self-harm and trauma informed practice. You may be asked to take part in the bike subcommittee which is made up of staff, volunteers and board members.