Are you someone who enjoys a varied workload and is ready to play a vital role in a small and developing charity?

We are recruiting for an Office Manager (with experience in finance administration) to support the delivery of our charitable objectives. This includes: managing our office and training suite, our contractors, and supporting our finance function efficiently and effectively.

About the job

The Office Manager is responsible for office and finance administration, reporting to the Director. Duties include: facilities management of our office and training suite, general business and administrative support, financial administrative support, and responsibility for HR and Health and Safety.

This role is based at our office in central Glasgow.

About you

You will be someone who thrives in a small, friendly and enthusiastic office team of five people. Your experience of working in the Third Sector or small organisations means you will be adaptable, use your initiative and be comfortable with a high degree of autonomous working. Using your experience in office and finance administration, you will be able to work under pressure and have the ability to multi-task with a range of conflicting priorities. You will have excellent organisational and self-motivation skills, good time management and the ability to work alone at times with limited on-hand support.

About HDS

Human Development Scotland (HDS) is a charity working to improve the mental health and emotional wellbeing of individuals, families and communities in Scotland through professional training, CPD and the provision of counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland.

HDS delivers training and education in counselling and psychotherapy along with providing a therapy service direct to clients.

At the heart of all our work are the psychodynamic, psychoanalytic and systemic ideas that offer a profound understanding of how people relate to one another and the central role of human relationships in our mental health and emotional wellbeing.

We believe our professional training will help to relieve mental and emotional distress by increasing the availability of, an access to, high quality psychodynamic and psychoanalytic counselling and psychotherapy for all who need them.

Responsible To: Director

Lanarkshire Links is seeking to recruit an administrator to join our team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our small but diverse team of 12 workers who are committed to promoting the welfare and advancing the education of people affected by mental health issues across Lanarkshire. Our core work is to support engagement and participation of mental health service users and carers in the planning and delivery of mental health and social care services.

• Our team includes the Stigma Free Lanarkshire Project, and we work closely supporting and encouraging local action towards recovery and reducing stigma and discrimination of mental ill-health.

• Four peer workers who work within the Acute Adult MH Inpatient Wards in University Hospitals Wishaw and Hairmyres.

• A Development Officer to engage with young adults in South Lanarkshire.

In Scotland, around 58,000 people live with epilepsy. Epilepsy Scotland wants to ensure the needs of people with epilepsy are met and works to campaign for improved health and social care, better information provision, fairer access to employment and benefits, and an end to stigma. We aim to empower people with epilepsy, to maximise their wellbeing and to fulfil whatever their potential might be

Job Summary

We have a rare opening within our Senior Management Team, for the post of Wellbeing Manager (35 hours per week).

This is an extremely rewarding role and will allow the post-holder to make a tangible impact on the lives of those people living with epilepsy.

We are looking for an experienced manager of people-facing services to oversee our ongoing services and develop new ones to meet the needs of those we work with.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting and supervising the multi-disciplinary, motivated and passionate Wellbeing team. The team offers a range of services and initiatives that support people living with epilepsy. The holistic approach includes financial wellbeing. The services offered include a wellbeing service for adults, a youth work service with groups in Edinburgh and Glasgow, a welfare rights service and a support group in Aberdeen.

This is a rewarding, diverse role which includes elements of management, monitoring and evaluation, planning, and delivering quality project(s) safely within agreed timescales and budgets.

We would love to hear from you if you have relevant experience of managing a team, knowledge of the challenges faced by those experiencing a long-term health condition, can deal with safeguarding issues confidently and are committed to better outcomes for those with epilepsy.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, empathic person to join Change Mental Health and help us continue to deliver excellent mental health services across Fife.

Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing incredible person-centred support across the nation.

We want you to join us in one of the best places to work, where your views and experience will help develop and deliver services that people want.

This Support Worker post will join our Fife Team and expand our support to people with Mental Health needs across Fife. Together we support people to build resilience and to identify their personal priorities and outcomes. We promote support through 1 to 1 contact and through small groups and help people to access support and services.

Support Workers help people to feel connected to their loved ones and community, working towards aspirations and goals that they set themselves; that help them live life well.

We build links with partner organisations across Fife, helping break down barriers and develop services that people want and need.

This post will report directly to the Service Manager for Change Mental Health Fife Services.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who believes in the power of people to be able to change the world. Someone who is passionate about changing people’s lives for the better and facilitating others to be all they can be.

We are looking for someone who:

· Can build strong and purposeful relationships.

· Is empathic, understanding and has a sense of humour.

· Is ambitious about what they, their team and the organisation can be and can do. Someone who wants to make things better!

· The successful candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme.

A full driving license and access to a vehicle is essential for these roles.

Why join us?

Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique support to people with severe and enduring mental ill health. With 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.

Our person-centred approach puts the people we work with at the heart of what we do ensuring they have greater opportunity, can build confidence and social skills, and become more integrated into their communities. By building connections and support around individual needs, our team of nearly 200 staff and 800 members value the lived experience which informs the services we deliver. We look beyond illness by taking a holistic approach that ensures no one has to face mental ill health alone.

This is a great opportunity to join a thriving charity and help shape its future.

We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds and value the unique experience that each person brings to our organisation.

We value lived mental health experience and welcome applications from people with this experience or experience supporting others with their mental health.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion within our workforce, and to building a team made up of diverse skills, and all kinds of life experiences.

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