* Hybrid: Nearest office - Edinburgh, Fife, Tayside, Highlands or Dumfries & Galloway
* Closing 24th February 2025
* Advertised from 3rd February 2025
Role
About us
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.
Change Mental Health is determined to be the leading source of information, advice, and guidance on Mental Health and Mental Illness in Scotland. We want to make sure that everyone has the information and advice they need to make the right decisions for themselves and their families.
About the role
The Advice and Support Officer is a specialist role, providing information, advice, and support to people experiencing or impacted by mental illness via our Advice and Support Service. This will include providing support to those who are struggling with their mental health and money or housing needs, as well as supporting Change Mental Health staff, professionals, and members of the public looking for high-quality and reliable information around mental health support. This role will play a crucial part in representing Change Mental Health by being the first point of contact for those looking for support, whether that is over the telephone, email, or virtually. In addition, you will be triaging enquiries as they come through to ensure we are providing a timely and efficient service and managing a case load and structured appointments. This role will work remotely and in the community to provide person-centered guidance, support, and representation, as required.
The Advice and Support Officer role will assist clients through providing information, emotional support, specialist advice, advocacy, and representation, including in-depth financial assessments, income maximization, debt management, and tribunal representation. They will adhere to rigorous guidelines and regulations ensuring that people receive the highest quality service possible and are committed to working to Type 1 to Type 3 SNSIAP and FCA standards.
The Advice and Support Officer will offer both more general Information, Advice, and Guidance to people seeking information and support and will also provide in-depth casework support as needed.
The Advice and Support Officer will work with a degree of autonomy and is a team player and play a role in developing and promoting the service. The role supports the Service Manager to meet national and funder criteria, contributing to analysis, reviews, and consultations to gather evidence and highlight the issues that our client base face.
Benefits:
* 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
* A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan.
* A great work-life balance with flexible and blended working environment.
* Blue Light Discount Card
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements
* Professional development including funded opportunities
Are you ready to inspire and support a team of amazing volunteers? Join Castle as our Volunteer Coordinator and make a real difference in the Fife community.
We’re looking for someone with experience in volunteer recruitment and management, excellent communication skills, and a passion for building strong communities. You’ll lead volunteer activities, provide support, and promote their incredible work while helping us grow our impact.
Why Join Us?
• Flexible working, including home-based options.
• A chance to lead and inspire volunteers.
• The opportunity to create meaningful change.
An exciting opportunity has become available to join Families Outside as one of two Business Support Officers. If you are passionate about supporting the work of our team in making a real difference for families impacted by imprisonment, we want to hear from you!
The Role
Joining a welcoming and friendly team, and working closely with another Business Support colleague, you will be working in a diverse and varied role in a busy and dynamic environment. The Business Support Officer is a pivotal role responsible for coordinating our daily business operations, ensuring that our systems, processes, and procedures are executed efficiently and delivered to quality standards.
This is an important opportunity to provide crucial foundations and support for everything we do in our efforts to support families. As the first point of contact for the organisation, you will represent Families Outside to external stakeholders while also working directly with the Chief Executive, wider staff team, and Board.
About You
We are looking for someone who can work independently as well as part of a team, is organised, is confident using administrative and financial platforms, and has an interest in making a difference for vulnerable or marginalised groups.
We are looking for individuals who:
* Have excellent organisational skills
* Can effectively manage their own workload
* Can collaborate with immediate colleagues as well as different teams to support the varying needs of the organisation as required
* Can use a range of administrative, IT, and financial platforms and tools
* Can demonstrate a strong understanding and commitment to our organisational mission and values
About Us
Families Outside is the only national charity in Scotland that works solely to support families affected by imprisonment. Imprisonment can often have a huge impact on the things that matter most to families: money and secure housing, safe and connected relationships at home and in the community, and the emotional health and wellbeing of families. Families Outside is dedicated to providing a range of practical, social, and emotional support to people with someone in prison that are relationship-based, prison-aware, and family-focused.
Due to career progression, we have opportunities for colleagues to join our team. As a Supervising Social Worker, you are the key link for our foster carers with local authorities, and will ensure quality of care for children and young people; identifying positive matches providing support, supervision, and development opportunities for foster carers as appropriate. Your role is not only working with our foster carers as you will also link in with children and young people – checking in with them regularly to ensure their view and wishes are being heard and they are supported to achieve positive outcomes and are happy, safe and feel loved.
As a service we continue to grow, and your role will also allow for supporting potential foster carer applicants; building relationships with them as they progress from pre-approval training through their assessment as foster carers.
A typical week
Our team are located across Scotland. Our full-time roles will typically support a caseload of 12 of our amazing fostering families (reduced accordingly dependent on hours). Most of your time will be spent working remotely, however at times there will be travel to our office base in Falkirk for team and other meetings including our fostering panels – all with advance notice and planning. There are also opportunities to support learning, support groups, and assessments.
Our carers consistently share that they value the relationships they have with the staff team, particularly their supervising social worker. The flexibility of working with Care Visions Fostering ensures that our team can provide excellent support to our fostering families while managing their own diary. Our full-time team members generally work their hours Monday to Friday during core office hours. We hold our fostering panels on a Monday, and part-time colleagues ensure they can support this. We provide out of hours on-call telephone support (incl. weekends) and our SSWs support this on an 8-weekly rota basis (supported by a manager) with an additional daily payment in respect of this.
Who we are looking for
We would love to work with someone who is a proactive team player with excellent communication skills and the ability to work flexibly, and independently. You must have a good working knowledge of child protection procedures, legislation, and regulations in relation to looked after children and fostering. A good working knowledge and understanding of the challenges facing children, their birth parents and foster carers is key, as well as excellent report writing and assessment skills. Experience of assessing prospective foster carers would be advantageous.
Minimum Requirements:
* Degree in Social Work or relevant qualification in the field, such as DipSW, CQSW (essential)
* Registered with the Social Services Council, or other British equivalent along with PVG scheme membership, Solid experience in fieldwork, residential or in a family placement setting
* A full driving license and use of car (travel will be required).
Our benefits include
* Protected case load of typically 12* fostering families
* 27* days annual leave plus 9 public holidays
* Access to a range of employee benefits including:
* Health and wellbeing – health shield, employee assistance and wellbeing portal
* Staff discount portal and Blue Light card eligibility, and more
* Excellent opportunities for professional development and opportunity to be part of transformational change
*Pro-rata for part-time posts
About Us
Since 2006, Care Visions Fostering has been supporting young people across Scotland to improve their daily lives, development and opportunities after care. We work close to home, operating as a close-knit team. With therapeutic, trauma-informed approaches integral, we provide a range of therapeutic supports for all our fostering families, along with our education support to link positively with schools and empower staff and carers to advocate positively in respect of each child or young person.
This is an extremely rewarding role, where you could make a real and significant difference to the lives of children and young people when they need it while working as part of an amazing and committed team of staff and carers.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Sarah McEnhill, Head of Fostering, for an informal chat about the role on 01324 464 200 or sarah.mcenhill@carevisions.co.uk
Due to an internal promotion, we have a vacancy for a Family Support Worker to join our Fife Family Support team. This post will support the delivery of Fife Family Support Service, alongside the Family Support Development Officer and Family Support Officer. This includes delivering community-based services that specifically address the needs of families affected by alcohol and drugs.
The post is located in Fife, includes home working, and has an NHS Fife area-wide remit involving significant travel throughout the area and some to our offices in Glasgow. It is expected that the post holder will be required to work some evenings and occasional weekends. Due to the nature of this post, access to a car is essential. This post will be part of Scottish Families’ staff team and be supervised by the Family Support Development Officer – Fife Family Support Service.
The post-holder will be responsible for delivering a range of support services in Fife to families and support groups affected by someone else’s substance use, ensuring an effective response to the needs of support groups and evaluating and demonstrating the impact of our services. This includes facilitating family support groups, working with individuals on a one-to-one basis, and delivering evidence-based interventions, with the support of the Family Support Development Officer, as required.
Applicants should be educated to HNC level, vocational qualification (level 3) or relevant professional qualification, with experience of direct client work, group work and direct work with families. We are seeking someone with knowledge of issues for families affected by substance use, and the ability to facilitate family support groups, with strong organisational skills, effective interpersonal and communication skills, and an empathetic approach.
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