In this exciting new role you will support local people to connect with their community and overcome life’s challenges. Link Practitioners are based in GP practices across Aberdeen City. We work with local communities and colleagues both within and beyond the practice to support people to live better and have healthier lives.

Aberdeen Links aims to reduce pressures on mainstream primary and community care services by meeting a need for joined up support across the Health and Social Care Partnership.

As a Link Practitioner embedded in the community, local GP practices and the Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership locality you will :

· support people with issues they are experiencing, to identify and manage issues and barriers that affect their ability to live well and help them to talk about what really matters to them,

· offer non-clinical support to people, enabling them to set their own personal goals, and with your knowledge of what is happening in the local area, and ability to establish and maintain effective relationships help people access all their local community has to offer.

· improve people’s health, wellbeing and personal resilience by supporting them to link more closely with opportunities in their community.

We are looking for talented and highly experienced people who are passionate about a person centred approach to supporting people to make meaningful and lasting improvements to their health and wellbeing.

You will be experienced in working with adults with a wide range of additional support needs, with exceptional communication skills and be able to effectively manage your own case load. You’ll also need to be flexible in responding to the demands of the service and ensure at all times that your practice and work is of the highest quality.

For more information about these vacancies, please contact us at aberdeenlinks@samh.org.uk.

Applications are welcome from people who have experienced mental health difficulties. A PVG check is required for this post, along with a Right to Work in the UK check. Candidates will also be required to provide proof of qualifications declared on the application form. We are happy to talk about flexible working for this post.

Are you an experienced fundraiser with a love of live music?

This is an exciting new post with real opportunity to bring the therapeutic benefits of live music to thousands of people in the North of Scotland.

We are looking for a well-connected and experienced fundraiser, confident and enthusiastic with a proven ability to be able to build partnerships, ideally with a track record across different income generation areas and in support of arts in health delivery.

This new post will play a key role in strengthening and expanding the work of Music in Hospitals & Care (MiHC) across the North of Scotland. It is a new development role involved in a wide range of areas including fundraising, partnerships and concert delivery.

It is an exciting time to join us as we embark on the development of our strategy to advance the organisation, showcase our impact and increase our reach.

We would love to hear from you if you are passionate about helping us to bring joy through live music to even more people who could not otherwise reach it.

For an informal chat about the post please contact, Claire Bennett, our Director in Scotland, on claireb@mihc.org.uk.