Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity. We have represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for almost 100 years. Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others.

These services together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change. SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.

For Scotland’s Mental Health

About the Role

Fife Care at Home and housing Support Service provides support to individuals with severe and enduring mental ill health in their transition from long term hospital stay to living as independently as they can in the community. The successful candidates must be able to work with the Service Manager and other Senior Practitioners in supporting, mentoring and guiding the team, coordinating the delivery of support across two locations in Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes and completing Key-working duties including working with Service users to define their own Support plans.

What we are looking for

We are looking for an individual with good leadership and communication skills who has the ability to lead a team of Practitioners and work as part of a team. To be part of a rota that includes on calls, sleepovers and weekend working. The candidate ideally should have a SVQ3 Health & Social Care qualification but this is not essential as we can support you to achieve this.

What we will provide for you

You will work in a supportive environment and will be provided with a full induction and training opportunities. You will be given the chance to develop your knowledge and skills, as well as develop professionally. Some of our benefits include;

• Fully funded SVQ qualification to meet the conditions of your SSSC registration

• Reimbursement of PVG, Disclosure & SSSC annual fees and registration costs.

• Funded continuous learning and development opportunities, access to over 100 courses online in addition to classroom and virtual training sessions

• 30 days annual leave rising to 33 after 5 years’ service

• 4 public holidays

• 2 paid wellbeing days off per year to use on what matters to you.

• Team wellbeing budgets

• Workplace pension scheme

• Life Assurance policy

• Employee Assistance Programme

Do you want to play a fundamental role in supporting and reducing drug and alcohol related harm? If you can work collaboratively, and are committed to training and informing local practitioners on supporting service users, and you are experiencing in managing a case load, assessing risk and ensuring a safe environment, this could be your perfect role.

Our Fife Harm Reduction service works with people across Fife to reduce drug and alcohol related harms. We operate from a fixed site in Leven and provide outreach across The Kingdom. We offer a range of services including access to sterile injecting equipment, safer injecting advice and information, safer drug use advice. overdose prevention, Naloxone provision, BBV testing and assertive Linkage into other services

We are looking for a Specialist Harm Reduction Worker who will work both within our fixed site in Leven and deliver outreach interventions in the Community.

The Specialist Harm Reduction Worker role is key to the delivery of an integrated service through the provision of assessment, recovery planning, appropriate referral, support, care co-ordinations and interventions. You will carry out assessments, as required and making appropriate onward referrals to specialist agencies, applying effective partnership working to deliver continuity of care.

Your organisation skills will assist you in managing an active caseload, providing structured brief harm reduction interventions and/or other psychosocial and pharmacotherapy interventions. Key to the role is the ability to assess and manage risk ensuring a safe and appropriate environment for all through active risk prevention, give advice on health and social wellbeing in both group and one to one settings.

As part of your role, you will support and train relevant local practitioners including Doctors, Nurses, Social workers and other allied professions; raising awareness, giving advice and guidance, addressing stigma, ensuring care standards are maintained and service users receive a sympathetic and integrated approach.

Your collaborative working skills will enable you to effectively co-produce, monitor and review recovery care plans, and you will record and maintain service user statistics/data/case notes. If you have the drive to support services and interventions to make a real difference in the lives of those struggling with drug and alcohol related harm, we’d love to hear from you.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• SVQ level 3 in Social Services & Healthcare or equivalent
• Successful track record of working with substance misuse service users
• Experience of working in the health, social care, criminal justice or other specialist setting for at least a minimum of 2 years
• Knowledge and understanding of health and safety, including assessing high-risk situations for service users
• Ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to work autonomously and make reasoned decisions without immediate managerial guidance
• Good written and oral communication skills:
• IT skills, including Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and digital media
• Knowledge and understanding of harm minimisation interventions

DESIRABLE SKILLS

A full job description will be available upon request

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.

At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that’s staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that’s right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online.

We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year.

We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.

We Are With You.

As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people and armed forces veterans.

As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. With You is also Disability Confident Committed and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.

BENEFITS

• Competitive salary
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (change holiday entitlement where required)
• 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
• Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
• Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
• Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
• We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period

Are you a creative and motivated individual with the passion and drive to support people with a recent diagnosis of dementia to live well in their community?

If so, you can be part of a National Team of Post Diagnostic Support Link Workers (PDS Link Workers) providing high quality, person centered support to people living with dementia and their families for a minimum of a year following diagnosis in line the Scottish Government’s minimum guarantee.

The aim of the PDS National Service is to enable people to live well with dementia and is centered around Alzheimer Scotland's 5 pillar model so that people move on to a period of supported self- management.

The model includes understanding the illness and coming to terms with the diagnosis, peer support, connecting and maintaining links with their community along with planning for future care and decision making to develop an outcome focused plan to support their future hopes, desires, and aspirations.

Supporting our Fife locality, the post will be based within the Dementia Post Diagnostic Support Service at Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline. Alzheimer Scotland’s PDS Link Workers are required to be effective team workers and have the skills to build and maintain relationships with colleagues both within Alzheimer Scotland, the NHS, and other stakeholders.

Skills in using digital platforms are essential as we use a blended approach to support people that involve some virtual meetings and on-line groups.

Applicants must hold a recognised relevant professional qualification, have a good understanding of dementia and how it affects people and their families along with excellent communication skills, a warm flexible approach, combined with skills in empathy and relationship building.

In addition, you should have skills and knowledge at the Enhanced Level of the Promoting Excellence Framework or be able to evidence you are working towards its completion.

This post requires a full driving licence and access to a car.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a ground-breaking approach to mental health services. Thrive Edinburgh brings together a collaboration of partner organisations to work together to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the people of the city. The aims of Thrive Edinburgh centre around enabling people to live well and fulfil their potential. The Peer Community represents a unique collaboration between Health in Mind and CAPS Independent advocacy. Our organisations share a commitment to the Thrive vision and values of trust; respect; collaboration; person-centeredness; innovation; and compassion.

The Peer Community Development worker will ensure peer support becomes an integral feature of health and social care support and services in Edinburgh.

They will do this by continuing the development and delivery of the thriving Peer work community. Where those who have a passion for peer work can come together in a safe space to learn and develop their practice, innovate new ways of working, build social capital and a shared identity. We are looking for someone with lived experience of mental health difficulties and an understanding of peer work, to share learning from their own experience to develop people’s understanding, inspire hope and strengthen and develop Peer Work in Edinburgh.