Locality Manager, Highland
- Full time or Part time
- £29,331
- Homeworking until Covid 19 restrictions permit, then office based in Inverness or another of our Highland centres.
- Closing 12th August 2021
- Advertised from 27th July 2021
- Hours: 35 hours per week (Full-time) “Happy to Talk Flexible Working” Contract: Permanent (Subject to continuous funding). Reporting to: Area Manager.
Role
About the Role:
Are you interested in joining an award-winning Scottish charity whose aim is to provide support to people whose lives are affected by mental ill-health? Support in Mind Scotland have an exciting opportunity in the Highlands for someone looking to use their management skills and experience to help us continue to provide outstanding support services.
In this varied and challenging role, you will be responsible for the development and oversight of a range of services such as Resource Centres, community-based Outreach Support and Community Link services designed to extend and enhance Primary Care provision. You will work alongside our Area Manager, another Locality Manager and our expanding Highland team.
In this key role you will work creatively with other managers and with our support practitioners to deliver high-quality support services for people across the Highlands who are affected by mental health and mental welfare issues.
The role is diverse and interesting and your typical workday may include supervising and supporting senior staff, liaising with key stakeholder agencies such as Scottish Government and NHS Highland, devising training, writing reports, allocating resources and presenting at meetings with members of the public or professional colleagues.
Who are we looking for
The ideal candidate will have experience and skills in project management, management of staff, training and liaison work with stakeholder agencies. Experience of supporting people affected by mental health issues and an understanding of Scottish legislation relating to mental health will also be an advantage.
We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and the charity and are a “Happy to Talk Flexible” employer: The post is for 5 days a week, but we would consider applications for 4 days a week or job sharing.
For an informal discussion, please contact Bruce Armstrong, Area Manager at barmstrong@supportinmindscotland.org.uk
Why join us?
Support in Mind Scotland provides support throughout Scotland, and offers a range of services to people directly affected by a mental ill-health and to those who care for them, whether family, friend or supporter.
We are committed to delivering services shaped by the lived experienced of people affected by mental health. We believe in a holistic approach to providing support and aim to empower our service user to make the best use of what help and support is available to them.
This is a great opportunity to join a thriving charity and help shape its future. In return for your work, passion and dedication, we offer scope for development, a benefit package including 37 days’ holiday, enhanced sick pay, season ticket loan, regular support & supervision and access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
Find out more about us on our Website at supportinmindscotland.org.uk and on Social Media
If you are passionate about enabling Support in Mind Scotland to deliver a valuable service to the Scottish community and feel your profile matches this role’s criteria, then we want to hear from you!
Application notes
Closing date: 9am, 12-08-2021
Interview date: Week ending 29 August 2021
Please email your completed application pack to admin@supportinmindscotland.org.uk by 9am, 12-08-2021. With: Recruitment– Highland Locality Manager in your email subject line.
Interviews will be held via video call software.
We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
If you consider yourself to have a disability, please complete the relevant section within the application pack to inform us of any arrangements that we may make to the interview process.
We reserve the right to close this advert earlier or later than stated, so please don’t delay your application to avoid any disappointment.
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“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 a number of experienced practitioners 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 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’. You can start your journey now by simply downloading an application pack from our website but before you start your travels, please kindly make sure the following ‘fits’ into your career and personal attributions rucksack because life is a journey.
- We’d like a degree in Health and Social Care, Social Work or equivalent 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 with staff in accordance with the statutory framework and requirement including GDPR, BACP, the SSSC and the Care Inspectorate.
- Knowledge of and positive engagement with Impact Evaluation and Quality Assurance Frameworks for the purposes of continuous improvement. and practice development.
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.
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.
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