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Everyone has the right to live life to the full. After a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or a stroke, many people experience fear and isolation and struggle with the impact on their lives. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland won’t stand for that. The care and support we deliver every day ensure everyone can live the life they want to.

We currently have an opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with previous retail experience to join us at our Shop at 172-174 Fenwick Rd, Giffnock, Glasgow G46 6XF and 102 -104 Ayr Rd, Newton Mearns, Glasgow G77 6EG.

If you:

• Are enthusiastic about retail?
• Are sales driven?
• Can generate stock?
• Have a flair for fashion?

Come and join us!

Some experience of working with volunteers is advantageous but not essential as we will provide you with support to recruit and develop.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, health insurance, employee welfare support and life assurance.

Everyone has the right to live life to the full. After a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or a stroke, many people experience fear and isolation and struggle with the impact on their lives. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland won’t stand for that. The care and support we deliver every day ensure everyone can live the life they want to.

We currently have an opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with previous retail experience to join us at our Shop at 73-75 Main St, Bothwell, Glasgow G71 8ER.

If you:

• Are enthusiastic about retail?

• Are sales driven?

• Can generate stock?

• Have a flair for fashion?

Come and join us!

Some experience of working with volunteers is advantageous but not essential as we will provide you with support to recruit and develop.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, health insurance, employee welfare support and life assurance.

Everyone has the right to live life to the full. After a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or a stroke, many people experience fear and isolation and struggle with the impact on their lives. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland won’t stand for that. The care and support we deliver every day ensure everyone can live the life they want to.

We currently have an opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with previous retail experience to join us at our Shop at 3-7 Park St, Galashiels TD1 1BZ.

If you:

• Are enthusiastic about retail?
• Are sales driven?
• Can generate stock?
• Have a flair for fashion?

Come and join us!

Some experience of working with volunteers is advantageous but not essential as we will provide you with support to recruit and develop.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, health insurance, employee welfare support and life assurance.

LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people of all ages to overcome the negative impacts of trauma, mental health, inequality, and isolation. We deliver our support to service users through a range of models including:

• Personal development and employability programmes
• Self-help coaching
• Supported accommodation
• Care at home
• Housing support
• Befriending
• Social cafes

At LinkLiving, our values are at the heart of everything we do and we put the people we support first. It is important to us to find people with the right values, behaviours and attitudes to match our own. Our values are:

• Empathy (listen to and understand an individual’s needs and circumstances)
• Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)
• Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)
• Caring (show kindness and concern for others)

Mental Health and Wellbeing Services provide support to tenants through the delivery of two distinct projects. HoME (Help on Managing Everything) which provides practical and emotional support to tenants, supporting them to maintain a successful tenancy. Building Resilience for a Better Home is a self-help service where tenants can receive up to nine one to one self-help sessions to better manage mild to moderate mental health issues which impact on their ability to maintain their tenancies.

The Job

Working closely with the Head of Practice and Participation, the Team Leader will ensure the achievement of high-quality services for people who use our services. The team leader will oversee the HoME and Building Resilience for a Better Home projects.

The Team Leader will provide day to day management, leadership, support and supervision to a team of staff. The Team Leader will have their own caseload of clients as part of Building Resilience for Better Homes project (averaging 18.75 hrs per week) and the remaining time will be spent undertaking line management responsibilities. The Team Leader will provide supported self-help sessions to tenants who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues which are having a negative impact on their ability to maintain their tenancies.

The Team Leader will also lead, motivate, support and supervise staff through regular planned meetings and support at other times to ensure the promotion of good practice and excellence within the team. In addition, the post holder will co-ordinate and monitor the day to day operation of services and be accountable for the management and development of the service ensuring compliance with all legislative and regulatory regulations.

About You

The successful candidate must be educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Psychology (or other relevant subject) with experience of approaches to self help techniques and/or CBT approach.

As this role involves the line management of a team of staff you must be able to demonstrate that you can lead, manage and motivate a team through regular planned meeting and support.

Additionally, you need to be able to demonstrate your knowledge of mental health self help resources and a commitment to their use. It is essential that you have prior knowledge of issues affecting people who are excluded and marginalized and have an ability to build equal and positive relationships with people. You must also have prior experience of facilitating training sessions and training development for this role.

Further Information

To find out more about what LinkLiving do, please visit our website at linkliving.org.uk

What’s in it for you?

LinkLiving offers excellent terms and conditions, and as an Investor in People and Healthy Working Lives Gold Award holder, we aim to provide a wide range of development opportunities and healthy living initiatives. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities.

You will work with colleagues who share our objectives – our employees, volunteers, funders, and our project partners. In return, we want people who are passionate, caring and dedicated, committed to our vision and values and will work to the highest professional standards.

As a LinkLiving employee, you'll benefit from generous annual leave entitlements, a wide range of learning and development opportunities, highly competitive employer pension contribution rates, discounts on shopping, restaurants and other services via Westfield Rewards, enhanced maternity and sick pay entitlements, employee support and counselling service and occupational health services.

This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration.