Project Worker
Salary £ £23000
Stafford Centre, Edinburgh
Vacancy listed 03/02/2025
Application deadline 28/02/2025
Details
Location: Stafford Centre, Edinburgh
Salary: £23,000
Salary Band: 1.2
Hours: Full-Time (35hrs per week)
Contract: Permanent
Reports To: Senior Project Worker
Disclosure & Barring Check: This post will be subject to a PVG check for working with Adults.
 
 
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. 
 
About the role

As a Change Mental Health practitioner, you will work directly with service users who require immediate or on going emotional, practical or vocational support in order to deliver the best possible outcomes. You will work with service users to develop and review personal plans, although ultimate oversight rests with the Senior Project Worker.
 
You will work closely with other members of staff to achieve outcomes as defined by your line manager. Within the area team there is a clear line management structure which supports and shapes your practice. You will aim to contribute to an environment where people can relax, re-establish social skills and enhance their quality of life.
 
Main Duties & Responsibilities:

·        Work as part of a team building positive working relationships

·        In partnership with service users, implement outcome focussed development plans as designed/overseen by your line manager to enable service users to achieve their identified goals

·        Achieve outcomes, employing a number of appropriate intervention strategies including positive communication skills

·        Ensure that the Resource Centre is welcoming, clean, tidy and safe

·        Ongoing risk assessment is integral to the role to ensure the wellbeing of service users

·        Ability to demonstrate group work skills which bring people together in a safe environment

·        Awareness of appropriate professional boundaries including confidentiality

·        Understand the requirements of Health and Safety in the workplace and follow Change Mental Health policies.
 

Essential Criteria:

·        Educated to SVQ level 2 or have relevant experience working in health and social care 

·        Plan and prioritise own workload  effectively

·        Possess professional self -awareness with the means to seek support and advice from your line manager appropriately and participate in supervision and support meetings positively 

·        Act Empathetically by recognizing and validating the feelings and needs of others, ensuring respectful and supportive interactions

·        Demonstrate a personal and professional value base that is consistent with the aims and objectives of Change Mental Health 

·        Deliver a practice firmly based within a model of recovery 

·        Demonstrate genuine regard for service users and their families  

·        Good I.T. skills and can produce accurate case notes  

·        Enthusiastic to develop knowledge and skills 

 

Desirable Criteria:

·        Experience of working with people affected by mental illness 

·        Experience of working in a SSSC Registered Service 

·        A learning and development portfolio which evidences your skills and knowledge. 

 

General Duties:  

·        Act in accordance with Data Protection legislation.  Ensure all records, personal, staff and client data are managed in line with Data Management and Information Governance policies.

·        Comply with legal and regulatory requirements such as provisions set out in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

·        As with all employees, workers and volunteers; to encourage people to join Change Mental Health as a member, donor or activist.

·        To act in accordance with the charity’s Health & Safety and Safeguarding policies and to notify a line manager promptly if there are any concerns.

·        To participate in regular supervision and appraisal and undertake any relevant training as appropriate to the role.

·        To work in accordance with the charity’s national policies and local operating procedures and those of external regulators or professional bodies.

This job profile and list of duties is not exhaustive and serves only to highlight the main requirements. The line manager may stipulate other reasonable requirements and projects commensurate with the general profile and grade of the post.

Please be aware that it is classed as an offence if you apply for this role and are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to vulnerable adults.



 

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.
• Access to purchase a Blue Light Discount Card
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements.
• Generous 37 days’ holiday.
• 2 paid Mental Wellbeing days.
• Professional development including funded opportunities.

Notes

To apply please submit your CV and Cover Letter by clicking on the 'apply' button below.

Please note all applications must be received by midday on 28th February. Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 11th March.

We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. If you consider yourself to have a disability, please inform us of any arrangements that we may make to the interview process.

You will need to register for a Scot Account to confirm your PVG membership if successful. To ensure all documentation is ready for your start date, you can register in advance here: https://account.disclosure.scot/

If you have any questions or would like an informal chat, please reach out to john.philp@changemh.org.

Attached documents
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Job Description Project_Worker_JD__Stafford_Centre.docx

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