Project Worker
Salary £ 20,614.47 Pro Rata
Sutherland
Vacancy listed 13/02/2023
Application deadline 07/03/2023
Details
About the Role:

Hours: 16hr Per week
Tenure: Permanent 

Companas Resource Centre is one of a number of centres around Scotland where Change Mental Health welcomes people with a wide variety of mental health illness and offers compassionate, creative, focussed support that can assist recovery. Our aim in these centres is to provide a warm, welcoming environment where people can find the confidence and trust that they need in order to engage with support. 
 
We are looking for a dynamic and creative Project Worker, to lead our Resource Centre in Easter-Ross. This role involves provision of recovery-focussed and person-centred support to people attending the Centre. This is managed, through the delivery, updating & creation of new groups. Structured group – providing tools to help the people we support cope; well-being group – to create a group which is led by the people we support; community engagement – to introduce a project in a setting outwith the Resource Centre; social – an opportunity for the people we support to interact with others in a social environment; activity group – a small focussed time limited group.
 
You will, lead the Centre’s team and manage the service.  
 
Who are we looking for? 
 
You will be responsible for compiling and reviewing development plans for people using the service, and ensure that the agreed outcomes are being achieved. 
 
You are someone comfortable working in a team as well as autonomously, and are proactive in your own personal development and learning. The successful candidate will be required to be a member of, or willing to join the PVG scheme membership. 
 
If you are passionate about enabling Change Mental Health 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! 
 

Why join us

Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique support to people with severe and enduring mental ill health. With 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. 

Our person-centred approach puts the people we work with at the heart of what we do ensuring they have greater opportunity, can build confidence and social skills, and become more integrated into their communities. By building connections and support around individual needs, our team of nearly 200 staff and 800 members value the lived experience which informs the services we deliver. We look beyond illness by taking a holistic approach that ensures no one has to face mental ill health alone. 
Benefits

Professional development including funded opportunities.

A generous 37 days’ holiday.

A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan.

A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment.

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.

Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements

Paid Mental Wellbeing Days

Cycle to Work Scheme

Blue Light discount card

Notes

Please download and complete the application form and submit via our BreatheHR portal. Applications must be received by 12 pm on 07 March 2023.

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. Please don’t delay your application to avoid any disappointment.

Attached documents
Title File
Application Pack Application-Form.docx
Job Description Project_Worker_Resource_Centre_3_(1).pdf
Main Terms MainTerms.pdf

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