Placement Educator (REC2029)

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 over 100 years. Today, in over 70 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 The Nook, respectme, suicide prevention and physical activity; 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

Post: Placement Educator (Time for You)

Ref: REC2029

Location:

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £29,575 to £33,515 (Salary Point 25 – 29)

*whilst this is a scale for progression, the starting salary is point 25

Contract: Permanent

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled people manager with excellent coordination skills to join the Time for You team. Time for You is a well established national psychological wellbeing service which provides talking therapy to individuals over 16 years old, living in Scotland who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health or wellbeing challenges. Time for You is currently delivered remotely and offers the following support:

• 1-to-1 Talking Therapy sessions with a Student Counsellor or Trainee Psychologist

The Placement Educator will predominantly be responsible for the management, coordination, recruitment, induction, development and oversight of the student placements. This is a key and demanding role in the service, which typically offers 40 trainee placements at any one time.

Time for You prides itself in being a placement of choice for students enrolled on a selection of Doctorate and Masters level courses with our academic partners. We offer a placement where students can not only complete their placement hours with us, but also have opportunities to be involved in projects that can help them complete their log books, as well as develop their professional practice within a leading mental health organisation. It is important to us that the Placement Educator continues to deliver a high standard of placement experience for students.

All students are required to have their own clinical supervision, so this is not a clinical supervision role. The successful candidate will assume the role of Placement Educator where appropriate with academic partners.

What we are looking for

We’re looking for someone with great people skills who is enthusiastic, pro-active and passionate about improving access to psychological wellbeing services to join our team and be a part of the expansion of SAMH’s Time for You service.

You will be an organised and approachable, able to work autonomously and take initiative to deliver a high quality service for those we support, and our students on placement. A natural leader, you will have experience of successfully leading teams of trainee volunteers remotely, and be able to develop supportive relationships with their team and positive relationships with our academic partners.

There can be lots of moving parts with a high volume of students and clients, so we are looking for a systems and data-oriented individual who is highly organised to support the service manager and service coordinator with resource planning, process flows and case management oversight.

A knowledge of therapeutic approaches and the training routes for psychology and counselling disciplines would be is essential for this role.

As Placement Educator, you will typically be Mon-Fri, however there may be a requirement to work some weekends as needed and participate in the local out of hours on-call rota.

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;

· 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

Closing date for applications will be 12 noon, Tuesday 15th September 2026

This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship.

If you’d like an informal chat about this role and working for SAMH, please contact: Tracey Beattie at Tracey.Beattie@samh.org.uk or by telephone on 07720173755.

To apply and for further information please visit; https://www.samh.org.uk/information/work-with-us

PVG Scheme Membership, a Right to Work in the UK check and proof of any qualifications declared in your application will be required.

Applications are welcome from people who have experienced mental health difficulties.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high level of applicants and would encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

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