Team Leader - Time for You (REC547)

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 60 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 See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; 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: Team Leader (Time for You)

Ref: REC1547

Location: Remote, with some travel across Scotland

Hours: 37.5 hrs per week

Salary: £27,662.00 to £31,347.00 (Salary Point 25 – 29)

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 as the service grows and expands. Time for You is a national psychological wellbeing service which provides a stepped-care model of support 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 Cognitive Behavioural Coaching sessions with a Wellbeing Practitioner
• 1-to-1 Talking Therapy sessions with a Student Counsellor or Trainee Psychologist
• Access to self-directed support and resources via Qwell

The Team Leader is a new role to the service and will predominantly be responsible for the management, coordination, recruitment, induction and oversight of the student placements. Over the next academic year, Time for You aims to substantially increase the number of student placements available and the Team leader will play a pivotal role in progressing this.

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 Team Leader 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 managing or coordinating teams 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 highly advantageous for this role.

As Team Leader, 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 13th August 2024

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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