2. Practice Development

• Contribute to a team-based approach in developing and delivering Personal Support Plans, in partnership with:
  • Service users.
  • Carers.
  • Relevant stakeholders (under Project Worker direction).
• Support evolution of groupwork approaches, ensuring:
  • Activities encourage participation, peer support, and recovery.
• Ensure compliance with:
  • Team working practices.
  • Participation, inclusion, communication, and safeguarding standards.
• Contribute to:
  • Creation, implementation, and review of support plans.
• Work collaboratively with:
  • Service users, carers, and external agencies.
  • To promote choice, independence, wellbeing, and recovery.
• Review achievement of support goals with service users, then:
  • Provide feedback to the Project Worker and wider team.
• Work with colleagues to maintain:
  • Compliance with GAMH systems, procedures, and practices.
• Challenge poor practice and report:
  • Any concerns, malpractice, or issues to the appropriate person using organisational procedures.

3. Safeguarding

• Attend mandatory Safeguarding training to:
  • Understand key safeguarding principles.
  • Implement GAMH Adult Protection/Child Protection policies.
• Promote the protection of carers, ensuring awareness of:
  • Legal and organisational requirements for safeguarding adults and children.
• Act in accordance with Safeguarding policies, ensuring:
  • Protective measures for individuals from harm or abuse.

4. Health and Safety

• Adhere to lone working practices, ensuring:
  • Safe and effective individual engagement.
• Comply with:
  • GAMH’s Health and Safety policies.
  • Procedures protecting employees’ health, safety, and security.

5. Data Protection (GDPR)

• Adhere to GAMH’s Data Protection and Data Management Policy, ensuring:
  • Personal data is processed, stored, and shared responsibly under:
    • GDPR 2016 regulations.
    • Confidentiality agreements.
    • Legal and organisational requirements.
• Maintain records and reports that are:
  • Accurate, concise, objective, legible, and understandable.
• Uphold data protection principles, including:
  • Recording and sharing information only as permitted.

6. Professional Development & Compliance

• Upskill continuously, maintaining personal and professional development records per:
  • Legal requirements.
  • Organisational standards.
• Ensure compliance with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) Code of Practice.
• Be available for out-of-hours work as required.
• Perform additional duties as directed by senior staff.

Person Specifications

required:

• Commitment to a recovery-focused, strengths-based approach.
• Experience (or willingness to develop skills) in:
  • Group facilitation (e.g., workshops, support groups).
  • Community-based mental health support.
  • Motivational interviewing or person-centred practice. -Ability to build rapport with diverse individuals, including those experiencing:
  • Severe mental health challenges.
  • Isolation or social exclusion.
• Willingness to:
  • Work with young people and vulnerable groups.
  • Foster inclusive, trauma-informed environments.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to collaborate with carers, service users, and multi-agency teams.
• Conflict resolution and mediation skills.
• Flexibility and openness to continuous learning.
• Familiarity with GDPR, safeguarding, and social care frameworks (desirable but not essential). -Will to uphold ethical practice, professional boundaries, and organisational values.

Note: If you hold equivalent skills or experience outside formal qualifications, we welcome all applications.

Accountability

• Accountable to: Project Leader (sanctioned delegation authority).
• Reports to: Team Coordinator.