• Self Help Coach (Carers' Service) - LinkLiving

  Created: 30/04/2025
  News/Events Category: Job Vacancies
  
  
  

  Post: Self Help Coach (Carers' Service)

  Organisation: LinkLiving 

  Hours: 18 hours per week (three days per week, days to be agreed)

  Salary: £28,536 - £31,310 per annum pro rata (dependent on skills and experience)

  Location: This post is based at LinkLiving's Kirkcaldy office but involves travel throughout Fife

  
  Are you passionate about helping people to live a better life? Do you want to work for a charity where your health and wellbeing matter just as much as the people you support? Do you want to be part of a trauma-informed team where you will be supported to develop creative and flexible ways of working? At LinkLiving, their values and people are at the heart of everything they do including how they recruit staff. It is important for them to find people who share their values, which are:

  • Empathy (listen to and understand an individual's needs and circumstances)
  • Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)
  • Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)
  • Caring (show kindness and concern for others)

  LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people to manage or overcome the effects of negative life experiences (including trauma, mental health challenges, poverty, and inequality) so that they can build on their strengths and aspirations in order to live their best possible lives. Link support people through a range of models including: 

  • Personal development and employability programmes 
  • Self-help coaching
  • Supported accommodation
  • Care at home
  • Housing support
  • Befriending
  • Social cafes

  The service

  Fife Carers' Self-Help Project provides support in Fife for carers of children, young people, and adults with autistic spectrum conditions or with additional support needs who struggle with their own mental health. The service welcomes carers who have a loved one with a diagnosis and those who are on the diagnosis pathway. This service offers up to six, free, one-hour 1:1 coaching sessions, teaching self-care techniques to manage any current difficulties clients are experiencing. Group sessions are also available.

  Supported self-help is a short-term process which uses materials and techniques tailored to client's needs. They use an approach which considers how stress makes people feel, think, and behave, and cope with the associated physical symptoms. This approach is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT.

  The role

  The remit of this post is to provide stress support to parents, family members or any carer of an individual who has been diagnosed as or is pending a diagnosis of being on the autistic spectrum or with additional support needs using a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy based approach. This involves assisting people to access and use self help materials and signposting people to other relevant agencies when appropriate.

  You will need to develop and maintain respectful and empowering relationships with service users so that they feel valued and supported and in control of their own lives. The post holder will work within the existing Self Help Team based at West Bridge Mill in Kirkcaldy, Fife.

  The post holder will be expected to meet with service users in various community sites throughout Fife and therefore flexibility to travel to these areas is essential.

  About you

  You are a compassionate and proactive individual with a strong understanding of the challenges faced by service users, particularly those who are excluded or marginalised. Your approach is person-centred, and you have a proven ability to build equal, respectful, and positive relationships with individuals and external agencies alike. Empathy and active listening are central to how you support others, and you're sensitive and responsive to the emotional and social health needs of those you work with.

  You have experience working one-to-one, offering practical, tailored support, and you're familiar with self-help resources for carers of individuals with autism and additional support needs, with a clear commitment to promoting their use.

  As a valued team member, you contribute actively to a supportive working environment. You are calm under pressure, able to problem-solve effectively during crises, and your communication skills are adaptable to a variety of situations. Organised and reliable, you can collect data accurately and maintain detailed records. Your flexible and practical approach means you're ready to meet the changing needs of the role.

  A current driving licence and access to a roadworthy, reliable car allows you to support service users in a range of settings. Click here for a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post.

  Benefits

  The benefits of being a LinkLiving employee (subject to the policies and benefit terms and conditions) include:

  • Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non-consolidated pay awards, subject to terms of the scheme
  • 35 days' holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus additional three days pro rata after three years' service
  • Opportunity to buy and sell holiday
  • Enhanced company sick and family friendly pay
  • Access to paid SVQ qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities
  • Funded Disclosure Scotland and Scottish Social Services Council memberships
  • Defined contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions plus salary exchange and additional voluntary contribution options
  • Access to an electric vehicle leasing scheme, subject to the terms of the scheme
  • Life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits to named beneficiaries
  • Healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependents) to support health and wellbeing plus discounts on shopping, restaurants, and other services
  • Employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental, and financial wellbeing
  • Annual flu vaccination
  • Access to a savings and borrowing scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Monthly bus pass scheme
  • Season/travel ticket loan

  For a full list of benefits available to employees, please see the following link - https://www.linkliving.org.uk/work-with-us 

  This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration. Link will meet the cost of any new PVG scheme membership or scheme record update.

  How to apply 

  If you have any questions about the role, please e-mail [email protected] and they can arrange for someone from the service to call you for an informal chat.

  To find out more about what LinkLiving do and to view the generous pay and benefits package, please visit their website at https://www.linkliving.org.uk 

  Click here to apply on LinkLiving's website.

  They can offer suitable alternative methods to apply if requested including hard copy, Braille, and audio. To request this, please e-mail [email protected] 

  Please note: should an internal applicant be successful in applying for this position on either a seconded or permanent basis, they will move to the terms and conditions associated with the role for the duration of the time they are in post. The terms and conditions are outlined in the job information pack. They aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and from anyone who share their commitment to inclusion. 

  LinkLiving's offices are fully accessible to wheelchair users and, as a Disability Confident Leader, they will interview all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria. 

  Interviews will take place on Monday 26 May 2025 at LinkLiving's office in Kirkcaldy. 

  The closing date for applications is 11.59pm on Monday 19 May 2025. 

  
  
  

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