Community Recovery Lead

## Community Recovery Lead
* Scottish Recovery Consortium
* Full time* £39,500
* Hybrid:  Hybrid working, with regular travel throughout Scotland
* Closing  11th November 2026
* Advertised from 14th October 2026
* 35 hours Initial 12-month fixed-term post#### Role
** Join the Scottish Recovery Consortium and Help Shape Recovery Across Scotland
** Are you a passionate leader who believes in the power of communities, lived experience and recovery to transform lives?

We’re looking for a Community Recovery Lead to join our team. The role offers an exciting opportunity to join the Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC), Scotland's national recovery organisation, at a time of growth and opportunity.

Recovery is about far more than overcoming challenges. It is about hope, connection, belonging and creating opportunities for people, families and communities to flourish. At SRC, we work alongside people with lived andliving experience to influence policy, strengthen communities, develop organisations and champion recovery as aforce for positive social change.
** What you will do
** As our Community Recovery Lead, you will play a pivotal role in driving this vision forward.

The Community Recovery Lead will provide strategic leadership and operational management to support the development of recovery-oriented communities across Scotland. The post holder will lead a team of staff and work collaboratively with people with lived and living experience, recovery communities, families, local and national partners, and statutory and third sector organisations to strengthen recovery pathways and create opportunities for individuals to thrive.

The role focuses on:
· Providing day-to-day line management, support and supervision to the Communities Team, including regular supervision, appraisal and development planning
· Providing strategic leadership for the development and growth of recovery communities and recovery-oriented initiatives across Scotland
· Developing, implementing and evaluating community-based recovery initiatives that promote inclusion, participation,wellbeing and long-term recovery
· Ensuring that lived and living experience remains central to all aspects of planning, delivery and decision-making
· Supporting recovery communities and lived experience recovery organisations to play a meaningful role in local and national developments
** What you will bring*
* · A skilled, dynamic and motivated leader who can connect people, influence systems, support innovation and createthe conditions for recovery communities, families and individuals to flourish
· Experience of working in a charity, community or health organisation
· Experience of managing staff
· Experience contributing to service development or system change
** About us
** The Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is a national intermediary organisation dedicated to supporting the development, growth and sustainability of recovery in Scotland. We work at individual, community, organisational and policy levels, across communities and prisons, to make recovery visible, and champion lived experience as adriver of change. Through collaboration and co-production, SRC supports the creation and implementation of recovery-oriented systems of care and strategic system change, ensuring recovery is embedded in policy, practice and culture.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits, including flexible working, an Employee Assistance Programme, an excellent pension scheme and 25 days’ paid holiday plus nine public holidays per year.#### Application notes

For further information or to schedule an informal chat about this innovative and exciting post, please get in touchwith Tracey McFall at Tracey@scottishrecoveryconsortium.org Please send completed Application & Equal Opportunities Monitoring Declaration Forms toinfo@scottishrecoveryconsortium.org by 12 noon Wednesday 11th November 2026.The interviews for this position will be held W/C 30th November 2026, in our Glasgow office. Accommodation and travel will be supported for the interviews.
** Pre-employment Checks:
** Any employment with the Scottish Recovery Consortium will be subject to the following checks before your startdate:
· This post is subject to a PVG from Disclosure Scotland.
· Receipt of satisfactory references.
· Proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role.
· This post is subject to basic driver checks (if relevant).For further information and to apply, please visit our website:
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