Community Recovery Lead

Scvo; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Pension scheme

25 days holiday + 9 public holidays

Job summary

The Scottish Recovery Consortium in Scotland is seeking a Community Recovery Lead to drive strategic leadership and operational management across recovery-oriented communities. You will lead a team and work with lived experience, recovery communities, families, local and national partners to strengthen recovery pathways and create opportunities for people to thrive.

This hybrid role requires a dynamic leader capable of influencing systems and delivering service development while ensuring lived

Qualifications

• A skilled, dynamic leader who can connect people, influence systems, support innovation and create the 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and operational management to support the development of recovery-oriented communities across Scotland.
• Lead a team of staff and collaborate with people with lived and living experience, recovery communities, families and partners.
• Develop, implement and evaluate community-based recovery initiatives that promote inclusion, wellbeing and long-term recovery.
• Ensure that lived and living experience remains central to planning, delivery and decision-making.
• Support recovery communities to participate in local and national developments.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

People management

Job description

## 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 transformlives?We’re looking for a Community Recovery Lead to join our team. The role offers an exciting opportunity to join theScottish Recovery Consortium (SRC), Scotland's national recovery organisation, at a time of growth andopportunity.Recovery is about far more than overcoming challenges. It is about hope, connection, belonging and creatingopportunities 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 developmentof recovery-oriented communities across Scotland. The post holder will lead a team of staff and workcollaboratively with people with lived and living experience, recovery communities, families, local and nationalpartners, and statutory and third sector organisations to strengthen recovery pathways and create opportunitiesfor individuals to thrive.The role focuses on:· Providing day-to-day line management, support and supervision to the Communities Team, including regularsupervision, appraisal and development planning· Providing strategic leadership for the development and growth of recovery communities and recovery-orientedinitiatives 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 anddecision-making· Supporting recovery communities and lived experience recovery organisations to play a meaningful role in local andnational 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 thedevelopment, growth and sustainability of recovery in Scotland. We work at individual, community, organisationaland 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 ofrecovery-oriented systems of care and strategic system change, ensuring recovery is embedded in policy, practiceand culture.We offer a wide range of staff benefits, including flexible working, an Employee Assistance Programme, an excellentpension scheme and 25 days’ paid holiday plus nine public holidays per year.#### Application notesFor further information or to schedule an informal chat about this innovative and exciting post, please get in touchwith Tracey McFall at [e-mail] send completed Application & Equal Opportunities Monitoring Declaration Forms [e-mail] 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 travelwill 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: Current Vacancies –Scottish Recovery Consortium