Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) (Part Time) - Thrive Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £23,436 - £24,699 per annum pro rata (£12.02 - £12.67 p/h equivalent)
Permanent – Part time (30 hours per week)
If you are looking for a rewarding career and to work within an epic team that will help you grow and thrive, then you have come to the right place. Working within our Thrive Edinburgh Service you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a ground-breaking approach to mental health services. Thrive Edinburgh brings together a collaboration of partner organisations to work together to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the people of the City. The aims of Thrive Edinburgh centres around enabling people to live well and fulfil their potential.
The Connect Partnership represents a unique collaboration between leading 3rd sector providers Penumbra, Health in Mind and Change Mental Health. Our organisations share a commitment to the Thrive vision and values of trust; respect; collaboration; person-centeredness; innovation; and compassion. Together we will deliver a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency response to people, so people receive the right help at the right time.
Specific to the role within the Locality Team (Self-Harm Support Service), you will offer trauma-informed therapeutic peer support to people who self-harm or experience suicidal ideation to cope with crisis and trauma by exploring their emotions and concerns in a confidential setting.
Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioners (Peer) play a central role in the planning and provision of quality, recovery focused support to people who use the service. Support will be provided in an appropriate environment where supported people can expect to be treated with respect, be given the time and space to discuss issues at their own pace, to explore skill development and tools to support them to manage their self-harm.
In addition to working 1:1 with people, this role includes non 1:1 work such as facilitating awareness raising and training sessions around self-harm and attending events to advertise the service and spread information about how people can access help regarding self-harm.
We can offer you a tonne of employee benefits, and we can promise you’ll be inspired by some pretty amazing humans every single day. We will support you on your own career path; developing new skills, accessing formal and informal learning experiences and providing opportunities to put your continual progress into practice.
For more information and full job description, please download our recruitment pack.
Get in touch
If you’d like an informal chat about this role and working for Penumbra Mental Health, please contact: Frankee Fouin at [email protected] or on 07717 451 885
For more on our who we are visit: penumbra.org.uk
For more opportunities across our teams visit: penumbra.org.uk/careers
