Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) - Thrive Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £23,436 - £24,699 per annum (£12.02 - £12.67 p/h equivalent)
Permanent – Full Time
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.
This is an exciting opportunity for a person with their own lived experience of mental ill health to use their personal experience in the role of Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) within the Edinburgh South East Thrive Welcome Team.
You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team made up of Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Support Workers and other Peer Workers, providing support on a one to one basis, and through the use of a Thrive Plan, enabling people to meet their personal outcomes. You will assist people who use the service to establish and maintain a meaningful and fulfilling life in the community.
Support is to 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 self-manage.
Working hours for this role are Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.
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: Claire De Soldenhoff at [email protected]
For more on our who we are visit: penumbra.org.uk
For more opportunities across our teams visit: penumbra.org.uk/careers
