Women's Wellbeing Support and Development Worker

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 centre around enabling people to live well and fulfil their potential. The Connect Partnership represents a unique collaboration between leading 3rd sector providers Health in Mind, Penumbra 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 they receive the right help at the right time.

Salary: £25,712 (pro-rata), (fixed at point 27 on Health in Mind scale)

Hours: 21.75 hours per week (3 days)

We are looking for an experienced and creative individual to develop and deliver our Women’s Wellbeing Service, providing flexible support to women living in the South East and South West Localities of Edinburgh, including one to one and group work. This work will support women to identify and work towards personal outcomes to improve their mental health and wellbeing and increase connections within their community. All support will be designed to empower and enable women to take the lead in self-managing their mental health and wellbeing.

Closing date: Thursday 13 April 2023 at 9am

Interview date: 27 April 2023

If you have experience of supporting people to improve their mental health and wellbeing or personal experience of self-managing your own mental health difficulties, we’d love to hear from you!

An application pack is available to download on the right of this page.

If you have difficulties accessing the pack please contact Annmarie Mitchell, HR Administrator on 0131 225 8508 or email [email protected]

Please return completed application forms to: [email protected].

For further information please contact Rachel Driver on 0131 225 8508 or email [email protected]

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