Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) – Thrive Edinburgh

Job title:

Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) – Thrive Edinburgh

Company

Penumbra

Job description

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: £23,436 – £24,699 per annum (£12.02 – £12.67 p/h equivalent)

Full time – Permanent

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 service is a partnership with other third sector organisations and the NHS. 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.

In this role you would be a Peer Practitioner, supporting people on a one-to-one basis using your own knowledge, experience and own learning of having mental ill health and navigating services – and to share tools that were helpful in your own recovery.

The team consists of Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Support Workers, and Peers who provide around 6-8 1:1 support sessions, working with the person to help them achieve their goals and a better quality of life.

The service operates Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.

As this is a peer role, lived experience of mental health and recovery is an essential criteria. Please ensure that you include this in the personal statement of your application, or we will not be able to consider you for the role.

As a mental health charity, we really value the wellbeing of our staff. That’s why we want you to know that you’ll be joining a friendly team, who will give you a supportive environment to help you thrive in your role, including all the training you need to feel confident and equipped.

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.

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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

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Expected salary

Location

Edinburgh

Job date

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:19:39 GMT

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