Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) - THRIVE Edinburgh

Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent

Closing Date: 02 October 2024

Salary: £24,374 - £25,687 per annum (£12.50 - £13.17 p/h equivalent)

Specific Hours: 37.5

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.

This post is for someone who has their own lived experience of mental ill health, using services and their own recovery journey that they can use and share appropriately to inspire hope in others.

The service operates between Monday and Friday 9-5pm and is a multidisciplinary team made up of Support Workers, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists and you would provide 1:1 peer practice lead support.

You would also be trained in providing Decider Skills to facilitate group work.

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.