Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

7 months ago


Dundee, United Kingdom Penumbra Full time

**Location: Perth & Kinross**

**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. Here you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference

We are looking for a Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) to join our amazing DBI Tayside team.

A Distress Brief Intervention (DBI) provides an ‘ask once, get help fast approach’ for individuals in distress. DBI has two levels: a Level 1 response from frontline partnership agencies, and Level 2 support delivered by Penumbra.

A Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) will respond to a referral made on behalf of a person experiencing distress within 24 hours, with the provision of time limited support. The Practitioner will then deliver community-based problem-solving support, wellness and distress management planning, supported connections and signposting for a period of up to 14 days.

Tasks will include taking a referral from start to finish in a caring and compassionate manner. The Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner will have the ability to be flexible to the supported person’s needs, ensuring they deliver person-centered support. The Practitioner will then deliver community-based problem-solving support, wellness and distress management planning, supported connections and signposting for a period of up to 14 days.

For this role you will need to have an understanding of mental health and recovery, and you will have lived experience of mental health problems and of recovering a meaningful life.

The Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) will act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador of recovery with external agencies and partner organisations. There is also an expectation that the Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) will be involved in the ongoing development of peer roles and will make a positive contribution to the reduction in stigma associated with mental health issues.

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**

For more on our who we are visit: penumbra.org.uk

For more opportunities across our teams visit: penumbra.org.uk/careers


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