Mental Health

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: £24,618 - £25,944 (£ £13.30 p/h equivalent)

Full time (37.5 hours p/w) - 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

We have a unique vacancy for Peer Practitioner and are looking to recruit someone with lived/living experience of Mental Ill Health.

This is an opportunity for you to use your lived experience of recovery and self-management to provide Hope and Belief for others, through equal relationships and shared experiences.

This peer role requires someone who is emotionally resilient would be confident to appropriately share the tools and coping mechanisms that has got them to this point in their recovery. Do you feel able to support others and help them navigate their recovery journey?

The role is in Collaboration with the NHS and other 3rd sector organisations which make up the multidisciplinary "Thrive Welcome Teams ". The teams include peer practitioners, mental health nurses, social workers, support workers and occupational therapists.

The service runs Monday to Friday 9-5pm. The team all provide 1:1 support according to their discipline, group work facilitation for Decider Skills and ADHD, and also cover the Open Access which is a drop-in, first point of contact for people who require mental health support.

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.

For more information, including full job description and application/interview guidance, please download our recruitment pack.

We cannot consider CV's – all applications should go through the application process on our website. Only applications completed through our website will be considered. If you are unable to complete an online application, please contact us at and we can arrange for a paper copy to be sent out to you.

Please note that unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship. We can only accept applications from applicants who currently have the legal right to work in the UK, or applicants who have already have an application in progress to obtain the legal right to work in the UK.

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Penumbra is committed to supporting candidates with disabilities, neurodiverse candidates, and candidates with mental health conditions throughout the recruitment process. We will make any reasonable adjustments required to ensure a fair and inclusive process for all. If you think you require reasonable adjustments, please don't hesitate to contact us