Mental Health

**Location: Edinburgh / Remote working**

**Salary: £22,426 - £23,635 per annum**

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We are looking for a Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner to join our Edinburgh GPs DBI team.

**Service Description**

The Scottish Government (SG) is focused on improving responses to people in distress. The DBI programme emerged through direct engagement with citizens who have experienced distress, front-line service providers and literature review. The SG established the DBI programme, which is hosted and led by South & North Lanarkshire H&SCP’s, via a DBI Central Team and has been tested, developed and continuously improved in Aberdeen, Inverness, North and South Lanarkshire and Scottish Borders. Many other parts of Scotland are engaged with DBI through the associate programmes, benefiting from the knowledge, infrastructure and tools developed including to support of the effective delivery of the DBI COVID 19 response programme.

Since 2017 the programme has been building a large and far reaching national and regional distress collaboration between health and social care, emergency services (Primary Care, Police Scotland, Scottish Ambulance Service and Emergency Departments) and third sector, putting citizens at the centre, providing early intervention, reducing duplication, increasing efficiency and improving outcomes and experience for people experiencing distress and those providing support.

A clear vision of connected, compassionate support has cultivated an ethos of collaboration. The de-medicalisation of distress and focus on people as citizens enables a sense of ownership and inclusion with compassion defined as “a sensitivity to distress together with the commitment, courage and wisdom to do something about it”. This underpins a shared commitment to collective action.

The overarching aim of the DBI programme is to provide a framework for improved inter-agency co-ordination, collaboration and co-operation across a wide range of care settings, interventions and community supports, towards the shared goal of providing a compassionate and effective response to people in distress improving experience and outcomes for those experiencing distress and those providing support.

**Job Summary**

This is an exciting opportunity to join the further development of the DBI approach across Scotland, which has widely been recognised as innovative and pioneering.

We are part of a new approach to DBI, working in partnership with Edinburgh GPs to support people experiencing distress. Initially we will be providing a telephone/video support service for people to the people of Edinburgh and we aim to support people in person in the community in line with covid-19 restrictions. The service receives referrals from Edinburgh GP practices, (DBI Level 1). The service (DBI Level 2) then respond by contacting the referred person within 24 hours to discuss their particular issues and the support that can be provided. Support is available for up to 14 days from first contact. Specific training will be given to all staff providing this service to ensure we provide a consistent, connected, compassionate approach.

The Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner will assist people who use the service to establish and maintain a meaningful and fulfilling life in the community. Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioners play a central role in the planning and provision of quality, recovery focused support to people who use the service.

Please see our Recruitment Pack for full job description and person specification.

**Benefits**
- Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme
- Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Discount Scheme with Vivup
- Death in Service benefits
- Full training and professional development

And so much more

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