Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: £22,426 - £23,635

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 (Crisis Navigator) to join our amazing Edinburgh Crisis Centre team.

The Edinburgh Crisis Centre is a 24 hour service that provides short term community based emotional and practical support at times of crisis. It is a service for people who are aged 16 and over who are experiencing mental health difficulties and are an Edinburgh resident. This service is also available to carers of people experiencing a mental health crisis.

The Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Crisis Navigator) will provide callers to the Crisis Centre help line and visitors with short-term emotional and practical support whilst experiencing a mental health crisis, and where required to take a supervisory role in the day-to-day running of the help line and the Centre. To respond to referrals for support for persons experiencing distress including where appropriate off site and in person.

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.

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!

Get in touch

If you’d like an informal chat about this role and working for Penumbra Mental Health, please contact: Barrie Hunter at barrie.hunter@penumbra.org.uk

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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