Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - MHARS

Location: Midlothian

Salary: £22,426 - £23,635

Fixed Term - may become permanent depending on funding

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 to join our amazing MHARS team.

You will be working as part of a multi-discipliary team, alongside Midlothian's Community Mental Health Team, providing a distress/crisis line, a single point of access to MHARS for residents of Midlothian. You will respond to calls in a manner guided by the service principles, being inclusive, sensitive and respectful.

From the moment you answer the telephone, you will listen and ensure that you understand the issues that has led to distress/crisis for that person, providing an immediate response and with the support of the Intensive Home Treatment Team, establishing which is the best support for that person. Understanding each person's unique situation, resulting in fast tailored support and finding ways to successfully resolve their distress/crisis situation and assist in planning for the future.

Once the initial period of distress/crisis has been addressed, you will support connections to additional, statutory or community support and/or deliver a Distress Brief Intervention (DBI) response to those in distress. This will invlove community based problem solving support, wellness and distress management planning, supporting connections and signposting for a period of up to 14 days. You will be flexible and responsive, offering the medium support that the supported person feels most comfortable with. You will assist people using this service, to establish and maintain a meaningful and fufilling life in their community.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners play a central role in the planning and provision of quality, recovery focused support to people who use this service.

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.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Please refer to the attached Recruitment Pack for full job description and person specification.

Benefits

• Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme, offering free counselling for you and your family
• Employee Discount Scheme
• 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: Candie Galeotti (Service Manager) at candie.galeotti@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