Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner – Edinburgh Crisis Centre

Location:  Edinburgh Crisis Centre

Salary: £26,227 per annum (£13.45 p/h equivalent)

Fixed Term – 6 Months

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 Edinburgh Crisis Centre you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

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.

As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner, you will give emotional support and work with people to find ways of dealing with difficult thoughts and feelings in order to reduce distress. You will provide callers to the Crisis Centre help line and visitors with short-term emotional and practical support whilst they are experiencing a mental health crisis.

The service is currently in transitionary phase, working in partnership with Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership to provide both unscheduled crisis and scheduled Distress Brief Intervention (DBI) support within the one newly developed service with a focus on both crisis and distress management. This includes working collaboratively with the national DBI Programme and with the local DBI partnership, to deliver compassionate, connected support to the people of Edinburgh.

DBI is a two-tiered response; a Level 1 response from frontline partnership agencies and Level 2 supportive interventions delivered by Penumbra. DBI responds to a referral made on behalf of a person experiencing distress within 24 hours, with the provision of time limited support. The Service then delivers community-based problem-solving support, wellness and distress management planning, supported connections and signposting for a period of up to 14 days.

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. If you are having issues with viewing this or downloading this please contact recruitment@penumbra.org.uk.

When you go through the application process you will be asked to upload a CV. All applicants must also complete the screening questions on our portal. If you do not complete the screening questions your application may not be considered.

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.

Updates and responses to applications will come from our recruitment system. These emails may go into your spam inbox so please check frequently for any updates on your application.

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 at recruitment@penumbra.org.uk.