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Location: Flexible - Remote/Hybrid Working Possible
Contract Type: Part Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 10 August 2025
Overview:
Your administrative support within the DBI National Service will help facilitate the delivery of consistent and effective administrative processes, and to work collaboratively to support the DBI Practitioner team.
Your attention to detail, administrative experience and accurate record keeping will help you to produce delivery statistics for the management team and inform future plans. As a confident and competent administrator with amazing organisational skills, you will be integral to the service and the people we support.
Location: Flexible - Remote/Hybrid Working Possible
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 15 August 2025
Overview:
Community and Corporate fundraising are key strategic objectives for Penumbra and the post-holder will develop and lead income generation and engagement through local, regional and national fundraising activities.
Location: Flexible - Remote/Hybrid Working Possible
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 27 July 2025
Overview:
The post-holder will work within a team to deliver trauma-informed, emotional support to applicants to the financial redress scheme for survivors of historical childhood abuse in care in Scotland.
Location: Lanarkshire Services
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 04 August 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner, you 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.
Location: Angus Services
Contract Type: Part Time – Fixed Term
Closing Date: 10 August 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker (Peer), you’ll make a difference to people’s lives every day. Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers work in small collaborative teams to provide people with recovery focused support to enhance their mental wellbeing. In line with Penumbra’s values, Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers assist people who use the service to work towards their individual outcomes and identified goals, as detailed in their personal plan.
Location: South
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent, Part Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 03 August 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker, you’ll make a difference to people’s lives every day. Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers work in small collaborative teams to provide people with recovery focused support to enhance their mental wellbeing. In line with Penumbra’s values, Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers assist people who use the service to work towards their individual outcomes and identified goals, as detailed in their personal plan.
Location: Borders Services
Contract Type: Full Time – Fixed Term, Part Time – Fixed Term
Closing Date: 28 July 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker, you’ll make a difference to people’s lives every day. Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers work in small collaborative teams to provide people with recovery focused support to enhance their mental wellbeing. In line with Penumbra’s values, Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers assist people who use the service to work towards their individual outcomes and identified goals, as detailed in their personal plan.
Location: Edinburgh Crisis Centre
Contract Type: Full Time – Fixed Term
Closing Date: 10 August 2025
Overview:
Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers work in small collaborative teams to provide people with recovery focused support to enhance their mental wellbeing. In line with Penumbra’s values, Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers assist people who use the service to work towards their individual outcomes and identified goals, as detailed in their personal plan.
Location: Edinburgh Services
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 17 August 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker, you’ll make a difference to people’s lives every day. Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers work in small collaborative teams to provide people with recovery focused support to enhance their mental wellbeing. In line with Penumbra’s values, Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers assist people with various mental health conditions to work towards their individual outcomes and identified goals, as detailed in their personal plan.
Location: Flexible - Remote/Hybrid Working Possible
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 04 August 2025
Overview:
As a Practice Development Officer, you’ll make a difference to people’s lives every day. Through our work to date we have identified a strong demand for community-based development and confidence building activities across Scotland. In this varied role you will work with a variety of organisations and services, from schools to NHS services, to third sector services such as homelessness services, foodbanks, community hubs, LGBTQ+ services, carers services, bereavement support and other mental health support services. You will provide and role model a compassionate response to reduce the risk to people who Self-Harm and respond effectively to their distress in a community setting. You will focus on supporting people who self-harm as well as the organisations who support them across Scotland.
Penumbra has been delivering this service since 2021 and you will play a lead role in sharing the learning from our experience and practice to date and support teams across Scotland to put that learning into practice by working closely with organisations and communities. You will deliver a short-term programme of support including (but not limited to): Self-Harm Awareness Training, Raising awareness of support available in communities and through our online portal, Group work, Staff/Volunteer workshops, Drop-in support sessions and Parent/Carer group sessions.
Location: Hope Point
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 27 July 2025
Overview:
To provide operational leadership and direction to all managers and staff within your area of responsibility and to demonstrate a wider strategic role across Penumbra services and programmes. To support the Head of Services/Programmes in representing Penumbra in strategic development and influence within your area of responsibility. To be responsible for implementing the delivery plan for your allocated area of work, supporting delivery of the overarching organisational strategy. To ensure the compliant and safe delivery of high-quality support services and to build a culture that aligns with our values whilst demonstrating a positive leadership approach. Integral to this is the development of person-centred and recovery-focused services that support people to achieve their personal outcomes and live a satisfying, hopeful and contributing life.
