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Location: Hope Point
Contract Type: Part Time – Fixed Term
Closing Date: 29 June 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer), you will support people who have experienced trauma and emotional distress following death by suicide of someone close to them. A timely, compassionate response will be central to the support in order to come alongside those bereaved, and provide emotional and practical support to help them navigate this difficult journey.
You will be expected to share aspects of your personal experiences, including coping strategies, tools, and techniques that you have found helpful in managing your wellbeing following a loss.
You will carry a caseload of people referred to the service and work with them to identify the appropriate intervention; liaise with other organisations, including Police Scotland; and make referrals or signpost to other appropriate supports.
Location: Aberdeen Services
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 26 June 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer), you truly will have the ability to make a difference to people’s lives every day. Through sharing your unique knowledge and understanding from your own lived experience of managing your own mental health challenges, you will inspire hope that recovery is possible.
Location: Edinburgh Services
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 07 July 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer), you’ll make a difference to people’s lives every day. This role has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental health problems. Through sharing learning from their own experience, peer workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, Practitioners will promote self-management and opportunities for improved health and wellbeing.
Location: Various - West
Contract Type: Full Time – Fixed Term
Closing Date: 03 July 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner, you will play a central role in the planning and provision of quality, recovery focused support to people who use the service. A Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner is someone who supports and enables people to achieve their goals and maximise their potential – therefore you will assist people who use the service to establish and maintain a meaningful and fulfilling life in the community.
Location: East
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 27 June 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: South Ayrshire Services
Contract Type: Part Time – Fixed Term
Closing Date: 30 June 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner, you’ll make a difference to young people’s lives every day. You will provide recovery focused, support to young people who Self-Harm, across a variety of settings, including schools, colleges and within the community. As a practitioner you will promote self-management and opportunities for improved health and wellbeing.
Location: Aberdeen Services
Contract Type: Full Time – Fixed Term
Closing Date: 06 July 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner, you will play a central role in the planning and provision of quality, recovery focused support to people who use the service. A Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner is someone who supports and enables people to achieve their goals and maximise their potential – therefore you will assist people who use the service to establish and maintain a meaningful and fulfilling life in the community.
Location: Glasgow Services
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 01 July 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker (Peer), you’ll make a difference to people’s lives every day. Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers (Peer) 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: Aberdeen Services
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 12 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 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: Flexible - Remote/Hybrid Working Possible
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 30 June 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.
