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Location: Edinburgh Services

Contract Type: Part Time – Permanent

Closing Date: 27 February 2026

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 Lothian Services

Contract Type: Full Time – Fixed Term

Closing Date: 01 March 2026

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: Flexible - Remote/Hybrid Working Possible

Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent

Closing Date: 09 March 2026

Overview:

If you’re looking for a rewarding career and to work within an inspirational team that really does make a difference, this is your opportunity to join Self Harm Network Scotland. 

Penumbra has been delivering the Self-Harm Network Scotland service since 2021 and through our work to date we have identified the need for a more tailored and bespoke response to self-harm for different communities and contexts across Scotland. As a Practice Development Officer, you will play a lead role in sharing the learning from our experience and practice to date through engagement and co-production with organisations and individuals in key communities across Scotland. 

In this varied role you will develop and maintain links and relationships with a variety of organisations and services, such as education establishments, NHS services, statutory services and third sector services such as homelessness services, foodbanks, community hubs, LGBTQ+ services, carers services, bereavement support and other mental health support services. You will work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to develop and deliver community-led capacity building activities and resources designed to increase access to support for people who self-harm, as well as the organisations and individuals who support them. This will include (but is not limited to) delivering self-harm awareness training, chairing focus groups, sharing service information, knowledge and resources, attending community events, delivering parent/carer group sessions and creating engaging resources.

You will provide and role model a compassionate response to self-harm, enabling communities to reduce the risk to people who self-harm and to respond effectively to distress in a community setting.