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Location: Edinburgh Head Office
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 08 June 2025
Overview:
To work proactively to provide consistent and effective administrative support to Penumbra colleagues as and when required.
Integral to this role is to be a first point of contact for callers and visitors to our Head Office, creating an excellent first impression.
Location: Edinburgh Milestone
Contract Type: Relief
Closing Date: 22 June 2025
Overview:
We are looking for a volunteer facilitator for our “Brolly Group”, which provides ongoing support to residents coming to the end of their stay once they transition back into the community.
Location: Edinburgh Services
Contract Type: Full Time – Permanent
Closing Date: 19 June 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: 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.
Location: Edinburgh Milestone
Contract Type: Relief
Closing Date: 22 June 2025
Overview:
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker (Relief), you’ll make a difference to people’s lives every day. At Milestone we support people for roughly 12 weeks as a step-down service form hospital. We deal specifically with people who have a diagnosis of Alcohol Related Brain Damage. This is an opportunity to work as part of our award-winning multi-agency team, with in-reach colleagues from many disciplines. This allows us to provide a holistic approach to recovery, providing a broad range of support in peoples’ lives, preparing them for their next steps after Milestone and ensuring as best we can that their recovery is ongoing.
Location: Flexible - Remote/Hybrid Working Possible
Contract Type: Relief
Closing Date: 15 June 2025
Overview:
The Self-Harm Network Volunteer will utilise their unique understanding gained from managing their own mental health to assist staff in the smooth delivery of our Self-Harm support web chat.
