Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) - THRIVE Welcome Team

TN United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join a mental health charity in Edinburgh, working within a multidisciplinary team to support individuals with mental health challenges. The role emphasizes lived experience and offers a supportive environment for personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Employee benefits

Supportive environment

Training opportunities

Qualifications

• Lived experience of mental ill health and recovery journey.
• Ability to inspire hope in others.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 peer practice lead support.
• Facilitate group work using Decider Skills.

Skills

Collaboration

Compassion

Person-centeredness

Job description

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Client:

NHS Scotland

Location:

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

12.05.2025

Expiry Date:

26.06.2025

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Job Description:

Norton Park, 57 Albion Road, Edinburgh, EH7 5QY

Location: Edinburgh

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 Thrive Edinburgh service, you can start your day knowing what you do really makes a difference!

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a ground-breaking approach to mental health services. Thrive Edinburgh brings together a collaboration of partner organisations to work together to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the people of the city. The aims of Thrive Edinburgh centers around enabling people to live well and fulfill their potential. The service is a partnership with other third sector organisations and the NHS. Our organisations share a commitment to the Thrive vision and values of trust, respect, collaboration, person-centeredness, innovation, and compassion. Together we will deliver a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency response to people, so they receive the right help at the right time.

This post is for someone who has their own lived experience of mental ill health, using services, and their own recovery journey that they can use and share appropriately to inspire hope in others.

The service operates between Monday and Friday, 9-5, and is a multidisciplinary team made up of Support Workers, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, and you would provide 1:1 peer practice lead support.

You would also be trained in providing Decider Skills to facilitate group work.

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 range of employee benefits, and we 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.

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