Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - Southview Gardens

Location: Aberdeen

Salary: £26,227 per annum pro rata (£13.45 p/h equivalent)

Part Time (18.75 hours) – Permanent

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 Southview Gardens service you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

We are looking for a highly motivated Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join a dedicated team on a fixed term basis, delivering high quality, person-centred support to five adults within their own homes in the community of Nigg.

You will become part of a dynamic service demonstrating professionalism, safeguarding, reflective practice, and continuous service improvement including provision of supervision to others staff and working closely with the Service Manager.

By collaborating with individuals, their families, and multi-agency professionals, you will strive to promote positive mental and physical wellbeing through preventative and early intervention approaches. Recovery often involves supporting individuals during periods of distress, so it is important to do so sensitively with individuals when developing coping strategies and accessing the right services at the right time.

In doing so, you will support individuals to increase their life skills in line with their preferences and the Health and Social Care Standards. This often involves a variety of housing support needs and care at home assistance too.

Promoting communication is essential, so individuals can meaningfully participate in decisions and choices that matter to them, whilst expressing their own personality and talents. As a key worker, you will assist individuals to progress and review their recovery via a range of coaching approaches and toolkits.

The service also facilitates joint activities with individuals in our resource flat ensuring participation and inclusion for all.

This post is a part-time post of 18.75 hours per week which is for the purpose of weekend working only. The hours for this post are:

• Saturday 11am - 7pm
• Sunday Sleepover 12:15pm - 10:30 pm
• Monday 7:30am - 9am

A driving license is essential for this post so please only apply if you fulfil the needs of the post as documented above.

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 tonne of employee benefits, and we can 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.

For more information, including full and application/interview guidance, please download our recruitment pack.

We cannot consider CV’s – all applications should go through the application process on our website. Only applications completed through our website will be considered. If you are unable to complete an online application, please contact us at View email address on myjobscotland.gov.uk and we can arrange for a paper copy to be sent out to you.

Please note that unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship. We can only accept applications from applicants who currently have the legal right to work in the UK, or applicants who have already have an application in progress to obtain the legal right to work in the UK.

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Penumbra is committed to supporting candidates with disabilities, neurodiverse candidates, and candidates with mental health conditions throughout the recruitment process. We will make any reasonable adjustments required to ensure a fair and inclusive process for all. If you think you require reasonable adjustments, please don’t hesitate to contact us at View email address on myjobscotland.gov.uk .