Norton Park, 57 Albion Road, Edinburgh, EH7 5QY
Location: Dundee
Salary: £24,374 - £25,687 per annum pro rata (£12.50 - £13.17 p/h equivalent)
Part Time (24 Hours p/w) 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 Hope Point service you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!
The Centre operates 24/7 to support people living with ongoing mental health challenges and who may be in distress, when they first make contact with the Centre. With the aim of addressing barriers to recovery, we will use a personalised and strengths-based approach to promote self-management, resilience building and connecting positively to Community, Third Sector or Statutory resources which support ongoing wellbeing.
Your unique knowledge and understanding gained from managing your own mental health challenges will be called upon; we recognise, and value how transferable and insightful learning from previous life experiences can be. With passion, and compassion, you will bring creativity and positivity to finding ways to reach out and empower people.
Through sharing learning from your own experience, you will inspire hope and the belief that recovery is possible. Building a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, you will promote self-management and opportunities for improved wellbeing. You will act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador of recovery with external agencies and partners. There is also an expectation that you will be involved in the ongoing development of Peer roles and will make a positive contribution to the reduction in stigma associated with mental health issues.
As a mental health charity, we really value the wellbeing of our staff. Thats why we want you to know that youll 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 youll 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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We cannot consider CVs 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 atand 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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