Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £24, - £25, per annum (£12.50 - £13.17 p/h equivalent)
Full time (37.5 hrs 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 Edinburgh Crisis Centre you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!
The Edinburgh Crisis Centre is a 24-hour service that provides short term community based emotional and practical support at times of crisis. It is a service for people who are aged 16 and over who are experiencing mental health difficulties and are an Edinburgh resident. This service is also available to carers of people experiencing a mental health crisis.
The Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Crisis Navigator) will provide callers to the Crisis Centre helpline and visitors to the centre who are experiencing a mental health crisis with short-term emotional and practical support. The role will also involve responding to referrals for support for people who are experiencing distress including where appropriate off site and in person. Where required the Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Crisis Navigator) will take a supervisory role in the day-to-day running of the helpline and the centre.
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.