Relief Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker - Hope Point Dundee

Location: Dundee

Pay: £10.90 plus £1.32 holiday pay = £12.22 p/h

Relief – hours as required

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!

Hope Point is our Community Wellbeing Centre, and is operational 24/7 to support people living with ongoing mental health challenges & distress. 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 and third sector resources which support ongoing wellbeing.

As a Relief Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker, you’ll make a difference to people’s lives every day. Your unique knowledge and understanding gained from your own lived/living experience will be called upon; we recognise, and value how transferable and insightful learning from previous life experiences can be.

The Centre itself will be open all day every day, and there will be shifts on a rolling Rota. There will be the opportunity to work on a one-to-one basis, and in groups. Workshops will take place in the Centre, and we will host support sessions by means of face to face, as people come into the Centre, by appointment, & virtually by video call, telephone, text and email.

We are particularly keen to hear from applicants who are available for waking night shifts or weekend working. Waking night shifts are paid at an enhanced hourly rate. Penumbra operate community-based Services across Tayside and there may be opportunity to carry out shifts in some of our other services.

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 job description 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 recruitment@penumbra.org.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.

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 recruitment@penumbra.org.uk.