Location: Aberdeen
Salary: £26,197 – £30,523 per annum (£13.43 – £15.65 p/h equivalent)
Full time (37.5 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 new and innovative Penumbra 365 service you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

We are looking for a Senior Practitioner within our brand-new Penumbra 365 Service in Aberdeen.  Supporting the service teams as well as delivering direct support to people, you will promote bringing our vision for a single point of access to quality mental health, wellbeing, and distress support to a reality.

With compassion at the core of our approach, you will have supervisory responsibilities for a diverse team that brings together learned, lived and living experiences as we deliver a range of supportive options.  From specialised distress management planning to 1:1 coaching and promoting community engagement, you will demonstrate your ability to plan and deliver direct support.

As a Senior Practitioner, you truly will have the ability to make a difference.  Using your previous experience of planning and delivering support to people, you will contribute to the successful implementation and delivery of high-quality services that make a positive difference to people.  Drawing on your local knowledge, mental health experience and flexible communication, you will bring creativity and positivity to finding ways to empower people.

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 below.

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.

Updates and responses to applications will come from our recruitment system. These emails may go into your spam inbox so please check frequently for any updates on your application. To avoid this happening please add “Penumbra Careers” – recruitment@penumbra.org.uk to your contact list. You can also check the status of your application by logging into the careers portal. If you have not had any update on your application, please contact us at recruitment@penumbra.org.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.

Download Recruitment Pack