Service Practitioner (Suicide Bereavement Support)
Salary £ 23,920.66 pro-rated
Home based in Highland or Argyll and Bute
Vacancy listed 10/07/2023
Application deadline 21/08/2023
Details
Hours: Part-time, 21h per week (Remote working)

Tenure: Fixed term until 31st March 2024, with possibility for extension subject to funding

Location:  Home based in Highland or Argyll and Bute
 
About the Role
Are you interested in joining an award-winning Scottish charity whose aim is to provide support to people affected by mental health or welfare issues? Change Mental Health have an exciting opportunity for a part time (21hrs per week) Practitioner, to join their Suicide Bereavement Support Service. 
 
The role of Suicide Bereavement Support Practitioner will see you working as part of a dynamic and creative team, that includes colleagues within Change Mental Health and Penumbra, who deliver this pilot project in partnership, in Highland and Ayrshire and Arran.   
 
We are seeking an individual who wants to help people affected by suicide, and who has a good understanding of compassionate, person-centred support work. Your role will involve offering emotional support, as well as practical advice and assistance over the phone or by video call, to people bereaved by suicide.  You will work 3 days a week on a rota (daytime only) and manage your own caseload; signpost on to specialist local services where appropriate: and work on support plans and risk assessments.  
 
You will also build connections with organisations and groups that can support bereaved people across both Highland and Argyll and Bute. Training will be provided, and your work may involve some travel. 
 
If you are interested in enabling Change Mental Health to deliver this vital service and you feel that your profile matches this role’s criteria, then we want to hear from you. 

Why join us? 
 
Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique support to people with severe and enduring mental ill health. With 50 years’ experience across Scotland, we believe people affected by poor mental health and illness deserve the highest quality of support in the community and that every person has the right to be valued and to share in the opportunities, challenges, and joys of everyday life.

Our person-centred approach puts the people we work with at the heart of what we do ensuring they have greater opportunity, can build confidence and social skills, and become more integrated into their communities. By building connections and support around individual needs, our team of nearly 200 staff and 800 members value the lived experience which informs the services we deliver. We look beyond illness by taking a holistic approach that ensures no one has to face mental ill health alone.
Benefits

Professional development including funded opportunities

A generous 37 days’ holiday

A 35-hour working week and access to a travel season ticket loan

A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment

24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges

Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements

Paid Mental Wellbeing Days

Cycle to Work Scheme

Blue Light Discount Card

Notes

To apply, please upload your CV and cover letter to the online BreatheHR portal by clicking 'apply' below by Monday 21st August 2023.

We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. If you consider yourself to have a disability, please complete the relevant section within the application pack to inform us of any arrangements that we may make to the interview process.

We reserve the right to close this advert earlier or later than stated, so please don’t delay your application to avoid any disappointment.

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