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Mental Health &amp; Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) - Intensive Housing Support Location: Aberdeen Salary: £24,374 - £25,687 per annum (£12.50 - £13.17 p/h equivalent) Full Time - Fixed Term (Maternity Cover until 5th December 2025) 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 Intensive Housing Support service you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference! In collaboration with the Integrated Drugs Team, our Intensive Housing Support Service provides recovery-focused support on an individual and family basis. Using a strengths-based approach to addressing barriers to recovery, we work to promote self-management, resilience building and connecting positively to community resources to promote ongoing wellbeing. Bringing a lived experience of substance use and mental health challenges, you will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible. Through sharing your own story and experiences, you will promote self-management tools, tips and techniques to improve health and wellbeing. Within a relationship of mutuality and authenticity, you will be able to use your unique insight to help address barriers and plan next steps. You will act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador of recovery with external agencies and partner organisations. There is also an expectation that the Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) 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. 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 <a href="mailto:recruitment@penumbra.org.uk" target="_blank">recruitment@penumbra.org.uk</a> 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" - <a href="mailto:recruitment@penumbra.org.uk" target="_blank">recruitment@penumbra.org.uk</a> 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 <a href="mailto:recruitment@penumbra.org.uk" target="_blank">recruitment@penumbra.org.uk</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:recruitment@penumbra.org.uk" target="_blank">recruitment@penumbra.org.uk</a>.

Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Peer) - Intensive Housing Support

Mental Health &amp; Wellbeing Practitioner (Male Applicants Only) - Intensive Housing Support Location: Aberdeen Salary: £24,374 - £25,687 per annum (£12.50 - £13.17 p/h equivalent) Full Time - Permanent This job is restricted to male applicants only. This is an occupational requirement as permitted in accordance with Schedule 9, part 1 of the Equality Act 2010. 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 Intensive Housing Support service you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference! In collaboration with the Integrated Drugs Team, our Intensive Housing Support Service provides recovery-focused support for individuals experiencing co-occurring substance use and mental health challenges. Using a strengths-based approach to addressing barriers to recovery, we work to promote self-management, resilience building and connecting positively to community resources to promote ongoing wellbeing. The Intensive Housing Support Service supports individuals and families in Aberdeen City affected by substance use. We aim to support individuals to reduce their substance use, reduce harm associated with substance use and to support individuals to make informed decisions about their medication prescription as per MAT standards implementation. Our team will provide advice on how such support is accessed and how this may benefit. Our Service also looks to offer trauma-informed support to individuals, with personalised support plans, addressing outstanding legal matters, debt management and budgeting. We utilise our I.ROC tool and HOPE toolkit to promote healthy social networks and relationship building skills as well as exploring triggers and healthy decision-making strategies. By doing so, our hopes are that people are better engaged with recovery focused support, experience high quality treatment and support which reduces risk and promotes safety, and people achieve personal goals across a range of wellbeing indicators. 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 <a href="mailto:recruitment@penumbra.org.uk" target="_blank">recruitment@penumbra.org.uk</a> 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" - <a href="mailto:recruitment@penumbra.org.uk" target="_blank">recruitment@penumbra.org.uk</a> 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 <a href="mailto:recruitment@penumbra.org.uk" target="_blank">recruitment@penumbra.org.uk</a>. 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 <a href="mailto:recruitment@penumbra.org.uk" target="_blank">recruitment@penumbra.org.uk</a>.

Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (Male Applicants Only) - Intensive Housing Support

Annual salary: up to £28,917.00 Housing Support Officer Glasgow Salary up to £28,917 per annum Full time - Permanent, 40hrs per week, Monday to Friday Including company vehicle and fuel card or £3,500 company car allowance Mears provides temporary accommodation to asylum seekers whilst their claim is being assessed in three regions: Northeast, Yorkshire and Humber, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. At the end of May 2021 Mears had over 19000 service users across the three regions. Mears work in partnership with central and local Government, registered providers, tenants, landlords and investors to find solutions to homelessness, provide more social and affordable housing and create specialist housing for people with care needs. About the Role: Due to contract expansion, we are seeking for a Housing Support Officer to join our team. This is an exciting position that works exclusively to support Asylum seekers going through their right to work Asylum application process with the home office. The ideal candidate will be resilient, trustworthy, caring, a people person and extremely empathetic to others. As a Housing Support Officer every day is different, no day is the same. Although this role comes with it challenges it is an extremely rewarding role. As a Housing Support Officer your main duties will include but not limited to ensuring service users are supported at various stages of their Asylum application process including any safeguarding and welfare issues you come across, providing practical and emotional support to service users, monitoring service users' wellbeing and support needs and ensuring all records are updated and accurate for home office audit purposes. It is essential to maintain boundaries and being resilient to ensure a professional and a well-defined service is provided to always meet the needs of the service users. Role Criteria: <ul><li>Experience of working with vulnerable and diverse client groups</li><li>Experience and understanding of safeguarding</li><li>Ability to identify individuals and family need and recognise the required support packages to maintain independence</li><li>Experience working with mental health and or challenging behaviour</li><li>To communicate effectively with colleagues, local authorities, and service users</li><li>Experience with record keeping and risk assessments</li><li>Ability to work under own initiative</li><li>Resilient</li><li>You will be supportive, trustworthy, a good listener, approachable and empathetic to others</li><li>Flexible and happy to travel</li><li>Full UK driving license</li></ul>All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship. As part of the recruitment process for this role, we will carry out a DBS &amp; BPSS check, as well as Security Clearance. For these checks to be completed, we will require from you the relevant identification, including Proof of Address, References, a valid passport and proof that you have lived in the UK for the last 5 years. Benefits we can offer you <ul><li>25 days annual leave plus bank holidays</li><li>Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!</li><li>Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.</li><li>Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more</li><li>Family friendly policies</li><li>Company Vehicle and Fuel Card</li><li>Access to EAP Counselling sessions</li></ul>Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact: Beth Dunford (<a href="mailto:beth.dunford@mearsgroup.co.uk" target="_blank">beth.dunford@mearsgroup.co.uk</a>) If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way. At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all. We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers. In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.

Housing Support Officer

The Community Engagement Manager is central to our efforts to support the communities we serve, beyond our core broadband network. A key role in devising and executing the Highland Broadband Go To Market (GTM) strategy. The role handles both planning, covering settlement level geo-targeting and sales and marketing strategy as well as being a key part in execution. Covering both residential and business, the role identifies key targets for sponsorships, community engagement and 'lighthouse' businesses and sets timelines across the year against which the sales and marketing teams execute. Success is measured by install penetration, project by project. <ul><li>Manage local community engagements including sponsorship opportunities, community hubs, schools, sports clubs and community groups.</li><li>Establish and manage skills training programs with local education providers, with the objective of sourcing employees from within region.</li><li>Increase Highland Broadband awareness and positive sentiment within target communities, identifying projects where our support adds real local value.</li><li>Engage with communities proactively, in person and through online community groups.</li><li>Manage affiliate programs, ensuring local activity supports further uptake of Highland broadband services.</li><li>Review and report on activity, building a knowledge bank of programs and success rates.</li><li>Create PR value through local partnerships and positive news stories.</li></ul>To succeed you will need to be a community-focussed leader with a desire to build strong partnerships and have: <ul><li>Experience managing community engagement and outreach activity.</li><li>Strong verbal / written communication skills.</li><li>Leadership skills with ability to motivate and mentor a field based team.</li><li>Ability to communicate with all levels within a community from MPs to group admins.</li><li>Strong planning skills to manage resources effectively across the regions.</li><li>Strong commercial acumen and good analytical skills to be able to measure success.</li><li>Full Drivers licence</li></ul>

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