About Thrive

Thrive Edinburgh is about thinking big and thinking differently. We have made it our goal to promote mental health and protect our citizens’ resilience, self-esteem, family strength and joy, and reduce the toll of mental ill-health on individuals, our communities and our city.

The Thrive Welcome Teams are comprised of organisations that provide social, practical, learning and clinical support.

The South West partnership is between Space, SAMH and the Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership. Our organisations share a commitment to the Thrive vision and values of trust, respect, collaboration, person-centeredness, innovation, and compassion. Together we deliver a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency response so that citizens receive the right help for their mental health, at the right time. The team includes Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Support Practitioners and Peer Workers.

More information about Thrive Edinburgh can be found here - click here.

The Role

Peer work is a recognised practice in mental health recovery across the world.

The main role of a Thrive Peer Worker is to use their own lived experience of mental health recovery journey to promote good mental health practices with citizens within our communities.

This is achieved by providing short term, one-to-one, emotional and practical mental health support. Through confidential conversations a safe space is provided for people to discuss issues at their own pace, using person-centred tools to help others identify their strengths, and work towards achievable and meaningful recovery goals. These meetings can take place in a variety of locations including NHS venues and community based settings.

Peer Work supports people to establish meaningful and fulfilling links in the community so that people can more easily access the right help when needed including social, therapeutic and medical interventions.

Key tasks in the job:

• Hold initial conversations to assess needs and risk, ensuring people access the services that will best support them.
• Guide people to create individual support plans that draw on their own strengths
• Provide short term support through 1:1 meetings, typically between 2-6 sessions, drawing on your own mental health journey
• Be well connected in the community to understand the different services on offer and the criteria for referring.
• Accompany individuals to appointments to connect them into services.
• Attend cross team meetings to discuss cases and share learning.
• Attend open access ‘drop-in’ sessions that are held within community venues, providing people with instant access to advice and sign posting.

The full job description and person specification for the role is attached.

About Space

Space is a community anchor organisation supporting people and their families in South West Edinburgh, with some of our services stretching city wide.

WE BELIEVE THAT CONNECTIONS BUILD COMMUNITIES

Space delivers 22 projects, with 60+ staff and over 100 volunteers. We deliver diverse services supporting young people, families, older people and carers amongst others.

For more information about Space and all our projects can be found on our website – spacescot.org