Health in Mind

With your mental health at heart

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our growing Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Team within the Scottish Borders. Funded by the Scottish Borders Council this post will work to promote and deliver a robust and dynamic mental health Peer Connecting Service within the Scottish Borders.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Support and Development Worker to join our Peer Connecting service. In this role, you will work alongside the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Team Leader and the Borders Team to promote and deliver our mental health Peer Connecting services across the Scottish Borders.

Peer Connecting facilitates matching people seeking mental health and wellbeing support with a peer volunteer. Our Peer volunteers guide their matches through tools and techniques to help people to make the changes they want to make. Peer volunteers draw on their own lived experience and Health in Mind training to achieve this.

Your role will be to recruit, train and supervise volunteers for both 1:1 and group work. You will be responsible for facilitating a robust training program for volunteers and people you are working with and where applicable supporting them through the Peer Volunteer Award (PDA).

If you have experience of supporting people to improve their mental health and wellbeing, personal experience of self-managing your own mental health or experience managing volunteers, we’d love to hear from you!

Travel is required across the Scottish Borders as part of the role. A good understanding of the locality and community is desirable. Flexibility in working hours will also be expected to meet the needs of people we work with. Evening and weekend work may be part of the role.

Health in Mind

With your mental health at heart

Development Worker Engagement Pathways - Scottish Borders Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Services

We are offering a new permanent post for a Development Worker – Engagement Pathways to lead and develop our pathways into services for people. This includes enquiries, initial conversations including risk assessment, baseline outcome measures, reviews and endings.

This opportunity requires excellent communication and organisational skills, where the successful candidate will be required to support the journey of people through our services within the Scottish Borders.

You will be key to maintaining quality within this area of service delivery. You should have experience of working together with people experiencing mental health problems to support them to achieve their aims related to mental health and wellbeing. You should also have experience of developing systems and processes and sharing your learning experiences across teams.

If you have experience in these areas and are passionate about enabling people to fulfil their potential, we’d love to hear from you!