Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker - Glasgow ARBD

Salary: £23,650 per annum (£12.13 p/h equivalent)

Full time: 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 Glasgow ARBD Service at Bardowie Street you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

At Penumbra, we strive to create a culture and environment where people feel valued and inspired to reach their own personal goals. Our fundamental priority is to provide support which is safe and promotes recovery, social inclusion, and citizenship for people with mental health challenges.

We recognise that the people we support have skills and experience that can bring about positive changes for themselves. Through an ethos of inclusion, equality and fairness, our staff are committed to promoting good mental health and wellbeing for people using our services.

Our ARBD supported accommodation is based in Bardowie Street in Glasgow’s Possilpark and is an assessment centre for people who have been diagnosed with ARBD or possible ARBD. We provide a safe and positive environment in which people can develop the life skills and confidence to actively move towards and define their recovery.

The service provides bespoke and proactive support to identify and address the individual’s needs, placing them at the heart of their support. With an emphasis on independence and empowerment, people are helped to move toward self-identified goals. While there is an element of collaborative group work, this is at all times focused on improving self-esteem and addressing issues such loneliness, social exclusion, and addiction in a supportive peer environment.

You will be passionate about working in a person-centred way with adults from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of challenges. With a strong interest in people and a commitment to helping others, you will strive to make a positive impact on people’s lives and tailor support to enable people to fulfil their best potential. 

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.

A day in the life of a Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker…

• Supporting residents to take their medication according to their individual plan while following policy guidelines.
• Calling GPs, pharmacies and other services on behalf of the people you support.
• Running a recovery focused group each morning, with mindfulness and exercises.
• Supporting people to go out into the community for example to the shops or to local recovery cafes.
• Supporting individuals through their daily routine, while finding ways to live safely with short-term memory loss.
• Provide one-to-one support for residents for whom you are their keyworker.
• Supporting a group out to activities such as bowling, the cinema, or out to dinner.
• Encouraging residents to engage with external support networks.
• Support plan work, including safety plans, medication plans and IROC, when appropriate.

This provides an example of what a day might look like for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Worker – however there is no “typical” day, as it all depends on the needs of the residents and what shift you are on. For example, a waking night shift is very different.