Mental Health and Wellbeing Worker (Peer)

Location: Angus

Salary: £24,618 per annum pro rata (£12.61 per hour)

Vacancy Type: Part Time (18.75 hours per week), Fixed Term Contract until 3^rd August 2026

Closing Date: 5^th September 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 the Peer service you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

The Peer service provides the opportunity for anyone over the age of 16 years to speak to a Peer Worker about their mental health challenges and to consider what options they have to help them feel more in control of managing their mental health.

The Role

Mental Health and Wellbeing Peer Workers offer authenticity and a unique insight that can enable and empower positive wellbeing. Within this role, the Neurodivergent Peer Worker will use their own lived experience of neurodivergence and mental health challenges to inspire hope in people who use the service, as well as share coping and self-management techniques.

The Neurodivergent Peer Worker will use their lived experience as a neurodivergent individual to support others experiencing challenges associated with neurodivergent conditions. They will be expected to share aspects of their personal journey, including coping strategies, tools, and techniques they have found helpful. This may also include, where appropriate, supporting people to use screening tools if required.

Working as part of a wider multidisciplinary team, the Neurodivergent Peer Worker will help promote understanding, acceptance, and inclusion of neurodivergent individuals. They will deliver one-to-one sessions and facilitate activities aimed at enhancing self-advocacy, mental health, and wellbeing, and contribute to a coordinated Neurodevelopmental pathway of support across Angus.

Skills and Qualifications

As lived experience of neurodiversity is a key element of this role, please ensure you outline what lived experience you have, and how you might hope to use this in the Peer role, in your personal statement.

Benefits

As a mental health charity, they really value the wellbeing of their staff. That’s why they 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.

They can offer you a tonne of employee benefits, and they can promise you’ll be inspired by some pretty amazing humans every single day. They 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.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable organisation, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

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