Support Worker, Mental Health

Are you passionate about helping people to live a better life? Do you want to work for a charity where your health and wellbeing matter just as much as the people you support? Do you want to be part of a trauma‑informed team where you will be supported to develop creative and flexible ways of working?

You don’t need to have previous experience or qualifications in this field. If you share our values, this could be the role for you!

At Link Living, our values and people are at the heart of everything we do including how we recruit our staff. It is important for us to find people who share our values, which are:

• Empathy (listen to and understand an individual’s needs and circumstances)
• Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)
• Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)
• Caring (show kindness and concern for others)

Link Living is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people to manage or overcome the effects of negative life experiences (including trauma, mental health challenges, poverty and inequality) so that they can build on their strengths and aspirations in order to live their best possible lives. We support people through a range of models including:

• Personal development and employability programmes
• Self‑help coaching
• Supported accommodation
• Care at home
• Housing support
• Befriending

Our Edinburgh Mental Health Services is made up of 4 teams of support workers who provide visiting tenancy support across Edinburgh to people experiencing mental ill health. Our support enables the people we work with to live as independently as possible in their own home and improve their mental and physical health.

We have an exciting opportunity for ambitious and motivated Support Workers to join our team and improve the lives of people supported by our Edinburgh Mental Health Services.

In this role, you will be supported to work using a person centred and trauma informed approach and develop effective relationships with people affected by a range of mental health problems, supporting them to cope in difficult times and working towards recovery and a good life. You will provide emotional, practical and social support to enable people to live as independently as possible and make informed choices in all aspects of their lives.

This role involves the administration of medication to some of the individuals we support. Full training will be provided for this.

For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please refer to the Job Specification in the Job information Pack above.

The benefits of being a Link Living employee (subject to the policies and benefit terms and conditions) include:

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non‑consolidated pay awards, subject to terms of the scheme
• 35 days’ holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus additional 3 days pro rata after 3 years’ service
• Opportunity to buy and sell holiday
• Enhanced company sick and family friendly pay
• Access to paid SVQ qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities
• Funded Disclosure Scotland and Scottish Social Services Council memberships
• Defined contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions plus salary exchange and additional voluntary contribution options
• Access to a Salary Exchange car leasing scheme, subject to the terms of the scheme
• Healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependants) to support health and wellbeing plus discounts on shopping, restaurants, and other services
• Employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental and financial well‑being
• Access to purchase annual corporate clothing vouchers
• Access to a credit union savings and borrowing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to discounts on mobile airtime plans and much more!

Successful applicants will be required to apply for registration with SSSC within 3 months of their start date and be registered within 6 months.

This role is subject to PVG membership under the Disclosure (Scotland)…