Mental Health & Wellbeing Worker (Peer) - Angus Peer Service (Neurodivergent Pathway)

Part Time (18.75 hours p/w) – Fixed Term until 3rd August 2026

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 Angus Peer service you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

The Angus 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.

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.

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

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.

For more information, including full job description and application/interview guidance, please download our recruitment pack.

We cannot consider CV’s – all applications should go through the application process on our website. Only applications completed through our website will be considered. If you are unable to complete an online application, please contact us at recruitment@penumbra.org.uk and we can arrange for a paper copy to be sent out to you.

Please note that unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship. We can only accept applications from applicants who currently have the legal right to work in the UK, or applicants who have already have an application in progress to obtain the legal right to work in the UK.

Updates and responses to applications will come from our recruitment system. These emails may go into your spam inbox so please check frequently for any updates on your application. To avoid this happening please add “Penumbra Careers” – recruitment@penumbra.org.uk to your contact list. You can also check the status of your application by logging into the careers portal. If you have not had any update on your application, please contact us at recruitment@penumbra.org.uk .

Penumbra is committed to supporting candidates with disabilities, neurodiverse candidates, and candidates with mental health conditions throughout the recruitment process. We will make any reasonable adjustments required to ensure a fair and inclusive process for all. If you think you require reasonable adjustments, please don’t hesitate to contact us at recruitment@penumbra.org.uk .

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