Mental Health Coach - U-evolve - 18584

Employer:     

U-evolve is an Edinburgh mental health charity for 11–21-year-olds. Founded in 2015, we support over 200 young people annually with free to access to mental health support. Each year we deliver over 1,000 hours of individual support to help Edinburgh’s young people feel better. 

Environment: 

This role is 100% office based and will cover our two sites at Norton Park and North Edinburgh Arts. It may include one day a week based in a school. This is a part time position working 21-28 hours per week.

What might a day in this role look like?

We are recruiting an additional Mental Health Coach to join our team to help us meet demand. You will provide 1:1 support for young people, as well as supporting our group work and drop-in programmes. Our Mental Health Coaching is person centred, strengths based and incorporates counselling, coaching and youth work approaches. The aim of all our support services is to help young people to have improved mental health and to feel better. Through mental health coaching we help the young people to learn techniques to manage their wellbeing and work closely with community partners to provide a holistic service.

What will I learn?

We value learning and development and view this as a crucial element of mental health support. As such all staff are trauma skilled and trained, alongside taking part in a full and rich annual training programme. All service delivery staff receive extensive and relevant supervision to support the work they do.

What qualifications/skills are required?

We want to recruit people to join our team who share our vision, values, and passion to support young people to thrive. It is also important to us that you are someone who learns from the young people you support and can help our young people’s voices to be heard. We are looking for people who have experience in working with young people aged 11-21, from a range of backgrounds including youth work, mental health services, support work and education. Whilst therapeutic experience is useful, it is not essential for this role as full training and ongoing development will be provided. We are an organisation working with trauma and so it is important that you are willing to take part in regular group reflective practice to ensure our work is ethically sound as well as to look after your own wellbeing. As much of our work supports young people in North Edinburgh, we would also welcome people with experience or knowledge of living or working within this community.

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