Our Edinburgh Mental Health Service is available across the City of Edinburgh. The service provides Housing Support to people 16+ who have a diagnosed mental health condition.
It works with the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership, and with mental health teams across the City. The service works with supported people to provide flexible support focused on a range of issues such as harm reduction, managing mental health, finance, physical health, education and family relationships.
The Edinburgh Mental Health Service is available to anyone living in Edinburgh and who has been assessed by the Health and Social Care Partnership as requiring support to live independently. People accessing the service will have a diagnosed mental health condition, some of whom will be leaving in-patient care and will require support to begin to live independently again. People may also have several other presenting issues in addition to their mental health needs, such as relationship breakdown and trauma, domestic abuse, substance use, physical health/disability or employability challenges.
The service is designed around trauma-informed practice, and the staff team works to harm reduction principles.
The service usually works with people throughout the week and is flexible to an individual’s circumstances.
Our staff team is led day to day by a Team Leader. We have a staff team of 8 who work across Edinburgh to provide a responsive, flexible Housing Support service.
Our team works hard to maximise independence and to support community engagement. The team will work with partner agencies regularly and will provide a mixture of direct support as well as coordinating the input of allied agencies.
Accessing Edinburgh Mental Health is usually via the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership.
To find out more about our care and support services, please browse our website.
If you are interested in working at Edinburgh Mental Health Service, or at one of our other services, please visit our recruitment page to see a list of the current vacancies.
