Advertised from 28 July 2025

Role

If you are looking for a rewarding career and to work within an amazing team that will help you grow and thrive, then you have come to the right place. Working with us, you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

Our People and Culture Team is looking for a HR and Recruitment Assistant. If you are looking for a new challenge, then this may be for you.

Penumbra is one of Scotland’s leading mental health charities, providing a wide range of community based and recovery focussed mental health services. We’re proud pioneers in the peer movement, with 20% of our colleagues employed in peer support roles. Our creative and forward-thinking approach to mental health recovery has earned us the reputation as a key influencer in public campaigning, policy and practice, and a highly respected provider of high quality and innovative mental health recovery services.

As an integral part of our People and Culture Team you will work proactively to provide comprehensive HR and Recruitment support across the organisation. A key part of this role is to assist in the development and implementation of HR and Recruitment procedures and initiatives and to ensure these are imbedded across the organisation. In this role you will deliver first line HR advice and guidance to managers and will also use verbal and written communication skills to liaise with external stakeholders including SSSC and Disclosure Scotland.

You truly will have the ability to influence what we do, developing and implementing your ideas to demonstrate what you can achieve, which will make a difference to the people we support.

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 lots 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.

Application notes

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Closing Date: 15 August 2025