Birchwood Highland: Independence, Inclusion, Recovery

Birchwood Highland was established 25 years ago as a charity working with people with mental ill-health.

Whilst we have retained our expertise in supporting people with mental ill health, today we focus on improving the quality of a person's life experiences, whatever their background.

We aim to increase a person's capacity to live independently and feel part of the community, thus reducing feelings of isolation. We support people to build self-confidence and adopt lifestyles that improve their health and wellbeing.

We operate in the Inverness, Easter Ross, Lochaber and Caithness areas. Many of our staff have been with us a long time and have experience of working with vulnerable people and supporting their recovery.

We believe that investment in staff training is essential in order to provide high quality care, and we require all our staff to work towards the vocational standards set by Care Commission Scotland (now Social Work Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland).

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The Healthy Working Lives Gold Award confirms that we have made an exemplary commitment to maintaining and improving health in our workplace. The Gold medal is the highest level in the Healthy Working Lives Award Programme.

We need more volunteers to help us with our work. Please visit our volunteering page to see how you could help.
You can also download our new Volunteering leaflet here.