Mental Health Peer Support Worker | Recovery Champion

Together; Great Yarmouth; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Recruitment and Retention Allowance

Job summary

Together UK in Great Yarmouth is seeking a Peer Support Worker to use lived experience of mental health recovery to support others. You will build trusting relationships, deliver one-to-one and group-based peer support, and work with a multidisciplinary team to empower individuals to pursue recovery goals.

The role is permanent and involves shift work, with a base salary around £26k plus an allowance. You will be part of a service focused on inclusion, hope and empowerment within the local

Qualifications

• Personal lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery.
• Ability to build trusting relationships using empathy.
• Commitment to equality, inclusion and reducing stigma.

Responsibilities

• Deliver one-to-one and group-based peer support.
• Build trusting, authentic relationships with people accessing our services.
• Engage with a multidisciplinary team to support recovery goals.
• Promote choice, independence and self-management in service users.

Skills

Lived experience

Active listening

Communication skills

Empathy

Equality and inclusion

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Together UK in Great Yarmouth is seeking a Peer Support Worker to use lived experience of mental health recovery to support others. You will build trusting relationships, deliver one-to-one and group-based peer support, and work with a multidisciplinary team to empower individuals to pursue recovery goals.

The role is permanent and involves shift work, with a base salary around £26k plus an allowance. You will be part of a service focused on inclusion, hope and empowerment within the local