Peer Support Worker

BP Group (est 1992); London; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Peer Support Worker to join their team. You will play a crucial role in supporting individuals with mental health issues by providing empathetic and tailored assistance. This role requires a personal understanding of mental health challenges and the ability to connect with clients to facilitate their journey towards wellbeing. The position allows for growth within a supportive environment committed to inclusive practices.

Benefits

Annual leave entitlement of 25 days per year pro rata

Ongoing training relevant to your role

Employee Assistance Programme

Health cover for Optical, Dental, and Therapy Treatments

Additional day of leave for your birthday

Qualifications

• Lived experience with mental health issues.
• Ability to work effectively with individuals in distress.

Responsibilities

• Offer 1-1 peer support to individuals accessing services.
• Support individuals with tailored approaches to improve their lives.

Skills

Empathy

Compassion

Acceptance

Job description

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Do you want to support people with mental health issues?

Are you calm, non-judgemental and able to work effectively with people experiencing distress?

Can you demonstrate our values ofHope, Courage, TogetherandResponsiveand want to be part of our mission to create opportunities for individuals to make choices, find their own solutions, build resilience and manage their whole life and wellbeing?

If the answer to all of these is yes, we want to hear from you.

Peer Support Worker

Reference:290

Responsible to:Peer Support Team Lead

Working hours:30 hours per week

Contract:One Year Fixed Term (Subject to Contract Extension)

Rate of pay:£25,233 pro rata (£20,186)

Based:North or East Herts

We are pleased to be able to offer an opportunity for another Peer Support Worker to join our thriving team.

About The Peer Support Services

Our Peer Support Service started 13 years ago, with 2 Wellbeing Centres offering this new service. Since then, we have seen our service grow and we now offer Peer Support across the whole of Hertfordshire

Working in co-production with clients, staff, volunteers and stakeholders, we were able to create our own Peer Support Charter Values (this can be found on our website). These values form the ethos we work towards within our peer support team. These values also complement HMNs values of Hope, Courage, Togetherness and Responsive, which form the basis of all the work we do as an organisation.

About The Role

Working with the team to offer 1-1 peer support to anyone accessing HMN. The Peer Support service provide tailored support for individuals to support their needs. This includes using different tools and techniques to help an individual improve areas of their life they may be struggling with. Having a lived experience of mental health issues or supporting someone who has is a key element to what makes this service so unique.

The Peer Support approach includes empathy, warmth, acceptance, authenticity and compassion. Peer Support is based on the recognition that there is no better person to support the path towards recovery, than someone who has walked a similar path as that person.

To meet client needs, and work to this personalised approach, we do support people out in the community, within their home, as well as in one of our Wellbeing Centres. Being able to drive and having access to your own vehicle (or equivalent) is essential for this role.

The successful candidate will need a personal understanding of mental ill health, either from your own lived experience or by caring for someone with a mental health condition and have awareness of issues in mental health service provision.

Peer Support Workers will also provide support within our Peer Support Groups, Peer Support Learning Sets and Peer Support Academy when needed.

We Offer

• Annual leave entitlement of 25 days per year pro rata, rising in increments to a max. of 28 days after 5 years employment (plus 8 days Bank Holidays)
• An additional day of leave each year for your birthday following completion of probation period.
• Ongoing training relevant to your role.
• An Employee Assistance Programme.
• Health cover (after 6 months employment) compensation payment for Optical, Dental, Chiropody and Therapy Treatments.
  
  

Closing date for receipt of applications is 9th July (by 12 noon).

Interview date: Held on a rolling basis.

Shortlisted Applicants will be notified of an interview date.

Please note:Due to high numbers of expected applicants, we may close this advert early.

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

Equal Opportunities

We welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates, irrespective of gender, disability, marital or parental status, racial, ethnic or social origin, colour, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. In addition, during the various stages of recruitment, specific measures can be taken to ensure equal opportunities for candidates with disabilities or special needs.

Hertfordshire Mind Network is committed to the Disability Confident and Mindful Employer charters. We actively recruit staff who have a lived experience of mental ill health. We recognise and value the unique combination of skills, knowledge and perspective that employing people with a lived experience, at all levels across the organisation, brings.

We are delighted to have been accredited as a Living Wage Employer.

No agencies please.

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