Peer Support Worker

Middlesbrough Voluntary Development Agency; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization in Tees Valley is seeking a Support Worker. This role involves supporting refugees and asylum seekers with mental health challenges. Candidates should have experience in mental health support and the ability to build trusting relationships with individuals facing systemic barriers. The position aims to transform community mental health care. Closing date for applications is November 24, 2025.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting individuals with mental health challenges.
• Ability to build safe and trusting relationships.
• Understanding of the complexities faced by refugees and asylum seekers.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals experiencing mental health challenges.
• Navigate complex systems including hospital discharge.
• Advocate for inclusive and anti-racist service design.

Job description

Job Summary

We are here to support , promote and develop voluntary and community action in Middlesbrough.

Open Door North East is recruiting a Support Worker to join a new pilot project, delivered in collaboration with MIND, to support refugees, asylum seekers, and vulnerable migrants with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) who are experiencing significant mental health challenges. These challenges are shaped by trauma, forced migration, racism, and systemic barriers to care.

Responsibilities

You will draw on your own lived experience or that of a close family member to build safe, trusting, and culturally responsive relationships, addressing migration, mental health challenges, and recovery. You will support individuals navigating complex systems and transitions, including hospital discharge, navigating recovery pathways and community reintegration. The referral pathway into the service will be developed as part of the pilot.

This role is central to capturing lived experience, advocating for inclusive and anti‑racist service design and delivery and contributing to the transformation of community mental health care across South Tees.

Closing Date

The closing date for this job is 24 November 2025 - 5:00pm.