Touchstone: EMERGE Leeds: Complex Emotional Needs Service Peer Support Worker

JOIN; Leeds; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

JOIN is seeking a Peer Support Worker for its EMERGE Leeds service, focusing on providing crucial support to young individuals facing emotional challenges. This full-time, fixed-term role offers extensive training and supervision, aiming to empower those in need within the community.

Benefits

Personal wellbeing budget

28 days annual leave

Agile working opportunities

Cycle to work scheme

Access to counselling

Health and wellbeing days

Inclusive parental policies

Additional leave for celebrations

Learning and personal development opportunities

Qualifications

• It is an occupational requirement for this role that the successful applicant is female.

Responsibilities

• Support people aged 18-25 with emotional and interpersonal difficulties.
• Embedded within the EMERGE team to deliver peer support.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Teamwork

Job description

Touchstone: EMERGE Leeds: Complex Emotional Needs Service Peer Support Worker

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Base pay range

Touchstone is looking for a EMERGE Leeds: Complex Emotional Needs Service Peer Support Worker

37 hours per week

This role is fixed term for up to 24 months with the possibility of an extension

*Any increase in pay point(s) will be reviewed on annual basis based on the financial position of Touchstone and will only be awarded on this basis. Your pay/pay point will not automatically increase.

Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire. Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the EMERGE peer support service. We provide a range of interventions for people with complex emotional and interpersonal difficulties (also referred to as “personality disorder”). The Peer Support Worker (PSW) will be embedded within the EMERGE team to support people aged 18-25. The PSW will receive training for the role, and supervision and management from Touchstone and EMERGE staff.

Interviews will be held on: 07 July 2025

Touchstone is looking for a EMERGE Leeds: Complex Emotional Needs Service Peer Support Worker

Touchstone Pay Structure (2024) Points* 07 – 11, starting at

£25,839.84 pa/pro rata

37 hours per week

This role is fixed term for up to 24 months with the possibility of an extension

*Any increase in pay point(s) will be reviewed on annual basis based on the financial position of Touchstone and will only be awarded on this basis. Your pay/pay point will not automatically increase.

Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire. Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the EMERGE peer support service. We provide a range of interventions for people with complex emotional and interpersonal difficulties (also referred to as “personality disorder”). The Peer Support Worker (PSW) will be embedded within the EMERGE team to support people aged 18-25. The PSW will receive training for the role, and supervision and management from Touchstone and EMERGE staff.

CLOSING DATE: 22 June 2025

Interviews will be held on: 07 July 2025

Tasks

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the EMERGE peer support service. We provide a range of interventions for people with complex emotional and interpersonal difficulties (also referred to as “personality disorder”). The Peer Support Worker (PSW) will be embedded within the EMERGE team to support people aged 18-25. The PSW will receive training for the role, and supervision and management from Touchstone and EMERGE staff.

Requirements

It is an occupational requirement for this role that the successful applicant is female.

Benefits

As an employee of Touchstone, all successful applicants continually benefit from the following:

• Personal wellbeing budget


• 28 days annual leave (rising to 31 after 2 years) + 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)


• Agile working opportunities


• Cycle to work scheme


• Access to counselling and 24/7 confidential staff Mindful Employer helpline


• Health and wellbeing and fun organisational staff away days


• Inclusive maternity and parental policies and pay


• A full range of staff and peer support networks


• Additional day of leave for a celebration day


• Learning and personal development opportunities

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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