Team Manager - Peer Support Service at Teesside Mind
Contract Type: Permanent
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Part time
Application deadline:
Based: Middlesbrough
Salary: £32,149 Pro Rata
Salary Type: Fixed Salary
Role description: Manager
We’re currently looking for an experienced Team Manager for our Peer Support Service. We’re looking for someone who’s driven to make a real difference within the local community through the delivery of services, with our charitable purpose at the centre of everything.
These roles are part of our Community Transformation work in the Tees Valley and will be part of an exciting new collaborative service in partnership with TEWV NHS Trust who will have peer workers in their Community Mental Health Teams.
Role Purpose
You will lead a team of Peer Support Workers to inspire hope and belief in others that personal recovery from mental health problems is achievable.
You will use your own experience of mental health problems and using mental health services, and those of your team, to design and shape this service to be an integral part of the Mental Health Recovery Service and wider mental health system.
You will be responsible for team support and supervision, ensuring operational performance targets are met, staff are trained and supported to
undertake their roles, and that the people who use the service have an excellent experience.
You will model best practice in peer support within the team, within Mind and externally. You will support the team to challenge both individual and
structural instances of stigma and discrimination related to mental health and other forms of exclusion.
An important part working within Mind to further develop the influence and participation of people with lived experience and contribute to the
development of new opportunities.
At the start of the role, you will attend peer support training alongside other new team members from Mind and TEWV. This training is delivered by people with their own lived experience and experience working in peer roles.
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