Peer Support Worker at Teesside Mind
Contract Type: Permanent
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Part time
Application deadline:
Based: Middlesbrough
Salary: £25,335 Pro Rata
Salary Type: Fixed Salary
Role description: Project Support
We’re currently looking for a number of experienced Peer Support Workers to join our teams. 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 work with individuals who have accessed a mental health recovery-based service within Teesside Mind, Darlington Mind or similar, and you will be an integrated and valued member of the wider team.
Drawing on your own experience of mental health problems, you will ‘walk alongside’ others on their journey and will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible.
You will listen non-judgementally to create safe spaces where people feel heard and approach the peer relationship with compassion and curiosity. You will recognise and value each person’s strengths, diversity and expertise in themselves. You will be aware of the impacts of trauma and committed to the importance of working in ways which are sensitive to the needs of trauma survivors.
Important parts of this role also include working within the team to help people’s voices be heard and to promote recovery values. You will be supported to challenge both individual and structural instances of stigma and discrimination related to mental health problems and other forms of exclusion.
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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