Peer Support Worker - Younger Adults (18-25) at Teesside Mind
Contract Type: Fixed term
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Part time
Application deadline:
Based: Middlesbrough
Salary: £27,661 Pro Rata
Salary Type: Fixed Salary
Location: Teesside
Role description: Project Support
Teesside Mind is excited to introduce a new Peer Support Worker role focused on supporting younger adults aged 18–25. This role is part of a wider partnership with Darlington Mind and the Cornforth Partnership, who are recruiting to similar roles.
We define peer support as a relationship where people with shared experiences connect to build safe, trusting, and non-judgemental relationships through which they learn and grow together. Peer Support Workers use their own lived experience of mental health problems and accessing services to support others on their recovery journey.
This role aims to provide holistic, recovery-focused support that reduces the need for future secondary NHS mental health services or hospital admissions. You’ll be part of a trauma-informed, person-centred team working across organisational boundaries to meet the wide-ranging needs of young adults.
What You'll do:
- Support young adults referred by TEWV NHS community services orrecently discharged from Roseberry Park Hospital.
- Build trusting, compassionate relationships through shared livedexperience.
- Create safe, non-judgemental spaces where people feel heard andvalued.
- Promote hope, empowerment, and recovery through peer support.
- Work alongside with each person to help plan and move forward intheir own recovery journey.
- Advocate for the voices of those you support within the wider mentalhealth system.
- Attend peer support training alongside new colleagues from partnerorganisations.
- Work collaboratively with peer workers across Teesside Mind, Darlington Mind, Cornforth Partnership, and TEWV.
Main Duties:
- Deliver one-to-one peer support to young adults accessing theservice.
- Hold and manage a caseload efficiently and independently.
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date records using online systems.
- Manage your own diary using Microsoft Outlook.
- Contribute to the development and evaluation of this pilot project.
- Work as part of a wider recovery-focused system to promote livedexperience involvement.