Description
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Peer Support Worker to join our Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in Tower Hamlets.
The successful candidate will use their personal lived experience of mental health challenges, accessing services and recovery to provide compassionate, recovery-focused support.
Working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, you will support service users to identify their personal recovery goals, develop independence, build meaningful relationships and access opportunities within their local communities.
As a Senior Peer Support Worker, you will take a leadership role in developing peer support within the team, promoting the value of lived experience, contributing to service development and delivering individual and group-based recovery-focused interventions.
Main duties of the job:
- Provide individual and group-based peer support, using personal lived experience to inspire hope, promote recovery and empower service users to achieve their personal goals.
- Support service users to develop independence, build meaningful relationships and access community resources, activities and opportunities.
- Lead and develop peer support provision within the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, promoting the integration of lived experience perspectives into multidisciplinary practice.
- Provide guidance, mentoring, supervision and training to Peer Support Workers, supporting their professional development and effective integration within services.
- Contribute to service development, co-production and partnership working with local community organisations to promote recovery-focused, person-centred care.
Benefits:
- Agenda for Change pay scheme
- Band 4 salary: £34,186 to £37,389 a year pro rata Inc HCAs
- Permanent part-time contract
Requirements:
- Experience as a Peer Support Worker
- Lived experience of living with a mental health condition and have undergone a personal recovery process
- Experience of accessing mental health services, especially secondary services
- Knowledge of peer support, its principles, practices, and challenges
- Excellent interpersonal skills, as relating to working with patients and carers, and professionals
- Excellent communication skills