Peer Support Worker

Teesside Mind is really pleased to be recruiting a Peer Support Worker within our recovery-based service across the Tees Valley.

This role is part of our Community Transformation work within Tees Valley and is part of an exciting new collaborative service in partnership with Darlington Mind and Tees Esk and Wear Valley (TEWV) NHS Trust who have peer workers in their Community Mental Health Teams.

Community Transformation is part of the NHS Long Term Plan and represents a shift in the way we deliver care. It considers the whole person, beyond their diagnosis, and what the whole system has to offer, including primary care, local authority, voluntary care sector, alongside families and friends. We are working together to ensure we collectively deliver trauma-informed, person-centred care to meet an individual's wide-ranging needs.

You will work with individuals who have accessed a mental health recovery-based service within Teesside Mind, 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.

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification, or have ability to work with information at this level and equivalent experience of providing peer support

See attached Job Description

22.5-30 hours per week

26,500, Pro rata for hours less than 36.5

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