Peer Support Worker

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Peer Support Worker to work across Gloucestershire Region. 

This a part time Role: 21 Hours per week 

Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity - and thats why equity is one of our core values. We draw on the expertise, unique perspectives and lived experience of our people - regardless of who they are or their background - to help us become inclusive and anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider that reflect the diverse communities we support as a mental health charity.

A Peer Support Worker is someone who will have lived experience of recovery from mental illness. Someone who has been on their own recovery journey, explicitly drawing upon and sharing their lived experiences of recovery from mental illness, and tells their own recovery story, to inspire hope, model recovery and inform service users, as well as supporting service users in finding their own path to recovery. For this peer role, it is essential that you can demonstrate your own lived experience.

This a new opportunity to have a direct influence on how services are provided in Gloucestershire and be part of a dynamic team that is working towards breaking down barriers and ensuring people get the right support at the right time

About the Role

Work as a team to deliver 1-1 support and group based sessions in community venues across Gloucestershire.

• Appropriately share my own personal experiences of recovery and coping with complex mental illness, to build connection and provide support to service users

• Deliver forward thinking, person centred and high quality support to people using services that meet the needs of individuals and commissioners

• Educate the community and my service on mental illness and actively work to challenge stigma around mental health.

• Ensure that the tools of person-centred recovery planning are embedded into my practice

• Use computer systems (Hive and (Data recording systems) correctly to record support activities.

• Ensure safeguarding awareness is integrated into practice

• Engage with local community events, meetings, and forums to promote the service, which may include supporting the delivery of training to wider professionals.

• Maintain excellent working relationships with professionals, referrers and stakeholders.

• Maintain professional boundaries, confidentiality and maintain high standards of professional integrity and respect for others

• Participate in multi disciplinary team meetings for case and risk management and planning.

• Ensure that I work in line with Lone Working systems and policies and take responsibility for health and safety within my role

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion 

Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities were working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer.  We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. 

We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.

Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation 

We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. You can read more about our progress here. 

If you have any questions about the position, please contact - ***********@rethink.org

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Information :

• Company : Rethink Mental Illness
• Position : Peer Support Worker
• Location : Birmingham, City and Borough of Birmingham
• Country : GB