Peer Support Worker

7 months ago

Medway, United Kingdom Family Action Full time

**Peer Support Worker, Start for Life project**

**Based in Medway, Kent**
**22.5 hours per week (part-time)**

**Are you a self-motivated, innovative team player, who is solution focused and passionate about making a difference? If so, we want to hear from you.**

As a Peer Support Worker you will work alongside the team to deliver 1-2-1 support, in service users homes and out in the community. This may be through listening support, play activities to develop bond or delivering a range of resources to improve confidence and well-being.

This role provides an opportunity to be involved in a holistic approach to Perinatal Mental Health, offering well-being support to a wide range of families with young children and babies.

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operate with mutual respect. If you share these values and behaviours and have experience of working with families to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people, we would like to hear from you.

At Family Action, we transform lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to the most vulnerable members of our society - those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation. We have been building stronger families since 1869 and today we work with more than 60,000 families in over 150 community-based services, as well as supporting thousands more through national programmes and grants.

**We are looking to recruit a motivated Peer Support Worker** to work within our **Start for Life service. **The programme’s objective is to join up and enhance services delivered through transformed family hubs in local authority areas, ensuring all parents and carers can access the support they need when they need it.
- The programme will:_
- _provide support to parents and carers so they are able to nurture their babies and children, improving health and education outcomes for all_
- _contribute to a reduction in inequalities in health and education outcomes for babies, children and families across England by ensuring that support provided is communicated to all parents and carers, including those who are hardest to reach and/or most in need of it_
- _build the evidence base for what works when it comes to improving health and education outcomes for babies, children and families in different delivery contexts_Family Action offers an excellent wellbeing offer and will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and career development opportunities. You will be offered regular individual supervision and regular group consultation together with your team. Family Action offers a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements.

**What will we offer you?**

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect. If you share these values and behaviours and have the necessary skills, then we look forward to hearing from you.

**Key tasks and responsibilities**:
1. Work alongside the team to deliver a range of 1-2-1 support to facilitate parents’ understanding and awareness, to understand the emotional needs of their infants and to promote a secure attachment.

2. Work alongside other Peer Support staff across a variety of external agencies, building a consistent approach and strong working relationships. Building relationships with statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure that parents receive coordinated support.

3. Be involved in the planning, organisation, and delivery of evidence-based group work with parents and their babies. Supporting the development of resources in specific areas, Anxiety Management, Intrusive Thoughts, etc to deliver to families.

4. Build a keen understanding of Group Work offered within Targeted and Universal Services to ensure that families being supported individually can also integrate into group support.

5. Ensure you keep consistent communication with the families we support, working alongside the wider team to maintain engagement in other support offered by our service.

To undertake child-focused assessments in partnership with parents to establish an understanding of the child and parent’s needs, any existing or potential risk and to gain knowledge of the ‘Childs’ lived experience’ and parental challenges.

Using information gained through the assessment to develop a child centered, targeted, trauma informed whole family outcome focused plan and risk assessment with parents for their engagement with the service.

Monitor, review, and updated plans with parents, utilising critical analysis, outcome evidence, and triangulating information; stepping up/down cases and making onward referrals for specialist support and interventions, where appropriate.

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