Senior Peer Support Worker

7 months ago


Lewisham, United Kingdom South East London Mind Full time

£15,953 per year (based on a full-time salary of £31,906)
- 18.75 hours per week, worked over 3 days (with potential to increase from September)
- Permanent contract
- Based in Lewisham - Heather Close Ward
- Hybrid working considered in line with policy

The **Peer Support In-Reach Service** is a partnership between several local Minds. Peer Support Workers and Senior Peer Support Workers, who have direct lived experience of mental health issues, are working on in-patient wards in Croydon, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Wandsworth to provide recovery-focused peer support to people as they leave hospital and journey towards being settled in the community and living independently.

South East London Mind have a vacancy for a part-time **Senior Peer Support Worker** to join the team in Lewisham and line manage a Peer Support Worker.

You will use your lived experience to help people build skills to develop independence, connect with family and friends, pursue social or vocational interests, get more involved in their local community and stay healthy and mentally well. Your support will be person-centred and may include mentoring, coaching, facilitating access to community activities and providing practical and emotional support. You will meet people before they leave the ward and work with them to develop their own support plan, empowering them as they transition back into the community.

**Successful applicants will be expected to undergo an Enhanced Level Disclosure and Barring Service check**

**Closing date**: Sunday 5th May (11:59pm)

**Likely interview date**: Week beginning 13th May

**SEL Mind** supports people with mental health problems and dementia in the boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. We are proud of our diverse workforce and know that our organisation is made stronger by the variety of backgrounds, experience, and ideas within it. We promote a culture of inclusion and representation, and are working hard to build a workforce that even better reflects the communities we support.

SEL Mind is somewhere that you can be your authentic self without fear of discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, neurodivergence, gender, age, lived experience of mental health problems or anything else that’s part of who you are.

Read more about staff benefits and why staff love working here on our website.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £15,953.00 per year

Expected hours: 18.75 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person


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