Peer Support Worker

3 weeks ago

AshtonUnderLyne, United Kingdom Tameside Oldham & Glossop Mind Full time

We have an opportunity for a Safe Tameside Peer Support Worker to join the organisation on a fixed term basis. Reporting to Joanne Mellett, the Tameside Living Well Team Leader.

Safe Tameside is an exciting VCSE collaboration including TOG Mind, The Anthony Seddon Fund and Big Life Group. The service is a crisis alternative designed to provide people experiencing mental health difficulty with an easily accessible and calming environment to de-escalate, talk through what is on their mind and feel heard. Additionally, the service is designed to enable people to walk away with a plan for how to manage their mental health moving forward.

In the role as Peer Support Worker for the Safe Tameside service you will provide a warm and welcoming reception to anybody accessing the service, speak with people 1:1 around what is troubling them and support them in their management of and recovery from experiencing mental health crisis.

For this role you will have experience and knowledge of, personally or professionally, emotional wellbeing and mental health issues. You will also have experience of liaising with members of the public.

**What you will bring to Tog Mind**:
To be considered for this role, we are looking for
- Good verbal and written communication.
- Ability to carry out administrative responsibilities.
- Responding to change and uncertainty positively.
- Organisation and planning.
- Solution focussed.
- Ability to work alongside and support volunteers.
- Team working and collaboration with others.
- Ability to undertake any other reasonable tasks required.
- Ability to manage own wellbeing and resilience required within a mental health environment.

**Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for further details - these can be accessed from our company website by visiting the careers page under the vacancy details.**

**Who we are & why Tameside, Oldham and Glossop MIND**:
Here at Mind, we are proud to have been delivering high-quality mental health services based on the needs of local communities for over 40 years. The work we do is vital in promoting accessible services to the people that need it the most.

Our vision is to enable everyone in our communities to achieve better mental health by continuing to provide the best quality local mental health services in prevention, early intervention and primary care; alongside empowering individuals and our communities to live well. We offer various services across the community and to individuals aiming to improve wellbeing and raise awareness around the importance of mental health support.

**Benefits**:

- We offer a dynamic, stimulating environment that embraces change and is open to new ways of working.
- We provide a real opportunity to influence meaningful change within our society and for you to contribute your expertise to this process.
- We maintain a strong commitment to ethical standards of working within a socially inclusive environment.
- We offer ongoing training and development to all staff and volunteers, enabling you to gain qualifications and expertise in mental health and therapeutic interventions.
- We offer a degree of flexibility around working hours, balancing work and personal commitments.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months
Part-time hours: 13 per week

**Salary**: £10.90 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Bereavement leave
- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 145

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