Peer Support Coordinator

7 months ago


London, United Kingdom Together for Mental Wellbeing Full time

The key purpose of the Peer Support Coordinator role is to lead a Peer Support Service within the Southwark Wellbeing Hub, part of Together for Mental Wellbeing. Peer Supporters are volunteers with their own lived experience of mental distress. Peer Supporters actively use these shared lived experiences as part of the support that they offer. You will promote service user leadership, ensuring that service users influence the development of the peer support in order to enrich people’s journey towards recovery and life fulfilment. You will:

- Develop, co-ordinate and support the evaluation of service user led peer support within the service.
- Support Peer Support Volunteers and/or Peer Support Workers to deliver peer support that is grounded in Together’s Peer Support model, principles, and organisational values.
- Draw on your own lived experience of mental distress to support the implementation, ongoing development, and delivery of peer support in the service and across Together

The role of the Peer Support Coordinator involves autonomous, mobile working in the community alongside engagement with a fast-paced team.

This role will require occasional evening and weekend working.

**What we will offer you**

**OUR FOCUS IS ON DEVELOPING PEOPLE**

We provide an inclusive and supportive environment for you where you're driven to stay and grow. You will have a positive attitude and be committed to our values around service user involvement.

**Some of the benefits we offer you as a valued team member**

Pension Scheme, online discount portal, Staff Recognition Scheme & long service awards, Employee Assistance Programme - 24 hour helpline providing counselling and legal information, life insurance.

**Learning & Development**

Mandatory and vocational training to allow continuous learning and personal development.

Over 150 courses all provided to support your long term personal development and career pathway.

Time dedicated to your personal development - including research & development, attending webinars, remote training sessions and shadowing

Regular 1:1's focusing on your wellbeing, caseload, achievements, challenges and personal goals.

**What you will offer us**

As our Peer Support Coordinator you will have personal lived experience of mental health and be able to draw on your own lived experience of mental distress to support the implementation, ongoing development, and delivery of peer support in the service and across Together.

You will have experience of successfully developing a peer support project in health or social care and a willingness to work flexibly.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 37.5 per week

**Salary**: £26,671.91 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Application question(s):

- Are you aware you must have a minimum of one year’s experience of mental health work and of implementing user involvement in a service? Applications cannot be considered without this.
- Are you aware you must have personal lived experience of mental health and/or using services? Applications cannot be considered without this.

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 523 /



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