Senior Peer Support Worker

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom South East London Mind Full time

Job description
- £15,194 (based on a full-time salary of £30,387)
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week, worked over 4 days
- 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 **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 25th February (11:59pm)

**Likely interview date**: Week beginning 4th March

**About SEL Mind**

We are a local Mind with a diverse workforce of over 400 staff and volunteers, working to support people with mental health problems and dementia in the boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. Read about the benefits of working for us on our website.
- People from culturally diverse communities
- Disabled people
- People with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities
- Under 25s

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