Senior Peer Support Worker

JOB VACANCY

Senior Peer Support Worker

• £28,940 per year full time equivalent
• Vacancy for either 1 person working 37.5 hours per week (across two wards - Barefoot Ward and Heather Close Ward) or 2 people each working 18.75 hours per week. These hours to be agreed with post holder set against the backdrop of the needs of the service and in consultation with Ward Managers.
• Permanent contract
• Based in Royal borough of Greenwich & Lewisham

The Peer Support In-Reach Service is a partnership between several local Minds. Senior Peer Support Workers and 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.

BLG Mind have a vacancy for a Senior Peer Support Worker to join the team in Lewisham / Greenwich and line manage the Peer Support Workers.

You will use your lived experience to help people to build skills to manage their home and finances, connect with family and friends, pursue social or vocational interests, to get more involved in their local community and to stay healthy and mentally well. Your support will be person-centred and may include mentoring, coaching, facilitating access to community activities, practical support with managing bills, shopping, work or study and emotional support.

You will be expected to be able to travel to work in the hospitals and to travel around the local area to visit your clients in their homes and in the community. You will meet people before they leave the ward, work with them to develop their own support plan and visit them at home 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 19THFebruary 2023

Please apply via our website: https://blgmind.org.uk/job/senior-peer-support-worker

About us

BLG Mind is 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, Lewisham and Greenwich. Read about the benefits of working for us.

Inclusion is one of our core values. We welcome all applicants, including those with lived experience of mental health problems. We particularly encourage applications from:

• People from culturally diverse communities
• Disabled people
• People with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities
• Under 25s

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

Salary: £28,940.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Flexitime
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime

Work Location: One location