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JOB VACANCY

Peer Support Worker – Mind Hosted Role

£28,390 per year
37.5 hours per week
Permanent contract
Based in London Borough of Royal Borough of Greenwich
Hybrid working considered in line with policy

Please click here for Person Specification

This role will work as part of an integrated team with Bridge, South East London (SEL)

Mind and Oxleas NHS Trust.

The employing organisation for this role is South East London MInd.

Bromley, Lewisham & Greenwich Mind and Bridge Support are working in partnership with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to deliver the Greenwich Mental Health Hub. This will form part of the new transformation of mental health services in the Royal Borough of Greenwich under the NHS Long Term Plan. The service will bring together the expertise of local primary, secondary and voluntary sector mental health care providers with the aim of providing flexible, holistic and integrated services for adults with mental health problems.

You will draw on your personal experiences and good communication skills to coordinate and deliver recovery-orientated peer support to people with long-term mental health problems. This support will enable individuals to access community groups, attend appointments, and generally get them more involved in the community.

You will use your own lived experience to support you to build good rapport with your clients and ensure your approach is meaningful. You will need to be organised, resilient and empathetic in supporting clients to achieve their goals.

The role will involve:

Working with a small caseload of clients to provide recovery-orientated peer support to adults with mental health problems
Collaborative working with all partners involved in the Mental Health Hub
Commitment to regular training and supervision
Effective contribution to the development and continuous improvement of the service

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

Closing date: 23rd June 2024 (11:59pm)

Likely interview date: w/c 1st July 2024

Please apply via our website: https://selmind.org.uk/job/peer-support-worker-8/

About us

Bridge Support began in 1986 and has grown into the main service provider for mental health in the Royal Borough of Greenwich with a current workforce of 130 staff. We work with several strategically selected partners to support people with long-term mental health problems by providing the framework they need to work towards independent living. Our aim is for every person to be able to enjoy the freedoms, opportunities, and pleasures that most people take for granted.

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.