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Peer Support Worker, North Tyneside Safe Haven
Enhancements paid for evenings, weekends and bank holidays
Part-time 18.5 hours per week
Hours Monday to Sunday between 2pm- 10pm
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Peer Support Worker to join our amazing service which is due to launch in July.
You will empower people in their recovery journeys by harnessing the assets and strengths within individuals and their community.
You will also demonstrate the value of the service through positively promoting the role and the collection and collation of data in line with reporting requirements.
About The Role
- Support the community, including people with lived experience of mental health conditions to increase resilience through activities, shaping services, and enabling involvement..
- Support individuals and communities to identify and engage in activities of their choosing to further mental health needs and develop healthy lifestyles.
- Provide support by working with a range of service users to identify different needs to improve accessibility to services.
- Provide support by actively reaching out to those people who need more intense support and link them with other support services as needed.
- Undertake any reasonable duties/responsibilities to meet the needs of the organisation.
About You
- Demonstrable experience of working in a similar role
- Demonstrable experience providing 1:1 peer support
- Understanding of recovery in the context of mental health
- Awareness of or personal lived experience of mental health issues
- Awareness of pathways
- Developed communication skills, orally and in writing
- Developed customer service skills
- Developed relationship building skills
- Developed interpersonal skills
- Developed presentational skills
- Developed IT skills including Office 365
What We Offer In Return
We are proud to have been recognised and certified as a Great Place to Work, which speaks volumes on how much we value our staff members. In return for the hard work and dedication from our teams, we offer the following benefits:
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 32 days at 5 years’ service) pro-rata for part-time and the option to purchase or sell days
- Enhanced pension
- Wagestream - ability to release earnings, giving you instant access to your pay
- Smart Clinic Wellbeing Programme, including Employee Assistant Programme, GP and priority physiotherapy access and counselling sessions Shopping discounts with the opportunity to sign up for a Blue Light Card
- Enhanced life assurance scheme, payment being three times your annual salary
- Plus, many more great benefits on offer!
Here at Everyturn Mental Health we champion equality, diversity and inclusion within the organisation by ensuring our opportunities are open to all and our approach is inclusive. We positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.
We welcome you to be yourself at work and have a range of Colleague Networks for members and allies of the LGBTQ+; Black, Asian and minority ethnic; menopause and neurodivergent communities.
In order to streamline our recruitment process, once we have received a sufficient number of applications, we reserve the right to expire vacancies, so please submit your application as soon as possible. 
