Peer Advocate Worker
Twickenham

We're now looking for a Part-time, Peer Advocate Worker to join our Homeless Health link team.

About Us

We are SPEAR, a charity dedicated to helping homeless people in South and West London find secure accommodation and work towards a positive future. For 30 years, we’ve worked tirelessly to support homeless people to recover from their personal issues and break down the barriers that they face. We recognise that homelessness is much more than just a housing issue, so we provide a range of accommodation and support services to help people reach their full potential.

This is a superb opportunity for an individual with drive, focus and a desire to work with our outstanding charity to help us to combat homelessness. You’ll discover a passionate, supportive environment where the entire team are working toward the same goals and are dedicated to making positive change and producing great results.

The Benefits

- Salary of £13,072.94 per annum
- 26 days’ holiday pro rata (increasing with service)
- Pension scheme
- Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme
- A range of benefits including cycle to work scheme and staff wellbeing sessions
- Refer a friend bonus scheme

This role will be responsible for the promotion of the services across the boroughs, engaging with a range of supported housing and homelessness service providers to source referrals into the services. The role will also be responsible for the liaison and communication of case management across any providers engaged with the service.

This role will deliver high quality services offered by the Homeless Health Link Programme focusing on the engagement of homeless clients, including rough sleepers into a range of primary care, mental health and substance misuse services. This post is required to undertake good quality case work and assessments of individual with complex needs including challenging mental and physical health needs.

Our health link service engages and supports rough sleepers with their mental and physical ill health needs, helping them access services that are often difficult to access, meaning that they have poor access to health and social care services.

You will need to have great communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, as well as being able to able to build on the relationships we have with our clients and stakeholders as well as create new relationships that benefit the service users and SPEAR as an organisation.

The role will be responsible for processing referrals into the service from a range of sources across the boroughs and act as an entry point into the service. To work closely and proactively with local authorities, statutory and non-statutory health and housing services to improve pathways for homeless clients accessing physical and mental health services.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification.

SPEAR is an equal opportunities employer, values diversity and is strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environment is, the better our work will be.

At SPEAR, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

Other organisations may call this role Support Worker, Outreach Officer, Peer Support Worker, Homeless Welfare Officer, Recovery Worker, Peer Support Worker, Peer Advocate Officer, or Peer Advocate Practitioner.

Our vision is for a world where everyone experiencing a mental health issue receives support and respect. Join our passionate, dedicated team and make a difference today.

About the role

Are you interested in becoming a Community Rehabilitation Peer Practitioner so you can use your lived experience to help others in their recovery? Would you like the opportunity to deliver peer support to our service users in partnership with Solent NHS Trust Practitioners?

Joining us, you will play an integral role in the recovery pathways of your service users, working with NHS staff to support those who are accessing the Community Intensive Rehabilitation Team (CIRT) to take control of their own recovery. The CIRT is embedded within the Solent NHS mental healthcare system. It sits alongside the Community Mental Health Recovery Teams.

The team work with Portsmouth residents aged over 18 that have complex psychosis and related severe mental health conditions. You will support service users to achieve their goals on their road to recovery, providing practical and emotional support.

About you

To be successful, you’ll hold a diploma or NQT Level 2 in Health Care (or equivalent) and excellent team-working, IT and communication skills (both written and verbal). Crucially, you will have your own lived experience of mental health issues and a recovery journey of your own to share. Lived experience of psychosis and the use of mental health services related to this condition would be advantageous.

About us

We're Solent Mind! We’re part of a network of over 100 Local Minds who tailor trusted mental health services to our communities. We set our own strategies and partnerships and rely on the support of our brilliant local fundraisers.

We collaborate with Mind to make sure their pioneering campaigns, information and research makes a difference in Hampshire. Together, we make better mental health possible both locally and nationally.

Benefits

Our Gold Investors in People Award reflects our commitment to our lively, friendly teams. We empower our people to have a voice, discover new opportunities and develop their careers. In addition to knowing you’re making a difference, you’ll also enjoy excellent benefits, including:

• Flexible working to promote a healthy work/life balance
• 25 days’ annual leave rising incrementally to 30 days per year (pro rata for part time)
• Pension plan
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Season ticket and cycle-to-work scheme

If you’re ready to join the fight for mental health, visit our website to find out more and apply. 

Closing date: Tuesday 14 December 2021
Interview date: w/c Monday 17 January 2022

Posts may be subject to a relevant DBS check.

Solent Mind welcomes applications from all the communities in which we work. Appointments are made on merit.

Registered Charity No: 1081116. Registered with Limited Liability in England and Wales No: 4004500.

Community Mental Health Peer Support Worker (Peer Support Groups)

Community based work across the Sutton borough, and at the Age UK Sutton Offices, 1 Carshalton Road, Sutton SM1 4LE. The role requires frequent working and attendance at meetings, and cross organisation peer support meetings 

Age UK Sutton has been commissioned by SW London St Georges Mental Health Trust as part of their Community Mental Health Transformation Programme, to provide peer support for people over 50, who are currently accessing mental health support or have done so in the past.   

The aim of the service is to support clients through peer support for early intervention, help avoid crisis or deterioration, but also as a step down from more intensive medical support to help reintegrate with the community. 

The roles based at Age UK Sutton have a focus on providing peer support services for older people (50+).

You will be working with people over the age of 50, with enduring and / or severe mental health problems and who may be less likely to approach mental health services, understand that there is a mental health concern, or generally are less well served by mental health services. In playing this focused role in a larger programme, you will have the opportunity to share and draw on experience and knowledge from a wider group of Peer Support Officers across the partnership. 

A key aspect of this new service is that staff use their own experience of mental health difficulties (for example through lived experience, either personal or professional, or caring for someone with mental health difficulties). You will work collaboratively with people within the service to offer emotional and practical support towards goals that are defined by the person, focusing on the person’s strengths and personal resources.

The peer group service will offer short term facilitated group peer support programmes, to enable clients to develop their own peer support networks and work on strategies to improve ability to manage their condition.

This role will focus on organising and facilitating the Peer Support Group element of the contract and will report to the Senior Mental Health Peer Support Worker. 

Age UK Sutton is an independent local charity based in the South West London Borough of Sutton. 

This role will report to the Senior Mental Health Peer Support Worker. 

The full role profile and person specification can be found inside the job pack.  You can download this job pack by clicking on the link under "job attachments" in the grey box on the right hand side of the vacancies page. 

How to apply

Apply through our Hireful careers page submitting a CV, and supporting statement which will give you the opportunity to show how you meet the person specification. You can find the full role profile and person specification in the job pack. Please note that CVs without a supporting statement will not be considered. 

Candidates are warmly invited to arrange an informal discussion with the recruiting manager before submitting their application. This can be arranged by contacting Charlotte Butcher, Business Support Officer: 

Closing date: Midnight Monday 3 January 2022 

Interviews: Thursday 6th, Friday 7th or Monday 10th January

Title: Peer Support Worker (x3 Positions)
Salary: SC3-SP14-17 £23428-£23849 pro rata per annum
Hours: 2 roles at 37.5 hours per week and 1 role at 35 hours per week
Contract: one year, fixed term contract - with potential to extend for another 2 years

We are a multi disciplinary provider of specialist mental health services and a part of the Mind Federation. We promote both recovery from ill health for people with recurrent and enduring mental health difficulties and early intervention and mental or physical wellbeing for those at risk of developing mental health issues or who struggle with common mental health conditions. We currently support around 5000 people a year through a variety of services focusing on psychological and social supports, economic and workplace wellbeing, and support for minoritized communities. Our values are, Connected - creating a compassionate and supportive community. Fair - we strive for equity no one's needs should go unmet. Brave - we walk with people, offering help by doing what works, proven or new.

North East London NHS Foundation Trust has commissioned Mind in the City Hackney and Waltham Forest to employ, support, develop and train 6 peer workers for the new Neighbourhood Teams in Waltham Forest as part of its community mental health transformation programme.

Peer Workers will be core members of each team, they will support the delivery of a new integrated model of support for residents with moderate to severe mental illnesses and will complement existing community and statutory support within Waltham Forest. The new model aims to ensure

- That people with severe mental illness have improved access to mental health support and improved care coordination
- That care and support delivered will be truly orientated towards the promotion and maximisation of individual’s health, wellbeing, and independence
- That health inequalities often faced by people with severe mental illness will be reduced
- That people with severe mental illness will have greater choice and control to support them to live well in their communities

The new community model will deliver true integration of care and support across secondary mental health services, the Voluntary and Community Sector, primary care, social care, community assets as well as other physical health care provision.

Through improved holistic models of care in our community more people will be prevented from experiencing crisis and be able to self-manage their needs in their communities; achieving the outcomes they want and reducing the need for requiring acute interventions of support.

The new Neighbourhood Team will provide support to appropriately meet differing levels of need; supporting residents to maintain or prevent further deterioration in their mental health and aiming, to provide the necessary support to enable recovery from a mental illness where appropriate, empowering people to develop greater self-management of their health. The Team will enable people to make informed decisions about their health and social care needs and support them to maintain and maximise their health, wellbeing, and independence.

The deadline for applications is the 1st December 2021. To apply, please complete the application form and attach it together with your CV, please ensure you attach both when you press "Apply Now". Interviews will be held on Monday 6th December 2021.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We strongly encourage applications from those from ethnic minority backgrounds or other underrepresented backgrounds.

We are a disability confident employer. All applicants with a disability, who meet the minimum essential short-listing criteria are guaranteed an interview. If this applies to you, please ensure you complete the equal opportunities section of the application form.

We at Mind CHWF want to assure you that your privacy and the security of your data is our top priority. It always has been, and it will continue to be, as we refine our policies and internal processes. Please take a moment to read through our privacy notice.

The role holder will become part of our Peer Support Service in Bedfordshire and will be responsible for hosting peer support groups and mentoring our service users drawing on their own lived experience to support people along their mental health recovery journey to wellbeing.

Job title: Peer Support Worker
Post no: 442
Working base: Flitwick
Area covered: Dunstable and Biggleswade
Reports to: Peer Support Coordinator
Contract type: Permanent  
Salary: £18,278.00 F.T.E (Actual salary: £5,928.00 per annum)
Hours: 6.0 hours per day, 12 hours per week
Working days: Thursday and Friday
Flexibility required: Occasional evenings and/or weekends to attend events/meetings
Checks needed: Enhanced DBS and 2 satisfactory references
Start date: January 2022

Service Delivery

• Facilitate Peer Support groups and ensure outcomes which supports individuals with mental health and wellbeing needs across two localities in Central Bedfordshire in line with Mind BLMK’s agreed Peer Support model and requirements as well as contract requirements.
• Mentor identified individuals to achieve a defined goal across the four localities and ensure outcomes which supports individuals with mental health and wellbeing needs in Central Bedfordshire in line with Mind BLMK’s agreed Mentoring model and requirements as well as contract requirements.
• To support the Peer Support Coordinator by assessing clients suitability for attending the Peer Support service when required.
• Work closely with the Peer Support Coordinator to support clients to access other services within the wider Bedfordshire Recovery Service.
• Encourage and support client engagement with Mind BLMK through Guarantor Membership and training opportunities.
• Contribute to maintaining an effective volunteer workforce for the service in line with Mind BLMK’s HR policies, procedures and guidance (workload planning and support).
• Carry out health and safety responsibilities as directed by the Peer Support Coordinator for the four locations in line with Mind BLMK’s H&S policies, procedures and guidance (risk assessments, reviews, reporting, safeguarding, incidents/accidents, premises).
• Carry out cash handling responsibilities as directed by the Peer Support Coordinator in line with Mind BLMK’s financial policies, procedures and guidance (records, petty cash income and expenditure.
• Carry out responsibilities as directed by the Peer Support Coordinator for the collection, updating, monitoring and reporting of service data in line with Mind BLMK’s contract and systems requirements and procedures.
• Deputise for the Peer Support Coordinator in his/her absence.

Entitlements/benefits: (Annual Leave and Benefits currently under review)

• Annual Leave: 23 days (pro rata) – benefits currently under review
• Health Plan: Free Health Plan with a wide variety of benefits
• NEST pension scheme: Auto-enrolment (employer contributes 3%, employee contributes 5%)
• Learning and Development: In-house training structure and external (as appropriate) for all employees and specific roles.
• Flexible Working: On request (in line with Mind BLMK policy on Right to Request Flexible Working)

Closedown: 5pm Tuesday 7 December 2021

To Apply and for More Information:

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button to be directed to our website where you can complete your application for this position. 

Mind BLMK has been annually assessed and approved as a Disability Confident Employer (previously “Two Ticks”) and has been committed to the Mindful Employer charter since 2008.

No agencies please.

Peer Buddy – Mental Health Hospital Discharge Support
Location: Cambridge
Salary: NJC Salary Scale Point 12 (April 2020), £17,746 per annum for 30 hours (£22,183 per annum FTE)
Hours: 30 hours per week
Contract: Part-Time (possibility of job share), Permanent

Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, and South Lincolnshire (CPSL) Mind is a progressive and expanding mental health charity. Our vision is a society in which everyone has positive mental health and feels part of a connected community.

The Discharge Buddy Service

This service involves working alongside CPFT to provide ‘buddies’ to support individuals being discharged from mental health hospitals (Fulbourn & Edith Cavell) and crisis teams. We know that being discharged from hospital can be a tough time when people may need more emotional and practical support. Being a ‘buddy’ can help to support someone through the transition period and promote their independence when settling back in at home.

We are looking for buddies!

If you are interested in this exciting development opportunity and you are able to offer the below criteria, please apply!

What will buddies do?

• Share own lived experience of mental health challenges
• Provide weekly support, either over the phone, online or in person
• Deliver interventions/support sessions to the individual (full training will be provided)
• Provide emotional support
• Provide practical support
• Help the individual to make connections with their local communities (e.g. our Good Life Service)

Buddy criteria

• You must be willing/able to do covid-safe home visits for individuals
• You should be passionate about promoting positive mental health and have excellent verbal communication and listening skills.
• This work will be predominately in the Cambridge area, but you should be willing to travel across Cambridgeshire occasionally.

CPSL Mind is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

We will only accept complete applications, which should include Application Form, Covering Letter and completed Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form.

Closing Date: Monday 6th December 2021, 17:00 hours
Interviews: Tuesday 14th December 2021

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you would like to find out more about this position and to apply, please click the button to be directed to our website.

No agencies please.

About The Role

Are you prepared to go the extra mile to ensure a positive outcome for your clients? Are you motivated to make a positive contribution to the lives of the people we support? If so, we really want to hear from you.

We are recruiting a part time Support Worker, that will deliver Tenancy Sustainment and housing management at our adult temporary accommodation schemes in Exeter as part of a job share.

We are committed to offering short term housing and tenancy related support to people aged 18+, who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. Our role is to help people settle from often chaotic lifestyles, to live independently and help them resolve some of the issues that brought them into temporary housing in the first place. You will be part of a well established team working with residents across three projects. You would be expected to deal with any accommodation issues the residents may have and signpost them to the appropriate course of action or link them with external organisations.

You will work closely with the Team Manager to ensure that building safety is maintained, organising remedial works and repairs with contractors. We are looking for someone who is resilient and able to work with this client group to help them address the issues in their lives and move forward onto independence.

Intensive housing management tasks may vary from ensuring that LiveWest customers have access to appropriate services, support and accommodation of a good standard to explaining the licence agreement and project rules or working closely with partners to resolve anti social behaviour.
 
This role is being offered on a part time basis, working 20 hours per week.
 
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups, and expect all colleagues to share this commitment. Appointment to the post will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced check via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

About The Candidate

To be considered for the role of Support Worker, you will:

- Be able to work collaboratively with the external stakeholders
- Have knowledge of benefits and welfare reform
- Have a good understanding of safeguarding and emotional and mental health issues.
- Be confident in your ability to dynamically risk assess when lone working

The most important part of this role is to have pride in your work and have a positive attitude, a proactive approach and the confidence to support a diverse range of people.  You will be able to balance your passion and commitment with good organisational skills, and the ability to maintain appropriate boundaries.
 
What we offer:
• Competitive salary • Defined Contribution pension scheme – employer contribution of 6% - 9% • Death in Service benefit ( 3 x salary) •  26 days annual leave plus bank holidays with service related increase to your entitlement up to 30 days • Annual Leave purchase • Family Friendly policies • Health Cash Plan including dental and optical cover • Employee Assistance Programme • Health and Wellbeing programme which includes enhanced sick pay, monthly campaigns, training and yearly flu jabs  •  Cycle to Work scheme •  Car Benefit scheme • Learning and Development including coaching and professional qualification support • Volunteering days • Discretionary Bonus scheme
You may have experience or an interest in the following: Care Worker, Charity, Charities, Recovery Worker, Navigator, Support Navigator, Care Navigator, Support Officer, Recovery Coach, Support Mentor, Peer Mentor, Advice Leader, Coach, Service Coordinator, Care Practitioner, Home Care Worker, Not for Profit, NFP or Flexible Working.

About The Company

LiveWest provides over 38,000 homes to over 80,000 people throughout the South West from Gloucestershire to the Isles of Scilly. We have plans to build over 6,000 homes in the area over the next five years, developing new homes of all tenures including low-cost rent and sale, market rent and sale, and a range of supported housing and intermediate housing products, creating choice and flexibility. 
 
As well as developing new homes, we continue to invest in existing properties and communities. Through the stability of good housing, we place better living for better lives at the centre of our mission both today and for generations to come. At LiveWest we believe in a home for everyone. 

As an Inclusive Employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues. For further information about our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy, please visit our website.

About The Role

Do you have experience or an interest in working in care and/or support? Are you a positive individual that takes pride in their work? If so, we really want to hear from you. 

We are looking for a Youth Development Worker to join our Young Peoples Foyer based in Plymouth on a full time basis.

We are committed to offering short term housing and support to young people aged 16-24 years old who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. Our role is to help young people settle from often chaotic lifestyles, start working positively towards employment, education or training, teach them the basic life skills required to live independently and help them resolve some of the issues that brought them into supported housing in the first place.

We are looking for someone who is robust and able to work with this often complex client group to help them address the issues in their lives and move forward onto independence.

This role is being offered on a full time basis, working 37 hours per week on a rolling rota, to include weekend working.  Bandwidth hours will be 8am to 10pm.
 
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups, and expect all colleagues to share this commitment. Appointment to the post will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced check via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

About The Candidate

You will be part of a well established team who work with young people at the Foyer. You would be expected to deal with any issues the young people may have and signpost them to the appropriate course of action. Knowledge of benefits and welfare reform is essential.
 
You will need to have a good understanding of young people’s needs, safeguarding and emotional and mental health issues.
 
The most important part of this role is to have pride in your work and have a positive attitude, a proactive approach and the confidence to support a diverse range of people.  You will be able to balance your passion and commitment with good organisational skills, and the ability to maintain appropriate boundaries. 
 
What we offer:
• Competitive salary • Defined Contribution pension scheme – employer contribution of 6% - 9% • Death in Service benefit ( 3 x salary) •  26 days annual leave plus bank holidays with service related increase to your entitlement up to 30 days • Annual Leave purchase • Family Friendly policies • Health Cash Plan including dental and optical cover • Employee Assistance Programme • Health and Wellbeing programme which includes enhanced sick pay, monthly campaigns, training and yearly flu jabs  •  Cycle to Work scheme •  Car Benefit scheme • Learning and Development including coaching and professional qualification support • Volunteering days • Discretionary Bonus scheme.

You may have experience or an interest in the following: Care Worker, Charity, Charities, Recovery Worker, Navigator, Support Navigator, Care Navigator, Support Officer, Recovery Coach, Support Mentor, Peer Mentor, Advice Leader, Coach, Service Coordinator, Care Practitioner, Home Care Worker, Voluntary Sector, Care Staff, Community Development, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Not for Profit, NFP or Flexible Working.

About The Company

LiveWest provides over 38,000 homes to over 80,000 people throughout the South West from Gloucestershire to the Isles of Scilly. We have plans to build over 6,000 homes in the area over the next five years, developing new homes of all tenures including low-cost rent and sale, market rent and sale, and a range of supported housing and intermediate housing products, creating choice and flexibility. 
 
As well as developing new homes, we continue to invest in existing properties and communities. Through the stability of good housing, we place better living for better lives at the centre of our mission both today and for generations to come. At LiveWest we believe in a home for everyone. 

As an Inclusive Employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues. For further information about our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy, please visit our website.