Peer Support Worker - Family Floating Support Services

Bevan Community Benefit Society, Leeds

Peer Support Worker - Family Floating Support Services

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Bevan Community Benefit Society, Leeds

  • Part time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 5 days ago, 1 Aug | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

Job ref: 881cfa4eb7314b7389c3fb2f5844e871

Location ref: Leeds

Full Job Description

We are looking for a compassionate and motivated Peer Support Worker to join our Family Floating Support Service. In this role, you will use your lived experience of homelessness, housing instability, family support services or multiple disadvantage to help families feel understood, empowered and able to engage with support. Your insight will strengthen our relational, trauma informed and neuroinclusive approach, ensuring families receive support that is respectful, accessible and grounded in real experience. Working across the Bradford District, you will build trusting relationships with families, provide practical and emotional support, and work alongside Floating Support Practitioners and partner organisations to help families overcome barriers, build confidence and achieve greater independence.,

  • As a Peer Support Worker, you will:
  • + Build trusting, non-judgemental relationships with families using empathy, compassion and respect. + Use your lived experience safely and appropriately to inspire hope, reduce stigma and strengthen engagement. + Support families with practical tasks, including attending appointments, completing forms, organising routines and navigating housing and welfare systems. + Work alongside Floating Support Practitioners to deliver trauma informed, neuroinclusive and culturally responsive support. + Support families to develop confidence, self-advocacy and problem-solving skills. + Contribute to co-production activities, peer support sessions and service development, ensuring families' voices help shape the service. + Maintain accurate records and work collaboratively with colleagues and partner organisations to improve outcomes for families. About us We are Bevan. A social enterprise serving inclusion health communities and individuals, including people experiencing homelessness, refugees and asylum seekers, commercial sex workers, and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Our patients are among the most marginalised and socially excluded, many with multiple needs who have experienced and sometimes continue to experience trauma. We work as a multi-disciplinary team, offering ano wrong doorapproach, ensuring patients receive the support they need by working together to find solutions. Our GP practices in Bradford and Leeds are central to our offer, but equally important are the services that wrap around it, including:
  • Street health teams
  • Mobile migrant health teams
  • Hospital in-reach teams
  • Wellbeing services (including a dedicated children and young people team)
  • We are constantly working to expand our services to improve patient outcomes.

Direct job link

https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/peer-support-worker-family-floating-support-services-127134568
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