Peer Worker

These are challenging but rewarding roles supporting people with a wide range of experiences. Your time in post will start with attending our peer support training alongside other people starting peer support roles with us. This training is delivered by people with their own lived experience who also have direct experience of working in peer roles themselves. From there your work will involve:

• Providing 1:1 peer support to people on the ward (this may involve supporting family / carers too)
• Setting up and facilitating / co-facilitating peer support groups
• Attending and contributing to team meetings to help ensure service users' voices are heard, that their needs are advocated for, and to bring lived experience expertise into team processes.
• Contributing to service development within the teams you work in. This involves offering ideas, feedback and lived experience perspectives.
• Building connections with a range of people and organisations within the system (including other peer support workers / providers).
  
  Personal experience of accessing secondary or inpatient mental health services.- including in Secure Inpatient Services or prison.
• Relevant experience of mental health challenges. Lived experience including homelessness and use of drugs and alcohol are also welcome.
• Personal experience of using your lived experience to support others, for example in a paid role, in volunteering, in a user led environment or informally
We welcome applications from people with personal lived experience of Secure Inpatient Services, prison, contact with the criminal justice system or experience of having your liberty or freedom of movement/decision making impacted by restrictions.

Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to announce that we are currently recruiting Peer Workers for our Female and Male Secure Inpatients Wards in Ridgeway. These roles will be based at Roseberry Park Hospital, Middlesbrough. Peer support is when people with shared experiences connect to build safe, trusting and non-judgmental relationships where we learn and grow together. Peer workers are people who have experience of mental health challenges and accessing services for mental health care, and are employed, trained and supported to work to the TEWV Peer Support Values and use their experiences to support others., To support you with this work you will receive ongoing regular 1:1 and group supervision and will be able to access a range of other peer connection and support structures.