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

2 Part time Charity / Voluntary jobs in Darlington