Peer Worker

The Peer Support Workers will work as part of a team to help deliver support to individuals. Peer Support Workers will have their own lived experience of the issues faced by people accessing services and use these to help deliver support. Main Duties:

• Promote awareness of the specialism through sharing their own lived experience;
• Encourage and support people at all stages of engagement with services;
• Deliver therapeutic mutual aid and peer-led activities and, or educational activities;
• Develop a range of activities that promote wellbeing;
• To raise awareness in the community supporting family members, friends and concerned others, community members and other professionals on risk behaviours and promote equality and reduction of stigma;
• To contribute to their own well-being and progression in order to move on;
• Undertake a vocational qualification to support their own professional development;
• To contribute to the wider team and support service improvements;
• Effective communication;
• Maintain effective working relationships and boundaries to protect their own and others progress.
• Follow operational guidance, policies, procedures and best practice;
• Out-of-hours and weekend working may be required as prescribed by the needs of the service.
Service Specific Duties: The service descriptor document is part of this Job Description and should be referenced in accordance to specific duties. Any Other Duties