Job Introduction
We are looking for an Expert by Experience, we have an exciting opportunity within our SET CAMHS and Affinity services. The 'Peer Support Worker' is a vital role model for the young people and families we work with. You will be able to draw on lived experience and demonstrate empathy and understanding amongst the individuals suffering from mental health and trauma.
HCRG Care Group strives to do more for inclusivity and opportunity’s for people who potentially may lack professional experience but may have a wealth of lived experience and we want to champion that. Therefore, we are looking for candidates who class themselves as autistic and candidates that have been through the care system themselves.
Main Responsibility
· To provide peer support to service users supporting them in relation to their careplan on a 1-1 or group basis focusing on building relationships and opportunities to learn together.
· To bring empathy and understanding into all interactions with service users by sharing lived experience and hopefulness.
· To work closely with the Senior Lived Experience Lead to develop the community offer ensuring all services developed are co-produced collaboratively with children, young people (CYP) and their families to build positive relationships and ensure they are responsive to service user needs.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate has lived experience of growing up in the care system / autism / mental health services and willingness to positively share own life experiences. Excellent communication skills with children, young people, and adults.
They must be able to communicate well and bring support and empathy to the role. They must be passionate about mental health and wanting to make a real impact to the young people we work with. Also access to a vehicle although not essential would be advantageous.
Package Description
As a Peer Support Worker, you’ll be part of our valued team at the Child Development Centre, Harlow.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £22,000 with group pension.
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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