Peer Support Worker (Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service)

Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire. Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.

Tasks

An exciting opportunity for a Peer Support Worker post has arisen within Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service; for applicants with lived experience of mental health difficulties who are committed to developing peer support as part of the Talking Therapies Team.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated applicants with the skills, experience, and resilience to:

• Deliver 1-2-1 peer support sessions to clients entering the service
• Support the development of volunteers with lived experience
• Integrate peer support across the wider LMWS service

Requirements

Candidates will need to:

• Have strong communication skills, verbal and written.
• Have basic IT skills (typing and email).
• Be ablse to support and empower vulnerable people and volunteers
• Have lived experience of one or more of the following support needs: mental health issues, substance use, learning disability or learning difficulty autism or ADHD.
• Value the work associated to promote diversity and social inclusion.
• Be passionate about supporting people in an empowering way.

Benefits

As an employee of Touchstone, all successful applicants continually benefit from the following:

• Personal wellbeing budget
• 28 days annual leave (rising to 31 after 2 years) + 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)
• Agile working opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to counselling and 24/7 confidential staff Mindful Employer helpline
• Health and wellbeing and fun organisational staff away days
• Inclusive maternity and parental policies and pay
• A full range of staff and peer support networks
• Additional day of leave for a celebration day
• Learning and personal development opportunities

Further information can be obtained from our equal opportunities policy. Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you.