In Reach Peer Support Worker

Job summary

We are seeking a Peer Support Worker who has personal lived experience of mental health challenges. This individual will act as a role model for service users, utilizing their own recovery journey to instil hope and resilience. By sharing their life experiences and the lessons learned throughout their recovery, they will motivate others.

Working in partnership with Mind In Croydon the Peer Support Worker will collaborate with the multidisciplinary team on the Unit, assisting in-patients in developing essential skills and coping mechanisms, while promoting overall wellness through strength based and non-directive conversations. They will provide both practical and emotional support, facilitate access to community resources to help individuals maintain their independence while ensuring their wellbeing.

Additionally, this role includes supporting service users after discharge in the community for up to 12 weeks, aiding them in fostering independence within their local community, connecting with various agencies, enhancing life skills, providing guidance related to employment or educational opportunities and improving their ability to manage challenges effectively to prevent re-admission.

Main duties of the job

• Promote understanding of the principles and practice of peer support and user-run services amongst staff and patients within the service
• Assist patients to identify their personal interests and objectives.
• Help identify early signs of patients becoming unwell and/or relapsing by monitoring their progress, level of functioning, mental state and supporting them to recognise early warning signs.
• Promote and support independent living for service users in the community by maintaining knowledge and links to resources, actively supporting patients to use them and signposting to local and community-led services.
• Identify with patients how to access various supports in times of distress and various support networks within their area.
• Support service users in seeking to connect/reconnect with family, friends, significant others and in learning how to improve or eliminate unhealthy relationships.
• Support in-patients on the unit, working towards their objectives to combat social isolation.
• Build up patients' skills to manage their independence, to maintain their wellbeing as they settle back into the community

• Keep timely and accurate patient notes to present to the MDT and contribute to the service evaluation process as required through weekly outcome measures.
• Support patients to represent their views and interests to other professionals and signpost to advocacy services where appropriate

About us

With the need for mental health support at an all-time high, choice is shrinking and services are being stretched. We believe everyone deserves better. At Allkind, we offer support across the whole mental health spectrum for people of all ages, from infants to older adults. Weve been listening to our communities for over 40 years, and its clear theres no one-size-fits-all when it comes to mental health care. Were determined to make sure all kinds of people are supported through their mental health challenges, so they can live the life they deserve. Welcome to mental health support with kindness at its heart.