Peer Support Worker £23,400 pro rata excellent benefits per annum Horsham You’re good at engaging with, and supporting, others who are experiencing difficulties. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Richmond Fellowship as a Peer Support Worker. Right now, we are looking for a Peer Support Worker to join the team at Horsham. Our Peer Support service offers both intensive and low key peer support services. We support people who are going through a difficult time, by sharing our experiences, helping them discover the strengths and developing skills that will lead to wellness. But it's only possible with the help of people like you. Day-to-day, you’ll work with the team leaders, peer support volunteers and the people who use our services to develop an inclusive and effective peer support service, offering individual and group support. That means you will be working alongside colleagues who have personal experience of using mental health services to help others on their own recovery journey. You will help to contribute to the development of organisational policies, procedures, protocols, systems and guidance to underpin the provision of peer support across the organisation. Identifying and undertaking training programmes, promoting the service to stakeholders and operating within a fully compliant service to agreed budgets – all are part and parcel of this challenging role. To succeed, you’ll need a good understanding of the recovery and personalisation agenda and the principles and practice on which mental health services are run. You must have a proven ability to consult, liaise and work collaboratively with a team of colleagues and a wide range of external organisations and a flexible approach to working hours. You will be well-organised and self-motivated; good problem-solving and decision-making skills are essential, as is an innate ability to cope with personal stress. In return for your skills and enthusiasm, this role comes with some really great benefits and excellent training and development opportunities. We are committed to increasing our diversity and we welcome applications from those with lived experience. So, are you ready to take on this rewarding role that comes with some really great benefits. This is a permanent part time role requiring the post holder to work 15 hours per week. To review the job description, please click here. This is a rolling recruitment process. Candidates will be interviewed as and when they are shortlisted. To apply, please send a CV and covering letter explaining why you feel you are right for the role. Richmond Fellowship is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. From 1st June 2024 Richmond Fellowship will be merging with the mental health charity Humankind to form a single organisation that provides the joined-up mental health, housing and drug and alcohol support we’ve all known has been needed for decades. In October 2024, Humankind will then be renamed to reflect the new, bigger and better organisation. Recovery Focus is a group of charities with the shared aim of Inspiring Recovery Together. Our partners are experts in supporting people along their mental health recovery journeys, overcoming the harms caused by drugs, alcohol and gambling and supporting survivors and working with perpetrators of domestic abuse. Find out more at www.recoveryfocus.org.uk Richmond Fellowship Richmond Fellowship is a national mental health charity Making Recovery Reality for thousands of people every year. Our models to support recovery include supported housing, residential care homes, community-based support, crisis services and social enterprises. Our roles across the organisation include Recovery Workers and Employment Advisors as well as jobs in our central services team, including HR, Finance, Business Development and Communications and Marketing. Find out more at www.richmondfellowship.org.uk Aquarius Aquarius is a Midlands-based charity supporting individuals to overcome the harms caused by drugs, alcohol and gambling. Aquarius has always held the view that people we support could resolve their problems with support and guidance and that people have the ability to find their own solutions to their problems. Our roles across the organisation include Practitioners and Administrators as well as Team Managers. Find out more at www.aquarius.org.uk