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Job summary: As an integral and highly valued member of the Adult Autism Diagnostic Service, the Peer Support Worker (PSW) will provide formalised peer support and assistance to service users in particular pre- and post-diagnostic support. The successful applicant will work within a multidisciplinary team in an Adult Autism Diagnostic Service to deliver pre- and post-diagnostic support to autistic adults (age 18+) across the London boroughs of Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon.
Job Overview: The Peer Support Worker role uses lived experience to improve outcomes for other autistic adults through direct support (through group and individual interventions) and indirectly via providing lived experience support to staff across the trust.
Main duties of the job:
* The peer support worker role uses lived experience to improve outcomes for other autistic adults through direct support (through group and individual interventions) and indirectly via providing lived experience support to staff across the trust.
* Pre-assessment support will include helping people referred to the team to understand and access the assessment pathway. Following assessment, the Peer Support Worker will offer individual and group sessions to people who have been diagnosed as autistic, tailored to their individual needs.
* Indirect support may include contributing to multi-disciplinary team meetings, providing training or consultation to other services, and advocating for the needs of autistic people when accessing other services.
Key Responsibilities:
* To work autonomously alongside other professionals within the Autism Team in the support of service users, with a particular focus on providing support in the waiting period before diagnosis and signposting them to other support services after the diagnostic assessment.
* To assume a ‘coaching’ role supporting service users, delivered with a neuroaffirmative approach either individually or in groups.
* To act as a role model to service users to inspire hope, and share life experiences and lessons learned from own lived experience of autism.
Person specification:
* Education And Qualifications: Essential criteria: Commitment to obtain underpinning knowledge through work-based learning and mandatory training, (including accredited peer support worker training if not previously undertaken)
* PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Paid/unpaid Relevant To Job: Essential criteria: Own personal lived experience of autism, Willing to positively share own life experiences of living with autism with service users and carers
* Skills, Knowledge, Abilities: Essential criteria: Knowledge of Autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions, Able to demonstrate understanding of Peer Support as well as a non-judgemental understanding of issues arising from being autistic
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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