Senior Peer Worker

at  Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Within this role you will draw on your own experience of mental health challenges. You will walk alongside others on their journey in a supportive peer relationship built on our core peer values of authenticity, relationship, validation, respect, mutuality and empowerment. You will listen non-judgementally to create safe spaces where people feel heard. You will approach the peer relationship with compassion and curiosity.
You will recognise and value peoples strengths, diversity and expertise in themselves. You will be aware of the impacts of trauma and committed to the importance of working in ways which are sensitive to the needs of trauma survivors. You also will be an integrated and valued member of the team. Peer roles involve contributing peer values and the knowledge, skills and expertise that come with lived experience of mental health challenges and mental health services.
Important parts of this role also include working within the team to help service users voices be heard and to promote recovery values and trauma informed approaches. Peer roles will be supported to challenge both individual and structural instances of stigma and discrimination related to mental health and other forms of exclusion. Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying

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