Peer support worker

As a Peer Support Worker, you will play an active and rewarding role supporting individuals as they leave prison and begin rebuilding their lives in the community. Working across the Cumbria area, you will support people engaged with the Enhanced Reconnect service, building strong, trusting relationships and helping them identify their needs alongside a senior team member.You will manage a caseload of individuals, providing practical and emotional support to help them access health, social care, and community services. Your role will be key in encouraging engagement, promoting independence, and supporting people to take positive steps forward.Working as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team, you will collaborate closely with Team Leads, Release Engagement Practitioners, and clinicians. You will be involved throughout the individual's journey, from referral through to discharge, ensuring a consistent, person-centred approach and making a meaningful difference at a critical point in their lives.

Working in the Enhanced Reconnect service in Cumbria and surrounding areas. To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users, sharing own narratives to raise aspirations of life. To work primarily in direct work with service users on a 1:1 and in group settings as agreed with team supervisor and team manager. To help individuals identify strengths, interests and their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals. To support the implementation of groups To support service users in developing other areas of interest. Draw upon own lived experience to inspire hope, model self-awareness and facilitate service users in developing their own resourcefulness for managing their health and wellbeing. Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable participation in activities, to maximise service user's opportunities for socially valued roles and positive identity. Ensure that service users peer recovery goals are integrated into a Resettlement plan To actively engage with colleagues and other professionals to ensure the needs of the client group are met through promoting recovery orientated, strengths based practice. To attend and participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings. To work under the regular supervision of the team supervisor and guidance of other professional colleagues within the team. To participate within Trust peer training and peer working networks

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

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