Job Details:
Peer Support Worker

Job Description

Safe Tameside is an exciting VCSE collaboration including TOG Mind, The Anthony Seddon Fund and Big Life Group. The service is a crisis alternative designed to provide people experiencing mental health difficulty with an easily accessible and calming environment to de-escalate, talk through what is on their mind and feel heard. Additionally, the service is designed to enable people to walk away with a plan for how to manage their mental health moving forward.

In the role as Peer Support Worker for the Safe Tameside service you will provide a warm and welcoming reception to anybody accessing the service, speak with people 1:1 around what is troubling them and support them in their management of and recovery from experiencing mental health crisis.

For this role you will have experience and knowledge of, personally or professionally, emotional wellbeing and mental health issues. You will also have experience of liaising with members of the public.

What you will bring to TOG Mind:
To be considered for this role, we are looking for someone who can demonstrate active listening skills, be able to ask open questions and show empathy and understanding of others.
To be able to demonstrate ability to provide support to others relevant to this role. To be able to demonstrate ability to undertake learning, seek insight, and grow from experience. To be able to demonstrate ability to take personal responsibility for your own development and the development of others.  
 

Optional - For an informal discussion about this vacancy please contact Stilyana Massey, on [email protected]

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for further details – these can be accessed from our website at www.togmind.org/vacancies

• Company pension scheme
• Sick pay
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Gym membership