Working with Kensington and Chelsea Mind means you’ll be part of a dedicated, passionate, and professional workforce who cares about the work they do and make a real difference to the lives of the people experiencing mental distress.
We are very aware at Mind that people really are our main asset. Attracting the right recruits and retaining them is of paramount importance and ensures that our clients get the best possible service. We offer:
- Competitive salaries – regular bench marked against industry standards
- A matched contribution pension scheme of up to 6% of salary
- Staff Training in key mental health skills
- Regular supervision and support
- A confidential Employee Assistance Programme
Job opportunities
Peer Support Worker
£27,344 – £29,439, depending on skills and experience
37.5 hours per week with some evening/weekend work
Hybrid working – based on the needs of the service.
The Peer Support Service operates alongside other clinical and wellbeing services to provide formalised peer support for people living with common and complex mental health needs and complex emotional needs, including personality disorder.
The service compliments and collaborates with NHS Peer Support Workers and is delivered from community-based locations and NHS Hubs across Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster to help people regain control over their lives, shaped by their own unique recovery process.
The role involves experiential sharing, connecting relationships and community building to deliver a range of peer support activities, including one to one peer support, peer support groups, social peer support, peer support training and Living Well Workshops.
The successful candidate will have:
- Personal lived experience of recovery and living well with a mental health condition
- Knowledge of recovery focused approaches in mental health and trauma informed practice
- Proven experience of delivering peer support in a mental health setting
- Knowledge and experience of common and complex mental health conditions, including complex emotional needs and personality disorder
- Experience of working with diverse communities
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to use your own lived experience to inspire hope and recovery in others
- Ability to manage self-care
- Ability to plan and organise your own time and work
- Ability to facilitate online support face to face and using Zoom or Teams
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
We welcome applications from all sections of our community. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment in full compliance with the Equalities Act (2010).
A job pack, including an application form, can be downloaded from our website via the apply button. Please note CVs will not be considered.
Closing date for applications: July 19th, 2024
We are not able to respond to applications individually. If you have not been invited for interview by July 26th, 2024 your application has not been successful on this occasion, and we thank you for your interest.
Interview date to be confirmed.
Job Description
Application Form
Kensington and Chelsea Mind value equality, diversity and inclusion. We create equal opportunities and develop good working relationships between different people. We make every effort to eliminate discrimination. Discrimination means treating someone unfairly because of who they are. The Equality (Act 2010) protects individuals from discrimination at work.
If you’re applying to work with us we will apply fair and non discriminatory recruitment processes to ensure individuals are not discriminated against, in respect of age the following protected characteristics, protected under the Equalities Act (2010):
- Age
- Gender reassignment
- Being married or in a civil partnership
- Being pregnant or on maternity leave
- Having a disability
- Race
- Religion or belief
- Sex
- Sexual orientation
Asking for reasonable workplace adjustments
If you need us to make certain changes (known as ‘reasonable adjustments’) to make sure you’re not disadvantaged during the recruitment process, please let us know.
Our equality objectives:
- To improve representation rates for ethnic minorities and staff with disabilities
- To improve the fairness and inclusions scores for underrepresented groups
- To publish an annual equality information report
