About the role
Do you want to use your skills and personal lived experience of mental health difficulties expertise to really make a difference and help support people with mental health problems? If so, this could be a great role for you.
Working with our NHS colleagues Solent Mind are providing Peer Support working within local communities to enhance mental health care at primary level.
This roles involves:
* Working with colleagues from across primary care (GP) network to identify people that may benefit from peer support and plan work accordingly.
* Working with people in one to one and group settings, including managing your own caseload of service users, to support their recovery and help them access the support they need.
* Working closely with other team members and services to support people using the service in a collaborative, person-centred way, including helping them to identify and articulate their needs and hopes.
* Supporting people to develop and use a range of skills and techniques to help their wellbeing.
Hours: 37 hours per week.
About you
You will have a key understanding of the role of peer support in mental health and how to use your lived experience to this effect as well as the ability to manage time and competing priorities and take responsibility for your own work and accountabilities.
About us
We're Solent Mind! We re part of a network of over 100 Local Minds who tailor trusted mental health services to our communities. We set our own strategies and partnerships and rely on the support of our brilliant local fundraisers.
We collaborate with Mind to make sure their pioneering campaigns, information and research make a difference in Hampshire. Together, we make better mental health possible both locally and nationally.
Benefits
Our Gold Award for Workplace Wellbeing Index 2022/2023 and being a Mindful Employer reflects our commitment to our lively, friendly teams. We empower our people to have a voice, discover new opportunities and develop their careers. In addition to knowing you re making a difference, you ll also enjoy excellent benefits, including:
* Flexible working to promote a healthy work/life balance
* 25 days annual leave rising incrementally to 30 days per year
* Pension plan
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Season ticket and cycle-to-work scheme
If you re ready to join the fight for mental health, visit our website to find out more and apply.
Webinar and Q&A:
If you want to know more about the role, application process and possibility to ask questions, we are holding a webinar followed by a Q&A on Monday 17 March from 13:30 to 14:30 via Microsoft Teams. If you are interested in attending please let the Talent Acquisition team know. Contact details can be found via the apply button.
Closing date: Sunday 30 March 2025.
Interview date: w/c 7 April 2025.
Posts may be subject to a relevant DBS check.
Solent Mind welcomes applications from all the communities in which we work. Appointments are made on merit.
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