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Peer Support Worker (Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service)

Peer Support Worker (Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service)

Touchstone

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Location:
Leeds
Hours:
28 hours per week
Contract:
Salary:
£25,584
Application deadline
03/02/2025

Peer Support Worker (Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service)

Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire. Touchstone understands that they can only deliver excellence to the people they serve if the people they recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.

An exciting opportunity for a Peer Support Worker post has arisen within Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service; for applicants with lived experience of mental health difficulties who are committed to developing peer support as part of the Talking Therapies Team.

Touchstone are looking for enthusiastic and motivated applicants with the skills, experience, and resilience to:

  • Deliver 1-2-1 peer support sessions to clients entering the service
  • Support the development of volunteers with lived experience
  • Integrate peer support across the wider LMWS service

Information Session: Thursday 23 January 2025 6pm to 7pm
CLOSING DATE: Monday 3 February 2025
Interviews will be held on: Monday 17 February 2025
Contact details: ellyc@touchsotnesupport.org.uk

As an employee of Touchstone, all successful applicants continually benefit from the following:

  • Personal wellbeing budget
  • 28 days annual leave (rising to 31 after 2 years) + 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)
  • Agile working opportunities
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Access to counselling and 24/7 confidential staff Mindful Employer helpline
  • Health and wellbeing and fun organisational staff away days
  • Inclusive maternity and parental policies and pay
  • A full range of staff and peer support networks
  • Additional day of leave for a celebration day
  • Learning and personal development opportunities

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How to apply

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, an equal rights employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly, BME and LGB and Trans communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone. Further information can be obtained from their equal opportunities policy.

Please note that Touchstone do not hold a sponsor licence and they do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you.

Applications can be obtained by visiting www.touchstonesupport.org.uk or by e-mailing recruitment@touchstonesupport.org.uk

Please note that feedback is not provided to applicants who have not been shortlisted.

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Contact details:
Contact name:
Lauren Smith
Phone:
0113 271 8277

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