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Peer Support Worker
| Posting date: | 08 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £29,124 to £316,364 per year |
| Additional salary information: | including London Weighting where appropriate |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 July 2024 |
| Location: | Kingston Upon Thames, South West London |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JOB00000527 |
Summary
Are you an individual with a passion for supporting people with substance misuse and mental health issues?
The Role
We are looking for a dynamic and committed individual with lived experience to join Kingston Wellbeing Service.
This exciting and rewarding role will provide you with significant scope for growth and innovation within a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals.
The main purpose of the role is to provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to people who use our services. You will do this from a lived experience perspective of substance misuse, to enable us to embed trauma informed recovery values within the service. You will work collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholders across borough wide multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring adherence with all Via policies and safeguarding principles. Responsibilities will include the following.
• Provide high quality, person centred, low threshold services, responding to the individual and diverse needs and preferences of people who use our services and their significant others.
• Deliver harm reduction advice, guidance and education including needle & syringe programme delivery, brief and extended recovery interventions, blood borne virus intervention, overdose prevention including naloxone programmes.
• Enable people who use our services to access education and employment services and health, wellbeing, and recovery support activities and to signpost to other available services.
• Support volunteers, peer mentors and service user representatives to take an active part in Via services.
• Actively contribute to multi-disciplinary review meetings internally and externally.
• Maintain accurate and timely records using the designated case management system in compliance with our Information Governance policies and procedures.
• Work flexibly, including across multiple sites when required.
The Service
The Kingston Wellbeing Service is an integrated drug and alcohol treatment and recovery support service that serves adult residents of the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames. Based at the Surbiton Health Centre and operating at locations across the borough, the service is high performing, ambitious and extremely well regarded by stakeholders and the local community.
Location
This post will be based at the Kingston Wellbeing Service at Surbiton Health Centre, Ewell Road Surbiton, KT6 6EZ.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package
For an informal chat about the role, contact Michael Murray, Team Manager at Michael.Murray@viaorg.uk or 07561 105292.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 28 July.
The Role
We are looking for a dynamic and committed individual with lived experience to join Kingston Wellbeing Service.
This exciting and rewarding role will provide you with significant scope for growth and innovation within a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals.
The main purpose of the role is to provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to people who use our services. You will do this from a lived experience perspective of substance misuse, to enable us to embed trauma informed recovery values within the service. You will work collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholders across borough wide multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring adherence with all Via policies and safeguarding principles. Responsibilities will include the following.
• Provide high quality, person centred, low threshold services, responding to the individual and diverse needs and preferences of people who use our services and their significant others.
• Deliver harm reduction advice, guidance and education including needle & syringe programme delivery, brief and extended recovery interventions, blood borne virus intervention, overdose prevention including naloxone programmes.
• Enable people who use our services to access education and employment services and health, wellbeing, and recovery support activities and to signpost to other available services.
• Support volunteers, peer mentors and service user representatives to take an active part in Via services.
• Actively contribute to multi-disciplinary review meetings internally and externally.
• Maintain accurate and timely records using the designated case management system in compliance with our Information Governance policies and procedures.
• Work flexibly, including across multiple sites when required.
The Service
The Kingston Wellbeing Service is an integrated drug and alcohol treatment and recovery support service that serves adult residents of the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames. Based at the Surbiton Health Centre and operating at locations across the borough, the service is high performing, ambitious and extremely well regarded by stakeholders and the local community.
Location
This post will be based at the Kingston Wellbeing Service at Surbiton Health Centre, Ewell Road Surbiton, KT6 6EZ.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package
For an informal chat about the role, contact Michael Murray, Team Manager at Michael.Murray@viaorg.uk or 07561 105292.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 28 July.
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