EMERGE Leeds: Complex Emotional Needs Service Peer Support Worker
| Posting date: | 29 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £25,839 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | Touchstone Pay Structure (2024) Points* 07 – 11, starting at £25,839.84 pa/pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, West Yorkshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Touchstone |
| Job type: | Temporary |
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Summary
Touchstone Pay Structure (2024) Points* 07 – 11, starting at £25,839.84 pa/pro rata
37 hours per week
This role is fixed term for up to 24 months with the possibility of an extension
*Any increase in pay point(s) will be reviewed on annual basis based on the financial position of Touchstone and will only be awarded on this basis. Your pay/pay point will not automatically increase.
It is an occupational requirement for this role that the successful applicant is female.
Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire. Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in the EMERGE peer support service. We provide a range of interventions for people with complex emotional and interpersonal difficulties (also referred to as “personality disorder”). The Peer Support Worker (PSW) will be embedded within the EMERGE team to support people aged 18-25. The PSW will receive training for the role, and supervision and management from Touchstone and EMERGE staff.
Information Session: Friday 06 June 2025, at 10:00am via Microsoft Teams
To attend, please email recruitment@touchstonesupport.org.uk
CLOSING DATE: 22 June 2025
Interviews will be held on: 07 July 2025
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
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 our equal opportunities policy. Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we 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. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
37 hours per week
This role is fixed term for up to 24 months with the possibility of an extension
*Any increase in pay point(s) will be reviewed on annual basis based on the financial position of Touchstone and will only be awarded on this basis. Your pay/pay point will not automatically increase.
It is an occupational requirement for this role that the successful applicant is female.
Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire. Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in the EMERGE peer support service. We provide a range of interventions for people with complex emotional and interpersonal difficulties (also referred to as “personality disorder”). The Peer Support Worker (PSW) will be embedded within the EMERGE team to support people aged 18-25. The PSW will receive training for the role, and supervision and management from Touchstone and EMERGE staff.
Information Session: Friday 06 June 2025, at 10:00am via Microsoft Teams
To attend, please email recruitment@touchstonesupport.org.uk
CLOSING DATE: 22 June 2025
Interviews will be held on: 07 July 2025
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
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 our equal opportunities policy. Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we 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. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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