Peer Support Coordinator – Gloucester - The Nelson trust

Description

Hours

21 hours per week

Salary

£23,000 – £24,000 per annum pro rata dependent on experience

Pension

Auto Enrolment Pension (6% employer contribution)

Holidays

25 days holiday pa pro rata plus statutory

We are looking for a dedicated Peer Support Coordinator to join our Gloucester Women's Centre Team. Are you passionate about the value of lived experience? Can you support women to identify their strengths and support their peers?

Female peer-supporters will be trained to offer peer-support in a relational trauma-informed model recognising that women often need a gender-responsive peer-support programme. You will identify and support suitable women with lived experiences to become trained peer supporters, providing regular ongoing supervision to female peer supporters.

Once trained peer supporters will be actively encouraged and supported to set up 1:1 support sessions and peer support groups; where women experiencing multiple disadvantage can connect to other likeminded women, safely share their experiences and build support networks within their community.

We recognise the value and benefits placed on the shared experience and identification that peer supporters can bring to their peers, the peer supporter themselves and the service as a whole. By providing training opportunities for women to facilitate peer support groups (and 1:1 peer support) women experiencing multiple disadvantage will have the opportunities to take on leadership roles, enhance training and employability options whist increasing levels of self-esteem, confidence, and positive feelings whilst often increasing their own ability to cope with mental health difficulties.

Due to the nature of the work carried out in our Women's Centres this role is restricted to female applicants only in accordance with the provisions of the occupational requirement (Equality Act 2010, pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1).