Peer Associate - Kent, United Kingdom - Involve Kent

Involve Kent

Verified Company

Kent, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Peer Associates are Lived Experience Practitioners who provide CYP and families with practical and emotional support and connect them to community services/assets including to a peer community of support with similar lived experiences.

Peer Associate

Hours of work: 37.5 hours

Annual Leave: 30 days plus bank holidays

Salary:
Up to £24,000

Employed by:
Involve Kent

Responsible to:
Children's Services - Operations Manager

Based:
West Kent based - travel throughout Kent and Medway required

Would you like to work for an innovative and progressive charity? Involve Kent aims to improve health and empower people and communities to live well.

We are looking for empathetic, proactive, child-centred people to join our Peer Associates Team.

Peer Associates improve the experience of children and young people with learning disability, Autism or both, and their families/carers, supporting them to navigate complex care and support systems.

Ideally you will have lived experience from either yourself having autism and/or a learning disability, or parenting/caring for a person with one of these conditions.

You will need excellent communication skills, with a confident ability to access support and advocate for your clients across multiple professions.

Your empathetic nature will enable you to quickly build trusted relationships with families in complex and crisis situations while empowering them to build resilience and robust support networks.

A child-centred approach to delivering high quality personalised care is key, requiring a creative, flexible outlook with a 'can do' attitude.

Involve is fully committed to upholding the rights of all children, young people and adults to be protected from harm and abuse and to achieve the best outcomes.

Salary:
£24,000.00 per year

Schedule: