Peer Support Mentor

ABOUT THE ROLE 

As a Peer Support Mentor with Lived Experience, you will play a crucial role in delivering trauma-informed care and support to participants within our service. Using your own lived experience, you will build trusting relationships and provide personalised support to help individuals achieve recovery, reablement, and rehabilitation within a Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE).

SIG Penrose complex needs hub: Is commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, provides safe, accommodation-based housing and support for socially excluded individuals. The service uses a Supportive Relational Model, focusing on strengths-based, trauma-informed, and psychologically informed approaches, with co-production at its heart.

Shift Pattern: 25 Hours per week, Three shifts per week (10 hours and 7.5 hours x2), scheduled on a rota between 9:00AM  and 9:00PM, Monday to Sunday, including evenings and weekends. No hybrid working. 

Salary: £25,600 (pro rata) 

What are we looking for?

• Personal Lived Experience, this can include personal experience with substance misuse, offending behaviour, homelessness, and other live experiences which could be used to support those with multiple complex needs
• Experience of working with people of complex backgrounds and/or a good understanding of the sector
• Ability to use, learn and adapt to IT at an intermediate level, including Microsoft and other software programs
• Ability and willingness to show flexibility of working patterns, responding to the needs of the service and residents 

What we offer

• 25 days (Full time equivalent) annual leave, increasing with the length of service
• Training and Development, including access to courses, upskilling, and progression plans
• Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling
• Reflective Practice regular sessions with a therapist provided by an external provider to support Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Eligibility to register with Blue Light Discount Card
• Life Assurance Scheme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Annual Staff Awards

ABOUT US

Social Interest Group (SIG) believes good care and support improve lives. Our values of ambition, empowerment, transparency, and inclusivity drive everything we do. Our mission is to empower people who are marginalised by building powerful partnerships and creative solutions that bridge gaps in provision and aid recovery, reablement and resettlement.

SIG is a not-for-profit organisation providing thousands of people with good-quality support and care in residential, drop-in centres, community floating support settings (including people's own homes), probation settings, and hospitals awaiting discharge. We do so across London, Brighton, Bedfordshire, Luton, and Kent. We believe in the power of well-planned, well-managed services to make a difference. We work with high standards and external and internal regulatory frameworks.

Want to know how we work? Watch our short Theory of Change video to see how we support people towards a brighter future: Theory of Change

Further details can be found on our website here: Theory of Change - Social Interest Group - Social Interest Group. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please note that this job advert may close early due to screening applications on an ongoing basis. We advise applying as soon as possible for your application to be taken into consideration at the early stages.

Additional information on our company policies including Gender Pay, Equality and Diversity, Company Benefits and our Candidate Privacy Policy can be found on our website.

For Recruitment related enquiries, or if you need support with making your application for example due to learning needs or a disability, please email recruitment@socialinterestgroup.org.uk or call our central office on 020 3668 9270 to request a call back. Please note that this will take you through to our Central Administration team, who will then communicate your enquiry with us and we will arrange to call you back. 

Please note that as part of our process, we complete an enhanced DBS check, some roles may require further vetting. We are an inclusive employer and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact us on the details above. 

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide sponsorship, please ensure you have full right to work in the UK prior to applying to our positions.

Closing Date

13-01-2025

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