Salary
£25,050 pro rata (based on a 35-hour week)
Employment type
Permanent
Package
Permanent, subject to funding
21 hours per week over 3 days, including some evening and weekend working.
Based at Yor Community Wellbeing Hub – Acomb Garth
Job category/type
Support Workers and Care Workers
NON CYC VACANCY
The Peer Support Worker sits within the peer support service, which forms a part of the wider adult services at York Mind. The peer support service works within the Yor Community Wellbeing Hubs which are part of the Transforming Our City project across the city and include partners from the local authority, NHS and other voluntary sector organisations.
As a Peer Support Worker, you would be responsible for delivering 1-1 peer support to people who access the peer support service within the hubs and across the community. This support could be for a range of issues, from improving a person’s health and wellbeing, supporting them to access community activities, helping to tackle loneliness or just being a listening ear.
Flexibility will be key and you will be able to draw on your own experience of mental health to support others whilst maintaining professional boundaries. It is important to understand that you will be working with people who may have serious mental illness.
Main duties:
1) To work within the Yor Community Wellbeing Hub and be a part of the multidisciplinary team working across the city.
2) To act as a Peer Support Worker managing a caseload of clients referred to the service.
3) To proactively support the day-to-day coordination of the peer support and wider Hub service, working in accordance with processes and procedures.
4) Maintain accurate case notes and play an active role in gathering feedback and data to support reporting requirements of the service.
Please go to the jobs page on York Mind website where you will find the recruitment pack and application form: https://www.yorkmind.org.uk/jobs1/
Closing date: Sunday 2 August 2026 at 12 midnight
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