Peer Support Worker

The arts for mental health peer support delivered creatively Sound Minds is a user-led charity transforming lives through music, film and art. We are a thriving community bound together by creativity and a shared belief in mutual learning and peer support. Our Canerows Programme delivers a ward visiting service at Springfield Hospital and community-based Peer Support. Main purposes of the job: Sound Minds is recruiting a Peer Support Worker to join our team in Wandsworth. The Peer Support Transformation Project is funded by and delivered in partnership with South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust, Mushkil Aasaan, and Wandsworth Carers Centre. It is an integral part of Sound Minds Canerows programme; a user led service working to improve the lives of people who are overcoming mental health challenges. Mental Health Peer Support gives emotional support and promotes access to information and practical advice to people experiencing mental health difficulties. As a Peer Support Worker, you will draw on your own direct lived experience of mental health difficulties to support other people through time-limited 1-2-1 sessions. Peer Support Workers at Sound Minds work collaboratively with the Sound Minds team and our partners at South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust. They offer educational, emotional and practical support towards goals that are defined by the client. Peer Support Workers are supported through peer support training and regular ..... full job details .....