Peer Support Worker inStoke on Trent inStoke on Trent PUBLISHED
TUE 3 DEC 2024
In this role, Peer Support Workers will offer both formal and informal assistance throughout the recovery journey, collaborating with the IOH community pathway team to inspire positive change. The objective is to help service users set personal goals, enhance their aspirations, and ultimately reduce the risk of reoffending by promoting recovery and social capital. This position presents a unique opportunity to significantly impact the lives of individuals within the criminal justice system.
The Reconnect service sits within our wider Health and Justice service, supporting people with needs and vulnerabilities in all aspects of the criminal justice system. Reconnect reaches into 5 of the prisons within Staffordshire, undertaking holistic needs assessments and engagement work in order to support them on release from prison to get their health and social care needs met within the community and reduce the risk of reoffending. Reconnect sits within a national network of reconnect services, and works both within and outside of the prison estate. We are looking for an individual who has had previous experience of the criminal justice system, ideally someone who has been to prison to join our team. You will carry a caseload of service users, offering hope, a safe space to open up and opportunity to change. Using your own recovery journey to instil hope for a different life.
This is a unique chance to make a real difference in the lives of individuals within the criminal justice system, apply now or get in touch to hear more about the role!
IOH is a service which recognises that those in contact with the criminal justice system can offend for many reasons, and often have unmet needs which can impact on their offending behaviours. IOH mirrors all community pathways within the criminal justice system, from point of arrest, providing mental health treatment requirements as a sentencing option to the courts or supporting people reconnect in the community no release from a prison sentence. Key to achieving these aims is providing an enhanced offer in order to support these individuals have equitable access to the services which can meet their needs.
Peer support is based on the recognition that there is no better person to support the path towards recovery than someone who has walked the same path as that individual. As such we would actively seek peers who have lived experience of both the criminal justice system and a health and social care need, e.g. mental health, substance misuse, etc.
About us
The Peer Support Worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to engage with appropriate services, develop an identity outside of the criminal justice system, regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. The Peer Support Worker will come alongside a service user through their recovery journey, and assist them when aspiring and considering the initial steps on their recovery journey.
Peer Support Workers work as part of IOH community pathway and work in collaboration with colleagues within the team. Peer Support Workers engage with IOH service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting service users to gain and maintain independence in the community. The Peer Support Worker will assist service users in raising aspirations and developing personal goals, with the aim to be supported and increase further social capital.
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