About The Organisations

Leeds Mind is the city’s leading mental health charity. We have faith and optimism in our clients and so the services we deliver are built around their needs. We support the people of Leeds and across West Yorkshire to discover their own resources to ‘recover’ from periods of poor mental health, and to live life independently with their mental health condition.

Our values of Kindness, Hope, Respect, Empowerment, Support, and Inclusion are pivotal to the work we do.

Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service is a nationally recognised survivor-led organisation. We provide out of hours services to people in acute mental health crisis, who may otherwise end up in psychiatric services, A&E, or other crisis and emergency provision. Our initial service (Dial House) has been running since 1999. We now also have a culturally diverse communities specific crisis service (Dial House @ Touchstone), a young person’s face to face crisis service (SafeZone); and a helpline (Connect), which includes a specialist service for 11-18 year olds. We also work in partnership with Touchstone in delivering The Wellbean Crisis Cafes, and with Leeds Mind in delivering the Leeds Suicide Bereavement Service and provide daytime group work to help people cope with their crises. We have also just opened a 24 hour / 7 day a week residential crisis house (Leeds Oasis), and a helpline (Night OWLS) for children and young people across the West Yorkshire area, 8pm to 8am every day.

Yorkshire MESMAC is one of the country’s oldest and largest LGBT+ charities. We have been working with LGBT+ people, and other marginalised communities, to develop and deliver appropriate, acceptable and accessible sexual and mental health services for over 30yrs. We offer services to various communities across Yorkshire, including men who have sex with men, people of colour and other marginalised races, sex workers and LGBT+ young people and adults. Our community development approach recognises the assets communities have and values people as experts in their own lives. We offer a range of mental health and wellbeing services, including counselling, 1-2-1 support, group sessions and training. Our values of inclusiveness, quality, participation, pride & value for money inform all our work.

Health for All is a Leeds based charity which believes in and works towards a society free from inequality, poverty and isolation. We build communities and facilitate real change in people’s lives. Our vital services work across generations, cultures and ethnicities to bring people together to achieve healthier, happier lives. We deliver a range of services and projects from our six community, family and enterprise centres located within the hearts of local communities in the city. We support more than 10,000 people a year. We deliver a range of services and projects from our six community, family and enterprise centres located within the hearts of local communities in the city. We are delighted to host the role of specialist peer support worker for the Community Mental Health Transformation programme to support adults and older adults from diverse communities (particularly BAME groups) with ongoing and complex mental health needs. The post holder will be based in one of our community centres.

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Our Service

The Community Mental Health Transformation programme is a new way of supporting adults and older adults with ongoing and complex mental health needs. This new approach will allow more people to get the support they need, when they need it. It will provide mental health support at a local level, and there will also be help and advice for other issues such as housing, benefits, employment and physical health; all in the same place.

People with ongoing and complex mental health needs are sometimes referred to as people with Severe Mental Illness (SMI). This covers a range of needs and complexities, some of which may coexist with frailty, cognitive impairments, neurodiversity, or substance use.​

Visit this page to find out more about Community Mental Health Transformation

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The Role

To promote and role model the peer support principles while building safe, trusting relationships with people using services based on non-judgmental listening and shared lived experience. To use your personal experiences of using mental health services – sometimes called ‘lived experience’ – in your work and to support people to make use of their own strengths and build connections with their peers and wider communities. The post holder will support a range of people from across Leeds, in a non-judgemental, person-centred way, while holding cultural sensitivity at the heart of their approach.​​

Essential Skills and Experience:

· Lived experience of emotional distress/ mental health problems.

· Experience building connections within the wider community.

· Experience discovering personal strengths and the strengths of others.

· Experience walking with someone in a time of need, professionally or personally.

· Willing and able to share your own personal recovery to help others.

· Demonstrate an understanding of the role and impact of peer support in people’s lives.

· Demonstrate the knowledge, confidence, and skills to work with people with a range of needs.

· Good understanding of the way in which mental health services work locally.

· Completed a plan to support your own wellbeing (e.g., a wellbeing recovery action plan or equivalent)

· Living the organisations core values every day.

· Experience of LGBT+ specific oppression/social issues which can affect mental health (essential for MESMAC post).

· Understanding of different cultures, faiths and identities, or willingness to learn (essential for Health for All post).

Hours – Between 18.5 and 30 hours per week

Scale - NJC Scale 5 points 12 to 17

Salary - £22,571 - £24,920 per annum

Contract – Permanent

Closing Date: 18th December

Stage 1 Interview Date: 9th or 10th January

Stage 2 Interview Date: 12th January

This is a two-stage recruitment process. Successfully shortlisted candidates will be invited to one of the two dates for stage 1. Those who progress pass stage 1 will have to be available to attend a stage 2 interview.

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Please note that we are recruiting to the following posts:

Peer Support Worker - Leeds Mind – 18.5 hours

Peer Support Worker - Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service – 25 hours

Peer Support Worker (LGBTQIA+) – MESMAC – 30 hours

Peer Support Worker (Culturally Diverse Communities) – Health for All – 30 hours

We ask that you please indicate on your job application your preference for the post. Please note that this preference cannot be guaranteed at job offer.

We also ask that candidates ensure that their covering letter comprises of a personal statement based on the personal specification outlined in the job description.

The role is based over various sites, including the Employing organisation office with work across the seven Local Care Partnerships (LCPs), as well as home visits and work from home.

• The Leeds Mind office is Clarence House, 11 Clarence Road, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 4LB.
• The Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service office is Dial House, 12 Chapel St, Halton, Leeds LS15 7RW.
• The MESMAC office is 22/23 Blayds Yard, Leeds LS1 4AD.
• The Health for All office is Tenants Hall, Acre Cl, Middleton, Leeds LS10 4HX.

For an informal discussion about these posts prior to applying please Tel: 07734 767 931 and speak to Roz Doherty.

Successful candidates will be required to undertake a right to work in the UK check as well as an enhanced DBS check. Leeds Mind is an Equal Opportunities employer.

Reg charity number: 1007625

Job Type: Part-time

Salary: £22,571.00-£24,920.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Sick pay
• Wellness programme

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leeds, LS18 4LB

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