Neurodiversity Peer Support Worker - Apprenticeship Opportunity

About the role

🚀 Peer Support Worker (Neurodevelopmental Services) 🚀

Are you neurodivergent or have lived experience navigating neurodevelopmental services (for yourself or a family member)? We're on the hunt for compassionate, motivated, and enthusiastic individuals to join our expanding Neurodevelopmental Services team! ✨

This is your chance to rock your lived experience and become a beacon of support for people and their families navigating our neurodevelopmental pathways. 🌟 As a Peer Support Worker, you'll team up with clinicians, families, and other awesome agencies to deliver practical, strengths-based, and neuroaffirming support. 💪 Get ready to help folks boost their confidence, deepen their self-understanding, and level up their self-advocacy skills, all while guiding them through important life transitions. 🚦

Level Up Your Skills! 🎓

Don't have a Level 3 qualification or equivalent experience yet? No sweat! RDaSH is offering this role alongside the opportunity to snag a Level 3 apprenticeship qualification relevant to your role. As an RDaSH apprentice, you'll dive into gaining experience, mastering work-related skills, and collecting all the tools you need to absolutely crush it. 🛠️ Your apprenticeship will involve regular training with a college or learning provider, with around 20% of your working hours dedicated to honing your craft. This means a nationally recognised qualification is in your future! 💯

What You'll Be Doing: 🎯

• Building awesome, trusting relationships with people and their families. 🤝
• Purposefully and professionally sharing your lived experience to spark hope and confidence. 🔥
• Helping individuals discover their strengths, needs, and what truly matters to them. 💡
• Creating communication passports, self-advocacy tools, and practical strategies. 🗺️
• Providing a supportive hand for engagement with appointments and services. 🗓️
• Sharing valuable information, signposting to resources, and offering practical aid. ℹ️
• Collaborating like a boss with schools, health pros, community groups, and families. 🏫🏥
• Contributing your awesome ideas to service improvements and co-production initiatives. 🚀

Important Info Before You Apply: 📝

Please dive into the attached job description and person specification for all the juicy details. 👇

Apprenticeship Applicants: 🚨

If you're applying via the apprenticeship route, please check out the attached eligibility document to make sure you meet all the requirements! ✅

Psst... we might close this vacancy early if we get a ton of applications, so don't delay! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Key responsibilities

• Build supportive and trusting relationships with people and families.
• Share your lived experience in a purposeful and professional way to inspire hope and confidence.
• Support people to understand their strengths, needs and preferences.
• Help develop communication passports, self-advocacy tools and practical strategies.
• Support engagement with appointments and services.

Entry requirements

Essential qualifications (Essential oA good standard of general education, including functional literacy and numeracy, or equivalent demonstrable skills oEnglish and Maths at level 2 or equivalent (GCSE 9-4 or A*- C or functional skills level 2) oWillingness and ability to complete Trust mandatory training and role specific peer support, safeguarding, boundaries, recordkeeping and information governance training Desirable oRelevant qualification in peer support, health, social care, youth work, education, community development or coaching. oCompleted recognised peer support training.)

Skills