Neurodiversity Peer Support Worker - Apprenticeship Opportunity
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT · Yorkshire And Humberside · DN15 6NU
About the role
Are you neurodivergent or have you navigated neurodevelopmental services for yourself or a family member? 🤔 We're on the hunt for passionate, motivated, and enthusiastic Peer Support Workers to join our awesome Children's Neurodevelopmental Service! 🚀 This is your chance to shine, using your unique lived experience to empower kids, teens, and their families on their neurodevelopmental journeys. 🌟
As a Peer Support Worker, you'll team up with clinicians, families, and other awesome partners. You'll offer practical, strengths-based, and neuroaffirming support. Your mission? To help young people boost their confidence, self-understanding, and self-advocacy skills, guiding them through important life and educational milestones. 🎓
No Level 3 qualification yet? No worries! 💯 RDaSH is offering this role with the chance to complete a Level 3 apprenticeship qualification that's totally relevant to what you'll be doing. As an apprentice, you'll gain real-world experience, learn essential skills, and get all the tools you need to absolutely crush it. 🛠️ Your apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other institution, with around 20% of your work time dedicated to learning and studying, leading to a nationally recognised qualification. 📚
What you'll be doing:
- Building awesome, trusting relationships with children, young people, and families. 🤗
- Sharing your lived experience in a meaningful and professional way to spark hope and confidence. ✨
- Helping young people discover their unique strengths, needs, and preferences. 💪
- Creating communication passports, self-advocacy tools, and practical strategies. 📝
- Supporting engagement with appointments and services. 🗓️
- Providing info, signposting, and hands-on support. 🤝
- Collaborating with schools, health pros, community groups, and families. 🏫🏥
- Contributing to service improvement and co-production initiatives. 💡
Important stuff to check before applying:
- Please review the attached job description and person specification for all the juicy details. 📄
- If you're applying via the apprenticeship route: Make sure you've checked the attached eligibility document to confirm you meet the criteria. ✅
We might close the vacancy early if we get loads of applications, so don't delay! 🏃♀️💨
Key responsibilities
- Build supportive and trusting relationships with children, young people and families.
- Share lived experience in a purposeful and professional way.
- Support children and young people to understand their strengths, needs and preferences.
- Help develop communication passports, self-advocacy tools and practical strategies.
- Work collaboratively with schools, health professionals, community organisations and families.
Entry requirements
Essential qualifications (Essential A good standard of general education, including functional literacy and numeracy, or equivalent demonstrable skills. English and Maths at level 2 or equivalent (GCSE 9-4 or A*- C or functional skills level 2) NVQ Level 2 in a related subject NVQ level 3 in related subject or willingness to undertake a relevant Level 3 Apprenticeship Willingness and ability to complete Trust mandatory training and role-specific peer support, safeguarding, boundaries, recordkeeping and information governance training. Desirable Relevant qualification in peer support, health, social care, youth work, education, community development or coaching. Completed recognised peer-support training.)