AOS Lived Experience Peer Support Worker in Chelmsford

As a Lived Experience Peer Support Worker in our Autism Outreach Service (AOS) - Adult, you'll be part of our valued team based at West Essex. You will feel valued as a Peer Support Worker in our Autism Outreach Service (AOS) within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £23,875 with access to our group pension.
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.

Main duties of the job:

• To provide peer support to Autistic service users (Adults) supporting them in relation to their care plan and goals on a 1-1 or group basis focusing on building relationships and opportunities to learn together.
• To maintain equality with, and work alongside others facing similar experiences and challenges in their wellbeing with the central focus being on building trusting relationships rather than providing clinical interventions.
• To promote understanding of the principles and practice of the Autism Outreach Lived Experience role (relationships and support).
• To work closely with the wider team and collaboratively with adults to develop the community offer, ensuring all services developed are co-produced collaboratively with CYP and their families to build positive relationships and ensure they are responsive to service user needs.
• Work flexibly, being prepared to perform other duties commensurate with the role which may include new areas of operation following consultation.
• To keep and maintain accurate, quality and up-to-date records (using the appropriate computer systems i.e. SystmOne).

About us:

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit our website.