Full Time Peer Advocate

Benefits include
•    Core Professional Training and Continuous Professional Development
•    Access to Employee Assistance Programme provider 
•    Clinical external supervision

Peer advocates are people who have personal experience of mental health challenges who have achieved a sufficient level of recovery to complete an accredited training course in peer advocacy. This puts them in a unique position in understanding the problems faced by people experiencing challenges to their mental health.   

We currently have the following vacancy for Peer Advocate:

Belfast                                                         

5 days/35 hours per week                             

Monday to Friday                                 

9:00 am to 5:00 pm                                      

Essential Criteria for the role

• Self-experience of Mental Health Challenges.
• Have had experience as a service user of mental health services and have achieved a level of recovery.
• Can demonstrate knowledge of the needs of people experiencing mental health difficulties.
• Have completed Peer Advocacy Training and/or will be required to undertake this training.
• Computer literate
• Full clean Driving Licence and a Car