Location
Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service, London

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
£33,094 per annum

About the Role
As a Carer/Parent Peer Support Worker, you will work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams across both adult and child and adolescent eating disorder services to support parents and carers of young people accessing these services. Your role will focus on promoting strengths-based practice and supporting parents/carers in their own recovery journey. You will provide coaching individually or in groups, develop and deliver a carers clinic offering one-to-one short-term interventions, and create promotional materials to enhance service engagement.

You will assist parents/carers in identifying their strengths, personal interests, and wellbeing goals to better support their young person. You will help them make sense of the mental and emotional distress experienced by their child and themselves, using sensitive and recovery-focused language. Drawing on your own lived experience, you will mentor, share wisdom, and act as a role model to inspire hope and demonstrate coping skills.

The role requires working autonomously while managing complex safety considerations across community and inpatient settings. You will collaborate with skilled colleagues from various professional backgrounds to co-facilitate carer interventions and ensure co-production is embedded in care.

You will be attuned to safeguarding issues, using supervision to manage safety and risk in a timely and recovery-focused manner. Attendance at team meetings and active contribution to care planning with young people and their parents/carers is essential. You will promote the Triangle of Care within multi-disciplinary team practices and support parents/carers to engage with community resources, maximizing opportunities for socially valued roles and positive identity.

Additionally, you will assist in developing and implementing educational and peer-facilitated parent/carer support groups and help parents/carers maintain connections beyond their caring role. Respect for the personal beliefs, uniqueness, and identity of parents/carers is fundamental to this position.

Experience
Experience of caring for a young person recovering from an eating disorder is essential. Ability to share lived experience in a supportive and recovery-focused manner is required. Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams and co-facilitating interventions is desirable.

About you
You are empathetic, sensitive, and able to communicate effectively with parents/carers and young people. You demonstrate resilience and the ability to work autonomously while managing complex safety considerations. You are committed to promoting recovery, hope, and wellbeing, and you respect the individuality and personal beliefs of those you support. You are motivated to work collaboratively within a team and engage with community resources to enhance support networks.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications are not explicitly stated; however, lived experience of caring for a young person with an eating disorder and the ability to use this experience constructively in a peer support role are fundamental. Training and supervision will be provided to support your development in this role.