Become a Peer Worker Volunteer

What is a Peer Worker?

A peer worker is a person with personal experience of mental health challenges who is trained and undertakes a volunteering or paid role in support for others either on a one-to-one basis or within a group setting.

Peer workers develop mutually empowering relationships; sharing experiences in a way that inspires hope and offering hope and support as an equal.

How to become an Open Mental Health Peer Worker Volunteer

WATCH CIC offer a Peer Foundation training course for anyone interested in using their own mental health lived experience and becoming a peer volunteer within Open Mental Health.

The Peer Foundation training covers:

• What is peer support and what is a peer worker
• Ways for wellbeing
• Communication and listening skills
• Boundaries and confidentiality
• Sharing your stories
• Resilience and supervision