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Peer support is a structured process where trained individuals from your industry, with a similar role or experience to you, provide support for life stressors. They can help by sharing experiences, offering advice and encouragement, and promoting wellbeing.
At the heart of the programme are Peer Support Volunteers – fellow colleagues that are trained in listening and support skills. They provide initial, non-clinical strategies to help develop self-awareness, coping mechanisms and resilience. They can also refer to professional support on the rare occasions when further help is needed.
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A peer support programme is framework of psychological support that sits around the peer support volunteers. An effective programme can help people to navigate the difficulties that they may encounter in work and in their personal life, building trust and support, whilst increasing wellbeing.
Alongside the Peer support volunteers are industry specialists, mental health professionals and an excellent learning and development team. They come together to educate, inform and continuously develop the programme, making sure that it is integrated into the heart of your workplace. Put simply we support your employer to support you.
1 in 5 people experience challenges that affect their mental wellbeing at any one time.
1 in 4 people in the UK suffers mental health issues at some point in their lives.
Peer support improves wellbeing and promotes positive mental health, building individual and organisational resilience. Peer Support can help you:
and help identify feelings around what you are experiencing.
by providing early support, decreasing time you might need to take off work.
by introducing tools and coping strategies that others have found helpful.
and identify where difficulties lie.
with strategies that are workable within the realms of your role.
with an empathic and friendly colleague.
A wealth of experience and support networks
