Peer support / lived experience position: 20 hours per week: Tāmaki Makaurau

Peer support / lived experience position: 20 hours per week

Tāmaki Makaurau

Pay rate dependant on qualification up to $30 per hour.

Passionate about connection, community and running?

Want to bring your lived experience to support others?

Speed Freaks Charitable Trust was established in 2021. Growing community connection, increasing recovery capital and harnessing the power of movement as a key part of holistic wellbeing. We support recovery from addiction and mental distress through the vehicle of running and walking.

Our programme is delivered by local volunteer coaches supported by peers and staff, our groups and programme are available to treatment providers and through our open community sessions.

This role presents an exciting opportunity to weave pro-social relationships across a diverse population and grow community understanding of addiction and mental distress.

Peer Support role

Our Peer roles support individuals in early recovery to join our groups, incorporate movement and community connection as part of wellbeing. Working with the team based at Federal Street Home Ground Building you will support whai ora in attending sessions and connecting to our kaupapa beyond treatment.

The development of the Speed Freaks charity is driven by our participants, coaches and community. As a young charity we take a flexible and considered approach to issues and opportunities, as they arise. This is an exciting time to join and support our mahi in Tāmaki Makaurau as we grow.

You will bring:

· Lived experience of addiction, and maintaining wellbeing and recovery.

· Passion, positivity and a solution focused approach.

· Preferably a Level 4 National Certificate of Health & Wellbeing or higher qualification.

· Experience in a peer support role.

· Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to balance multiple responsibilities and prioritise tasks effectively

· Confident use of computers / Information Technology, for documentation, reporting and communication – this includes social media and smart phone apps.

· Demonstrated commitment to ongoing personal and professional growth.

· Excellent boundaries.

· A full NZ Driver License

· Access to a vehicle & the ability to work remotely at times

· To be able to work flexibly, including some evening work, and weekend work around events.

· Knowledge of running, an understanding of running events, and to be able to comfortably run 5 kilometres (km) and walk up to 10km at a time.

Lap top, Cell Phone, will be provided.

Please apply by;

CV, covering letter and an approximately one minute video introduction (can be longer) which provides an opportunity to have some fun and share why you’re applying. Please note the video is a required part of applying. You may choose to use a file transfer service such as https://wetransfer.com/ to send your application, if it is larger than 15 megabytes.

Send to eden@speedfreaks.org.nz

Enquiries to Eden Programme Coordinator Tamaki Makaurau.

Applications will be processed as they come in, please apply as soon as possible.

Closing Date 5 pm Monday December 1.