Family Peer Support Specialist (FED) | Amsterdam & Haarlem

Do you want to contribute to recovery-oriented care using your own experience as a loved one? Do you believe in the power of recognition, understanding, and connection? Then we would love to meet you. As a family peer support specialist (FED), you support the loved ones of clients in their own recovery process and help give the voice of family and other loved ones a natural place within care. 

Within GGZ inGeest, we believe that recovery affects not only the client but also the people around them. That is why we actively invest in family peer support. As a family peer support specialist (FED), you—together with a fellow FED—will be part of the peer support team and contribute to recovery-oriented care in which loved ones also get a voice. 

GGZ inGeest has locations in both the Amsterdam area and the Haarlem area. We are looking for a family peer support specialist who is deployable in both regions. 

Recovery-oriented support for loved ones: When a client experiences mental health problems, this often has a major impact on family members, partners, friends, and other loved ones. Drawing from your own lived experience, you offer support to these loved ones and help them shape their own recovery process. 

Collaboration and connection: You work closely with caregivers, peer supporters, and other involved professionals. In doing so, you actively bring the perspective of loved ones to the forefront and contribute to an equal partnership between client, loved ones, and caregivers. 

Development and innovation: Within GGZ inGeest, family peer support is gaining an increasingly important place. You make an active contribution to the further development of this discipline, both within the organization and in regional and national partnerships. 

As a family peer support specialist, you offer recovery-supportive guidance to the loved ones of clients. Through recognition, understanding, and professional proximity, you create space in which people can work on their own recovery process. 

Your activities include: 

• Conducting individual conversations with loved ones. 

• Providing information, advice, and support in dealing with mental health issues within the family or network. 

• Organizing and facilitating thematic and peer support groups for loved ones. 

• Actively approaching and informing family members and other loved ones. 

• Supporting the restoration of contact between clients and their loved ones when desired. 

• Providing information about support options within and outside GGZ inGeest or within mental healthcare (GGZ) and referring to appropriate guidance where necessary. 

• Organizing and participating in triad conversations and coordinating with caregivers. 

• Participating in the internal Quality Committee for family, children, and loved ones. 

In addition, you play an important role in promoting family peer support within GGZ inGeest. You organize information sessions, inform teams, maintain contacts with network partners, and actively follow developments within the field. 

Your experience makes the difference here: you show how lived experience can contribute to recovery, connection, and better care. 

You possess an HBO (higher professional education) level of working and thinking, supplemented by training in the field of: recovery-oriented working, contextual or triad working, and training in the field of family peer support, or the willingness to undergo such training. 

Additionally: 

• Can you use your own experience professionally. 

• Do you have knowledge of recovery-oriented working and supporting loved ones. 

• Are you empathetic, a strong communicator, and able to find a good balance between proximity and professional distance. 

• Are you independent, reflective, and able to set priorities. 

• Do you have an affinity with mental healthcare (GGZ) and strengthening the position of loved ones within care. 

We offer you

• A meaningful position in which your lived experience is of great value. 

• A place within an organization that puts recovery-oriented working at its center. 

• Employment of 24 to 32 hours per week. 

• Space for training, intervision, and professional development. 

• Employment in accordance with the GGZ collective labor agreement (CAO). 

• Classification in FWG 45. 

• View all employment conditions. 

With #Geestverwanten, we show who we truly are: people who take care very seriously, but who, fortunately, do not always take themselves seriously. Because precisely in an environment where emotions, recovery, and connection are central, we believe that attention, humor, and humanity are indispensable. 

Do you want to know more about this position? Send a message to Mirjam van Dootingh, Family Peer Support Specialist and Family Policy Advisor, via 06 - 531 56 731 or m.dootinghvan@ggzingeest.nl.