Peer Workforce Integration Readiness Tool
How well does your organisation integrate, support, and sustain peer work roles, as part of your workforce?
Answer 15 scaled questions and we’ll send you a personalised report, including helpful resources to guide your next step.
The purpose of our Peer Workforce Integration Readiness Tool is to gauge how meaningfully peer worker roles are integrated, supported and sustained within the organisations that employ them. It is also a useful for organisations preparing to embed peer workers to ensure the correct environment is being established to support their work. It helps you identify where you are progressing well, and where there are opportunities to strengthen a peer work inclusive and informed culture.
The tool recognises that peer workers bring peer work specialities, expertise and perspectives across fields such as suicide prevention, mental health, alcohol and other drugs (AOD), disability.
The ultimate aim is to foster genuine partnership with peer workers, so their lived experience and practice wisdom help shape your organisational culture, the work you do, and the services you deliver.
This is not an academic tool, it is a practical resource designed to sit alongside your existing workforce and quality and service development processes, providing a focused snapshot of how well your organisation is embracing and integrating peer work.
Use it as a starting point to identify next steps in recruiting, integrating and sustaining a safe, purposeful, values aligned peer workforce across specialities, including suicide prevention.
- It takes between 10 and 15 minutes
- It’s completely free
- Receive your detailed peer workforce integration readiness overview report instantly
How well does your organisation integrate, support, and sustain peer work roles, as part of your workforce?
Answer 15 scaled questions and we’ll send you a personalised report, including helpful resources to guide your next step.
The purpose of our Peer Workforce Integration Readiness Tool is to gauge how meaningfully peer worker roles are integrated, supported and sustained within the organisations that employ them. It is also a useful for organisations preparing to embed peer workers to ensure the correct environment is being established to support their work. It helps you identify where you are progressing well, and where there are opportunities to strengthen a peer work inclusive and informed culture.
The tool recognises that peer workers bring peer work specialities, expertise and perspectives across fields such as suicide prevention, mental health, alcohol and other drugs (AOD), disability.
The ultimate aim is to foster genuine partnership with peer workers, so their lived experience and practice wisdom help shape your organisational culture, the work you do, and the services you deliver.
This is not an academic tool, it is a practical resource designed to sit alongside your existing workforce and quality and service development processes, providing a focused snapshot of how well your organisation is embracing and integrating peer work.
Use it as a starting point to identify next steps in recruiting, integrating and sustaining a safe, purposeful, values aligned peer workforce across specialities, including suicide prevention.
- It takes between 10 and 15 minutes
- It’s completely free
- Receive your detailed peer workforce integration readiness overview report instantly
Our Peer Workforce Integration Readiness Tool covers 15 domains:
Organisational Culture
Assesses the organisation's overall climate and values regarding peer workforce integration.
Leadership
Explores how organisational leadership demonstrates commitment to peer workforce integration.
Relationships and Engagement
Examines the quality of relationships built with peer workers.
Resource Allocation
Assesses resource allocation to support peer workforce integration across specialities, including high-risk areas like suicide prevention.
Policies and Frameworks
Examines policies/frameworks ensuring trauma-informed, culturally safe prioritisation of peer worker perspectives, including suicide-specific needs.
Governance Structures
Explores integration of peer worker perspectives, including lived experience of suicide, into decision-making processes.
Co-design Practice
Examines how co-design principles are applied in collaboration with peer workers.
Communication and Feedback
Examines effective, transparent communication with peer workers.
Staff Recruitment
Explores how the organisation incorporates peer workers' role-specific lived experience needs and perspectives into recruitment strategies.
Role Clarity & Team Integration
Explores clearly defined peer worker roles, boundaries, and multidisciplinary team integration
Training and Capacity Building
Explores investment in training and development informed by peer workers' specialities, including suicide prevention.
Peer Practice Supervision
Explores peer-grounded supervision distinct from clinical or managerial oversight
Career Mentorship & Retention
Explores how the organisation addresses peer worker wellbeing and mentoring needs
Emotional Labour, Psychosocial Hazards & Wellbeing
Examines recognition of emotional labour and psychosocial hazards of peer work, and peer worker wellbeing.
Peer Workforce Evaluation
Examines how the organisation measures the impact and effectiveness of its Peer workforce integration efforts.
Peer Workforce Integration Readiness Tool
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