Carer Peer Support Worker AMH Inpatient Services | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a carer peer support worker to provide empathy and support to individuals experiencing mental distress. The role involves establishing supportive relationships, sharing personal experiences, and helping others achieve their recovery goals. This position plays a crucial part in promoting empowerment and self-determination within communities. The closing date for applications is Sunday, 12 Oct 2025.

Qualifications

• Experience in caring for someone with mental distress is essential.
• Ability to establish supportive relationships based on peer support principles.
• Skills in providing practical assistance and peer support.

Responsibilities

• Establish supportive relationships with Carers and those using mental health services.
• Share personal experiences of caring and recovery.
• Support others in achieving their personal recovery goals.

Skills

Empathy

Active listening

Understanding of recovery

Job description

Overview

Experiencing mental distress can feel isolating, debilitating and at worst, unendurable. Surviving and thriving can be very challenging, especially in communities that exclude or stigmatise mental health experiences. Employees working in any position within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust can support peoples’ personal recovery by holding hope that recovery is possible for everybody, enabling people to take control of their own lives and creating opportunities for people to learn and grow in their recovery, while remembering the courage that recovery requires. By investing in our own recoveries and, where possible, sharing these with others, we can build relationships based on shared humanity and belief in our own and others’ potential.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

Role

The role of carer peer support worker has been developed specifically for people who have supported a friend or loved one who is experiencing mental distress. Carer peer support workers use their experiences of caring to offer empathy, hope and understanding to others. In this role, the carer peer support worker will offer peer support alongside practical assistance to enable people to feel in control of their lives and their own unique recovery process. Within a relationship of mutuality and shared experience, they will promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.

Funding/Visa

Please note that this post does not meet the pay level required for a Skilled worker visa.

Successful applicants with no prior NHS experience would normally be placed at the bottom of the band in line with Agenda for Change. This salary is below the minimum salary required for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa. In these circumstances the Trust would not, therefore, be able to sponsor for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship against the relevant criteria herehttps://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Organisation

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

Staff Networks & Wellbeing

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.

Responsibilities

• To establish supportive relationships with Carers and people using mental health services based on the core principles of peer support (mutual, reciprocal, strengths focused, safe, progressive, non-directive, recovery focused and inclusive).
• To share personal experiences of caring, recovery and coping to build connection and inform support.
• To use active listening skills to help people develop self-understanding and identify their personal recovery goals and a Carers Crisis plan if required.
• To support others in achieving goals that they have identified for themselves, including signposting to other organisations and opportunities.
• To offer Carer Support sessions; either 1:1 or groups focusing on education and Carer wellbeing.
• To support the assessment and treatment pathway for the service users by gathering collateral information from the Carers and providing regular updates.
• To role model recovery, personal responsibility and self-awareness.
• To raise awareness of recovery language among Trust staff by modelling positive, strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work.
• To embrace every opportunity to work with people in a recovery focused way, supporting the community team by undertaking duties that would be a reasonable expectation of the role.
• To maintain strengths focused clinical records.

This advert closes on Sunday 12 Oct 2025