IPS Peer Support Worker

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT); Peterborough; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Peer Support Worker focused on delivering excellent employment support to service users facing drug and alcohol challenges. In this rewarding role, you will share your personal recovery journey to inspire hope and facilitate connections to local communities. This position allows you to make a significant impact on the lives of others while working within a supportive environment established by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

Qualifications

• Personal experience in overcoming drug and alcohol challenges.
• Ability to inspire hope and belief in recovery.

Responsibilities

• Transforming the lives of service users through support.
• Facilitating information sharing to promote self-determination.
• Working closely with IPS Employment specialists.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Support

Job description

Do you want to be part of a friendly and dynamic team of Employment Specialists committed to delivering excellent employment support to our service users? If you believe passionately that anyone with drug and alcohol challenges, can work and would like to be part of that journey, then this could be the role for you.

We are currently seeking a Peer Support Worker to join our well established Individual Placement and Support Team embedded into CGL Drug and Alcohol treatment services across Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.

This is an incredibly rewarding role – you’ll have the opportunity to transform the lives of service users, to give them hope, direction and support their recovery journey.

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You will be able to share your own valuable experiences of how you overcame any obstacles to achieve your own career goals and how you continue to move forward in your journey of recovery offering support

You will be based within the Employment Support Service and working with direction from the IPS Employment specialists.

Through sharing your wisdom from your own experiences you will inspire hope and belief that recovery and gaining paid employment is possible in others.

Within a relationship of mutuality, the PSW will facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Michael Spinks Job title: Team Leader / Senior Employment Specialist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07934 602960