Lived-Experience Peer Support Specialist

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Aylesbury; Sur place; GBP 26 000 - 27 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Buckinghamshire is seeking a Peer Support Worker to use your lived experience of the criminal justice system to support clients through recovery and engagement with services. This is a fixed-term contract for 18 months, predominantly based in Buckinghamshire.

You will provide one-to-one practical and emotional support, model positive recovery, and help service users access care within a compassionate NHS environment.

Qualifications

• Must have lived experience of the criminal justice system.
• Must have direct lived experience and being stable in recovery from an addiction, mental ill health or other vulnerabilities.
• Must have awareness of modelling appropriate behaviours, ability to cope when unsupervised and to set clear boundaries.
• Must have good listening and effective communication skills with service users, carers and colleagues.

Responsabilités

• Provide one-to-one practical and emotional support to service users using lived experience of the criminal justice system.
• Encourage service users to access health and wellbeing services and work on their recovery.
• Act as a positive role model and support engagement with services while maintaining boundaries and safeguarding own wellbeing.

Connaissances

Lived Experience

Recovery Support

Communication

Description du poste

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Buckinghamshire is seeking a Peer Support Worker to use your lived experience of the criminal justice system to support clients through recovery and engagement with services. This is a fixed-term contract for 18 months, predominantly based in Buckinghamshire.

You will provide one-to-one practical and emotional support, model positive recovery, and help service users access care within a compassionate NHS environment.