Lived Experience Peer Support Worker | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Lived Experience Peer Support Worker to work across Court and Reconnect services. The role focuses on using lived experience to empower service users, promote recovery, and support social inclusion in the community.

The worker will facilitate connections with community groups, advocate for service users' rights, accompany them to appointments and contribute to a recovery‑oriented environment within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate community engagement by helping service users connect with community groups and networks.
• Advocate for service users' rights and accompany them to appointments to promote autonomy.

Job description

Lived Experience Peer Support Worker | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Do you have experience of the criminal justice system? Have you been in prison? Have you used substance misuse or other support services? Would you like to use your experience to help others? If you are willing to share your own experiences with others, can inspire hope and belief that recovery and rehabilitation is possible - empowering our service users to achieve their hopes and goals then why not apply for this exciting new role.

Mersey Care Foundation Trust have produced an animation available on YouTube which explains the role of peer support / lived experience workers from a team’s perspective which potential candidates may find helpful it can be found at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCCS8MCStuM

Our Peer Support Workforce is expanding and we are looking to recruit STR Lived Experience Support Workers to work in Liaison and Diversion Reconnect Resettlement service.

Our Lived Experience Support Workers will work across our Court and Reconnect services.A key responsibility isfacilitatingcommunity engagement by helping service users connect with community groups and networks, which promotes social inclusion and a positive identity. The role also involves advocating for service users' rights,accompanyingthem to appointments,welcoming them to a service, signpostingadviceand promoting autonomy and self-management. Additionally, the worker will contribute to fostering a recovery-oriented environment by working with multidisciplinary teams and using strengths-based, non-discriminatory language to support recovery-focused activities.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

A detailed overview and the main responsibilities of the role can be found in the Job Description attached .

This advert closes on Monday 26 Oct 2026