Peer Support Worker

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

NHS pension scheme

Career development opportunities

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Liaison and Diversion specialist to support individuals through the Criminal Justice System, using your lived experience to inspire change and improve health and wellbeing.

This fixed-term 18-month development programme provides accredited training and hands-on experience across Buckinghamshire, predominantly based in the county, with the Thames Valley region covered by the team.

Qualifications

• Experience using lived experience of the Criminal Justice System to support service users.
• Ability to provide emotional and practical support to individuals in recovery and vulnerabilities.
• Strong communication and advocacy skills to help service users access services.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-to-one practical and emotional support to clients.
• Encourage engagement with services and access to health and wellbeing resources.
• Be a positive role model and support service users through their recovery journey.

Job description

Have you ever been arrested, appeared in court on a criminal charge and/or been to prison?

Have you ever struggled with your mental health and/or have overcome difficulties with substance or alcohol use?

Could you use your experiences to support others?

Could you show the people we support in court, custody, and prison that change is possible?

If so, this is an exciting opportunity to join our award-winning Liaison and Diversion team and further develop your skills, experience and career. This is a fixed-term contract for 18 months.

Our tailored 18-month development programme will grow your skills and confidence and give you access to a range of accredited training to support your future career in healthcare.

We operate across the Thames Valley, but this post is predominately based in Buckinghamshire, working for Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust. You will be expected to provide one-to-one practical and emotional support to our clients and encourage them to access services which improve their health and wellbeing.

If you are stable in your recovery journey and can show us how you achieved this this could be the perfect opportunity to start a new career in care.

Please note: This role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship under current UK immigration rules. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.

By using your own experience of going through the Criminal Justice System, treatment and recovery you will be supporting service users with vulnerabilities going through the Criminal Justice System

You will be a positive role model helping to understand, inspire, motivate, guide and support our service users to engage with services and work on their recovery. You will evidence and show visible recovery; showing that change is possible.

You will offer emotional and practical support to our service-users by using your own lived experience of the criminal justice system and the challenges and fears this can create which will enable them to achieve a positive future

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our Values At Berkshire Healthcare Are

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Bashir Job title: Service User Engagement Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07584 556 882