Peer Support Worker

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT); Cambridge; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Peer Support Worker, where your lived experience will empower others on their recovery journey. In this rewarding role, you'll provide essential peer support to individuals facing mental health challenges, helping them regain control over their lives. Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to promote recovery values and connect service users with their communities. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of others while working within a supportive and compassionate environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in peer support roles within mental health.
• Ability to inspire hope and facilitate recovery.

Responsibilities

• Provide peer support and practical assistance to service users.
• Facilitate information sharing and promote self-determination.

Skills

Peer Support

Communication

Empathy

Team Collaboration

Education

Relevant Experience in Mental Health

Job description

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This is an exciting opportunity for a Peer Support Worker to join the Cambridge Adult Locality Team, who are a community based service for adults aged 17-65 with severe mental illness, taking on a specific role supporting service users and carers on entry into the service and some service evaluation at exit point. We are currently looking for full and part time Peer Support Workers to join our dynamic team.

As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support Worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to peers and other service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process.

Through sharing the wisdom from own lived experience, the Peer Support Worker will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.

Within a relationship of mutuality, the Peer Support Worker (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.

The PSW will take a lead role in embedding recovery values within CALT , alongside other Trust Recovery Champions, and act as an ambassador of Recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations.

The PSW will promote their role, through the provision of information and a range of learning opportunities for the multi-disciplinary team and others across the Trust.

The PSW will also have opportunity to co-work with other colleagues.

Reporting to the team manager, or other designated person, under the professional supervision of the Peer Support Worker Professional Lead, they will be responsible for the delivery of peer support interventions as agreed within the peer relationship.

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: Irene Cockram Job title: Operational Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01223341500

Seniority level

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Employment type

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  Part-time

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• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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