Peer Support Worker

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Havant

Presencial

GBP 26.000 - 27.000

Jornada completa

Hace 6 días

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Descripción de la vacante

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Peer Support Worker to support adults within Community Mental Health Teams. You will use lived experience to foster hope, resilience, and recovery while collaborating with clinicians to help service users achieve personal goals.

The post emphasizes recovery-focused, person-centred care and flexible working discussions; rights to work in the UK apply.

Formación

Lived experience of mental health distress.
Personal experience of accessing primary or secondary mental health services.
Basic understanding of Peer Support.
Ability to support others in a recovery orientated way.
Good motivational techniques and abilities.
Clear effective planning and decision-making skills.
Understanding of how lived experience can support others.
Understanding of recovery and related principles.
Awareness of issues and concerns for service users.
Ability to maintain the profile of the peer support service in a multidisciplinary setting.
Demonstrates the ability to role model, empower and enable others.
Good organisational skills and time management.
Ability to handle highly complex and sensitive information and maintain confidentiality.
Ability to use information and communication technology (computer literacy).

Responsabilidades

Provide empathy and understanding to others, inspiring hope and belief that recovery is possible.
Offer empathetic support alongside practical assistance to empower people to feel in control of their lives.
Promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for socially valued roles and connection to local communities.
Act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador for recovery for the Trust.
Support continued personal and professional development and involvement in development of peer roles within the Trust.

Conocimientos

Level 4 Peer Support training

Further related training

Descripción del empleo

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Peer Support Worker

The closing date is 25 October 2026

Use your lived experience to make a difference.

We are looking for compassionate and motivated Peer Support Workers to join our Community Mental Health Team.

This unique role uses your personal experience of mental health challenges and recovery to support others on their own journey. By sharing your experiences appropriately, you will help people build hope, confidence, and resilience while working towards the goals that matter to them.

As a Peer Support Worker, you will:

Build positive and trusting relationships with service users.
Provide emotional and practical support through shared lived experience.
Encourage recovery, independence, and wellbeing.
Help people access community resources, groups, and activities.
Work alongside clinicians and other professionals as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team.

You will:

Have lived experience of mental health difficulties and recovery.
Be able to use your experiences safely and positively to support others.
Have excellent communication and listening skills.
Be passionate about recovery-focused and person-centred care.
Enjoy working with people and helping them achieve their goals.

If you are passionate about supporting others and want to use your experience to inspire hope and recovery, we would love to hear from you.

At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will use their personal lived experiences of recovery from mental health challenges to offer empathy and understanding to others, inspiring hope and belief that recovery is possible. In this role, the peer worker will offer empathetic support alongside practical assistance in order to empower people to feel in control of their lives and their own unique recovery process. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, they will promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.

The peer support worker will act as a recovery champion within the team, and an ambassador for recovery for the Trust when working with external agencies and partner organisations. Peer workers will also be supported to continue their own personal and professional development as well as taking part in the ongoing development of peer roles in the Trust.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications

Level 4 Peer Support accredited training or commitment to work towards
Evidence of further related training.

Experience

Personal lived experience of mental health distress.
Personal experience of accessing primary or secondary mental health service.
Basic understanding of Peer Support
Ability to support others in a recovery orientated way.
Good motivational techniques and abilities.
Clear effective planning and decision-making skills.
Understanding of how lived experience of mental health problems can be used to support others
Understanding of recovery
focussed principles and how they can influence support for service users.
Understanding of the issues and concerns that people using services may have in relation to their care.
Able to maintain the profile of the peer support service within a multidisciplinary/ multi-agency setting.
Demonstrates the ability to role model, empower and enable others,
Good organisational skills and time management.
Ability to receive highly complex and sensitive information and maintain confidentiality.
Ability to use information and communication technology (computer literacy)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£25,760 to £27,476 a yearBased on full time hours

Contract

Permanent

Reference number

348-PSE-12832

Job locations

The Parkway Centre - Havant

51 Leigh Road

Hampshire

PO9 2BF