Peer Support Worker

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Matlock; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking dedicated Peer Support Workers to join their compassionate team. This role is perfect for individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges who want to make a positive impact on others. You will provide emotional and practical support to adults during their inpatient stays, helping them build self-confidence and reconnect with their communities. With a commitment to social inclusion and holistic care, this position offers a fulfilling opportunity to contribute to the well-being of those in need.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Yearly appraisal and ongoing training

Good maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits

Health service discounts

Incremental pay progression

Free confidential employee assistance programme

Access to LGBT+ and BAME networks

Health and wellbeing opportunities

Structured learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Satisfactory level of secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade.
• Willingness to undertake further training relevant to role.

Responsibilities

• Support provision of high-quality patient services.
• Work closely with Psychological Therapies department.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work independently

Empathy and understanding of mental health

Team collaboration

Education

GCSE English A-C grade or equivalent

Mental Health or Health and Social Care qualification

Completion of peer support training

Job description

Two Peer Support Workers (PSW's) - Radbourne Unit and Carsington Unit, Derby

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work in mental health services? We are seeking to recruit two motivated Peer Support Workers to join our friendly and dynamic teams at the Radbourne Unit and Carsington Unit.

We are looking for two individuals who are dedicated to the principles of social inclusion to work with adults experiencing mental health difficulties during an inpatient admission.

The role will involve working with the Hub teams and linking into the acute wards, to offer a service for adults requiring acute inpatient stays at the Radbourne and Carsington Units. Our services are multi-disciplinary providing person-centred holistic care topatients with a wide variety of mental health conditions.

The role is focused on providing emotional support, drawing upon your own experiences of mental health or caring for those experiencing mental health difficulties. You will work with our team to provide practical and emotional support, allowing you to connect with people and enabling them to build self-confidence, a sense of personal wellbeing, build networks and engage with their family, friends and communities.

If you have first-hand, personal experience of mental health difficulties and would like to help others with similar conditions, then this peer support worker role could be well suited to you.

Main duties of the job

You will support the provision of high-quality patient services that are clinically safe, evidence based, delivered cost effectively and meet the Trust's Standards. The post will also involve working closely in collaboration with our Psychological Therapies department at Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to be able to work with teams as well as on your own initiative are essential.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the Trust."

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Satisfactory level of secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade, or equivalent (may be working toward this).
• Completion or willingness to complete peer support training
• Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English.
• Willingness to undertake further training relevant to role
• Previous experience of being a servicer receiver or a carer of a service receiver.
• Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification.

Experience

• Lived experience of mental health challenges.
• Lived experience of accessing mental health services.
• Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role.

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

Address

Carsington Unit (Kingsway Hospital) / Radboune Unit (Royal Derby Hospital)

£24,625 to £25,674 a yearper annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Reference number

383-ACA-5371-25-A

Job locations

Carsington Unit (Kingsway Hospital) / Radboune Unit (Royal Derby Hospital)