Peer Support Worker

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Wigan; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Peer Support Worker to support individuals with lived experience of mental health issues or dual diagnoses. The role focuses on promoting recovery and autonomy across clinical and community settings.

We aim to employ someone who can inspire hope, model recovery, and contribute to ongoing development and evaluation of peer support roles within the Trust.

Qualifications

• Experience of supporting others in a health or social care context is desirable.
• Ability to communicate with empathy and establish trust with service users.

Responsibilities

• Support and promote recovery from mental health as a user led concept.
• Emphasise hope and optimism, inspiring individuals to achieve their aspirations/goals.
• Value experiential learning alongside other people.
• Focus on strengths rather than deficits.
• Foster collaboration between those who need support and those who support them.
• Enable and promote autonomy and self-management.
• Contribute to ongoing development of Peer Support Worker roles, including training programmes and evaluations.

Job description

The role of Peer Support Worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental health or a dual diagnosis such as mental health and substance misuse, Learning Difficulties or Autism. The aim is to support others who may benefit from peer support in addition to other treatment and interventions. There is growing evidence that peer support reduces the need for individuals to access crisis and inpatient services.

The Peer Support Worker will act as a role model, mentor and ambassador for living well in both clinical and non-clinical environments across a range of community settings. Through sharing wisdom from your own experiences, you will inspire hope and belief that living well is possible in others.

Main duties of the job

You will:

• Support and promote recovery from mental health as a user led concept
• Emphasise hope and optimism, inspiring individuals to achieve their aspirations/goals
• Value experiential learning alongside other people
• Focus on strengths rather than deficits
• Foster collaboration between those who need support and those who support them
• Enable and promote autonomy and self-management

There is also an expectation that you will be involved in the on-going development of Peer Support Worker roles at the Trust, including such things as training programmes and evaluations.

Postholders will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers and have a clear understanding of professional boundaries. The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation. These principles will recognise the need to: Promote safe practices.

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for their service users.