Peer Support Worker (18-month fixed term contract)

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Peer Support Worker to join the award-winning Liaison and Diversion team at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The role focuses on using personal experience to support vulnerable individuals navigating the Criminal Justice System. Candidates with stable recovery journeys are encouraged to apply, enhancing both personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days’ annual leave

Generous NHS pension scheme

Excellent learning and career development opportunities

Discounts at popular retailers and restaurants

Free parking across Trust site

Qualifications

• Must have personal experience with recovery from mental health or substance misuse.
• Stable recovery journey to act as a role model.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-to-one practical and emotional support to clients.
• Encourage clients to access services improving health and wellbeing.
• Serve as a positive role model for service users in recovery.

Skills

Empathy

Motivation

Support

Job description

Peer Support Worker – Hampshire

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 misuse?

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, we have an exciting development opportunity to grow personally and professionally as part of our award-winning Liaison and Diversion team.

We are experts in employing and supporting people with lived experience, with our work being endorsed by the Lived Experience Charter. Our 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.

Many of our former peer support workers are now permanent members of our team and we have supported others into employment or further training.

We operate across Hampshire, but this post is predominately based in Portsmouth 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.

• 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 site
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Danielle Forster Job title: Engagement Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 03001235066