Peer Support Worker - Certificate of Sponsorship

Destinydot.com; Dunstable; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

The East London NHS Foundation Trust is advertising a Peer Support Worker role in Bedfordshire, offering recovery-focused support and lived experience requirements. The post will be based at Mountbatten House, Dunstable, with travel to CMHT bases around Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton.

Sponsorship for Skilled Worker visa is considered. Reflect your recovery journey to inspire others in early stages of their path.

Qualifications

• Mental Health
• Health
• mental health

Responsibilities

• Support service users to progress toward recovery goals.
• Provide emotional support through crises and transitions.
• Contribute to safeguarding and accurate documentation.
• Share recovery stories to motivate others.
• Engage with carers to support learning.
• Assist with service user rights and involvement initiatives.

Skills

Lived experience

Mental health awareness

Communication skills

Trauma informed practice

Recovery oriented

Education

Mental Health

Health

mental health

Job description

Peer Support Worker Jobs UK Visa Sponsorship 2026 – Discover this Ultimate UK mental health career opportunity with lived experience requirements, recovery-focused support and Skilled Worker sponsorship consideration.

Summary of the job

ELFT are happy to advertize for a Peer Support Worker with lived experience of ‘complex emotional needs’ (commonly labelled as ‘personality disorder’) to join the countywide Bedfordshire and Luton Complex Needs Service. Our service is working with service users, staff and carers to develop a learning culture that will improve the care and treatment for people with complex emotional needs and their families/carers in the community. The successful applicant will draw on their lived experience of ‘complex emotional needs’ and local services to illustrate that recovery is possible. They will relate their recovery story in a way that conveys a sense of connection, hope and optimism to others who are earlier on in their journeys or experiencing tough moments and will provide time-limited assistance to enable service users to work toward their own recovery goals. The chosen applicant will benefit from good assistance from colleagues within the Complex Needs Service and the Peer assistance Lead. This role will be situated at Mountbatten House, Dunstable and will need the post holder to travel to CMHT bases, inpatient facilities and other sites around Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton.

*Please note: It is essential that your application reflects your lived experience of complex emotional needs linked to a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’ and your recovery process.

Key responsibilities of the position

The job holder will work as part of a countywide multi-disciplinary specialised service for persons who experience problems classified as ‘complex emotional needs’ in a collaborative way to:

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Build mutuality and reciprocal ties to validate experiences;

Increase optimism, hope, motivation and chance of change and/or recovery;

Provide emotional support through a crisis and when people move between different segments of the system (e.g. from acute crisis, inpatient stays, to community care);

Share information to allow detection and effective management of hazards;

Advocate for service consumers in their treatment decisions;

Provide time restricted support to service users to enable them to make progress toward goals which may entail time with them in the community and attending appointments;

Model and share personal application of tactics and skills;

Share lived experience with carers to support their learning and enable them to serve service users efficiently;

Bring a lived experience perspective into clinical and team discussions to support the professional and personal growth of multi-disciplinary colleagues;

Accurate and complete clinical documentation to support effective communication with team members and other services.

Who We Are

Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives by enhancing the quality of life for all we serve. Our values: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – hence we are looking for people who live and breathe these traits in assisting service users and carers, and their interactions with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job Description

For complete information of the responsibilties of this role see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Education/Training/Qualifications

Required

Mental Health

Health

mental health

Experience

Compulsory

Experience of healing from suffering, described as ‘personality disorder’ or complicated emotional demands.

There has been experience in using local services to commence a road of ‘recovery’.

Knowledge and Skills

Required

Ability to exhibit knowledge, lived experience and awareness of the issues associated with ‘personality disorder’ or complicated emotional needs

Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of personal healing and how that could relate to others

Knowledge and dedication to service users rights, involvement and service-user led initiatives’

Knowledge and understanding of recovery approaches and practice
Trauma Informed Practice Knowledge

Ability and willingness to engage in quality improvement projects and activities

Understanding the value of equality and diversity

Strong communication skills (verbal and written) as it relates to legal requirements of client care and related issues and documentation of such care.

Ability to deal with high stress circumstances with service users, carers and staff

Ability to identify one’s own limitations and to seek appropriate support and supervision

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Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

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

Sponsorship Certificate

Applications from job seekers needing up-to-date Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK will be welcome and will be reviewed along with all other applications. For more information, see the UK Visas and Immigration website .

From 6 April 2017, applicants for skilled worker entry clearance to the UK have been required to submit a criminal record certificate from any country in which they have lived for 12 months or more in the preceding 10 years (whether continuously or cumulatively). This is also the case for adult dependents (over 18 years of age). Here is guidance Criminal records checks for abroad candidates .