Peer Support Worker - Community Mental Health & Recovery

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; Narborough; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Peer Support Worker (Band 3) to join the Blaby & Lutterworth Neighbourhood Mental Health Team. The role uses lived experience to inspire hope and support recovery, delivering companionship, guidance and recovery-focused care in community and clinic settings.

You will build respectful relationships, provide peer support while maintaining professional boundaries, help service users set recovery goals, and support them to overcome fears.

Qualifications

• Offer support and guidance to service users experiencing mental health problems.
• Establish caring, professional relationships to improve socialisation and resilience.
• Provide peer support while maintaining professional boundaries.
• Undertake appropriate administrative duties.

Responsibilities

• Establishing supportive, positive and respectful relationships with all people you come in contact with.
• Providing peer support, maintaining professional boundaries.
• Helping people identify recovery goals themselves.
• Supporting service users to identify and overcome fears within a relationship of empathy and trust.
• Undertaking appropriate administrative duties.

Skills

Peer support

Empathy

Professional boundaries

Companionship

Job description

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Peer Support Worker (Band 3) to join the Blaby & Lutterworth Neighbourhood Mental Health Team. The role uses lived experience to inspire hope and support recovery, delivering companionship, guidance and recovery-focused care in community and clinic settings.

You will build respectful relationships, provide peer support while maintaining professional boundaries, help service users set recovery goals, and support them to overcome fears.