Perinatal Peer Support Worker — Inspire Recovery & Families

West London Mental Health Trust; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

West London Mental Health Trust in Hounslow is seeking a motivated Peer Support Worker with lived experience of perinatal mental health to join the Tri-borough Perinatal Mental Health Service. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, delivering recovery‑focused activities for women and their families.

You will share insights from your own recovery journey to inspire hope, help develop recovery plans, signpost to resources, and accompany service users to appointments.

Responsibilities

• Providing recovery focussed support to service users
• To establish supportive and respectful relationships with people using mental health services
• To help service users to complete recovery plans, incorporating identification of users own goals and support needed to achieve them
• To ensure that interactions are sensitive and responsive to the service users’ ethnic, cultural and social background, using a range of communication and engagement skills as appropriate to the context
• To promote social inclusion and engagement
• To share ideas about ways of achieving and developing recovery, drawing on personal experiences and a range of interventions
• To model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness
• To sign-post to various resources, opportunities and activities within the Trust and the community to promote choice and informed decision making
• To accompany service users to appointments/meetings/activities of their choice and performing a range of practical tasks, aligned to recovery goals
• To be actively involved in the continued development of the PSW training programme and in the ongoing evaluation of the PSW role
• To maintain adequate case records in accordance with Trust policy, and to ensure that concerns are reported to relevant professionals and documented promptly

Job description

West London Mental Health Trust in Hounslow is seeking a motivated Peer Support Worker with lived experience of perinatal mental health to join the Tri-borough Perinatal Mental Health Service. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, delivering recovery‑focused activities for women and their families.

You will share insights from your own recovery journey to inspire hope, help develop recovery plans, signpost to resources, and accompany service users to appointments.