Recovery-Focused Peer Support Worker (Criminal Justice)

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is expanding its Peer Support Service within the RECONNECT team. This role supports individuals accessing both RECONNECT and Liaison & Diversion services, helping them improve health outcomes, engage with services, and work towards recovery goals.

Using lived experience, you will build trusting relationships, offer encouragement and practical support, promote hope and recovery, and help individuals navigate health, social care, housing, and

Qualifications

• Evidence of personal experience of the criminal justice system.
• Willingness to use own experiences to support others.
• Able to commute across Northamptonshire.

Responsibilities

• Support service users directly including one to one or in small groups.
• Support service users with their integration into the community.
• Initiate, establish and maintain relationships with service users in a variety of settings (including, homes, NHFT sites and in the community)
• Share and discuss common experiences with service users in an appropriate manner.
• Work under the direction and leadership of registered professionals, undertaking duties using a recovery focus
• Support people with their emotional, personal, and physical needs.
• Develop a trusting and mutually beneficial rapport with service users
• Act as a coach and mentor to service users by providing information about support and services available to them within NHFT and the local community.
• Develop links across other organisations that support service users.

Skills

Lived experience

Peer support

Community engagement

Commute across county

Education

Peer support qualification

Job description

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is expanding its Peer Support Service within the RECONNECT team. This role supports individuals accessing both RECONNECT and Liaison & Diversion services, helping them improve health outcomes, engage with services, and work towards recovery goals.

Using lived experience, you will build trusting relationships, offer encouragement and practical support, promote hope and recovery, and help individuals navigate health, social care, housing, and