Senior Peer Support Worker

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Royal Borough of Greenwich; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Peer Support Worker for the Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in Tower Hamlets. The role uses personal lived experience to inspire recovery and empower service users toward personal goals within a multidisciplinary setting.

You will lead peer support development, deliver recovery-focused interventions, mentor peers, and contribute to service development with local community organisations. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Peer Support Worker.
• Lived experience of living with a mental health condition and recovery.
• Recognised peer support training.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual and group peer support.
• Develop independence, build meaningful relationships and access community resources.
• Lead peer support provision within the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team.
• Provide mentoring, supervision and training to Peer Support Workers.
• Contribute to service development and partnership work with local organisations.

Skills

Peer support

Lived experience

Interpersonal skills

Mentoring training

Education

Qualifications in mental health leadership/training

Job description

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Peer Support Worker to join our Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in Tower Hamlets. The successful candidate will use their personal lived experience of mental health challenges, accessing services and recovery to provide compassionate, recovery-focused support. Working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, you will support service users to identify their personal recovery goals, develop independence, build meaningful relationships and access opportunities within their local communities.

As a Senior Peer Support Worker, you will take a leadership role in developing peer support within the team, promoting the value of lived experience, contributing to service development and delivering individual and group-based recovery-focused interventions. We are seeking someone with significant previous experience as a Peer Support Worker, who has completed recognised peer support training and is passionate about empowering others, challenging stigma and embedding lived experience perspectives within mental health services.

Visa Sponsorship: Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship from the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Provide individual and group-based peer support, using personal lived experience to inspire hope, promote recovery and empower service users to achieve their personal goals.

Support service users to develop independence, build meaningful relationships and access community resources, activities and opportunities.

Lead and develop peer support provision within the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, promoting the integration of lived experience perspectives into multidisciplinary practice.

Provide guidance, mentoring, supervision and training to Peer Support Workers, supporting their professional development and effective integration within services.

Contribute to service development, co-production and partnership working with local community organisations to promote recovery-focused, person-centred care.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description for detailed information on the job role and its responsibilities.

Education/Qualifcation/Training

• Other relevant qualifications in mental health, leadership, supervision, and training

Experience

• Experience as a Peer Support Worker
• Lived experience of living with a mental health condition and have undergone a personal recovery process
• Experience of accessing mental health services, especially secondary services

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of peer support, its principles, practices, and challenges
• Excellent interpersonal skills, as relating to working with patients and carers, and professionals
• Ability to challenge mental health stigma and discrimination
• Awareness of local services in relation to employment, welfare, housing, and mental health

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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

Borough Lead for Peer Support (Tower Hamlets)

£34,186 to £37,389 a yearper annum pro rata Inc HCAs