Peer Support Specialist

7 days ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Title: Peer Support Worker

Join our team at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust as a Peer Support Worker, where you will play a vital role in supporting individuals with mental health conditions to achieve their recovery goals.

About the Role

As a Peer Support Worker, you will work closely with service users to establish a supportive and respectful relationship, promoting their independence and well-being. Your role will involve:

  • Establishing a supportive and respectful relationship with peers and other service users.
  • Welcoming new service users and explaining the function of the team and different professionals within it.
  • Collecting baseline outcome data, consent, and carers' information.
  • Providing information on how to access support outside of working hours and signposting to community resources.
  • Helping service users prepare for appointments and attending appointments if necessary.
  • Modeling personal responsibility, self-awareness, and self-advocacy through sharing your own recovery story.
  • Assisting peers and other service users in creating a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) and advanced directives.
  • Sharing coping, self-help, and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.
  • Supporting peers and other service users to identify and overcome fears and challenging negative self-talk.
  • Facilitating access to community groups and networks to enable participation in community activities.
  • Accompanying peers and other service users to appointments and performing practical tasks aligned with recovery goals.
  • Acting as a positive role model, demonstrating professional and caring attitudes and behavior towards team members, peers, and carers.
  • Ensuring peers' recovery goals are integrated into Trust processes and reviewed regularly.
  • Working in a way that acknowledges personal, social, cultural, and spiritual strengths and needs of individuals.
Person Specification

We are looking for individuals with a good level of secondary education to GCSE level and completion of Peer Support Worker Training or a commitment to complete within 3-6 months of employment. Desirable criteria include related health or social care qualifications, lived experience of a long-term health condition, and experience of being in a supportive and enabling role.

We value diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups. If you are successful at interview, you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references, and Occupational Health.

Please note that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service will be required.


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