Mental Health Support Specialist

7 days ago


Stafford, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Peer Support Worker to join our team in the Young Persons Transition Pathway. As a Peer Support Worker, you will play a vital role in providing mental health support to young people transitioning from Children's Mental Health services to Adult Mental Health Services.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users to help them regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery journey.
  • Share your own lived experience and inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.
  • Facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination, and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.
  • Take a lead role in embedding recovery values within the service and act as an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations.

What We Offer

  • Support for your career development and progression.
  • Excellent NHS Pension scheme.
  • Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
  • Options for flexible working.
  • Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
  • Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.

Person Specification

  • Commitment to obtain underpinning knowledge through work-based learning and mandatory training.
  • Willingness to undertake or completion of ImROC Peer Support training.
  • Own personal lived experience of mental health challenges.
  • Own personal experience of accessing inpatient mental health services.
  • Ability to demonstrate first-person experiential knowledge of recovery.
  • Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the concept of personal recovery as it may apply to others.

How to Apply

For further information or an informal chat about the role, please contact the Young Person Pathway Lead, Marlene Vernon.



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