Peer Support Worker

**Main area**
- Peer Support Worker

**Grade**

Band 3

**Contract**

Fixed term: 12 months (due to funding)

**Hours**
- Part time
- Flexible working

25 hours per week

**Job ref**

373-SMH2163-C RR

**Site**
- Macclesfield

**Town**

Macclesfield

**Salary**

£24,071 - £25,674 per annum (pro rata)

**Salary period**

Yearly

**Closing**

12/03/2025 23:59

**Job overview**:
PSW MhIST Macclesfield - Feb 25

The roles will be integral to the team using a Peer Support Open Dialogue approach. This is where decisions about mental health care are facilitated through ‘network meetings’. These meetings focus on enabling a person, their family and networks (i.e whoever the person considers to be important in their life) to take more control and work together to support
recovery.

You must be willing to positively share your own life experiences, including your experience of mental health and assist people, through the Open Dialogue approach, to raise their aspirations and develop personal goals.

A Peer Support Worker may work alongside the mental health team colleagues or work without direct supervision. We are recruiting to a 25 hour post based in Macclesfield.

**Main duties of the job**:
Through the provision of formalised peer support & practical assistance, a Peer Support Worker will model positive peer support & use parts of their recovery story to empower individuals to achieve their recovery hopes, dreams & goals.

Establish supportive, empathetic, non-directive & respectful relationships, that allow individuals using mental health services to recognise their own strengths & abilities.

Facilitate access to information & education that can inform an individual about their decisions.

Liaise with other professionals & individuals to plan delivery of care & support including voluntary & community organisations, education,

Recovery College, work & leisure.

Establish & maintain effective & appropriate communication & working relationships that respects everyone’s views, autonomy, & culture.

Establish supportive, empathic &respectful relationships.

Have excellent communication skills.

Be able to work on your own as well as with others.

We ask that you have a good general education or other relevant vocational training or knowledge gained through experience & be willing to contribute to the development & promotion of the peer support role.

Participate in comprehensive training in Peer Support and Open Dialogue, ongoing learning, development & network meetings with peer support colleagues.

Some travel around the locality will be required.

**Working for our organisation**:
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

We also offer up to three weeks’ induction, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you hit the ground running with CWP.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated ab