Peer Support Worker

4 weeks ago


Leicester, United Kingdom Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust Full time

Job Overview

Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment

The role of Peer Support Worker has been developed to specifically utilise the skills of people who have lived experience of having received Secondary Care Mental Health services. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, Peer Support Workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.

To offer support and guidance to Service users experiencing mental health problems impacting on their life and well being. To offer companionship, understanding and establishing a caring, professional relationship to improve individuals socialisation and psychological resilience for those service users with a chronic illness or those needing support in recovery.

Base location to be confirmed.

Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

The successful candidate will offer support and guidance to Service users experiencing mental health problems impacting on their life and well being, offering companionship, understanding and establishing a caring, professional relationship to improve individuals socialisation and psychological resilience for those service users with a chronic illness or those needing support in recovery.

In addition to

  • Establishing supportive, positive and respectful relationships with all people you come in contact with.
  • Providing peer support, maintaining professional boundaries.
  • Helping people identify recovery goals themselves.
  • Supporting service users to identify and overcome fears within a relationship of empathy and trust.
  • Undertaking appropriate administrative duties for delivering effective and timely care, including updating patient records.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.


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