Peer Support Practitioner

Deliver Personalised Recovery Support: Provide one-to-one support to help service users create their personal recovery plans, complete My Shared Pathway documentation, and develop coping strategies.

Inspire Hope Through Lived Experience: Safely and appropriately share your own recovery story to model positive coping skills, mentor individuals, and build mutual trust.

Advocate & Support in Care Meetings: Attend ward rounds, CPA meetings, and consultations alongside service users (with their consent) to help them feel heard and build confidence in speaking up for themselves.

Contribute to Care Delivery & Reporting: Work under the supervision of senior staff to contribute to care plans, providing clear, accurate oral reports that accurately reflect service users' views and needs.

Champion Peer Support & Service Quality: Promote the value of recovery across the team, support the collection of annual patient experience surveys, and contribute to local evaluations of the peer support role.

Maintain Safety, Trust, and Professional Standards: Assist in maintaining a safe, caring environment while upholding strict confidentiality in line with NHS Trust policies.

Engage in Team Growth & Development: Participate actively in team meetings, clinical supervision, annual appraisals, and personal development goals.

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway.

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.

Lived experiece of mental health

Essential: - Must demonstrate lived experience of mental illness

Desirable: - Experience of inpatient setting

Training, Qualifications and Registration

Essential: - BTec/City &Guilds/NVQ level 2 in health and social care OR equivalent experience

Desirable: - Experience of working with service users experiencing mental illness

Experience

Knowledge and Skills

Desirable: - Good IT skills, including Word , Outlook and the ability to use the RiO electronic records system, or be willing to undergo training