Peer Worker

These are challenging but rewarding roles supporting people with a wide range of experiences.

Your time in post will start with attending our peer support training alongside other people starting peer support roles with us. This training is delivered by people with their own lived experience who also have direct experience of working in peer roles themselves.

You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.

We also value a diversity of experiences with mental health services in the peer workforce and welcome applications from people with helpful, difficult or mixed experiences of mental health services.

Please note this recruitment takes place over a number of stages:

1. Written Applications: The first stage involves submitting your written application through our system. We will review these applications and shortlist a limited number of candidates to move on to the next stage.

2. Recruitment Day / Group Interview: The second stage is a recruitment day / group interview. This is an opportunity for you to learn more about the role and demonstrate your values and skills. After this day we shortlist candidates for the individual interview stage.

3. Individual Interviews: In the final stage, we conduct individual interviews to determine which candidates will be offered the position.

These Peer Worker roles will involve working to support current service users both 1:1 and in groups as appropriate. Drawing on your own experience of mental health challenges, you will walk alongside others on their journey in a supportive peer relationship built on our core peer values of authenticity, relationship, validation, respect, mutuality, and empowerment. You will listen non-judgmentally to create safe spaces where people feel heard. You will approach the peer relationship with compassion and curiosity. You will recognise and value peoples strengths, diversity, and expertise in themselves. You will be aware of the impacts of trauma and committed to the importance of working in ways which are sensitive to the needs of trauma survivors.

You also will be an integrated and valued member of the team. Peer Worker roles involve contributing peer values and the knowledge, skills and expertise that come with lived experience of mental health challenges and mental health services. Important parts of this role also include working within the team to help service users voices be heard, to advocate for their needs, and to promote recovery values and trauma informed approaches. Peer Workers will be supported to challenge both individual and structural instances of stigma and discrimination related to mental health and other forms of exclusion.

Please see the uploaded job description or approach us for an informal chat if you would like further details on the post.

This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.

To support you with this work you will receive ongoing regular 1:1 and group supervision and will be able to access a range of other peer connection and support structures.

We value diversity and want to have a wide range of identities represented in the peer workforce. We welcome applications from people with lived experience of distress and mental health services from the characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010 (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation) and other diverse groups.

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