Peer Support Worker (Development Role) | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	21 May 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£29,176 - £33,665 Per annum inc HCAS
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	20 June 2025
Location:	Hounslow, TW3 1LD
Company:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7219618/333-D-AD-0530

Summary

ARC Hounslow (Addiction Recovery Community Hounslow) provides the substance misuse treatment service including the Prescribing and Recovery Day Programme (RDP) service for the London Borough of Hounslow. The RDP provides a 12-week, abstinence-based group therapy programme for clients with addiction problems. This evidence-based programme provides a variety of psychosocial interventions, both group and individual, in collaboration with a strong peer and service user presence on the team.

As a key member of the team, the Peer Support Worker (PSW) will use their lived experience to support people in addictions services—primarily within the Recovery Day Programme (RDP)—to regain control and move forward in their recovery.

Drawing on their own journey, the PSW will inspire hope, share practical tools, and promote choice and self-determination. They’ll build mutual, respectful relationships and connect individuals with meaningful roles and local communities.

The PSW will help embed recovery values across the service, working alongside peer mentors and acting as a visible ambassador for recovery within and beyond CNWL.

They’ll work 1:1 and in groups, co-working with colleagues to deliver personalised, purposeful support when people need it most. They’ll also help raise awareness of the PSW role across the Addictions Directorate through information-sharing and learning sessions.
• To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team in order to support individuals in the RDP, ARC Hounslow and the Addictions directorate, and supporting the interventions used in these services.
• To plan, deliver and facilitate psychosocial group-based interventions as part of the Recovery Day Programme and the wider ARC Hounslow service.
• To use personal, experiential knowledge and to share lived experience, as appropriate to the peer role, in building safe, trusting relationships with named service users.
• To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate self-management skills and techniques, using own experience of recovery.
• To assume a ‘coaching’ role supporting service users in developing personal recovery plans; this can be delivered individually or in groups.
• To empower and enable each individual service user, in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way, to discover and make use of their own strengths and to build and strengthen positive connections with their peers, networks and wider communities.
• To skilfully use personal experience of recovery to help motivate service users.
• To provide opportunities for service users to direct their own recovery process.
• To support service users to identify and overcome fears within a relationship of empathy and trust.
• To act as a role model to service users to inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learned as a person in recovery.

The Addictions Directorate with Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a large, well-established provider which offers a wide range of specialist NHS drug and alcohol treatment interventions to the diverse and multicultural populations in Central and North West London, Milton Keynes and beyond. Our Drug and Alcohol services include 7 community services. We also run a National Gambling Service and a Club Drug Clinic.

Our substance misuse services are dedicated to helping reduce the harm caused by substance misuse and dependency; helping people overcome their dependency on substances and helping clients and their families rebuild their lives and enable recovery. We are committed to working in partnership with other providers and service users in local systems of treatment and recovery.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.


Clinical Work

· To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team in order to support individuals in the RDP, ARC Hounslow and the Addictions directorate, and supporting the interventions used in these services.

· To plan, deliver and facilitate psychosocial group-based interventions as part of the Recovery Day Programme and the wider ARC Hounslow service.

· To use personal, experiential knowledge and to share lived experience, as appropriate to the peer role, in building safe, trusting relationships with named service users.

· To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate self-management skills and techniques, using own experience of recovery.

· To assume a ‘coaching’ role supporting service users in developing personal recovery plans; this can be delivered individually or in groups.

· To empower and enable each individual service user, in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way, to discover and make use of their own strengths and to build and strengthen positive connections with their peers, networks and wider communities.

· To skilfully use personal experience of recovery to help motivate service users.

· To provide opportunities for service users to direct their own recovery process.

· To support service users to identify and overcome fears within a relationship of empathy and trust.

· To act as a role model to service users to inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learned as a person in recovery.

· To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and review of care with the multi-disciplinary team.

· To work together with the service user and where possible their carers/supporters in the drawing up of care plans, encouraging and motivating service users to take an active role in their own care plan.

· To assist individuals in managing their substance use on a day-to-day basis including providing support with activities of daily living such as care of self, budgeting, personal care, caring for their home and leisure activities

· To accompany service users to appointments, therapeutic or social community-based activities as appropriate.

· To respect, acknowledge and support service users as they describe and make sense of their experiences.

· To hand over issues of risk, safety and safeguarding, having explained this first to the service user, following locally agreed procedures for risk and safety management

· To signpost to various resources, opportunities and activities within the Trust and in communities to promote choice and informed decision making.

· To respect and support the diversity of experiences and backgrounds that people bring to the peer support relationship.

· To accept and respect service users’ personal beliefs, uniqueness and identity.

· To assist service users to maintain a connection with their life outside of services.

· To support the team in promoting a recovery orientated environment by identifying recovery-focused activities and imparting information and education as required.



Please review the job description for full details on the role and responsibilities.


This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Jun 2025

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