Peer Support Worker
| Posting date: | 20 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,094.00 to £36,195.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £33094.00 - £36195.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 September 2025 |
| Location: | Lewisham, SE8 4AT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9334-25-0822 |
Summary
To use lived experience/experience of using services to inspire hope that change is possible. To share your own lived experience/experience of using services safely and effectively. To share your own and other examples of lived experience of recovery. To work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths of the person. To use evidence-based recovery tools to support the service user. To support the service user to understand the role of statutory mental health services and how they can support their recovery alongside other community resources. To support the service user to communicate this to involved mental health professionals and wider support network. To record information in a clear and accessible way and ensure timely and accurate records are maintained for all activity related to the Lewisham pilot. To ensure that any handwritten and electronic records are maintained in accordance with Trust policy. To promote service user involvement in all aspects of their work. To ensure confidentiality and safe keeping of client records. To be able to signpost to community and/or online resources and access appropriate mainstream resources. To attend team meetings as appropriate. With agreement of line manager, to promote the role of peer support both within SLAM and externally, through co-delivery of presentations, workshops, and information sharing. In addition, to participate in Trust-wide peer related projects and audits. To take part in regular one-to-one supervision with senior staff. To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual appraisal, complete mandatory training. To take part in group supervision and mentoring for peer workers. To work within the spirit of co-production and co-delivery for all presentations and workshops To support service users and/or carers accessing the Lewisham pilot in relation to wellbeing, social inclusion and other aspects of recovery To role-model the positive use and impact of lived experience of mental ill-health, recovery and self-management with service users and/or carer they are supporting The post holder will be required to be self-reflective about their personal lived experience/experience of using services. This is an essential criterion of the role and successful applicants will be expected to use this experience within co-production and delivery of the pilot aims and objectives. Peer support workers will need to be able to recognise the value and impact of their own lived experience. Successful applicants will be offered regular team and individual supervision and training opportunities to support their own wellbeing and links to their work activities. To ensure that any concerns regarding an individuals mental and physical health and wellbeing highlighted within interactions with service users are shares with the team and/or their line manager in order that a decision to notify the individuals care team is made To identify the diverse needs of the service users, carers and staff and to adapt teaching and communication style in response to the audience's level of need and understanding. To work flexibly including travelling to sites within the boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark where relevant and appropriate. There is not an expectation to work out of hours. An example of something that is NOT a key responsibility: The postholder does not have any responsibility to make a clinical decision about the service users.