Carer Peer Support Worker AMH Inpatient Services
| Posting date: | 26 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,937.00 to £26,598.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24937.00 - £26598.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 October 2025 |
| Location: | Mansfield, NG18 4GW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9186-25-1120 |
Summary
To establish supportive relationships with Carers and people using mental health services based on the core principles of peer support (mutual, reciprocal, strengths focused, safe, progressive, non-directive, recovery focused and inclusive). To share personal experiences of caring, recovery and coping to build connection and inform support. To use active listening skills to help people develop self-understanding and identify their personal recovery goals and a Carers Crisis plan if required. To support others in achieving goals that they have identified for themselves, including signposting to other organisations and opportunities. To offer Carer Support sessions; either 1:1 or groups focusing on education and Carer wellbeing . To support the assessment and treatment pathway for the Service users by gathering collateral information from the Carers and providing regular updates. To role model recovery, personal responsibility and self-awareness. To raise awareness of recovery language among Trust staff by modelling positive, strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work. To embrace every opportunity to work with people in a recovery focused way, supporting the community team by undertaking duties that would be a reasonable expectation of the role . To maintain strengths focused clinical records.