Peer Support Worker | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £30,546 - £32,207 Per annum pro rata inc HCA |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, E1 5NN |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7418152/363-TH7418152 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has become available for a person with lived experience of autism to join our friendly and passionate team, helping to shape the peer support worker role and what we offer those we recently diagnosed as autistic.
The Tower Hamlets Autism Service (THAS) is a specialist diagnostic and brief intervention service. Designed in accordance with NICE guidelines,we accept referrals from any source when it is thought that an adult living in Tower Hamlets may have an autistic spectrum condition. We use screening tools and specialist assessments (ADOS-2) alongside clinical experience and expertise to diagnose autism spectrum condition in adults.
The service is a multidisciplinary team with speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, social work, clinical psychology, psychiatry, administration, and support work. The service aims to develop the provision and accessibility of support in Tower Hamlets to make it an autism friendly borough.
After diagnosis, we provide up to 12 sessions of autism specific interventions; we now are looking to include peer support work sessions (groups and one to one) in this. Through a local third sector partner (The Tower Project) support around employment is also available.In the future, we hope to provide a service for individuals with an existing diagnosis during periods of significant life transition.
1. To provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, working flexibly to meet individual needs.
1. To assist service users to identify their strengths, personal interests and goals and support them to access and participate in activities which meet these whilst demonstrating acceptance of and respect towards service users' personal beliefs, uniqueness and identity.
1. To positively support living within their community through developing and maintaining extensive knowledge and links with local areas and/or in the area the individual service users wish to return to and actively supporting them to access these resources including acting as an escort, e.g., in relation to vocation, education and leisure.
1. To act as a role model and mentor for autism using one’s own experience to inspire hope in others; demonstrating coping skills, sharing life experiences and lessons learned where appropriate.
1. To support safety effectively in line with policies and procedures. To ensure any concerns regarding an individual's wellbeing, including issues of safeguarding, are raised with senior members of the team.
1. To participate in the promotion of the Peer Support Worker role and the delivery of activities to all services users and professionals within the team.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
See the attached job description, job overview and main duties of the job in the main body of the advert.
For more information or an informal discussion please contact Felicity Bowden, Operational Lead, on 020 7426 2440 /felicity.bowden@nhs.net, or Sarah Paynter, Tower Hamlet Peer Support Worker Operational Lead, on sarah.paynter1@nhs.net
This advert closes on Monday 13 Oct 2025