Carer/Parent Peer Support Worker
| Posting date: | 10 February 2026 |
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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: | 17 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, SW10 9NG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9333-26-0203 |
Summary
Clinical Responsibilities 1. To work with the multi-disciplinary teams across both the adult and child and adolescent eatingdisorder service in the support of parents/carers of young people accessing eating disorderservices, ensuring the needs or parents/carers are met through promoting strengths-basedpractice 2. To assume a coaching role supporting parent/carers in thinking about their own personalrecovery plans in relation to being a parent/carer; this can be delivered individually or in groups. 3. To be supported to develop, create promotional materials and undertake a carers clinic - a oneto one, short term intervention for friends and family of the current cohort of service users,supporting them to develop skills and attend to their own mental health while being in the caringrole. 4. To work with members of the MDT to create and utilise evaluation tools in order to assess theimpact of the role 5. To assist parents/carers to identify their own strengths, personal interests and goals,emphasising the importance of their own wellbeing in order to best support the personaccessing services. 6. To support parents/carers in making sense of the experiences of mental and emotional distressof the young person they are parent/carer to and involving the young person in theseconversations as much as possible and appropriate. This might include understandings ofpersonal and social recovery, health and wellbeing, personal and social identity whilstrecognising that each individuals recovery is a distinctive and deeply personal process. 7. To support parents/carers in making sense of their own experiences of mental and emotionaldistress in relation to the challenges the young person is facing, being highly sensitive to theiruse of language and descriptions of experiences. 6. To share wisdom, mentor around recovery processes and demonstrate coping skills, using own experience of caring for a young person who has experienced recovery from an eating disorder. 7. To act as a role model to inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learned as a person who has cared for a young person in recovery. 8. To work with some autonomy with complex safety considerations for individuals across community and inpatient contexts 9. Working jointly with highly skilled colleagues from a variety of professional backgrounds to develop and co-facilitate carer interventions and ensure co-production is modelled within the care provided 10. To be attuned to sensitive safeguarding issues as they may present within the relevant cohort of patients, their friends and family and is able to utilise supervision to ensure safety and risk is managed in a recovery focussed, timely manner. 11. To attend team meetings and contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and review of care with the multi-disciplinary team. 12. To work together with the young person and their parents/carers in the drawing up of care plans, encouraging and motivating young people and their parents/carers to take an active role in the care plan. 13. To incorporate and promote the Triangle of Care within MDT working practice and decision making. 14. To positively promote and support parents/carers engagement in the community by maintaining extensive knowledge and links with community resources and actively supporting parents/carers to access them, maximising parents/carers opportunities for socially valued roles and positive identity. 15. To assist in the development and implementation of educational and peer facilitated parent/carer support groups and activities. 16. To assist parents/carers to maintain a connection with their life beyond being a parent/carer of a young person accessing services. 17. To accept and respect parent/carers personal beliefs, uniqueness and identity.