Senior Peer Support Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 17 Mawrth 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | £31,049.00 i £37,796.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £31049.00 - £37796.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 24 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Milton Keynes, MK6 5NG |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9333-26-0367 |
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The Senior Peer Support Worker will provide a recovery-focused peer support service across the inpatient unit, supporting adults admitted to the 38-bed acute mental health service across male and female wards. Using personal lived experience of inpatient mental health recovery, the post holder will build trusting and supportive relationships with service users, offering hope, understanding and practical support during periods of acute distress. Key duties include supporting individuals to familiarise themselves with the ward environment, manage day-to-day life on the unit, and engage in meaningful recovery-focused conversations. The post holder will deliver peer-led interventions on both an individual and group basis, helping service users identify strengths, coping strategies and personal recovery goals. The role requires close multidisciplinary collaboration, working with the Social and Recovery Team, occupational therapy, psychology and nursing colleagues to support therapeutic activities and integrated care planning. The Senior Peer Support Worker will contribute to discharge planning and work closely with community peer support services to support smooth transitions back into the community. Additional responsibilities include supporting the facilitation and delivery of psychological formulation meetings and trauma-informed care training, contributing lived experience perspectives to help staff better understand service users experiences. The post holder will also support service development initiatives, including co-production activities and gathering service user feedback. In addition, they will participate in quality improvement projects across the service, helping ensure that service user and lived experience perspectives inform service development and evaluation. The post holder will also promote the value of lived experience within the hospital, support junior colleagues, represent peer support perspectives in relevant meetings and governance structures, and engage with the wider Trust peer support network to strengthen peer-informed practice across services.