Perinatal Peer Support Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 24 Ebrill 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | £25,760.00 i £27,476.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £25760.00 - £27476.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 15 Mai 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Gloucester, GL1 3NF |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9327-26-0333 |
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As a Peer Support Worker you will be responsible for participating and assisting in the delivery of care / services to patients and service users as part of a Mental Health and Social Care Health Service. Health Care Assistant, Social Care Workers and other Healthcare Support Workers employed by the Trust are required to follow the guidance set out in Code of Conduct for Health Care Assistants/ Health Care Support Workers to provide safe and compassionate care of a high standard, and to challenge others who are not. You will receive direct supervision and partake in reflective practice / training on a regular basis and be required to meet the Care Certificate standards. All successful applicants will also have the opportunity to discuss the prospect of undertaking a Level 3 Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship alongside their substantive post. This apprenticeship would include the Level 3 Diploma in Clinical Healthcare. The successful candidate must have lived experience of a moderate to severe perinatal mental illness, with the ability to share their personal story of recovery. By using your own experience, you will be supporting people who are accessing the perinatal service. You will be a positive role model helping to understand, inspire, motivate, guide and support our women and birthing people, to engage with services and work on own their recovery. You will evidence and show visible recovery; demonstrating that change is possible and giving a strong message of hope. You will offer emotional and practical support to the people we are supporting by using your own lived experience, helping people move to a positive future, to work in an enabling and creative way. You will demonstrate knowledge, understanding and a commitment to service users rights and the impact of stigma. You will be the voice of the women, using your lived experience, to confidently promote knowledge and understanding with colleagues and peers. You will work collaboratively with fellow peer support workers to lead and co-facilitate peer led support groups. As part of the peer support worker role, there will be occasions of lone working, where you will offer one to one visits in the community, delivering interventions, developed by the peer support workers, following assessment of risk. You will evidence excellent communication skills, share examples of collaboration and working well within a team, committing to high standards of care expected within our services. The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas