About this role
Job summary
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Peer Support Worker to join our Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in Tower Hamlets. The successful candidate will use their personal lived experience of mental health challenges, accessing services and recovery to provide compassionate, recovery-focused support. Working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, you will support service users to identify their personal recovery goals, develop independence, build meaningful relationships and access opportunities within their local communities.
As a Senior Peer Support Worker, you will take a leadership role in developing peer support within the team, promoting the value of lived experience, contributing to service development and delivering individual and group-based recovery-focused interventions. We are seeking someone with significant previous experience as a Peer Support Worker, who has completed recognised peer support training and is passionate about empowering others, challenging stigma and embedding lived experience perspectives within mental health services.
Visa Sponsorship: Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship from the Trust.
Main duties of the job
Provide individual and group-based peer support, using personal lived experience to inspire hope, promote recovery and empower service users to achieve their personal goals.
Support service users to develop independence, build meaningful relationships and access community resources, activities and opportunities.
Lead and develop peer support provision within the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, promoting the integration of lived experience perspectives into multidisciplinary practice.
Provide guidance, mentoring, supervision and training to Peer Support Workers, supporting their professional development and effective integration within services.
Contribute to service development, co-production and partnership working with local community organisations to promote recovery-focused, person-centred care.
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description for detailed information on the job role and its responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifcation/Training Essential
Peer Support Training
Desirable
Other relevant qualifications in mental health, leadership, supervision, and training
Experience Essential
Experience as a Peer Support Worker Lived experience of living with a mental health condition and have undergone a personal recovery process Experience of accessing mental health services, especially secondary services
Knowledge and Skills Essential
Knowledge of peer support, its principles, practices, and challenges Excellent interpersonal skills, as relating to working with patients and carers, and professionals Excellent communication skills
Desirable
Ability to challenge mental health stigma and discrimination Awareness of local services in relation to employment, welfare, housing, and mental health
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details Employer name East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address The Barkantine
121 Westferry Road
London
E14 8JH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)