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<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p><strong><em>Please note you must have right to work in the UK to apply for this position.</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>Due to current Home Office Guidelines, we are unable to sponsor this job role.</em></strong></p> <p>As an integral and highly valued member of the Inpatient Care Team, the PSW will provide formal and professional peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their unique recovery journey in a progressive way during their time on the ward.</p> <p>Working in line with the national peer support competency framework, and the key principles of peer support as outlined by ImROC, The PSW will effectively use their own lived experience of recovery to support a person in their own recovery journey, helping the people they are supporting to navigate the inpatient pathway. By building positive relationship with service users and patients based on mutuality, reciprocity, and inclusivity, they will support people to identify their recovery goals and strengths working towards discharge. The PSW will advocate for a persons needs and support that person to self-advocate during their inpatient stay.</p>   <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>Where the term "service users" is used, this includes individual service users, people with lived experience, their family members and carers.</p> <ul>  <li>To improve the lives of people with mental ill health by minimising the impact of their condition through the delivery of excellent services to promote recovery and wellbeing</li>  <li>To be compassionate in meeting the needs of patients and their carers</li>  <li>To work closely with multidisciplinary team within the service regarding the mental health needs of the people they are support</li> </ul>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.</p> <ul>  <li>Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.</li>  <li>Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.</li>  <li>If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.</li>  <li>We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Benefits</strong></p> <ul>  <li>27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service.</li>  <li>Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.</li>  <li>Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.</li>  <li>£8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us</li>  <li>Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.</li> </ul> <p>Work that wraps around your needs.</p> <ul>  <li>Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.</li>  <li>Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.</li> </ul>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>19 December 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 3</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £24,937 to £26,598 a year
      
        Per annum, pro rata
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
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          Part-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>364-A-9645</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>The Linden Centre</p>
      <p>Pudding Wood Drive</p>
      <p>Chelmsford</p>
            <p>CM1 7LF</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p><strong>COMMUNICATION AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:</strong></p> <p> To acknowledge and work to the key principles for providing peer support (Mutuality, Reciprocity, Non-Directive, Strengths-based, Progressive, Inclusive, Recovery-Focused, and Safe)</p> <p> Be aware the emotional context, staying calm and being clear, consistent and reliable. Ensuring that the approach with colleagues, and service users is balanced and fair. </p> <p> To work with multi-disciplinary teams to support service users access additional services and teams within the inpatient setting to better meet their needs where possible.</p> <p> To accept and respect service users personal beliefs, uniqueness and identities. Working and communicating in a way that acknowledges the personal social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.</p> <p> To be aware of, teach others and challenge issues in relation to stigma, low expectations and anti-discriminatory practice as appropriate.</p> <p> To attend multidisciplinary team and other meetings as appropriate, and champion a recovery and holistic approach to care. To actively participate in regular supervision and be willing to reflect on interpersonal dynamics. </p> <p> To be trauma-informed, and be an ambassador for trauma informed care</p>  <p><strong>CARING RESPONSIBLITIES:</strong></p> <p> To support service users to direct their own recovery process through encouraging them to work collaboratively with teams, and where possible, carers, to identify their own goals and needs and to co-produce care plans to support these.</p> <p> 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.</p> <p> To support service users to maintain and/or develop positive relationships with others and learn how to improve or eliminate unhealthy relationships.</p> <p> To provide support to service users in the community and maintain continuity of contact if they are an inpatient, as appropriate to the role.</p> <p> To facilitate the individual to move through and beyond community services.</p> <p> To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, using own experience.</p> <p> To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and review of care with multidisciplinary teams.</p> <p> To accompany service users to appointments, therapeutic or social, and community-based activities, as appropriate.</p> <p> To work with their allocated service users as they. navigate inpatient services to assist recovery.</p> <p> To assist service users to integrate into the service and local area and support them to access information on health promotion, mental and physical wellbeing where possible.</p> <p> To assist the service user to understand their rights and choices within the services in which they participate.</p> <p> To offer transitional support and aid navigation for Peers and Carers to access EPUT, third sector providers and community resources as the need dictates where possible.</p> <p> To work with the family and carer ambassadors where possible to have a holistic approach to peer support for services users and their families / carers. </p> <p> To promote opportunities for peer support and Lived experience in other areas of inpatient services.</p> <p> To be an ambassador for lived experience across inpatient services.</p>  <p><strong>RISK MANAGEMENT:</strong></p> <p> To manage and work effectively in line with Trust risk policies and procedures, whilst supporting an individual's recovery. </p> <p> To ensure any observed concerns regarding an individual's wellbeing, including any issues of safeguarding, are raised with the team at the earliest opportunity.</p> <p> To report any untoward incidents or unusual occurrences to management immediately.</p> <p> Infection Control to be responsible for the prevention and control of infection.</p>  <p><strong>STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></p> <p> To embed recovery values and the ethos of peer support into Mental Health Services and champion the role of Peer support worker within the service, the trust and in the community and share best practice.</p> <p> To bear a caseload that will be dependent on capacity and demand, and individually negotiated with supervisor/line management.</p> <p> To plan, manage and prioritise own workload.</p> <p> To positively promote and support independent living by maintaining knowledge of and links with community organisations, especially in relation to employment and leisure.</p> <p> To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation and national and local policies in relation to the specific service user group and peer support.</p> <p> To attend operational and strategic meetings as identified and agreed with line manager, and contribute to development of Peer Support Worker roles in the ICS.</p> <p> To attend peer professional development forums.</p> <p> To read and understand the statutory requirements of the Mental Health Act 1983.</p> <p> To ensure day-to-day practice reflects the highest standards of governance, clinical effectiveness, safety and patient experience </p> <p> With the team managers and lead clinicians, play a lead role in the development of the Peer support worker team and the role of the peer support worker. Promote and encourage the development of the peer support initiatives.</p>  <p><strong>ADMINISTRATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS:</strong></p> <p> To comply with Trust policy regarding the use of the intranet, internet and e-mail and the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act.</p> <p> To maintain a record of activities in which engaged. To uphold data protection legislation and only share client information as per EPUTs information governance policy, information-sharing protocols and client confidentiality agreements. </p> <p> Use of trust computers, mobile phones and other trust software.</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p><strong>COMMUNICATION AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:</strong></p> <p> To acknowledge and work to the key principles for providing peer support (Mutuality, Reciprocity, Non-Directive, Strengths-based, Progressive, Inclusive, Recovery-Focused, and Safe)</p> <p> Be aware the emotional context, staying calm and being clear, consistent and reliable. Ensuring that the approach with colleagues, and service users is balanced and fair. </p> <p> To work with multi-disciplinary teams to support service users access additional services and teams within the inpatient setting to better meet their needs where possible.</p> <p> To accept and respect service users personal beliefs, uniqueness and identities. Working and communicating in a way that acknowledges the personal social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.</p> <p> To be aware of, teach others and challenge issues in relation to stigma, low expectations and anti-discriminatory practice as appropriate.</p> <p> To attend multidisciplinary team and other meetings as appropriate, and champion a recovery and holistic approach to care. To actively participate in regular supervision and be willing to reflect on interpersonal dynamics. </p> <p> To be trauma-informed, and be an ambassador for trauma informed care</p>  <p><strong>CARING RESPONSIBLITIES:</strong></p> <p> To support service users to direct their own recovery process through encouraging them to work collaboratively with teams, and where possible, carers, to identify their own goals and needs and to co-produce care plans to support these.</p> <p> 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.</p> <p> To support service users to maintain and/or develop positive relationships with others and learn how to improve or eliminate unhealthy relationships.</p> <p> To provide support to service users in the community and maintain continuity of contact if they are an inpatient, as appropriate to the role.</p> <p> To facilitate the individual to move through and beyond community services.</p> <p> To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, using own experience.</p> <p> To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and review of care with multidisciplinary teams.</p> <p> To accompany service users to appointments, therapeutic or social, and community-based activities, as appropriate.</p> <p> To work with their allocated service users as they. navigate inpatient services to assist recovery.</p> <p> To assist service users to integrate into the service and local area and support them to access information on health promotion, mental and physical wellbeing where possible.</p> <p> To assist the service user to understand their rights and choices within the services in which they participate.</p> <p> To offer transitional support and aid navigation for Peers and Carers to access EPUT, third sector providers and community resources as the need dictates where possible.</p> <p> To work with the family and carer ambassadors where possible to have a holistic approach to peer support for services users and their families / carers. </p> <p> To promote opportunities for peer support and Lived experience in other areas of inpatient services.</p> <p> To be an ambassador for lived experience across inpatient services.</p>  <p><strong>RISK MANAGEMENT:</strong></p> <p> To manage and work effectively in line with Trust risk policies and procedures, whilst supporting an individual's recovery. </p> <p> To ensure any observed concerns regarding an individual's wellbeing, including any issues of safeguarding, are raised with the team at the earliest opportunity.</p> <p> To report any untoward incidents or unusual occurrences to management immediately.</p> <p> Infection Control to be responsible for the prevention and control of infection.</p>  <p><strong>STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></p> <p> To embed recovery values and the ethos of peer support into Mental Health Services and champion the role of Peer support worker within the service, the trust and in the community and share best practice.</p> <p> To bear a caseload that will be dependent on capacity and demand, and individually negotiated with supervisor/line management.</p> <p> To plan, manage and prioritise own workload.</p> <p> To positively promote and support independent living by maintaining knowledge of and links with community organisations, especially in relation to employment and leisure.</p> <p> To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation and national and local policies in relation to the specific service user group and peer support.</p> <p> To attend operational and strategic meetings as identified and agreed with line manager, and contribute to development of Peer Support Worker roles in the ICS.</p> <p> To attend peer professional development forums.</p> <p> To read and understand the statutory requirements of the Mental Health Act 1983.</p> <p> To ensure day-to-day practice reflects the highest standards of governance, clinical effectiveness, safety and patient experience </p> <p> With the team managers and lead clinicians, play a lead role in the development of the Peer support worker team and the role of the peer support worker. Promote and encourage the development of the peer support initiatives.</p>  <p><strong>ADMINISTRATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS:</strong></p> <p> To comply with Trust policy regarding the use of the intranet, internet and e-mail and the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act.</p> <p> To maintain a record of activities in which engaged. To uphold data protection legislation and only share client information as per EPUTs information governance policy, information-sharing protocols and client confidentiality agreements. </p> <p> Use of trust computers, mobile phones and other trust software.</p>
    
  


      
  
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        <li>Experience of working alongside mental health professionals.</li>
        
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          Skills/ Experience
        
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        <li>Personal lived experience of managing or living with complex mental health issues</li>
        
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          <li>Personal lived experience of managing or living with complex mental health issues</li>
          
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    <p>Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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      <p>The Linden Centre</p>
      <p>Pudding Wood Drive</p>
      <p>Chelmsford</p>
            <p>CM1 7LF</p>
    
  

  
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          <p>The Linden Centre</p>
          <p>Pudding Wood Drive</p>
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                    <p>CM1 7LF</p>
        
      

      
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Peer Support Worker

Team Leader 

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>We are recruiting to a <strong>Peer Support Worker role</strong> within the West Midlands Learning Disability and Autism Community Forensic Service.</p>
<p>This service is being developed as a partnership between <strong>Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT)</strong> and <strong>Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT)</strong>.</p>
<p>We are seeking applicants with <strong>lived experience of mental distress</strong> who can draw on their personal experiences to offer empathy, understanding, and hope to others. The role of Peer Support Worker has been developed specifically to ensure people with lived experience can inspire recovery and provide meaningful support.</p>
<p>This is a <strong>non-recurrent, two-year project</strong> funded via the Reach Out Collaborative, with the contract commencing upon appointment. This post is available as a <strong>fixed-term contract or 20-month secondment</strong> opportunity for internal applicants.</p>
<p>This is an exciting opportunity to play a <strong>key role in supporting people with learning disabilities and/or autism who have forensic needs</strong>, reducing health inequalities and promoting recovery-focused outcomes.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p> Encouraging, inspiring, motivating, and assisting people with <strong>multiple and complex needs</strong> who access the West Midlands Community Forensic LDA service.</p> <p> Working alongside the Band 7 Nurse Practitioner to support <strong>comprehensive and holistic assessments</strong> and contribute to care and support packages.</p> <p> Using <strong>lived experience of mental distress</strong> to build empathy and understanding, offering hope and supporting recovery.</p> <p> Helping people feel more in control of their lives by connecting them with <strong>practical support networks</strong> and supporting them to identify their own recovery pathway.</p> <p> Supporting individuals to <strong>transition from secure services into the community or least restrictive environments</strong>, reducing the number of people in specialist hospitals.</p> <p> Addressing <strong>health-related drivers of offending behaviours</strong> and supporting people across care pathways, organisations, and roles.</p> <p> Building links and liaising with <strong>external agencies</strong> to ensure collaborative, person-centred care.</p> <p> Ensuring the individual's needs remain at the forefront at all times, working to the <strong>recovery model</strong> to support people in achieving their goals.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.</p>
<p>We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities. These include:</p>
<ul>
<li>generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us</li>
<li>flexible working opportunities</li>
<li>excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more</li>
<li>salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more</li>
<li>discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes</li>
<li>wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more</li>
<li>staff networks and support groups.</li>
</ul>
<p>We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>18 December 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 3</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
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      £24,937 to £26,598 a year
      
        per annum pro rata
      
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  <p>Fixed term</p>

  
    <h3 id="contract_duration_heading">Duration</h3>
    <p>20 months</p>
  

  
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          Part-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>444-7462359B-LD</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>Brooklands Hospital</p>
      <p>Brooklands Way, Marston Green</p>
      <p>Birmingham</p>
            <p>B37 7HH</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <ul>  <li>To share personal experiences of recovery and coping to build connection and provide support.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To ensure that the person accessing the service understands and has a clear pathway of care across sector/agency boundaries with key contact points/named staff.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To work effectively as a member of a team to engage individuals in a number of activities and engagement with services.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To support people accessing services to identify their recovery pathway and ways in which they can achieve their own goals.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To support the team in implementing care planned interventions, including those supporting families and carers.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To provide practical support to people in developing and managing dignity and independence.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To support people accessing services with issues around benefits, housing and welfare rights.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To provide support with daily living.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To support people where appropriate in accessing relevant physical health checks, investigations and interventions to improve physical health and well-being.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To provide information on health promotion.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To monitor individuals progress, level of functioning and mental state - alerting the West Midlands Forensic Community Service practitioners and other appropriate staff involved when concerns arise.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To promote involvement within the service for the person accessing services and carer (friends and family).</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To maintain a flexible approach to encourage engagement.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To gain advice and support when needed with team practitioners and team managers and attend regular supervision in accordance with Trust policy, to ensure care and safety is maintained</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To offer occasional input to lived experience forums within the local area to support shared good practice of your lived experience and professional role. </li> </ul>     

  
    
      
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      <ul>  <li>To share personal experiences of recovery and coping to build connection and provide support.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To ensure that the person accessing the service understands and has a clear pathway of care across sector/agency boundaries with key contact points/named staff.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To work effectively as a member of a team to engage individuals in a number of activities and engagement with services.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To support people accessing services to identify their recovery pathway and ways in which they can achieve their own goals.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To support the team in implementing care planned interventions, including those supporting families and carers.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To provide practical support to people in developing and managing dignity and independence.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To support people accessing services with issues around benefits, housing and welfare rights.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To provide support with daily living.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To support people where appropriate in accessing relevant physical health checks, investigations and interventions to improve physical health and well-being.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To provide information on health promotion.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To monitor individuals progress, level of functioning and mental state - alerting the West Midlands Forensic Community Service practitioners and other appropriate staff involved when concerns arise.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To promote involvement within the service for the person accessing services and carer (friends and family).</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To maintain a flexible approach to encourage engagement.</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To gain advice and support when needed with team practitioners and team managers and attend regular supervision in accordance with Trust policy, to ensure care and safety is maintained</li> </ul> <ul>  <li>To offer occasional input to lived experience forums within the local area to support shared good practice of your lived experience and professional role. </li> </ul>       
  


      
  
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        <li>Willingness to undertake within role: online training, care certificate, internal training relevant to sharing lived experience</li>
        
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          Knowledge and Experience
        
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        <li>Lived experience of the criminal justice system and be able to reflect on the personal experience of recovery</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with individuals with multiple and complex needs</li>
        
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        <li>Good interpersonal skills</li>
        
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            Personal Attributes
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to work as part of a team</li>
          
          <li>Good interpersonal skills</li>
          
          <li>An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings</li>
          
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    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>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.</p>
  

  

  


 

      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Brooklands Hospital</p>
      <p>Brooklands Way, Marston Green</p>
      <p>Birmingham</p>
            <p>B37 7HH</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Brooklands Hospital</p>
          <p>Brooklands Way, Marston Green</p>
          <p>Birmingham</p>
                    <p>B37 7HH</p>
        
      

      
        <br>
        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Peer Support Worker - Band 3

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>We are looking for a confident support worker with a passion for delivering outstanding care.
Youll be working 38.5 hours a week a mixture of days and nights, making a positive difference to the lives of the people in our care at Cygnet kewstoke.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>At Cygnet, we support our people to grow their careers, gain new skills and keep stepping up. 
Apply now to enjoy excellent career prospects while reaping the rewards of making a difference to others  every day.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Cygnet Health Care was established in 1988. Since then we have developed a wide range of services for individuals with mental health needs, autism and learning disabilities within the UK.
We have built a reputation for delivering pioneering services and outstanding outcomes for the people in our care.
Our expert and highly dedicated care team of 10 000 employees empower 2864 individuals across 150 services to consistently make a positive difference to their lives, through service-user focused care and rehabilitation.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>12 December 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Other</p>

    
  

  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £13.39 an hour
      
    </p>
  
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>VPDB158CE0</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
                  <p>weston super mare</p>
            <p>BS22 9UZ</p>
      <br>
      
        
      
    
  

      

      
  
    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>Helping others improve and turn their lives around  theres no better feeling. Its what we do for thousands of people at more than 150 sites across the UK. Be a part of it.</p><p>We are looking for a confident<b>Care &amp; Support Worker</b>with a passion for delivering outstanding care.</p><p><b>Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke</b>provides an emergency admissions servicefor men and a pathway for women from low secure to rehabilitation including a specialist servicefor personality disorder.</p><p>This role will be 12 hour shifts working a mixture ofDays &amp; Nights.</p><p>The hospital has more than 16 acres of landscaped grounds and overlooks the Bristol Channel. This beachside location, just outside Weston-super-Mare, helps us provide a quiet, peaceful and therapeutic environment which can offer service users a broad range of therapies including CBT, Schema Therapy, EMDR &amp; DBT.</p><p>At Cygnet, we support our people to grow their careers, gain new skills and keep stepping up.</p><p>Apply now to enjoy excellent career prospects whilereaping the rewards of making a difference to others  every day.</p><p><b>Your day-to-day</b></p><ul><li><p>Offer enhanced care with a flexible learning approach for all the people in our care</p></li><li><p>Provide guidance &amp; encouragement through physical &amp; emotional support</p></li><li><p>Learn about individuals specific needs &amp; provide help in the most appropriate way</p></li><li><p>Assist with medical &amp; welfare needs</p></li><li><p>Report on medical &amp; welfare needs as required</p></li><li><p>Safeguard</p></li><li><p>Maintain a sa
fe, clean environment for all</p></li></ul><p><b>You are</b></p><ul><li><p>Genuinely driven with a desire to make a real difference in peoples lives</p></li><li><p>An excellent communicator &amp; a good team player</p></li><li><p>Sensitive &amp; intuitive with the energy required to provide a trusting, stimulating &amp; varied environment</p></li><li><p>Passionate about empowering &amp; supporting service user independence</p></li></ul><p><b>Why Cygnet? Well offer you</b></p><ul><li><p>An opening to undertake further learning with our excellent apprenticeship scheme</p></li><li><p>Expert supervision &amp; support</p></li><li><p>Employee referral scheme</p></li><li><p>Free Health Cash plan</p></li><li><p>24 hours free GP support line</p></li><li><p>Free life assurance cover</p></li><li><p>Free eye tests</p></li><li><p>Car lease discounts</p></li><li><p>Discounted gym membership</p></li><li><p>Free mortgage broker and Insurance cover</p></li><li><p>Pension scheme</p></li><li><p>Employee NHS - discount savings &amp; Cycle to Work scheme</p></li><li><p>Smart Health Toolkit- Providing you with Fitness Programmes, Nutrition consultation and Health checks</p></li></ul><p>Due to limits on sponsorship allocations, we are not currently in a position to offer sponsorship to new candidates for these roles, this remains under review.</p><p>We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.</p><p><i>What next?</i></p><p>If you care about making a difference  we want to talk to you.</p><p>Click the button to apply</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>Helping others improve and turn their lives around  theres no better feeling. Its what we do for thousands of people at more than 150 sites across the UK. Be a part of it.</p><p>We are looking for a confident<b>Care &amp; Support Worker</b>with a passion for delivering outstanding care.</p><p><b>Cygnet Hospital Kewstoke</b>provides an emergency admissions servicefor men and a pathway for women from low secure to rehabilitation including a specialist servicefor personality disorder.</p><p>This role will be 12 hour shifts working a mixture ofDays &amp; Nights.</p><p>The hospital has more than 16 acres of landscaped grounds and overlooks the Bristol Channel. This beachside location, just outside Weston-super-Mare, helps us provide a quiet, peaceful and therapeutic environment which can offer service users a broad range of therapies including CBT, Schema Therapy, EMDR &amp; DBT.</p><p>At Cygnet, we support our people to grow their careers, gain new skills and keep stepping up.</p><p>Apply now to enjoy excellent career prospects whilereaping the rewards of making a difference to others  every day.</p><p><b>Your day-to-day</b></p><ul><li><p>Offer enhanced care with a flexible learning approach for all the people in our care</p></li><li><p>Provide guidance &amp; encouragement through physical &amp; emotional support</p></li><li><p>Learn about individuals specific needs &amp; provide help in the most appropriate way</p></li><li><p>Assist with medical &amp; welfare needs</p></li><li><p>Report on medical &amp; welfare needs as required</p></li><li><p>Safeguard</p></li><li><p>Maintain a sa
fe, clean environment for all</p></li></ul><p><b>You are</b></p><ul><li><p>Genuinely driven with a desire to make a real difference in peoples lives</p></li><li><p>An excellent communicator &amp; a good team player</p></li><li><p>Sensitive &amp; intuitive with the energy required to provide a trusting, stimulating &amp; varied environment</p></li><li><p>Passionate about empowering &amp; supporting service user independence</p></li></ul><p><b>Why Cygnet? Well offer you</b></p><ul><li><p>An opening to undertake further learning with our excellent apprenticeship scheme</p></li><li><p>Expert supervision &amp; support</p></li><li><p>Employee referral scheme</p></li><li><p>Free Health Cash plan</p></li><li><p>24 hours free GP support line</p></li><li><p>Free life assurance cover</p></li><li><p>Free eye tests</p></li><li><p>Car lease discounts</p></li><li><p>Discounted gym membership</p></li><li><p>Free mortgage broker and Insurance cover</p></li><li><p>Pension scheme</p></li><li><p>Employee NHS - discount savings &amp; Cycle to Work scheme</p></li><li><p>Smart Health Toolkit- Providing you with Fitness Programmes, Nutrition consultation and Health checks</p></li></ul><p>Due to limits on sponsorship allocations, we are not currently in a position to offer sponsorship to new candidates for these roles, this remains under review.</p><p>We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.</p><p><i>What next?</i></p><p>If you care about making a difference  we want to talk to you.</p><p>Click the button to apply</p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          General Requirements
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Please refer to job description above</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Please refer to job description above</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            General Requirements
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Please refer to job description above</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Please refer to job description above</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
    
  



      
  
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Cygnet Health Care</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
                  <p>weston super mare</p>
            <p>BS22 9UZ</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.cygnethealth.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.cygnethealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Cygnet Health Care</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
                              <p>weston super mare</p>
                    <p>BS22 9UZ</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.cygnethealth.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.cygnethealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Healthcare Support Worker

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>This is a part time post working 22.5 hours per week for a fixed term of 12 months based at the Stonebow Unit, Hereford. We would consider less hours for the successful candidate but would have to be a
minimum of 15 hours. The salary quoted is pro rata for part time hours.</p><p>We are looking for a motivated individual with lived experience to support our current quality improvement programme on our older adult mental health inpatient wards. The post will be funded via the Royal College of Psychiatry`s Culture of Care Programme.</p><p>This programme aims to improve the culture of inpatient mental health, learning disability and autism for patients and staff so that they are safe, therapeutic and equitable places to be cared for, and fulfilling places to work.</p><p>Integrated Lived Experience takes the form of true co-production, the role focusses on creating a supportive and compassionate atmosphere for both staff and patients. There is an emphasis on developing change ideas in line with the programme alongside the wider MDT and core project team.</p><p>We can offer flexible working and will be supporting the successful applicant with training whilst in post.</p><p>The post is fixed term due to time
limited nature of the funding which will end in
12 months. We reserve the right to
end this contract sooner with appropriate notice.</p><p>Please note the Trust is unable to provide
sponsorship to work for this role, to apply you must have current right to work
in the UK status.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p><strong>Role Requirements</strong></p><p>
Establish supportive and respectful
relationships with people using mental health services.</p><p>
Provide support in relation to the Culture of
Care Programme through lived experience whilst maintaining professional
boundaries.</p><p>
Liaise with patients, carers, and health
colleagues to embed the philosophy of the Culture of Care programme within
Older Adult Mental Health Services.</p><p>
Engage in supporting and developing change
ideas, attending meetings and workshops related to the Culture of Care
Programme.</p><p>
Develop links with the Culture of Care
champions and Culture of Care coach. Attend culture of care conferences,
online training and meetings</p><p>
Share ideas about ways of achieving Culture of
Care change ideas whilst drawing on lived experiences.</p><p>
Actively participate in Team Meetings and
support the Culture of Care project team when implementing change ideas,
reporting regularly to the project group to ensure effective communication.</p><p>
Actively participate in ward-based community
and carer groups to engage patients and carers in the Culture of Care Programme
change ideas.</p><p>

















Work
together to facilitate a multidisciplinary team approach</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust,
we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals
and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health
and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.</p><p>Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of
all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over
100 sites.</p><p>We will support you to thrive; offer flexible
working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions,
and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value
diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures,
and ethnicities.</p><p>What we offer;</p><ul><li>
27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to
33 days with long service</li><li>
Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work
unsocial hours</li><li>
Flexible and agile working opportunities</li><li>
Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support</li><li>
Wide range of supportive staff networks</li><li>
Health and wellbeing opportunities</li></ul><p>If you would like to know more, please visit our
website.</p><p>We encourage you to read the attached applicant guidance notes.</p><p><strong>Sharing
your data - </strong>As a data controller we may sometimes need to process your data to
pursue our legitimate business interests, for example to request a survey from
you (optional), to support the Trusts understanding of where you gained
interest in working for the Trust.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>19 December 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 3</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £24,937 to £26,598 a year
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Fixed term</p>

  
    <h3 id="contract_duration_heading">Duration</h3>
    <p>12 months</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Part-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>C9798-1926</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Stonebow Unit</p>
            <p>Hereford</p>
            <p>HR1 2ER</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>The role of Lived Experience Worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of having received Secondary Care Mental Health services. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, Lived Experience Workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.</p><p>The role will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, they will promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of personally valued roles and connection to local communities.</p><p>The Lived Experience Worker will act as a recovery champion and an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations. There is also an expectation that Lived Experience Workers will be involved in the on-going development of Lived Experience Worker roles in the Trust.</p><p>For full details of the duties and criteria
for the role please refer to the job description and person specification
attached.</p>  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>The role of Lived Experience Worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of having received Secondary Care Mental Health services. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, Lived Experience Workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.</p><p>The role will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, they will promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of personally valued roles and connection to local communities.</p><p>The Lived Experience Worker will act as a recovery champion and an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations. There is also an expectation that Lived Experience Workers will be involved in the on-going development of Lived Experience Worker roles in the Trust.</p><p>For full details of the duties and criteria
for the role please refer to the job description and person specification
attached.</p>    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Knowledge
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Understanding of the issues and concerns of mental health patients and/or carers.</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge and commitment to patients rights</li>
        
        <li>Understanding of the impact of stigma and discrimination</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Appreciation of the community resources within the geographical location of the post and key partners</li>
          
          <li>Understanding of the service delivery goals of the care pathway</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Good level of secondary education to GCSE level i.e. A-C in Maths and English or equivalent, or able to demonstrate equivalent levels of literacy and numeracy skills</li>
        
        <li>I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Willingness to undertake further training in line with the development of peer support In line with the development of a lived experience role?</li>
          
          <li>The post holder will be expected to meet the Care Certificate standards within 12 weeks of commencing employment with the Trust</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_3">
        
          Additional criteria
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>You understand that we will not provide sponsorship to work for this role.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_4">
        
          Skills &amp; Abilities
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats</li>
        
        <li>Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills e.g. ability to communicate their personal experience of Recovery</li>
        
        <li>Patient, non-judgmental, respectful and compassionate</li>
        
        <li>Must be able to travel to a range of locations</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_5">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Lived experience of secondary mental health services</li>
        
        <li>Wide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others</li>
        
        <li>Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working in a team or a group environment</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of the health and social care service either paid or as a volunteer</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Knowledge
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Understanding of the issues and concerns of mental health patients and/or carers.</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge and commitment to patients rights</li>
          
          <li>Understanding of the impact of stigma and discrimination</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Appreciation of the community resources within the geographical location of the post and key partners</li>
            
            <li>Understanding of the service delivery goals of the care pathway</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Good level of secondary education to GCSE level i.e. A-C in Maths and English or equivalent, or able to demonstrate equivalent levels of literacy and numeracy skills</li>
          
          <li>I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Willingness to undertake further training in line with the development of peer support In line with the development of a lived experience role?</li>
            
            <li>The post holder will be expected to meet the Care Certificate standards within 12 weeks of commencing employment with the Trust</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Additional criteria
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>You understand that we will not provide sponsorship to work for this role.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            Skills &amp; Abilities
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats</li>
          
          <li>Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills e.g. ability to communicate their personal experience of Recovery</li>
          
          <li>Patient, non-judgmental, respectful and compassionate</li>
          
          <li>Must be able to travel to a range of locations</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_5">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Lived experience of secondary mental health services</li>
          
          <li>Wide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others</li>
          
          <li>Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working in a team or a group environment</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience of the health and social care service either paid or as a volunteer</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
    
  



      
  
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Stonebow Unit</p>
            <p>Hereford</p>
            <p>HR1 2ER</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.hacw.nhs.uk/careers" target="_blank">https://www.hacw.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
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        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Stonebow Unit</p>
                    <p>Hereford</p>
                    <p>HR1 2ER</p>
        
      

      
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            <p><a href="https://www.hacw.nhs.uk/careers" target="_blank">https://www.hacw.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Lived Experience Worker

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>This role requires you to use your lived experience of mental health conditions, which enables you to work with service users differently and foster a sense of "I've been there" connection.</p> <p>We are looking to recruit a peer support worker to join our Community Rehabilitation Service (CRS) in Brighton and Hove. We are a supportive, well-resourced and staffed team located across Brighton General Hospital and Millview Hospital, which is well served by public transport, as is the whole city. We have use of a pool car, or bus passes for staff to use on visits. Brighton is a vibrant, inclusive city with much to offer those who work here. We are open to discussing flexible working requirements to ensure we best support the recruitment and retention of our staff and will always try to support a positive work/life balance</p> <p>As a Peer Support Worker, you will be using your lived experience of mental health to work alongside individuals to understand their experiences and to maximise their strengths, resources and skills. You will help run peer led groups and link with resources in the third sector and community.</p>  <p>The job is for 15 hours per week/two days (working pattern can be negotiated/discussed).</p>  <p>This job will be open to band 4 workers. Band 4 workers will need to have a recognised peer support qualification as well as significant experience working with service users with mental health needs. </p>  <p>This vacancy is only open to applicants who have lived experience of mental health conditions, I.E you have a mental health diagnosis of your own which enables you to work with service users differently and foster a sense of "I've been there" connection</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>The CRS is a specialist mental health team working with service users with a primary diagnosis of psychosis who have complex needs including drug and alcohol misuse. Service users under CRS require an intensive level of support to ensure their recovery; some have a history of difficulty forming relationships with mental health services/professionals and may have had multiple admissions to hospital. You will work in partnership with a diverse team of clinicians and support staff including Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Nurses and our third sector partners. </p> <p>In line with our Trust value of 'People First', evidence shows that people who are treated in community and in the least restrictive manner, have better outcomes. In this role you will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, to help us provide this opportunity for our service users in line with national agendas of The Getting It Right First Time a whole system approach to recovery from mental ill health, maximising an individual's quality of life and social inclusion.</p> <p>You will be working under the guidance of a qualified professional in the team and there will mentoring and support available from more experienced peer workers within the Trust. Full training and induction will be provided as well as supervision. </p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>We are a committed team of individuals, like-minded in our devotion to the mental health of our service community.</p> <p>We are a large NHS Mental Health Trust in South East England. We're looking for people to help us provide high quality services for patients, carers and local communities we serve.</p> <p>We want patients and staff to recommend our organisation as a place where they would be happy for their friends and family to be treated. You can help us do this by bringing your skills, experience and commitment to Sussex Partnership.</p> <p>Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>09 December 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 4</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £27,485 to £30,162 a year
      
        pro rata
      
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  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
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          Part-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>354-AB-21005</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>Mill View Hospital</p>
      <p>Nevill Avenue</p>
      <p>Hove</p>
            <p>BN3 7HY</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p><strong>Person Specification:</strong></p> <p><strong>Key results areas: </strong></p> <p> To understand the role of the Peer Support Worker and communicate it to service users, carers and other professionals.</p> <p> To understand the roles of the multidisciplinary team and the service that is being provided. Understand how the Peer Support Worker role fits alongside the clinical team.</p> <p> Utilise your lived experience to support individuals and groups using the service. To listen to the service users experience and understand their journey through the service and on to the community. </p> <p> To use parts of your recovery story to inspire hope in others where appropriate. To be a positive role model for other people overcoming mental health challenges, other workers and families or carers</p> <p><strong>Qualifications:</strong></p> <p><strong>Essential</strong></p> <p> A recognised qualification in an area related to the workplace such as social care, healthcare, or peer support or equivalent experience/life skills (full peer support training will be given). </p> <p> Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning</p> <p><strong>Desirable</strong></p> <p> Health care or relevant NVQ Level 2 or equivalent skills</p> <p><strong>Disclosure and Barring Service Check</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Certificate of Sponsorship</strong></p> <p>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).</p> <p>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. </p> <p>For further details, discussion or to arrange an informal chat about the posts please contact James Edlin on 07738757945 or 03003040029 or email <a href="mailto:James.Edlin1@nhs.net" target="_blank">James.Edlin1@nhs.net</a></p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p><strong>Person Specification:</strong></p> <p><strong>Key results areas: </strong></p> <p> To understand the role of the Peer Support Worker and communicate it to service users, carers and other professionals.</p> <p> To understand the roles of the multidisciplinary team and the service that is being provided. Understand how the Peer Support Worker role fits alongside the clinical team.</p> <p> Utilise your lived experience to support individuals and groups using the service. To listen to the service users experience and understand their journey through the service and on to the community. </p> <p> To use parts of your recovery story to inspire hope in others where appropriate. To be a positive role model for other people overcoming mental health challenges, other workers and families or carers</p> <p><strong>Qualifications:</strong></p> <p><strong>Essential</strong></p> <p> A recognised qualification in an area related to the workplace such as social care, healthcare, or peer support or equivalent experience/life skills (full peer support training will be given). </p> <p> Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning</p> <p><strong>Desirable</strong></p> <p> Health care or relevant NVQ Level 2 or equivalent skills</p> <p><strong>Disclosure and Barring Service Check</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Certificate of Sponsorship</strong></p> <p>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).</p> <p>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. </p> <p>For further details, discussion or to arrange an informal chat about the posts please contact James Edlin on 07738757945 or 03003040029 or email <a href="mailto:James.Edlin1@nhs.net" target="_blank">James.Edlin1@nhs.net</a></p>
    
  


      
  
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          QUALIFICATIONS
        
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        <li>Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills acquired through experience or formal teaching qualification</li>
        
        <li>A recognised Peer Support qualification</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning</li>
        
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          KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE
        
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        <li>Significant experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity in health/social care/teaching setting</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with groups/activities</li>
        
        <li>Experience of supervising others</li>
        
        <li>Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties</li>
        
        <li>Managing personal mental health and recovery</li>
        
        <li>Comprehensive knowledge of Peer Support, Recovery and Wellbeing in mental health and ability to apply this throughout your work</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working as part of a team</li>
        
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            QUALIFICATIONS
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills acquired through experience or formal teaching qualification</li>
          
          <li>A recognised Peer Support qualification</li>
          
          <li>Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning</li>
          
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            KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Significant experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity in health/social care/teaching setting</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with groups/activities</li>
          
          <li>Experience of supervising others</li>
          
          <li>Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties</li>
          
          <li>Managing personal mental health and recovery</li>
          
          <li>Comprehensive knowledge of Peer Support, Recovery and Wellbeing in mental health and ability to apply this throughout your work</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working as part of a team</li>
          
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    <p>Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
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      <p>Mill View Hospital</p>
      <p>Nevill Avenue</p>
      <p>Hove</p>
            <p>BN3 7HY</p>
    
  

  
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        <p><a href="https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
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        <p>Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Mill View Hospital</p>
          <p>Nevill Avenue</p>
          <p>Hove</p>
                    <p>BN3 7HY</p>
        
      

      
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            <p><a href="https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Peer Support Worker, Community Rehabilitation Service

Health Care Support Worker

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>The Crisis Resolution Home
Treatment Team is a pivotal service whose main focus is to offer an alternative
to an inpatient admission and provide intensive treatment as required within
the community. The service will also ensure effective gatekeeping of all
service users referred to the service for admission to Hospital. The service
will operate on an outreach basis with the majority of assessments taking place
in non-Hospital
environments.</p><p>We are currently recuiting Community Support workers for the Torbay CRHTT.</p><p>

The post holder will be an active member of the
integrated multi-disciplinary team (MDT),
providing a 24-hour community-based Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment
Service as an alternative to hospital admission.</p><p>As part of a MDT, the Community Support Worker is a pivotal role in shaping, implementing and facilitating interventions for individuals with a diverse mental health needs within the community.</p><p>Under the direction and leadership of a qualified Mental Health Professional, the team are responsible for:</p><ul><li>Deliver a collaborative care plan with specific home interventions and goals.</li><li>Offer crisis resolution as an alternative to hospital admission, available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year.</li><li>Serve as the gatekeeper for inpatient hospital beds.</li><li>Conduct initial in-person follow-up after hospital discharge.</li></ul>  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <ul><li>Provide responsive, person-centred support to individuals experiencing mental health crisis in the community.</li><li>Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, including clinicians, social workers, and peer support workers.</li><li>Deliver practical and emotional support to service users, promoting recovery, safety, and wellbeing.</li><li>Assist in crisis de-escalation and safety planning, both face-to-face and via telephone support.</li><li>Support service users to access appropriate services, including housing, benefits, and community resources.</li><li>Maintain accurate and timely records in line with Trust policies and procedures.</li><li>Participate in team meetings, supervision, and training to ensure high-quality service delivery.</li><li>Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of care and support.</li><li>Work flexibly, including evenings and weekends, to meet the needs of the crisis pathway.</li></ul><p></p>  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p><strong>About Devon Partnership Trust</strong></p><p>We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist &amp; secure services for the wider south west region &amp; nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health &amp; wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise &amp; resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe &amp; focused on people's recovery.</p><p>We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families &amp; carers in everything we do</p><p><strong>Our values</strong></p><p>We not only recruit based on qualifications &amp; experience - we recruit individuals who possess &amp; demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity &amp; compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves &amp; others, &amp; being open to new ideas.</p><p>We are committed to being an inclusive employer &amp; applications are encouraged &amp; welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time &amp; flexible working applications will be considered &amp; supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>12 December 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 3</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £24,937 to £26,598 a year
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
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          Full-time,
        
      
        
          Part-time,
        
      
        
          Flexible working
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>C9369-25-0898-3</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <p>Torbay Hospital</p>
      <p>Lowes Bridge</p>
      <p>Torquay</p>
      <p>Devon</p>
      <p>TQ2 7AA</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p><em>Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on this role.</em></p><p><strong>Candidate Note: If you choose to
use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in completing your
application, please ensure that all responses accurately represent your own
experience, skills, and suitability for the role. It is essential that your application
remains authentic and truthful. We also encourage you to review the guidance
attached before submission.</strong></p><p>If you require a certificate of sponsorship to work in the UK you are advised to review the "Coming to work in the UK Visa Information" link in the supporting links section to ensure this role and your current circumstances meet the requirements for sponsorship</p><p>If you would like to discuss the certificate of sponsorship and whether your current circumstances meet the requirement for sponsorship email <a href="mailto:dpt.recruitment@nhs.net" target="_blank">dpt.recruitment@nhs.net</a> for further advice</p>
  

  
    
      
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      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p><em>Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on this role.</em></p><p><strong>Candidate Note: If you choose to
use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in completing your
application, please ensure that all responses accurately represent your own
experience, skills, and suitability for the role. It is essential that your application
remains authentic and truthful. We also encourage you to review the guidance
attached before submission.</strong></p><p>If you require a certificate of sponsorship to work in the UK you are advised to review the "Coming to work in the UK Visa Information" link in the supporting links section to ensure this role and your current circumstances meet the requirements for sponsorship</p><p>If you would like to discuss the certificate of sponsorship and whether your current circumstances meet the requirement for sponsorship email <a href="mailto:dpt.recruitment@nhs.net" target="_blank">dpt.recruitment@nhs.net</a> for further advice</p>
    
  


      
  
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          Experience
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Previous employment / experience of working with people in a caring situation or previous experience working in a different role within mental health services </li>
        
        <li>Extensive experience of working within Mental Health settings. Experience of delivering crisis interventions</li>
        
        <li>Awareness of safeguarding principles. </li>
        
        <li>Experience of working within a MDT. </li>
        
        <li>Excellent IT skills </li>
        
        <li>Experience of working autonomously.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of working within psychiatric inpatient environments.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of monitoring Physical Health</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working within Crisis Services</li>
          
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          Qualifications
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths</li>
        
        <li>Care Certificate (obtain within the first 6 months of employment)</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>NVQ level 3, QCF Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent qualification.</li>
          
          <li>Qualified in Phlebotomy</li>
          
          <li>Other evidence of training or development relevant to working within a mental health setting.</li>
          
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          Driving
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
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        <li>Ability to travel to multiple locations through the Geographical areas to meet the requirements of the role.</li>
        
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          Knowledge and Skill
        
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        <li>Able to plan work, time management, completing records and recording observations etc. To take leadership and direction from qualified staff. To participate in unsupervised tasks and provide accurate feedback to relevant parties. </li>
        
        <li>Ability and awareness to maintain personal boundaries</li>
        
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          <li>Awareness of safeguarding principles. </li>
          
          <li>Experience of working within a MDT. </li>
          
          <li>Excellent IT skills </li>
          
          <li>Experience of working autonomously.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
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            <li>Experience of working within psychiatric inpatient environments.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of monitoring Physical Health</li>
            
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            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
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          <li>GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths</li>
          
          <li>Care Certificate (obtain within the first 6 months of employment)</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>NVQ level 3, QCF Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent qualification.</li>
            
            <li>Qualified in Phlebotomy</li>
            
            <li>Other evidence of training or development relevant to working within a mental health setting.</li>
            
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            Driving
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Ability to travel to multiple locations through the Geographical areas to meet the requirements of the role.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
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          <li>Able to plan work, time management, completing records and recording observations etc. To take leadership and direction from qualified staff. To participate in unsupervised tasks and provide accurate feedback to relevant parties. </li>
          
          <li>Ability and awareness to maintain personal boundaries</li>
          
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    <p>Devon Partnership NHS Trust</p>
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      <p>Torbay Hospital</p>
      <p>Lowes Bridge</p>
      <p>Torquay</p>
      <p>Devon</p>
      <p>TQ2 7AA</p>
    
  

  
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        <p>Devon Partnership NHS Trust</p>
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          <p>Torbay Hospital</p>
          <p>Lowes Bridge</p>
          <p>Torquay</p>
          <p>Devon</p>
          <p>TQ2 7AA</p>
        
      

      
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Support Worker

<p>Our mission at Response is to enable people of all ages to live a more fulfilled life by providing excellent mental health services, housing, and supported living. </p> <p><strong>Do you have the desire to empower and promote independence and an interest in mental health?</strong> </p> <p><strong>Mental Health Support Worker</strong> - £25,325 - £27,378 per annum (Salaries vary depending on experiences)</p> <p><strong>Hours</strong> 37 hours per week, Monday Sunday, inclusive of bank holidays, shifts include mornings, evenings &amp; weekends.</p> <p><strong>Service</strong> Rowan House &amp; Morrell Crescent, Littlemore, Oxford</p> <p><strong>What You ll Be Doing:</strong></p> <p>Response is looking for enthusiastic, caring people to join their dedicated teams at <strong>Rowan House</strong> and <strong>Morrell Crescent.</strong> <strong>Rowan House</strong> is home to 25 residents with acute mental health needs, working alongside the Adult Mental Health Team. <strong>Morrell Crescent</strong> is home to 37 residents with acute mental health needs, working alongside the Adult Mental Health Team. Our roles offer employees variety where every day is different whilst also giving a great sense of pride seeing the positive impact you can have on others.</p> <p>As a Mental Health Support Worker, you will be responsible for providing person-centred support to residents with serious mental illness including adults who have a primary diagnosis of a psychotic illness often with one or more coexisting conditions such physical health issues, neurodiversity, drugs &amp; alcohol use and cognitive impairment.</p> <p>Support workers work with residents to enable them to achieve and sustain a rewarding life in the community. Working proactively with residents to promote independence, well-being and ability to manage their own mental health. Staff are responsible for ensuring safety is always maintained though good housing management, risk assessment and health &amp; safety practice. Supporting people to maintain tenancies, look after their homes and develop daily living skills.</p> <p>Our clients really appreciate the passion from our Support Workers too: <em> The staff are caring, kind, compassionate and understanding. They support me and care for me and are first class. I am happier now than I have been in years. </em>Client in Adult Services. </p> <p><strong>Overall job responsibility</strong>: Further detail can be viewed in the Job Description.</p> <p> Some of the core duties include:</p> <ul> <li>Provide emotional support, encouragement, and practical assistance to residents with daily living activities. This may include medication assistance, engaging with interests, education, accessing community groups/facilities, employment, teaching life skills such as shopping, budgeting, using public transport and skills such as planning to prepare and cook meals, maintain accommodation.</li> <li>Foster a supportive and empowering environment that promotes residents' independence.</li> <li>Support and monitor clients physical and mental health through key working and ensuring access where appropriate to primary health services or liaising with mental health services.</li> <li>Support clients to attend appointments where required.</li> <li>Ensure daily paperwork is completed.</li> <li>Comply with all Health and Safety measures to keep residents, visitors, colleagues and yourself safe.</li> <li>Work with all residents using a trauma informed approach using the 6 principles of trauma informed care: Safety, Trust, Choice, Collaboration, Empowerment and Cultural Consideration. </li> <li>Promote family, friend and carers engagement, ensuring they are involved in their loved one s support and given information about the service.</li> </ul> <p><strong>The Successful Applicant:</strong></p> <p>Our main priority for all our roles at Response is to find people that can live our values every day <strong>Caring, Safe, Creative and Aspirational. </strong></p> <p><strong>Essential criteria:</strong></p> <ul> <li>GCSE s in English and Maths (or equivalent)</li> <li>A commitment to undertake continual personal development including completing the Care Certificate</li> <li>IT literate with experience using MS Office packages.</li> <li>Good communication skills, written, verbal and listening.</li> <li>Ability to provide non-judgemental, emotional and practical support to residents.</li> <li>A genuine interest in mental health and well-being with a commitment to delivering Response's mission.</li> <li>Demonstrates high levels of personal and professional integrity working to Response s vision, mission and values</li> <li>Ability to follow health and safety procedures.</li> <li>Demonstrate respect for difference and diversity</li> </ul> <p><strong>What We Offer:</strong></p> <ul> <li>33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) </li> <li>Blue Light card and other discounted shopping</li> <li>Employee Assistance Plan - with access to free counselling </li> <li>Cycle to Work Scheme </li> <li>Enhanced family friendly leave</li> <li>Professional qualification sponsorship and study leave </li> <li>£500 refer a friend bonus scheme </li> <li>Optional health cash care plan with money off prescriptions and treatments</li> <li>Wellbeing hub and mental wellbeing support app approved by NHS</li> <li>Free flu jabs</li> <li>Free DBS application</li> </ul> <p>You will receive the training and confidence to use core therapeutic talk therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Strength-based Trauma Informed Care and Mutual Aid to provide the best possible support to our clients.</p> <p>If this <strong>Mental Health Support Worker</strong> position sounds like the role for you then please apply today! We would love to hear from you! This vacancy may be closed early. To learn more about Response and what we do, please visit our website. Closing date 02/02/2026.</p> <p><strong><em>All our roles require a DBS check, two references from most recent employers and you must have the right to work in the UK Unfortunately, Response are not able to offer sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for the role and require sponsorship, you will be withdrawn from the recruitment process. Our employees and clients come from all over the world, we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture and are registered as a Disability Confident Employer.</em></strong></p> <p>Our employees and clients come from all over the world, we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture and are registered as a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. All our roles require an enhanced DBS check, two references from most recent employers and you must have the right to work in the UK.</p>

Mental Health Support Worker, Oxfordshire

<p><strong>Mental Health Support Worker</strong></p><p><strong>Join Nurseplus as a Mental Health Support Worker Make a Difference Every Day</strong></p><p>At Nurseplus, every shift you work is an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of those in need. As a temporary <strong>Mental Health </strong><strong>Support Worker</strong>, you ll be providing high-quality care across a range of settings, from supporting living to mental health units and secure units providing support and care to persons with learning disabilities, mental health needs, and more complex care needs. You ll become part of a compassionate team where every contribution counts. Experience of working with 1:1 s would be advantageous but is not essential. Ideally you will have at least 12 months experience in a mental health setting, having restraint training in the last 12 months (with certification) although FREE CPI training is provided if not.</p><p><strong>Why Choose Nurseplus?</strong></p><ul> <li><strong>Flexibility that Works for You</strong>: Choose your shifts, whether full-time, part-time, days, nights, or weekends, so you can fit work around your life.</li><li><strong>Weekly Pay &amp; Competitive Rates</strong>: Earn between £12.71 and £15.00 per hour paid weekly, depending on shift pattern (higher rates apply for bank holidays).</li><li><strong>Workwise App</strong>: Take control of your schedule with our Workwise app manage your availability and easily book shifts on your terms.</li><li><strong>Paid Industry-Leading Training</strong>: We pay for you to attend our comprehensive, industry-leading training that s in line with the Care Certificate and Core Skills Training Framework, tailored to help you grow your skills, whether you re new to care or have years of experience.</li><li><strong>Ongoing Development Opportunities</strong>: From in-house courses to funded qualifications such as NVQ Levels 2 and 3, we support your professional growth at every stage.</li><li><strong>Blue Light Card</strong>: Enjoy thousands of discounts on the high street and online with eligibility for a Blue Light Card.</li></ul> <p><strong>What You ll Be Doing</strong></p><p>Your day-to-day responsibilities as a Mental Health Support Worker may include assisting service users with personal care, but will be mainly providing support to their everyday needs and promoting independence, working as part of a team or independently within an environment. You ll work closely with care plans to ensure individuals maintain independence and dignity, providing the physical and emotional support that they might need to achieve their goals.</p><p><strong>What We re Looking For</strong></p><ul> <li>You must be over 18 years old and have the right to work in the UK.</li><li>Flexibility in your availability, with the ability to travel to different care settings.</li><li>A good standard of English and the ability to communicate effectively.</li><li>A clear enhanced DBS, which you can apply for upon registration.</li></ul> <p>If you re passionate about making a positive impact and want to work with a team that truly cares, we d love to hear from you!</p><p><strong>About Nurseplus</strong></p><p>At Nurseplus, our mission is to make a positive impact and change lives every day. We are passionate about delivering the highest-quality care that truly makes a difference in the lives of those we support. But our commitment doesn t stop there we care just as much for our staff as we do for our clients. By fostering a supportive and inclusive environment, we empower our team to grow, thrive, and make a meaningful contribution to the communities they serve.</p>

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