Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HTFT would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
We are seeking a full-time Peer Support Worker to join the Primary Care Mental Health Network based in Goole, within Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
This role is for someone with lived experience of accessing mental health services and personal recovery who is ready to use that experience in a purposeful and professional way. As a Peer Support Worker, you will work alongside clinical colleagues to support individuals accessing primary care mental health services, promoting hope, empowerment and self-management.
You will build supportive peer relationships, share recovery-focused tools and strategies, and support individuals to identify and work towards meaningful personal goals. The role includes signposting to community resources, supporting attendance at appointments or activities where appropriate, and contributing to recovery planning within a multidisciplinary team.
You must be able to share aspects of your lived experience safely and constructively, maintain professional boundaries, and work as part of a team.
This is a full-time post based in Goole. The role involves travel across the local area; therefore access to independent transport is essential.
Main duties of the job
As a Peer Support Worker within the Primary Care Mental Health Network, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting individuals accessing primary mental health services.
Using your lived experience of recovery, you will build purposeful peer relationships that promote hope, empowerment and self-belief. You will support individuals to identify strengths, set meaningful goals and contribute to personalised Recovery Action Plans alongside clinicians.
Key duties include providing one-to-one peer support, sharing coping strategies and self-management tools, signposting to community resources, and supporting attendance at appointments or activities where appropriate. You will feedback relevant observations to the team to support safe, coordinated care and recognise changes in wellbeing, responding in line with training and Trust policy.
You will promote strengths-based practice, maintain accurate electronic records, and work within professional boundaries at all times.
Participation in supervision and required training, including completion of the Level 3 Apprenticeship Framework if not already achieved, is expected.
The role requires resilience, flexibility and the ability to manage emotionally sensitive situations. Access to independent transport is essential.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas and recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
- Understanding and practical knowledge of recovery
- Understanding of the issues and concerns of mental health service users
- Basic IT skills
- QCF/NVQ/OCN level 3 in Health & Social Care (or equivalent) or relevant experience
- Knowledge of local community resources
Experience
- Lived experience of Primary mental health services and able to reflect on personal experience of recovery
- Experience of being in a supportive or enabling role
- Experience of working in a team or group environment
- Experience of the health and social care service either paid or as a volunteer
- Experience of training, teaching, coaching or mentoring others
- Evidence of effective inter-personal communication skills
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries
- Ability to problem solve, think creatively and work in an enabling way
- Ability to motivate others
- Good working knowledge of IT applications
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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