Senior Peer Support Worker | and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Overview

Here at CWPT, we value lived experience and the impact it can have in the recovery of the people we care for. It is why, for the first time, we’re embedding lived experience roles across our acute mental health and learning disability services, and we’re looking for a senior peer support worker (PSW) to join us at this exciting time. This role is for someone with lived experience of receiving inpatient care and can represent our learning disability and/or neurodiverse communities.

We are looking for someone who uses their experiences, empathy and understanding to help others and to inspire hope and recovery. As this is a senior role, you will need a peer support qualification and have completed or be willing to complete the PSW supervisor training.

As a senior PSW you will support and provide supervision to more junior PSWs to help them safely navigate and thrive in the role. You will also work alongside ward teams to prepare for this unique new role.

Your impact will be wide-reaching. As well as working alongside a number of multidisciplinary teams, you’ll work closely with the Recovery and Wellbeing Academy, which delivers educational courses and workshops to anyone over the age of 18 living in Coventry and Warwickshire. You will contribute to the co-creation and delivery of these workshops and support more junior members of the team to do the same.

• Provide supervision to more junior PSWs to help them safely navigate and thrive in the role.
• Collaborate with ward teams to prepare for this role.
• Contribute to the co-creation and delivery of workshops with the Recovery and Wellbeing Academy, and support junior team members to do the same.

• Lived experience of receiving inpatient care and the ability to represent learning disability and/or neurodiverse communities.
• Peer support qualification and completion or willingness to complete the PSW supervisor training.

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• Discounts with retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• Staff networks and support groups

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.

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