Peer support worker; PSW

Role Overview

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 feels comfortable using 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.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults across many sites in Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services.

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.

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.

• 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, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our 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.