Lived Support Workers

Overview

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people under-represented in our workforce.

We also welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel and invite applicants to share their equality information with us.

Peer Support Workforce – we are recruiting STR Lived Experience Support Workers to work in the Liaison and Diversion Reconnect Resettlement service. The Lived Experience Support Workers will work across our Court and Reconnect services.

• Facilitate community engagement by helping service users connect with community groups and networks to promote social inclusion and a positive identity.
• Advocate for service users' rights, accompany them to appointments, welcome them to a service, and signpost advice while promoting autonomy and self-management.
• Contribute to fostering a recovery‑oriented environment by working with multidisciplinary teams and using strengths‑based, non‑discriminatory language to support recovery‑focused activities.

• This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and police/prison vetting, with consideration of any offending history.
• As a Disability Confident Employer, a guaranteed interview is offered to applicants who consider themselves disabled and meet the minimum essential criteria; indicate this in the personal information section of the online application form.
• If you require a reasonable adjustment to the recruitment process, please email to arrange support.
• We reserve the right to close vacancies after a minimum number of applications is reached.
• Applicants for roles requiring enhanced DBS for Children & Young People services will be asked to subscribe to the DBS Update Service; enrolment is at a fee of £16 per year.
• Applicants may check sponsorship likelihood at ; flexible working is considered for all roles.
• AI on applications is monitored and must be declared on the application form if used.
• New entrants to the NHS typically commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

• There is an animation on You Tube explaining the role of peer support/lived experience workers as seen by the team:
• Mersey Care is a large Trust providing physical and mental health services in the North West and beyond, offering specialist inpatient and community services across physical and mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services, including high‑secure mental health facilities.
• Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.