Peer Support Worker

Overview

Peer Support Worker - Hampshire

• Provide one-to-one practical and emotional support to our clients and encourage them to access services which improve their health and wellbeing.
• Support service users with vulnerabilities going through the Criminal Justice System using your own lived experience of the Criminal Justice System, treatment and recovery.
• Act as a positive role model to help our service users understand, stay motivated, and engage with services to work on their recovery. Evidence and show visible recovery to demonstrate that change is possible.
• Offer emotional and practical support to service-users by using your lived experience of the criminal justice system and its challenges to help them achieve a positive future.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we are committed to providing high-quality care and an inclusive, compassionate environment where our people share a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• Cycle to Work and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust site

• Experience in mental health challenges and/or substance misuse and recovery, with the ability to share experiences to support others.
• Ability to demonstrate stability in recovery and discuss how this was achieved.
• Willingness to work with individuals in court, custody, and prison settings as part of the Liaison and Diversion team.
• Desire to grow personally and professionally through our 18-month development programme with access to accredited training.