Peer Support Worker (PSW) - Complex Emotional Needs Service (CEN)

About the Role

We have a part-time vacancy for a Peer Support Worker (PSW) within the Complex Emotional Needs Service (CEN). This role is for people who have personal lived experience of mental health challenges that have been understood or diagnosed as a ‘personality disorder’ and of accessing secondary mental health services.

Through sharing wisdom and insight from their own experiences, PSWs will effectively and positively use their own lived experience to inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.

Within a relationship of reciprocity and mutuality, the PSW will journey with service users to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfillment of individually identified goals. The PSW will work with people towards gaining greater independence and self-agency in managing their own health and wellbeing and will help them to build a sense of belonging within their communities.

This post is suitable for someone who is empathetic, compassionate, and patient with a calm and professional response to distress, disturbance, and unpredictability.

Key Responsibilities

• The post holder will be based at the Speedwell Centre, Central & East Bristol.
• Please only apply if you meet the essential criteria above of lived experience to become a Peer Support Worker. You need to demonstrate in your application how this will support the role.
• This role requires the post holder to work on Tuesdays.
• As an integral and valued member of the multidisciplinary community team, PSWs will be responsible for the delivery of peer support including but not limited to 1:1 peer work, co-delivering therapeutic groups, co-delivering training, and attending supervision groups to embed the lived experience perspective within the team.
• The post holder will contribute to the ongoing assessment, planning, delivery, and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social, and wellbeing needs, for an allocated group of service users.
• The post holder will also be actively participating in service user and carers involvement work, such as gathering feedback as well as feeding back, encouraging service user involvement, and leading on co-creating within service developments.