Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Carer Peer Support Worker
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Carer Peer Support Worker
Job Opportunity: Carer Peer Support Worker (Intensive Home Treatment Team, Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust)
Are You a Carer With Personal Experience?
If you have experience caring for a loved one with mental illness or dementia, a compelling new role is available with Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust.
About the Role
A unique opportunity has emerged for a Carer Peer Support Worker within the intensive home treatment team, working within community mental health services (focused on older adults).
Primary Objective: Use your personal lived experience—shared with empathy—to inspire hope, recovery, and improved wellbeing for carers and families affected by mental health challenges.
Key Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with professionals to support carers, fostering self-control and confidence through shared experiences and practical activities.
- Provide peer support to carers’ groups and build relationships with Community and Inpatient Services across Nottinghamshire.
- Implement core principles of peer support, including:
- Mutuality, reciprocity, and strengths-focused approaches
- Recovery-focused practice (non-directive, inclusive, supportive progression)
- Active listening to help individuals set and achieve recovery goals.
- Role-model recovery, self-awareness, and personal responsibility.
- Promote recovery language among staff (e.g., avoid stigma, jargon, and medicalised terms).
- Abide by a strengths-based approach in clinical records and mentorship activities.
- Embrace every opportunity to align support with the evolving needs of families.
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What to Expect
This role can be emotionally taxing, but the team prioritises: ✔ Supervision, training, and guidance fromIntensive Home Treatment Team, Community Mental Health Team, and Trust-wide resources. ✔ A supportive work environment that values your contribution to trust-wide recovery-focused care.
The Organisation You’ll Join
Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust—an East Midlands leader in intellectual disability, mental health, health, forensic, and offender services—comprising 11,000+ dedicated staff across 200+ sites. Our care covers community-based, acute, and secure environments (e.g., prisons, specialist health services like the Notts Specialist Transgender Health Team).
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Why Work Here?
- Dedicated employee-led networks, including:
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) groups
- Freedom to Speak Up approaches (psychological safety)
- Support for Green, Health & Wellbeing advocates, Menopause Champions
- Commitment to staff wellbeing: occupational health, free counselling, and consultations with specialised support teams.
- Environmental sustainability: meeting net-zero goals with internal climate action led by an Energy and Environmental team.
Core Values
#MakeADifference—Daily.
Application & Next Steps
Talk to our Team Leader informally to explore how your experience can impact others lives.
Contact: 📧 Carla Jackson – Team Leader 📧 carla.jackson@nottshc.nhs.uk ☎ 01623 403278 (call or email for conversations)
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