Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Peer Support Worker
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About the Role
We are looking for an innovative and motivated Peer Support Worker to work with The Co-existing Substance Use and Mental Health Pathway across which covers Nottingham City and County. We have posts available in Bassetlaw, Mansfield, and the City. The successful applicants will have lived experience of mental health/substance use services and will be offered support in developing self/role via the Trust’s Peer Support Development Unit.
Peer support workers use their experiences to offer empathy and understanding to others, inspiring hope and belief that recovery is possible. In this role, the peer worker will offer peer support alongside practical assistance in order to help people feel in control of their lives and their own unique recovery process. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, they will promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.
The peer support worker will act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations. Peer workers will also be expected to invest in their own personal and professional development as well as supporting ongoing development of peer roles in the Trust.
The peer support worker will work as part of the multidisciplinary community team, offering support to people who are being supported by The Co-existing Substance Use and Mental Health Pathway.
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Key Responsibilities
- To establish supportive relationships with people using mental health services and their loved ones, based on the core principles of peer support (mutual, reciprocal, strengths focused, safe, progressive, non-directive, recovery focused and inclusive).
- To share personal experiences of recovery and coping to build connection and inform support.
- To use active listening skills to help people develop self-understanding and identify their personal recovery goals.
- To support others in achieving goals that they have identified for themselves.
- To role model recovery, personal responsibility and self-awareness.
- To raise awareness of recovery language among Trust staff by modelling positive, strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work.
- To embrace every opportunity to work with people in a recovery focused way, supporting the community team by undertaking duties that would be a reasonable expectation of the role.
- To maintain strengths focused clinical records.
About Us
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
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We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Nathan Turner
- Job title: Team Manager
- Email address: Nathan.Turner@nottshc.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0115 969 1300
Anthony Mitchell
- Email address: Anthony.Mitchell@nottshc.nhs.uk
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