Peer Support Worker
Peer Support in the NHS is a commitment to healthcare that creates meaningful opportunities to use lived experience to support others.
About the Peer Support role
Peer Support roles are embedded across a wide range of our services. Applicants bring relevant lived experience to the service they work in and build supportive relationships with people using core peer support principles.
Peer Support Workers work alongside wider multidisciplinary teams and receive regular supervision, training and support to develop confidence and skills in the peer role.
Essential skills include:
- The ability and willingness to draw on and share first-person lived experience with the sole intention of supporting others.
- Effective listening skills and can demonstrate empathy, compassion and patience.
- Able to demonstrate empathy, compassion, patience and be non-judgemental in your approach
- NHSE Peer Support Worker Competence Framework Training or commitment to complete within 3-6 months of joining.
- Care Certificate or commitment to complete within 3 months of joining.
Contact us
Get it touch to see how we can work together, by emailing dpt.pswlead@nhs.net
What Peer Support means to me
What Peer Support means to me
