Peer Support Worker
The role of Peer Support Worker is a valuable opportunity for people with lived experience of mental health difficulties to support others.
Your Peer support worker journey
The role involves building supportive relationships with people using our wide range of services, based on core peer support principles.
You will 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.together@nhs.net