Peer Support Worker - Mental Health Conditions

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Peer Support Worker with lived experienced of a mental health condition(s) to join the Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College. If you have experience of using secondary mental health services and feel that you could use your recovery to inspire and promote hope to others, we would like to hear from you.

The Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College provides peer led health education to support people to learn self-management skills to live well with their condition and promote recovery. Our Peer Support Workers teach on a range of both mental and physical health courses and are an integral part of co-producing the content to best meet the needs of our participants.

This role will involve the organisation, leading on the delivery of courses, and to support participants with their learning needs to reach their potential and get the most from attending.

This post will be supported through regular supervision within our team line management structure. You will also have access to training to support your professional development.

In your application for this post please tell us about your lived experience of a mental health condition(s) and your recovery, as it's essential to the role. 

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This role will be part of the Health and Wellbeing College team. Working under the direction of the college manager, the post holder will facilitate and participate in course design, development and delivery.

The individual will safely use their own lived experience in a carefully considered way to enable participants to learn self-management skills of their own, to suit their personal needs and own recovery.

The role will require the individual to promote and engage in coproduction, working alongside clinicians, Expert’s by Experience and health and voluntary sector staff.

The individual for this role will require excellent communication skills and will need to work in a compassionate, recovery focused and person-centred manner. The post holder will communicate effectively with a variety of people, teams and services.

This is a permanent position, working three days a week. The role is based at the NHS Training Hub at Invista, but the individual will need to deliver courses in venues across the county.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for this role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys