Job summary

The Senior Peer Support Worker will use their own personal experiences of managing mental health and recovery, to provide hope, empathy and a different practical perspective through support, dialogue and acting as a role model.The postholder will provide day-to-day coordination, supervision and support to the Southern Gambling Service Peer Support Team, ensuring consistent, recovery-focused peer support is delivered across all localities.

Main duties of the job

• use their personal experiences to promote hope and recovery in order to support others who are overcoming mental health challenges . Using peer values alongside practical assistance, they will work individually and in groups to support people to feel in control of their lives, choices and unique recovery process in line with their recovery plan.
• be a key member of a small newly developing team of registered and peer support workers
• work with the team to co-develop, review and when applicable co-deliver innovative evidence-based interventions.
• will have supervisory responsibility of Peer Support Staff
• liaise between primary, secondary and community organisations. To jointly work with stake holders to identify where consultation or training is required and coordinating or developing this.
• act as a recovery champion within the team, and an ambassador for recovery for the Trust when working with external agencies and partner organisations.

be supported to continue their own personal and professional development as well as taking part in the ongoing development of peer roles in the Trust

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence