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Lived experience peer support worker | mersey care nhs foundation trust

Sefton
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Peer support worker
Posted: 24 August
Offer description

Do you have lived experience of mental health challenges and services, and a desire to support others on their recovery journey? If so, we invite you to join our team in this unique and rewarding role.


About the Role

Merseycare Foundation Trust has produced an animation available on YouTube which explains the role of peer support / lived experience workers from a team's perspective. Potential candidates may find it helpful. It can be found at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCCS8MCStuM

Prospective candidates who feel they would benefit from additional support & guidance to submit an application are encouraged to reach out to us at the following email address in the first instance: peersupport@merseycare.nhs.uk


Responsibilities

1. Building supportive and respectful relationships with service users, helping them identify, explore, and achieve meaningful and sustainable recovery goals.
2. Sharing personal recovery stories to inspire confidence and self-belief, promoting coping, self-help, and self-management techniques.
3. Facilitating community engagement by helping service users connect with community groups and networks, promoting social inclusion and positive identity.
4. Advocating for service users' rights, accompanying them to appointments, welcoming them to a service, signposting advice, and promoting autonomy and self-management.
5. Contributing to fostering a recovery-oriented environment by working with multidisciplinary teams and using strengths-based, non-discriminatory language to support recovery-focused activities.


About Mersey Care

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region. We are also commissioned for services covering North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services supporting physical and mental health, including inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK offering high secure mental health facilities.


Our Commitment

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' — safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do their best work and work alongside service users, families, and carers to co-design future services. We are currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to improve service quality and reduce costs safely.

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