Join us in shaping a new CAMHS Day Patient service for children and young people. This provision bridges the gap between inpatient care and intensive community support, offering compassionate, recoveryfocused mental health help for young people and their families.
We are recruiting a Peer Support Worker with lived experience of CAMHS to support parents and carers accessing the service. Working alongside another Peer Support Worker, you will ensure the voices and needs of families are central to care. Using your personal experience of supporting a young person across health, social care or education, you will provide meaningful peer support, help families feel heard, and promote collaborative working.
The role includes onetoone support, facilitating groups and workshops, and signposting to community resources. Strong communication skills, emotional resilience and the ability to work both independently and within a multidisciplinary team are essential.
Our Day Patient Provision offers structured therapeutic programmes and a nurturing environment to help young people stabilise, build resilience and remain connected to home and school. Many will have emotional regulation difficulties, trauma histories, ASD, intellectual disabilities or risks that place them at potential need for admission. The team provides intensive, psychologically informed care in the community.
We offer opportunities to help shape a new service, a supportive MDT, training, supervision and career development. We welcome individuals who are compassionate, creative, collaborative and committed to improving outcomes for young people and families.
Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)
The Peer Support Worker will work as part of the day unit Provision, providing peerbased support to young people receiving care within the service.
The Peer Support Worker will be a key member of the dayunit provision, offering peerbased support to young people receiving care within the service. Drawing upon their own lived experience, the post holder will help young people feel understood, empowered, and actively engaged in their recovery journey.
Key Responsibilities
Build trusting, supportive relationships with young people, using lived experience to promote hope, resilience and confidence.
Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to understand each young person's needs and contribute to assessment and care planning.
Provide emotional and practical support to help young people manage distress, develop coping strategies, and reduce feelings of isolation or overwhelm.
Facilitate psychoeducational and therapeutic groups aimed at promoting wellbeing, selfesteem, communication skills, and recoveryfocused thinking.
Encourage young people to participate meaningfully in their own treatment, helping them understand their care, express their views, and make informed choices.
You will participate in supervision, training and service development activities, and uphold clinical governance, safeguarding and confidentiality standards in line with Trust policies. The role requires flexibility and may include working in community, outpatient and home settings. An Enhanced DBS check is required.
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.