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.
Role
Merseycare Foundation Trust has produced an animation available on YouTube that explains the role of peer support / lived experience workers from a team’s perspective, which potential candidates may find helpful. It can be found at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCCS8MCStuM
Prospective candidates who feel they would benefit from additional support and guidance to submit an application are encouraged to reach out via email at: peersupport@merseycare.nhs.uk.
The role involves building supportive and respectful relationships with service users, helping them identify, explore, and achieve meaningful and sustainable recovery goals.
By sharing personal recovery stories, the worker will inspire confidence and self-belief in others, promoting essential coping, self-help, and self-management techniques.
A key responsibility is facilitating community engagement by helping service users connect with community groups and networks, promoting social inclusion and a positive identity. The role also involves advocating for service users' rights, accompanying them to appointments, welcoming them to a service, signposting advice, and promoting autonomy and self-management. Additionally, the worker will contribute to fostering a recovery-oriented environment by working with multidisciplinary teams and using strengths-based, non-discriminatory language to support recovery-focused activities.
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 the 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 that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do their best work and collaborate with service users, families, and carers to design and develop future services. We are currently implementing a programme of organizational and service transformation to improve service quality and reduce costs safely.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details or informal visits, please contact:
* Name: Kerry Adamson
* Job Title: Team Manager
* Email: kerry.adamson@merseycare.nhs.uk
* Telephone: 01704 383110
Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the team ahead of applying to gain a better understanding of the service.
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