Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Senior Peer Support Worker to join the Adult Acute Mental Health Service at the Campbell Centre for a 9-month maternity cover period. This inpatient service supports adults experiencing acute mental health difficulties, providing assessment, treatment and recovery-focused care within a multidisciplinary environment.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide purposeful, recovery-based support to service users, promoting hope, empowerment and meaningful involvement in care planning.
* Champion the peer perspective, contribute to service development, and support the wider team to embed recovery-oriented and trauma-informed approaches in daily practice.
* Build therapeutic relationships, facilitate recovery-focused conversations, and support individuals to identify strengths, personal goals and self‑management strategies to aid their recovery journey.
* Contribute to care planning, multidisciplinary discussions and positive risk management, ensuring the service user voice remains central to decision‑making.
* Deliver group sessions, promote engagement in meaningful and socially inclusive activities, and maintain accurate clinical documentation in line with NHS standards.
* Work as part of the wider Social and Recovery Team and the broader hospital multidisciplinary team, supporting integrated care delivery.
* Support service development initiatives, quality improvement work, co‑production activities, and the promotion of recovery‑oriented and trauma‑informed practice across the service.
* Support individuals to familiarise themselves with the ward environment, manage day‑to‑day life on the unit, and engage in meaningful recovery‑focused conversations.
* Deliver peer‑led interventions on both an individual and group basis, helping service users identify strengths, coping strategies and personal recovery goals.
* Collaborate closely with Social and Recovery Team, occupational therapy, psychology and nursing colleagues to support therapeutic activities and integrated care planning.
* Contribute to discharge planning and work closely with community peer support services to support smooth transitions back into the community.
* Support the facilitation and delivery of psychological formulation meetings and trauma‑informed care training, contributing lived experience perspectives to help staff better understand service users’ experiences.
* Participate in quality improvement projects across the service, helping ensure that service user and lived experience perspectives inform service development and evaluation.
* Promote the value of lived experience within the hospital, support junior colleagues, represent peer support perspectives in relevant meetings and governance structures, and engage with the wider Trust peer support network to strengthen peer‑informed practice across services.
Other Information
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Mar 2026.
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