Job overview

Are you passionate about reshaping mental health care? Do you believe in the power of community, collaboration with community partners and the local voluntary care sector, inclusion, and peer support to transform lives? If this is you, then we want you on our team!

We have an incredibly exciting and rare opportunity for a Peer Support Worker to join our Community Mental Health Team, supporting those with mental health difficulties who live in the North area of Lincoln.

The role is 15 hours per week, and you will work alongside a friendly multidisciplinary team consisting of Community Mental Health Nurses, Recovery Practitioners, Nursing Associates, Community Support Workers, Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Admin staff. You will also be working alongside Neighbourhood Teams, Integrated Placement Based Teams, Adult Social Care, GP surgeries and other partner organisations to ensure the best outcomes for patients and carers.

The candidate will be committed to a Recovery focused way of working, inherent within the team culture, empowering and instilling hope in our service users.

Due to the UKVI immigration changes we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, compassionate, positive thinking and self-motivated individual with lived experience of mental ill health and experience of using services. Peer Workers use their lived experience to offer emotional support, promote social inclusion, share coping mechanisms, and support service users to navigate mental health services.

The successful candidate will have completed an accredited Peer Worker training course. They will be a member of a multidisciplinary team, working alongside mental health professionals.

Peer Support Workers will be fully supported in their role through regular 1-to-1 supervision within the team line management structure. They will also have access to training opportunities to support their professional development.

As a Peer Support Worker, you will use your experiences to offer understanding and support in linking with appropriate services/agencies, promote choice and inspire hope and future opportunities. The role will include offering support to patients and their supporters (inc. friends and family) in the community by enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care and well-being needs.

The post holder is responsible for building and maintaining professional working relationships with others in the multi-disciplinary team, encouraging open channels of communication and actively participating in the creation of an open and safe working environment that promotes shared learning, growth and development.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.