Job overview

Do you have lived experience of mental health difficulties?

Would you like to use this experience to support others?

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Full Time Band 3 Peer Support Worker to join our Structured Clinical Management (SCM) Team in Oldham. The SCM Team supports individuals with complex emotional and relational needs. We offer an evidence-based treatment over 12-18 months, including one-to-one sessions and skills groups. If you’re motivated, empathetic, and have personal experience with mental health difficulties—including using mental health services—we’d love for you to bring your unique perspective to our team.

As a Peer Support Worker, you will work with individuals facing complex emotional and relational needs, drawing on your own recovery journey to offer hope, understanding, and practical support. You will empower service users to take greater control and responsibility over their own wellbeing and to successfully achieve their personal goals.

Our clinical leads recommend taking a period of approximately 12 months after completing a CERN intervention (e.g. SCM) to consolidate gains made, prior to applying for this Peer Support Worker role. This is a recommendation, and all applications will be reviewed on an individual basis.

Part time and flexible working could be considered for this role.

Full details of the job role and responsibilities can be found in the job description.

Main duties of the job

• Support Recovery: Use your lived experience to provide emotional and practical support, helping service users identify and work towards their personal goals.

• Build Connections: Offer empathy and companionship, working one-on-one and in groups to empower individuals and reduce feelings of isolation.

• Share Self-Management Tools: Draw on the techniques you’ve used to manage your own wellbeing and share these with others in a hopeful, strengths-based way.

• Be a Role Model: Inspire belief in recovery by modelling wellbeing and acting as an ambassador for service users within our team.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.

• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance

• Access to Continued Professional Development

• Involvement in improvement and research activities

• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service

• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel