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Job summary

Main area
Peer Support - Mental Health Services
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
350-MHC7367006
Employer
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Hartley Hospital Adult Community Mental Health Team
Town
Southport
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/08/2025 23:59
Interview date
08/09/2025

Employer heading

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust logo

Lived Experience Peer Support Worker

Band 3

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

Do you have lived experience of mental health challenges and services and have a desire to support others on their recovery journey? If so, we invite you to join our team in this unique and rewarding role. 

Merseycare foundation trust have produced an animation available on YouTube which 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 

Any prospective candidates who feel they would benefit from additional support & guidance to submit an application are encouraged to reach out to us at the following email address in the first instance: [email protected] 

Main duties of the job

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, which promotes 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. 

Working for our organisation

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 and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist 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 the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A detailed overview and the main responsibilities of the role can be found in the Job Description attached .

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Health and Social Care Level 2 qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • Care Certificate
  • Phlebotomy trained
  • Physical Health competency basic passport
  • MEWS
  • Level 2 Smoking Cessation
  • Good standard of education
  • Qualification in craft, domestic skills, leisure or health equivalent to City & Guild Part 1, or 2 year experience working in a health setting
  • Willing to work towards Level 3 Health Care qualification

KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in a care setting
  • Understanding of issues of confidentiality
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to communicate effectively
  • Ability to work as a member of a team
  • Ability to demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude
  • Ability to work on own initiative under the supervision of a qualified practitioner
  • Ability to provide support and guidance to junior staff

VALUES

Essential criteria
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support
  • High professional standards
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strong customer service belief
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet
  • Change oriented

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardCTP The Ministry of Defence partnering with Right ManagementNavajo - Merseyside and CheshireDisability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStep into healthArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kerry Adamson
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01704 383110
Additional information

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the team ahead of application to gain an understanding of the service.

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