Band 4 Peer Support Worker (Complex Emotional Needs) - Bristol

As an integral and valued member of the multidisciplinary community team, PSWs will be responsible for the delivery of peer support including but not limited to 1:1 peer work, co-delivering therapeutic groups, co-delivering training and attending supervision groups to embed the lived experience perspective within the team.

The post holder will contribute to the ongoing assessment, planning delivery and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social and well being needs, for an allocated group of service users.

The post holder will also be actively participating in service user and carers involvement work, such as gathering feedback as well as feeding back, encouraging service user involvement and leading on co-creating within service developments.

This Peer Support Worker (PSW) role within the Complex Emotional Needs Service (CEN) is for people who have personal lived experience of mental health challenges that have been understood or diagnosed as a 'personality disorder' and of accessing secondary mental health services.

Through sharing wisdom and insight from their own experiences, PSWs will effectively and positively use their own lived experience to inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.

Within a relationship of reciprocity and mutuality, the PSW will journey with service users to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of individually identified goals. The PSW will work with people towards gaining greater independence and self-agency in managing their own health and wellbeing and will help them to build a sense of belonging within their communities.

This post is suitable for someone who is empathetic, compassionate and patient with a calm and professional response to distress, disturbance and unpredictability.

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.