Lived Experience Peer Support Worker | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Do you have lived experience ofmental health challenges andservicesand have adesire to support others on their recovery journey? If so, we invite you to join our teamin this unique and rewarding role.

Merseycarefoundation trust have produced an animation available onYouTubewhich explains the role of peer support / lived experience workers from ateam'sperspective which potential candidates may find helpful it can be found at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCCS8MCStuM

Any prospective candidates who feel they wouldbenefitfromadditionalsupport & guidance tosubmitan applicationare encouraged to reach out to us atthe following email address in thefirstinstance: peersupport@merseycare.nhs.uk

Therole involves building supportive and respectful relationships with service users, helping themidentify,explore,and achieve meaningfuland sustainable recoverygoals.

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 isfacilitatingcommunity 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,accompanyingthem to appointments,welcoming them to a service, signpostingadviceand 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.

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.