These are challenging but rewarding roles supporting people with a wide range of experiences.,

• Providing 1:1 peer support to people accessing the service (this may involve supporting family / carers too)
• Setting up and facilitating / co-facilitating peer support groups
• Working into team meetings to support service users voices to be heard and bring lived experience expertise into team processes.
• Supporting service development within the teams you work in
• Building connections with a range of people and organisations within the system (including other peer support workers / providers)
To support you with this work you will receive ongoing regular 1:1 and group supervision, and will be able to access a range of other peer connection and development structures.


• Relevant experience of mental health challenges
• Personal experience of accessing secondary or inpatient mental health services.
• Personal experience of using your lived experience to support others, for example in a paid role, in volunteering, or in a user led environment
Your time in post will start with attending our peer support training alongside other people starting peer support roles with us. This training is delivered by people with their own lived experience who also have direct experience of working in peer roles themselves.

Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to announce that we are currently recruiting Peer Practitioners for Tees Valley Adult Mental Health Community Services. There are posts available at Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton, Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland. These roles are part of our Community Transformation work and will be part of an exciting new collaborative service alongside Teesside Mind and Darlington Mind, who will also have Peer Support Workers based in the community. The Community Transformation is part of the NHS Long Term Plan and represents a shift in the way we currently deliver care. The aim is to work together to ensure we collectively deliver trauma informed, person centred care to meet an individual's wide-ranging needs. These roles involve working together as part of a wider team and, supported by the Senior Peer Worker and Peer Lead, they will work towards the development of the system Peer Support Services in line with the Community Mental Health Framework and TEWV Peer Support Strategy as appropriate. Peer support can be described as being when people with shared experiences connect to build safe, trusting and non-judgemental relationships where we learn and grow together. Peer Practitioners are people who have experience of mental health challenges and accessing services for mental health care, and are employed, trained and supported to work to the TEWV Peer Support Values and use their experiences to support others.