Peer Support Worker - Maternal Mental Health Service

To use own lived experience to directly support service users within the MMHS and promote positive mental well-being.

The role of Peer Support has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of having received care in Mental Health services. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, the peer support worker will inspire hope in others.

The peer support worker will act as a recovery champion and an ambassador of positive mental well-being in both clinical and non-clinical environments. There is also an expectation that the peer support worker will be involved in the on-going development of peer support worker roles including such things as training programmes and evaluations.

The peer support worker strives to empower individuals to achieve their hopes, dreams and goals by assisting them on their journey.

For those considering this role of PSW within the Maternal Mental Health Service there is a requirement for the person to have lived experience within the maternity journey.

The Maternal Mental Health service provides support to women and birthing people who have experienced loss and/or trauma within their maternity journey. As a service we provide care under 3 pillars: Midwifery, Psychology and Peer support.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established MMHS and to use your own experience to help support others during their journey. The support provide by our PSW's is unique and invaluable., 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.