Senior Peer Support Worker: Sponsorship Available

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Peer Support Worker to support the provision of recovery focused, safe patient care in the community.

The main purpose of this role is to support service users to establish greater control over their lives, helping to identify aspects of life that give meaning, hope, value and purpose whilst recognizing that each individual’s recovery is a distinctive and deeply personal process.

As an integral and valued member of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary Recovery and Wellbeing team (part of CMHT) working in Thurrock, you will provide support to individuals within the service by role modelling and using your lived experience to support service users and guide the service in being more person centered.

 

 

Main duties of the job

As a Peer Community Support Worker, you will work within the Thurrock Recovery and Well Being multidisciplinary team (CMHT), across Thurrock, to support people who under the Team, with diagnosis of severe and enduring mental illness, requiring secondary, specialist mental health support. You will use your lived experience of mental health difficulties to inspire hope and embed the principles of recovery within the team. Within a relationship of mutuality you will be expected to facilitate and support information sharing to promote self-choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to people’s local communities.

Person Specification

lived experience

Essential

  • Lived experience of psychosis

Desirable

  • Peer Support Worker training

Experience

Essential

  • Use of computers to record information

Desirable

  • role within statutory or charitable organisations

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 28 October 2025

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