Carer Peer Support Worker: Sponsorship Available

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

The post holder will collaborate with the social work team, family service, and lived experience team, as well as work closely with inpatient wards, community teams, and the Friends and Family group.

  • As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the Carer Peer Support Worker (CPW) will provide formalised support and practical assistance to friends and family, helping them in their role as carers. They will support service users and carers in regaining control over their lives and their unique recovery process, enabling them to ‘Live, Love, Do.’
  • By sharing wisdom from their own lived experience, the CPW will inspire hope and belief in the possibility of recovery. Within a relationship of mutuality, they will facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination, and opportunities for fulfilling socially valued roles and connecting to local communities.
  • The CPW will play a role in embedding recovery values alongside Trust colleagues and act as an ambassador of Recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations.
  • The CPW will promote their role by providing information and a range of learning opportunities for the multi-disciplinary team and others across the Trust.
  • CPWs are expected to be actively involved in the ongoing development of carer roles within the Trust.

Main duties of the job

  • The CPW will work with an agreed group of carers, friends, and family on a one-to-one and/or group basis and attend service and Trust-wide meetings to represent the carer perspective. They will also have the opportunity to co-work with other colleagues.
  • Reporting directly to the identified Team Manager or equivalent and under the professional supervision of a Social Worker, the CPW will be responsible for delivering carer peer support interventions as agreed and contributing to the care planning process as required by the service.
  • Work alongside the social work team, lived experience team, inpatient nursing, occupational therapy, and psychology teams to support the development of carer representation and voice, particularly when a relative has been recently admitted to the service.
  • Attend and contribute to the Friends and Family group, supporting arrangements for and facilitation of meetings.

Person Specification

Lived Experience

Essential

  • Experience of caring for a friend or relative who was a formal mental health patient

Desirable

  • Experience of caring for a friend or relative who was a forensic mental health patient

Communication Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of competent communication skills

Desirable

  • Evidence of exceptional communication skills

Orgaisational Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrates experience of self motivation

Desirable

  • Demonstrates experience of independent working

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: 12 March 2025

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