Peer Support Worker

Are you passionate about helping others in their journey through recovery? Are you a person who is keen to drive change through innovative thinking? If so, this could be the role for you!

This is an exciting opportunity to use your own lived experience to work at Forest Close as a Peer Support Worker, working with a range of professionals and service users to support people in their recovery.

Forest Close is a mental health inpatient rehabilitation unit for adults living in Sheffield.

Our aim is to provide care to people with severe and enduring mental health needs who require support to aid their recovery.

Service users are supported by a full multi-disciplinary team in a psychologically and trauma informed service with the aim of enabling them to live independent and fulfilled lives.

Forest Close serves the whole of the city and works closely with teams across Sheffield, including the Community Enhancing Recovery Team. The average length of stay at Forest Close is between 12 and 18 months.

As a peer support worker at Forest Close, you will be supported to draw upon lived experience to enhance the approaches offered to service users and support their recovery, through helping identify their strengths values and aspirations.

The successful candidate will have experience of using rehabilitation mental health services and a desire to work with people in their journey through recovery, and contribute to collaborative care planning, recovery goals and goals based outcomes.

The successful candidate will provide both 1:1 and group peer support in line with national competencies. This might focus on using a peers own lived experience as part of work on a persons identity, goal setting and connecting with their chosen community.

Forest Close has an ethos of a whole team approach with an emphasis on staff wellbeing and supporting each other. It is essential to work closely with colleagues and play a role within the multi-disciplinary team to play a part in maintaining standards of care and driving quality improvement work to continually ensure our service users receive the best care possible.

General Requirements:

Principal Duties:

The post holder will work flexibly in collaboration with others to undertake a number of duties.  Below are some examples:

Working with service users and their families or carers:

Working with colleagues as part of a team:

Co-produce staff training:

Personal responsibilities:

·       Work flexibly to meet service needs.

Administrative responsibilities:

·       Keep clinical records up to date including using mobile working technology in accordance with legislation.

·       Maintain records to a high standard and record activity data in a timely manner.

Service development:

Supervision, training, reflective practice and continual professional development: