(Part-Time) Peer Support Worker – CAMHS Intellectual Disabilities

Job overview

Do you have lived experience of caring for a loved one with a moderate to severe learning disability / intellectual disability?

We are recruiting for a Peer Support Worker to join Oxford Health Buckinghamshire CAMHS. This vacancy is an excellent opening for people with lived experience of Learning Disability (intellectual disability).

Are you passionate about supporting families of children and young people with intellectual disability and keen to work flexibly in the community? Do you have experience navigating health, education and social care systems for children and young people with a learning disability? Do you want to compassionately support families whose child’s distress may place themselves or others at risk, while helping build resilience, coping skills and hope for the future? Are you a parent of a child or adult with moderate to severe Learning Disability who understands the challenges this can bring? Then this role could be for you.

You will join a friendly, supportive and knowledgeable multi-professional team and receive quality reflective supervision. Using your lived experience, you will support families with coping strategies and meaningful changes to reduce their young person’s distress, working closely with colleagues in assessments, 1:1 family sessions and support groups. You will play a vital role in helping the wider system understand the young person’s full identity, including their Learning Disability, neurodivergence and mental health.

Main duties of the job

As a Peer Support Worker, you'll use your own lived experience of supporting loved ones with moderate to severe learning disability, drawing on empathy informed by your own experiences to support service users/families who are accessing mental health services.

The role is based in Sue Nicholls Centre, Aylesbury, however much of the work is delivered in the community in homes and specialised schools.

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.