# Peer Support Worker Inpatient > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/peer-support-worker-inpatient/eb8251cc-1078-4891-be50-5e2a71c0ded1 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/peer-support-worker-inpatient/eb8251cc-1078-4891-be50-5e2a71c0ded1.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £24,937 - £26,598 per annum Inc HCA pro rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (fixed term) - **Employment type:** Part time - 7.5 hours per week (flexible) - **Closing date:** 2026-05-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-22T15:10:54.860Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Peer_Support_Worker/Peer_Support_Worker-v7852754 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7852754?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are excited to announce a rewarding opportunity for an experienced and innovative Peer Support Worker to join our inpatient rehabilitation wards. In this role, you will lead client-centered activities that inspire hope, promote control, and create opportunities for service users transitioning from hospital to community life. Your primary focus will be on engaging long-term inpatients who may feel stuck, assisting them in various ways, such as: - Building trust with patients who are feeling unmotivated or isolated - Encouraging hope by sharing lived experiences - Supporting recovery-oriented goals in collaboration with clinical staff - Helping to reduce readmissions by fostering community connections and resilience By openly sharing aspects of your own journey through mental health challenges and service navigation, you will instill hope and demonstrate that recovery is achievable for others. Additionally, you will serve as an ambassador for Recovery alongside other Trust Recovery champions, working collaboratively with external agencies and partner organisations. ### Main duties of the job - To get to know the service users within the ward and the staff team, and to understand their recovery goals in order to improve their quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead. - To support individuals in identifying personal recovery goals to improve the service users' quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy for further information. ## Job Details We are excited to announce a rewarding opportunity for an experienced and innovative Peer Support Worker to join our inpatient rehabilitation wards. In this role, you will lead client-centered activities that inspire hope, promote control, and create opportunities for service users transitioning from hospital to community life. Your primary focus will be on engaging long-term inpatients who may feel stuck, assisting them in various ways, such as: - Building trust with patients who are feeling unmotivated or isolated- Encouraging hope by sharing lived experiences- Supporting recovery-oriented goals in collaboration with clinical staff- Helping to reduce readmissions by fostering community connections and resilience By openly sharing aspects of your own journey through mental health challenges and service navigation, you will instill hope and demonstrate that recovery is achievable for others. Additionally, you will serve as an ambassador for Recovery alongside other Trust Recovery champions, working collaboratively with external agencies and partner organisations. ## Responsibilities Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy for further information. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Post holders must have direct, personal, lived experience of using mental health services as a service user. - Post holders must have direct, personal, lived experience of using mental health services as a service user. **Desirable** - Experience of working in a small team - Supporting individuals to resolve their own problems - Working within a referral system. - Working with a range of disadvantaged groups e.g. disabled people, BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) communities. ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Commitment to equal opportunities and confidentiality. - An ability to deal with information in a confidential manner and respond with sensitivity to the opinions of others. **Desirable** - Have some knowledge about forensic services (low and medium secure) and client base - Commitment to involving service users in their own recovery. - Commitment to involving service users in their own recovery. - Ability to work in a small team. - Empathic to needs of individuals. - Excellent active listening skills and ability to ask open questions. - Good written and verbal communication skills. - Clear understanding of how to manage boundaries - Ability to support peers to identify what’s important to them. - Ability to work with a diverse range of service users. ### Education/Qualification **Essential** - Post holders must have completed peer support training either with ELFT/enrich or other. - Post holders must have direct, personal, lived experience of using mental health services as a service user. **Desirable** - Experience of working in a small team. - Supporting individuals to resolve their own problems. - Working within a referral system. - Working with a range of disadvantaged groups e.g. disabled people, BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) communities ## Documents - [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [peer support worker jd (pdf, 320.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10124506) - [peer support worker ps (pdf, 320.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10124507) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.