Location
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 per annum (pro rata)
Profession
Healthcare support worker
Grade
Band 3
Deadline
30 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
16 Jul 2025

Job overview

The Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) have a particular focus on individuals with treatment resistant psychosis and frequent admissions or long stays in inpatient units locally, and out of county, as well as individuals with 24 hour support whose placements are at risk of breaking down.

This  role will seek to build links between internal services, VCSE (voluntary, community or social enterprise) organisations and existing/new care providers to ensure a multi-agency, collaborative and recovery-oriented approach to complex rehabilitation. This will include creating a shared ethos and goals and a sense of hope and optimism to deliver individualised and person-centred care to promote independence and integration within the local community.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the Peer Support Worker role are:

  • To communicate with a variety of people on a range of matters and keep accurate and complete records consistent with the Trust’s policies and procedures.
  • To act as a specialist resource within the service, by offering a unique perspective to service users. To act as an expert on recovery resources.
  • To share ideas about ways of achieving recovery goals.
  • To co-facilitate group therapy, support and psycho-education groups in various settings within the community as deemed clinically appropriate.
  • To promote opportunities for people with lived experience to raise awareness and promote understanding.
  • Attend Peer Support Group meetings.
  • Support individuals and their families from a holistic perspective.
  • Identify risk and ensure appropriate risk assessments are carried out, and comply with Health and Safety requirements.
  • To attend and actively participate in support and supervision meetings and other meetings as agreed.
  • To maintain good communication with colleagues within Gloucestershire Health and Care Trust, peer mentors, partner organisations and external agencies.
  • Work closely with Trust social inclusion team, help lead on quarterly expert by lived experience forums.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs.  Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care.  So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

As a Peer Support Worker you will be responsible for participating and assisting in the delivery of care / services to patients and service users as part of a Mental Health and Social Care Health Service.  Peer Support Worker  , Social Care Workers and other Healthcare Support Workers employed by the Trust are required to follow the guidance set out in Code of Conduct for Health Care Assistants/ Health Care Support Workers to provide safe and compassionate care of a high standard, and to challenge others who are not.

You will receive direct supervision and partake in reflective practice / training on a regular basis and be required to meet the Care Certificate standards. All successful applicants will also have the opportunity to discuss the prospect of undertaking a Level 3 Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship alongside their substantive post. This apprenticeship would include the Level 3 Diploma in Clinical Healthcare.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.