# Perinatal Peer Support Worker > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for West London NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-peer-support-worker/b39e59e8-9621-40dd-abff-1e1347615dd6 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/perinatal-peer-support-worker/b39e59e8-9621-40dd-abff-1e1347615dd6.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** West London NHS Trust - **Location:** St Bernard's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Peer supporter - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £33,262 - £36,027 per annum pro rata inclusive of 15% HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** 22.5 hours per week (Part time - 22.5 hours per week) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-28T14:20:39.654Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8400504 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8400504?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Tri-borough Perinatal Mental Health Service is looking for a motivated and passionate Peer Support Worker to join us. This is an innovative award winning service delivering new models of specialist care within West London NHS Trust. The position will be in the borough of Hounslow, however the successful candidate will be asked to work across the tri-borough service; Hammersmith & Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow who are based at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Maternity Hospital, Trust headquarters and Hounslow House. This would be an exciting opportunity for a person with lived experience of Perinatal Mental Health to join our service. You will be a member of the multi-disciplinary team, facilitating client-centred activities for our women and their families. We expect through sharing aspects of your own lived experience of mental health challenges and of accessing services, that you as Peer Support Workers will inspire hope and the belief that recovery is possible in others. We would support the successful candidate with an ongoing training programme to facilitate their development within the post. ### Main duties of the job - Providing recovery focussed support to service users - To establish supportive and respectful relationships with people using mental health services. - To help service users to complete recovery plans, incorporating identification of users own goals and support needed to achieve them. - To ensure that interactions are sensitive and responsive to the service users’ ethnic, cultural and social background, using a range of communication and engagement skills as appropriate to the context. - To promote social inclusion and engagement. - To share ideas about ways of achieving and developing recovery, drawing on personal experiences and a range of interventions. - To model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness. - To sign-post to various resources, opportunities and activities within the Trust and the community to promote choice and informed decision making. - To accompany service users to appointments/meetings/activities of their choice and performing a range of practical tasks, aligned to recovery goals. - To be actively involved in the continued development of the PSW training programme and in the ongoing evaluation of the PSW role. - To maintain adequate case records in accordance with Trust policy, and to ensure that concerns are reported to relevant professionals and documented promptly. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to support others in a recovery orientated way - Good motivational techniques and abilities - Clear effective planning and decision-making skills - Ability to receive highly complex and sensitive information and maintain confidentiality - Computer Literacy **Desirable** - Good organisational and time management skills - Ability to challenge clinical practice and attitudes in a diplomatic way - Ability to develop and maintain constructive working relationships with colleagues ### Knowledge **Essential** - Understanding of how lived experience of mental health problems can be used to support others - Good understanding of recovery focussed principles and how they can influence support for service users - Understanding of the issues and concerns that service users may have in relation to their care **Desirable** - Knowledge of mental health policies and legislation that may contribute to support for service users - Understanding the impact of stigma and discrimination on service users ### Experience **Essential** - Personal lived experience of mental health distress - Personal experience of accessing primary or secondary mental health services **Desirable** - Evidence of further related training - Evidence of working within a team environment - Health related qualification - Experience of working with peers and/or clinicians using a co-production methodology within a work setting - Experience of working as a peer trainer - Experience of group work interventions ### Other requirements **Essential** - Commitment to life-long learning - High level of self-awareness - Ability to manage stress and maintain a work-life balance - Ability and willingness to share personal story of recovery in a professional and appropriate manner - Accepting and non-judgemental approach - Personal resilience - Positive and approachable manner - Enthusiasm and passion for working within mental health services - Practical, resourceful and has a problem-solving approach **Desirable** - Experience of receiving counselling or psychotherapy - Ability to critically think and reflect ### Qualifications & training **Essential** - To be registered as an expert by experience with West London Perinatal Service - Formal peer support accredited training **Desirable** - Health related qualification - Evidence of further related training ## Documents - [jd and ps (pdf, 832.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10731793) - [oh requirements (pdf, 304.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3067) - [occupational health requirements (pdf, 376.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3003) ## 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.