# Reconnect Peer Support Worker > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/reconnect-peer-support-worker/3f26592c-d929-4915-b55d-07ed9c6da026 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/reconnect-peer-support-worker/3f26592c-d929-4915-b55d-07ed9c6da026.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Gloucester - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum (pro rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-01T00:01:48.814Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Gloucester/Gloucestershire_Health_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_health_rehabilitation_peer_support/Mental_health_rehabilitation_peer_support-v8036062 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8036062?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ghc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview RECONNECT is a service that supports people as they transition from prison back into the community, helping them access vital services such as healthcare, housing, and substance misuse support. The aim is to improve continuity of care, support recovery, and reduce the risk of reoffending. We are seeking a Peer Support Worker with lived experience of the Criminal Justice System and ideally recovery from substance misuse. This lived experience is central to the role and will be used to build trust, inspire hope, and support individuals on their recovery journey. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will provide person-centred, recovery-focused support to individuals leaving prison. You will use your own experiences appropriately to motivate and engage service users, helping them to overcome barriers and access the support they need to achieve a successful and sustainable return to the community. ### Main duties of the job - Build trusting, supportive relationships with individuals transitioning from custody into the community - Use lived experience to inspire hope, support recovery, and encourage positive change - Provide practical support, including accompanying service users to appointments and activities - Support engagement with substance misuse services, healthcare, housing, and wider community resources - Work in a strengths-based, recovery-focused way to promote independence and wellbeing - Assist service users to develop and review personalised recovery and support plans - Identify barriers to engagement and support individuals to overcome these in a non-judgemental way - Monitor wellbeing, recognise early signs of risk or relapse, and escalate concerns where appropriate - Work collaboratively with RECONNECT practitioners and partner agencies to ensure coordinated care - Maintain accurate records and contribute to care planning, discharge processes, and service development - Uphold professional boundaries, confidentiality, and safeguarding responsibilities at all times ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Peer Support Worker will play a key role within the RECONNECT service, working both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team to support individuals with complex needs as they transition from prison into the community. Key responsibilities include: - Developing and maintaining respectful, trusting relationships with service users, using lived experience to engage and motivate - Delivering peer support in a way that is recovery-focused, person-centred, and strengths-based - Supporting individuals to identify goals, aspirations, and recovery plans, encouraging self-management and independence - Sharing personal experiences appropriately to build rapport and instil hope, while maintaining clear professional boundaries - Supporting access to services including substance misuse treatment, healthcare, housing, benefits, and social support networks - Assisting individuals to attend appointments, understand their treatment options, and remain engaged with services - Recognising early indicators of disengagement, relapse, or increased risk, and taking appropriate action in line with procedures - Working collaboratively with a wide range of partner agencies, including probation, healthcare providers, housing services, and voluntary organisations - Contributing to multidisciplinary meetings, care planning, and coordinated discharge arrangements - Maintaining accurate, timely records in line with organisational policies and information governance requirements - Adhering to safeguarding, lone working, and risk management procedures, including dynamic risk assessment in community settings - Participating in supervision, training, reflective practice, and continuous professional development - Promoting recovery-focused language, challenging stigma, and modelling positive behaviours and self-advocacy - Supporting service development by sharing learning, contributing to evaluation activities, and helping improve peer support approaches - Maintaining awareness of local services and community resources to effectively signpost and support service users This role involves regular community-based working, including lone working and travelling across the county, and may include supporting individuals in challenging or emotionally demanding situations. ## Job Details RECONNECT is a service that supports people as they transition from prison back into the community, helping them access vital services such as healthcare, housing, and substance misuse support. The aim is to improve continuity of care, support recovery, and reduce the risk of reoffending. We are seeking a Peer Support Worker with lived experience of the Criminal Justice System and ideally recovery from substance misuse. This lived experience is central to the role and will be used to build trust, inspire hope, and support individuals on their recovery journey. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will provide person-centred, recovery-focused support to individuals leaving prison. You will use your own experiences appropriately to motivate and engage service users, helping them to overcome barriers and access the support they need to achieve a successful and sustainable return to the community. ## Job Description Build trusting, supportive relationships with individuals transitioning from custody into the community Use lived experience to inspire hope, support recovery, and encourage positive change Provide practical support, including accompanying service users to appointments and activities Support engagement with substance misuse services, healthcare, housing, and wider community resources Work in a strengths-based, recovery-focused way to promote independence and wellbeing Assist service users to develop and review personalised recovery and support plans Identify barriers to engagement and support individuals to overcome these in a non-judgemental way Monitor wellbeing, recognise early signs of risk or relapse, and escalate concerns where appropriate Work collaboratively with RECONNECT practitioners and partner agencies to ensure coordinated care Maintain accurate records and contribute to care planning, discharge processes, and service development Uphold professional boundaries, confidentiality, and safeguarding responsibilities at all times ## Responsibilities The Peer Support Worker will play a key role within the RECONNECT service, working both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team to support individuals with complex needs as they transition from prison into the community. Key responsibilities include: Developing and maintaining respectful, trusting relationships with service users, using lived experience to engage and motivate Delivering peer support in a way that is recovery-focused, person-centred, and strengths-based Supporting individuals to identify goals, aspirations, and recovery plans, encouraging self-management and independence Sharing personal experiences appropriately to build rapport and instil hope, while maintaining clear professional boundaries Supporting access to services including substance misuse treatment, healthcare, housing, benefits, and social support networks Assisting individuals to attend appointments, understand their treatment options, and remain engaged with services Recognising early indicators of disengagement, relapse, or increased risk, and taking appropriate action in line with procedures Working collaboratively with a wide range of partner agencies, including probation, healthcare providers, housing services, and voluntary organisations Contributing to multidisciplinary meetings, care planning, and coordinated discharge arrangements Maintaining accurate, timely records in line with organisational policies and information governance requirements Adhering to safeguarding, lone working, and risk management procedures, including dynamic risk assessment in community settings Participating in supervision, training, reflective practice, and continuous professional development Promoting recovery-focused language, challenging stigma, and modelling positive behaviours and self-advocacy Supporting service development by sharing learning, contributing to evaluation activities, and helping improve peer support approaches Maintaining awareness of local services and community resources to effectively signpost and support service users This role involves regular community-based working, including lone working and travelling across the county, and may include supporting individuals in challenging or emotionally demanding situations. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Lived experience of the Criminal Justice System (as an offender) and personal recovery journey - Experience of engaging with services such as mental health, substance misuse, housing, or probation - Experience of supporting or motivating others in an informal or formal capacity - Ability to appropriately share lived experience to inspire hope and recovery - Ability to maintain professional boundaries - Knowledge of issues affecting individuals within the Criminal Justice System (e.g. mental health, substance misuse, homelessness, social exclusion) **Desirable** - Experience of working with vulnerable individuals or those with complex needs - Experience of working in a multi-agency or community setting ### Qualifications **Essential** - Knowledge of Health and wellbeing issues. - Training to NVQ level 3 or equivalent level of experience, knowledge or training. **Desirable** - Previous experience of delivering peer mentoring services ## Documents - [staff benefits - ghc (pdf, 618.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2522) - [additional information for applicants (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2656) - [reconnect peer support job description (pdf, 456.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10325854) - [reconnect peer support person specification (pdf, 80.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10325855) ## 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.