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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant experience of working as a Peer
- Experience
Own personal lived experience of mental health
- Knowledge and Skills
A sound knowledge of good practice in Peer Support Work
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to use Email, Word processing packages
- Knowledge and Skills
Cultural awareness including awareness of the potential impact of discrimination & disadvantage on mental health
- Knowledge and Skills
Commitment to Trust Equality and Diversity policies and Trust values
- Education/ Qualification/ Training
ELFT Accredited Peer Support Worker Training or equivalent.
- Education/ Qualification/ Training
A willingness to undertake further training and/or qualifications
- Education/ Qualification/ Training
Commitment to obtain underpinning knowledge through work based learning and mandatory training
Desirable
18 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Awareness of local services and community organisations
- Experience
Ability to demonstrate an understanding of mental health issues.
- Experience
Knowledge of benefits/employment systems.
- Experience
Ability to speak other languages
- Experience
. • Experience of delivering training.
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to co-produce new information resources to promote emerging projects. • To demonstrate a knowledge of conducting audits, survey’s and consultations.
- Knowledge and Skills
Able to demonstrate understanding of Intentional Peer Support.
- Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrate knowledge of personal Recovery To demonstrate broad understanding of the principles of recovery
- Knowledge and Skills
Evidence of good interpersonal skills and an ability to form peer relationships with service users and carers.
- Knowledge and Skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to communicate on all levels and to a broad scope of individuals, both internally and externally to the Trust.
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to appreciate / understand other people's worlds.
- Knowledge and Skills
Willingness to take initiative and speaking Truth to Power
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to recognise and appropriately challenge stigma and discrimination.
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to demonstrate an understanding of mental health issues.
- Knowledge and Skills
Awareness of local services.
- Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge of benefits/employment systems
- Education/ Qualification/ Training
NVQ3 in health and social care or equivalent experience
Job overview
Senior Peer Support Worker (Various locations across Newham)
We are recruiting for Senior Peer Support Worker to work across our Newham mental health services. This includes opportunities to work across our community teams and inpatient services.
This role is specifically for someone with significant experience of working as a Peer support worker, within ELFT and be familiar with Newham.
It is essential to have lived experience of using mental health services as well as completion of the ELFT Peer support worker training. Please note you will NOT be shortlisted without meeting these requirements.
The role of Senior Peer Support Worker will primarily be a face-to-face role, with the need to work in the community and inpatient unit. The main focus of the work will be to support service users in their recovery journey, drawing on your lived experience. There is also a key expectation to co-facilitate groups and take on extra responsibilities relevant to the setting. This may include providing increased support on discharge and supporting the best use of our Peer support resource.
'Please apply for the post only if you have lived experience for mental health issues and evidence of the ELFT PSW Training certificate.
In absence of any of those your will be automatically not shortlisted.'
Main duties of the job
You must be able to use your personal recovery journey to inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in the people you are supporting. You should be an effective communicator and be able to work proactively, as part of the local teams and also as part of the wider teams supporting your peers. To work as an integral and highly valued member of the relevant teams to inspire hope and recovery through sharing lived experience.
- To support staff new to Peer support worker role
- To co-facilitate meaningful groups.
- To take on additional responsibilities relevant to the setting e.g. supporting with referrals screening, team huddles, teaching and training.
(Please see JD for full outline of role.)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Senior Peer Support Worker with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 4 Peer supporter role. The advertised salary is £33,262 - £36,027 per annum Inc HCA. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 29 Sep 2026.
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