Main area: Peer Led Self-Management - Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College
Grade Band: 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Short days may be considered to support health conditions. Post holder will be required to work on a Tuesday each week.)
Job ref: 327-25-287
Employer: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: NHS Training Hub - Invista
Town: Brockworth
Salary: £24,625 - £25,674 per annum (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 12/05/2025
Peer Support Worker - Mental Health Conditions
Band 3
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
Our application process aims to understand each candidate's knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over-reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Peer Support Worker with lived experience of a mental health condition(s) to join the Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College. If you have experience of using secondary mental health services and feel that you could use your recovery to inspire and promote hope to others, we would like to hear from you.
The Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College provides peer-led health education to support people to learn self-management skills to live well with their condition and promote recovery. Our Peer Support Workers teach on a range of both mental and physical health courses and are an integral part of co-producing the content to best meet the needs of our participants.
This role will involve the organisation, leading on the delivery of courses, and supporting participants with their learning needs to reach their potential and get the most from attending.
This post will be supported through regular supervision within our team line management structure. You will also have access to training to support your professional development.
In your application for this post, please tell us about your lived experience of a mental health condition(s) and your recovery, as it's essential to the role.
Main duties of the job
This role will be part of the Health and Wellbeing College team. Working under the direction of the college manager, the post holder will facilitate and participate in course design, development, and delivery.
The individual will safely use their own lived experience in a carefully considered way to enable participants to learn self-management skills of their own, to suit their personal needs and own recovery.
The role will require the individual to promote and engage in co-production, working alongside clinicians, Experts by Experience, and health and voluntary sector staff.
The individual for this role will require excellent communication skills and will need to work in a compassionate, recovery-focused, and person-centred manner. The post holder will communicate effectively with a variety of people, teams, and services.
This is a permanent position, working three days a week. The role is based at the NHS Training Hub at Invista, but the individual will need to deliver courses in venues across the county.
Working for our organisation
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity, and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunities to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To communicate effectively with a variety of people, teams, and services to promote Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing College as arranged through team meetings and individual supervision.
2. To keep accurate and up-to-date records, including numbers of attendance and evaluation data, in line with the Health and Wellbeing College's procedures.
3. To use telephone, text, and e-mail to communicate effectively with colleagues, venues, participants, GHC teams, and services.
4. To provide learning support and guidance to participants in a professional manner by drawing on both clinical guidance and lived experience.
5. To organise learning/course materials, and operate IT equipment e.g., computers, projectors as required.
6. To provide support and guidance in a professional manner as part of the Health and Wellbeing team to Experts by Lived Experience who are supporting our Health and Wellbeing College courses.
7. To use clinical systems to document and record participants' involvement with the Health and Wellbeing College.
8. To actively participate in supervision and to reflect on, and make changes to your own practice as required.
9. To consider suggestions for improving our services alongside senior colleagues, to ensure that the college is meeting the needs of its service users.
10. To teach on courses and facilitate a group.
11. To work in a compassionate, responsive, and person-centred manner.
12. To initiate the collection of data from course participation and to work alongside the Health and Wellbeing College Administrator on collating this when required.
13. To prioritise your own workload to meet the requirements of the Health and Wellbeing College work plans, timetables, and deadlines.
14. To support participants to develop their self-management skills whilst maintaining your own personal development. This will involve building and nurturing reciprocal relationships, taking an active role in maximising learning opportunities and reviewing professional development opportunities with support from the Lead Peer Support Worker and the Health and Wellbeing College Manager.
15. To actively participate in Health and Wellbeing College team meetings and to adopt a flexible approach to ensure that service objectives are completed efficiently and within the required timescales.
16. To always act in a manner that promotes and supports equality, values diversity, and promotes dignity and respect. This also involves appropriately reporting behaviour that undermines these principles.
17. To promote and model a trauma-informed care approach.
18. To undertake any other duties appropriate to the post as required by the Health and Wellbeing College Manager and/or Lead Peer Support Worker.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Education to GCSE level or equivalent
* Knowledge of Health and wellbeing issues, and training to NVQ level 3 or equivalent level of knowledge, training, and experience
Experience
* Lived experience of mental health condition(s) and use of secondary mental health services.
* Knowledge and personal experience of self-management interventions, shared decision-making, and goal setting.
* Experience of participation in formal or informal group education or settings, including curriculum and lesson planning and delivery of teaching to adult learners.
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
* Free car parking at many of our sites
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
* A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals, and Return to Practice Practitioners.
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
* Flexible, family-friendly, and agile working opportunities
* Recognition and long service awards
* Fast Track physiotherapy
* Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure, and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Holly Fry
Job title: Health and Wellbeing College Manager
Email address: holly.fry@ghc.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0300 4214414
Contact with the team to discuss the role and its responsibilities is highly recommended, please call or e-mail for any further details. Due to part-time working hours and annual leave, please consider alternative contacts which are naomi.willmott@ghc.nhs.uk and pippa.mileham@ghc.nhs.uk.
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