Senior Peer Support Worker Apprentice
The closing date is 23 July 2025
Job summary
Are you an experienced Peer Support Worker looking for the next step?
We're looking to recruit a Senior Peer Support Worker to join our team to support other Peer Support Workers, team members and service users!
Peer Support Workers (PSW's) are people who have their own lived experience of mental health challenges. They use empathy informed by their own experiences to support service users who are accessing mental health services and their families.
This vacancy is for a position within our Keystone Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs in North and West Oxfordshire. The hubs have been developed to improve the health and wellbeing of people who experience serious mental health difficulties in the community. This post holder will be covering both our Witney and Banbury hubs but will be primarily based at the Witney Hub on Welch Way.
This vacancy is open to existing Oxford Health Peer Support Workers and people with experience of working in a peer support role in another organisation. External applicants will need to undertake Oxford Health's PSW training programme, this is offered as an apprenticeship.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Peer Support Worker will be responsible for supporting the current PSWs to successfully embed the role within the clinical area, to support with their caseloads and to offer mentoring around using their lived experience to support others. This is in addition to, providing support with individual service users and leading or co-leading groups.
Lived experience:
- Drawing on lived experience of mental health to provide emotional and practical support to an allocated group of service users to promote their recovery. This may include avoidance of admission and/or promoting recovery for inpatient's by helping them to identify and build their own support network.
- To support service users to engage effectively with care being offered and access appropriate services.
- To build relationships that are founded on the value of mutuality which will facilitate the provision of regular and practical support.
- Where appropriate challenge discrimination and reducing the stigma of mental ill health.
- To positively promote independent living of service users through role-modelling individual recovery journeys
- To build rapport with service users, whilst maintaining professional boundaries, drawing on both experience and knowledge of the service user perspective and an evidence-based approach.
About us
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:"Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are:"Caring, safe and excellent"
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Details
Date posted
09 July 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum/pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
267-OA7311037
Job locations
Keystone Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub-Banbury
Unit 11A Castle Quay Shopping Centre,
Banbury, Cherwell
OX16 5UH
Employer details
Employer name
Oxford Health NHS Trust
Address
Keystone Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub-Banbury
Unit 11A Castle Quay Shopping Centre,
Banbury, Cherwell
OX16 5UH
Employer's website
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