NHS
Carer Peer Support Specialist
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Job Description
- Req#: C9354-25-0497?language=en&page=19&sort=publicationDateDesc
- Training relevant to mental health
- Lived experience as a family member/carer for someone with mental health issues
- Knowledge of the mental health system and carers support services
- Understanding of family issues, including in culturally diverse communities
- Training relevant to mental health
- Lived experience as a family member/carer for someone with mental health issues
- Knowledge of the mental health system and carers support services
- Understanding of family issues, including in culturally diverse communities
Job summary
As part of our ambition to deliver outstanding care we are looking to recruit a Carer Peer Support Specialist to complement our existing multi-disciplinary team. If you have had your own experience of caring for an individual with mental health issues and would like to support other carers using your experience and skills, please apply.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a someone that has lived experience of being a carer for an individual(s) with serious mental health issues. As an integral and highly valued member of our multi-disciplinary team, the Carer Peer Support Specialist will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to carers and family members of those accessing the service, empowering them to build control over their lives and access support for themselves.
We are building a new hospital in Bexhill to replace our inpatient services at the Department of Psychiatry. This means that, if you are successful in your application, you will be asked to transfer to the new facilities when they open in 2025.
Main duties of the job
The Carer Peer Support Specialist works collaboratively and aims to assist in improving the wellbeing of families and carers of people who use inpatient care services; by supporting carers directly, providing support to carer groups, developing and maintaining relationships with the service provider teams, joining and facilitating a carers' network, and contributing to service development by representing carers at leadership meetings.
About us
If you join Sussex Partnership as a Carer Peer Support Specialist you will be part of an ambitious service to deliver excellent care. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team locally but also a growing peer support network across the organisation. We offer access to peer-led training, mentoring and development and you will have opportunities to develop and grow in this role.
Details
Date posted
14 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year pro rata for part time
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
354-AE-21136
Job locations
Department of Psychiatry
Kings Drive
Eastbourne
BN21 2UD
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
To share and discuss common experiences with families and carers, establishing and maintaining relationships while developing trust and rapport.
Support carers directly with improving wellbeing, making sense of difficult experiences and developing skills and confidence for planning ahead.
Signpost and mentor families and carers by providing information about support and services available and support them to access them.
Work collaboratively with the other Carer Peer Support Specialists locally to develop best practice, share learning and support each other.
Identify and strengthen families and carers partnerships with the service provider in order to improve the support they receive.
Actively seek to understand, communicate and support families and carers views and needs to internal and external stakeholders in a variety of settings.
Develop links to other organisations that support carers and local networks across statutory and voluntary services.
Participate in professional supervision with a Senior Peer Support Coordinator as well as local clinical supervision.
Job responsibilities
To share and discuss common experiences with families and carers, establishing and maintaining relationships while developing trust and rapport.
Support carers directly with improving wellbeing, making sense of difficult experiences and developing skills and confidence for planning ahead.
Signpost and mentor families and carers by providing information about support and services available and support them to access them.
Work collaboratively with the other Carer Peer Support Specialists locally to develop best practice, share learning and support each other.
Identify and strengthen families and carers partnerships with the service provider in order to improve the support they receive.
Actively seek to understand, communicate and support families and carers views and needs to internal and external stakeholders in a variety of settings.
Develop links to other organisations that support carers and local networks across statutory and voluntary services.
Participate in professional supervision with a Senior Peer Support Coordinator as well as local clinical supervision.
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Additional informationDisclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Department of Psychiatry
Kings Drive
Eastbourne
BN21 2UD
Employer's website
https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Department of Psychiatry
Kings Drive
Eastbourne
BN21 2UD
Employer's website
https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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