Peer Support Worker

Responsibilities

• Using your own experience of going through the Criminal Justice System, treatment, and recovery, you will support service users with vulnerabilities who are navigating the Criminal Justice System.
• You will be a positive role model, inspiring, motivating, guiding, and supporting our service users to engage with services and work on their recovery while demonstrating visible change.
• You will offer emotional and practical support to our service‑users, drawing on your lived experience of the criminal justice system and the challenges and fears it creates to help them achieve a positive future.

Berkshire Liaison & Diversion has an exciting Peer Support Worker position for a fixed term of 18 months. It is intended for a motivated and enthusiastic individual who has lived experience of the criminal justice system and a history of vulnerability such as mental health and/or substance misuse. If you are stable in your recovery journey, having demonstrated a sustained period of stability and personal growth, this could be the perfect opportunity to start a new career in care.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated “outstanding” by the CQC, we are committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. We offer an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working together with you to develop innovative solutions

• Flexible working options to support work‑life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave, increasing with service and opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• Cycle to Work and car leasing scheme, including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites