Peer Support Worker - Specialist Perinatal Service | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Employer:

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Warrington, WA1 8AW

Pay:

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

20/03/2026

Specialist Perinatal Service, covering Liverpool and Sefton and Mid Mersey.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Specialist Perinatal Service.

We are currently recruiting to the following options:

• Full‑time position (
  37.5 hours per week):
  This role will work across both teams, covering:
• Liverpool & Sefton and
• Two part‑time positions (each at
  22.5 hours per week):
  Each of these roles will be based within one locality team (the Liverpool and Sefton team OR the Warrington, Halton, St Helens & Knowsley team) We welcome applications from motivated and compassionate individuals who are committed to delivering high‑quality mental health care.

The role of PSW utilises the invaluable experience of people who possess lived experience of mental health services.

The challenges that transition to new parenthood can place on wellbeing will be expertly known to the PSW, and will be the basis upon which they will offer relatable connection, aiding recovery for others.

Applicants for the role of PSW within the Specialist Perinatal Service, must have lived experience of mental health challenges within the maternity/perinatal journey.

Please only apply if this is your experience The Specialist Perinatal Service is an MDT that support women, birthing people and families across Cheshire and Merseyside to access specialist advice about their mental health during pregnancy up to 24 months postnatal.

To use own lived experience to directly support service users within the services and promote positive mental well-being.

The role of Peer Support has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of having received care in Mental Health services.

Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, the peer support worker will inspire hope in others.

The peer support worker will act as a recovery champion and an ambassador of positive mental well-being in both clinical and non-clinical environments.

There is also an expectation that the peer support worker will be involved in the on-going development of peer support worker roles including such things as training programmes and evaluations.

The peer support worker strives to empower individuals to achieve their hopes, dreams and goals by assisting them on their journey.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than
1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’

• care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

To act as a positive role model to service users and staff members, demonstrating Trust values during the course of their work To establish supportive and respectful relationships with people using mental health services.

To help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals and set recovery objectives, drawing on your mutual resources as peers and utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques and experience.

To share and promote coping, self-help and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.

To accompany service users to appointments/meetings of their choice and perform a range of practical tasks, aligned to recovery…