Peer Support Worker

Job summary

Please note - This role is not eligible for sponsorship unless you meet criteria by temporary exemption from current changes to immigration rules put in force on 22/07/2025. Separate provisions are applied to workers who have been sponsored and held continuously Skilled Worker visa since prior to 04/04/2024.

This is a great opportunity to join our friendly and developing community team within the GMMH rehabilitation division.

The Home Engagement and Rehabilitation Team (HEART) aims to provide bespoke, intensive, and individualised interventions and care to service users living with complex, enduring mental health problems to enable them to live fulfilling lives in the community.

The role of Peer Support Worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental health difficulties or a dual diagnoses such as mental health with substance misuse / learning difficulties / autism, to help service users who may benefit from peer support in addition to other treatment and interventions. There is growing evidence that peer support reduces the need for individuals to access crisis and inpatient services.

The Peer Support Worker will act as a role model, mentor and ambassador for living well in both clinical and non-clinical environments across a range of community settings.

Main duties of the job

Through sharing wisdom from your own experiences, you will inspire hope and belief that living well is possible in others. You will:

Support and promote recovery from mental health as a user led concept.

Emphasise hope and optimism, inspiring individuals to achieve their aspirations/goals.

Value experiential learning alongside other people.

Focus on strengths rather than deficits.

Foster collaboration between those who need support and those who support them.

Enable and promote autonomy and self-management.

The postholder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers and will have a clear understanding of their professional role.

The postholder will embrace the core values of GMMH and its partner agencies. These principles will recognise the need to:

• Promote safe practices
• Value the aims of service users
• Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
• Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
• Value social inclusion

About us

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go, you will experience a great northern welcome, with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Employer details

Employer name

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT

Address

Home Engagement and Rehabilition Team (HEART

Floor 11, Hexagon Tower, Crumpsall Vale

Manchester

M9 8GQ

Employer's website

https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT

Address

Home Engagement and Rehabilition Team (HEART

Floor 11, Hexagon Tower, Crumpsall Vale

Manchester

M9 8GQ

Employer's website

https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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