Senior Peer Support Worker - Band 5

Senior PSW

A wonderful opportunity has arisen within Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust for a senior peer support worker to help develop our lived experienced workforce further. This post has the opportunity to be a development post starting at a band 4 and moving to a band 5 once competencies have been achieved. We really want to work with you to support your career in this important profession.

By using your own lived experience of recovery and experience as a peer support worker you will go on to supervise, train and recruit more peer support workers for our front-line services.

The ideal candidate will have a good level of experience as a PSW, evidencing peer support values and principles in daily practice, be PSW trained and have or be willing to receive further PSW supervisor training.

This post holder can be full time or part time but willing to support people over the whole service area across Coventry and Warwickshire.

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.