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Job summary

Main area
Buckinghamshire Mental Health Services
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
30 hours per week (Part-time post)
Job ref
267-BM7868273
Employer
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sue Nicholls Centre
Town
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Salary
£27,485 - £30,162 Per Annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/04/2026 23:59

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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

(Part-Time) Peer Support Worker – CAMHS Intellectual Disabilities

Band 4

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.


 

Job overview

Do you have prior personal lived experience of ill-mental health? 

We are recruiting for a Peer Support Worker to join Oxford Health Buckinghamshire CAMHS. This vacancy is an excellent opportunity for people with lived experience of personal mental health challenges.

Are you passionate about working with families of children and young people with intellectual disability, who wants to be able to work flexibly out in the community? Do you want to support families whose children are communicating their distress through behaviour and help those families build their resilience, coping skills and hope for the future? Are you a parent of a child or adult with Learning Disability and understand the challenges that that brings? Then this role is for you.

You will join a friendly and supportive, well-established, and knowledgeable multi-professional team. You will receive quality reflective supervision. You will use your skills to support families with strategies and make meaningful changes to reduce their young person's distress working closely with other members of the team in assessments, 1:1 time with families and support groups. You will be a vital member of the team helping the system to understand the complete identity of the young person including their Learning Disability, neurodivergence, and mental health.

Main duties of the job

As a Peer Support Worker you'll use your own lived experience of mental health challenges, drawing on empathy informed by your own experiences to support service users/families who are accessing mental health services.

The role is predominantly based in Sue Nicholls Centre, Aylesbury, with additional expectation to work from Saffron House, High Wycombe.

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible 

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

  • Excellent opportunities for career progression
  • Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
  • 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
  • NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
  • Competitive pension scheme
  • Lease car scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Mental Health First Aiders
  • Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
  • Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. 

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Person specification

Question 1

Essential criteria
  • Tell us about your existing knowledge of mental health conditions and about any courses you have already completed.

Question 2

Essential criteria
  • Tell us why you have the ability to offer specialist support using your personal experience of recovery.

Question 3

Essential criteria
  • Tell us about your previous or current experience working within Peer Support or a similar caring role.

Question 4

Essential criteria
  • Tell us an about a time when you needed to use your own initiative while at work or within a personal setting.

Question 5

Essential criteria
  • Tell us how you have previously developed and maintained sound working relationships with members of your team at work.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStep into healthNHS 75th BirthdayDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Cate Welmers
Job title
Bucks Peer Support Coordinator
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07721163891
Additional information

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.

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