East London NHS Foundation Trust • London E9 5TD
About this role
We are excited to announce a rewarding opportunity for an experienced and innovative Peer Support Worker to join our inpatient rehabilitation wards. In this role, you will lead client-centered activities that inspire hope, promote control, and create opportunities for service users transitioning from hospital to community life.
Your primary focus will be on engaging long-term inpatients who may feel stuck, assisting them in various ways, such as
- Building trust with patients who are feeling unmotivated or isolated
- Encouraging hope by sharing lived experiences
- Supporting recovery-oriented goals in collaboration with clinical staff
- Helping to reduce readmissions by fostering community connections and resilience
By openly sharing aspects of your own journey through mental health challenges and service navigation, you will instill hope and demonstrate that recovery is achievable for others.
Additionally, you will serve as an ambassador for Recovery alongside other Trust Recovery champions, working collaboratively with external agencies and partner organisations.
1. To get to know the service users within the ward and the staff team, and to understand their recovery goals in order to improve their quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead.
2. To support individuals in identifying personal recovery goals to improve the service users' quality of life and to support them to do the things they want to do and live the life they want to lead.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve.
Our values are
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy for further information.
This advert closes on Saturday 20 Jun 2026