Band 4 Peer Support Worker (Complex Emotional Needs) - Bristol

Job summary

We have a part time vacancy for a Peer Support Worker (PSW) within the Complex Emotional Needs Service (CEN) . This role is for people who have personal lived experience of mental health challenges that have been understood or diagnosed as a 'personality disorder' and of accessing secondary mental health services.

Through sharing wisdom and insight from their own experiences, PSWs will effectively and positively use their own lived experience to inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.

Within a relationship of reciprocity and mutuality, the PSW will journey with service users to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of individually identified goals. The PSW will work with people towards gaining greater independence and self-agency in managing their own health and wellbeing and will help them to build a sense of belonging within their communities.

This post is suitable for someone who is empathetic, compassionate and patient with a calm and professional response to distress, disturbance and unpredictability.

The post holder will be based at the Speedwell Centre, Central & East Bristol.

Please only apply if you meet the essential criteria above of lived experience to become a Peer Support Worker. You need to demonstrate in your application how this will support the role.

This role requires the post holder to work on Tuesdays.

Main duties of the job

As an integral and valued member of the multidisciplinary community team, PSWs will be responsible for the delivery of peer support including but not limited to 1:1 peer work, co-delivering therapeutic groups, co-delivering training and attending supervision groups to embed the lived experience perspective within the team.

The post holder will contribute to the ongoing assessment, planning delivery and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social and well being needs, for an allocated group of service users.

The post holder will also be actively participating in service user and carers involvement work, such as gathering feedback as well as feeding back, encouraging service user involvement and leading on co-creating within service developments.

See attached job description for more details.

Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

About us

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provideHigh Quality, Compassionate Careeverywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Details

Date posted

14 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£28,392 to £31,157 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

342-BR112-0826

Job locations

Speedwell Centre

Whitefield Rd

Speedwell

BS14 9BP

United Kingdom