CYP Parent/Carer Peer Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 05/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a Parent/Carer Peer Support Worker to join the CYP Peer Support team in Boston. The successful candidate will use their lived experience of supporting a child through mental health services to provide emotional support and practical assistance to other parent/carers. The role involves inspiring hope, exploring parental wellbeing, and supporting access to local community resources. It requires good communication skills and a passion for co-producing and improving mental health services.
Essential criteria
- Satisfactory level of Secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent (may be working toward this).
- Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English.
- Willingness to undertake further training to support development of peer support role, and child and young person's involvement.
Desirable criteria
- Level of education to NVQ 3/AS level or equivalent
- Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification
- Lived experience of being a parent/carer to someone experiencing mental health issues
- Lived experience of being a parent/carer to someone who has accessed mental health services, preferably children and young person (CYP) mental health services
- Experience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques
- Experience of being employed in a role supporting or mentoring others
- Experience of working in a team or group environment
- oExperience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques
- Experience working in a setting supporting children and young people
- Experience of working across different organisational boundaries
- Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Able to confidently use a computer.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of personal recovery principles and values
- An ability to recognise and manage own stress. Ability to demonstrate and model self-care skills
- Able to demonstrate a non-judgemental, respectful attitude toward others
- Understanding of service user involvement and participation and why it is important
- An ability to recognise and manage own stress. Ability to demonstrate and model self-care skills
- Willingness to reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback
- Good organisational skills, including time management
- Willingness to reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback
- Be able to ask for help
- Ability to work creatively and use initiative
- Ability to work well within a team
- Satisfactory level of Secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent (may be working toward this).
- Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English.
- Willingness to undertake further training to support development of peer support role, and child and young person's involvement.
- Level of education to NVQ 3/AS level or equivalent
- Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification
- Lived experience of being a parent/carer to someone experiencing mental health issues
- Lived experience of being a parent/carer to someone who has accessed mental health services, preferably children and young person (CYP) mental health services
- Experience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques
- Experience of being employed in a role supporting or mentoring others
- Experience of working in a team or group environment
- oExperience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques
- Experience working in a setting supporting children and young people
- Experience of working across different organisational boundaries
- Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Able to confidently use a computer.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of personal recovery principles and values
- An ability to recognise and manage own stress. Ability to demonstrate and model self-care skills
- Able to demonstrate a non-judgemental, respectful attitude toward others
- Understanding of service user involvement and participation and why it is important
- An ability to recognise and manage own stress. Ability to demonstrate and model self-care skills
- Willingness to reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback
- Good organisational skills, including time management
- Willingness to reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback
- Be able to ask for help
- Ability to work creatively and use initiative
- Ability to work well within a team
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Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
CYP Parent/Carer Peer Support Worker
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a parent/carer with lived experience of supporting your child through mental health services as an adolescent? Do you want to use your lived experience to help other parent/carers?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate, self-motivated individual with this lived experience to join our award-winning CYP Peer Support team based in Boston (covering south of the county) on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
Parent/carer peer support workers (PSWs) provide emotional support and practical assistance to parent/carers with a child a currently open to CYP Mental Health Services. Through drawing from and sharing their own experiences, a parent/carer PSW will inspire hope and support families to feel hopeful about the future.
Recognising the pivotal role parent/carers play in supporting their child's mental health, and the emotional impact of caring for a child experiencing emotional distress, this role involves providing a listening ear, exploring parental wellbeing, and supporting parent/carers to access support in their local community.
As this role will involve working across different teams in CYP services (Healthy Minds, Mental Health Support Teams, CAMHS) and supporting service user participation, we are looking for indi
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