Peer Support Worker

Job summary

We are looking for part-time Peer Support Workers with essential lived experience / expert by experience of the criminal justice system to join the Criminal Justice Liaison & Diversion (CJL&D) Service for Devon. This initiative has been introduced across Liaison & Diversion teams, with a view to service improvement led by the people that use them and to widen the pool of people in the NHS by establishing a vocational pathway.

CJL&D is a very different service from other community mental health services and operates across Devon. We are an all‑age service and sit at the start of someone's pathway through the criminal justice process usually when they come to the attention of the police and are arrested. Practitioners conduct triage assessments, signpost and support that person on their journey through the criminal justice pathway until an outcome is reached. Peer support workers are key to helping and supporting a person on that journey. We work with ...