Peer Assistant Practitioner in Coventry inCoventry PUBLISHED WED 12 NOV 2025 Jump to job information section

As a Peer Assistant Practitioner with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust you’ll use your own lived experience of Early Intervention in Psychosis to support people aged 14–65 through recovery. Working from Swanswell Point in Coventry (CV1), you’ll deliver one-to-one and group occupational therapy interventions alongside OTs, support care coordinators and the wider MDT to meet NICE‑approved standards, and contribute a lived‑experience perspective to service development and recruitment. The role requires completed Level 3 PSW training (or equivalent), the Care Certificate, at least 12 months’ PSW experience, GCSE/Functional Skills Maths and English (A–C / 4–9) and the ability to supervise band 3 PSWs across the three EI teams. The post is permanent, full‑time, Band 4 (£27,485–£30,162 per annum) and subject to a DBS check.

You’ll be supported by regular clinical supervision and team managers and will have chances to co‑create and deliver courses with the Recovery and Wellbeing Academy, plus formal supervision responsibilities for junior peer staff. CWPT offers generous annual leave that increases with service, wide learning and development pathways (apprenticeships, distance learning, coaching), salary sacrifice schemes, staff discount and wellbeing provision including in‑house counselling and employee networks. If you want to bring empathy, practical insight and hope into structured care for people experiencing early psychosis, click the "Apply Now" button next to this advert to apply — jobsincare.com lists this vacancy and makes it easy to proceed.