Understanding peer-to-peer supervision of peer support workers v.1.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Understanding peer-to-peer supervision of peer support workers in NHS settings
IRAS ID
348564
Contact name
Taryn Talbott
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Cardiff University
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
EC.25.01.21.7140R, School Research Ethics Committee
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 30 days
Research summary
This project aims to understand how supervision is experienced by peer support workers when it is delivered by other peer support workers. By ‘peer support workers’, we mean people who are employed within NHS mental health and/or learning disabilities services to use their own experiences of living with mental health difficulties or a learning disability to support service users.
Peer support workers tend to receive clinical supervision from clinical members of staff (such as mental health nurses, clinical psychologists, and other professionals), and line management from a Team Lead or operational staff member. In more recent years, senior peer support workers have been offering supervision to other peer support workers, but there has been little research that has tried to understand how peer support workers experience this kind of supervision. In this project, we will interview NHS peer support workers about their experiences of receiving this specific ‘peer-to-peer’ supervision to try to understand it better. This will help us make recommendations for offering this kind of supervision which will inform training for staff providing supervision to peer support workers.
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REC reference
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