Job summary
The Specialist Adult Eating Disorder Team is looking to recruit to a part time (2 days a week, Band 2 Peer Support Worker. This is a permanent post.
The Peer Support Worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to develop an identity outside of the eating disorder, regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. The Peer Support Worker will come alongside a service user through their recovery journey, and assist them when aspiring and considering the initial steps on their care and future self.
Peer Support Workers work as part of the SAEDS and work in collaboration with colleagues within the team. The successful candidate will engage with mental health service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting service users to gain and maintain independence in the community. The Peer Support Worker will assist service users in raising aspirations and developing personal goals, supporting them through their journey to recovery and a life without an eating disorder.
Main duties of the job
- To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users, sharing own narratives to raise aspirations of life without an eating disorder.
- To work primarily in direct work with service users on a 1:1 and in group settings as agreed with team supervisor and team manager.
- To help individuals identify strengths, interests and their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals.
- To support the implementation of groups; i.e. Occupational therapy activities and peer support activities and events including networking.
- To support service users in developing other areas of interest.
- Draw upon own lived experience to inspire hope, model self-awareness and facilitate service users in developing their own resourcefulness for managing their health and wellbeing.
- Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable participation in activities, to maximise service user's opportunities for socially valued roles and positive identity.
- Ensure that service user's peer recovery goals are integrated into the Trusts care plan/CPA process and are reviewed on a regular basis, through liaising closely with other members of the SAEDS team.
About us
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.
Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To actively engage with colleagues and other professionals to ensure the needs of the client group are met through promoting recovery orientated, strengths based practice.
- To attend and participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings.
- To work under the regular supervision of the team supervisor and guidance guidance of other professional colleagues within the team.
- To participate within Trust peer training and peer working networks.
- To have an awareness of SAEDS treatment model and pathways.
- To actively take responsibility for own health and wellbeing through working upon own wellness plan/advanced statement and discussing/reviewing within supervision as necessary.
- To be willing to develop self through specialist training opportunities, relevant to IPS, as agreed with team supervisor and team manager.
- To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with currently quality initiatives within the work area.
- To undertake other duties as may be required suitable to the banding of the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To actively engage with colleagues and other professionals to ensure the needs of the client group are met through promoting recovery orientated, strengths based practice.
- To attend and participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings.
- To work under the regular supervision of the team supervisor and guidance guidance of other professional colleagues within the team.
- To participate within Trust peer training and peer working networks.
- To have an awareness of SAEDS treatment model and pathways.
- To actively take responsibility for own health and wellbeing through working upon own wellness plan/advanced statement and discussing/reviewing within supervision as necessary.
- To be willing to develop self through specialist training opportunities, relevant to IPS, as agreed with team supervisor and team manager.
- To ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest standard and in accordance with currently quality initiatives within the work area.
- To undertake other duties as may be required suitable to the banding of the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEnglish language literacy and numeracy skills to the standard necessary to provide clear, understandable records on computerised system (Lorenzo) and fulfil job description.
Experience
Essential
- oPersonal lived experience of an eating disorder
Knowledge
Essential
- oAble to relate to a wide range of people, with excellent interpersonal skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEnglish language literacy and numeracy skills to the standard necessary to provide clear, understandable records on computerised system (Lorenzo) and fulfil job description.
Experience
Essential
- oPersonal lived experience of an eating disorder
Knowledge
Essential
- oAble to relate to a wide range of people, with excellent interpersonal skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
