Job summary
Peer Support Worker/Lived Experience Trainer - Band 3:
As a Mental Health Peer Support Worker in our Rehab Team, you will play a uniquely meaningful role, using your own lived experience of mental health difficulties to support others at some of the most important moments in their recovery. This is a role built on empathy, authenticity and mutuality - qualities that can only come from someone who has truly "been there".
You will work alongside people who are experiencing mental health challenges, offering the kind of understanding, validation and hope that only a peer can provide. By sharing aspects of your own recovery journey in a safe and boundaried way, you will help people feel less alone, seen, and supported to take control of their own lives. Your contribution will complement clinical work by bringing a personal recovery perspective that helps individuals build confidence, develop coping strategies and reconnect with what matters most to them.
NOTE: This role is not eligible for sponsorship
Main duties of the job
The Peer Support Worker (PSW) will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process.
Peer support is based on the recognition that there is no better person to support the path towards recovery than someone who has walked the same path as that individual.
The Peer Support Worker (PSW) will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, in order for them to 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.
About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users, sharing own narratives to raise aspirations to achieve individual defined goals.
To work in direct contact with service users on a 1:1 and in group settings as agreed with team supervisor and team manager.
To maintain professional boundaries within the context of the working relationship.
To help individuals to identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals through the use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures.
To support the coproduction and co facilitation of groups to which enable Service users recovery journeys.
Raise awareness of recovery language among Trust staff by modelling positive, strengths based, non-discriminatory working, and avoiding the use of labels and jargon in all areas of work.
Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness.
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. To utilise principles of the CHIME recovery model (Leamy et al) as a framework for recovery beyond Trust services.
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 of other professional colleagues.
To participate within Trust peer training and peer working networks.
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, 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.
To offer peer support and supervision to junior Peer Support workers and lived experience volunteers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users, sharing own narratives to raise aspirations to achieve individual defined goals.
To work in direct contact with service users on a 1:1 and in group settings as agreed with team supervisor and team manager.
To maintain professional boundaries within the context of the working relationship.
To help individuals to identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals through the use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures.
To support the coproduction and co facilitation of groups to which enable Service users recovery journeys.
Raise awareness of recovery language among Trust staff by modelling positive, strengths based, non-discriminatory working, and avoiding the use of labels and jargon in all areas of work.
Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness.
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. To utilise principles of the CHIME recovery model (Leamy et al) as a framework for recovery beyond Trust services.
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 of other professional colleagues.
To participate within Trust peer training and peer working networks.
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, 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.
To offer peer support and supervision to junior Peer Support workers and lived experience volunteers.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEnglish language literacy and numeracy skills to the standard necessary to provide clear, concise records on computerised system (Lorenzo) and fulfil job description.
Qualifications
Essential
- oCompletion of NVQ level 3 health and social care qualification or Care certificate or employed in a role with equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential
- oPersonal lived experience of a mental health condition
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEnglish language literacy and numeracy skills to the standard necessary to provide clear, concise records on computerised system (Lorenzo) and fulfil job description.
Qualifications
Essential
- oCompletion of NVQ level 3 health and social care qualification or Care certificate or employed in a role with equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential
- oPersonal lived experience of a mental health condition
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.
