Job summary
Access and Assessment Team - Rough Sleeper Project, Great Yarmouth.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to join the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Access and Assessment Team and Rough Sleeper project. If successful you will be working alongside experienced practitioners and contribute to the support offered to people who are homeless and living within the Great Yarmouth area. This is a new service so you will be a key part of developing the team to make a real difference for individuals with complex needs. You will be supported in this role by senior clinicians working within the Rough Sleeper team, and by the Peer Support Lead.
Your role will be to use your lived experience to model hope and recovery, provide a vital link between statutory and third sector services and support the individual throughout the pathway. It is desirable that applicants are able to demonstrate relevant lived experience.
Your work base will be at Northgate Hospital, Great Yarmouth, although you will need to be able to travel around the local area.
Main duties of the job
As a Peer Support Worker, you'll act as a role model using your own lived experience of recovering from mental health issues to inspire hope and support others in their own journey of recovery. You will work with Service Users to help them develop a belief in their own abilities to deal with various situations; the confidence to have control over their own motivation, behaviour and social environment; and the ability to successfully achieve their goals in life.
About us
Our Teams and Service are committed to supporting and retaining good quality and experienced staff. The client group you will work with are adults with severe and enduring mental health needs.
Your role in will inevitably be challenging and demanding at times, but it will also be immensely rewarding and provide you with great opportunities to make a genuine difference to the lives of others. You will receive managerial and clinical support from within the team and also from the Trust Lead Peer Support Worker. Our teams are caring, creative, hard-working and clinically led. The Trust Values of Positively, Respectfully and Working Together are utilised within the Service to support all team members to feel their opinions are valued.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Personal relevant lived experience
Desirable
- Previous experience of working within mental health setting
- Previous experience of receiving secondary mental health care
Skills
Essential
- Basic understanding of peer support principles and values
Desirable
- Experience of working with the Recovery model
Knowledge
Essential
- Awareness of self-management techniques for wellbeing
- Ability to travel independently
Qualifications
Essential
- PSW training course or Commitment to completing the NSFT PSW course or an equivalent PSW training programme
- Level 3 diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification/experience or commitment to completing
Desirable
- Mental health first aid course or other relevant training/course
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Personal relevant lived experience
Desirable
- Previous experience of working within mental health setting
- Previous experience of receiving secondary mental health care
Skills
Essential
- Basic understanding of peer support principles and values
Desirable
- Experience of working with the Recovery model
Knowledge
Essential
- Awareness of self-management techniques for wellbeing
- Ability to travel independently
Qualifications
Essential
- PSW training course or Commitment to completing the NSFT PSW course or an equivalent PSW training programme
- Level 3 diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification/experience or commitment to completing
Desirable
- Mental health first aid course or other relevant training/course
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).
