Peer Supporter

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen in Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust's (CNTW). The role will be for a Peer Supporter for the Mother and Baby Unit (Beadnell Ward) at St Georges Park Hospital in Morpeth.

The Mother and Baby Unit is a six bedded inpatient specialist perinatal ward, for women suffering with perinatal illness.

The Peer Supporter role is a valuable part of the multi-disciplinary support that the ward provides women and their families.

The role is aimed at someone who has experienced perinatal mental illness and sought support for this.

You will use your knowledge and direct lived experience of having perinatal mental illness, and be able to share this to provide support for the women who are admitted onto the ward and their families.

Main duties of the job

This is a unique opportunity to work as part of a specialist multi-disciplinary clinical team, utilising your personal experience to:

Support and engage service users and their families.

Support women to access various support organisations.

Facilitate groups for the women and their babies.

Empower women to have their voices heard in their own care.

Help staff to understand the challenges that perinatal illness can bring.

This will be a challenging, but rewarding role. The post holder must have the ability to communicate where there are barriers to understanding, and they must be able to work as part of a team. They must be confident in working and communicating with people.

As an employee of CNTW, the wellbeing of all of our staff is vitally important. The post holder will have several avenues of support but should also feel confident in their own personal skills and abilities to draw upon their own resilience and strengths to sustain their own wellbeing throughout this role.

What we mean by Lived Experience

Lived experience is when you have experienced something yourself through this experience you develop an understanding of what its like to live through unique experiences and develop resilience that supports your wellbeing.

As a Peer Supporter you will use these first-hand experiences of living through personal challenges to offer insight, relate to and offer support to other people who are now facing similar challenges to the ones you have faced.

About us

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.

As an employee of CNTW, the wellbeing of all our staff is vitally important. The post holder will have several avenues of support but should also feel confident in their own personal skills and abilities to draw upon their own resilience and strengths to sustain their own wellbeing throughout this role.

The post will also involve contributing to the continuing development of the Peer Supporter role and linking in with Third sector and/or recovery colleges.

For anyone who is interested in applying, we will hold an open day at St George's Park. You are welcome to come along to meet with Beadnell staff and involvement team staff. This will take place on 9th February between 1pm and 3pm.

The location of the service is:

Beadnell Mother and Baby Unit

St George's Park

Morpeth

NE61 2NU

Employer details

Employer name

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Georges Park Hospital

Morpeth

NE61 2NU

Employer's website

https://www.cntw.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Georges Park Hospital

Morpeth

NE61 2NU

Employer's website

https://www.cntw.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

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