Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time Band 3 Peer Support Worker to join Louth Intergrated Community Mental Health Team (ICMHT). We are looking for a highly motivated person who is keen to join a supportive and recovery focussed service, working with service users experiencing severe and enduring mental ill health.
The role of peer support worker (PSW) is specifically for people who have lived experience of mental health challenges. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, peer support workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.
As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the 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 journey within there local communities.
Through sharing the wisdom of own lived experience, the PSW will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.
Main duties of the job
To act as a role model to service users and their carers to inspire hope that recovery is possible.
To share life experiences and lessons learnt as a person in recovery.
To share your own and other examples of lived experience of recovery.
To support service users to identify and access meaningful activities in the community
To empower service users to create a supportive network.
To use a number of agreed recovery tools e.g. SMART goals in a flexible way to support the service user.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To model principles of hope, recovery and self-belief in all aspects of their work with patients and families.
Share coping, self-help and self-management techniques with patients and their carers, in an appropriate and supportive manner.
To support patients to meet treatment goals and enable access to the community to promote their emotional and social development.
Support patients who may be struggling with transitions out of, or across, services.
Liaise with representatives from universal services, as appropriate, and facilitate and model good communication between services.
Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, and local and national policy and legislation.
Engage in a period of induction, supervision and work-related training, as required.
Maintain strict confidentiality of patient information at all times and ensure accurate record-keeping in accordance with Trust Policy.
Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable service users and /or carers to participate in community activities, in order to maximise opportunities for taking on socially valued roles, positive identify and support people moving on from clinical services.
To work flexibly across the week, this may include some weekend and evening work.
To work with expert peers and expert professionals, applying the principles of co-production by developing a learning environment that promotes equality and mutuality.
To act as a connector and work collaboratively to establish and develop links with the wider peer support network both internal and external to LPFT.
Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness via the telling of own recovery story to inspire and instil confidence in patients and staff alike.
Share/teach coping, self-help and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.
Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To model principles of hope, recovery and self-belief in all aspects of their work with patients and families.
Share coping, self-help and self-management techniques with patients and their carers, in an appropriate and supportive manner.
To support patients to meet treatment goals and enable access to the community to promote their emotional and social development.
Support patients who may be struggling with transitions out of, or across, services.
Liaise with representatives from universal services, as appropriate, and facilitate and model good communication between services.
Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, and local and national policy and legislation.
Engage in a period of induction, supervision and work-related training, as required.
Maintain strict confidentiality of patient information at all times and ensure accurate record-keeping in accordance with Trust Policy.
Facilitate access to community groups and networks that enable service users and /or carers to participate in community activities, in order to maximise opportunities for taking on socially valued roles, positive identify and support people moving on from clinical services.
To work flexibly across the week, this may include some weekend and evening work.
To work with expert peers and expert professionals, applying the principles of co-production by developing a learning environment that promotes equality and mutuality.
To act as a connector and work collaboratively to establish and develop links with the wider peer support network both internal and external to LPFT.
Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness via the telling of own recovery story to inspire and instil confidence in patients and staff alike.
Share/teach coping, self-help and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.
Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Ability and confidence to use a computer
- Ability to share personal story of recovery in a professional manner while working within appropriate guidelines
- Able to relate empathically with people
- Ability to assist people to develop their own recovery plans
- Willingness to promote the concept of recovery in all work carried out
- Ability to support people to make the best of local resources including support networks
- Willingness to reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback
- Able to manage conflict and support others to do so
- Able to demonstrate a patient, non-judgemental, respectful and compassionate attitude
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multi disciplinary team
Experience
Essential
- Lived experience of mental health issues
- Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role
- Experience of operating in an environment that requires confidentiality
- Lived experience of mental health services
Desirable
- Experience of accessing specialist services
- Able to relate to a wide range of people across different organisational boundaries
Qualifications
Essential
- Satisfactory level of Secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent (may be working toward this).
- Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English.
- Willingness to undertake further training to support development of peer support role
- ImROC or Institute of mental health peer support worker training or ability to complete this when in post
Desirable
- oCompletion of Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) or use of similar self-management techniques. Awareness/ability of how to adapt this to make it suitable to share within the work place
- Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification.
- Recovery college course qualification.
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel independently without the use of public transport to other locations in a timely manner
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Ability and confidence to use a computer
- Ability to share personal story of recovery in a professional manner while working within appropriate guidelines
- Able to relate empathically with people
- Ability to assist people to develop their own recovery plans
- Willingness to promote the concept of recovery in all work carried out
- Ability to support people to make the best of local resources including support networks
- Willingness to reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback
- Able to manage conflict and support others to do so
- Able to demonstrate a patient, non-judgemental, respectful and compassionate attitude
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multi disciplinary team
Experience
Essential
- Lived experience of mental health issues
- Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role
- Experience of operating in an environment that requires confidentiality
- Lived experience of mental health services
Desirable
- Experience of accessing specialist services
- Able to relate to a wide range of people across different organisational boundaries
Qualifications
Essential
- Satisfactory level of Secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent (may be working toward this).
- Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English.
- Willingness to undertake further training to support development of peer support role
- ImROC or Institute of mental health peer support worker training or ability to complete this when in post
Desirable
- oCompletion of Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) or use of similar self-management techniques. Awareness/ability of how to adapt this to make it suitable to share within the work place
- Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification.
- Recovery college course qualification.
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel independently without the use of public transport to other locations in a timely manner
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).
