Job summary
The Peer Support Co-ordinator post will be part of the Lincolnshire Recovery College team.
The PSW Coordinator role is a development opportunity for individuals with lived experience of mental health and experience of working as a PSW within mental health to contribute to the continued development of peer support and promote and champion the carers role within the adult community division.
The successful candidate will play a key part in engaging services both inside and outside of LPFT to promote the role and provide support to current PSW's within the division, aid teams with the PSW recruitment process and be the link for Carers to ensure information and up to date guidance is cascaded within the division.
By working alongside the current B5 PSW coordinator, the successful candidate will use their lived experience to aid the co-production and co-delivery of specific PSW courses around mental health and wellbeing in the Recovery College as well as linking in with the B4 Senior OTA to share information and knowledge gained from linking in with the Carer champions within the division.
Main duties of the job
Co-production / co-delivery of LPFT Recovery College courses
Alongside the current B5 PSW coordinatoir co-produce / co-deliver specific PSW courses in the Recovery College and co ordinate the PSW focus group and PSW development days
Provide professional supervision to all B4 Senior Peer Support Workers within the Adult Community Division on a 1-1 basis.
Provide 1-1 line management supervision to B3 Peer Support Worker's within the Recovery College and professional 1-1/group supervision to B3 PSW's who are in a lone PSW post within the adult community division.
Assist the Service Manager for AHP's, Recovery and Inclusion with the development of Peer Support within the division and the wider parts of LPFT where appropriate including recruitment and induction of new PSW's
Support the Recovery College leadership team in service development for the Recovery College and Peer Support, being in equal voice in coproduction of the service.
Liaise with internal and external service's/stakeholders
Coordinate and share the feedback from the carer champions with the B4 Senior OTA within the RC to aid with the co production of specific carers courses
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
Post holder to bring in their lived experience in order to take part in the co-production/development and co-delivery of LPFT Recovery College courses
To link in directly with PSWs and staff within LPFT/stakeholders in order to ensure the correct PSW courses are being delivered.
Post holder to co-produce and co-deliver specific PSW courses within the Recovery College and alongside the current PSW coordinator.
To co ordinate the PSW focus group and PSW development days alongside the current B5 PSW coordinator
Alongside the current B5 PSW coordinator you will provide professional supervision to all B4 Senior Peer Support Workers within the Adult Community Division on a 1-1 basis.
Alongside the current B5 PSW coordinator you will provide 1-1 line management supervision to B3 Peer Support Workers within the Recovery College
Alongside the current B5 PSW coordinator you will provide professional 1-1/group supervision to B3 PSWs who are in a lone PSW post within the adult community division.
Assist the Service Manager for AHPs, Recovery and Inclusion with the development of Peer Support within the division and the wider parts of LPFT where appropriate.
Support the Recovery College leadership team in service development for the Recovery College and Peer Support, being in equal voice in coproduction of the service.
Coordinate maintaining and increasing contacts between internal and external services/stakeholders in relation to Peer Support and ensuring correct processes are followed and updated/reviewed as required.
Post holder to take the lead and meet with newly recruited PSW as part of their induction process, ,ensure a buddy system is in place and arrange shadowing opportunities.
Post holder to support adult community team managers with co ordinating PSW recruitment, which will include sitting in on interviews and ensuring there are PSW specific questions.
Share PSW recruitment knowledge with the other divisions to enable them to implement PS within their divisions, where capacity allows.
Coordinate the sharing of up to date information for the carers champions within the adult community division to ensure staff are up to date with any changes etc
Chair a carers champion meeting for carer updates specifically for the adult community division.
Coordinate and share the feedback from the carer champions with the B4 Senior OTA within the RC to aid with the co production of specific carers courses
You may occasionally be asked to undertake such other duties that are deemed necessary in order to support business continuity within the Trust. This will only include tasks where you are appropriately trained.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Post holder to bring in their lived experience in order to take part in the co-production/development and co-delivery of LPFT Recovery College courses
To link in directly with PSWs and staff within LPFT/stakeholders in order to ensure the correct PSW courses are being delivered.
Post holder to co-produce and co-deliver specific PSW courses within the Recovery College and alongside the current PSW coordinator.
To co ordinate the PSW focus group and PSW development days alongside the current B5 PSW coordinator
Alongside the current B5 PSW coordinator you will provide professional supervision to all B4 Senior Peer Support Workers within the Adult Community Division on a 1-1 basis.
Alongside the current B5 PSW coordinator you will provide 1-1 line management supervision to B3 Peer Support Workers within the Recovery College
Alongside the current B5 PSW coordinator you will provide professional 1-1/group supervision to B3 PSWs who are in a lone PSW post within the adult community division.
Assist the Service Manager for AHPs, Recovery and Inclusion with the development of Peer Support within the division and the wider parts of LPFT where appropriate.
Support the Recovery College leadership team in service development for the Recovery College and Peer Support, being in equal voice in coproduction of the service.
Coordinate maintaining and increasing contacts between internal and external services/stakeholders in relation to Peer Support and ensuring correct processes are followed and updated/reviewed as required.
Post holder to take the lead and meet with newly recruited PSW as part of their induction process, ,ensure a buddy system is in place and arrange shadowing opportunities.
Post holder to support adult community team managers with co ordinating PSW recruitment, which will include sitting in on interviews and ensuring there are PSW specific questions.
Share PSW recruitment knowledge with the other divisions to enable them to implement PS within their divisions, where capacity allows.
Coordinate the sharing of up to date information for the carers champions within the adult community division to ensure staff are up to date with any changes etc
Chair a carers champion meeting for carer updates specifically for the adult community division.
Coordinate and share the feedback from the carer champions with the B4 Senior OTA within the RC to aid with the co production of specific carers courses
You may occasionally be asked to undertake such other duties that are deemed necessary in order to support business continuity within the Trust. This will only include tasks where you are appropriately trained.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Teaching/Training qualification at level 4 OR
- Health and social care qualification/peer support worker training either HEE or Recovery College equivalent to a level 4
Desirable
- Degree
- Coaching qualification
- Supervisory training
- Leadership training
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience of working as a Mental Health Peer Support Worker and equivalent level of knowledge to that of a level 4 qualification
- Lived experience and recovery from mental health difficulties
- Experience of accessing adult mental health services
- Understanding of stigma that people experience within services and in their wider communities when experiencing a mental health problem
- Understanding of self harm and how this can impact stigma within services and an drive to change these perceptions.
- Supervisory experience Delivery of training sessions
- Experience of working as a mental health PSW
- Preparing and delivering a varied programme of training/educational courses to support people with a diverse range of healthcare needs
- Co-chairing/facilitating meetings either formally or informally.
Desirable
- Experience of accessing RC courses
- Experience of accessing RC courses.
- Involvement in the co-production of any courses
- Group work
- Carers experience
- Knowledge of carers services
Skills
Essential
- Ability to adapt communication to aid understanding and ensure active participation of wide range of individuals, both in individual and groups contexts.
- Excellent skills required to receive complex and sensitive information and to motivate, negotiate, persuade, train others, empathise, provide reassurance where there are barriers to understanding.
- Provide and receive information regarding people's experiences of service and participation for the locality/service, and present information to groups of staff or key stakeholders.
- Ability to draw from own lived experience of mental distress and recovery, and support peer support workers to do so appropriately in their direct work.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse information and provide support and solutions for presenting problems in supervision of staff and everyday duties.
- Be able to analyse complex information discussed in senior meetings to decipher what is appropriate or relevant to feed back to the wider Peer Support Team that may influence or impact on team activity.
- To analyse service user feedback data in order to identify trends and implement action plans to address areas of possible improvement.
- Be efficient, responsible and maintain a high level of personal organisation; keeping accurate and appropriate records and providing information for monitoring and evaluation as required.
- Ability to work within deadlines.
- Ability to oversee various ongoing projects which may vary in length and complexity, as well as show an ability to adapt and prioritise workload subject to business need.
- Ability to travel independently without the use of public transport.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Teaching/Training qualification at level 4 OR
- Health and social care qualification/peer support worker training either HEE or Recovery College equivalent to a level 4
Desirable
- Degree
- Coaching qualification
- Supervisory training
- Leadership training
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience of working as a Mental Health Peer Support Worker and equivalent level of knowledge to that of a level 4 qualification
- Lived experience and recovery from mental health difficulties
- Experience of accessing adult mental health services
- Understanding of stigma that people experience within services and in their wider communities when experiencing a mental health problem
- Understanding of self harm and how this can impact stigma within services and an drive to change these perceptions.
- Supervisory experience Delivery of training sessions
- Experience of working as a mental health PSW
- Preparing and delivering a varied programme of training/educational courses to support people with a diverse range of healthcare needs
- Co-chairing/facilitating meetings either formally or informally.
Desirable
- Experience of accessing RC courses
- Experience of accessing RC courses.
- Involvement in the co-production of any courses
- Group work
- Carers experience
- Knowledge of carers services
Skills
Essential
- Ability to adapt communication to aid understanding and ensure active participation of wide range of individuals, both in individual and groups contexts.
- Excellent skills required to receive complex and sensitive information and to motivate, negotiate, persuade, train others, empathise, provide reassurance where there are barriers to understanding.
- Provide and receive information regarding people's experiences of service and participation for the locality/service, and present information to groups of staff or key stakeholders.
- Ability to draw from own lived experience of mental distress and recovery, and support peer support workers to do so appropriately in their direct work.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse information and provide support and solutions for presenting problems in supervision of staff and everyday duties.
- Be able to analyse complex information discussed in senior meetings to decipher what is appropriate or relevant to feed back to the wider Peer Support Team that may influence or impact on team activity.
- To analyse service user feedback data in order to identify trends and implement action plans to address areas of possible improvement.
- Be efficient, responsible and maintain a high level of personal organisation; keeping accurate and appropriate records and providing information for monitoring and evaluation as required.
- Ability to work within deadlines.
- Ability to oversee various ongoing projects which may vary in length and complexity, as well as show an ability to adapt and prioritise workload subject to business need.
- Ability to travel independently without the use of public transport.
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.
