Job summary
Due to internal promotion we have an exciting opportunity within Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for a person with lived experience of Mental Health conditions to use their experience to support others as a Peer Support Worker within the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Employment Team, who support service users in the community with their employment goals.
You will provide support to individuals within the service by role modelling and using your lived experience to support service users in their recovery and employment journey.
Service users will be seen mainly in defined localities within Lincolnshire but cover for other geographical areas covered by the Trust may be required if the need arises.
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.
To support the service user to communicate or involve mental health professionals and wider support network.
To promote service user involvement in all aspects of their work.
To use peer experience to co-facilitate groups and training to service users and/or staff members
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
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Due to the UKVI immigration changes we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Due to the UKVI immigration changes we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.
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
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
- Completion 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
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
- Completion 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.
