Job summary
Kingston Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (KCR&HTT) is a multidisciplinary, community based mental health team that aims to provide a safe and effective home based assessment and treatment service as an alternative to in-patient admission, and for early discharge from the ward in the least disruptive and restrictive environment. It works in conjunction with, and is integrated with, other local service elements. The workload is team-based and team members do not carry a specific caseload.
The Multidisciplinary team is made up of Nurses (RMN), Recovery Support Workers (RSW), Occupational Therapist (OT), Team Administrator, Peer Support Worker (PSW), Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP), Line Manager, Consultant Psychiatrist, Trainee Doctors and Nursing Students.
The Team is available to provide care and intervention from 08:30 to 22:30, 365 days of the year for people who are experiencing a mental health crisis of a nature or degree that would require admission in the absence of the CR&HTT.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be based at Tolworth Hospital and work across the borough of Kingston. There is an expectation that the post holder is able to work shifts.
Early Shift: 08:30 to 16:30
Late Shift: 14:30 to 22:30
Key areas of responsibilities:-
- Use personal, experiential knowledge and to share lived experience as appropriate in the role
- To assist in the development and implementation of educational and peer facilitated support groups, activities deemed beneficial by the team
- To help identify early signs of service users becoming unwell and or relapsing by monitoring the service user's progress, level of functioning and mental state with them and updating the care coordinator or other staff involved in the care and support of the service user
- To assist service users to identify their personal interests and personal recovery goals
- To undertake such tasks and duties as may be necessary to provide appropriate support to service users
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Tolworth Hospital, Surbiton
To create the very best environment to care for our patients, this site's layout will be transformed in 2026 to add a number of wards to the existing three. Tolworth has a canteen and is near shops, the A3, Tolworth station, and is a bus ride from Surbiton station, with fast connections to Clapham Junction and London Waterloo.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Trust is committed to the introduction of intentional peer support in its mental health services, and this job of Peer Support Worker is one where we believe that piloting intentional peer support will significantly improve intended outcomes.
The post holder will pilot supporting service users with severe mental illness (SMI) under the care of Home Treatment Teams. It is our ambition that wherever possible, post holders should have personal lived experience of mental health conditions.
In order to provide intentional peer support, you will need to have undertaken or be prepared to undertake accredited peer support worker training, and be willing to positively share your own life experiences, and personal experience of mental health conditions with service users, team members and carers.
In providing intentional peer support, you will be expected:
- To use your own experience to support service users in their recovery journeys, either in 1:1 or within a group setting
- To act as a role model to service users to inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learned as a person in recovery
- You will also be expected to support other Peer Support Workers in their role providing advice/coaching/training where appropriate, and to participate in any reviews undertaken of Peer Support Workers, and advise any changes to the Recovery Lead or Head of Recovery and Social Inclusion.
Job Summary
Under the guidance of the Home Treatment Team Manager:
- To work autonomously, within the Home Treatment team to support patients with SMI at meaningful points of the recovery phase including transitioning between Home Treatment teamand discharge from the service.
- To promote and model peer support in this role
- To listen to and provide peer support for service users receiving services of the Home Treatment Team.. Duties will include practical as well as the emotional support of service users to assist themin their recovery, with a specific focus on engaging with onward Community health and support services.
- To engage and participate in Shared Learning Networks when required.
- Promoting and encouraging service user feedback within the team
- Under the supervision of an RMN, ensuring Crisis plans are regularly reviewed and meet the individual service user
- To support service users in developing self-management strategies
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Trust is committed to the introduction of intentional peer support in its mental health services, and this job of Peer Support Worker is one where we believe that piloting intentional peer support will significantly improve intended outcomes.
The post holder will pilot supporting service users with severe mental illness (SMI) under the care of Home Treatment Teams. It is our ambition that wherever possible, post holders should have personal lived experience of mental health conditions.
In order to provide intentional peer support, you will need to have undertaken or be prepared to undertake accredited peer support worker training, and be willing to positively share your own life experiences, and personal experience of mental health conditions with service users, team members and carers.
In providing intentional peer support, you will be expected:
- To use your own experience to support service users in their recovery journeys, either in 1:1 or within a group setting
- To act as a role model to service users to inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learned as a person in recovery
- You will also be expected to support other Peer Support Workers in their role providing advice/coaching/training where appropriate, and to participate in any reviews undertaken of Peer Support Workers, and advise any changes to the Recovery Lead or Head of Recovery and Social Inclusion.
Job Summary
Under the guidance of the Home Treatment Team Manager:
- To work autonomously, within the Home Treatment team to support patients with SMI at meaningful points of the recovery phase including transitioning between Home Treatment teamand discharge from the service.
- To promote and model peer support in this role
- To listen to and provide peer support for service users receiving services of the Home Treatment Team.. Duties will include practical as well as the emotional support of service users to assist themin their recovery, with a specific focus on engaging with onward Community health and support services.
- To engage and participate in Shared Learning Networks when required.
- Promoting and encouraging service user feedback within the team
- Under the supervision of an RMN, ensuring Crisis plans are regularly reviewed and meet the individual service user
- To support service users in developing self-management strategies
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Undertaken/willing to undertake peer support worker training
- Commitment to obtain underpinning knowledge through work based learning and mandatory training
Desirable
- Undertaken Life Coaching training in line with Trust policy on coaching to include ability to demonstrate a reflective log of coaching practice
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Lived experience of mental health problems
- Experience of positively sharing your own life experiences, personal experience of mental health problems with Service Users and carers
- Developed plans for managing own recovery
- Experience of record keeping
Desirable
- Paid, or unpaid, peer support worker experience
- Experience of training, coaching or supporting the development of others in the workplace
- Experience of recruiting others to roles in either a paid or voluntary capacity
- Understanding of the role of Home Treatment Teams
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Undertaken/willing to undertake peer support worker training
- Commitment to obtain underpinning knowledge through work based learning and mandatory training
Desirable
- Undertaken Life Coaching training in line with Trust policy on coaching to include ability to demonstrate a reflective log of coaching practice
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Lived experience of mental health problems
- Experience of positively sharing your own life experiences, personal experience of mental health problems with Service Users and carers
- Developed plans for managing own recovery
- Experience of record keeping
Desirable
- Paid, or unpaid, peer support worker experience
- Experience of training, coaching or supporting the development of others in the workplace
- Experience of recruiting others to roles in either a paid or voluntary capacity
- Understanding of the role of Home Treatment Teams
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).
