Job summary
Heart and Soul peer workers represent CPFT's pastoral care and spiritual wellbeing service, and they join the Heart and Soul community of volunteers, specialist chaplains and peer workers.
In this role you will be free to act in your own right on behalf of Heart and Soul, and to be creative in how you use your life experience, lived experience and recovery to the benefit of people in our care in hospital.
You will be expected to bring a spiritual flavour to what you do - in other words, looking for the meaning in the experience when people reflect with you on what brought them to hospital care in the first place, but also in how they see their future, and to do so very gently.
Working for Heart and Soul will appeal to you if you would consider yourself to be a spiritual person, whether that is, or has been, a religious thing or not.
Heart and Soul will also appeal to you if you are interested in joining a community populated chiefly by volunteers, most of whom have their own experience of mental health challenges, but who have all come to understand that a spiritual life is one that looks for and explores meaning, and is open to a way of understanding mental health challenges that is complementary to the medical model, and is for some people, much more important than that.
Main duties of the job
- Provide person-centred, holistic care to people in the care of the Cavell Centre.
- Tell people about the Heart and Soul service when it is appropriate to, and about opportunities for participating in its activities.
- Inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others through your own example.
- Encourage people to find their own pathway to wellbeing beyond their hospital experience by sharing information and opportunities for belonging and socially.
- Find ways, with others, to bring services and support from the wider community into the Cavell Centre, as a first step into life beyond the hospital.
- Help the Heart and Soul service to understand how it can increase its involvement in the life of the Cavell Centre.
- Refer individual people in hospital care, and/or carers needing their specialist support, to Heart and Soul chaplains Jane or Mohammed.
About us
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- Provide pastoral care and promote spiritual wellbeing amongst your peers at the Cavell Centre.
- Provide person-centred, holistic care to people in the care of the Cavell Centre.
- Inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.
- Encourage people to find their own pathway to wellbeing beyond their hospital experience by sharing information and opportunities for belonging and socially.
- Find ways, with others, to bring services and support from the wider community into the Cavell Centre, as a first step into life beyond the hospital.
- Help the Heart and Soul service to understand how it can increase its involvement in the life of the Cavell Centre.
- Refer individual people in hospital care, and/or carers needing their specialist support, to Heart and Soul chaplains Jane or Mohammed.
- Make decisions in situ, and to act responsibly regarding any safeguarding matters that may arise from time to time: this means, in effect, knowing who to go to and report any concerns you have, in a timely and professional manner.
- Develop positive relationships with all CPFT staff.
- Attend the peer worker professional development forum
- Attend monthly TEAMS meetings of Heart and Soul core team
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- Provide pastoral care and promote spiritual wellbeing amongst your peers at the Cavell Centre.
- Provide person-centred, holistic care to people in the care of the Cavell Centre.
- Inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.
- Encourage people to find their own pathway to wellbeing beyond their hospital experience by sharing information and opportunities for belonging and socially.
- Find ways, with others, to bring services and support from the wider community into the Cavell Centre, as a first step into life beyond the hospital.
- Help the Heart and Soul service to understand how it can increase its involvement in the life of the Cavell Centre.
- Refer individual people in hospital care, and/or carers needing their specialist support, to Heart and Soul chaplains Jane or Mohammed.
- Make decisions in situ, and to act responsibly regarding any safeguarding matters that may arise from time to time: this means, in effect, knowing who to go to and report any concerns you have, in a timely and professional manner.
- Develop positive relationships with all CPFT staff.
- Attend the peer worker professional development forum
- Attend monthly TEAMS meetings of Heart and Soul core team
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of own Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) or whole life plan
- Completion of the Accredited Peer Support Worker Training
Experience
Essential
- Lived experience of mental health challenges.
- A life lived reflectively and an understanding of what it means to live by hope, faith, and belief, and what that means to a person in our care [we don't mean religious faith and belief here, unless that is so for you].
- Experience of working in a team or a group environment.
- Experience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques.
- Wide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others.
- Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding and practical knowledge of recovery.
- Understanding of the issues and concerns of mental health service users.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of own Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) or whole life plan
- Completion of the Accredited Peer Support Worker Training
Experience
Essential
- Lived experience of mental health challenges.
- A life lived reflectively and an understanding of what it means to live by hope, faith, and belief, and what that means to a person in our care [we don't mean religious faith and belief here, unless that is so for you].
- Experience of working in a team or a group environment.
- Experience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques.
- Wide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others.
- Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding and practical knowledge of recovery.
- Understanding of the issues and concerns of mental health service users.
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).
