Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the SUN team in the Lewisham Personality Disorder Service. The role is suitable for someone with lived experience of mental health difficulties,. We would provide training and supervision, individually and in the SUN team group meetings. This role is a chance to develop communication and skills working therapeutically alongside others to support patients with personality disorder and other mental health difficulties.
Main duties of the job
You would attend the SUN groups once or twice a week to assist the facilitators assist support the SUN members attending the group.
Secondly you would go every week to talk to the inpatient and community mental health teams to promote the SUN groups, and to talk to patients about the SUN project.
The SUN project ("Service User Network") involves people attending a group once a week. People refer themselves. They do not necessarily need to be SLaM patients although many or most are. The focus is on helping the SUN members develop their coping-skills and capacity to manage crises, and the group works by group members supporting each other in thinking about how to do this. Each group is for 2.5-hours, and people generally attend once a week. The groups are held every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, two are in-person at our team base and one is held online. SUN is supports people when they experiencing significant struggles in their lives.
As well as promoting SUN and attending the SUN groups, you could also be asked to be involved in things like co-facilitating patient focus groups and getting patients to complete questionnaires about their symptoms or experiences of the service.
About us
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust(SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very feworganizationsin the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work alongside other staff to assist in delivering SUN groups online and in the community to:
- reduce the number of crises that require urgent and unplanned responses from services;
- Improve coping skills of SUN members
- Facilitate access to other services and sources of support.
- To encourage people to take an active role in their recovery
- To promote independence
- Assist in the promotion of SUN by liaising, attending meetings, doing presentations to people who access services, staff and other organisations.
- Use own wisdom of lived experience to support the development and knowledge of people using the service.
- Take responsibility for understanding and applying professional boundaries.
- Ensure that any potential risk is being constantly assessed within a culture of positive risk taking and report concerns in line with Risk Management Policy.
- Contribute to evaluating the SUN project
- Keep up-to-date documentation and do administrative work as required by the role
- Comply with all relevant policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Undertake other relevant duties as requested.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work alongside other staff to assist in delivering SUN groups online and in the community to:
- reduce the number of crises that require urgent and unplanned responses from services;
- Improve coping skills of SUN members
- Facilitate access to other services and sources of support.
- To encourage people to take an active role in their recovery
- To promote independence
- Assist in the promotion of SUN by liaising, attending meetings, doing presentations to people who access services, staff and other organisations.
- Use own wisdom of lived experience to support the development and knowledge of people using the service.
- Take responsibility for understanding and applying professional boundaries.
- Ensure that any potential risk is being constantly assessed within a culture of positive risk taking and report concerns in line with Risk Management Policy.
- Contribute to evaluating the SUN project
- Keep up-to-date documentation and do administrative work as required by the role
- Comply with all relevant policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Undertake other relevant duties as requested.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Basic general education
- Has undertaken or is willing to undertake peer support training, work-based training and mandatory training
Desirable
- Health and Social Care NVQ Level 2 or equivalent
- Further education qualification in health / mental health related subject
Experience
Essential
- Experience as a mental health service user or carer
- Voluntary or paid work or other experience in a health/social care/teaching or community setting
- Demonstrates an understanding of mental health issues
- understanding and experience of diversity issues including those relating to people of a minority ethnic heritage
Desirable
- Has facilitated or led a group
- Lived experience of minorities communities working with mental health services
Skills
Essential
- Groupwork aptitude
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Numeracy and basic IT skills
Desirable
- Ability and motivation to learn and develop
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Basic general education
- Has undertaken or is willing to undertake peer support training, work-based training and mandatory training
Desirable
- Health and Social Care NVQ Level 2 or equivalent
- Further education qualification in health / mental health related subject
Experience
Essential
- Experience as a mental health service user or carer
- Voluntary or paid work or other experience in a health/social care/teaching or community setting
- Demonstrates an understanding of mental health issues
- understanding and experience of diversity issues including those relating to people of a minority ethnic heritage
Desirable
- Has facilitated or led a group
- Lived experience of minorities communities working with mental health services
Skills
Essential
- Groupwork aptitude
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Numeracy and basic IT skills
Desirable
- Ability and motivation to learn and develop
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).
