Job summary
Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to announce that we are currently recruiting a fixed term (till end of March 2024) Parent Carer Peer Practitioner to work in our Durham & Darlington CAMHS service.
Parent Carer Peer Practitioners (Peer Support Workers) are people who have experience as parent carers of children and young people with mental health needs, who have accessed services for mental health care. They are employed, trained and supported to work to the TEWV Peer Support Values and use their experiences to support others. Parent Carer Peer Practitioner roles will involve working to support parent & carers in both 1:1, and also in groups as appropriate.
These are challenging but rewarding roles. Drawing on your own experience of being a parent carer for young people with mental health challenges, you will listen non-judgementally to create safe spaces where people feel heard. You will approach the peer relationship with compassion and curiosity. You will recognise and value people's strengths, diversity and expertise. You will also be aware of the impacts of trauma and committed to the importance of working in ways which are sensitive to the needs of trauma survivors.
Main duties of the job
These are challenging but rewarding roles. Drawing on your own experience of being a parent carer for young people with mental health challenges, you will listen non-judgementally to create safe spaces where people feel heard. You will approach the peer relationship with compassion and curiosity. You will recognise and value people's strengths, diversity and expertise. You will also be aware of the impacts of trauma and committed to the importance of working in ways which are sensitive to the needs of trauma survivors.
You will be an integrated and valued member of the team. Parent Carer Peer Practitioner roles involve contributing peer values and the knowledge, skills and expertise that come with lived experience as a parent carer. Important parts of this role also include working within the team to help parent carer voices be heard and to promote recovery values and trauma informed approaches. Peer Practitioners will be supported to challenge both individual and structural instances of stigma and discrimination related to mental health and other forms of exclusion.
About us
We value diversity and want to have a wide range of identities represented in the peer workforce. We welcome applications from people with lived experience of distress and mental health services from the characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010 (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation) and other diverse groups.
Successful applicants will receive training and regular peer supervision to support them in the role, and there will be more than one peer support worker in your team.
In the event that permanent funding becomes available for this post in the future, the post may be offered to the post holder.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For this role, we are looking for people who have relevant experience of being a parent or carer for a child or young person with experiences of mental health challenges and accessing specialist CAMHS community or inpatient mental health services. You will have personal experience of peer support, for example through training or through actively supporting others.
We value diversity and want to have a wide range of identities represented in the peer workforce. We welcome applications from people with lived experience of distress and mental health services from the characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010 (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation) and other diverse groups.
We also value a diversity of experiences of mental health services in the peer workforce and welcome applications from people with helpful, difficult or mixed experiences of mental health services.
Successful applicants will receive training and regular peer supervision to support them in the role, and there will be more than one peer support worker in your team.
In the event that permanent funding becomes available for this post in the future, the post may be offered to the post holder.
INFORMAL ENQUIRES TO:
Mark Allen, Peer support and recovery lead at mark.allan1@nhs.net or
Michelle Trainer, CAMHS Transformation Manager at michelle.trainer@nhs.net.
INTERVIEW DATE: Interviews: Friday 21st July 2023
Job description
Job responsibilities
For this role, we are looking for people who have relevant experience of being a parent or carer for a child or young person with experiences of mental health challenges and accessing specialist CAMHS community or inpatient mental health services. You will have personal experience of peer support, for example through training or through actively supporting others.
We value diversity and want to have a wide range of identities represented in the peer workforce. We welcome applications from people with lived experience of distress and mental health services from the characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010 (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation) and other diverse groups.
We also value a diversity of experiences of mental health services in the peer workforce and welcome applications from people with helpful, difficult or mixed experiences of mental health services.
Successful applicants will receive training and regular peer supervision to support them in the role, and there will be more than one peer support worker in your team.
In the event that permanent funding becomes available for this post in the future, the post may be offered to the post holder.
INFORMAL ENQUIRES TO:
Mark Allen, Peer support and recovery lead at mark.allan1@nhs.net or
Michelle Trainer, CAMHS Transformation Manager at michelle.trainer@nhs.net.
INTERVIEW DATE: Interviews: Friday 21st July 2023
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Foundation Degree or equivalent OR equivalent experience of providing peer support in a community or inpatient setting AND
- Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent) AND
- Completed Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Training course (passing within agreed timescale)
Desirable
- Completed parent peer support training
Knowledge
Essential
- Passionate about the values of peer support and understands what the role adds to a team
- Understands importance of maintaining integrity to peer support role
- Understanding of a variety of therapeutic approaches used in the team (within agreed timescale)
- Understanding of Safeguarding requirements for vulnerable adults and children.
Skills
Essential
- Able to share elements of own life experiences, and engage compassionately with experiences of others, in a way appropriate to the role and peer relationship
- Good peer relationship skills and ability to verbally describe these skills .
- oAbility to work collaboratively with members of the MDT to provide an effective service.
Experience
Essential
- oPersonal experience of mental health challenges or a learning disability that is relevant to the specific role advertised (or of caring for someone who does for parent/carer roles)
- oPersonal experience of accessing secondary (or inpatient) mental health services (or of caring for someone who does for parent/carer roles)
- oExperience of delivering parent/carer peer support in a paid or voluntary role, or in a user led environment
Desirable
- oExperience of facilitating peer support groups
personal attributes
Essential
- oCommitment to supporting service users and carers voices to be heard
- oCommitment to anti-discriminatory practice
- oAble to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Foundation Degree or equivalent OR equivalent experience of providing peer support in a community or inpatient setting AND
- Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent) AND
- Completed Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Training course (passing within agreed timescale)
Desirable
- Completed parent peer support training
Knowledge
Essential
- Passionate about the values of peer support and understands what the role adds to a team
- Understands importance of maintaining integrity to peer support role
- Understanding of a variety of therapeutic approaches used in the team (within agreed timescale)
- Understanding of Safeguarding requirements for vulnerable adults and children.
Skills
Essential
- Able to share elements of own life experiences, and engage compassionately with experiences of others, in a way appropriate to the role and peer relationship
- Good peer relationship skills and ability to verbally describe these skills .
- oAbility to work collaboratively with members of the MDT to provide an effective service.
Experience
Essential
- oPersonal experience of mental health challenges or a learning disability that is relevant to the specific role advertised (or of caring for someone who does for parent/carer roles)
- oPersonal experience of accessing secondary (or inpatient) mental health services (or of caring for someone who does for parent/carer roles)
- oExperience of delivering parent/carer peer support in a paid or voluntary role, or in a user led environment
Desirable
- oExperience of facilitating peer support groups
personal attributes
Essential
- oCommitment to supporting service users and carers voices to be heard
- oCommitment to anti-discriminatory practice
- oAble to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team.
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).
