Job summary
Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to announce that we are currently recruiting a Peer Lead for Teesside Community Services.
This is an exciting opportunity to build upon and significantly develop the peer support provision across Teesside Community Services, and will involve working with a range of services and partners.
Main duties of the job
The Peer Lead for Teesside Community Services will be a challenging and rewarding leadership role. The post holder will provide specialist peer support leadership and expertise to the development, cocreation and implementation of Peer Support across Teesside Community Services. This will involve a range of leadership input into co-producing and implementing joined-up systemwide peer support developments which may include:
Bringing peer leadership expertise to commissioning and procurement processes.
Developing and embedding internal TEWV Peer Worker roles within TEWV services in line with the TEWV Trustwide Peer Support implementation and Community Mental Health Framework: this will involve leadership work, planning, preparation of teams ready for Peer Workers to join, and the recruitment, training and supervision of Peer Workers in teams.
Scoping existing peer support provision and building collaborative networks
Engaging with partners and community organisations, service users and their families and carers.
Core role within TEWV Peer Support leadership team and structures
In addition to their leadership and supervision work, the Peer Lead for Teesside Community services may also be professionally accountable for their own small caseload of Peer Work (as role demands allow).
About us
For this role, we are looking for someone who has personal experience of mental health challenges and who has personal experience of accessing secondary or inpatient/tertiary mental health services. You will have substantial experience in the development of peer support and of working in lived experience essential roles. You will have personal experience of delivering formal peer support to service users.
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 with 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 line management and peer supervision to support them in the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Equivalent to Degree level experience in developing and delivering Peer Support in a community or NHS setting
- Educated to Degree level OR evidence of ability to write reports to Degree level standard
- Masters / Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject OR willingness to undertake within agreed timescale OR demonstrable Peer Work development knowledge to Masters level equivalent
- Completed Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Training course (passing within agreed timescale)
- Completed Trust approved Peer Support Training
- Training in patient leadership
- Peer / Clinical Supervisory Skills course.
- Trust training in Appraisal and Recruitment (or willingness to undertake within an agreed timescale)
- Trust QIS (Quality Improvement System) for Leaders (or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale)
- Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Experience developing and delivering Peer Support in BOTH a community and NHS setting
- Completed Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Course
- Completed an accredited Peer Support training course
Experience
Essential
- Personal experience of mental health challenges or a learning disability that is relevant to the specific role advertised
- Personal experience of accessing secondary (or inpatient/tertiary) mental health services
- Substantial experience of working as a peer worker or in another lived experience essential role
- Substantial experience of delivering formal peer support in a paid or voluntary role, or in a user led environment
- Experience of peer support or user led environments outside the NHS
- Experience of recruiting peer / lived experience staff
- Substantial experience in delivering supervision or co-supervision to peer / lived experience staff
- Substantial experience in design and delivery of peer / lived experience essential Training
- Experience in preparing workplace teams for Peer Work staff or other lived experience essential work or involvement
Knowledge
Essential
- Passionate about the values of peer support and good understanding of what the role adds to an organisation and conditions needed for successful implementation of peer roles
- Understands importance of peer work maintaining integrity to peer support values and commitment to supporting this
- Good understanding of national strategy, guidance and key standards in own specialist area and their application in practice
- Good understanding of Recovery Values and demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge to practice and service development
- Specialist peer knowledge in own service area
- Good understanding of national strategy, guidance and key standards in own specialist area and their application in practice
- Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act and their application in practice.
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice
- Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
- Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Research and development methodology.
- Understanding of the needs of individuals from diverse social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Commitment to working to and promoting TEWV Peer Support Values and to supporting service users and peer work staff groups voices to be heard
- Commitment to promoting Trauma Informed Approaches and Recovery Values
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
- Able to work in accordance with the Staff Compact and Trust Values and Behaviours.
- Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerable people and their families and carers.
- Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
- Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team and wider healthcare and peer support system
- Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently as appropriate to the band
- Committed to continual quality and service Improvement
- Committed to promoting a positive image of people with mental health conditions or learning disabilities
- Committed to promoting an authentic understanding of Peer Support Service and the wider trust
- Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development.
- Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance and accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Equivalent to Degree level experience in developing and delivering Peer Support in a community or NHS setting
- Educated to Degree level OR evidence of ability to write reports to Degree level standard
- Masters / Postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject OR willingness to undertake within agreed timescale OR demonstrable Peer Work development knowledge to Masters level equivalent
- Completed Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Training course (passing within agreed timescale)
- Completed Trust approved Peer Support Training
- Training in patient leadership
- Peer / Clinical Supervisory Skills course.
- Trust training in Appraisal and Recruitment (or willingness to undertake within an agreed timescale)
- Trust QIS (Quality Improvement System) for Leaders (or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale)
- Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Experience developing and delivering Peer Support in BOTH a community and NHS setting
- Completed Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Course
- Completed an accredited Peer Support training course
Experience
Essential
- Personal experience of mental health challenges or a learning disability that is relevant to the specific role advertised
- Personal experience of accessing secondary (or inpatient/tertiary) mental health services
- Substantial experience of working as a peer worker or in another lived experience essential role
- Substantial experience of delivering formal peer support in a paid or voluntary role, or in a user led environment
- Experience of peer support or user led environments outside the NHS
- Experience of recruiting peer / lived experience staff
- Substantial experience in delivering supervision or co-supervision to peer / lived experience staff
- Substantial experience in design and delivery of peer / lived experience essential Training
- Experience in preparing workplace teams for Peer Work staff or other lived experience essential work or involvement
Knowledge
Essential
- Passionate about the values of peer support and good understanding of what the role adds to an organisation and conditions needed for successful implementation of peer roles
- Understands importance of peer work maintaining integrity to peer support values and commitment to supporting this
- Good understanding of national strategy, guidance and key standards in own specialist area and their application in practice
- Good understanding of Recovery Values and demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge to practice and service development
- Specialist peer knowledge in own service area
- Good understanding of national strategy, guidance and key standards in own specialist area and their application in practice
- Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act and their application in practice.
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice
- Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
- Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Research and development methodology.
- Understanding of the needs of individuals from diverse social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Commitment to working to and promoting TEWV Peer Support Values and to supporting service users and peer work staff groups voices to be heard
- Commitment to promoting Trauma Informed Approaches and Recovery Values
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
- Able to work in accordance with the Staff Compact and Trust Values and Behaviours.
- Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerable people and their families and carers.
- Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
- Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team and wider healthcare and peer support system
- Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently as appropriate to the band
- Committed to continual quality and service Improvement
- Committed to promoting a positive image of people with mental health conditions or learning disabilities
- Committed to promoting an authentic understanding of Peer Support Service and the wider trust
- Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development.
- Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance and accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision
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).
