Job summary
Are you an experienced peer support worker in mental health? Would you like the opportunity to develop your skills further and help shape peer support in community mental health services?
Do you value working positively, respectfully and collaboratively?
If so, we'd love you to join us!
Peer support is delivered through promoting empowerment and choice and giving the opportunity for the exploration of meaning and purpose, learning from shared experiences and strategies.
We are looking for a Peer Support Specialist to join our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team in Worthing. The Crisis Team is a multi-disciplinary team providing home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission, gate-keeping all admissions to hospital, support early discharge from the ward and work with other alternatives to hospital admission supporting and treating people in the least restrictive environment.
This is an exciting opportunity that we believe will add real value to our service. You will form part of an additional resource allocated specifically to achieve the above goals and improve crisis intervention work overall.
Main duties of the job
As a Peer Support Specialist, you will be experienced in peer support whether in healthcare or voluntary/community settings. You will have an important role in mentoring and working with existing peer support workers in our teams and developing a new model of transitional peer support. Using your lived experience and peer support skills you will work alongside individuals to understand their experiences of mental health and recovery, and to maximise their strengths, resources and skills. Your will deliver peer led groups and link with resources in the third sector and peer community, while being a full member of the multi-disciplinary team using your lived experience and peer support expertise in recovery-based practice.
This will be a challenging but rewarding role, working with people presenting with a range of mental health issues and risks. You must have a warm and friendly disposition and have very good communication and interpersonal skills. You must also be confident and motivated, flexible and be able to show initiative in an environment which is often busy, rewarding and dynamic.
About us
Our Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
These posts are paid at Band 4 on the National Health Service payscales (Agenda for Change) to account for the level of autonomy, specialised skills and mentoring of less experienced staff.
Full training and induction will be provided as well as supervision and other support.
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.
Job description
Job responsibilities
CRHTT are able to offer all the benefits of a hospital admission whilst remaining at home, including home visits from our experienced multi- disciplinary team. We also facilitate supportive discharge from hospital, managing the transition back to a community-based service. We are committed to a focused recovery model.
Peer Support Specialists engage with mental health service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting individuals to gain and maintain independence in the community
If you are reading this and thinking this is the ideal job opportunity for you, please do contact me on the number below. I would welcome interested applicants for an informal visit and conversation about the role.
If you would like any more information then please contact Deborah Owen, Peer Support Lead at sarah.livermore@spft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
CRHTT are able to offer all the benefits of a hospital admission whilst remaining at home, including home visits from our experienced multi- disciplinary team. We also facilitate supportive discharge from hospital, managing the transition back to a community-based service. We are committed to a focused recovery model.
Peer Support Specialists engage with mental health service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting individuals to gain and maintain independence in the community
If you are reading this and thinking this is the ideal job opportunity for you, please do contact me on the number below. I would welcome interested applicants for an informal visit and conversation about the role.
If you would like any more information then please contact Deborah Owen, Peer Support Lead at sarah.livermore@spft.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills acquired through experience or formal teaching qualification
- A recognised Peer Support qualification
- Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning
Knowledge
Essential
- Significant experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity in health/social care/teaching setting
- Experience of offering peer support with individuals in a statutory or voluntary setting
- Experience of working with groups/activities
- Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
- Managing personal mental health and wellbeing
- Comprehensive knowledge of Peer Support, Recovery and Wellbeing in mental health and ability to apply this throughout your work
- Experience of working as part of a team
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills acquired through experience or formal teaching qualification
- A recognised Peer Support qualification
- Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning
Knowledge
Essential
- Significant experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity in health/social care/teaching setting
- Experience of offering peer support with individuals in a statutory or voluntary setting
- Experience of working with groups/activities
- Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
- Managing personal mental health and wellbeing
- Comprehensive knowledge of Peer Support, Recovery and Wellbeing in mental health and ability to apply this throughout your work
- Experience of working 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).
