Job summary
Part time opportunity - 7.5 hours per week
Have you had lived experience of mental ill health and inpatient services? Would you like to support current inpatient service users? If so, we would like to hear from you as we have an exciting opportunity to become a senior peer support worker (PSW) within the Acute and Urgent Care Division.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the lives of individuals experiencing acute mental health needs, while supporting the development and wellbeing of the ward team.
The Acute Assessment and Short Stay Treatment Unit (AATU) will be a Female Only ward, providing single sex accommodation and has a multi-disciplinary team including psychologists, occupational therapy, recreational workers as well as the nursing and medical team.
This role is NOT eligible for sponsorship and you must have the right to work in the UK in order to apply. If you are a graduate visa holder, you must have at least 12 months before expiry.
Main duties of the job
The post requires the successful candidate to:
- share the wisdom of their own lived experience of recovery
- have a relationship of mutuality with service users
- inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.
The post holder will provide individual supervision to the Peer Support Worker working within the ward, taking them through our 'Lived Experience Support Induction' and establishing their role within the multidisciplinary team.
The post holder will be an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As part of the acute team the post holder will provide practical, individual and group support to people within the service using their own lived experience and role modelling to enhance the therapeutic relationship and enable mothers to achieve their individual recovery goals.
Using recovery principles and socially inclusive practice, the post-holder will support service users in their personal recovery journeys through the Mental Health Service. This means providing peer support for people who experience mental health and social needs. They will foster a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, to promote choice, self-determination, opportunities and hope. They will raise awareness about local resources and opportunities that may assist people in maintaining their recovery. They will encourage and support service users to use community resources that are available to them and support the Service with developing links with these resources. They will act as an advocate for recovery within the team and an ambassador for recovery for the Trust and with partner agencies.
For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As part of the acute team the post holder will provide practical, individual and group support to people within the service using their own lived experience and role modelling to enhance the therapeutic relationship and enable mothers to achieve their individual recovery goals.
Using recovery principles and socially inclusive practice, the post-holder will support service users in their personal recovery journeys through the Mental Health Service. This means providing peer support for people who experience mental health and social needs. They will foster a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, to promote choice, self-determination, opportunities and hope. They will raise awareness about local resources and opportunities that may assist people in maintaining their recovery. They will encourage and support service users to use community resources that are available to them and support the Service with developing links with these resources. They will act as an advocate for recovery within the team and an ambassador for recovery for the Trust and with partner agencies.
For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- Completed peer support worker training (preferably accredited)
- Evidence of further training about personal recovery principles
- Level 4 LSBU accredited 'Developing Experience in Peer Support' course or equivalent level qualification
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Own personal lived experience of recovery from mental health challenges in the perinatal period
- Experience of having personally accessed inpatient mental health services
- Ability to demonstrate first-person experiential knowledge of recovery
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the concept of personal recovery as it may apply to others
- Experience working in a range of health and/or social care settings as a peer support worker
- Experience working with people with mental health challenges and supporting them to access opportunities beyond mental health services
- Recent experience of supervision of others (in paid or unpaid capacity)
- Recent experience in delivering courses and presentations to a wide range of audiences
- Experience in implementing recruitment and selection processes
- Experience in project development
- Experience working both independently as well as providing group and 1:1 activities
- Willing to positively share your own life experiences and personal experience of mental health challenges with people and carers using the service
- Developed personal plans for managing own recovery
- Experience in actively supporting individuals to identify and work towards achieving personal goals in a related social care or health setting (paid or unpaid)
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- Completed peer support worker training (preferably accredited)
- Evidence of further training about personal recovery principles
- Level 4 LSBU accredited 'Developing Experience in Peer Support' course or equivalent level qualification
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Own personal lived experience of recovery from mental health challenges in the perinatal period
- Experience of having personally accessed inpatient mental health services
- Ability to demonstrate first-person experiential knowledge of recovery
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the concept of personal recovery as it may apply to others
- Experience working in a range of health and/or social care settings as a peer support worker
- Experience working with people with mental health challenges and supporting them to access opportunities beyond mental health services
- Recent experience of supervision of others (in paid or unpaid capacity)
- Recent experience in delivering courses and presentations to a wide range of audiences
- Experience in implementing recruitment and selection processes
- Experience in project development
- Experience working both independently as well as providing group and 1:1 activities
- Willing to positively share your own life experiences and personal experience of mental health challenges with people and carers using the service
- Developed personal plans for managing own recovery
- Experience in actively supporting individuals to identify and work towards achieving personal goals in a related social care or health setting (paid or unpaid)
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).
