Bucks Peer Support Coordinator

Transformation Unit; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 34,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression

Learning and development

27 days annual leave plus bank hols

NHS Pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion groups

Job summary

Bucks Peer Support Coordinator is an autonomous, part-time role spanning Buckinghamshire. You will recruit, train and embed Peer Support Workers across inpatient and community services, promoting lived experience and the recovery model within the NHS.

Work with the Trust Peer Support programme team to expand the workforce, support onboarding, induction, and ongoing development while collaborating with managers and colleagues to deliver high-quality care.

Qualifications

• Tell us about your experience of recruiting staff.
• Tell us about your experience of delivering training.
• How would you promote peer support and lived experience within the NHS?

Responsibilities

• Recruit, train and embed Peer Support Workers across Buckinghamshire teams.
• Work with managers to expand the Peer Support workforce.
• Support progression and development of the Peer Support Programme.

Skills

Recruiting staff

Delivering training

Promoting peer support

Job description

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Job overview

The role of Bucks Peer Support Coordinator involves working with a varied and large number of colleagues across Bucks services to support recruitment, training and induction of Peer Support Workers into teams. An autonomous role, requiring excellent organisational and communication skills. Supporting the expansion and development of the lived experience workforce and recovery model with the NHS.

This role is part-time working 26.5 hours per week on a fixed term of 13 months due to maternity leave. This role can be taken as a secondment or fixed term contract.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Bucks Peer Support Coordinator is to recruit, train and embed Peer Support Workers into teams who work across Buckinghamshire. To work alongside managers and teams to expand the workforce provision and promote lived experience workforce and the recovery model across the Trust. To work as part of the Trust Peer Support programme team, supporting the progression and development of the Peer Support Workforce.

• To lead on recruitment to vacant PSW posts
• To support PSWs and their teams to induct and embed new staff into their team
• Support the embedding of the PSW role across inpatient and community adult, CAMHS and older adult services and specialist services

Working for our organisation

Please note that this role will require us to undertake a DBS check as a part of your onboarding.

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see provided JD and Person Spec for details of main responsibilities of the Bucks Peer Support Coordinator role. The role works within the Trusts Peer Support programme team alongside other Coordinators and Facilitators.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

This role does not meet the minimum requirements for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship under UKVI regulations. To be considered, you must already hold the valid right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship.

Person specification

• Tell us about your experience of recruiting staff.
• Tell us about your experience of delivering training.
• How would you go about promoting peer support and lived experience within the NHS?
• What are the important factors when supporting PSWs in their role?
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Charlotte Proud Job title Senior Peer Support Coordinator Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07467008288 Additional information

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.