CAMHS Peer Support Worker

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the East Midlands is seeking a CAMHS Peer Support Worker to join their expanding team. This role involves supporting children and young people in achieving their mental health treatment goals, while ensuring their voices are heard in service decisions. Responsibilities include leading peer groups and facilitating therapeutic sessions. The ideal candidate will have lived experience of mental health challenges and strong interpersonal skills. This position offers a range of benefits, including flexible working options and extensive annual leave.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Good maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits

Health service discounts

Access to employee assistance programme 24/7

Structured learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Lived experience of mental health services is essential.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills are required.
• Ability to speak confidently in groups is important.

Responsibilities

• Support service users in achieving their treatment goals.
• Encourage participation and co-production in service delivery.
• Travel independently across locality areas.

Skills

Lived experience of mental health challenges

Good interpersonal skills

Working with children and young people

Job description

Derby City and South Derbyshire CAMHS are incredibly excited to be expanding and developing our Peer Support Worker Team who will also lead in co-production and participation across all service levels.

Working across the CAMHS teams, the appointed candidate will work as a CAMHS Peer Support Worker to directly support service users in achieving their treatment goals and engaging in agreed care plans. The direct work may be one to one or in a group setting. Peer Groups will be lead by the peer support worker and therapeutic groups will be co-facilitated. The role will also endeavour to ensure that the principles of participation and co-production remain at the heart of our service, and that all involvement projects remain meaningful and appropriate. The appointed candidate will ensure that service that children, young people and families are heard, acknowledged and represented at all stages of care and within all service evaluation and developments.

Main duties of the job

The CAMHS Peer Support worker will work within the MDT supporting and treating Children and Young People accessing mental health services. They will ensure the child and families voice is heard in all decision making and encourage for participation and coproduction at all service levels.

To do this you will need to:

• Have your own lived experience of mental health challenges and access to service.

Your communication skills and flair for building relationships will be excellent

Willingness to develop the confidence to speak in large and small groups

You will be caring and supportive as well as emotionally resilient, highly organised and open to working within changing environments

You will be able to travel independently across the locality areas.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust."

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

Job responsibilities

The full job description which clearly outlines the main responsibilities for this position can be found attached

Person Specification

Experience

• Lived experience of mental health services
• Good interpersonal skills

Skills

• Working with children and young people

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.

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