Community Peer Support Worker Development Post

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative health organization seeks a Community Peer Support Worker to join their dynamic team in Milton Keynes. This role is perfect for individuals with personal experience of mental health recovery who are eager to inspire hope in others. As a vital member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team, you will provide support to service users, co-facilitate recovery courses, and promote a culture of recovery across the community. This position offers a unique opportunity to grow from a Band 3 to a Band 4 role, with comprehensive training and support provided. If you are passionate about making a difference in mental health, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• Personal lived experience of recovery from mental health challenges.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team in health and social care.

Responsibilities

• Provide peer support and practical assistance to service users.
• Facilitate Recovery College courses and promote recovery values.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Ability to Share Lived Experience

Listening Skills

Education

Accredited Peer Support Worker Training

Basic IT Skills

Job description

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Job Overview

Do you have lived experience of recovery from Mental Health challenges that required secondary mental health services? Do you want to use your experience to help others?

If so, an opportunity has arisen for a Peer Support Worker to join the Milton Keynes Community Mental Health Hub. The successful candidate will work alongside members of the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team.

This role is specifically for individuals who have experience of recovery from a mental health diagnosis and have accessed secondary mental health services. Please ensure this information is clearly highlighted in your application.

The post holder will play a key role in integrating recovery values across the service settings in which they work, collaborating with other Trust recovery champions. As an ambassador for recovery, they will actively share and draw upon their own lived experience to inspire others, challenge stigma and discrimination, and promote a culture of recovery within the Trust.

We are looking for motivated individuals with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, who can work flexibly under supervision to meet the demands of this exciting and varied role. Regular clinical and peer support-specific supervision will be provided.

This is an exciting development opportunity as the successful applicant will begin as a Band 3 but, upon completion of a Competencies Development Plan after 12 months, you will proceed to a Band 4 position.

Main duties of the job

As a core member of the Multi-Disciplinary team, the Peer Support Worker will work with service users on a 1:1 and/or group basis. The post holder will have the opportunity to co-work with other lived experience and clinical colleagues.

The Peer Support Worker will support the co-facilitation of Recovery College courses on Zoom and will develop partnership working within the local community as well as with 3rd Sector peer networks.

For detailed duties of the role, please see the attached Job Description document.

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Working for our organisation

CNWL employs over 100 peer workers in a variety of settings.

Our Mental health services, include:

• Inpatient services (including Older Adult and Rehabilitation)
• Community Mental Health Hubs
• Eating Disorders Services
• Perinatal Mental Health Services
• The Dual Diagnosis Team (Define what this means to new people starting in the trust as not clear)
• Carer and Parent Peer Support Workers
• The Young Adult Pathway
  
  

Services beyond Mental Health, including:

• Complex Care
• Addictions Services
• Health and Justice
• Blood Borne Viruses (HIV and HBV) Services
• The Recovery & Wellbeing College
  
  

Find out more about Peer and Lived experience working with these videos:

Short film: Peer and Lived Experience Working in CNWL

Short film: What is Lived Experience Practice?

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support Worker (PSW) will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users in Milton Keynes in order for them to regain control over their lives and progress on their own unique recovery journey.

Through sharing the wisdom of their own lived experience of recovery, the PSW will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Within a relationship of mutuality, they facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.

The PSW will take a lead role in embedding recovery values within the service setting in which they work. The PSW will act as an ambassador of recovery for the Community Mental Health Hub and with external agencies and partner organisations.

The PSW will promote their role, through the provision of information and a range of learning opportunities for the Community Mental Health Hub and more widely.

As a core member of the multi-disciplinary team, the PSW will work with service users on a 1:1 and/or group basis. They will also have the opportunity to co-work with other colleagues.

This is an exciting development opportunity for a Peer Support Worker to progress from a Band 3 entry level role to a Band 4 upon completion of a Competencies Development Plan.

Person specification

Training And Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Commitment to obtain underpinning knowledge through work based learning and mandatory training, (including accredited peer support worker training if not previously undertaken)
• Basic IT skills i.e. word & email
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Accredited certificate in Life Coaching
• Accredited peer support worker training
  
  

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel between locations using own car
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Own personal lived experience of recovery from mental health challenges
• Own personal experience of accessing secondary mental health services
• Paid or unpaid working experience within a multidisciplinary team in health and social care
• Willing to positively share your own life experiences and personal experience of mental health challenges, trauma and/or distress with service users and carers
• Experience of actively supporting individuals to identify and work towards achieving personal goals in a related social care or health setting (paid or unpaid)
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Paid or unpaid, peer support worker experience
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate understanding of intentional Peer Support
• Ability to demonstrate first person experiential knowledge of personal recovery
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of personal recovery as it may relate to others
• Evidence of good interpersonal skills and an ability to form peer relationships with service users and carers
• Effective listening skills
• Ability to communicate on all levels and to a broad scope of individuals, both internally and externally to the Trust
• Ability to consult and deliver training to other teams as appropriate
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Basic Health and Safety awareness
• Awareness of local services
• Knowledge of benefits/employment systems
• Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of mental health issues
• Knowledge of current legislation which underpins Health and Social Care and a working knowledge of the Equalities Act 2010 and Human Rights Act.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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