Lived Experience Peer Support Worker

Derbyshirehealthcareft; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

27 days leave + bank holidays

Appraisal & training

Maternity/Paternity benefits

Health service discounts

EAP 24/7

LGBT+ networks

Job summary

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Lived Experience Peer Support Worker for the Community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team. The role focuses on using lived experience to support individuals with long-term mental health conditions, helping them achieve rehabilitation and recovery goals.

Excellent communication and the ability to work both in teams and independently are essential. Prior experience of using secondary mental health services is required, with commitment to ongoing

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in teams or independently.
• Previous personal experience of receiving support from secondary mental health care services.
• Willingness to undertake peer support training and further role-specific training.

Responsibilities

• Help shape the development of the service using lived experience perspectives.
• Support daily service activity and review service delivery with leads.
• Build positive relationships with service users, colleagues and stakeholders and ensure high-quality patient care.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Initiative

Education

GCSE English A-C

Peer support training

Experience with mental health services

Job description

The Community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team (CERT) are excited to advertise the role of a Lived Experience Peer Support Worker. We are an evidence-based community rehabilitation service offering support for individuals experiencing long term, complex mental health conditions who want to make a positive change. This post will play a crucial role in providing a lived experience perspective.

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has a well-established lived experience network and you will receive regular support through the network, colleagues within the organisation and the team itself. The Community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team understands and values the importance that a lived experience perspective brings to ensure that our services are successful in meeting the needs of those accessing them.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to be able to work within teams as well as on your own initiative are essential.

Previous personal experience of receiving support from secondary mental health care services is essential for this role.

It is Trust policy that for posts that are for a time limited period, applicants who are currently employed by an NHS organisation will only be appointed on a secondment basis and should have approval from their line manager this is possible before applying. Applicants who are not employed by an NHS organisation, will receive a fixed term contract.

Main duties of the job

As a member of the team, you will have the opportunity to help shape the development of the service and utilise your own experiences/ideas to support how individuals access the service, and how individuals can meet their rehabilitation and recovery goals.

You'll be working closely with the operational and clinical leads to frequently review service delivery, service direction and service development, and will also support aspects of daily service activity. Building positive relationships with service users, colleagues and stakeholders is integral to this role.

You will support the provision of high-quality patient services that are clinically safe, evidence based, delivered cost effectively and meet the Trusts' Standards.

The post will also involve working closely in collaboration with our Community Mental Health Services at Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

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

Person Specification

Education

• Satisfactory level of secondary education to GCSE English A - C or equivalent (maybe working towards this)
• Completion or willingness to complete peer support training
• Previous experience of accessing secondary mental health services
• Willingness to undertake further training relevant to role

Experience

• Wide range of experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities to others
• Able to relate to and work with a wide range of people to support them to meet their recovery goals
• Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role.

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.