Peer Support Work Coordinator

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Enfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join North London NHS Foundation Trust as a Peer Support Work Coordinator. This role involves enhancing support for service users by leveraging lived experiences to deliver mentoring, training, and group support. Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to foster an inclusive environment that values recovery-oriented care. Your insights will help shape services and your contributions will empower both users and staff.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Flexible working opportunities

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Experience with mental health support and peer-led interventions.
• Ability to inspire hope through personal lived experience.
• Strong organizational and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating peer support interventions and staff training.
• Providing practical and emotional support to service users.
• Leading initiatives that enhance care based on lived experience.

Skills

Empathetic communication

Mentoring

Team coordination

Supportive advice

Job description

Peer Support Workers Draw On Their Lived Experience Of Mental Illness And Treatment To Enhance The Care Of Current Service Users. This Is Done By

• Offering practical advice and support to patients
• Empathetically sharing personal experiences of illness, treatment and recovery
• Providing input into policy, culture and service development initiatives
• Cofacilitating therapeutic activities with service users
  
  

Skills

As a Peer Support Work Coordinator, you will use your skills and experience as above, and further enhance the contribution of the team by:

• Coordinating peer support interventions
• Providing support and advice to the Peer Support Workers in your team
• Organising peer support workers to deliver therapeutic activities.
  
  

Please note, that to apply for this role you cannot be under section as a service user of the North London NHS Foundation Trust (formerly Camden & Islington and Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Trust).

Role

As a Peer Support Work Coordinator (PSWC) your role will be to enhance the care and support we provide to our Service Users by:

• Providing mentoring and administrative support to a team of Peer Support Workers
• Providing practical and emotional advice and support to Service Users on their road to recovery in groups or through structured one to one peer support sessions.
• Sharing the wisdom from you own lived experience, inspiring hope and belief that recovery is possible for others.
• Taking a lead in representing the value of Lived Experience, Co-Production and Co-Facilitation in our services.
• Helping to develop and facilitate staff training and assist the Service’s managers with recruitment by sitting on interview panels for prospective new staff.
• Being actively involved in the ongoing development of our lived experience provision across the trust.
• You will be given training, mentoring and supervision to ensure that you are confident and feel supported in your role.
  
  

As valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will work with service users on a 1:1 and/or group basis for the majority of your time. You will also have the opportunity to develop the peer support service, attend training, work on projects and collaborate with colleagues from other specialisms.

You will be reporting to and be supervised by one of the User Engagement Leads. You will receive additional supervision and support from the Trust’s Lived Experience Managers.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
  
  

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
  
  

The Post Holder Will Be Aligned With Our Values

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse
  
  

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Aaron Hewitt Job title: User Engagement Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02087026095