Peer Support Worker

Sussex Partnership Nhs Foundation Trust; Bexhill-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Part time

Job summary

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Peer Support Worker for the Hastings Early Intervention in Psychosis Team. This part-time role (3 days per week) requires lived experience of psychosis to support recovery-focused interventions within a multidisciplinary team at Bexhill Health Centre.

You will provide peer support, empower service users, and help link them to social services, with opportunities to co-facilitate groups and raise aspirations in the community.

Qualifications

• Lived experience of psychosis as an expert by experience.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience supporting service users to regain independence.
• Ability to co-produce and co-facilitate groups.

Responsibilities

• Provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users.
• Collaborate with service users to raise aspirations and develop personal goals.
• Link with social and community services to support recovery.
• Engage with mental health service users to promote recovery and participation.
• Co-facilitate groups and support occupational performance.

Skills

Lived experience of psychosis

Peer support

Empathy

Recovery-focused interventions

Group co-facilitation

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Hastings Early Intervention in Psychosis Team This a part/time role - 3 days per week., We are looking for an expert by experience that has lived experience of psychosis, to support the delivery of recovery focused interventions in our Early Intervention Team. As an integral and highly valued member of our multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support Worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, empowering them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process.Working collaboratively alongside service users, the Peer Support Worker builds on a person's ability, strengths and their links to social and community services. In the role you will work in partnership with multiple agencies in the community. Peer Support Workers engage with mental health service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting service users to gain and maintain independence in the community. The Peer Support Worker will assist service users in raising aspirations and developing personal
goals, co-produce and co-facilitate groups and increasing individual occupational performance and participation.
This small, friendly, multi-disciplinary team is based at Bexhill Health Centre in Bexhill. The service offers support and treatment to people aged 14 - 65 who have experienced either a first episode of psychosis or present with an At Risk Mental State. Practitioners in the team are passionate about their work, and are committed to supporting families and working in a psychologically informed way.
This EIPS team is one of 6 Early Intervention in Psychosis teams provided by the Trust. The teams have a single service-wide governance group which oversees and leads on the delivery of care. Organizationally, the teams sit within the Trust's Children and Young People's Services division.
You will be provided with individual clinical supervision, group supervision for family interventions and opportunities to link with other Peer Support Workers both within EIPS and other services for peer support and development.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and learning disability services in and across Sussex. The Trust has teaching status and is developing into one of the country's leading teaching mental health trusts. Working here offers continued training and development, variety, plus all the benefits of living in Sussex. We welcome informal visits and or a phone conversation about the service and this post.