Peer Support Worker

ESSEX PARTNERSHIP UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Chelmsford is looking for a Peer Support Worker to provide care to mothers and their babies within perinatal services. This role requires personal lived experience with Perinatal Mental Health challenges to promote recovery and build supportive relationships. You'll collaborate with families and caregivers to ensure comprehensive care and understanding of the recovery process.

Benefits

Season Ticket Loans

NHS discounts for staff

Excellent Training facilities

Buying and Selling annual leave scheme

Salary Sacrifice schemes

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Must have personal lived experience as someone challenged by Perinatal Mental Health.
• Ability to support service users and their families based on lived experiences.
• Must be capable of working collaboratively with service users and the MDT.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality care to mothers and their babies.
• Maintain safety while treating the mother's mental illness.
• Support families and caregivers involved in care.
• Promote recovery through shared lived experiences.

Skills

Personal lived experience with Perinatal Mental Health

Supportive communication

Collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams

Job description

Responsibilities

• Deliver the highest quality of care to mothers and their babies in a safe, friendly and supportive environment.


• Maintain the safety of all mothers and their babies whilst treating the mother's mental illness.


• Offer support to the families and carers involved in the mother's and/or baby's care.


• Help sustain the developing relationship between mother, baby and other family members.

Role overview

Through the understanding of the Peer Support Worker (PSW) in relation to lived experiences within inpatient settings, the hope and reflection of recovery can be promoted within perinatal services. An essential criterion of this role is the right candidate must have personal lived experience as someone who has been challenged by Perinatal Mental Health concerns previously at inpatient status or been supported within community perinatal mental health services. Using your own lived experiences, the role of the Peer Support Worker (PSW) is to support and understand the impact of accessing services when experiencing mental health challenges. As a PSW, you will work collaboratively with service users and the wider MDT to support the implementing of care and promoting recovery. You will provide support and understanding to care givers and family members whilst underpinning recovery principles and socially inclusive practice. PSWs can support in building therapeutic relationships with service users to promote choice, offer advocacy support and understanding of position through lived experiences of being admitted to a Mother and Baby Unit.

Benefits and flexible working

• Season Ticket Loans


• NHS discounts for staff


• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities


• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme


• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas


• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work


• Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment. Join our Staff bank. What is Staff Bank? Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times. All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish. If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.