Peer Support Worker

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Derby is seeking a motivated Peer Support Worker to assist adults experiencing mental health difficulties during inpatient admissions. The ideal candidate will possess lived experience of mental health challenges and a strong commitment to providing emotional support. The role includes collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and ensuring patient-centered care. Benefits include 27 days annual leave, flexible working, and ongoing training opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

27 days annual leave

Health service discounts

Incremental pay progression

Free confidential employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Satisfactory level of secondary education required.
• Completion or willingness to complete peer support training.
• Demonstrated standard of English necessary.
• Willingness to undertake further training relevant to role.

Responsibilities

• Support provision of high-quality patient services.
• Collaborate closely with Psychological Therapies department.
• Provide emotional support to patients.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work independently

Experience in a supportive role

Education

GCSE English A-C grade or equivalent

Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification

Job description

Peer Support Worker (PSW) - Radbourne Unit and Carsington Unit sites, Derby

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work in mental health services? We are seeking to recruit a motivated Peer Support Worker to work with our friendly and dynamic teams at the Radbourne Unit and Carsington Unit.

We are looking for an individual who is dedicated to the principles of social inclusion to work with adults experiencing mental health difficulties during an inpatient admission.

The role will involve working with the Hub teams and linking into the acute wards, to offer a service for adults requiring acute inpatient stays at the Radbourne and Carsington Units. Our services are multi-disciplinary providing person-centred holistic care to patients with a wide variety of mental health conditions.

The role is focused on providing emotional support, drawing upon your own experiences of mental health or caring for those experiencing mental health difficulties. You will work with our team to provide practical and emotional support, allowing you to connect with people and enabling them to build self-confidence, a sense of personal wellbeing, build networks and engage with their family, friends and communities.

If you have first-hand, personal experience of mental health difficulties and would like to help others with similar conditions, then this peer support worker role could be well suited to you.

Main duties of the job

You will support the provision of high-quality patient services that are clinically safe, evidence based, delivered cost effectively and meet the Trust's Standards. The post will also involve working closely in collaboration with our Psychological Therapies department at Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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

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

Job responsibilities

Please review the Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Satisfactory level of secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade, or equivalent (may be working toward this).
• Completion or willingness to complete peer support training
• Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English.
• Willingness to undertake further training relevant to role
• Previous experience of being a service receiver or a carer of a service receiver.
• Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification.

Experience

• Lived experience of mental health challenges.
• Lived experience of accessing mental health services.
• Experience of being in a supportive and enabling role.

Employer information

Carsington Unit (Kingsway Hospital) / Radbourne Unit (Royal Derby Hospital)

£24,937 to £26,598 a year, pro rata

Contract details

Permanent

Reference number: 383-ACA-5999-25