Peer Support Worker

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Epsom; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider of mental health care services is looking for a Peer Support worker to join their team in East Surrey. This role involves providing one-to-one support for women during their antenatal and post-natal periods, utilizing personal insights to build trusting relationships. The successful candidate will benefit from extensive training opportunities while helping to shape the future of perinatal mental health care.

Benefits

Extensive training opportunities

Regular supervision and reflective practice

Qualifications

• Ability to build trusting relationships with service users.
• Experience in providing support based on lived experience.
• Capability to work across Surrey and adapt to various environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-to-one support for women in the antenatal and post-natal period.
• Use personal, experiential knowledge to share lived experience.
• Empower service users to make use of their own strengths.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Supportive Relationships

Job description

We are looking for a Peer Support worker to cover the East Surrey perinatal mental health team. The Perinatal Mental Health Service can offer you great job satisfaction, working within an established leadership team with highly motivated colleagues where the wellbeing of families are at the heart of everything we do.

As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery journey. Through sharing the wisdom of own lived experience, the Peer Support worker will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Within a relationship of mutuality, they facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an expanding service and to help shape the future of perinatal mental health care in Surrey. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team with extensive training opportunities along with regular supervision and reflective practice.

The ability to work across Surrey is essential and a car is required.

Please do get in touch to discuss the role and find out more.

• To provide one-to-one support for women in the antenatal and post-natal period, from a lived experience perspective, in whatever environment is suitable and applicable to the service user
• To use personal, experiential knowledge and to share lived experience as appropriate, in building safe, trusting relationships with named service users
• To build safe, trusting relationships with service users to empower and enable each individual service user, in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way, to discover and make use of their own strengths and to build and strengthen positive connections with their peers, networks and wider communities
  
  

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Home Working Contract Only - Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer.

We look forward to receiving your application!

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Vimbai Matemba Job title: Service Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07768 926932