Peer Support Worker MMHS/SPS

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Warrington is looking for a Peer Support Worker to utilize their lived experience to support those in mental health services. This role involves acting as a champion for recovery and promoting positive mental well-being in various settings. The ideal candidate will have personal experience in mental health care and be passionate about empowering others. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of support roles and provide invaluable assistance during the maternity journey.

Qualifications

• Lived experience of receiving care in Mental Health services.
• Ability to empower individuals and support their mental well-being.
• Experience in maternity care for those applying within the specialized service.

Responsibilities

• Directly support service users and promote positive mental well-being.
• Act as a recovery champion and ambassador for mental health.
• Participate in the development of peer support roles and training programs.

Job description

To use own lived experience to directly support service users within the services and promote positive mental well-being.

The role of Peer Support has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of having received care in Mental Health services. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, the peer support worker will inspire hope in others.

The peer support worker will act as a recovery champion and an ambassador of positive mental well-being in both clinical and non-clinical environments. There is also an expectation that the peer support worker will be involved in the on-going development of peer support worker roles including such things as training programmes and evaluations.

The peer support worker strives to empower individuals to achieve their hopes, dreams and goals by assisting them on their journey.

For those considering this role of PSW within Specialist Perinatal Service and Maternal Mental Health Service there is a requirement for the person to have lived experience within the maternity journey.

The Maternal Mental Health service provides support to women and birthing people who have experienced loss and/or trauma within their maternity journey. As a service we provide care under 3 pillars: Midwifery, Psychology and Peer support.

The Specialist Perinatal Service is a multi-disciplinary team who supports women, birthing people and families across Cheshire and Merseyside to access specialist advice about their mental health during the perinatal period (pregnancy to 24 months postnatal)

This is an exciting opportunity to use your own experience to help support others during their journey. The support provide by our PSW's is unique and invaluable., Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.