Peer Support Worker - North West Leicestershire (CMHT)

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; Hinckley; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust as a Peer Support Worker and make a genuine difference in the lives of older individuals experiencing mental health challenges. In this role, you will leverage your personal experiences to provide support, guidance, and companionship to service users, helping them navigate their recovery journeys. With a commitment to fostering empowering relationships, you will ensure that each individual feels heard and valued. This position requires completion of specialized training, and candidates should have a passion for working with older populations.

Qualifications

• Must have completed Peer Support Worker Training.
• Passionate about working with older people.

Responsibilities

• Provide support and guidance to service users experiencing mental health issues.
• Establish caring, professional relationships to improve individuals' socialisation.

Education

Completion of Peer Support Worker Training

Job description

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Job Overview

We only accept applicants who have completed and passed the Peer Support Worker Training (Implementing Recover Through Organisational Change) programme at the time of submitting your application form for this position.

Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

The role of Peer Support Worker has been developed to specifically utilise the skills of people who have lived experience of having received Secondary Care Mental Health services. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, Peer Support Workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.

Job Overview

We only accept applicants who have completed and passed the Peer Support Worker Training (Implementing Recover Through Organisational Change) programme at the time of submitting your application form for this position.

Come and join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

The role of Peer Support Worker has been developed to specifically utilise the skills of people who have lived experience of having received Secondary Care Mental Health services. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, Peer Support Workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.

This role works directly with Older people with functional and organic patients. Please note that the post holder should have a passion for working with older people.

To offer support and guidance to Service users experiencing mental health problems impacting on their life and well being. To offer companionship, understanding and establishing a caring, professional relationship to improve individuals socialisation and psychological resilience for those service users with a chronic illness or those needing support in recovery.

We have a number of roles across various locations and due to the nature of the locations majority of these roles will require you to hold a full valid UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

The successful candidate will offer support and guidance to Service users experiencing mental health problems impacting on their life and well being, offering companionship, understanding and establishing a caring, professional relationship to improve individuals socialisation and psychological resilience for those service users with a chronic illness or those needing support in recovery.

In addition to

• Establishing supportive, positive and respectful relationships with all people you come in contact with.
• Providing peer support, maintaining professional boundaries.
• Helping people identify recovery goals themselves.
• Supporting service users to identify and overcome fears within a relationship of empathy and trust.
• Undertaking appropriate administrative duties for delivering effective and timely care, including updating patient records.
  
  

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Seniority level

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  Entry level

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  Full-time

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  Hospitals and Health Care

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