Peer Worker

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting Peer Workers for Female and Male Secure Inpatients Ward roles at Ridgeway, based at Roseberry Park Hospital in Middlesbrough. The positions focus on peer support for service users with lived experience of mental health challenges.

Training and supervision are provided to help you grow in this role. Applicants with personal lived experience of secure inpatient services or contact with the criminal justice system are encouraged to

Qualifications

• Personal lived experience of Secure Inpatient Services, prison or contact with the criminal justice system is welcomed.
• Experience of mental health challenges is relevant.
• Lived experience including homelessness or substance use is welcome.
• Experience using lived experience to support others (paid, volunteering or user-led work) is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 peer support on the ward (including support for family/carers).
• Set up and facilitate peer support groups.
• Attend and contribute to team meetings to ensure service users’ voices are heard and needs are advocated for.
• Contribute to service development by offering ideas and lived experience perspectives.
• Build connections with a range of stakeholders, including other peer support workers and providers.

Skills

Empathy

Active listening

Communication

Boundary setting

Team collaboration

Job description

These are challenging but rewarding roles supporting people with a wide range of experiences. Your time in post will start with attending our peer support training alongside other people starting peer support roles with us. This training is delivered by people with their own lived experience who also have direct experience of working in peer roles themselves. From there your work will involve:

• Providing 1:1 peer support to people on the ward (this may involve supporting family / carers too)
• Setting up and facilitating / co-facilitating peer support groups
• Attending and contributing to team meetings to help ensure service users' voices are heard, that their needs are advocated for, and to bring lived experience expertise into team processes.
• Contributing to service development within the teams you work in. This involves offering ideas, feedback and lived experience perspectives.
• Building connections with a range of people and organisations within the system (including other peer support workers / providers).Personal experience of accessing secondary or inpatient mental health services.- including in Secure Inpatient Services or prison.
• Relevant experience of mental health challenges. Lived experience including homelessness and use of drugs and alcohol are also welcome.
• Personal experience of using your lived experience to support others, for example in a paid role, in volunteering, in a user led environment or informally

We welcome applications from people with personal lived experience of Secure Inpatient Services, prison, contact with the criminal justice system or experience of having your liberty or freedom of movement/decision making impacted by restrictions.

Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to announce that we are currently recruiting Peer Workers for our Female and Male Secure Inpatients Wards in Ridgeway. These roles will be based at Roseberry Park Hospital, Middlesbrough. Peer support is when people with shared experiences connect to build safe, trusting and non-judgmental relationships where we learn and grow together. Peer workers are people who have experience of mental health challenges and accessing services for mental health care, and are employed, trained and supported to work to the TEWV Peer Support Values and use their experiences to support others., To support you with this work you will receive ongoing regular 1:1 and group supervision and will be able to access a range of other peer connection and support structures.