Senior Peer Facilitator

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Barrow-in-Furness; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Peer Facilitator with lived experience of using mental health services to join our Early Intervention Service in Barrow-in-Furness. You will help develop a peer network by recruiting, training and mentoring Peer Facilitators, promoting recovery principles, and delivering person-centred care across the service.

The role is dedicated to empowering service users and families, with a focus on inclusion, diversity and flexible

Qualifications

• Experience of peer support in mental health services.
• Lived experience of recovery from mental health challenges and access to inpatient or secondary community services.

Responsibilities

• Develop and mentor a network of Peer Facilitators across Early Intervention service.
• Support recruitment and training, promote recovery principles and person-centred care.

Skills

Lived experience

Peer support experience

Job description

Do you have experience of using mental health services? Would you like to use these experiences to support other people and their families receiving these services?

Can you inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible - empowering our service users to achieve their hopes, dreams and goals?

Are you are willing to share your own experiences with others, if so we are looking to recruit Senior Peer Facilitator with lived experience of using mental health services to join our Early Intervention Service.

The role of the Senior Peer Facilitator has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of recovery from mental health challenges and experience of personally accessing inpatient mental health services or secondary care community mental health services.

Senior Peer Facilitators will have experience of providing peer support to mental health service users.

This important role will help us to develop a supportive peer network across the Early Intervention service locality by enhancing the recruitment, training and mentorship of Peer Facilitators. You will play a key role in developing Trust wide understanding of the role of Peers in achieving excellent person centred care, as well as promoting recovery principles and education.

If you have experience of working as a peer and are looking to develop your skills further whilst championing the importance of lived experience, we would love to receive an application from you to join our innovative Early Intervention service.

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Zoe Cogle Job title: Team Leader Email address: [e-mail]

For further information please contact: Zoe Cogle/Simon Bray Cotton

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