Senior Peer Support Worker

ESSEX PARTNERSHIP UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Grays; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Grays is seeking an enthusiastic Peer Support Worker. This role involves supporting individuals with mental health difficulties in establishing control over their lives and promoting recovery. The ideal candidate will have lived experience of mental health challenges and will work within a multidisciplinary team to inspire hope and deliver person-centered care. Benefits include flexible working options, training opportunities, and NHS discounts.

Benefits

Season Ticket Loans

NHS discounts for staff

Excellent Training facilities

Buying and Selling annual leave

Opportunity for bank shifts

Salary Sacrifice schemes

Day One Flexible Employer

Qualifications

• Experience with mental health difficulties and recovery.
• Ability to provide support and role model behaviors.
• Motivated staff who embodies Trust values of Care, Learn, and Empower.

Responsibilities

• Support service users in their recovery journey.
• Role model and utilize lived experience to guide others.
• Facilitate information sharing to promote self-choice.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Experience with mental health

Job description

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Peer Support Worker to support the provision of recovery focused, safe patient care in the community. The main purpose of this role is to support service users to establish greater control over their lives, helping to identify aspects of life that give meaning, hope, value and purpose whilst recognizing that each individual's recovery is a distinctive and deeply personal process. As an integral and valued member of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary Recovery and Wellbeing team (part of CMHT) working in Thurrock, you will provide support to individuals within the service by role modelling and using your lived experience to support service users and guide the service in being more person centered., As a Peer Community Support Worker, you will work within the Thurrock Recovery and Well Being multidisciplinary team (CMHT), across Thurrock, to support people who under the Team, with diagnosis of severe and enduring mental illness, requiring secondary, specialist mental health support. You will use your lived experience of mental health difficulties to inspire hope and embed the principles of recovery within the team. Within a relationship of mutuality you will be expected to facilitate and support information sharing to promote self-choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to people's local communities.

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

Benefits

• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment. Join our Staff bank What is Staff Bank? Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times. All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish. If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.