Senior Peer Support Worker - Eating Disorders Services

Maudsley Learning; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a progressive and award-winning team focused on innovative practices in treating eating disorders. As a Senior Peer Support Worker, you will leverage your lived experience to provide essential peer support interventions for adults facing various eating disorder challenges. This role is based at the renowned Maudsley Hospital, where you will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to enhance the quality of care. With a commitment to personal and professional development, you will play a vital role in shaping peer support services and contributing to the recovery journey of those in need. Embrace this opportunity to make a meaningful impact in mental health care while enjoying a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Ongoing Training Opportunities

Supportive Work Environment

Qualifications

• GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths required.
• Lived experience of mental health difficulties is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with eating disorders through peer interventions.
• Supervise and develop Peer Support Workers.

Skills

Peer Support

Communication Skills

Mental Health Knowledge

Organizational Skills

Supervision Experience

Education

GCSE or equivalent

Lived Experience Training

Recovery College Courses

Tools

IT Skills

Presentation Skills

Job description

NHS AfC: Band 5

Main area: Additional Support services

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 334-CLI-6646348

Site: Maudsley Hospital

Town: Denmark Hill

Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 per annum (Incl. of HCAs)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 31/12/2024 23:59

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to providing high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for the care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values: We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

Would you like to join a progressive, award-winning, multi-disciplinary team spearheading innovative practices in the treatment of people with eating disorders as a Senior Peer Support Worker?

We would like to invite applications for the post of Senior Peer Support Worker. These posts will involve using your lived experience of recovering from an eating disorder to provide best practice peer support interventions and care for adults with a full range of eating disorder difficulties.

The post will be based at Maudsley Hospital. The Eating Disorders Departments include the outpatients, day service, ETT, and inpatients.

The EDOPD is internationally renowned for providing best practice, evidence-based care for adults with the full range of eating disorder difficulties.

Main duties of the job

As part of the Senior Peer Support Worker role, you will be supporting individuals with eating disorders across outpatients, day services & the Enhanced Treatment Team via individual and group peer support interventions, under the clinical and professional supervision of a qualified psychologist, psychotherapist or CBT therapist & other members of the MDT.

The post holder will also support Peer Support workers' development in their roles via providing them regular supervision. The post holder will also contribute to the development and co-ordination of Peer Support services across the service.

We are looking for enthusiastic people to be part of our well-established and growing peer support service. The successful applicants will be engaging, approachable, motivated, committed to personal and professional development, and able to engage with people with complex mental health difficulties. They will be organised, with existing experience working with mental health care.

Working for our organisation

As one of the few Trusts in London, we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role, you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work-life balance.

Would you like to join a progressive, award-winning, multi-disciplinary team spearheading innovative practices in the treatment of eating disorders?

The Eating Disorder Unit (EDU) is internationally renowned for providing best practice, evidence-based care for adults with a full range of eating disorder difficulties. Outpatient treatments include guided self-help, group and individual interventions. We are the developers of MANTRA, now recommended as part of NICE 2017 guidelines for the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, and of FREED (First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders).

We offer opportunities for ongoing training and collaboration with colleagues across the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences at King’s College London.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide recovery-oriented input, including group work, to those in lived experience roles in relation to supervision, urgent care issues and referrals.
• To assist people in lived experience roles to reflect on how to provide, create and deliver a range of peer support activities and care planning to their clients in the most effective way.
• To provide direct support to people in lived experience roles by attending joint visits for those service users with more complex issues.
• To support the recruitment and induction of Peer Workers within the Eating Disorder Teams.
• To support the training and development of Peer Workers and other staff groups.
• To develop an effective and supportive infrastructure for the Peer Workers to offer advice and support for the managers of the Peer Workers.
• Work in partnership with key clinicians and stakeholders, to develop a robust project plan agreed by the sponsors and their leads.
• Resolve any enquiries regarding documentation and/or status of any project.
• Communicate with all levels regarding project progress.
• To be able to travel to settings across South London – areas covered include Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth, Croydon, Greenwich, Bromley and Bexley.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE or equivalent level/or evidence of competency specifically in English and Maths.
• Lived Experience Training / Peer Worker Training or willingness to complete training.
• Experience of Recovery College courses.
• Other evidence of relevant training.

Experience

• Personal experience of mental health difficulties in eating disorders, and recovery.
• Experience of using mental health services (for example a community mental health team / promoting recovery team, home treatment team, inpatient stay, emergency department, etc).
• Willing to positively share your own life experiences, with service users, carers, and colleagues.
• Experience of working as a Peer Worker.
• Experience of delivering peer support services.
• An interest in developing a career in mental health care.
• Experience of facilitating supervision.

Knowledge/Skills

• Ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to develop and deliver presentations to the public and other professionals.
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of the Values of Peer Support.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including writing reports and completing audits.
• Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
• Ability to speak other languages.
• Basic knowledge of psychological and therapeutic interventions (CBT, DBT, MBT etc.).
• Knowledge of Quality improvement methods.

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights.

Additional Information

Please note:

• All applications for this post will need to be made online.
• Read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
• The closing date listed is a guide only and the vacancy may close earlier should a sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible.
• Once you have submitted your application, you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
• If you have not heard from us within three weeks from the closing date, your application has not been successful.
• Priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
• If appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
• We are a smoke-free Trust.

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion. Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Catherine Perry

Job title: Peer Support Pathway Lead/Specialist CBT Therapist

Email address: [e-mail]

Telephone number: 02032283180