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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

This is a permanent, part time position.

The shift pattern for this position is flexible within service working hours of Monday- Friday 9-5pm.

The Glasgow and Clyde Adult Eating Disorder Service is a service that meets the complex needs of adults with moderate to severe eating disorders across GGC. It is a multidisciplinary service clinically lead by psychology consisting of practitioners from psychiatry, clinical psychology, nursing, dietetics, and occupational therapy.

The clinical team works collaboratively with service users, carers and their representatives to ensure that care needs are identified and met, and through utilising group/individual therapies across community and in-patient settings will offer a recovery focused intervention.

The post holder will join an experienced group of clinicians in a motivated and busy multidisciplinary service. The peer support worker will be part of the multi-disciplinary team and will help to influence recovery focused practice within the team.

The post holder will focus on forming relationships with service users and supporting their recovery. The post holder will support service users to establish greater control over their lives and their life decisions. A key feature of the post will be the person’s unique experience of recovery and how the wisdom that comes with this lived experience can support others on their personal recovery journey, whilst recognising that each individual’s recovery, like his or her experience of mental ill-health, is a distinctive and personal and individual process.

It is intended that the peer support service will add to the quality of recovery orientated care and treatment.

The post holder will be line managed by a Band 6 Senior Eating Disorder Practitioner identified by the Team Lead and will have supervision from a designated clinician within the AED service.

The Peer support worker Post is 0.5WTE, with flexibility to apply those hours across 3 days of the service working hours of Monday to Friday 9-5pm. Suitable for Job share consideration.

Informal contact: Kirsty-Ann Burns, AEDs Team lead, 0141 232 7055, Kirsty-ann.burns@nhs.scot

Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.

This role does not meet the eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa or a Heath and Care Worker visa. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is unable to provide candidates or employees with a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS).

Due to the anticipated response to this post it may close before the closing date noted on the advert therefore once you start your application form please complete it immediately.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde encourages applications from all sections of the community. We promote a culture of inclusion across the organisation and are proud of the diverse workforce we have.

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