Job summary
Employer heading
Peer Volunteer
Volunteer
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
- Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, Psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust supports 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, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
For more information about Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
At Community Roots we recognise the importance of working side-by-side with people who have experience of accessing mental health services, or caring for someone who does. Listening to and sharing our lived experiences of accessing care helps us to coproduce and co-deliver a wide range of preventative and recovery based health and wellbeing opportunities across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Main duties of the job
If you have an interest in supporting others to prevent ill health or to support people in life beyond services, we have a range of opportunities available that ensure our Community Roots service is peer led:
- You may like to support our wide ranging curriculum by developing new sessions, gaining facilitation skills or supporting our practitioners to prepare and deliver training sessions.
- Or, you might like to hit the road on board our engagement and outreach vehicle, HARRI, helping us connect people with health and wellbeing opportunities local to them.
- We also welcome applications to support learners in discovering our courses, completing enrolment forms, gathering feedback or supporting as a study buddy should someone feel apprehensive about attending our courses on their own or accessing us online
Working for our organisation
If you have a kind and welcoming nature with an interest in supporting people in your local community, we would welcome your application to work alongside our compassionate and caring team.
We will:
- Offer full training necessary for your role
- Support your development through a wide range of opportunities and projects
- Allocate you a personal mentor and support your volunteer experience through our regular groups and meetings
- Support your leadership development through Community Organising training
Volunteer duties may also include:
- Offer a warm welcome to visitors, partners and clients of the service and on board HARRI
- Engage with prospective learners to offer pastoral support
- Engage with locality Advisory Groups, Curriculum Development Groups and Evaluation Groups to co-develop the recovery and resilience service
- Support colleagues in the co-delivery of recovery learning opportunities, enhancing offers from a lived experience perspective
- To prepare learning spaces and materials with resources provided by LSCFT staff
- To support any learners who may become distressed during curriculum offers through peer support
- A Standard DBS will be needed for this role. (The possession of a criminal record does not necessarily disbar applicants from this role – you can talk in confidence to a member of the Community Roots team or Volunteer Service if you have any concerns about this.)
- To collate enrolment and evaluation documents during each recovery learning offer to ensure quality data collection
- To understand and speak with confidence about Community Roots & HARRI LSCFT across internal sites, community locations and in forums, engagement events
- To involve and enhance learner experience of the service offer through signposting and learning pathways
- To demonstrate clear boundaries when working with vulnerable people and escalate any issues beyond a volunteers role accountability.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the attached Role Description, or email main contact, for further information on this role. To apply for this role, please click the link below or contact us for a paper application form.
Person specification
Requirements
Essential criteria
- See Role Description
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Community Roots
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01772 695365
- Additional information
Volunteer Service
Email - [email protected]
Telephone – 01772 645507
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