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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment opportunity will be considered)
Hours
22.5 hours per week (Part Time - 22.5 hours per week)
Job ref
354-AE-20954
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Department of Psychiatry
Town
Eastbourne
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Peer Support Worker - Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team

NHS AfC: Band 3

Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team in Eastbourne 

As part of our ambition to deliver outstanding care we are looking to recruit a Peer Support Worker to complement our existing multi-disciplinary team. If you have had your own experience of mental health issues and would like to support others in their recovery, please apply.

-For those candidates requiring a VISA to work in the UK, please be aware that significant knowledge and experience of at least 2 years, (preferably within the NHS) is required to meet the pay threshold for a Health and Care Visa.

 

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an expert by experience that has lived experience of mental health issues, to support the delivery of interventions through the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment tam.  . As an integral and highly valued member of our multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support Worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, empowering them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process.

Working collaboratively alongside service users, the Peer Support Worker builds on a person’s ability, strengths and their links to social and community services. In the role you will work in partnership with multiple agencies in the community. Peer Support Workers engage with mental health service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assisting service users to gain and maintain independence in the community. The Peer Support Worker will assist service users in raising aspirations and developing personal goals, co-produce and co-facilitate groups (where possible) and increasing individual occupational performance and participation.

Working for our organisation

This small, friendly, multi-disciplinary team is based at the Department of Psychiatry in Eastbourne.

You will be supported by the team leader and the wider MDT. You will be provided with individual clinical supervision, and opportunities to link with other Peer Support Workers  and other services for peer support and development.

As a service we offer a real commitment to support your continuing professional development through a variety of internal and external training opportunities and university accredited courses.

The base for this post is in Eastbourne,  however the team regularly works flexibly and remotely using a range of digital solutions for meetings and consultations.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To support individuals and groups using a Peer approach
  • To be a positive role model for other people overcoming mental health challenges, other workers and members of the public
  • To use parts of your recovery story to inspire hope in others where appropriate
  • To use appropriate skills in engaging with individuals with mental health challenges, eg asking open-ended questions, validating strengths and experiences and using empowering language to overcome negative self-talk
  • To support and enable individuals with mental health challenges to resolve conflicts and regain control, responsibility, hope and enjoyment based on the principles of peer supported recovery such as sharing your personal recovery story
  • To support service users in identifying both strengths and early signs of relapse. To support service users in identifying possible triggers or causes of relapse
  • To provide support to individuals in gaining choice, developing and managing meaning and purpose of life and independence, and maintaining dignity and self respect
  • To support individuals in meeting holistic needs (education, welfare, employment, financial, leisure, housing, spiritual, etc) in partnership with other individuals, care team and agencies and within a recovery environment
  • To promote and make service users aware of personal strengths and social networks, and highlight their ability to engage with these
  • To deliver educational training to service users (as appropriate)
  • To engage actively in peer and professional supervision and apply the learning to working with clients of the service
  • To support access and facilitation of activity sessions both on a one-to-one and group basis for service users
  • To ensure all service users are aware of activities which may be of benefit to them and how these can be accessed
  • To undertake any other such duties as may reasonably fall within the remit of the post, as required by the Manager/Supervisor

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • A recognised qualification in an area related to the workplace or equivalent technical/life skills
  • Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning
  • Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working with people with Psychosis/Complex mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity
  • Experience working as part of a team
  • Experience of being supervised
  • Lived experience of Psychosis and mental health issues/difficulties
  • Managing personal mental health and recovery
  • Knowledge of Peer Support, Recovery and Wellbeing in mental health and ability to apply this throughout your work

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lynn Hodges
Job title
Team Leader
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 304 0645
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