Job summary
- Main area
- Wellbeing Engagement Worker
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-WSN7232508
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Child Health Centre
- Town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 gross per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/06/2025
Employer heading
Senior Peer Mentor
Band 4
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
YOUR APPLICATION
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Job overview
The Suffolk Wellbeing Service is part of the national accredited IAPT initiative. The aim of this is to increase mental health access to those living in Suffolk aged 16 and above who are experiencing mild to moderate levels of anxiety and depression. The service works in conjunction with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) by providing low and high intensity mental health care to the local population.
Suffolk Wellbeing are pleased to be able to offer an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our team as a Senior Peer Mentor Band 4 working alongside our Band 3 Peer Mentors.
The posts will be based in either Ipswich or Bury St Edmunds, but travel will be required as part of the role to work across Suffolk This is a full-time post. Working hours are between 8am and 8pm and could involve some weekend work.
Main duties of the job
Suffolk Wellbeing are pleased to be able to offer an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our team as Senior Peer Mentor, you will use your knowledge and experience of working with Community and Voluntary Sector groups to engage with people from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures and your creativity to set up and present appealing activities and events in Community settings. We welcome applicants that speak more than one language
Working for our organisation
Benefits included with this role are:-
- NHS pension
- A comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- Career progression
- Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- Staff physio service
- Gym membership
- NHS discounts and many more
NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions, but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.
CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities. If you feel you have what it takes to make a difference by sharing your lived experience and wish to join a dynamic service with lots to offer you as a Peer Mentor, then we invite your application to the role.
This role requires you to be a highly competent and dedicated individual who demonstrates both compassion and empathy to the individuals we support it is desirable to have an understanding/awareness of mental ill health (e.g. support worker), or a relevant qualification (level 3 Health & Social Care) or relevant experience.
You will manage and support a team of Peer Mentors as well as carry a caseload of your own. Good leadership qualities are required including compassion and understand when managing a team whose role includes sharing their own lived experience of mental health. You will be responsible for Case Management Supervision as well as individual supervision.
More specifically, successful applicants will need to possess and demonstrate a high level of skill in the following areas:
- Ability to demonstrate resilience when working with individuals that are experiencing varying levels of emotional distress.
- Able to adapt to change.
- Ability to provide strong and supportive leadership
- Ability to recognise the needs of your team’s wellbeing
- Ability and confidence to deliver presentations in-house as well as in the community.
- Confident to deliver training to new members of the team
- A positive and solution-focused attitude.
- Good administration and IT skills.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills relating to the number of client contacts offered and clinical sessions carried out each week.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills relating to team supervisions
- Capacity to work under pressure.
- High level of enthusiasm and self-motivation.
- Ability to work and problem solve independently.
- Access to a car to travel independently.
- Ability to work at any location across Suffolk.
- Ability to work flexibly, including some evenings and weekends.
We are seeking an individual with the knowledge and skills to work as part of a team and be innovative in their approach. You will need to be flexible and have the ability to cope in a highly demanding role and demonstrate a high level of organisational skill.
You will work under the direction of and be managed by the Community Service Manager.
Due to the high number of applications these posts attract, we will reserve the right to close the advert earlier than the proposed closing date.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- PSW training course or an equivalent PSW training programme
- Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care / Mental Health
Desirable criteria
- Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification/ experience.
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Personal lived experience of mental health difficulties and personal recovery OR Carer (indirect) lived experience supporting someone through their recovery.
- Significant experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems – minimum two years.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of receiving care under Mental Health Services
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Sharon Lee
- Job title
- Community Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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