Job summary
- Main area
- Peer Support Worker
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-ESU6161459
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Grange Lodge, Kesgrave
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/05/2024
Employer heading
Peer Support Worker
Band 3
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.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
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.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.
YOUR APPLICATION
It is important that you complete a formal application form as CV’s alone will not be accepted.
We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].
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Job overview
New post within a Perinatal Loss Service
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Peer Support Worker to be involved in the development and the delivery of the new specialist perinatal loss service in Suffolk. The perinatal loss service is a psychology-led pathway, which specifically aims to provide exceptional, trauma-informed mental health services to perinatal populations who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties in the context of perinatal loss (including miscarriage, termination, neonatal death and still birth). The pathway will sit closely alongside the existing perinatal mental health team in Suffolk.
The team will include a Clinical Psychologist, an Assistant Psychologist, a Peer Support Worker and Specialist Maternity Support assistants in each of the acute Trusts.
This is a great opportunity to advance your career working with Service Users to support them and give them a voice. If you have completed Peer Support Worker training this role will be perfect for you but if you are keen to undertake the role of a Peer Support Worker but not yet trained we will provide the training.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Be instrumental in the development of the Perinatal Loss Service in collaboration with Maternity Services and the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team supporting women who experienced perinatal loss.
- Have ‘lived experience’ of recovery from mental health challenges resulting from perinatal loss and be a vital source of support to other women in their own mental health recovery; providing them with tailored support based on their individual needs.
- Assist women to establish greater control over their lives; help to identify aspects of life that give meaning, hope, value and purpose whilst recognising that an individual’s recovery is a distinct and deeply personal process.
- Provide individual support to women within the service using their own lived experience and role modelling to enhance the therapeutic relationship and enable women to achieve their individual recovery goals.
Working for our organisation
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Responsibilities
- To undertake the Care Certificate within the first 12 weeks of employment – or have an existing qualification/programme of learning agreed as meeting wholly or partially, the standards of the Care Certificate
- To work with the MDT in the support of service users accessing the Trust services.
- To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with Service Users and their Carers.
- To role-model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, advocacy and hopefulness via the telling of their own recovery story to inspire and incite confidence in peers.
- To share/teach coping, self-help and self-management techniques within the peer relationship.
- To support individuals in identifying their own strengths, personal interests, achievements and meaningful recovery goals.
- By utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques and experiences in addition to their own lived experience, PSW’s will help individuals develop recovery objectives.
- To assist service users in being actively involved in creating their own unique recovery action plan as part of the Care Programme Approach.
- To positively provide and support independent living for Service users in the Community by maintaining knowledge and links with Community resources and actively support service users to access them.
- To participate in activities and groups with the Service user.
- To assist and support individuals with Activities of Daily Living and managing their lives on a day-to-day basis alongside their recovery goals.
- To accompany service users to meetings and appointments as identified as part of their recovery.
- To support service users in seeking to connect/maintain contact with their families, friends and significant others and in learning how to improve and develop relationships.
- To maintain a focus on the rights of the service user/carer at all times, and to respect their personal, social, spiritual beliefs and their unique identity.
COMMUNICATION
- To form professional peer-based relationships with service users, communicating with them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.
- To provide relevant information, written and oral, relating to Service User progress including writing notes on Lorenzo.
- To develop good working relationships with ward staff and the multidisciplinary team liaising with other agencies as appropriate.
- To attend and contribute at multidisciplinary team meetings.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of Safeguarding, confidentiality, boundaries & role limitations.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- PSW training course or Commitment to completing the NSFT PSW course or an equivalent PSW training programme. And Care Certificate must be achieved within first 12 weeks of employment.
Desirable criteria
- MH first aid course
- Other relevant training/course
- Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification/ experience.
- Level 3 Award in Adult Education & Training.
- A recognised coaching qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Personal lived experience of mental health difficulties and personal recovery OR Carer (indirect) lived experience supporting someone through their recovery
Desirable criteria
- Experience of receiving care under Secondary Mental Health Services
- Co-facilitating groups
- Mentoring
- Coaching
- Co-production of courses and workshop materials
- Other relevant roles / jobs
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Petrina Brett
- Job title
- Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01284 719704
- Additional information
If you have any questions in relation to the peer support worker role please contact Tanya Florence [email protected]
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