Peer Support Worker

3 months ago

Sheffield, United Kingdom Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you passionate about helping others in their journey through recovery? Are you a person who is keen to drive change through innovative thinking? If so, this could be the role for you

This is an exciting opportunity to use your own lived experience to work in the Community Enhancing Recovery Team as a Peer Support Worker, working with a range of peers to develop and embed the emerging role of peer support within community rehabilitation.

CERT was set up in 2014 to provide intensive, bespoke packages of care to service users in their own homes, as an alternative to being in Locked Rehabilitation and out of city hospital placements. Over the past 8 years the team has expanded to work with up to 45 service users with mental health problems, personality disorders and/or learning disabilities to support them to move from hospital into their own tenancies. Referrals are primarily received from inpatient acute and rehabilitation services. CERT works closely with other services, in particular South Yorkshire Housing to provide enhanced holistic support for people in their own homes.

Service users are supported by a full multi-disciplinary team in a psychologically and trauma informed service with the aim of enabling them to live independent and fulfilled lives. The team provides intensive quality interventions primarily between 8am and 8pm, 7 days a week.

As a peer support worker at CERT, you will be supported to draw upon lived experience to enhance the approaches offered to service users and support their recovery, through helping identify their strengths values and aspirations.

We invite you to share your story and reasons for wanting to work as a recovery worker in CERT alongside ensuring that you meet all the specified criteria.

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.

It’s important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of

If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.

We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.

General requirements
- To act as part of the multi-disciplinary team in a way that reflects the core values and principles of the recovery values and the team/service ethos
- Aspire to instil hope and optimism in relation to service users, their families and colleagues.

Principal duties

The post holder will work flexibly in collaboration with others to undertake a number of duties. Below are some examples:
**Working with service users and their families or carers**:

- To draw upon your lived experience to enhance the approaches offered to service users to support their recovery.
- Understand a person’s experiences in relation to their mental health.
- Ensure that people are treated with dignity and respect.
- To model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, and hopefulness.
- To work as part of the team providing approaches to support the service user with their recovery.
- Build and maintain safe and effective therapeutic recovery relationships.
- Contribute to the collaborative planning and review of recovery goals with service users and team members
- To ensure that interactions are sensitive and responsive to the service users’ ethnic, cultural and social background, using a range of communication and engagement skills as appropriate to the context
- Support people’s use of digital interventions
- Support people using services and staff to develop recovery plans and implement them collaboratively and creatively using initiative.
- To work as part of the team supporting the families or carers of someone using services
- Understand a person’s coping strategies and strengths and support people to use these at times of distress or difficulty.
- To accompany service users to appointments/meetings/activities of their choice and in performing a range of practical tasks, aligned to recovery goals.
- To enable service users to develop self-management, taking an empowering approach to promote independence (‘doing with’ and empowering, ‘not ‘doing for’ people)
- Be responsible for maintaining up-to-date records to reflect service users’ care and treatment packages and needs.
- To report untoward incidents and areas of concern as soon as they arise
- Promote anti-discriminatory activities.

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