Peer Support Worker and Facilitator for Bipolar

5 months ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

**Role Purpose**: The role of peer support worker has been developed specifically for people who have lived experience of mental distress. Through sharing wisdom from their own experiences, Peer Support Workers will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.

As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, they will promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.

The PSW will act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations. There is also an expectation that PSWs will be involved in the ongoing development of peer roles in the Trust including the Peer Support Training Programme and evaluation.

The Peer Support Worker Group Facilitator will assist in the facilitation of the bipolar Psychoeducation group alongside other healthcare professionals. The PSW will carry out training specific to this role and will develop their own life chart for bipolar disorder which they will be happy to share with the rest of the group.

The PSW will commit to the weekly group session and in addition attend any meetings or training as part of this role.

The role of peer support worker has been developed specifically for people who have had lived experience mental distress. Peer support workers use their experiences to offer empathy, hope and understanding to others. In this role will offer peer support alongside practical assistance to enable people to feel in control of their lives and their own unique recovery process. Within a relationship of mutuality and shared experience, they will promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities.

You will have a keen interest in Group psychoeducation work for bipolar disorder. As part of the peer facilitation team you will attend the weekly psychoeducation group and contribute with the delivery of the structured psychoeducation course. In addition you will share appropriate personal experiences of having bipolar disorder. Part of this will include sharing a life chart with the rest of the group and to advocate them developing a life chart for themselves. You will be required to attend group and individual supervision sessions and will be an integral part of the planning and evaluating of group sessions.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you

TeamNottsHC

To establish supportive and respectful relationships with people using mental health services.

To help people identify their own Recovery goals

To support service users to identify and overcome fears within a relationship of empathy and Trust

To share ideas about ways of achieving Recovery goals, drawing on personal experiences and a range of coping, self help and self management techniques

To assist others to create their own Recovery plans and develop advance directives

To model personal responsibility, self awareness, self belief, self advocacy and hopefulness

To sign-post to various resources, opportunities and activities within the Trust and in communities to promote choice and informed decision making.

To attend the weekly bipolar psychoeducation group and aid in the facilitation of this group

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