Autism Peer Support Worker

4 weeks ago

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

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 before and after their assessment and diagnosis of ASD Understand a persons experiences in relation to their autism Ensure that people are treated with dignity and respect Aspire to instil hope and optimism To work as part of the team providing approaches to support the service user around their autism diagnosis Build and maintain safe and effective therapeutic recovery relationships Support people using services and staff to develop self-management plans and implement them collaboratively and creatively To work as part of the team supporting the families or carers of someone using services Understand a persons coping strategies and strengths and support people to use these at times of distress or difficulty To enable service users to develop self-management of their condition taking an empowering approach to promote independence (doing with and empowering, not doing for people) To help service users engage with and build connections and a sense of belonging to their local communities and meaningful activities To support local communities within Sheffield to understand autism and the services available to people To recognise increasing risk to alert significant others and the team to respond as needed Be responsible for maintaining up-to-date records to reflect service users care and support To report untoward incidents and areas of concern as soon as they arise Promote anti-discriminatory activities Working with colleagues as part of a team: To work collaboratively with other members of the teams and to build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues Support colleagues by promoting systems of work, which promote safe practice Contribute to review systems and team meetings Co-produce psychoeducation and skills-based groups: To co-produce and facilitate psychoeducation and skills-based groups alongside clinicians designed for service users to support their understanding of their diagnosis and develop management strategies To assist in the audit and evaluation of groups Co-produce staff training: To co-produce and deliver training (with team members and other Peer Support Workers across SHSC) Personal responsibilities: Work flexibly to meet service needs Administrative responsibilities: Keep clinical records up to date including using mobile working technology in accordance with legislation Maintain records to a high standard and record activity data in a timely manner Ensure a high standard of written work and support other colleagues to do so Support service users to write or contribute to their own clinical notes Take responsibility for incident reporting Service development: Contribute to service development and change processes within the team and the SHSC PSW network Act as a role model to demonstrate trust values, credibility with the team, the wider health community and external agencies Participate in systems and processes to establish and maintain effective communication and confidentiality of information Ensure compliance with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others, by acting and alerting managers or senior clinicians if practice appears to contravene policy, or if concerned about any aspect of service user care Adhere to Trust standards of behaviour and expected performance Maintain a healthy, safe and secure working environment, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, maintaining accurate documentation and reporting any concerns Participate in promotion of the team and PSW to the directorate and wider trust Be involved in recruitment processes Supervision, training, reflective practice and continual professional development: To provide support to service users under the supervision of more senior colleagues within the team/service Take responsibility for own learning and development by recognising and taking advantage of all opportunities to learn, including full participation in PDR appraisal, supervision Attend and complete all required Trust Mandatory training as per the Trust Mandatory Training Policy Maintain up to date skills and knowledge, and maintain awareness of PSW and health and social care issues Participate in training and induction for new staff To attend and contribute to reflective practice and case/ team formulation to encourage compassion and understanding Participate in regular individual and group supervision/reflective practice; within the service and PSW colleagues Use supervision to understand and reflect to inform and enable people to manage risk effectively Participate in the development of the service and the SHSC PSW offer To take a proactive stance towards the maintenance of your well-being at work using supervision as appropriate.

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