Peer Support Worker

7 months ago

Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Do you have lived experience of mental health problems and want to use your recovery journey to support other people facing similar challenges?

Would you like to help people manage their mental health within Allen Ward at the Warneford Hospital?

Are you looking for a career opportunity and are enthusiastic about caring and supporting people?

**If you answer yes to these three questions, then**:
Our Peer Support Worker jobs could be the role for you

Lived experience of mental health challenges is essential for this role, or maybe you have cared for someone who has gone through something similar?

We’re looking for people who are compassionate, can work well in a team, highly motivated and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will be provided with training for the role and given the opportunity to complete the national recognised care certificate.

Peer Support Workers (PWS’s) are people who have their own lived experience of mental health challenges. They use empathy informed by their own experiences to support service users who are accessing mental health services and their families.

This post will promote the implementation of cultural and structural change through the provision of peer support as an integral part of adult mental health services. The peer support worker role sees the introduction of lived experience into everyday practice. PSW’s offer a combination of group and one to one work and will work within the multi-disciplinary team to support a service users recovery journey. The post holder will facilitate formal and informal learning, working with staff in clinical practice and supporting clinical teams to develop recovery-based practice.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

**Our values are**: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Allen Ward provides inpatient care to adults of working age across Oxfordshire. For some patients this may be a brief stay for intensive treatment and support, others who suffer from severe and enduring mental illness may require more frequent admissions.

These services form part of the patient pathway and work in conjunction with our community mental health teams, crisis resolution and home treatment teams, as well as assertive outreach and early intervention services.

A ward-based Peer Support Worker responds to the pace of change which may occur on a shift by shift basis. The nature of the ward environment means that ward based PSW’s don’t necessarily work with a set caseload of service users.

**Lived experience**:

- Drawing on lived experience of mental health to provide emotional and practical support to an allocated group of service users to promote their recovery. This may include avoidance of admission and/or promoting recovery for inpatient’s by helping them to identify and build their own support network
- To support service users to engage effectively with care being offered and access appropriate services
- Drawing upon lived experience & using active listening to inspire hope, offer empathy, empowerment, confidence building & validate a service users’ feelings
- To build relationships that are founded on the value of mutuality which will facilitate the provision of regular and practical support, both one to one and via group facilitation, to service users in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect
- Where appropriate challenge discrimination and reducing the stigma of mental ill health.
- To positively promote independent living of service users through role-modelling individual recovery journeys
- To have the individual service user’s needs always at the forefront of the PSW’s practice and to use the skills incorporated in the Peer Support Training to underpin their practice
- To build rapport with service users, whilst maintaining professional boundaries, drawing on both e

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