Peer Support Worker

7 months ago

Bury, United Kingdom Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We have an exciting opportunity for Peer Support Workers to come and join our Learning Disability Care Hub. We are recruiting Peer Support Workers because of their lived experience and their desire, motivation, and enthusiasm to support and encourage others on their individual journey. A Peer Support Worker is someone who draws upon and shares their own experiences of learning disability and accessing health and wellbeing support and / or using mental health services to inspire, model, and inform others in similar situations and support them in finding their own path to wellbeing. It is through this trusting relationship, which offers companionship, empathy, and empowerment that feelings of isolation and rejection can be replaced with hope, and a belief in personal control and working together

We are looking for people who have lived and living experience to come and join the Learning Disability Care Hub to help make improvements and support our service users, families and their carers.

Our Peer Support Workers will receive support and training to help them be part of a team being actively involved in making service improvements.

**To be a Peer Support Worker you must**:
Have a learning disability.

Be able to use your lived experience to support people with a learning disability.

Be able to work with staff to plan and run groups and activities.

Be able to help us make our services better.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

The Learning Disabilities Care Hub provides the following services:
Community Learning Disability Teams

Radcliffe Place - Admissions Avoidance for people across Greater Manchester

Cambeck Close - Short Stay Respite Breaks

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

For further information please see the Job Description and Personal Specification. These are available in Easy Read. If you need more details you can contact us using the details provided.

To be the expert by experience, to work collaboratively to support the care hub to deliver a range of support focused interventions for people who use community learning disability services with the aim of helping them live a meaningful life.

Help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful goals and set objectives.

Assist individuals in creating a care plan to maintain their health and wellbeing and achieve their agreed goals and outcomes.

Ensure service users goals are integrated into wider processes and are reviewed on a regular basis, liaising with the care team, as necessary.

To communicate effectively with individuals and their

To act as a positive role model showing professional and caring attitudes and behavior towards other team members, service users and carer's.

Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy, and hopefulness via the telling of own story to inspire and instill confidence.

To practice a non-discriminatory, non-jargon, and non
- medicalised language in all areas of work.

Participating as co-facilitator on more structured and formal group-based

Through your interaction with service users advise the care staff of changes in health and wellbeing presentation and risk.

Close liaison with clinical areas, Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Local Authority services, education and third sector.

Prioritise, manage, and monitor own workload and handle the day-to-day organisation of workload with the support of Team Manager.

Provide activities and support to a defined group of service users with varying

To be available for 1:1 sessions with service users when not engaged in structured / planned activities.

To support and encourage the development of user led services, e.g. drop-in, self -advocacy and other social groups in community settings with the support and involvement of NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector agencies.

Share and support individuals to develop coping, self-help, and self-management techniques.

Use own initiative, personal experience, and job-related training in deciding on the approach and interventions required when working with a service user in delivering peer support with supervision from the multi-disciplinary team.

Document relevant information on recording system, ensuring compliance with data governance guidance

To always maintain confidentiality of information regarding service users and carer's.

To be involved in aspects of service development, co-delivery of training and research across the care hub

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