Peer Support Worker Open Dialogue

5 days ago

Canterbury, United Kingdom Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust Full time

Looking for an alternatives? New beginnings? We are looking to expand the number of Peer Support Worker (PSW) to facilitate the on going development of the Peer supported Open Dialogue service (POD) within KMPT, the only stand alone NHS POD in the UK. Our award winning team is based in Canterbury and operates in the local area.

As a PSW you will be employed to support others by drawing on shared lived and life experiences rather than through professional interventions and approaches. This mutual, reciprocal, Recovery focused support often happens quite naturally as we meet others who have similar experiences - whether these experiences are social, familial, cultural, emotional or physical. You will be trained and supported to provide safe, appropriate and effective peer support that is based on the strong value base underpinning peer support within the POD model which promotes a non-hierarchical, non-directive, person centred, trauma informed and relational approach to mental health crisis. The model is delivered by the co
- production of network meetings with service users & their networks.

As an integral and valued member of a multi-disciplinary team the post holder will provide specialist support to individuals within their network, by using dialogical as well as peer specialist interventions through lived experience of mental distress to support service users. The successful post holder will also be required to have a voice in the evolution and promotion of the service to both internal & external stakeholders.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.”

**Key Responsibilities**:
Open Dialogue & Support Work
- Provide person centred, strengths based support informed by your experiential knowledge. To support service users to maintain or regain a sense of agency and autonomy throughout contact with services.
- Deliver Open Dialogue network meetings within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Participate in regular group supervision to support the team of Open Dialogue Practitioners.
- Deliver 1-2-1 specialist support where appropriate. This may include working alongside service users in developing crisis, recovery and wellbeing plans, Advanced Decisions/Statements and personal network maps.
- Provide community navigation using knowledge of services, community networks and service user organisations and movements.
- Write accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.
- To have responsibility for relevant safeguarding issues in relation to service users and their network, including making difficult decisions as a team adhering to the Trust’s Safeguarding policy.
- Engage in self-reflective practices and commit to continued personal development.

**Team Development, Training, and Organisational Work**:

- Contribute to a culture that is therapeutic, productive, accessible, inclusive, flexible and responsive to service user’s needs.
- Promote positive understanding, awareness and attitudes towards mental health as part of day-to-day duties
- Participate in and actively contribute to peer practitioner supervision, mandatory training and team meetings, individual and group supervision and organisational events as required.
- Ensure excellent communication and liaison with colleagues within the wider services of the Trust, being an agent for change and a champion of recovery in all interactions both within and outside the organisation.
- Be committed to professional development through independent learning.

General Responsibilities
- Work in accordance with KMPT Trust Values, Aims and Objectives
- Work at all times to promote equality, diversity and individual human rights
- Be efficient, responsible and maintain a high level of personal organisation; keeping accurate and appropriate records and providing information for monitoring and evaluation as required
- To prioritise your own personal wellbeing, and to seek support if issues arise with work-life balance.
- Work flexibly, being prepared to perform other duties commensurate with the role which may include new areas of operation following consultation
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