Perinatal Peer Supporter

2 weeks ago


Bradford, United Kingdom Family Action Full time

**Perinatal Peer Supporter (x4 roles available), Family Action Bradford Perinatal Support Service**

**Based in Bradford**

**29.6 hours per week each (part time)**

**Grade 2 (lower) point 11-15: £20,579 - £23,268 FTE (£16,407.58 - £18,551.51 per annum, pro**

**rata)**

**Do you have experience of being a new parent? Are you a great listener who is skilled at connecting with others? Would you like to grow in a role where you can use your own lived experience to support new and expectant mums? If so, we want to hear from you.**

At Family Action we transform lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation. We have been building stronger families since 1869 and today we work with more than 60,000 families in over 150 community based services, as well as supporting thousands more through national programmes and grants.

**Family Action Perinatal Support Service offers one to one peer support for women, who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues pre and post birth.**

**Your impact**

As a Peer Supporter, you will work with new and expectant mums to improve maternal mental health and emotional wellbeing, whilst helping parents to be more emotionally available for their babies. You will assess their needs, support them through their recovery journey by providing listening support sessions, and working jointly on recovery plans. You will build trusting relationships that allow service users to feel safe to share their thoughts and feelings, and ensure access to other forms of support through effective signposting.

**Your skills and experience**

**What will we offer you?**

**Closing date**:Monday 3rdJuly 2023 at 9am

**Interview date**:TBC

**ID: 863**
Job title: Perinatal Peer Supporter (x4 roles available)

Service: Bradford Perinatal Support Service

**Salary**: Grade 2 Point 11-15

Hours: 29.6 hours per week each (part time)

Location: Bradford

Responsible to: Perinatal Coordinator

Summary of job:
The Family Action Perinatal Support Service provides Peer Support for new and expectant mums with mild to moderate mental health issues during the pre and post birth period. Our service users may be experiencing low mood, anxiety, and/or social isolation. Your role as a Perinatal Peer Supporter will be to provide emotional support and empower women to develop healthy recovery strategies. You will assess the needs of women who are referred into the service, provide regular listening visits, and support service users to access services within the local community where appropriate. In addition, the role will involve developing links with other professionals and local support services in order toidentify appropriate support and facilitate access for service users whilst generating appropriate referrals for the service.

Key tasks and responsibilities:
1. Utilise your own lived experience to provide peer support for women pre and post birth.

Engage with and form trusted relationships with parents and carers

Assist parents/carers in their understanding of the importance of the first 1001 days, promoting key messages and providing support to strengthen parent-child attachment.

4. Work in partnership with women to plan for and promote their recovery

5. Complete initial assessments, create plans for support, and carry out regular reviews of client need.

6. Complete outcomes measuring tools with service users to inform decision making around suitability for the service and to measure progress.

7. Complete case recording to a high standard, adhering to the service procedures and protocols.

8. Attend multi agency meetings when required.

Work in partnership with other agencies and services, and ensure that service users are signposted to appropriate support.

Develop relationships with under-represented or marginalised community groups in order to ensure the service is accessible to all.

11. Ensure all work is carried out to Family Action minimum standards and is designed and delivered to maximise agreed outcomes.

12. Ensure that all assigned work adheres to Family Actions Safeguarding Policy and ensure BSGB procedures are followed in the event of any child protection issues or concerns.

Comply with Family Action’s Health and Safety Policy, Data Protection Policy and to protect the health, safety and welfare of themselves and others.

Comply with Family Action’s Diversity & Equality Policy and our Ethical Policy in every aspect of your work and positively promote the Principles of these policies amongst colleagues, service users and other members of the community.

Promote a positive image of Family Action, representing the organisation in order to increase professional and public awareness of the organisation’s work and of the views and needs of service users.

Represent Family Action in relevant external and internal service related forums, participating in task groups, skill sets and service develo



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