Peer Support Volunteer
2 weeks ago
Women and their families affected by trauma relating to pregnancy and birth often express that it helps to talk to someone who has been through a similar experience.
The role of the specially trained Peer Support Volunteer offers one to one contact with a woman providing the opportunity to speak to someone who has also been through their own journey, offering support in attending appointments and providing a listening and empathetic ear. They will offer safe, effective and appropriate peer support to the woman that they’re supporting using their experiential skills and knowledge.
**Peer Support Volunteers may be required**:
- To talk to women over the telephone or online.
- To listen and show empathy towards peers.
- To meet women in appropriate settings and support them to access relevant and appropriate activities either in a home setting or the community.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has been selected by NHS England and NHS Improvement to mobilise the new Maternal Mental Health service (MMHS) delivering across the four trusts (East Lancashire, Lancashire, Morecambe Bay and Blackpool) of Lancashire and South Cumbria. The model proposed consists of Psychological Therapists and Clinical Psychologists working alongside MMHS midwives and Peer Support Volunteers in a community setting meeting the ambitions set out in the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) previously referred to as ‘Maternity Outreach Services’.
This much-needed service will support women who have PTSD following birth trauma, perinatal loss (including early miscarriage, recurrent miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death, termination of pregnancy for any reason, parent infant separation at birth due to safeguarding concerns), and severe fear of childbirth (tokophobia).
- To work as part of a team of volunteers
- To talk to women over the telephone or online.
- To listen and show empathy towards peers.
- To meet women in appropriate settings and support them to access relevant and appropriate activities either in a home setting or the community.
- To provide encouragement and support in a sensitive and non-judgemental manner, with people from a variety of backgrounds.
- To liaise with Peer Support Coordinators to ‘debrief’ after each encounter with any of our women in service.
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