Peer Support Worker
6 months ago
The Personality and Complex Trauma Team seeking an enthusiastic Peer Support Worker (PSW), to join the existing peer support workers & wider team, in enhancing services & improving experiences for people with personality difficulties & complex trauma & in the community.
You will be a part of transforming the delivery of mental health services & making a difference to people’s lives. The team are inclusive, caring, highly supportive of one another & keen to grow.
As a PSW, you will need relevant knowledge of working in the health, voluntary or social care, but the most important knowledge is your own personal experience of mental health difficulties. It is your ability to use that experience in a way that underpins your support. A key aim of the PSW role is to inspire hope & belief that having ‘a life worth living’ is a possibility. You will be a valued member of the team who can support us in reflecting & enhancing the work we do through sharing expertise of your own experience, keeping service user needs & perspectives at the heart of what we do.
The successful applicant will provide time-limited support to build collaborative & meaningful goals, focused on maintaining independence, promoting social inclusion & building supportive networks.
You will be fully supported with regular clinical, managerial & peer supervision. You will be enrolled onto the Competence Framework for Peer Support Workers; a nationally recognised course developed by Health Education England.
Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief & hopefulness.
Promote the concept of recovery, acting as a role model
Be an ambassador for the PSW service with Trust colleagues, external agencies & partner organisations.
Support patients transition across services & during the discharge
Support facilitation of Psychological group interventions, alongside a health professional.
Support facilitation of occupational groups & interventions, alongside a health professional
Identify opportunities, services & activities that promote improvement in health & recovery.
Help people build social & community networks
Contribute to co-production of safety plans.
Share coping, self-help & self-management skills within peer relationship.
Share lived experiences to enhance compassion & understanding.
Support training programmes to provide a lived experience perspective.
Liaise with team members & carry out assigned duties
Promote equality for all patients
Liaise with voluntary & statutory organisations facilitating good communication & collaborative working.
Work within policies, protocols & clinical procedures of LPFT
Engage in induction, supervision & training in accordance with Competence Framework for Mental Health Peer Support Workers.
Maintain strict confidentiality of patient information
Support & promote co-production (everyone working together) to develop & evaluate services
Have awareness of risk & & safeguarding concerns & escalate accordingly
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
To model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness.
To promote the concept of recovery in all work carried out, acting as an role model to people
To act as an ambassador for the Peer Support Worker service with Trust colleagues and with external agencies and partner organisations.
To support patients with transition across services and during the discharge process which may require analysis, comparison and suitability of service options
To support the facilitation of Psychological group interventions, alongside a health professional.
To support development & facilitation of occupational/socially framed groups and interventions, alongside a health professional where required.
To identify resources, opportunities, services and activities that promotes how to improve health and recovery.
To help people to rebuild social and community ne
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