Peer Support Worker

2 weeks ago

Bridgnorth, United Kingdom Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Have you had lived experience of perinatal mental ill health and services? Would you like to support other women who are currently experiencing perinatal mental health issues? If so, we would like to hear from you as we have an exciting opportunity to expand our perinatal peer support worker provision, were you would contribute to shaping the future of perinatal mental health care in Shropshire.

We would welcome you into our friendly, expanding and award winning service. We are a specialist service that strives to deliver excellent standards of care to expectant and new mothers with severe and complex mental health problems. The team is multi-disciplinary and works directly with women and their families providing assessment, interventions and support for pregnant women and women within the postnatal period with a range of mental health needs.

We have provisions to work from several bases in the geographical area of Shropshire in addition to some home working

We are looking for a Peer Supporter who has personal lived experience of recovery and mental health challenges to join our friendly and supportive Multi-Disciplinary Team. Peer support is based on the recognition that there is no better person to support the path towards recovery than someone who has walked the same path as that individual. The role of Peer Support Worker (PSW) has been developed specifically for those who have lived experience of mental health challenges. Through sharing your wisdom from your own experiences you will inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. As an integral and highly valued member of the Perinatal Mental Health Team you provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to families in order for them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process.

**Our collective agreed values are**:

- Be patient and child centred, understanding and meeting individual and population needs, with high quality, evidence based and innovative approaches to care of patients, babies and their families.
- Work flexibly, collaboratively, transparently and honestly with women, families, and others involved in their care, with respect and trust for each other’s experience, knowledge, skills and contributions.

Working for your organisation

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

We pride ourselves on the services provided to support with the well-being of all of our employees both physically and mentally and offer counselling support and lifestyle information. Opportunities for flexible working are also available depending on the role.

We encourage career development provided by in house training programs and coaching support.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

Main duties and responsibilities
- To work directly with an identified caseload of individuals and their carers through a range of methods including, video/telephone call, text and in person face to face sessions.
- To work with identified individuals and members of the wider MDT to ensure care plans are truly co-produced.
- To draw on own lived experience to offer understanding, support and hope to individuals accessing the service and promote independence and recovery.
- Contribute to the overall care of an individual, helping to identify any early warning signs of deteriorating wellbeing by monitoring an individual’s mental health, level of functioning and mental state, escalating any areas of concerns to the relevant senior staff member.
- Drawing on personal experience to help individuals to identify their strengths and triggers and supporting them to establish the things that are important to them in their life, identifying goals and the steps they wish to take to achieve them.
- Supporting individuals to identify and overcome any barriers which may impact their recovery.
- Champion a recovery orientated service including promoting involvement, engagement, participation and co-production opportunities.
- To co-design and co-deliver recovery orientated, therapeutic groups and activities as equal partners in the development and delivery of activities.
- Challenge any stigma which may exist within the service, local communities and partner organisations.
- Promote awareness and understanding of peer roles.
- Actively promote and support individuals to be involved in the ongoing review and evaluation of services and encourage them to participate in co-designing and co-delivering services as part of their longer term recovery.
- To participate in peer supervision.
- Works to policy and protocols within own area of work.
- Completes surv

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