Eating Disorders Peer Support Worker

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Using recovery principles and socially inclusive practice, the post-holder will support service users in their personal recovery journeys through the Eating Disorders Service. This means providing peer support for adults who are currently receiving inpatient support for their eating disorder. They will foster a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, to promote choice, self-determination, opportunities and hope. They will raise awareness about local resources and opportunities that may assist people in maintaining their recovery. They will encourage and support service users to use community resources that are available to them and support the Eating Disorders Service with developing links with these resources. They will act as an advocate for recovery within the team and an ambassador for recovery for the Trust and with partner agencies. The post-holder will be required to work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a specialist service setting.

Clinical Responsibilities

To work with the multi-disciplinary team in the support of both informal service users within day programme and inpatient settings and those detained under the mental health act within acute inpatient settings

Communication

To communicate with patients/clients and carers with empathy, reassurance and tact.

Service Development and Delivery

To raise the profile of peer support both within CNWL, and externally, through co-delivery of presentations, workshops, and participation in Trust-wide peer related projects and audits: and information sharing as required and as agreed with the line manager.

Learning and Development

To make full use of supervision, peer support with other peer workers and other support as necessary in order to remain well and safe in the parent/carer peer support role, and in order to work with the challenges of using lived experience to support people with potentially difficult and distressing issues.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

As a core member of a busy multi-disciplinary team, the Eating Disorders PSW will carry out some generic duties, which will include supporting patients wh o may be on close observations, undertaking and recording physical health checks, and sup porting patients during meal times.

The Eating Disorders PSW will take a lead role in embedding recovery values within the service setting in which they work, alongside other Trust recovery champions, and act a s an ambassador of recovery for the Trust with external agencies and partner organisations.

The Eating Disorders PSW will also have the opportunity to co-work with other colleagues and there will be some opportunities for group work. The Eating Disorders PSW will work under the supervision of line management e.g. Nurse/ Occupat ional Therapist. The Eating Disorders PSW will also co-facilitate Inpatient Recovery Snapshots on a rotational bas is.

Hear from our staff what it’s like working with our CNWL Eating Disorders service, please CLICK HERE to watch the video

Key Responsibilities

Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing those who use the services; and those who support them, with a positive experience.

Clinical Responsibilities

To work with the multi-disciplinary team in the support of both informal service users within day programme and inpatient settings and those detained under the mental health act within acute inpatient settings

To assume a ‘coaching’ role supporting service users in developing personal recovery plans; this can be delivered individually or in groups.

To assist service users to identify their strengths, personal interests and goals.

To provide opportunities for service users to direct their own recovery process.

To empower and enable each individual service user, in a non-directive, non-prescriptive way, to discover and make use of their own strengths and to build and strengthen positive connections with their peers, networks and wider communities.

To facilitate or assist in the admission, transfer and discharge of service users.

To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, using own experience of recovery.

To act as a role model to service users to inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learned as a person in recovery.

To support service users to negotiate an ‘Advanced Directive’ with all people involved in their care and others who provide support.

To contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and review of care with the multi-disciplinary team.

To work together with the service user and where possible their carers in the drawing up of care plans encouraging and motivating service users to take an active rol

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