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Northampton, United Kingdom St Andrew's Healthcare Full time

**Peer Support Workers to work with and support our patients**

**Peer Support Workers - 12 Month Contracts**

**Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire**

**Salary: From £20,535 Per Annum, pro rata**

**15 hours per week (2 days) - working days will be flexible depending on the needs of the patients**
- **Are you an expert by experience?**:

- **Do you have experience of mental health distress, brain injury or have accessed secure mental health services?**:

- **Could you use your own recovery to inspire hope and support others?**:

- **We have a number of opportunities across both male and female wards**

**About us**
- We’re a Charity that provides specialist mental healthcare for some of society’s most vulnerable people.
- We proudly continue to build world-class mental healthcare services

**_“Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.”_**

**About the roles**:

- These exciting roles have been developed specifically for individuals who have lived experience of recovery from mental distress or brain injury.
- You’ll use the knowledge gained through your own lived experience to inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others.
- You’ll be working on a ward alongside the clinical team to help patients achieve their recovery goals.
- Working with people with complex psychological needs, you will need to be emotionally and mentally resilient.
- You’ll be expected to draw upon your experiences of recovery and will be given training on the most effective way to do this.
- The posts will also involve contributing to the development of the Peer Support Worker role, particularly within secure mental health services.
- You will receive induction, excellent training and on-going supervision and support, including a network of other peer support workers employed within the Charity.

**What you’ll do**:

- Building supportive and respectful relationships with patients on the ward
- Supporting others using the personal experience and confidence you have gained having overcome similar challenges
- Assisting nursing staff to help people identify their own recovery goals
- Supporting patients to attend meetings, engaging with activities
- Inputting into ward rounds and writing up patient notes
- Developing the peer support worker programme and role within the Charity
- Modelling personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief, self-advocacy and hopefulness

**What you’ll need**:

- Personal experience of mental health distress or brain injury
- An understanding of your own recovery
- Past and lived experience of using secure mental health services
- Resilience and to be able to know when to ask for help
- An understanding of factors which can affect recovery in mental health
- IT literacy including Microsoft Office and Internet or a willingness to learn
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- The ability to work well in a team
- Empathy, good listening skills, approach-ability

**Interested?**

Provisional Interview and Training Dates we have scheduled:

- **July**

W/C 17th July Ward experience W/C 24th July

Training starts 18th October

**Dec**

W/C 4th Dec Ward experience W/C 11th Dec.

Training starts 14th Feb