Forensic Peer Support Specialist
4 weeks ago
We are seeking a compassionate and motivated individual to join our team as a Peer Support Worker at Marlborough House, Oxford Health NHS Trust. As a Peer Support Worker, you will play a vital role in supporting service users with mental health challenges and promoting their recovery journey.
About the RoleThis is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and supportive environment, where you will have the chance to make a real difference in the lives of our service users. As a Peer Support Worker, you will be responsible for providing emotional and practical support to service users, drawing on your own lived experience of mental health challenges.
You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to support service users in developing and managing independence, maintaining dignity and self-respect. Your role will involve facilitating formal and informal learning, working with staff in clinical practice, and supporting clinical teams to develop recovery-based practice.
Key Responsibilities- Provide emotional and practical support to service users, drawing on your own lived experience of mental health challenges.
- Support service users to engage effectively with care being offered and access appropriate services.
- Draw upon lived experience and use active listening to inspire hope, offer empathy, empowerment, confidence building, and validate a service user's feelings.
- Build relationships that are founded on the value of mutuality, which will facilitate the provision of regular and practical support, both one to one and via group facilitation, to service users in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect.
- Positively promote independent living of service users through role-modelling individual recovery journeys.
- Have the individual service users' needs always at the forefront of the PSW's practice and use the skills incorporated in the Peer Support Training to underpin their practice.
- Build rapport with service users, whilst maintaining professional boundaries, drawing on both experience and knowledge of the service user perspective and an evidence-based approach.
Oxford Health NHS Trust provides physical, mental health, and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics, and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team". Our values are: "Caring, safe, and excellent".
What We Offer- Excellent opportunities for career progression.
- Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development.
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service.
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers.
- Competitive pension scheme.
- Lease car scheme.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Mental Health First Aiders.
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply).
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team.
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