Recovery Coach

5 days ago

Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Key Responsibilities

The PSW will have the following responsibilities:

Communication and Working Relationships

  • To acknowledge and work to the key principles for providing peer support (Mutuality, Reciprocity, Non-Directive, Strengths-based, Progressive, Inclusive, Recovery-Focused, and Safe).
  • To be aware of the emotional context, staying calm and being clear, consistent and reliable.
  • To work with multidisciplinary teams to support service users access additional services and teams within the inpatient setting to better meet their needs where possible.

Caring Responsibilities

  • To support service users to direct their own recovery process through encouraging them to work collaboratively with teams, and where possible, carers, to identify their own goals and needs and to co-produce care plans to support these.
  • To assist service users to identify their strengths, personal interests and goals, and support them to access and participate in activities which meet these, whilst demonstrating acceptance of and respect towards service users' personal beliefs, uniqueness and identity.
  • To support service users to maintain and/or develop positive relationships with others and learn how to improve or eliminate unhealthy relationships.

Risk Management

  • To manage and work effectively in line with Trust risk policies and procedures, whilst supporting an individual's recovery.
  • To ensure any observed concerns regarding an individual's wellbeing, including any issues of safeguarding, are raised with the team at the earliest opportunity.
  • To report any untoward incidents or unusual occurrences to management immediately.

Strategic and Operational Responsibilities

  • To embed recovery values and the ethos of peer support into Mental Health Services and champion the role of Peer support worker within the service, the trust and in the community and share best practice.
  • To bear a caseload that will be dependent on capacity and demand, and individually negotiated with supervisor/line management.
  • To plan, manage and prioritise own workload.